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We write to December 2009, shortly before Christmas. See all Vienna knows stomping through the most wonderful physical condition of the water, which it gibt.Temperaturen well below the freezing point can be one of us as quickly as possible disappear in warm rooms, while the estimated rest for pre-Christmas panic in the city to the hated place. Why is this so that does not interest me, but I want a little deeper into the minds of those looking to also remember those people and help to represent those other things to worry the center of their existence.

No Head On My Shoulders , the most diverse band of Austria, the blast furnace in which it is the wonderful fusion of style, be a little more than 24 hours on the stage of the Vienna Chelsea want to play a benefit for the project Ute Bock . For me the time again briefly in the colorful new home in Vienna, stop by and give me an overview, in many ways.

The double door is open already, Keksgeruch one searches in vain, but even pull the sounds of a new song fragrant swaths through the old walls, a displaced the middle of a bazaar, somewhere in the Persian hinterland. In the group home organized chaos reigns, the life to the circumstance requires it to be active at all in NHOMS . In the sleeping apartment studio rooms are stacked on top of keys and Comics Synths, flickering screens instead of wreaths, croak before ashtray overflowing, and is the roadmap through the new album instead of a Marie picture pinned to the wall.
The band has gone to the studio in the semi-hibernation and crawl only for live performance from their dispersed holes. Only singer and historian Martin, one in which we do not know really whether its standing in all directions hair significantly to the general condition, or to do with the water lines in the apartment has, and Philip, the Stoic thinkers and, in the Band brings to life six strings cry, have gathered himself. The former werkt even the vocal tracks, the latter commutes, and more recently with an academic title, a regular service between the Magic Mixing Rooms and the Vienna nightlife back and forth.

is in my pocket is a yearbook full of questions, a little game and a mix of mom's Christmas cookies. The mic is, the vocal chords are lubricated, damps out the cigarettes, well then we will at once, two to speak.

What is your personal motivation for a project like the Ute Bock Festival join?

Phil: There are regularly come charity requests, actually all the time. You have to help choose the projects done well you will. The refugee issue is now more present than ever, and therefore we have decided to play a benefit for the club Ute Bock. I think that's a good thing.
MARTIN: You in Austria a few people doing meaningful things, do things that help other people. Ute Bock's just an institution in Austria, which manages to come up with their work to Austria and the people have nothing to give a place or at least a little something. Since the very least what we can do to waive our fee to help bring out their income to this very good.

Do you think that in times like these, nor does anyone think, why just NHOMS in "the mood for culture join. What might have for reasons that perhaps the issue has to do their deals in your music?

M: principle, I think most people that it really does not matter who, what and why play anywhere. There are a few scenes and genres where it increased to as human rights or animal rights is, but most of the people take little notice of it.

How can you make as a band this issue of human rights and Asypolitik closer to arouse the interest, so people bring to a concert so apart, as a key issue. Just as has yes start the consciousness thinking - to the people.

M: There are really various ways to do that. There are the bands that stand on the stage and shouting out loud what not all bad, that we must fight for this and that and so on. I'm just think that once you patronizing a person, you take him a bit of his speech. Someone who feels patronized in turn, will make what ever anyway, because he feels treated like a child and a maximum says: "Now, certainly not." So that's my approach.
P: I also think nothing of it when a band tries because to do on brainwashing. Basically, I think, that you are as an artist there to the people for the NHOMS interest on such meeting to bring. And if there is information on the Spirit and in the air, I believe we can reach a few more people. It may already have a good synergy arising when one is in principle interested in NHOMS , and then just faced with this issue locally.

Ok, now we know how it is not practiced, that you are not Sun To information but it is also not always share. How to give NHOMS its setting next - even outside a Ute Bock Fundraiser?

M: You as a band, too, the great medium of music and text. In this whole context, you can already show stop abuses and of course things are going well. We pack
themes in short stories. That was the old album already so, and the new album is much more extreme.

Give us brief insight into the topic of the new disk. As it crosses the bow?

M: A future history of the current of our time is starting. We tried to think ten years in the future before, have in place in 2020 stories whose protagonists have problems because of what today happened. Since there are both songs that focus on (asylum) policies and led to the results to the politics of today, and normal human internal problems such as loss of reality or self-determination are treated. We tell the
from the perspective of good and evil side. The latter represents for us this very conservative, not broad-thinking, they Blocking dar. may sound a little flat and said cliché, like a knee-breaking role models, but it is in principle. Man must learn to think ahead and just jump over its own barriers to stop or put to other human barriers in their way. This must be taken away. Asylum policy is because, for example a big issue.

what extent have you up as a songwriter with the new asylum posited, which will come into force in January 2010 so, set apart? How is your general thoughts on dealing with asylum seekers or immigrants in Austria?

M: I deal certainly not as much so as a social worker who has to do in this area know of any amendment must, but I have talked to social workers, with asylum seekers and with people in order to have to do. I've taken a picture. Depending on what angle you look at that face just always new problems. The bottom line is it so that only asylum seekers wait and can submit. They are left in the dark all the time, do not know whether they can remain as to whether they are back to where even death is waiting for them.
must hold true for a system developed that works really well, so people who come to Austria and need our help they get.

now available in Austria, the wife Ute Bock, nearly 70, a figurehead, with the one adorned themselves, being showered with awards. At the same moment 60% of the people they are no longer maintained in the minimum pension. Neither they nor the people get the state support. It can not be, even law or not, that a country like Austria, it is not so bad as not taking the lead and these people create a life worth living. Why do you think the issue of foreigners and asylum is enshrined so negative in so many minds, from what people have fear?

P: I think xenophobia is fundamentally human, one is afraid of something that is foreign, the question is how to implement it. In public, but that is sadly, have caught up enormously by election results, the right-wing populist parties in the last 20 years, there's a reason in our current society. But why is that ....? I can not now presume to propose a system where all can together well.
We are a rich country that generations before us have built it all, were always concerned about security, make money, build business, and are afraid that something is taken away from them. When I talk with people from that generation, I get exactly the response. People think probably many times: "They are themselves to blame, we have also all been rebuilt after the war, why have not managed this? Bad luck! "
Perhaps that is the source of evil?
M: There's 1000 reasons. I will as time to look beyond the horizon Austria. It are indeed many countries in Europe where it is really bad. Since Austria is probably even more in the midfield, I do not know for sure.
this thing called integration always see people as if they were foreign bodies would bring in their socio-ecological system. That's what it is but not exactly his. Integration should be an interaction that people are already there and learn the culture of others. It should be based on interaction. In other countries it works much better than in Austria. It is incredibly difficult to find in Austria connection, simply because of the Austrians is for yourself only among themselves, that is only in his group. I do not know why that is. States are in sunnier sunnier's minds and people are much warm-hearted. Italy is even warmer, but oh well .... That's another chapter, one can not generalize.

here, though, the grouse is often said in the Austrians to light. That's also against the policy apparatus does not stop, which, even the advances of Germany with horror refereed Muslim hate campaign of the FPÖ, no bars. In Austria, which falls under normality. "Politicians of other parties that mean not good, but really get up and do something about it that makes none. One would have to clearly say that simply do not goes, and point! "said Martin.
The problem is, that one party politics in Austria can not take them seriously and that it is the purest puppet theater is to act as the puppet, however, because we give them the power to do so. These people make our laws and we accept this without hesitation even though they are far from meeting a consensus in the population. Lack the broader perspective of the true things, it lacks the courage to open your mouth. The convenience, however, puts so much of it in us Austrians, is for many the "no go" when it comes to open.
"I am always sure that those doing well, that come from other people, but to get up or maybe even make friends, puhh, there is already asking too much "- in this direction, unfortunately, our temperament.

In Parliament ...

is ... yes often and discussed night after night without a green branch to come. The issue of asylum policy, human rights and integration would allow us the course, our goal is, by once again the consciousness of the masses thought to boost a little.
Human rights were written in 1948 and should really represent the guidelines in dealing with people. Whether this is so, whether one ever came to the ears and what exactly these injuries come to mind in the next environment that we want to illuminate a little. I have tinkered
quiz cards and a wide range of human rights scribbled. Both Martin and Phil got to go I asked cards, and they asked them for a known violation of human rights drawn.

