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Value Of Words

Hounds Of Hate • Shipwrecked • Give

Praise • True Identi ty • Enough

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Crucial John and Ian Marshall (Give), Jay Wiggin (Hounds of Hate), Jon A. Gaasland (Shipwrecked), Jim Hesketh (True Identi ty), Emmanuel Makaveli (Enough), Andy Norton (Praise), Fredrik Malthe, Emma Lundqvist, Tibi Koncz (DeathBike Punkhead design), Dalma Kuczera (FOM Digital in print), Philippe Arama, Mike Harts eld, Josi Hoff mann (Holding the moment), Hans Nøstdahl, Marius Eriksen, Angela Owens, Tim McMahon, Stephen St Germain, Kevin Insted, Joshua Our Turn, Roman Kravets. Our moms and dads!

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By Emelie Norenheim & Andris Mészáros

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HOUNDS OF HATE - INTERVIEW FREDRIK MALTHE - PHOTOGRAPHERSHIPWRECKED - INTERVIEWGIVE - INTERVIEWEMMA LUNDQVIST - PHOTOGRAPHERPRAISE - INTERVIEWVINYL MATRIX STORYTRUE IDENTITY - INTERVIEWENOUGH - INTERVIEWMY CRO-MAGS STORY

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ANDRIS TOP 5FAVORITE LP’S EVER:

MOUTHPIECE THE COMPLETE DISCOGRAPHY

TURNING POINTDISCOGRAPHY 1988-1991

INSTEDBONDS OF FRIENDSHIP (BY THE WAY ALL)

DAMAGE CONTROLWHAT IT TAKES

BEYONDNO LONGER AT EASE

EMELIE TOP 5FAVORITE LP’S EVER:

MINDSETLEAVE NO DOUBT

THE FIRST STEPWHAT WE KNOW

VIOLENT REACTIONCITY STREETS

BLITZVOICE OF A GENERATION

SSDTHE KIDS WILL HAVE THEIR SAY

ANDRIS TOP 5NEWS FROM 2014:KENTAWR XX∆IIII

HEADROOMCARRY ME AWAY 7”

FADEONE WITH SERENITY EP

NYC HEADHUNTERSDEMO 2015

FURY 6 SONG DEMO

EMELIE TOP 5RECENT RELEASES EVERYBODYSHOULD LISTEN TO:G.L.O.S.S.DEMO

UNJUSTDEMO 2015

ARMS RACEGOTTA GET OUT

CROWN COURTTROUBLE FROM LONDON

MILES AHEAD DEMO 2015

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Emelie

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Andris

Up unti l the summer of 2014 I was just one among many going to hardcore gigs, trying to gure my way into the hardcore scene. Oft en did I go to shows by myself, and sure was it lonely, but I felt home as soon as the music started playing. It all took a huge turn in the summer of 2014 when I met with some of the best people out there. Since then I’ve created good friendships, not only in Sweden but also all around the world. I’ve been on my rst road trips and I’ve become a part of a hardcore booking group. It was an important change for me, and today I can easily say that hardcore and punk, and the unity that comes with it, is an important thing in my life.

Thanks to Andris I was able to be a part of this zine. I felt it was important to parti cipate and do something creati ve for hardcore, so this zine was a good platf orm for bringing something to the table. The internati onal collaborati on that lies behind this zine I think is a very interesti ng aspect. It shows that hardcore is worldwide and that everything is possible, as long as you put your minds together.

Hardcore for hardcore.

It has always been a dream of mine to make a fanzine. I don’t know why I didn’t do it earlier, maybe I felt like I couldn’t do it, or maybe I just thought that people wouldn’t be interested in it. But now that I’ve done it, I hope you will enjoy our fanzine! And thanks to Emelie Norenheim to help me a lot!

This summer it will be my 10 years anniversary beeing straight edge so in a way this zine is to celebrate that. When I remember back to my rst real hardcore show it was a litt le festi val in Budapest 2006, in february. I was 19 and lived in the country side two hours away by train. I just went to see my favorite bands. This was when I rst saw Hold X True, my favorite Hungarian band! I went alone to this show and didn’t have any friends at this ti me in the scene. I had spoken with one guy on the internet but we met aft er the show. And if I remember correctly this was my rst trip alone to Budapest, so you can image that it was a bit scary. I got lost a few ti mes, the concert was a remote place, similar to a factory, so it wasn’t easy to nd. But nally I found the venue two hours before the show would start. So I really didn’t know how a hardcore show worked with not arriving too early (haha).

I remember when Hold X True rst catched me, they were really friendly. They knew everybody and everybody knew them. The bass player off Hold x True was really funny. At the beginning he joked around with me, but later on we become good friends. I really enjoy the show they did at the fest! I remember the last band was Kickin it Down, and maybe only 8 or 10 people stayed in the venue. I sleept in my godfather house aft er the show, he called me up when the last band played, so I only saw them for about 10 minutes, but I remembering liking it! I remember my godfather asking if it was worth it coming to Budapest? I answered yes!

Next show I went to I mabe more friends, we hung out aft er and before the show and they gave me a place to sleep. And someti mes the funny bass player helped me to sleep somewhere. Nowadays I like going to show in other countrys! Everyti me I am a bit afraid when I go to a ‚new’ country since it’s far from home. But I like it, to hang out in new citi es, to create new friendships and see bands that I like. It’s all worth it.„I’ll always change, I’ll always grow, I’ll always be looking for something more”

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hounds of hate INTERVIEW WITH JAY WIGGINBIG THANKS FOR THE PHOTOS

FOR ANGELA X OWENS.

Hi Jay! How have you been? How was the Not Dead fest in Toronto few a weeks ago?

Hi Andris. I and the others have been well, I think. Aft er ve weeks in Europe I think we were all prett y happy to have ti me to ourselves in which we could accomplish the things we had to put off since we were away. As for Not Dead Yet, I don’t know! Only No Time played. This is actually the rst year that I missed it which was sad, but I knew that it would simply be too much for me to handle so soon aft er tour had ended.

Where does that name originate from Hounds of Hate? Whose’s idea was?

Well way back in 2010 or something I moved to Brooklyn and into a loft apartment at 538 Johnson Ave. Some of the other people who lived in the building and I decided to start a straight-edge band. At some point, Flynn was called in to play second guitar. We hurriedly wrote four or ve songs (that were prett y bad) and recorded them in Western Massachussett es with Will Killingsworth. At the ti me, everyone in my apartment was listening to Kate Bush and speci cally her album Hounds of Love. On the way up to Western Mass from NYC we listened to the song „Hounds of Love” at least six ti mes. We sti ll hadn’t come up with a name for the band and at some point Hounds of Love was brought up as a possible name and it sort of stuck, but the band never played a show or even practi ced again. Soon aft er Flynn started his own band out in Braddock and, in a play on our stupid homage to Kate Bush, ipped the love to hate. Hence, Hounds of Hate.

Tell us a bit about histories and how the band

fromed, age of members ect? I think rst time this just the garage band if i right?

I’m not really the best person to ask as I’m not actually an original member. Flynn conceived of the band probably in 2010 and eshed out the songs and lyrics in 2011. I assume the band rst came into existence parti ally as a means of allowing Flynn to write some NYHC style / oi / streetpunk jams, parti ally to write straight-edge lyrics, and parti ally as a means of allowing Trey to sing for a band. Dave was enlisted to play bass and our friend Jack was enlisted to play drums. That line-up recorded the demo and the rst 7” and went on the rst Hounds of Hate tour. I actually saw them in NYC with Ceremony at 538 Johnson and again in Silver Spring at Corpse Fortress. I thought they were awesome. The song ANHS off the demo was a parti cular favorite of mine .

Anyway they recorded the EP and Adam and Colman from Katorga Works (both of whom I lived with at the ti me) released it. Honestly, I remember when the demo showed up at our house we thought it was sort of a joke. Now I can appreciate it, but at the ti me we thought it sounded like total shit. The 7” on the other hand we thought was awesome.

I’m probably messing up the chronology of all of this but whatever. Eventually Jack moved to Milwaukee so that he could get a Masters Degree in Philosophy and I replaced him as the drummer. When I joined I was sti ll living in Brooklyn and would commute out to Braddock to have band practi ce. In May of 2012 I moved out there and since then we’ve toured prett y consistently every year. As for ages, as of right now I am 27, Dave is 33, Flynn is 26, and Trey is 29.

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How was your euro trip with No Time? this was almost one month! i think you have a lot stories from this trip can you tell us some?

The tour was awesome. It’s such a stock response, but it really was aweosme. I’m surprised by how good it was. Before we left I was lled with anxiety about the tour because I had booked it myself with the help of Adam and Rick in No Time and a litt le assistence from Flo Trapdoor. Unlike the rst tour where Flo handled everything, I felt like the success or failure of this tour was all on me. And despite a bunch of stupid problems and insane American ideas of European geography, it worked out great! We played excellent shows, met excellent people, and managed to cover all of our costs in the end. Considering the fact that the tour was ve weeks long and went from the UK to Spain to Poland to Norway to Finland, it’s sort of a surprise.

It’s funny, you’re asking about stories and of course I know that tons of stuff happened on that tour but in my mind right now it’s just a blur of memory.

What was the best and the worst show in this tour?

I think I would have to say that the best show of tour was at Ex-Black Hammer in Leipzig. We played their in 2013 and it was a lot of fun, but this ti me it was absolutely insane. The room that you play in is very small and it was completely packed with people who went prett y crazy for both No Time and us. We have a lot of friends in Leipzig and so it was nice to see all of them, eat a bunch of delicious food, and then play a really incredible show. And

luckily, some guy lmed it and put it on youtube, so I can relive it whenever I want.

