About
Backfire Records artists Eddy & The Backfires are the wildest act on the German Rockabilly circuit! Their own unique brand of authentic Rockabilly sound in combination with their stage presence sets every audience on fire, not only in Germany but everywhere! It’s a wildfire!
There’s Eddy, the exciting and charismatic front man with his powerful voice, and in fact the band’s only founding member in the actual line-up. Christian is slappin‘ the double basssince 2015 and in 2018, Michael took over the lead-guitar. The band’s now hawg wild and ready to rock every audience!
If you like the sound of wild rockabilly, influenced by the music of Elvis, Carl Perkins, Link Wray and pure 50s culture, you’re on the right track and ready for a Backfires show and for buying their records! These men love 50s music, style and culture and that makes them able to create the unique Backfires sound by heart.
International performance highlights include “Rockabilly Day” (Belgium), “A-Bombers” (Sweden), “Brockxelles ’58” (Belgium) and Bedrock Oldstyle Weekender (Denmark), the Hemsby Rock’n’Roll Weekender (UK), Hoorn Rock’n’Roll Sunday (Netherlands), Motocycle Jamboree (Italy), Riverside Custom Car Weekend, (Spain) etc.
National performance highlights include Rock’n’Roll Rodeo (Bielefeld), Rockin‘ Ballroom Bop (Leipzig), Cowtown Rocks Again (Duesseldorf), Bottrop Kustom Kulture (Bottrop) etc.
Special highlights: Sharing the stage with the Original Bill Haley’s Comets in 2004. Three top shows on MTV’s “Pimp My Date”, TV shows that had been filmed in 2006 at the ’20 Flight Rock‘ in Hamburg. And as special guests at a ’50’s Beauty Contest‘ in Moscow, Russia in April 2010.
Discography
Live In Person (2020/Backfire Records)
- Hot Rods On Mainstreet
- Let’s Rock Tonight
- Hot Rod Johnny
- Freight Train Boogie
- Last Kiss
- Why Cry
- Dreaming Of You
- Love Me
- I Feel Rockin
- This Is The Night
- Highspeed Daddy
- A Cat Called Domino
- Rock Baby Rock
- Teen Queen
- Rock & Roll Guitar
- V8 Gang
- Mexican Love
- Slipped My Mouth
- Lonesome Rider
- Blue Swingin‘ Mama
Twenty Fight Years (2019/Bear Family Productions)
- Rockin‘ Beauty
- Tornado
- C’mon Pretty Baby
- A Cat Called Domino
- Highspeed Daddy
- Hot Boilin‘ Engine
- I Feel Rockin‘
- Rock, Baby, Rock
- Teen Queen
- Rock & Roll Guitar
- Slipped My Mouth
- The Tempter
- My World Is You
Dead Man Stare (2017/Backfire Records)
- Go Down That Road
- Hot Rod Johnny
- Lonesome Rider
- Cool Cat
- Dreaming Of You
- Highway Killer
- Hot Rods On Main Street
- V8 Gang
- Now That You’re Gone
- Shoot My Baby
- Walking In The Desert
- The Cleaner
- Red Rockin’ Mama
- Love Me
- Dreaming Of You (Part 2)
Cat Killer (2006/Rhythm Bomb)
- I Feel Rockin’
- I’mGone
- Cat Killer
- Dancin’ Doll
- All I Can Do Is Cry
- High Speed Daddy
- They Call Me Bad
- Let’s Rock Tonight
- Tic Tac Baby
- Mobilin’ Baby Of Mine
- Rockin’ And Rollin’
- That’s Wild
- Last Surf
- Sometimes I Wonder
- So Hard
- Mexican Love (video)
Seven Nights To Rock (2004/Rhythm Bomb)
- Honky Tonk Gal
- Crawded Hole
- Seven Nights To Rock
- Rock Ola Ruby
- Down Town Mexico
- Saturday Night
- My Babe
- Hungry For Your Lovin’
- Rock ‘N’ Roll Baby
- Miss December
- Tornado
- Rock Baby Rock
- Top Chop Boogie
- Strange Kinda Feeling
- Ghost Surf
Get On The Right Track Baby! (2003/Rhythm Bomb)
- Backfire Boogie
- Dear John
- I Don’t Know When…
- Domino
- Don’t You Do Me No Wrong
- Flip, Flop And Fly
- Get On The Right Track Baby
- Mexican Love
- Poor Boy Blues
- Rockin’ Beauty
- Say When
- Starlight
- Worried ‘Bout You Baby
- Backfire Twist