Card # 1: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or be made in the country.

M: 's just the question of arbitrariness. What is arbitrary and what is not? Probably you have the European in every country. One reason I find myself easily if I want.

an example. It is ten Years since since Operation Spring. At that time, definitely people were detained without cause, without any real proof and imprisoned. There were 120 processes, as many convictions and each with the maximum penalty. Since the card fits quite well that you have raised. What do you think has changed in the last ten years?

M: It has not changed much. As police, we have it easy. Man arrested someone and find something. Everyone has' skeletons in the closet "and suddenly they have a proof of what I already know what. Suddenly stop anything.

Card # 2: Everyone has the right, in other countries follow Seek and enjoy asylum.

M: Since we are anyway back in Austria or Europe. America is the same. There are anyway mostly in the countries which do not want to go different, in principle.
A temporary residence permit you can get, yes. So, unfortunately, not always but often, also in Austria. This is perhaps not so in Italy and Carinthia and then you maybe sent for training churches, because it's holding is not in Carinthia, but in principle there is a. .. It must be evident to every
simply that which has of course all its legitimacy. People take a really hard way to look around the castle to reach Europe. People come because they Afraid to die, the highest risk if you are persecuted. Now, imagine again how badly it on it has to be, for example, in a nutshell boat sat on and ride across the sea, if one would not be imminent before the death in their own country ...

Card # 3: Everyone has the Freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom that alone or in community, to confess in public or private teaching, practice, worship and observance.

P: That reminds me a lot. Religion has always been a big issue why Wars have been started. In the Balkans it was the "Religion in the Second World War, religion was a cover for murder, etc ....
A bit of current, perhaps, the thing with the crosses in classrooms. As is almost aufdoktriniert that the Christian characters on the wall, because it's just our official state religion. My opinion on the crosses, is that everyone sits in class, has a right to hang its religious character. I do not think it right that is said in times like today: "We have a religion that is Christianity, the Cross hangs there"
Even the minaret ban is completely ridiculous, even in the general one when one looks at the human rights articles but a lot more. We are looking for problems.
Many people see this as a threat and as a symbol of power of another community. Why, I do not know. It's just real xenophobia.

's there in the band members with an immigrant background, or someone who has adopted the feel of this system at first hand?

P: are in the immediate vicinity of the band is three people. P., who came from the former Yugoslavia. He is suddenly, from one day to another, sat in the second elementary school next to me. He has to learn the language from scratch need, has not spoken a word of German when he has come and has integrated super.
S., our ex-trumpeter. His parents were from the Czech Republic and were before the fall of the Iron Curtain, thus in the regime, even for two or three years in prison. Both persons with higher education and just because they have seen better opportunities elsewhere, simply did not want to live under communism. And then
N. He just helps out as a substitute. He too is from the former Yugoslavia, from him I know but not much. It is of course dramatically when your friends have such a terrible background and such a difficult past. Then you realize how serious this is, your friends walked between life and death and, fortunately, just in a Country, came out not so inhumane laws are on the agenda, there is no regime or war. It touches a person.


be broken up after so much hard material must, of course, the whole thing again a little bit. Therefore we can tell, the two just go on it again as reflected in the growth process of the last four years in the new drive, what to expect musically, and what we should give to the plate on the road.

What we have for a bombastic genius into the house, so at some time in April of 2010!

M: I hope it comes out 2010, I hope! (Very desperate head deep in the step)
We are now in the final phase of the recordings that will be completed before Christmas should be. But what can you expect: It is
contrast, but at that moment even more homogeneous - which is a contrast. It is really paradoxical. Yes, the new album is a paradox.

you can already tell that you will draw the whole thing also has a comic?

M: Yes, we have to make a comic before the album. So the Bestversion would of course be to press the record on vinyl and can be equipped with a 30 x 30 comic. We have ten o'clock this truly world class artist brought from Austria.
These comics that tell these stories because they are based on the texts that give either the song again, or illuminate the background. Sometimes it's just funny interjections, which is quite the artist left, depending on what type of humor. I do not tell people how good or bad everything is.
I believe it is important, as I can tell them something. Comics as can produce a certain kind of humor, and still discuss a serious background. Exactly what we have with our music before.

So each song a comic, I understand this correctly?

M: Yes. In principle, there are ten short stories the play in 2020. We have taken a picture like it might just look out.
There was a crisis that may be of an economic crisis, a civil war or something else had to be. We leave the reader / listener. After this crisis is the city it plays in Vienna divided into two great camps. On the one side of the revolutionaries, on the other conservatives. The Revolutionary
want progress, new economic system that does what, what does that not everything is as in the last century, but adapt themselves in the future, the whole political system to the needs of people.
The Conservatives are, however, that the past century was super, they all still want to experience again, because it is so they went well.
These two blocks facing each other, then, that's the point really, which is the main plot dar.
The stories are told by people on both sides and deal with certain issues. Lyrically, the spans of "look a like" HC Strache Werbetexen the conservative side to the naive, it needs the other.

your records in your lyrics so immersed in a world which we should, demands that one is encouraged to develop their imagination more. And reinforced by the comic.

M: show, in non-English speaking Countries it is often the case that texts are not really present. Since the hooks you remember, you think about it but not really because what is actually sung. The cartoons represent what occurs in words that support the graph. We want people to read everything again bring to do that they soak website. It is read far too little. (Can not resist a grin)

How do these themes are reflected in the instrumentation? As was submitted in the first album with something remarkable, Oblique.

M: Musically, this is the same. Because the city is divided into two halves, of course needed a music of contrasts. We will harness as a bow from Latin America likely to Nietzing in Lower Austria, or something. It comes before everything. I tell you, it is a very homogeneous style switching. This makes the new record, it is super much there, but unlike the old record more mature, sophisticated, and yet emotional.

Now if you personally but also musically looks into the future as the album already doing what were your desires and goals for the next time?

M: 's just struck me that many people who have had anything at heart, both artistic and socio-politically, the arrange things do have left first, because they have simply found a medium to express. This is in Vienna containing never went away. That is changing now as I think. People come back to Vienna, here are happy, they love to live and try to bring something back culturally. Trouble Over Tokyo is a good example. Things are pretty slow again what, it is clear it time an art and cultural scene, where the spirit of the people will be shaken, and certain political things are seen differently. This should go on, please.
P: We have almost four years left for the new plant, no effort, no cost and no personal expense spared, we gave all we have in us to what we created on the last album to top. I think the result speaks for itself, it is much more mature, more demanding.
I therefore hope that we open up a new audience, a bit of a more mixed. Young people have always been our biggest audience, and that should continue to be so, but I see in NHOMS more than just sources for party and Saufmusik. I would therefore like to have more appeal to music lovers.
We make no Ska, because we were really forced into a drawer. This often leads to misunderstandings before, still. This should be one for always change.

there's bands in Austria, with whom you would like to be brought in connection with which you could imagine a tour good?

P: Well, a bit part in this Balkan direction of world music. I think Fatima Spar're doing something. But otherwise ... ... I would
I looked around a bit which labels are suitable for us, but really bands where we fit like chalk and cheese, there's really not. I think wait, every band, even the big ones, all have somehow created their own style. As I see us, that we can insert ourselves because, even with our own Niche. Finding a band with a similar style that would not bring us that much further. And there are already in Austria a few examples of truly challenging music, Trouble Over Tokyo or Velojet and that's our goal - to make challenging music.

A few final words to the world, the fans out there?

P: Open your hearts, open ears, goes to charity through the world, be constructive, not skin together, which is based on building what is right leiwondes on. This is my message to mankind.

Thank you!

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Red Lights Flash on the road again, and gave me insight into their mental world anno 2009


I put the question to the flash color quite often. Lomography is in fact my life, and that should please remain fun to be out there no matter how clear everything seems. One must work against the stop, to protect themselves proactively. Dissatisfaction is because the first step to success, only to go to start, you must already own the Red Lights Flash 's have shown us, and we also built a bridge. At the other end was found after five years of construction, then For Your Safety , an album whose title program. Please take it personally! It is a better world for those fifteen truly diverse songs in any case a good deal closer. Well, now your smile again! May's a bit more to be red?