As for the worst show of tour, we didn’t really have what any of us would consider a BAD SHOW. In America a BAD SHOW is where you show up and the space is empty and you call the promoter and they’re like, „oh shit... that was supposed to be tonight?” or you play to like ve people who don’t give a shit and the PA is so broken that the singer just gives up and yells without a mic and then you get paid $13. None of that happened to us in Europe. My least favorite show was in Wiesbaden, Germany and that’s not because of the show itself, I was just feeling real weird or something and played like total shit. I completely fucked up the ending of Pound of Flesh (a song I have played, no exaggerati on, well over 150 ti mes) and I don’t know why. Everything else about the show was cool though.

How is it the hardcore/straight edge scene in Pittsburgh, Braddock? How many people coming down to the shows? Can you tell us some new local bands?

The punk scene in Pitt sburgh is prett y awesome in my opinion. I think a good scene has to have three ingredients; venues, good bands, and excited people. Pitt sburgh has all of those things, which is awesome. Straight edge is really small here as it is in a lot of places. I don’t really mind that though. I’d say the average show draws around 30 or 40 people. Some shows are much bigger and some are much smaller. Though the scene here is cool, I wouldn’t really call it big.

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As for bands, my favorite band in Pitt sburgh is de nitely Blood Pressure. It’s Scandinavian styled hardcore mixed with early 80’s US stuff and it fucking rips. Adam from No Time also sings for that band and Tom from No Time plays drums. They are fucking killer. Eel is another great band that is super fucking punk and loud and noisy. Fronted by a madman and really fun to see live, though one must watch out for ying power tools... I’m sure new bands will be starti ng soon as well.

i want to know what’s born rst the lyrics or guitar riff? I mean rst just write the lyrics and after composes the song.

The riff s come rst almost always. Lyrics are writt en to prett y much completed songs.

One qestion about the lyrics. Trey write the all? What inspired the writing? i think not the same things to the all. so just talk about Born Alone, Secret knowledge, Clean Today, Made Your Bed and Dime?

Actually Flynn writes most of the lyrics. In reality Hounds of Hate is Flynn’s band. He presents us with ideas that he has that we voice our opinion on, but the ideas start with him.

As for song meanings, I don’t really want to speak for Flynn but I will! Born Alone, to me, is about

thinking you’ve found a bunch of people who are like you when you’re young and hanging out with other straight edge kids and then getti ng older and nding out that a lot of those people aren’t like you at all. As I’ve heard it said, „just because you’re straight edge doesn’t mean we’re friends.” A lot of people who claim edge are stupid or boring or horrible or just doing something that they aren’t serious about or whatever else. The world is fucking terrible and so of course you want to nd people who feel the same way you do about stuff ; politi cally and morally, sure but also just in terms of what’s fun and what’s interesti ng and so on. It’s sort of a mournful song, I think. But it’s also a „fuck you I’m sti ll here” kind of song, too.

Secret Knowledge is a song sort of about conspiracy theories. Flynn is really into reading about secret governments and cabals and all that evil NWO shit. Of course, it’s not so much of a conspiracy theory necessarily now that all that extensive reporti ng came out over the last two years about how the NSA essenti ally captures and retains tons and tons of private communicati ons in the name of nati onal security. And when every day it becomes clear that the „west” is really just a horrifying plutocracy that serves corporati ons rst and foremost.

Clean Today was actually an idea that came from Dave originally. It’s about how frustrati ng it is to

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value of words fanzinebe close to someone struggling with addicti on. It’s about the cynicism that grows inside of you as you watch them struggle and fail and, in doing so, lie to you over and over again about what they’re doing. It’s prett y cruel, too. „I’d rather watch you die...” I think it’s important to remember that lines like that, while hyperbolic, re ect feelings that are felt in a moment. I’ve got a lot of addicti on in my family and I don’t want any of those people to die. But it is frustrati ng. Of course, if it’s frustrati ng for us to watch from the outside, imagine what it’s like to have that be your life, you know?

Made Your Bed... shit I don’t know. It’s about stu-pid fuckups who base their whole identi ti es on image only to have that fall apart in their hands. If you ti e your sense of who you are to things like what haircut you have you aren’t really there in a meaningful way. Hair falls out, man. You bett er hitch your wagon to a horse of another color.

Dime is a song about something that’s happening a lot in hardcore in America these days, I’m not sure if it happens in Europe. Joe Hardcore who books This is Hardcore posted a big rant about it on facebook a few months back I remember. Basically all these kids are trying to make their fresh off a demo hardcore bands into big-ti me touring operati ons with merch deals, and sponsorships, and managers, and producers and all the shit that exists in the big leagues of making music for the purpose of generati ng pro t. It’s fucking stupid. I fully support

people living off their music and I know some people who do. I also recognize that, at a certain point, „Doing It Yourself” becomes less and less viable the bigger you get. However, starti ng a band that recycles riff s Bactrack wrote four years ago and shopping around for a tour manager before you even rercord a demo is bogus. Buy a van for $900 and book a tour your damn self. Put in some fucking work, damn. Anyway we don’t want that life. No thanks. Package tours and merch deals and label deals just aren’t us.

You are play in an another band whos name Creem. I saw in the hate springs eternal Lp you write in the thanks list ’rip’. What happends this band? Can you tell more from this band story from how born?

Well basically we stopped being a band. Mike from CREEM went to Cornell and is doing a Doctoral degree in Politi cal Theory while also singing for AJAX (the best damn band in the land) and playing guitar in Warthog. Colman from CREEM is getti ng his Master’s degree in Social Work while working two jobs and learning to gure skate or some shit. Alex told me he’d rather shoot himself in the head than ever sing for a hardcore band again and Reggie works in NYC and lives a life of travel and leisure. Basically, none of us have ti me and we all live far away from one another. It’s a shame because I loved CREEM. The songs were awesome, in my opinion, and I always had a blast out on the road with those guys. Colman and Reggie just started a new band

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called NYC HEADHUNTERS which I encourage people to check out. The demo should be out on the ’net. CREEM started in 2010 I think because we all lived at 538 Johnson and wanted to do a band. Colman and I were in a band called Natural Law and Mike was doing Nomos. Those two bands played together someti mes and we wanted Alex to sing. Reggie was in Backtrack at the ti me but he joined anyway. We wrote the rst six songs in like... I don’t know, a month? Probably less, honestly. From there we played NYC a bunch and toured around. I loved that band. RIP.

Can you tell me what do you do in your freetime? i look at the new lp on the other side of the lyrics and in the record. You did the photo from an old car. Its your car?

Well my life is sort of weird. Hounds tours so much that having a regular job is out of the questi on. I work in NYC on fashion photo shoots for big magazines like Vogue, Elle, and Rolling Stone. It sounds glamorous but basically I drive a big truck full of equipment that I set up, move around, and take down. But since it’s freelance work on a job to job basis, I can go on tour whenever. I also date a lady who lives in Rhode Island and I spend a good amount of ti me up there with her. Basically I live my life mostly on the road travelling around.

As for the car, it’s a 1981 Oldsmobile Toronado Diesel. It’s not mine, though I did a lot of work on it, it’s Dave’s. Him and I spend a lot of ti me working on cars and other machines. Currently I own four cars and he owns seven. Garrett from No Time also works out of our house on his own cars and other peoples’. For me it’s mostly a hobby but for him

it’s how he earns money. That Oldsmobile is prett y cool, though. All of the album art in the demo and the two LP’s is images of Braddock. We shot ourselves in front of the car because we thought it would look cool. But, in a way, it ts with the theme; something old and American that had been essenti ally abandoned.

And what about the lp picture who’s is that house?

The house is one of the many abandoned houses around Braddock and the enti re Eastern Pitt sburgh area. In 1950 something like 20,000 people lived in Braddock which is only one square mile. Today maybe 2,000 people live here. There are a lot of abandoned properti es all over. We chose that house because, frankly, it was the picture that came out best. But like I said, all of the images are of Braddock. The rst LP had the steel mill on the cover.

How was your childhood? You discover the hardcore and Straight Edge in the middle school? what were the bands that rst touched you?

I was born in Ohio to middle-class parents. I have three younger brothers. When I was young I wanted to y ghter jets for the Air Force. I built a lot of plasti c models of tanks and planes and skateboarded around our subdivision. I moved to New Jersey when I was 13 years old aft er my parents split up. That was when I was introduced to punk. I heard about straight edge in my rst week of high school I think. I never claimed edge, people told me that’s what I was. I have never consumed any alcohol or any drug in my enti re life and I never will. It’s a decision that I made so long ago that I

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don’t even remember making it. Like I said, I grew up with alcoholism around me in my family and it killed any curiousity I had about intoxicati on.

So when I got to high school and told certain people I didn’t drink or do drugs they were like, „oh so you’re straight edge.” But I’d be this way even if Ian Mackaye had never writt en that song.As for bands it’s hard to say. I’m prett y sure the rst hardcore band I ever heard was Inside Out because I was trying to download Rage Against the Machine songs off of Napster. I remember accidentally downloading some Inside Out song and thinking it was cool. It was a live recording, probably of their nal show. Anyway I got to high school and I remember being seated next to this guy Jeremy in health class and he was like, „oh you like punk? Have you heard Converge?” This was September, 2001 and Jane Doe had just come out and, though I hated it at rst, eventually that came to be like, hugely important to me. By the way, Jeremy now plays guitar in Suburban Scum.Other than that kind of thing, I was listening to lots of shitt y SoCal punk and ska and stuff . That’s what most of the local shows were focused on, too. I mean, I sti ll think some NOFX records are awesome, don’t get me wrong, but a lot of that shit did not age well. As I got farther into high school I started getti ng into the fast

hardcore stuff that was happening at the ti me; Tear it Up, Cut the Shit, The Oath, and stuff like that. I also really liked metalcore. Bad metalcore. Trey and I sti ll listen to Norma Jean’s „Bless the Martyr, Kiss the Child” in the van and fuck anyone who judges us for that.

