1999
2009
1999
This month, we meet up
with Miguel Olivares-
Alvarez, who with Mark
Young, formed the Line
2009
dance band Backdoor.
Where are
they now...
Backdoor appeared in our pages in January not help. The title referred to the fashion of
1999. At the time, the band had been asked slamming one’s foot down while dancing and
to supply music for Lionel Blair and Stella very soon, many dance halls were banning
Wilden’s Line dance video and had also people doing just that as it damaged fl oors!
worked with some of the Eastenders cast Slamming died very quickly. And so we were
for a charity single. Backdoor at the time left with the album Backdoor, Slammin!”
was looking to release a new album and Miguel does say: “We were a major player
had been really busy with the charity side of in the Line dance world then. We played
their work. Theirs was pure Country music. the Birmingham NEC and many other huge
The guys themselves, we reported at the venues in association with CMR. We had the
time, had no desire to be stars, only wanting record for numbers in Line dancing, which
to be ordinary people. was 4500 in 1998/99 at the NEC and we
played all over the country.”
Today, Miguel remembers Backdoor. “We could
not get it right or rather fate and luck were not He looks back at the Line dance scene
on our side.” After trying for fi ve years and as “trying to develop” then but says that
despite the support of CMR (Country Music “ultimately it was moving in too many
Radio), it soon was the end of the road. “We directions. The new people that came in had
disbanded, we gave up trying.” no preconceptions and so Country lost some
of its draw.” He thinks that Line dance today
All the sadder when you realise that is a very different animal. “It has settled
Backdoor in its day was a popular band. down, it’s a new world. It has become its
Miguel says: “Our album’s title Slammin did own self, it has grown up.”
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