What have Red Lights Flash made the last five years? Worked permanently at the new album? I suppose everyone of you has also anderswertige obligations?

After we published in 2004 Free ... on AF Records much we went on tour. Among other things, Rise Against , a few tours with antiflag , A Wilhelm Scream , Strike Anywhere and then have really pretty early on with the work on For Your Safety begun. We have set the bar extremely high, but because we wanted just now for eleven years playing together as a band and in that occupation and make real something that represents for us a new level.
Because we can not make the band full time, all have a life besides the band also completed studies in music and are being, or active in other areas.

are still five years a long time ...

We did, however, that the album is a perfect situation may have actually two or three pre-production done too much and as more "Less Talk, More Rock - attitude" when it becomes need. Retrospective You can stop saying that it took a long time, but we are 100% satisfied. It really is the best thing we've done before and the resonances are so far overwhelming.
Many people react by saying, RLF RLF sound like, this is a unique sound and this is the best compliment you can get as a band.

songs like "End of History" was one already on the Provocative valuable - are split EP with Rentokill from 2006. Must be such hits as long before they create it on an album, because the demand is very high-band?

(Laughs) You can say, this is a song that the old RLF in the For Your Safety - has carried over era. "The End Of History" is exactly feel the transition from the old style in the new direction where we are.

How have changes RLF in the new era, what is done differently, how to walk now approach the matter?

We can do more with song writing, the texts and the topic of how to bring together these two components as possible and touch many people busy. Also a lot with the voices.
Music is a wonderful tool to move something. We are actually using the phrase "Let Feelings Talk "has addressed the recordings wanted to appeal not only, as in the past albums, economic or social policy issues, but a bit more to reveal about us. The whole heave to another level, a more personal, more mature. You have to look
that it remains interesting. We do not want a band to be the ten years does the same. Nothing against the other bands make that have found their niche and run through the well, that's great. Not enough for us, we are guided us go in so maybe more bands in more artistic directions, as Dredg for example. We try to make a bridge, and have to For Your Safety my Opinion made it to good. It is diverse.

your latest album For Your Safety was the self-founded label RLF - Records released . What was decisive for this? You found her, despite really good contacts a label that has met your expectations, or was it a logical step to raise the DIY -thoughts also to a new level?

We simply have not found a label that could provide us with that which does not go beyond our own network. This has grown steadily, we are in contact with big bands, and become a really important person in the business.
The thing is, the resignation AF Records and Fat Wreck Chords from Europe, also Burning Heart is back from Berlin away. The situation for labels is really not good at the time, it has no money, you have / need the whole recording anyway to pay it myself, which extends hold for various productions over ten thousand €, and then they offer you that they pay the pressing , you enter any promotional budget and you have to give up all rights.
Because we are so long, and I occupied myself much with music management, that was a logical step. Especially in times of crisis you have to even off the ground, thus a logical continuation the DIY - thoughts, been with us for eleven years.

If in the future, other bands on RLF - Release Records ?

It can certainly serve as a platform for several other projects, primarily it's about once a matter of selling our music itself to that, we simply take control of the whole. We now license the album to other labels in different territories, the rights to stay here, the distribution for example, Italy's then another label, in this case No Reason Records .

Can I buy the album already in Germany?

The Album is obtainable everywhere. on Amazon can order it and it is worldwide in I-Tunes - download stores . On a distribution in Germany, we are still working, but that has, for the reasons for the time being does not even work.

RLF and Rentokill are hard touring bands. Bertl (Drummer Rentokill ) thought that it really difficult in spite 120-130 shows a year and really good slots all over Europe, as regards the financial situation. On the way work is not to think. What do you do for your own safety?

There are always two sides. To do what Rentokill , we have indeed done it all. But we have just noticed that if we continue playing as much, we will dissolve us. It is very exhausting if you're so much on the road, come home, and can not pay your bills.
We said we just want to be happy with our music, and we can only do that if we spend our lives with the band that we have passed the last years, to get across to life than 30 years.
why we focus more on the music. We want to grow it even more go into the artistic direction and then play the gigs we are personally important to us where it is and not so stupid that sounds and We have done really well for years and it was great, on a Tuesday somewhere in Nottingham fifteen people.
You have to stand out from the rest, otherwise it is one of thousands of the bands the hoof it from one pub to another. It is for a band like us in 2009 just to play 150 shows no longer possible.

is to find a satisfactory balance certainly no easy task. Does the term for music redefine itself?

Music is a wonderful art form. One has to ask the question: "How can I be even more interesting after eleven years, as I will not get bored." Since we have
really high standards for ourselves and are also very self-critical, which has certainly set us also obstacles in the path. Maybe we would when we on AF Records were asked where is this track that many games can do just that. We are there only this but a bit different and I am glad we are. It is simply much more interesting if not an album that sounds like other bands continue to grow and reinvent themselves.
This is not the easiest way is, that's clear. For us, 2008 and 2009, very hard, and it is certainly difficult for a 20 year old to understand this, but if you are 30, you know better what you can bring life to everything, and eventually is Easy-Easy-party stop over.

How are you come on the album cover. You have facilitated Durer's hands from 1508 to four fingers! I rolled up the artwork idea of the artistic side, see it the opposite of humanism, of that era, was in Dürer's most important artists and their current core issue could hardly be. I'm known for complex thinking!

Werner (bass player and singer) deals very much with art. He has always designed the artwork and merchandise lines. The
praying hands symbolizing be a weapon, what religions do to us humans, how they affect us and for how little maintenance they are responsible. They are used as an instrument to bring conflicts to swear.
Werner has built up for that disk on hand this scheme. The whole artwork, all the drawings in the booklet are pervaded by the theme faith and violence in connection with his hands.
We plan to make even just art prints of these drawings can be, which then should be available in limited quantities.

looks As the big plan for 2010. Are there specific indications for the first few months? I assume you're busy organizing the tour?

We work in Austria, Nova Music, more precisely with Thomas Zsifkovits, 1998 has already managed our first major support matters. With For Your Safety we are with him again come in contact and makes us now the shows in Austria and I think we will play in the near future also really cool stuff.
What is international, I can not say yet. We are of course tuned to tours, will do in March, Italy and France, with Uncommon Men From Mars . Then we'll see.

Is America because of your contacts must also be an issue?

difficult Ganz. We have already tried to realize, when we were on AF Records , but the cost is simply incredibly high, so that can not afford the band and no label. It would not be the thing to go over there and play shows, not only brings so. If you want to gain a foothold over there, you have eight months a year playing in America.
It is an extremely hard pavement for European bands. You can do it as a vacation, fly over a few weeks, you pay for yourself and play on it happening. Whether this progress is the band, I doubt it. And I want to do anything that the band does not work.
We are certainly not the band unplanned breaks forth where and "Fuck!" Plays. If we do something, then it must give the sense, then we have the potential for see us as a band, that it can develop something. And this is in America quite difficult because there are so few and not just American bands on the road (laughs).
It would be great if we could get a big tour. antiflag have been trying to get over, but if you have costs of 5000 € or more to pay out of pocket, then the whole thing looks quite different again. Then you can you not afford the next drive as you want it, it is difficult.
We will definitely try For Your Safety to present internationally as well as possible. That's the goal.

there's a landmark LP, a make, after the music has taken the desire to really ride?

Nirvana - Nevermind . Without this record it would not give RLF with certainty. There have been previous course Metallic a, Guns `n` Roses and lots of metal bands, but then came ... Nirvana.
Few bands can do that, something you can not plan too. For millions of people after her life is different.
I wanted to play in a band and watch the world. Just be different. Without the succes of Nirvana it had evolved in such things as Green Day, Rancid , Offspring etc. are not given. You can see the second as the punk revolution. 1977, 1991, ...

What runs in just RLF tour bus?

The new Biffy Clyro . I saw them yesterday here (Note Flex / Vienna) and once you have heard what the guys in a threesome for a sound, then you will understand why they were considered by Muse support with you on tour .

Thanks for the detailed interview!

happy until afterwards!

* respondents was Chris, a guitarist in RLF.