What is your future plan? back to Europe next year, do it a new Lp or both?

We are touring to the West Coast and back this winter. Aft er that I have no idea. I know at some point we’d like to play Puerto Rico. We will probably come back to Europe again, but who knows when! Eventually I will have to slow down my touring because, while it is incredibly fun and rewarding, it is also really hard to lead a stable life and tour at the same ti me. But hey, we’ll see.

Thank you the interview. Any last words?

Let your freak ag y, man. Be as free as you can.

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Introduce the band. Who’s who and who does what? How and when did the band start?

Klas sings, Joar plays bass, Ollie plays drums, I play guitar. We started out in the summer of 200, did a demo in august of that year, an EP the following year, and then an LP in 2011.

You don’t do a lot of shows, how come?

We play when we can and want to…apparently the stars don’t align properly very oft en. I think we’ve only played 5 shows, in 10 years.

Can you name the date and place where you played those 5 shows?

Not exactly… Early 2005 I guess, with Righteous Jams, Justi ce and I think Enforcer, in Kongsberg, Norway. Later in 2005 at Humla in Oslo with Enforcer and…I forget who else. Then the shows last year. Oslo with Blood Suckers and Urbanoia, Mongrel fest and Sweden with the Cro-Mags.

This year you did shows in both Shef eld (England) and Malmö (Sweden), how did you experience the feedback over there?

Fantasti c. Sweden was with the Cro-Mags, and I guess I don’t really need to say more than that, really. Sheffi eld was Mongrel fest. I’ve been to some big shows/festi vals over the years, but honestly can’t remember ever being to a show with ~10 bands where every last one was great, but at Mongrel I have to say that was the case. Eagulls, The Flex and Die being standouts for me.

How come you chose Crucial Response Records to release your full-lenght The Last Pagans (2012)? I know a lot of bands from Norway choose this label (Sportswear, Damage Control, Onward, Evolve) so can you say that Norweigan bands have “a thing” for this lable or is it because you have a close connection?

I’ve never dealt with Crucial Response personally before, but Ollie obviously has through Onward and Insurance Risk. There’s been a close friendship and connecti on between Oslo and CR ever since the early 90s with the Onward 7inch and LP, and throughout the 90s/00s with Sportswear, Recti fy, Tiebreak (possibly Europe’s most underrated hardcore band), IR, Enforcer, etc… Pete did a great job, and I’m very grateful and honored to be a part of the Crucial Response history.

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Tell me about the inspiration for your lyrics writing. We can read in the LP that you wrote the lyrics to It’s Grim Up North, Blue Files and Bulldog Breed, who wrote the other ones? Does everybody get inwolved in the lyrics making?

I didn’t write any of the lyrics, just the music to those songs. So not really a questi on for me. But I can say that I’m proud of the fact that Shipwrecked has lyrics that I feel are very much within the hardcore «mold», but sti ll quite original and fresh.

Many people have a pet they sincerely love, which they are really close to. You have Freja. What did Freja meant to the band? I know you made a song dedicated to her, can you say she has some kind of symbol status for the band?

Freja was Klas’ dog, and obviously very important to him. And she became a part of the Shipwrecked saga through the song about her obviously. RIP Freja. I love animals and would never dream of eati ng them.

How does the future look for Shipwrecked? Are you planing on making new songs, maybe do some shows around Europe?

No idea to be honest. Nothing planned right now. I’d like to do a few shows a year, ti me permitti ng. But everyone has their own thing going on, and are kind of scatt ered geographically as well, so it’s not always easy to make things happen. Time will tell.

How was the scene in Oslo when you guys where younger? Did you get the chance to see youth crew bands like Sportswear, Onward and Tiebreak? Or were you guys up to anything else?

I got into punk around 95, and hardcore probably a year or two later… I went to my rst, what you might call «straight edge hardcore shows» around 97 I think. I think the rst one I can remember was Tiebreak/Batt ery/Refused in Oslo. Or maybe it was Sportswear/Tiebreak/Kids Like Us/a bunch of other bands. Didn’t see Onward (except for the reunion in 2010).

If I’m right you still like youth crew hardcore. Do you have any favorite LP’s? Let’s say top 5 youth crew full lengths!

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crew hardcore», and fairly established classics, my list probably isn’t going to be a lot diff erent from anyone else’s, but a top 5 would probably be something like Youth Of Today «Can’t Close My Eyes», the BOLD LP, the Unit Pride LP, the Chain EPs and Uniform Choice «Screaming For Change» maybe.

How would you describe the hardcore, punk and straight edge scene in Oslo nowadays? You know of any new good bands that you could recommend to the readers?

I would describe it as prett y weak to be honest. There are a few good bands around, like Urbanoia, Blood Suckers… There’s a new band called Cool that were good the one ti me I saw them. Also the other Common Cause guys are working on something new that should be prett y great.

Yeah I heard about the Cool. They played their rst show with Hounds of Hate and No Time. I tried to nd a demo or something about this band, but with no success. Can you tell me something about Cool if it is a new youth crew project or more to the punk/hardcore way?

More like early 80s hardcore I guess. Christi an from Death Is Not Glamorous sings for them.

I am a big fan of the Giant demo, but I don’t hear a lot from them. Don’t hear a lot from Death Is Not Glamorous either. Maybe you’ve heard something about what’s up with these bands?

Not sure what the deal is with Giant, but they

haven’t played in a while. Not sure if they’re broken up or on hiatus. DING broke up last year or the year before.

Did the scene in Oslo have some kind of impact on your decision to break edge? Or was it because of anything else? Tell me a bit about it!

Not really. Well maybe the fact that almost all my friends broke edge before me made me questi on it somewhat, but it was really just a case of straight edge not being very important to me any more.

What do you think of the movie Sons of Norway? Have you watched it? If so, would you say it is a good re ection of Norway punks?

Haven’t seen it. I’m gonna guess it isn’t. If you want a good representati on of Oslo punks in a movie, check out «Du har ikke en sans – ta’n» from 1984, starring a lot of the OG Skippergata/Blitz squatt ers, and featuring Svart Framti d and Betong Hysteria.

Now let’s talk about Common Cause. You were on tour a lot, played with big bands like The First Step and On, made it to America. How do you remember this time in your life? Do you have any cool stories or great memories?

Some of the best ti mes in my life are somehow connected to Common Cause, and I feel very privileged to have been a part of it. Too many good stories and memories to know where to start, really. The biggest standout for me would have to be playing Gilman Street with 7 Seconds – a band

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I’ve listened to since I was 14, and at a venue that’s had some kind of mythical status in my head for probably at least as long. Playing Moscow with ON. Randomly running into Mackie from Cro-Mags on a bike with a huge spliff in his mouth on the street in Amsterdam. Driving through the Alps, and then going straight to the beach in Italy. Finding panti es and tampons in my bag for days aft er the Justi ce guys wreaked havoc on some poor girl’s room in England. Barcelona in general. Playing with Merauder and them smoking weed on stage and covering Skrewdriver while a bunch of chubby germans did ninja-moves with their backpacks on.

Common Cause was active between 2005-2013, that’s a good run for a hardcore band! Why did you break up? Which one was the last show you did? Did you feel like it was a good end for Common Cause?

Yeah I guess it was the right ti me to end it. You know how it goes with hardcore bands – you do a demo, you do a few shows, you do an EP, you tour, you do an LP, you maybe go to the US, and then there really isn’t anything left to do, except do it all over again. We did prett y much all that, and I guess we just ran out of steam, with everyone (well, except me) sett ling down with proper jobs and families. Our last show was May 8th 2013, with Strife, For Pete’s Sake (ex-Sportswear) and Urbanoia at Blitz. My only regret is not recording the three or so songs we wrote between the last EP and breaking up, cause they were fantasti c. And I would have loved to do a last tour where none of the band were straight

edge anymore, might have been interesti ng. Maybe in ten years…

Besides music, what do you do on your spare time? You got any work or studying? I know you are a “Sugar Shack Soul Club” fan. Can you tell me about what this is?

I work at a record store in Oslo, and do some graphic design as well. And DJ a bit. Other than that I don’t do that much out of the ordinary. Sugar Shack is a monthly club I do with a couple of friends in Oslo (one being Thomas of Ordrenekt/CHUD/Moralens Voktere/Skin Cancer fame), playing 60s northern soul. It’s been going for a couple of years now (though I’ve only been involved for a litt le over one). Some of the best records in Scandinavia, and usually a lot of sweaty, happy, drunk people.

Thank you for your time! Do you got any last words for our readers?

„Don’t forget the songs that made you cry, and the songs that saved your life. Yes, you’re older now, and you’re a clever swine, but they were the only ones who ever stood by you.”



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REMEANS TO BE SEEN(CHILE STRAIGHT EDGE HARDCORE)

THIS PHOTO CORRESPONDS TO A CHILEAN STRAIGHT EDGE BAND CALLED REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHICH EXISTED FROM 2005 TO 2007. ALEJANDRO GALLARDO SHOT IT TOWARDS THE END OF OUR

SET AND IT CAPTURES THE SPIRIT OF OUR ENERGY AND STYLE BACK THEN. THAT SHOW WENT DOWN DURING CHILEAN WINTER (JULY 15TH, 2006) AND THE VENUE WAS IN POOR CONDITIONS

WITH LEAKS ON THE CEILING WHICH IS WHY PEOPLE CALLED IT „LA GOTA” (WATERDROPS). THIS WOULD HAVE LOOKED GREAT AS THE DEFINED IDENTITY 7” COVER BUT I THOUGHT THE ARMPIT

SWEAT SORT OF RUINED IT BACK THEN WHICH I REGRET. BY THE WAY, THIS WAS SHOT WITH FILM AND LATER SCENNED.

