Fire (Swedish hardrock band)

Fire was a Swedish hard rock band from the Uppsala region, ACTIVE 1979-1988. For a number of years FIRE dominated the music scene in their native Björklinge north of Uppsala.

The band members were Robert Dahlin (guitar), Örjan Englund (keyboard), Robert Larsson (bass), Niklas Jonsson (drums). During the early years they only wrote songs in Swedish of which the legendary Ungdomen ("Youth") and Fånge nummer 31 ("Prisoner number 31") are perhaps the best known. In the early 80s, they started to write songs in English and had a local radio hit with the catchy tune You're not a soldier. When Lolita Pop visited Björklinge in 1984, FIRE was the opening act.

All band members contributed with song writing although most of their Swedish song were written by Jonsson and Dahlin, while most of their English songs were written by Dahlin with the occasional contribution by Jonsson/Englund.

Demo tapes

The following is a list of demo tapes recorded by the band.

The Swedish demo - 1983
Gör det för pengarna
Högexplosivt

The first Arbrå demo - 1984
Kings of rock
Evil as satan
Blood in the street
Metal chains

The second Arbrå demo - 1985
Run from the evil
You're my angel
You and me
Pärleporten
You're not a soldier demo - 1986
You're not a solder

Leading you tonite demo - 1987
Leading you tonite
Hypnotized

Almost Perfect demo - 1989
You drive me wild
Second time
Great balls of FIRE