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A fifteen minute love affair ...


Andy Butler and his Project Hercules and Love Affair found themselfs in Vienna - recording music, analyzing the city a little bit and putting disco into the cellar of the 2nd district. A very welcome...

I´ve heard that you were in vienna since a few weeks. Also for making a video with marfloW and aswell recording stuff in the studio of Patrick Pulsinger . How did it came to this collaboration?

Andy Butler: Actually Wolfram Eckert ( marfloW ) is the fellow who brought me to Vienna and suggested I´ve sort working with Patrick Pulsinger in the studio. And I was ready to take the work I´d been doing. I spent about a year for recording new material and I needed to bring it somewhere to sort of put the final touches on it, finesse the music and mix the record. So Patrick was the one to do it.
Yeah, and Wolfram also asked me to be in his video, so I was in his video. It´s one of his new songs and I think one of the guys from Holy Ghost (DFA) is singing on it.

Enough time to make you a picture, how the people are, how the clubscene is, the mentality, etc...?
How would you describe Vienna for somebody in a few words?

A.B.: I Love Vienna, because the clima is perfect. I am getting older and so that´s why the clima becomes more important for me than ever (lauging). It´s a beautiful city and the people are sweet. But I hadn´t done that much clubbing. Of everyone, I have probably been here the most, I deejayed at Pratersauna which was fun.
Hm, yeah, the food is good, the people are good looking……

H & L A is a bunch of people who are gay, lesbian or transgender. What do you think about the issue of homosexuality in Vienna. Did you have time for impressions of this scene here. I mean, a girlfriend of mine was here for several weeks and searched for a connection, but the only thing she said was, that it feels like to many people thinking homosexuality is a hype, that´s why it feels sort of strange and unreal here. In Barcelona for example it feels more natural, more filled with love, more authentic. What do you think?

A.B.: Hmm. I mean dont really know the gayscene here in vienna. I hadn´t gone out to gay clubs or such like this but it was prevalent when staying on the Naschmarkt. I recognized that this area is quite gay friendly, I saw a lot of rainbowflags and I´ve heard about some gay clubs. It seems like a welcoming community and nice city for a gay lifestyle. But I dont know much about it, I hadn´t really done much gaystuff here.

Which clubs would you recommend me if I would go to NYC or San Francisco?

Shaun: I like Santos Partyhouse in NYC. Hmmm, in San Francisco…
A.B.: ... Honey Soundsystem ...
Shaun: Yeah, Honey Soundsystem is great.
Daniella: In Berlin we have the Berghain . After Alexanderplatz it´s the most remarakable monument in Berlin. We had all been there, it´s like school

Yeah, I know the Berghain , it´s great. I was there two or three years ago and saw Andy deejaying there. It was sort of luck, because a few weeks before, I´d heard about H & L A for the first time, so it was a cool impression.

A.B.: And do you think I did a good job?

Yes, absolutely. Haha!
Is there a connection between Berlin and NYC for you, in various styles?

A.B.: Yes, there is, I mean in a way. Directly some people connected me to Berlin. Musicproducers for example. Someone who is sort of a mentor in a way to me, named Daniel Wang, who lives in Berlin now. He used to live in NYC and he was very instructive and pushed me, encouraged me as an artist and in writting disco music and stuff. He moved to Berlin, years ago, so I always knew in the back of my mind that I wanted to go and see what´s going on there, because someone who had admired so much had moved there.
And I also meet Daniella years ago in Berlin, like five years ago maybe, so in the back of my mind aswell I was always like „I wanna see this girl again, wanna work with that girl!“

So, could you imagine to live in Berlin for a while? But, you moved from NYC to San Francisco before a while, right?

A.B.: I was in San Francisco but I actually moved to a small town in the middle of America called Denver (laughing).

But that´s your hometown!?

A.B.: Yeah, but I like a quiet life, I like the mountaintowns, climate kind of like Vienna. It´s good for me. I couldn´t live in Berlin, I don´t think. It´s maybe too busy, I am a little bit of a homebuddy actually. What about you, you live in Barcelona? (at Kim Ann asking)
Kim Ann: Yeah, I am now in Barcelona. I mean, I think everyone that lives in NYC, a lot of them moved to Berlin. I don´t know if I could live there, but I really like to visit, I love Berlin.

So, how long did you live in Barcelona?

K.A.: I live there since one year.

Oh, you actually live there. Cool. I saw H & L A there at Espacio Móvistar , but I didn´t like the location. It was sort of too much artificial, too steril. For me, H & L A always needs a location with a lot of sex appeal, which is sort of sleazy.

H & L A: Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

Do you have the possibility to demand like „Hey, we like to play this club or this venue“ when booking the tour, going to a city?

A.B.: We don´t usually call the shots like that. I mean, the truth is that, when we play in a more intimate setting or in a place that has a good energy to it, it makes all the difference. So, I mean, I wish we could play only cool places, but sometimes we have to play like in Mexico…..
Shaun: Oh yeah, it was in Guadalajara. It was amazing.
A.B.: Yeah, but it was in like something that was like a caféteria…
Daniella: Some kind of a town bar, with leather sofas..
Shaun: ...and linoleum floors...
K.A.: ...kinky peoples...haha
A.B.: The venue is always super important. Hopefully tonight will be great at Fluc .
K.A.: Yesssss…

What are the conditions for doing a remix of someones track? For sure you get a lot of stuff, no?

A.B.: Generally there has to be a really strong melody somewhere in the music, or it has to be really aestheticly strong, you know, ruded in some very specific style. So I like it if there is a good vocal, obviously I am surrounded by vocalists, so I like a good vocal, a good melody or a really good aesthetic, good style.

Kim Ann, you´re a Dj aswell. Which one was the first record y´d bought with your own money?

K.A.: The first record I´d ever bought with my own money was actually „Supersonic“ when I was eleven years old.

"Supersonic"? I am not sure if I know this track?

K.A.: What?!! J.J.Fad (making the beat with the mouth)

Andy, I saw you have a comic tattoo on your left arm. Are comics important for you?

A.B.: Actually it comes from a record, so records are important to me. It comes from an old punkrock record.

I have a few more questions. Can you tell me a lie about H & L A !

K.A.: Ohhh, that´s fun!
A.B.: Let´s see, who´s the best liar in the group…??
(all discussing and laughing – but eventually Shaun´s the one)
Shaun: They are terrible to work with. Andy is a tyrant and he´s actually 45.
A.B.: Don´t spread lies about me girl!!! (to Shaun)
Daniella: His real haircolor is black.
Shaun: Haha, he´s a natural brunette.

So, how is it right now for you. For the first album, you had plenty much time, you started for fun. Right now you have the pressure of making an album within a year or something. Do you find the time to write new stuff, how do you manage it till the final end of a song.

A.B.: It´s been challenging, you know. We spent of almost a year with touring, so I had to start learning how to write music on the road, which I did. I kind of found myself with drawing and writing music. So some of the music is actually also older, again. It´s old sketches that were from before the first record. So some of the old music has developed and become what it is now and then new music has been written. I still really try to find time to write music, but it´s hard, because before I didn´t have a timeline or any pressure. I just kind of did it for fun. But I have to keep it fun, I can´t put the pressure so much on me. I think the new songs are good songs, we´ll gonna play a bunch of them tonight. The new collaboraters have brought so much to the music and stuff, so I think it´s gonna be a good record.

Will Antony (Hegarty) and Nomi appear on the new record aswell?

A.B.: No. Both were guestvocalists the first time around, both kind of were soloartists and have their carrer in motion. It´s very exciting to me to work with new people, and in the back of my mind as I said I wanted to work with Daniella for a long time so when that opportunity arose I was like „Oh my god!!“. And Shawn was just somehow we met up and it seemd to work really well. I would like to work with new vocalist and new musicans as well. A lot of the musicans that played on the first record don´t appear on this new record. And there is a new co-producer as well. So it´s a pretty new cast of characters all together.

You talked in an interview about a project which would be more extreme than H&LA . For sure it was not the Sidetracked LP. Do you already work on this project?