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THE FIRST STEPTIME TO UNDERSTAND

PEOPLE, ASKING ME WHYCAUSE I USE THESE VALUES AS MY GUIDE.

A VIEW THAT’S STRAIGHT, A FOCUSED MINDI JUST WANT TO GET THE MOST FROM LIFE!

IT’S TIME.TIME TO UNDERSTAND!

VALUES DEGRADING AND SLIPPING AWAYWORDS TO LIVE BY NOT JUST WORDS TO SAY!

YOU’RE USING UP PEOPLE ANDSAY YOUR MIND IS CLEAR

OR BRINGING TO SHOWS VIOLENCE AND FEAR,DON’T YOU GET IT!

TIME TO UNDERSTAND!

NOT TRYING TO SAVE THE WORLD,JUST TRYING TO DO OUR PART.

SOME TAKE THIS WAY TOO FAR, SOME NOT FAR ENOUGH.CAN WE SEE, ALL THIS EDGE ON LIFE CAN BE!

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HOLD X TRUETHAN AND NOW

THEY ALL DISAPPEARED, JUST A FEW REMAINED.WHAT THEY ONCE THOUGHT, NOW’S THE THING THEY DON’T HAVE.

LACK OF DEDICATION? I DON’T THINK SO.PREVAILED OVER THEM AND GAVE A FALSE IMAGE.

I NEVER WENT BACK ON MY WORD, I DON’T FEEL ASHAMED.STRAIGHT, WITH A POSITIVE FIGHT, MARKED WITH THE X ON MY HAND.

KEEPING MY HEAD HIGH AMONG SILENT FACES AMONG THOSE WHO THOUGHT THIS TO BE ETERNAL.

I GO MY WAY, YOU HAVE NO SAY.WHAT I STARTED I’LL NEVER LEAVE.

MY DESIRE I REALIZED, I WON’T BACK DOWN IN THIS FIGHT!

LIKE AN INSTINCT COMES FROM INSIDE, IF YOU HAVE IT YOU SHOULDN’T HIDE. THROUGH INFLUENCES, AGAINST THE WORLD,

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This is the second European tour you do. With just one week left, do you feel it was a good tour?

John: Yeah, it was cool doing it, because the rst tour we did was with No Tolerance so we had that band to help us out. People like that band too, maybe more than us, but it was fun doing this tour on our own. I am happy with the amount of people that came out, the amount of records we sold and the shows were good. We didn’t have any other band in mind to come with us on the tour, we kinda’ just wanted to do it by ourselves. Less people in the van, less things to worry about – just us.

There are many bands that come from America and like to play in Europe, since this is a different continent with different languages and cultures. What do you think? Do you have a favorite country? Which country that you’ve played held the best show, and which one was the worst?

John: I don’t know if I have a favorite country. I know last tour Switzerland was really nice just

because it seems like a really rich country and everything is so beauti ful and nice. But this ti me...Budapest! Budapest was probably my favorite city that we went to last tour, and we go there in like two more days. But the worst show was de nitely Amsterdam just because I’d heard in Amsterdam there was like a punk-type venue, but we got put up on a rock-type venue in the Red Light District, because I heard the punk-type venue didn’t want us or didn’t think we would t there. Best show was probably London, UK, but I feel like that’s not good to say because that was a fest, Stati c Shock Fest, with like 500 people there. Other than that Berlin was nice.

And how many people came out to the shows? I spoke to a friend from Sweden that said maybe 15 paid people came to the show in Sweden.

John: Normally it came, I would say, maybe between 20-50 people. Not huge shows or anything.

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GERALD MAKE A CHANGE AND HIS GIRLFRIEND WHO WAS WITH ME,

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And in America, is it the same or do a lot of people come out to see you guys?

John: Yeah well in America it’s diff erent. I fell like in Europe we haven’t really caught on as well ‘cause I don’t really know what type of music is big in Europe. Maybe within punk music like Discharge-type bands or Youth of Today-type bands; I don’t really know what’s big and I know Give is kind of like a weird band. A lot of older people seem to like Give more because it makes them think of bands that they used to like.

Why did you choose Lockin’ Out Records for the LP?

John: Well, before that we had put out records on tons of diff erent labels. With Locking Out, I think, we were on tour with Ceremony in the US, and we played a show in Boston and Greg, the guy that does Lockin’ Out, was at the show. And aft erwards he had said like “I saw you guys and it was great. I felt like I saw myself up there” and so on and wondering if we ever wanted to put out a record on Lockin’ Out “let me know and I’ll do it!” And we were like “Okay, we’ll do it!”.

Can you tell us how the idea to the LP cover was born? I saw some photos from the time when you went to the forest and painted each other.

John: I don’t really know where I got that idea but I had it for like 2 or 3 years, so I knew that I wanted

to do that. But I waited to do it for an LP because when a band puts out and LP the music has to be bett er than everything that comes before and the artwork has to be bett er and the lyrics. Everything has to have a sense of evoluti on from what came before. The way I pictured it, if it came out the way I wanted, it would grab people’s att enti on like “wow look at those fucking weirdoes, they’re painti ng their bodies and stuff ”. And the forest was in Rock Creek Park, in Washington D.C.

Talk about Electric Flower Circus. What inspired you for the writing? I heard you (John) were in Iraq and the Air Force and used that as an inspiration at rst. But what about the new songs?

John: The Air Force and military thing - I just thought of the band name while I was over there because I was in a secluded place all alone so I had ti me to think about things. Like, I wanted to get out of the military and do a band when I got back, and I had all this ti me to plan about it. The military did not have inspirati on for the songwriti ng on the LP. Like I was in the military 6 years ago and that was just something I did. I got out of high-school, I did that and high-school. So I wasn’t going to college. I was a fuck-up and didn’t know what to do, so the military seemed like an easy thing. It wasn’t like I was pro-America or believed in the military, it was just I didn’t know what to do so I went there. But the inspirati on for the LP, Electric Flower Circus, we had like 25 songs so near the end I was pulling

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lyrical topics from everywhere. Writi ng that many songs at once just fucking sucks. *laughs*

Can you talk about what happened in Iraq? What did you do there?

John: I wasn’t in the front, I was basically an accountant. I did nance stuff there while I was in the dessert, in the company, but I didn’t go out and do anything. For me, like when you talk to a lot of American guys and girls that are in the military, and they seem to really like it, it’s a diff erent mentality. For me I didn’t care about the military, it was just something that I fell into. So when I was in Iraq I was more interested in playing football when I was off work or watching Seinfeldt. Like I didn’t care about

doing military stuff . It was de nitely dangerous and we got bombed and stuff like that, but I don’t have any crazy stories about Iraq.

If I’m right your family did say that it was good that you got into the military and that your father is a soldier.

John: My dad was in the military too, yeah, and I think when I rst joined the military he was happy, just because it seemed like I had a directi on in life. And then when I got out he was wondering what I was supposed to do now and if I would get a job or so.

Can you talk more about the songs Heart First

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Opened, Sun ower Youth and Electric Flower Cult? How were these songs born?

John: Heart First Opened a few people told me that song, when they hear it, they think it’s about sex or like falling in love with a girl or a guy for the rst ti me, but it’s not. I just think the lyrics is kinda’ skewed that way. To me, the reason I wrote that song was: when you’re a kid and you start to experience everything in the world and everything is exciti ng, like getti ng a toy or something. And then you grow older and stuff seems to be not as exciti ng and you just kind of trudge through life knowing what you’re “supposed to do”. So Hearts First Opened is kinda’ like as you grow older don’t forget when your heart rst opened to the world and when you loved things.

Sun ower Youth is about a few diff erent things. I think the chorus is about certain friends I have that are scared to speak or talk or act out and be exited and show emoti on, mainly younger kids, because they feel like older people make them feel like they should be bitt er right at the get go.

Electric Flower Cult is about a bunch of things. The chorus is about how we can talk, and talk, and talk all we want – but what’s gonna happened aft er it? Say that we both like Youth of Today, and we can talk about it and share videos or special parts of a song. But I don’t know, I feel like we can’t really

exchange EXACTLY how we feel about it.

What was the rst contact with hardcore & straight edge? What was the rst band that you listened to?

John: I heard Minor Threat probably when I was in middle school, but I didn’t make the connecti on that the song “Straight Edge” was about anything. I think it wasn’t unti l my friend played me the Gorilla Biscuits 7” and kind of explained to me what Straight Edge was. And there was like this New York scene that happened in the late 80’s that was about straight edge too. That’s when I learned what it really was and understood, and I was like “wow, that’s cool, I wanna do that!”

And the rst show that you went to?

John: There was like a local band in North Carolina when I got into straight edge called High Point, and I was friends with the drummer in the band, and I went to a show there. They were straight edge and had X’s in their logo and on their shirts and that was probably the rst band I ever saw that was actually straight edge.

What did you listen to before that?

John: Before that, when I was 15-16, I was into Nirvana in the early 90’s. Like right aft er Kurt (Cobain) died I got into Nirvana heavily and then,

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once I got into punk, Nirvana kind of seem like it wasn’t the cool thing to like. I was obsessed with The Mis ts. Through skate videos I got into The Mis ts and Dead Kennedys, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden. So a litt le bit of punk and metal before straight edge for me.

John: I work with the drummer of Give (Gene). We have a really cool job at his parent’s guitar shop. I just pack stuff up and send it out and it’s really chill and laid back. They allow us to leave whenever we want to do band stuff and come back and always have a job. Ian (guitar), I think, is a waiter but he’s prett y exible so yeah. Other than that I like going to the movies, hang out with friends, go out to eat and just do normal shit that everybody does.

I also do a record label called Moshers Delight with my friend Zac and that takes up a lot of ti me. Like picking bands, doing layout stuff like organizing shirts.

I know you like doing some hiking in the mountains.

John: I wouldn’t say hiking is a main hobby of mine but I have been doing it one ti me or two.

You played with Lion of Judah in Mexico summer 2009. How was the show and scene over there? This were the rst shows outside of America with Give, right?

John: It wasn’t Mexico. The summer of 2009 we didn’t play Mexico.

Ian: Yeah we did!

John: We did?

Ian: Yeah we did, in Tijuana. People got naked. And there were like people inside the stage throwing glitt er and stuff .

John: At the beginning of 2009 we went to Central America with Lions of Judah and that was our rst shows outside of US. We played Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica.

Ian: We went through Honduras and stayed there.

John: Yeah, but the summer 2009, The Mexico show. I remember we walked through the border into Tijuana but Ian can tell you more about that. Go ahead, give it all!

Ian: I think it was the ti me when we crossed into Tijuana and there was a guy who looked like he was homeless. And he was going aft er this dog that looked like it had mange. And he had this bag that he tried to kill the dog with. More out of confusion rather than out of anger I was like “what the fuck are you doing, get the fuck off that dog!”. Eventually he left and didn’t kill it…I’m more of a cat fan-ish

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John: That show was cool though. We basically walked through the border with the gear and walked to the show in Tijuana.

Can you say something about these pictures?

John: Oh wow, this is me in the back (1.), that’s Pat in the middle which is our rst bass player and that’s Ian right there, but I have no idea when that was. That’s gott a be early 2009, might have been a trip to Detroit or the Midwest/Chicago with Mindset.

Ian: Nah it was not Detroit, it was New England.

John: Ah! That was he North-east trip, probably 2009 someti me.

Ian: This picture was taken somewhere in the back of the Charles Street House.

John: This is Breakthrough at Posi fest (2.) in 2004 right before The First Step played. Also in this picture you can see that’s Philip looking like he is about to punch me. There is Ashley Hogan from Connecti cut and the dude Paul from South Carolina and behind him I think is our friend Daniel from North Carolina also. That show was really awesome. To this day I haven’t seen any video of this show. Someone from Australia sent me a video of that show but it wasn’t formatt ed right for American VCR players. I haven’t seen videos of this show to this day, I’d like to see it but…

John: This is El Salvador (3.).

Ian: Yeah this is El Salvador, in a garage. That dude drove us around in his Jeep, he was really cool. That’s Sti gma, he lled in on bass for us and Desperate Measures. We stayed at this house and my brother went into the bathroom, and he is a bit of a clumsy guy. So he did his thing and went to use the sink and we just heard a giganti c crash. He had broken the sink and just smashed it all over the bathroom. And my brother took a vow that when he becomes a successful business man he was going to buy this man a house.

Ian: This is in Detroit (4.), at the Heidelberg Project. Basically this guy who’s an arti st moved back to his neighborhood in Detroit. The other guy in the picture is Ian Courtney, he is a local Detroit legend and former roadie of Cold As Life. This guy has been buying up all of the abandon houses, because you can buy the really cheap, and he turns them into art projects. So the enti re neighborhood is a series of art projects that are displayed on these houses. Unfortunately this house I think was burnt down maybe a year ago. The guy is really cool.

John: This is in New Mexico (5.) I think, I went on a trip. My friend Jeff lived in California, visited D.C., gured out he liked D.C. and wanted to move from Cali to D.C. So I ew to California with him and

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then we rented a truck, packed up all of his stuff and drove across America back to D.C. On the way, in the Grand Canyon, there is a litt le village called Havasupai that you have to hike into. It’s about 8 miles to hike. And when we rst got there we did it at night. The sun was going down and Jeff was like “Whatever I’ll be ne I got ashlights” and he found out that he had one ashlight, and it was three people and it was fucking pitch black in the Canyons. But we got there in the middle of the night, slept in this like makeshift hotel, woke up the next day, saw some awesome waterfalls and that picture is on the way hiking back up. And on the way back we saw a guy with two donkeys carrying the mail for the village and in the sacks on the donkey’s backs there was like tons of Amazon packages.

Can you tell me some fun or cool story from this tour?

John: I’m sure there is a million, nothing that sti cks out. I’m sure you (Ian) know some funny stories from this tour. Well you have our guitar player and our roadie argues nonstop and it’s always funny.

Ian: They gamble a lot. On the way here they got into a big argument about the populati on of Austria and they bet on it and where arguing a lot.

John: Before Doug left s, in the van there was a back seat there was like a litt le Compartment up top that has a door that is hard to lock. There was a ti re iron that fell and hit him in the head.

Ian: Like right next to his eye.

John: Yeah it could’ve really hurt him. Otherwise, in our early days there would have been types of stories about nakedness, poop and weird shit, but now we just chill, play shows and watch movies or whatever.

Can you remember back to the rst The First Step tour in Europe? I heard Breakthrough played some shows on that tour with them. What was the reaction from the people? Did they know the band?

John: That tour was in the summer of 2004, rst ti me I ever went to Europe with a band. Breakthrough played 5 shows. The very rst show of that tour was in Belgium at the Lintf abriek and it was one of the best shows I’ve ever been to. It was awesome. It felt like it was 1988 with Youth of Today playing at the Anthrax. Breakthrough played two songs there and some people knew and sung along, but it wasn’t like crazy, but for The First Step it was insane. I think we also played some festi val in Germany, I’ve forgott en the city but it was right next to a waterpark and Mental also played there. We played Sweden, Oslo and the last one we played I think was the Netherlands.

And after the Breakthrough demo tape you wanted to do a 7” with one additional new song. What’s up with that?

John: Yeah well aft er that, a bunch of people asked me about doing that record. I like the Breakthrough demo but I feel like it’s prett y juvenile and it’s not awesome. I want to put it on a record, and I would. But the only way I want to put it on a record are if it’s on a 12” and that’s like the dumbest idea ever nancially since it’s only 5 songs with the extra song. And I didn’t want to do a 7” ‘cause I don’t really like “. I want it to be a 12” and that’s not really smart to do nancially so it hasn’t happened yet. When the Breakthrough demo rst came out I was younger and I showed my parents, and my mum is really supporti ve with everything I do, so she listened to it and probably though it was garbage. My dad heard it and he just said “turn this shit off now”, and he doesn’t fuck around. He’s not just gonna blow smoke up your ass for nothing. But with Give my dad did actually say “this resembles music a litt le more than your older band”.

And what was the inspiration for the Breakthrough songs?

John: Just stuff that I have always been inspired by. Like late 80’s such as youth crew-styled hardcore like Unit Pride, Youth of Today, Bold, Chain of Strength, Upfront. All those types of bands had a huge eff ect on me when getti ng into hardcore, and they sti ll do. I wanted to do my version of those bands and that’s

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what Breakthrough was prett y much.

Guys you play in a many bands from America. Do you possibly have any info if some of those bands are coming to Europe, for example The Rival Mob?

John: Rival came to Europe for like three dates in the UK or something. Upcoming, you’ll have to ask them. Like with The Rival Mob, them doing anything is like a miracle, they’ll never do an extensive tour. If they come to Europe it will be for a weekend or maybe like 5 days at the most. So I wouldn’t hold your breath for the Rival Mob.

Ian: I don’t think Europe is ready for them.

John: I think they have a lot of plans thrown up in the air but who knows which one is gonna sti ck.

Thank you for your time, I hope you enjoyed it. Any last words for the readers?

John: Thank you for the interview!

Ian: Everybody eat dessert and freak the fuck out!

John: Haha yeah, well exited to go to Budapest tomorrow and yeah, that’s it! Thank you.

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DOLLARS FOR BODIES, PROFIT FOR DEATHSUFFERING’S ALL THAT YOU GET

PUBLIC DISORDER, PRIVET WEALTHTHE FUTURE AIN’T GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH

THEY WAGE THEIR WAR ON THE CITY STREETSBECUSE YOU LIVE IT DOESN’T MEAN YOU’RE FREE

THEY WANT TO THROW YOU IN A CAGE, LEVIATHAN FED ON PAINONE ACCOUNTABLE TO NONE, RAINING DEATH FROM ABOVE

CORPORATE SCHEMES TO LOCK US UP, DEATH SQUADS DRONE STRIKEFIRST WORLD JUSTICE

CONDEMNED TO LIVE IN A WORLD THAT ENSLAVES AND CONSUMES ITS YOUNGU.S. OF BABYLON

AND I ASK, HAS MY TIME COME?

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THIS WAS FROM DECEMBER 26TH. 1991 AND OUTSPOKEN PLAYED WITH A CHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL, STRIFE, MOUTHPIECE & RESSURECTION. HOLLYWOOD HAS ALWAYS BEEN A TOUGH TOWN TO GET

HARDCORE SHOWS BOOKED AND WE SOMEHOW SLIPPED THIS ONE BY THEM. THIS HAPPENED AT THE ROXY THEATRE WHICH MOST KNOW FOR GOOD SIZED HEAVY METAL SHOWS. THE CLUB WAS PACKED

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SHOW ALSO INCLUDED AGAINST THE WALL (PRIOR TO ME PLAYING 2ND GUITAR FOR THEM). THIS WAS ACTUALLY A PRACTICE ROOM THAT FROM TIME TO TIME HAD REALLY SMALL SHOWS, IT WAS CALLED TROJAN STUDIOS IN GARDEN GROVE CA. THIS IS THE SAME PLACE THAT CHAIN OF STRENGTH STAGED

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Hi Andy! How was the European tour? You were here 10 years ago with Champion, how was it to come back again and see some old friends and places? Had anything changed?