A.B.: (innocent watching) I would like to make probably like a very extreme heavy metal projekt with my younger brother. This is a dream of mine(laughing)

A few words at the end: What´s Sidetracked for you?

A.B.: Sidetracked was kind of a opportunity to show my deejaying. Just to play the aesthetic.

Thanks!

H & L A: Thanks.....for the sweets, hehe!

Brown Spotting And Back Pain

Portugal The Man ...... and the thing with the RZA!

Vienna again, nice to have you here one more time. Put off your shoes and feel like home, especially when you don´t have one. Zachary Scott Carothers , basser in Portugal.The Man , talking about touring, money, silhouette art, loops, Hip Hop and why it would be absolutely awesome to work with the RZA .

How did you know each other? I red that some of you played in a group called Anatomy of the Ghost as well?

ZACH: We know each other were we started from Alaska. Yeah,John and I were in a band called Anatomy of a Ghost . We know each other from the highschool, while he played a while my in my shity highshool band too. I had no idea that he can sing so we brought him down from organ to sing for that band and we toured for probably a year and a half or so.
When that band broke up, pretty much right after it was done, he had been talking about doing kind of a solo side project thing called Portugal.The Man and I liked to do that thing with him. So we got a couple of guys in Alaska, we moved back and started it. Over the years we lost a few people so we got Jason on drums and Ryan for organ. Actually one of the guys who starte P.TM with us is playing in The Builders & The Butchers tonight. It´s kind of a cool tour right know because they are really good friends of us.

P.TM means also live improvisation. For me a very important point to see the truth qualitys of a band. Do you know some bands which are doing that kind of show live aswell? I was thinking about another band but, equal that I go to a lot of concerts, I don´t remember not even one group.

ZACH: Yeah, we do a lot of that.
Puh, a band?.....no, not totally. We got a few friends that do like little jams but we´ve got kind of a weird thing. Half of it is improved and there´s a lot of jams but some of them are structured. Well, we have like signals and stuff like that when to go into another part or when to get heavier, slower, things like that. There are some structured jams but a lot of them is just improved and it´s fun, you know. It keeps us on the dose of musicans and it´s more interesting. When u play every day a show with nearly the same set, it´s boring for us and boring for the people. So we keep the fun alive with jaming around.

Your new album is called The Satanic Satanist .
You said once, that the title of an album is always the first thing you have. Church Mouth for example seemed to be a album with religious topics, but it wasn´t. How is it with The Satanic Satanist , what´s the signification of it. I know that blues is the work of the devil…

ZACH: I mean, Church Mouth had some undertones. But Johns lyrics are also pretty vague, but actually not if you really know the guy. They are really matter effect but he thinks of everything in a very weird way. It´s the same thing with The Satanic Satanist . We knew that we wanna to do more of a pop orientated record, more straight forward songs and we wanted to be generaly happy and colourful. We thought of a lot, you know , black metal fans who actually not by our album and pretty got bombed out but we haven´t heard pretty much about that so far.

I was listening to the new album a lot of times, got myself also deeper into the lyrics. My result: It´s a record about mother earth. About the truth things that always were and will be and how we fail to respect them. Am I right?

ZACH: Yeah. Pretty much. It´s got a lot of that. A lot of things that John learned growing up between a certain period of time when he was moving around Alaska and this things he learned from his family and such and then kind of puting that into like what´s going on today and stuff, for sure.

What do you think about the popularity of P.TM in europe, especially in Austria and Germany. Why happened the breakthrough here and not in the USA. Is the peoples view of music so different there?

ZACH: This year it´s kind of the same size in both places now, but at first there was Germany with the Visions magazine where they gave us album of the month right away and also Defiance Records , a small recordlabel who liked to release our albums in europe. So they want us to come over and play a tour and we were like „Holy shit, we just put one record out and get to go to europe, that´s so crazy“.
So we came over here to europe and I feel like, especially in Germany and Austria, yeah and Switzerland too, they were very open against our music.

What about the crowd?

ZACH: There aren´t a lot of clicks, there´s not a lot of separation, it´s just, you know, people like what they like. In the states a lot of times when you get to our shows people dresses certain way and there´s certain age group. You know there´s 18 to 28 in almost every show. And it´s different here. We have really young people and we have like 65 or 70 year old couples in our shows.

For sure because your music is not for a special group of ages. It´s for everyone and fullpacked with various styles.

ZACH: Yeah, we all like a lot of different kinds of music, and we never wanna stick to one thing, so growing all the time is a great topic.



You recorded the last album with very vintage equipment. Was this warmer sound intentet or were there suddenly tons of vintage stuff in the studio?

ZACH: No, we knew that. It was awesome. That was on of the reasons that we went there. We never done that before. On all the other records it was all....you know, the equipment that we brought in was a lot of vintage gear, because we use it, and that´s why it was there. But everything they had was Marshall , Mesa Boogie , like brand new stuff, all on Pro Tools and everything and we were like „Ähhhhh, I don´t totally dig that“ and so, we finally forked up enough money to go into a real studio. They just had rooms full of amps. We just got to go in and choose which one we wanted. And I think John played probably fifteen ot twenty amps on the record. And the guys they were working there, they worked in the same spot for like seventeen years. So they know every amp how it´s gonna sound in this room or in this room.

Where was the studio?

ZACH: They are called Camp Street Studios , in Boston. And Paul Q. Kolderie the guy we worked with, also worked on the first Radiohead Record, with the Pixies , he did a lot of stuff in the 90´s. He is so knowledgeable about music and it was a really fun experience. I think we will continue to do that for sure, to go into studios like that.
We just couldn´t ever afforded before, but now since we´re doing a little better we just say that. None of us make any money. We just take all the money we do from touring and we spend it on recording the next album, so that´s just a cycle. So every time we are touring we like to put out a better record, so it´s just fun. Slowly but surely.

I red that u would like to produce an album with the RZA . You said, „That would be the shit“. Why? Is this style of music important for P.TM ? What would be your expectations when working with him? I never recognized that Hip Hop or Rap influenced your musik.

ZACH: Oh yeah, that would be awesome. Well, we like Hip Hop a lot but it´s more the production side of Hip Hop, we like doing a lot of beats. We have a new record that is done, that wont be coming out some next year and we´re going in january to do another one. So before the next one even comes out we´ll already have two for the next year, that´s pretty ridiculous. Yeah, and that one is a litte more Hip Hop, it´s far as like the beats go, we used a lot of loops and a lot of samples and stuff like that. But the reason why we like the RZA is meanly when he uses his old 60ties and 70ties soul loops instead of a lot of Hip Hop that uses, you know, really new loops. We´ll like useing the old stuff. You know when he did this work on soundtracks for Tarantino movies, like Kill Bill . Yeah, that´s more the reason why we want work with him. For that just old soul kind of aspect, we think thats really cool. Yeah, we´re big in the soul.

But don´t you think that, when producing the album with RZA , it could sound more like these typically american mainstream thing?

ZACH: Yeah, I dont know if he would. I mean we dont really know. We like to see what he do with it. You know half of it it´s kind of joke, because we don´t know if RZA would ever actually would work with us. You know, he´s not my favourite out of the Wu Tang Clan or anything like that, but I think we could do some cool stuff together. But it might be fun if we could start with an EP or having him do a remix of a couple of songs or something like that. That would be absolutely awesome.

The new artwork is awesome. A silhouette Art. When I look at it, I know, that it wasn´t that easy to realise for sure, because everybody is talking about crises and so on. How had you managed this guys?

ZACH: Oh, it was very expensive. But the thing is that we pay for our own records. We pay for the recording and for the cd packaging. So we have a licencing deal with our label and they chip in a little bit of money but whatever they say, our budget is not that we can do this, but well, we will pay for the rest we can. And we also saved money on a lot of spots, because it is just one piece of cardboard with technically one die - cut. So, if you have an album with on a lot of different things and a lots of cuts on a lot of different pieces of cardboards it´s more expensive. So, they really only charge us for only one die - cut. And there´s no plastic used on at all so we saved money there.

You know, for me this is a very important fact of buying a record. I dont buy that much cd´s, normaly only vinyl, but you´ve done it there as well. How do you prefer listening to music?