Europe was great. All of the turnouts were great and bett er than I expected. It was cool to go back aft er 10 years and see some familiar faces and also play some of the same venues.

So the usual boring question. Who are in Praise and why did you choose that name?

Praise is myself, Anthony on guitar, Chris on Bass, Daniel on drums and Lucas on guitar. The name comes from the 7 Seconds record. We are in no way a religious band.

I read the short stort about how Praise strated. If I’m right, you and maybe Aram was the rst people to speak about this band around 2007. Eventually you and Michael brought Praise to life. Can you tell us the full story?

The idea for Praise started in 2006/2007. Aram and a couple other close friends pushed me to make it into something. I showed the songs to a bunch of diff erent dudes, played music with them, but something always got in the way. Eventually in summer of 2009 a line up was solidi ed. We played our rst show in November of 2009 and the rest is history. We’ve gone through a few members changes and people have stepped back

to pursue other life endeavors.

Everyone plays in other bands, but what was the rst idea with Praise: a project band or full time band?

The initi al idea of Praise was just a record and maybe play a few shows. Aft er the rst 7” came out I wanted to play more shows and write an LP. I am really happy with everything we have done so far. Its much more than I ever expected.

Andy, do you write the lyrics? What inspires you in your writing?

Yea I write the majority of the lyrics. Anthony helps write lyrics and vocals patt erns someti mes too. I just write about what I know and my experiences in life.

Can you talk a bit more about the following songs? I Belive, Reach deep, Give me a Pain and Afraid to ask.

I believe is about wanti ng to create some sort of change and make the world a bett er place but feeling like the problems are so big that you may not be able to change anything.

Reach Deep is about the relati onship with my family, speci cally my father aft er the death of my brother.

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Anthony wrote the majority of Give Me The Pain so I dont want to speak for him.

Afraid To Ask is about watching my brother struggle with drug addicti on.

How does the hardcore and straight edge scene look like in Baltimore? Do many people come down to the shows? Maybe any new cool bands that people are stoked on?

Balti more is hit or miss. Some shows are great and some shows are small it just depends on who is playing. There are always tons of shows going on, which is great in some ways but at the same ti me it decreases the turnouts because everyone is so spread out. It does seem like the last couple months promoters have been trying to make more diverse shows and bring it all together. There are lots of great bands right now, youve got the bigger ones like Mindset, Turnsti le, and Angel Dust. Anthony is in a band called In Between thats great and will have a new record out on No Sleep this summer.

Can you tell me what shows you’ve played with Praise has been best? And the worst one?

Praise has been fortunate to play a lot of great shows. I try not to think of having a ”worst” show. Some of my favorite shows have been this is hardcore 2012, our record release and a show we played in Atlanta in 2011.

If I’m right this is a straight edge band. Can you tell me your favorite straight edge song and why it is your favorite?

Yea everyone in Praise is straight edge. My favorite straight edge songs are Straight Edge and Out Of Step by Minor Threat.

Can you talk about what do you work with? And what do you do in your freetime?

I currently work at an all vegan restraurant. Ive been there on and off for about ve years. I do a litt le freelance graphic design in my free ti me as well and Ive been looking for a job in that eld. I am a litt le bit of a homebody so I do spend a fair amount of ti me at home watching movies.

Do you have a favorite movie genre that you prefer? Maybe a top 5 list?

I prefer comedies and campy horror movies.

Top 5 movies are: The Goonies, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Big Trouble in Litt le China, Return of The Living Dead, Back To The Future

How did you become straight edge? When did you rst step upon this lifestyle? What was the rst band that you listened to? Maybe you rememberthe rst show that you went to?

I grew up skateboarding so like most people I found out about hardcore and punk through that. There was a 411 with Jamie Thomas where he said that he didnt drink or do drugs because he didnt want to hurt the inside of his body since he was constantly messing up the outside. I kinda connected with that. Then around 12 or 13 I heard Minor Threat and that was it. That was what introduced me to straight edge.

What are your plans for the future? New record or new tour?

No plans right now. Daniel will be doing stuff with Mindset, Turnsti le and Angel Dust for the rest of the year. We de nitely arent nished but we wont be touring or gigging as much for the rest of the year.


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How was your show in Berlin? This was the last show, at the end of the year, right?

Berlin was awesome! We got to hang in the city most of the day and that was awesome. The show was wild too. My highlight was looking up and seeing dudes from Swain walk through door with pieces and passing slices out to people in the crowd during out set!

Thanks for the interview! Any last words?

Thanks for the interview hopefully we cross paths again someday soon!

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INSTEDWHAT WE BELIVE LP

OUR TURNCATCH YOUR BREATH 7”

Side A: „What do you want for breakfast?

Side B: „Wheres the peanut?

A. ‚What do you want for breakfast?’ was a nod to our never ending competi ti on of who had the best meal. Even if we all got the same exact meal, we would insist that our meal was bett er than the next guys for one reason or another.

B. ‚where’s the peanut?’ is a reference to bears ti ny head. we would say that instead of ‚where’s bear?’

Sida A: „Dude, you bett er get that cut checked at”

Side B: „That’s on your wedding ring hand man..”

The story of the OT Catch Your Breath 7” Matrix scribble... Apparently one of our roadies Jared „The Monger” Thomas somehow got a litt le nick on his ring nger. Our bass player, Carlos, was genuinely concerned that this cut would possibly become an unsightly scar therefore ruining Jared’s chances at nding a spouse or at least becoming an embarrassing mark on the nger which represents true love. The matrix mark is a paraphrase of the conversati on which transpired between Carlos and Jared when Carlos saw the cut. It become one of many inside jokes amongst members of the Our Turn crew (a large number of those jokes being at Carlos’ expense).

BTW, Andris (Andris Biendrins from Latvia) is the name of the Center for the Golden State Warriors, my favorite basketball team. Cheers.

IF YOU COLLECT RECORDS YOU KNOW THAT SOMETIMES THEY HAVE AN A INTERE

STING MESSAGE WITH COOL STORIES BEHIND THEM. I DID THIS PART IN 2007 2008

WHEN I HAD MY FIRST IDEAS OF DOING A FANZINE WITH MY FAVORITE

BANDS, BUT I COULDN’T DO IT UNTILL NOW, SO HERE ARE THE STORIES!

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Vinyl matrix storiesTHE FIRST STEP

DEMO 7”

Demo 7: I forgot we put that on there. This one was straight off of NWA 1st record.

There is a song, which is by far the worst song on the record called „something to

dance to”. It’s NWA’s stab at like a club song or something. So at one point in the song Eazy-E says „yo Ren” referring to MC

Ren, „give ‚em something to dance to”. The way he says it is just hilarious and we

would say that 24-7. So that stuck. We prett y much rolled off that record for the rst 2-3 years as a band. Every road trip it

was a staple of the soundtrack.

Side A: „Yo, Ren...”

Side B: „Give ‚em something to dance to!”

MOUTHPIECEWHAT WAS SAID LP

Side A: „Da Luga says take in away manface, dreed sti ll smells”

Side B: „Farzgriel presents: Da Grease Nevy, Palmaci for Sheriff .”

A: The engineer and owner of Why Me? Studios was a guy named Joe DeLuca. When we were recording the “What Was Said” LP, our friend Dave Mandel from Indecision Fanzine/Records, was with us hanging out at the studio. We nicknamed Dave, “Man

Face” and would refer to him as “Man Face” all the ti me while we were recording that record. On the song, “Gauge”, we had Dave

do some guest vocals and when he was about to do his take, the engineer, Joe DeLuca said, “Take is away Man Face”, meaning, go ahead and start singing. We of course found it hilarious that Joe

picked up on the nickname, so we immortalized on the matrix.

- The “Dreed Sti ll Smells” comment is just a conti nuati on from our rst 7” of us poking fun at our friend Tony Rett man.

B: Farzgriel was a nickname for Mike Harts eld from New Age Records. Grease Nevy was a nickname we made up for

Mouthpiece, so what we’re basically saying in a very goofy way is, “Mike Harts led presents: Mouthpiece”

- Palmaci is another nickname for our friend Scott Palmucci, for whatever reason, we thought it would be funny to suggest that Scott should run for sheriff . Again, just us being goofy with the

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MOUTHPIECECAN WE WIN 7”


Side A: „Judd say’s these guys are never playing here again”

Side B: „Dreed smells”

A: Growing up in the Trenton, New Jersey area, we had a local club called City Gardens which all the touring punk and hardcore bands would play. I went to my rst show there in 1987 and a few of the other Mouthpiece guys went to their rst shows there as well. From the late 80’s on through the early 90’s, City Gardens did not allow stage diving. There were insurance issues , people had broken bones from stage diving in the early 80’s, so they put a ban on stage diving for awhile. When Mouthpiece got our opportunity to play there in 1991 with Insted, we as a band made a pact that at the end of our set, we’d all stage dive, just because we could. So as planned, at the end of our set, our drummer Jason kicked over his drum set and dove into the crowd, our guitarist Pat dropped his guitar on the ground and dove and I dropped the mic and dove as well. The other two members walked off the stage, but left their guitar and bass on and screeching out feedback. So yeah, we left quite a mess up there on that stage. Judd was one of the bouncers working that night and on the video from our set, you can see him and clearly hear him say in a very angry and frustrated voice, “These guys are never playing here again”!

B: Dreed was the nickname for our friend Tony Rett man. “Dreed Smells” really didn’t mean anything, it was just us being goofy and playfully poking fun at our friend. I don’t recall Tony actually ever smelling bad!

THE FIRST STEPOPEN HEARTS AND CLEAN MINDSSide A: „Yo, hossapher the philosopher?”