ZACH: Yeah, for sure, me too. What sucks is, that I buy them and we´re always on tour, I don´t have a home or anything like that. My record player is in storage since three years and I haven´t touched it. Yeah, and that sucks, because when I am travelling all I got is my mp3 player, but I am excited that I actually get a place. We´re thinking about that we actually getting an apartment this winter. I am pretty excited.

So, you don´t have an apartment or anything in Portland right now?

ZACH: No, I don´t own a bed, I don´t own a tv. We live on tour, yeah pretty much.

So that´s the reason for going on tour aswell?

ZACH: Well, we love it. But it´s always busy, you know and if we´re not on tour, we are recording. And when we do have time off, I stay with friends. It does never really made sense having a home, you know. I could maybe afford it, maybe (laughing), but you know when I am gone ten month of the year and I am paying for a whole year, it´s kind of weird.
It kind of sucks, when we pull back into town and like, ähhmm, we´re coming back home on 9th of december and it´s kind of weird because it´s like „Wow, home, finally I haven´t been here for month, I am gonna go to get a hotel room actually“ That sucks!
And an austrian hotel for a couple of days we´ll not need to find. We´ll organize a couch to sleep on or something like that.



What about experiences with drugs. How are they!? I ask this, because when I look to your artwork, the music, the relases every year, the colours, this question cames automatically to me. Austria and Germany are defenitelly to much conservative in these things. Had you ever problems with drugs over here?

ZACH: Last time we played here, we pulled over outside of Munich, and they found like the tiniest little bit of weed in the bag from our drummer and he went to jail. We like almost missed a show, he had to take a train over here, it was pretty terrible. We don´t do that many drugs. I mean I have when I was a kid, but basicly I don´t function on it very well and we don´t want to carry, espescially after the last time, so – no pot in the band. I dont accomplish anything really, I used to. When I was younger I could do whatever drug and I could like go to work, could do things. If I get stoned now, I don´t wanna do anything, and I always got so much shit to do, you know. We are always recording, always touring, I always have to talk to people or play a show. And I can´t do any of that stuff when I am high. I´d like to a little bit in the future, but also it kind of feels weird, I feel I can getting at this point, I don´t know, where I am to old for it. But it´s kind of weird because I am from Alaska and live in Portland and a lot of people do drugs in both those places, but never any bad drugs. Usually it´s just like weed or very lite illusitions that we did in the past.

So, drugs are not the reason for your colour explosions on the albums?

ZACH: Drugs had nothing to do with that. Honestly, I think what probably is, we´re influenced by art that was influenced by drugs. Or sometimes you never been know. I just red an interview about Pink Floyd . And apparently Pink Floyd didn´t do any drugs. I was like „ What the fuck!“ – That´s what got me into drugs when I was a kid was Pink Floyd . I was kind of disappointed. I got plenty of bad advices, but not drugs.

Last Question: Where will you stay during Christmas

ZACH: Well, we´re going back to Alaska. I will stay in my mum´s house for a while, over the holidays. I always go back and stay with mum, that's cool. We're big on family.

Thanks so much for the interview. Here are some sweets called "cake tips". You have to try it. Have fun!

ZACH: Wow, you're crazy. We love sweets. Thanks. See you after the show.

Exercising During A Herpes Outbreak

Ashes of Pompeii - Arena 3-space - 8.11.2009


Ashes of Pompeii, a band like a volcano eruption, only better. Somehow, still had all already fled, but the question mark remains.

New love: among others, Marburg

" The more you know, the less you can remember "
What a sentence. Especially But what a band behind it.
Ashes of Pompeii an existing since 2004 quartet of Marburg, Germany, and in this country so far fallen through the cracks like the ashes in the furnace. Inexplicably, for one has, for example, once "recording the Fall" is one they have you already branded, will you always remember it. Actually,
AOP me for much more than just a band - always on, and since the new album even more. You are responsible for years for the music that always works, the proof that it pays to be eaten since time immemorial for hours through recessions and music magazines, to rise in most diverse record stores from one foot to the next because you can no longer stand, but since it still gives a plate to listen to you needs. Since yesterday, they are not only the unknown that had hitherto received only by their musical output, a thick friendship with me.

Killing time with you is all that I want to do
while all the others are making plans

you were at it when I wandered in the middle of the night by taxi from Rio, with me staring motionless into the night sky the roofs of Salvador de Bahia, accompanied me on flights before where I enter the so-called airplane with my life completed, had reassured me, as I severely affected by purest Colombian medicinal herbs, lying in any log cabin on the Pacific coast, not knowing is where heaven and earth, or if it's all about still exists or just complaining only hell. About the moments when they let me do not hang over the past nine months, then I'll write about a book soon. They were just always there, like a good friend as someone appreciates the one that he shares such fraction of a life with you. For all that, I can simply say thanks.

You are lost in this city
You missed the last exit long before

Then suddenly this 8th November 2009, AOP first time in Vienna - and all five people have also managed real concert again. And I landed on the ground of reality, understand the whole thing after a bad night's sleep about it not a bit better.
Music is a very broad medium, satisfying range of scenes, styles, and considers ways in seemingly infinite number of parts frayed. This cover AOP from has always been a much larger section of that work there, where styles and scenes overlap. With their new album Accidental Goals more than ever before. AOP had no expectations on her first guest appearance in Austria, but today I'm still hurt the heart. Why? Very simple. Because for me it is currently almost no volume provides, not from Austria or from Germany, the music brings so to the point how these four guys that I can seem to leave a visit as a huge explosion. Her set is charged. From right under the skin Emocore the earlier years on the instrumental parts as they had presented a certain band from San Francisco a few days ago almost to pass in place of a virtuoso drummer trades that kicks like hell and a voice that predestined could not be . From guitars to blow away everything in them their path, but get progressively worse in the airy heights. From one of the bass in the gaps in between sets and remains. One set, but which also shines with moments where you can let yourself just where a sampler and instrumental parts pack from both sides and to the seemingly harmless, under the roof hanging fan raise before you torn this in a thousand pieces again sends rain on the ground - because he has suddenly, just as the number once again been gaining momentum.

Without photographs and souvenirs
it would feel as if nothing has ever happend

After three years of creative phase in which the self-imposed homework were made carefully, in which it is grown in many ways, was used in which its objective, with a lot of passion and ideas, then they just failed in Accidental Goals a wonderful album to the record shelf. An album that much more mature, sophisticated sounds really good as the predecessor. Lyrically influenced by the idea of zero in an inevitably when one deals with the heal us again in August pushed the world, if ultimately only say the emotions where the journey must go on. About the random things in life, things that happen when you stop listening to his ideals, if they continued, the addiction to the moment when one is surprised by something which you just do not know till you have not tried it.

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Seismograph:

Before the concert I met the band to spinach strudel and beer - and had a few questions allowed.

you play countless shows, tours through Germany and England have already scoured. Austria has so far remained on the track, why's it take so long - one thing with your old home, Lockjaw Records , related?

Tobi: We had the first record in Germany no sales - have sold the plate to concerts. This is Lockjaw Records somehow happened through friends who were also on that label. The contact to Austria has not just happened. There are not that play bands from Austria that we concerts or tours, it simply lacks a bit of the Connection.

you know bands from Austria?

AOP: Red Lights Flash (New album:!! For your safety and on December 11, live in Vienna Flex ) that we have time together with Alexisonfire seen.

Three years ago, that your last album was released. Have you consistently gewerkt on new material and touring, the band more or run by the way, did you concentrate on other things?

Tobi: Nope, we have consistently played concerts since the last record. There were so on the 150 gig I guess. Before the first record there were so happens around the 50, it certainly has a lot in the two years. We have taken in May, and started writing songs a year before. We are not the fastest of all.
2007, we played a lot, like this around 50 shows, which is relatively much for us. Also, because Luke lives in Cologne and we respect us Samples must deny and things like that pretty well. Then also this thing came with the England tour to 2007 was in the fall of this
Well, 2008 we actually operated Songwritting, have also recorded twice as ne in preproduction studio. We wanted to take a long time for the second disk.
Lukas: I study sound engineering, but never imagined the plate at the time of recording not yet have believed. So we were in a studio in Koblenz. So actually the studio by Kurt Ebelhäuser or Blackmail . We have not recorded with him, but with two guys we know, but keep in his studio. In future, it would
of course an advantage if I the whole thing could make itself. I do have the Preproduction made, but as I said, I am still not quite as ready felt the next album but it should work out.