Side B: „Could you teach me the hoss mosh”

Open Hearts: We had a friend named Keith Harper who roadie with us a lot around this ti me. Somewhere along the lines some one started calling him „Hoss” which is a prett y Southern phrase for „dude”. So we were on tour w/ Champion doing the west coast and one night Hoss busts out this really weird/really unique mosh which we imitated for the rest of that tour (and beyond) and dubbed it the „Hoss Mosh”.

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Hi Jim! First introduce your band. Who’s who, who does what and how did you guys come together to create True Identity?

Hi Andris! Aram and Dave are on Guitars, Carl plays the Bass, and Carl is on the Drums. I am on Vocals. Aram came to me about a year and a half ago. He had wrote some songs that he envisioned me doing vocals on. Obviously we hadn’t done anything together since Champion broke up 9 years ago and this was maybe the rst ti me Aram started writi ng music since. We tried a couple diff erent line-ups but with everyone living in diff erent citi es it made it diffi cult to practi ce, and keep the creati ve juices owing. We locked down Carl, Dave, and Alex, who were also playing with Aram in Keep it Clear. This made it much easier for us to get things moving forward not to menti on all 3 of these gentlemen are handsome and excepti onal musicians.

I looked on instagram that you had your rst „riff session” in november 2013. Why did so much time pass between those two?

Yeah it took a bit of ti me for us like I menti oned earlier. Things moved prett y slow when we were att empti ng to have people from diff erent citi es play. Things have progressed much quicker now that we are Vancouver BC based. I am moving to Vancouver in February too. That will make playing and practi cing much easier. We are in the process of planning recording for the LP and also some tours.

Tell me about Seattle as a city. How about as a punk/hardcore/straight edge scene? Has it changed a

lot along the years. Any new people in the pit?

I haven’t lived in Seatt le in 3.5 years. I moved to Portland Oregon and am in the process of moving to Vancouver Briti sh Columbia. Seatt le is a great city with great people. An incredible history of hardcore music. Brotherhood, Undertow, Trial, Stay Gold, Sinking Ships. Even now there is a vibrant local scene with bands like Clarity, Growing Stronger, Safe and Sound, Singled Out, and Column. The pit has soooooo many new people in it. I mean, when I go in the pit it’s like I don’t even recognize anyone anymore. The pit is a lonely place.

How many songs do you have for the new LP comming up? Can you tell me someting about the lyrics? What inspired the music writing (straight edge, being vegetarian „pushed too far”)?

Currently we have about 12 songs. The lyrics are sti ll being nalized. We have played a few shows with “working” lyrics that we have slightly changed. The songs cover a variety of topics. We are trying to write lyrics that are urgent, honest and relevant. Some of the lyrics might sounds generic, but there are certain things that we are passionate about, like straight edge, animal compassion, etc., that we are committ ed to speak out about, despite how common it is to hear in hardcore.

You’ve done three shows if I’m right. How was the feedback, did people like it?

We opened our rst 3 shows and the support has been great. We are a new band I do not expect

true identity

First show in Calgary, Canada. 05/03/2014

INTERVIEW WITH JIM HESKET. THEY

HAVE A NEW LP COMING SOON ON

REACT! RECORDS.

PHOTOS ARE TAKEN FROM THEIR

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some big crazy show. Opening and playing in front of 50+ people is amazing to me and I am grateful for the support we have been shown thus far.

How did you get into punk and hardcore? How did you become straight edge?

Skateboarding is prett y much how it started. I was really into the Alternati ve music scene in Seatt le in the early 90’s. I had long hair and was into skateboarding. An older guy named Jeff Stratt on, used to drive me and my friends around to various skate spots. He would always put on Bad Religion, 7-seconds, and Black Flag cassett e tapes. That got me super into Punk. I had also getti ng into drugs and drinking, like a lot of the punks were doing. I eventually found the need to clean up my act and a kid named Tory O’Donnell started hanging out. He was more into the Straight Edge scene and showed me bands like Youth of Today and Gorilla Biscuits and even some of the old NYHC bands like Agnosti c Front and Cro-Mags.

What do you do in you freetime? I know you like climbing and go hiking. Got any favorite hiking places?

I really have been into the outdoors my whole life.

We grew up in a small house in the forest and I have always felt at home in the wilderness. I think my favorite trip was actually this last year. Chris Williams (Champion, Poverty Bay Saints, Dead Weight, The Crew) invited me to hike the Enchantments. This is a cluster of Alpine lakes in Northern Washington. It was the most beauti ful place I have ever been and maybe the most challenging hike I have ever done. It was amazing to take in the scenery as well as spend ti me with one of my closest friends and challenge my body.

Can you tell me what happened after ON? Why did the band broke up?

ON never really broke up. We kind of just stopped playing. We never made an announcement or played a last show. We had a really good year where we did a West Coast tour, went to Spain, did an East Coast tour with Mindset, Get the Most, and Hands Tied, and then we did two shows in Minneapolis with Cro-Mags. When we nished the year, we started planning for the next, but Ace plays in Black Breath and they were just starti ng to gather momentum. Aaron also was playing in Devoti on and had committ ed to a lot of touring. Aft er that, everyone else just starti ng making other prioriti es. I

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am super proud of what ON accomplished in the short ti me we were a band, and I am honored to this day to have been able to play with such amazing musicians. My only regret is that we never got to nish the LP we were writi ng. Maybe one day.

You’ve played both in Sweden and Hungary. How did you like it there? Maybe you can share some interesting story from one of the shows when playing there.

I love both places. When people ask me my favorite European citi es Stockholm and Budapest are always in my top 3. I have a friend in Stockholm, Peter, that I miss dearly. He always did shows for Champion and ON when he could, and I remember the second ti me Champion played Stockholm and it was such an amazing show. Budapest, my friend Balazs, I also miss. He was our driver for most of the Champion European tours and even drove ON when we went. I have spent so many hours with this man but I have not seen him in years. I hope to return to Budapest to see him again someday soon. He always would show us around Budapest when we played there. I think the only crazy store from Budapest was when we played with Comeback Kid. During the end of the Champion set, the security guard came to the front of the stage. He didn’t like people stage diving or being too close to the stage and started becoming prett y rough with the people in the crowd. We nished and CBK went on. During their set, Scott (old singer of CBK) threw the microphone at the security guards face, and then I ran from the side of the stage and did a ying jump kick, like from a ninja movie, to his head. Aft er the show, the security was all pissed off and we had

to leave in a hurry to avoid a bigger brawl.

How does the future look like for True Identity? You have an upcomming LP on React! Records, but maybe you have some plans on coming over to Europe next year?

Currently the plan is to record an LP, but our plans have changed a hundred ti mes. We will see. Maybe Europe this year?

True Identity is a ve-getarian band. Can

you recomend any good place or restaurant whe-re you can hang out or eat in Seattle?

Everyone in the True Identi ty is Vegan except one. There are so many great Vegan and Vegetarian restaurant in Seatt le. Wayward, Bamboo Garden, Veggie Grill, Arayas, Chaco Canyon, Pizza Pi. They are all great and off er diff erent things, depending


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on what you are looking for.

Thanks for the interview. Any closing words before the end?

True Identi ty is on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitt er. Please follow us to keep up to date on what’s going on. Praise is the best band in hardcore.

True Identi ty next show

true identityKék Yuk, Budapest 11/29/2004

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PHOTOGRAPHER: CHRIS BAVARIA

REACT! SHOWCASE 2011 SAN FRANCISCO 11/23/2011

THIS REMISSION PHOTO IS FROM OUR 2011 U.S TOUR AND ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS WE’VE EVER PLAYED. SINCE IT WAS THE SECOND REACT! SHOWCASE AT THE FAMOUS GILMAN ST. CLUB IN

BERKELEY AND WE’D SEEN GREAT BANDS PLAY THE DAY BEFORE LIKE GIVE AND GET THE MOST WE WERE AMPED TO PLAY. UNTIL THAT POINT WE’D NEVER BEEN EXPOSED TO A BIG CROWD AND THE BEST THING OF ALL WAS HAVING SO MANY GREAT FRIENDS UPFRONT INTERACTING WITH.

HARDCORE PEOPLE FROM CHILE, RUSSIA, EUROPE AND DIFFERENT STATES GATHERED THAT WEE-KEND IT WAS A BLAST. THE PHOTO WAS TAKEN BY CHRIS BAVARIA OF MINDSET AND EV FROM THE SAME BAND CAN BE SEEN IN THE CROWD REPPING OUR TOUR SHIRT WITH LYRICS FROM ISOLA-

TION, FROM THE WINDS OF PROMISE 7” THE LABEL RELEASED.

THE VIBE WAS PERFECT.

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Hi pal! How have you been? Introduce your band Enough.

Hey! Devin does vocals, Pit Boss Ross on the drums, I’m playing the bass, and we have a new member Charlie ont he guitar.

When and how did Enough get started? Were you guys friends before the band?

We’ve all known each other prior to being in this band, from seeing each other at shows or our old bands playing together, so one day I sent Devin an email about doing a youth crew band, since my old band at the ti me was ending, we met up and talked about it and then we went for it! We started practi cing in 2010 and on November 6th we played our rst show with re and ice, mother of mercy, and alpha and omega.

What other bands have you played in? Did the others in the band play in other bands before Enough too?

We’ve all been in multi ple previous bands. I was in bands called: obnoxy, daggers, weapon x. Devin was in: life trap, Murdock, off duty ninjas, and is doing western medicati on now on the side. Ross was in: guide, desperate measures (not the hardcore band), the commonwealth of american nati ves,and is doing stuck lucky now on the side. Charlie was in:

guide (with Ross), and countless other punk bands.

You were in Europe 2012 and 2013. What did you think about Europe? Did you like the hardcore scene there? Have any favorite show you did?

Playing in Europe both ti mes ruled, the scene is really great! All the shows were really fun because we were in a totally new place we’ve never been before and everyone there was way excited.