How long have you been working on the new album?

Michi: total, there were so two years. So we were in May in the studio but have also been recorded last year. It must be said that we get now with the new label ( papership Records ) great support in this direction. We are now in a position that we have a distributor in Germany, so you can now also our CD on Amazon . Bestellen

You were on an English label. Now you're back in Germany under the Treaty. Bands usually seek even then, to go to a foreign, English label. With you it's vice versa. Were you disappointed, the label could not realize what you expected you had.

Lukas: Actually it was just too early. We were not on the status that it has paid off for us. We stop thinking, "a label from England, full of cool, of course we do." And the tour and so it was all very fine, but it has really brought us much. Actually, only for us personally, and a lot of fun we also had. The tour and so that has really brought us together again containing greater detail, also because it was towards the end of the year as we had been playing, we then know any better in which direction it should go to the next CD.
We hold a German band and we always come to England to be .... Well.
We want to keep playing a lot because the possibilities are certainly limited in England. Since we know a lot containing less people than in Germany, therefore we have with the current board just did not think of this permission or tried. It was not that we have talked about it, just realize that we are stuck in there no ambitions in that direction. Was a nice
Experience in England to be, but need not be.

Many bands are becoming increasingly professional, experiment with computer programs, recorder, build your own studio. You started on the new record a bit with the electronic element to play. As this has developed since the last album?

Lukas: The live started, I really do not know why. I think Tobi has begun, because he once saw on a tour so Sometree Kaos Pad that the guy had served there. Tobi but has noticed quite quickly that the opportunities are a bit limited.
Through my studies I started with computer programs containing playing around, trying to make samples and then somehow reinzuwursten - and it has just always been fun. It's just interesting, this new component. It does not now have the upper hand, but what new is always fun, you have to stop always develop a bit.
Tobi: We had played around even at the last disk after the recording a bit. The desire to beat even before we had I'd say that did not arise from it as we have said that we need to do something completely new. It was just before that because we had not only the possibilities and it could not just up to realize.

Accidental Goals , a first glance, perhaps disturbing album title. I interpret it for me so far, as I also tended to Accidental Goal happened, I suddenly found myself looking for things that I had some time before being considered not just now but in making these steps towards trying to develop myself. That is why I am sitting here today. Can we pass on to the title?

Lukas: It fits very well to the whole band. We knew each other before that do not fit, and the last 5 years we spend much time together containing:
Michi: I would say, have you seen through all right.
Nolte: Yes a cool approach. On this funnel I had come not so, but casually. Is a good view way, definitely.
on what we had purchased it but I rather think again Songwritting that one without a plan, with an empty head in the rehearsal room meets and see what it comes out. Go there, write and play around, this would be what, no matter whether you wanted it or not.

the artwork I've now watched a bit longer and well, at first I thought it is a house that is reflected in a puddle of water. Now I'm not so sure. But it was definitely something down about it, right?

Tobi: No, actually it is Photoshop free. We have long wondered what to do. So now not only from the subject, but how we implement the artwork in general. We know then someone from Marburg learned as a graphic artist. We hold a long conversation with the, have made us so our thoughts and he has brought a lot of ideas. One day, he then told us about his project and we are shown. He experimented with Polaroid. So during the development process open, and liquids such as detergent poured inside, they put on the heating and so on. Polaroid transformation. As a motif he had collected high-rise buildings and shopping centers.

I know not yet the new record throughout, the song "forget.forget" there are these wonderful set - The more you know, the less u can remember !
This sentence is very open to interpretation - I to define myself by now very much - because sticking in a phase where I acquire lots of new things and information will, because I am overwhelmed by new, because I first permit - to me it but also occurs just as I would know less than before. On what the sentence is based.

Michi: Actually it is just that
Tobi: I sometime forget that , forget had in mind - I know why not, I'm not so interested in it, but I'm studying philosophy dependent, so actually I'm no longer upon it so as Bock. But we were holding times as perception and memory, and I found it really interesting because we hold will stop completely flooded. Every day hundreds of new disk, for example, you can also listen for free on the Internet or download. But most of it ends up anyway at first only on the hard disk and you do not hear from you. I was actually very cool that you even though you have so many options, you really are dealing only with the things that are important to you. Then we have, as always in fact composed of ideas, and develop. Songwritting usually happens to fourth, text sometimes alone, but even together.

Have you tried to realize a little distance from the word Emocore that one has picked up so you like?

Lukas: Can you say. We wanted to try as little as possible to pack plates on the plate. We are now not with an anti-consumer or so went to the plate. The choice of the studio as was already very deliberately chosen, simply because we had certain ideas about the sound. We were not at all dissatisfied with the old album, but viewed in retrospect, we just did have the sound forth something different, we wanted to have more warmth in it. We are quite satisfied with the new release, so by the sound of her in any case, and also from Songwritting. We are there now no limits to where we said "we do not" or something. We certainly had the last album borrows from various other bands, where we thought, wow, that sounds good. I think it's just a maturation process as an artist - from album to album. We collect, for example, already some way towards thought - what happens next. Man tries to stop constantly to wonder.
Nolte: is an important point, what music you hear yourself. And I think that has changed with us dependent in the past a little. We hear already still so Emocore and all, but it still does a lot of other stuff about what is a serious point eder.

Why the name? Are you interested in the city and its really terrible reason for the anchor in the story?

Tobi: content that has nothing to do with it. We had a few names and have simply dissolved, and then there was the stop.
Lukas: He is stolen by The Mars Volta who have it in a text line to "Deloused ..."
Now we are not huge fans of The Mars Volta , but it sounded good, it was the main reason. Is Although still a fairly lax argument, but I find it kind of cool, still.
We share nothing with Pompeii or something.

One thing is thus: Ashes of Pompeii are increasingly on the stage in this country. When you consider how many really bad bands to go out to various evenings or as a support to can be, one may acknowledge the recent Nichtaufscheinen of Marburg in concert calendars throughout Austria with bewildered head-shaking.

screaming, what you are thinking

The main band actually Todd Anderson also left a strong impression. Hardcore in German - in Future-proof back for more.
the dedicated people around papership Records I wish on their long journey, hopefully many successful moments. Just because pirates are everywhere, that's no reason not to throw into the musical wave.
you soon at sea.

photos reflects HERE

Do Horoscopes Vary In The Southern Hemisphere

DREDG and a microphone - ARENA / Vienna - 26th of October


Stormy weather outside, freezy and normaly the time for a tasty tea. You can give a shit about that when the San Francisco based band town Dredg is in. Here we are .....


You are in Austria since two days, played two shows, in Graz and Salzburg. How was it?

GAVIN: Yeah, they were good, kind of mellow shows but good shows. We´ve never been in Graz, so that was cool. We knew Salzburg, we had been there in 2002.

You are on tour with your new album „The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion“ which is influenced by the words of Salman Rushdies Essay. I read it aswell and found myself agreeing to his thoughts. Can you remember the moment when you decided to do what is most important for you – the music – no matter what all the people around you said.

GAVIN: Yeah, I mean. I start playing guitar at six grade or so and that was pretty when i got into it, and lasted up through highschool but practicing a lot. But as a band I guess probably late ninetees or something around that time.

DINO: I start playing piano when i was really young, so as kind I was always playing music and my mother played music too since i was baby, so…..

So, you started with piano?

DINO: Yeah, at about five for like ten years. And then i start playing drums. I never realised that it´s what i do, because it was all the time the thing I did.

On the 1st of october there was a happening in NYC´s Housing Works where Dredg together with Salman Rushdie had organized an event. Would you say that this special concert was one of the most important and interesting moments in your (musical career or in your) career as an artist?