Which one was the best show whit Enough over all? Tell us about the one that stands out the most.

The two that stand out to me are: uff fest and the second ti me we played koma F in Berlin, Germany. We played the main stage at uff fest so it was a big adrenaline rush getti ng on such a big stage, watching the people come in when we started sound checking was really awesome! When we played people were stage diving and piling up to help sing, it was great!

The show at koma f was really awesome as well because the room could maybe hold 80-90 people in it and there had to be at least a 150 people crammed in there, it was awesome!

How come you do a European tour with Evolve from Oslo? Where you good friends before it happened? Maybe you have some funny story from this tour?

ENOUGHENOUGH IS A STRAIGHT EDGE YOUTH CREW BAND FROM

NASHVILLE.HERE’S THE INTERVIEW I DID WITH EMMANUEL

MAKAVELI. I SAW HIS BAND MAYBE 3 TIMES, AND WE BECOME

GOOD FRIENDS. PHOTOS ARE TAKEN ASHLEY MCFALL,

DENYS STASTNEJCH , PAPA AND PETTER NESS.

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Devin told us that he knew a band from Norway that are cool and want to tour so we decided to go for it. Since it was our rst ti me we decided that it would be cheaper to do it with another band, so we did. We met them when we got there and became friends immediately! There are plenty of stories from that tour: Devin using two plasti c knives as chopsti cks to eat pad Thai, pett er combining spaghetti and brownies thinking that the brownies was fake ground beef, it’s so cold in the D, yelling BYAH at everyone, and seeing who could mosh the lowest were some of the rst things that come to mind.

Last time in Europe you covered Raining Blood from Slayer (25th july 2013 in Praha). Why did you choose that song? What was the reaction from the crowd?

We played it once before at a show for fun and everyone liked it a lot so we gured we should do it since we were sure that no one would cover it and it’s very recognizable. As soon as we played it everyone knew what song it was and went wild! It’s always great to play that venue.

When and how did you get into hardcore and Straight Edge for the rst time? Tell us about the rst bands you listened to and one of the rst shows you went to!

I’ve always been drug free, my friends at the ti me drank and smoked and it never seemed cool to me so I never did it. When I was 13 or 14 I started listening to AFI and I always looked at the bands they thanked and wrote them down and went and bought the CDs. I found out about Minor Threat, Negati ve Approach, and plenty of other awesome punk bands because of it! One of the rst straight

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edge shows I went to was the Gorilla Biscuits reunion show in 2006, really a fun show with plenty of stages dives and singing, prior to that I mainly went to punk shows.

You study or work?

I work full ti me at a factory but I plan to go back to school soon.

You are a dad, right? Are you learning the next generation to like hardcore? What bands does he like? Do you bring him to some shows?

I have a two year old son! We listen to all the classic bands when we drive around town like: Youth of today, Black Flag, Shelter, Bold, Bad Brains, Turning Point, and Floorpunch. I also let him listen to older metal and other great albums from diff erent genres

like: Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, At The Drive In, and the Mars Volta. I sti ll think he’s too young to go to shows for now but when we are not watching Mickey Mouse or trying to teach him words, we are practi cing stage dives on the bed!

How does the future look like for Enough? Any new records or plans on going back to Europe?

Hopefully we will begin writi ng and practi cing soon and come back to Europe and do some tours!

Thanks for the interview dude! Any last words?

Thanks for the interview! Hope to see you soon! Shout out to thugXlife! Stay true! Go vegetarian!


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PHOTOGRAPER: XDOBERX

THIS WAS THE LAST SHOW CLEARSIGHT PLAYED BREAKING UP FOR TWO YEARS, ON JANUARY 24TH, 2009 IN KIEV WITH REARRANGED, STILL, CONCLUSION AND NO ORDERS

AT SOKOL. SOKOL WAS THE VENUE THAT HELD MOST OF KIEV SHOWS AROUND 2008-2011. IT WAS A BIG CAFE WHERE YOU COULD GET SOME FRIES WHILE MOSHING TO YOUR FAVORITE BAND. ANOTHER INTERESTING FACT IS THAT WE PLAYED THIS "LAST" SHOW

WITH REARRANGED, AND WHEN WE GOT BACK TOGETHER TWO YEARS LATER (JANUARY 8TH, 2011), SAME PLACE, REARRANGED ALSO PLAYED. PLUS BLUESBREAKER, WOUNDEAD,

HONESTY AND COLD SEASON. THAT WAS A SICK LINE UP FOR A COMEBACK SHOW.

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This is my best concert experience in 2014: Cro-Mags in Malmö, April 26th. Shipwrecked, Hårda Tider, Guilty (last show) and Beyond Pink also played. I love all of these bands. The reason this is the best one is because something happened to me that I never told my mom. And maybe I never will.

While Cro-Mags were playing I did a big stage dive and I fell on my head, loosing my all memories of the past few days. This was a really interesti ng ti me in my life, but I can’t exactly say how it was. When something like this happens your memories come back slowly, but here is what I remember. Maybe I’ll be more careful next ti me, I hope you can learn from my mistake.

I ew to Malmö alone, as I always do. I arrived on Friday 25th of April, one day before the show. I went to the beach to relax a litt le, shortly aft er that I met up with one of my best friend Erik (from Hårda Tider). We went to the supermarket, I remember I bought a vegan biscuit to the birthday of a friend of mine. We went home, I met my friend’s girlfriend Sara, who I’ve known for a few years. I also met Erik’s new housemate. If I remember good, we cooked vegan tacos. Later that night Jacob from Agent Atti tude joined us. Eric made a new tatt oo for him. I was too ti red to watch the tatt oo making, so I went to have a rest, but I couldn’t sleep so I went back to the kitchen to check what it looked like. If I remember well he got something like a skull.

The next day Erik was really busy, he practi ced with his band before the big show coming up. I only met him in the aft ernoon at a square where a lot of people were making graffi ti es. There I also met another old friend, Gotland, he did graffi ti too. I met other friends and some new people, also Klas,

who was making a documentary about Hårda Tider. Staff an from Göteborg arrived too. I was really happy to see my old friends again.

I was really lucky because this day was a Record Store Day too, so we walked around a corner and saw a special show where Bäddat För Trubbel played in front of a record store. I really liked this band, this was not a hardcore band but something like rock or punk, similar to Kal P. Dal or Ebba Görn. Aft er this, me and Erik went to the venue where the Cro-Mags show would take place. I met some other friends from Hårda Tider, the girls from Beyond Pink, and the Guilty guys. They were eati ng vegan food and got me some too. I was really hungry. I met an old friend, he called me Daniel. He changed a lot since I last saw him, he had long hair now.

The show itself was really awesome! Beyond Pink started. I’ve seen them a lot in Budapest and at Fluff fest, but I think this was my rst ti me seeing them in Sweden. Aft er that Shipwrecked from Oslo played. They don’t play many shows so I was really interested in getti ng the chance to see them. They were one of the reasons I went there actually. I also have a friend from Russia, Moozheek, who came to see this band that night. Aft er Shipwrecked, Hårda Tider played. My secret favourite. They always do the best shows, especially in Sweden. Guilty played before Cro-Mags, I really loved their intro.

Then it was ti me for the best of the best: Cro-Mags, with John Joseph. I don’t remember clearly what happened. When I saw a video on Youtube, I saw myself doing a stagedive, falling down on my head while “Show You No Mercy” was playing. It was around 8 minutes into their setlist. Aft er that everything is blank. My rst memory is that I sit


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backstage, my friend Erik comes down, I recognize his face and hug him. This was a really strange feeling. Not knowing where you are, who you are, who the people around you are, you don’t even know your name, and then suddenly you recognize a face. I told Erik that I didn’t remember anything. He was really scared, he wanted to take me to a doctor. He told me that I was in Malmö at a Cro-Mags show. We even took a picture with John Joseph but I don’t remember when we did it.

Aft er the show Erik gave me a Cro-Mags LP, he told me I bought it, but I didn’t remember that either. I lost these past hours forever. Aft er the show we went to a hospital with Klaus, but we didn’t nd a doctor since it was in the middle of the night. The nurse told us that I should go to a doctor in my country. Aft er this we just walked around the city and Erik tried to bring my memories back. He told me that I needed to write to someone in Hungary, someone who could help me tomorrow when I got back home. I didn’t want to call my mom or father because they live far from Budapest and I didn’t want to scare them. So I wrote to my best friend Bence, and to my housmate as well because their names and faces came to my mind at rst.

Erik tried to bring my memories back by showing me pictures on facebook. I remember nding the biscuits in my bag and telling him “I bought this to someone. This is someone’s birthday gift ”. I remember him smiling as I told him this. Slowly things started to come back. I remembered Jakob getti ng a new tatt oo.

The next day Erik took me to the airport and told me a funny story. That when we took that photo with John Joseph, I asked him “Are you John Joseph from the Cro-mags?”. John didn’t know why I asked him this aft er the photo, but Erik told me that this was a very funny moment. Aft er I landed my friend Bence called me to check if I was alright. A few weeks later he told me that I sounded very strange on the phone. Getti ng home was really strange too, because I didn’t recognize the buses, just trying to recognize anything was really strange.

A few days of being home I went to a pizza place with my housmate and I tried to tell her everything that happened in Malmö. She tried to fool me, she told me that I have a wife and kids, but I didn’t believe her. I remember next day going to work. All of this happened on saturday and I went to work on monday. I work at a warehouse and someti mes it’s an intense work. This day was similar to my rst day, because I didn’t remember any of the faces. I think I acted really strange that day even. I felt a pain in my head for one or two weeks, but I didn’t go to a doctor. My housmate told me that I should because her father had a similar injury, but I ended up not going anyway.

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