GAVIN: Definitely, it was very different and the show turned out really well. From a fun racing scanpointer it is sucessfull and they were very please. A well rounded evening i think. It was more a mellow show, without drums, only Roland Syntie , Keys, Guitars and Dino played Piano. It was in a bookstore, so we tried to make it bookstore´esk

In what way had the Split from your old label, the major Interscope , to your new one, the indie Ohlone Recordings , affected the work of the album. Was it hard to follow the concept, and was it also a reason for the various release dates of the album? Did you have more freedom in making the record with all the things you loved (to do afterwards?)

DINO: It was definitely part of the delay, you know. That took so long to make a album, because we were dealing so long, it was a long process that we actually left there and were kind of part away. During that whole like decision time and it was a lot of like delay. Just month, you know. We wrote a few songs, we were all kind of new, tried some more things, wanted to see some more. It was kind of a stretched up ending of the relationship. That was a big part and definitely a year of that kind of stuff going on and as far as the beginning of making the new record. And yeah, everyone would say that since we´ve been kind of our own it´s great. Making the album just for ourselfs and not feeling this pressure, i mean we never felt this pressure but it´s defenitelly better…

You recorded the album in your studio?

GAVIN: No, that wasn´t our studio. We decided a rehersal space. There are some studios around the bay area, and we recorded a few tracks in L.A. as well. Also in a studio in the north of San Francisco and in two studios in San Francisco as well. Yeah, and at a studio called Barefoot in L.A.

Oh, alright. I Ask this, because at The Leaflets i´ve seen this awesome studio with all this instruments and i also loved the bicycle ride to the studio.

GAVIN: (laughing) Oh yeah, it´s a beautiful location. That studio does not exist anymore, we were one of the last bands which recorded there. It´s kind of sad anyway.

You said one day that Dredg stands for „Discovering the World“, for transformation – because only when you go on journeys into unexplored areas you learn how to see things differently. You changed the producer – did you feel that Terry Pate would not be able to make this record?

GAVIN: We need a ingenieur and producer after sound a little different. So, you know, every record has kind of place for it´s persons. Mat Radosevich, we worked with on the new record. is a lot more musical than other people we worked with, so, he brought another element at the mix aswell. You know, every experience is a lot different.

In the song „Ireland“ you´re talking about the topic when we don´t move ourselves, when we stay at the same place, always with the same things around - which are in fact comfortable, but at the same time we´re losing our sight for the adventure, for discovering new things, new cultures…
No one of you really has this problem because of your touring-schedule.
Although: Was there a day, when someone had the impression to leave San Francisco, or did anybody of you live„far away“?

GAVIN: Yeah, i mean i think as a band we´re very privileged in reality, so it´s not useable for every persons to be to…you know…this kind of all great distances but it does not have to be a huge move or a huge vacation that experienced something new. I mean within our state there are a lot of different ideals, you know, geographic differencies or something like that, that could be inspire me in my life

DINO: We travel so much thats it´s kind of nice to be…ähmm..you know, someone have family too, and you´re always far away from them most of the time, so it´s kind of nice to be at home. To have it´s comfort.

GAVIN: But you guys are lucky, that you have so many different countries within short distances. We have Mexico, but it´s …hmm… you know……..

We are talking about places. Is there a place that means a lot to you - that always will be associated with a special song or music – because something special happend there?

GAVIN: Well, i think probably Germany, just because that was one the first countries outside of our own that embraced the music, and we´ve met a lot of people there over the years and have friends there now. There are certain areas.

DINO: Oh, I remember that when we were doing „Information“. It´s a little bit inspired by like the german festivals which we were playing, you know, this feeling when you are playing outside, lots of people. It kind of inspired me a little bit with the drumming. You know what i mean?

Is there something that creeped into your life, but right now you don´t like it anymore? An addiction, a habit or something like that?

DINO: (Laughing) Well, something is always creeping in somehow.

GAVIN: I think we´re pretty good right now, i think, yeah. We´re pretty down, more than ever probably. Yeah, we´ve calm down a little bit.

DINO: Yeah, but this is about six weeks ago (laughing)

DINO: This is the fourth and least month on tour, two europe once one months, and two us ones once with like seven weeks long. So that was like since late february, so it´s been like a whole year. We haven´t been on tour for long time, so, we got kind of crazy for a while, you know, but now it´s kind of like pacing ourselves a little bit,……getting older

DINO: Well, we had more fun to be fucking drunk all the time, party hard..you know, it´s more fun, but it also brings you down more aswell.
When the shows starts suffering because of you partying to hard, then you´re kind of guilt, you know, kind of fuck…

GAVIN: It´s just a bad cycle in which you´re caught in.

But for sure there are thes days which are more normal and these days which are sort of exzessiv. It always depends on the city aswell, right?

GAVIN: Especially being in a different place every night, seeing people like: „hey can i give u a drink“ and you are in..ähhm.. vienna and u feel like an idiot for not maybe, because we´re all over here and might be my last time that i am able to do this, so i wanna go out. That´s the tough thing but I will not sitting in the bus and read when i am in vienna, you know what I mean.

For example: Your best friend is asking you for advice about new music stuff. Which record would you recommend him (beside yours).

GAVIN: Well, the new Elbow record is not bad, that´s a great album.

DINO: To be honest it´s not that much that´s like flaring me right now. It might just be me, my grand, my life or something but I just dont have anything that´s like or that feel like that i have to listen too.

GAVIN: I listen to a lot of mellow music, usually i listen to most of my music in the morning. Especially on tour.

I ask this, because there´s a nineteen year old girl right now, she´s from austria and her artist name is „Soap and Skin“ ? You know her?

GAVIN: No. How was it, „Soap and Skin“ ?

Yes. She plays piano and mixes it up with sounds from her notebook.

DINO: Does she sing in english?

Yeah. I have the cd for you.

GAVIN & DINO: Thanks, great man.

What was your last dream about?

DINO: Wow, fuck, it was really weird. I had to protect an ex-girlfriend against getting shot down by some like folks, on a top of this hill, at night…
Yeah, nothing makes sence when i am woke up, but it totally makes sence when i was dreaming it…kind of weird when u know everything that was happening…..
Yeah, we watched this really fucking creepy movie Paranormal Activity , so we watched that regulary before going to bed, so….you know…one reason for this fucked up dreams!

GAVIN: I remember that when I explain dreams they sound just terrible, so…I don´t know, I was running from cops and there was some weird drug thing. You know, it was kind of this dream when u watching a movie and there is some new drug there that would transform you, like shapeshift you on a different things….. i was running from the police and turned into water…..i dont know, but it was really great during the dream, but yeah, it sounds pretty boring right now.
Explaining dreams is like impossible.
I got mobed the other night in my dream, by a girl and i´d followed her and was camping outside of her house, waiting for her to come out to get my phone and wallet back (all laughing)
Yeah, pretty boring.

You said that this album is dedicated to Chi Cheng, the basser of Deftones .
did his accident and his incidental condition changed the view of something in your lives (which was quite normal until then)?

GAVIN: I mean always things like that were unsuspected, kind of shocking. I don´t know, i mean, it makes u to think about this person after, and you reclaim what happend to him as best as u can in your mind. It´s sad and whatever. It´s a shocking like that, a sudden death or anything like sudden accidents are always kind of choking.

Does anyone of you write - in the century of mails and internet – Do you like handwritten stuff?

GAVIN: Not that much. More email.

Wordrap:

Mozart:

GAVIN: Austria
DINO: Salzburg

Falco:

DINO: What?

It was an important musican from vienna. Maybe you know his song „Rock me Amadeus“?

GAVIN: Oh, yeah. Ok, i know that my answer have nothing to do with it, but my fist thought was „The Endless Story“,because of Falkor
DINO: laughing

Drugs:

GAVIN: Fun
DINO: I love them
(all laughing)

Opera or Classical Music:

GAVIN: Classical
DINO: Classical

Nature:

GAVIN: Economy
DINO: Hock

Preferd fruit:

GAVIN: Banana
DINO: Apple

Night:

GAVIN: Inspire
DINO: Drugs

Sade (the singer):

GAVIN: Horny
DINO: Sexy

Vinyl:

GAVIN: Dredg
DINO: 1970´s

Thank you guys, what a pleasure.

So thanks to FM5 (where you can read the German version) and rooo! - You rock, take care - we need you man !!!!!