INTERVIEW FOR MAXIMUM ROCK N ROLL
(Done by Filip/Trujaca Fala - Published in MRR #303/August 2008)
1. A decade ago it would be really hard for me to think about any punk band from Denmark, besides maybe President Fetch, who as I know are rather in rock scene now. Then we had this boom with all great bands – Paragraf 119, Uro, No Hope For The Kids, Young Wasteners, Gorilla Angreb – why did this happen?
Cormy: I suppose, as an outsider who moved to the city, I see this as a lot to do with the mid-to-late ‘90s rejuvenation of Ungdomshuset and the opportunities for rehearsal, concerts and meeting people to form bands with that arose out of it. Like you, I'd first heard of Copenhagen / Denmark through bands like Amdi Petersen's, Asebia, Gorilla Angreb and Uro, followed by the current / last crop of bands that sprung up just before I moved to the city. Coming from a place with a very insular punk scene (Dublin / Ireland) whose bands rarely travel and are generally ignored by the rest of the world, I did notice a difference with the bands from Copenhagen. Bands in Copenhagen practice a lot more, they're more conscious of their sound and how they develop it, and they listen to, criticize and admire (and talk shit and insult) each others' bands in a half-serious half-joking way that seems to make people more conscious of and ambitious with their bands. Most importantly, there's much better rehearsal facilities there, and much cheaper too, which was something that Ungdomshuset provided that other places don't.
2. You were playing in some of those bands – can you tell us shortly about origins of NDT?
Christina: Me and Adam used to be in URO together and I also used to play guitar in AKTIV DÖDSHJÆLP. We were both pretty bummed about not being able to continue with URO after our singer decided to move to Germany to go to art school and decided we got to start something new together with our drummer at the time, Jeppe. After a few name and lineup changes we ended up, one night in the basement of Ungdomshuset, pulling the name NUCLEAR DEATH TERROR out of a hat! Yes, we pulled it out of a moldy old hat, but just be glad we didn’t choose the name “Nuclear Fire Legion” or “Apocalyptic Napalm Insanity”!! Haha! That’s the story I guess…
3. NDT, Skarpretter, Paragraf 119 were touring across Europe, while other bands mentioned before seem to focus more on USA and play a lot there ignoring European scene – why is that?
Cormy: The other bands had a lot more hype across the Atlantic; people went fuckin’ crazy for them (because they were fuckin’ great; if you miss those others, check out Hjertestop / Virgin Suicide / Death Token / Ripping Headache). Aswell, the members of bands you’ve mentioned have strong roots in the European scene from organising gigs and festivals in Copenhagen, and in return a lot of people have been keen to return the favour and get us to their countries.
Christina: Well, I wouldn’t say that the before mentioned bands don’t care about the European scene or never toured there, cause they did tour Europe a lot more than the states and are all really active in doing so – many bands just seem to focus on the western part of Europe, doing the “easy” tours around Germany, Holland, France etc. and not spending that much time trying to go places where we don’t traditionally have a lot of contacts.
As much as I love playing a packed gig in Köpi (Berlin) to a wild crowd of crusty punks and have many wonderful friends in western Europe that I love to go visit, I think it’s much more revitalizing to drive for 20 hours through mountains on bumpy roads not many bandbusses have gone, to play a gig to 50 kids in Eastern Poland! Am I a masochist?? Some might thinks so after that statement, but it really means so fucking much to me to know that you’re actually part of making a difference in peoples lives.
The punk scene in western Europe is one big all-you-can-eat buffet offering the best bands around, touring bands from all over the world, the most amazing squats/houses and radical political activists all around – but we better not cheat ourselves. Most of the bands singing their songs about oppression, racism, cops, totalitarian regimes etc. never actually bothered to break out of their “safe zone” and face the realities eye to eye. I mean, it’s not a dangerous thing to be a punk in denmark. Yes, you run into the occasional beating by stupid assholes in the nightlife and shit like that, but my point being – it’s not illegal to be an anarchist or political activist. It’s not impossible to demonstrate your anger on the streets or life threatening to spike your hair and walk down to the fucking supermarket on your own.
The reality of life looks a lot different in a lot of the eastern countries for example. In Ukraine, they can in many cities only advertise gigs on a work of mouth basis or by sms, because if they put up posters or talk too loudly about it, the Nazis or the cops will come and wreck the party. Up until only about 2-3 years ago in Hungary, there would be no division between antifascist punks and nazi skinheads. In Russia the fascists kill the antifascists and the punks. In Belarus they suffer the same repression from cops and Nazis – and the stories are many.
I think it’s very important, and also a bit “healthy” for us to go and visit some of these places and support their scenes in growing strong against the powers that try to shut them up. After all, isn’t that also what punk is about? For me it is.
4. While all the “hype” bands go back to the 70’s/80’s sound, you stick to this european crust sound, with black and white covers and lyrics about war – aren’t you bored with that?
Cormy: Bored with raw punk & crust? Hahah, no. I’m into almost every genre of punk, hardcore and metal, but no matter what I’m more or less excited about at any given time, there’s nothing that gets me quite so hot & bothered as an out-of-control, thrashing, soul-devouring d-beat! Our lyrics are about more than just war –drug addiction, conformity, insidious urbanization & gentrification, sexual abuse, police control etc.
Christina: I completely agree with Cormy! I‘d definitely get bored shitless if it was all I ever listened to and on top of that, there are so many generic and boring d-beat bands out there. But we all listen to many different genres and let ourselves be inspired by many different things. All of our songs aren’t about war but in these times, taking up an issue like that is as relevant as ever. It might look like history is repeating itself with so many of the bands we’re inspired by from the 80’s, singin’ the same songs about war, but back then it felt very relevant to bring up these issues – and it still does. It’s just a different war now.
Black and white covers? – I just love that shit! I’ve always been a sucker for xeroxed images, distorted out of proportions and pen & ink illustrations! It never seems to grow old on me and I still discover new and amazingly talented punk artists within our scene!
5. Knowing where you are from we will have to talk about Ungdomshuset. This place was so famous, that most of the people reading this should know about it, but for those who don’t – can you give us short story of the place?
Christina: Ungdomshuset (The Youth House) was “given” to the squatter movement after negotiations with the city council about getting a house for the youth of Copenhagen. Back in ’82, there was a very powerful and big squatter scene and the mayor of the city saw it as the only way of putting an end to the squatting. Before he died, he said that it was the biggest mistake he did in his entire career!!
The house was an all-volunteer activist-run activity house for left wing radicals in Denmark, run with a flat-as-possible basic democratic structure. We had concerts, theatre performances, political meetings, a book/info café, a vegan soup kitchen, a screen-print workshop, rehearsal rooms for bands, a gym/martial arts group and a lot of other activities in the house.
When you think in the traditional sense of autonomous self governed activity spaces, you probably think mostly about anarchism, political activism and punkrock, but Ungdomshuset was a lot more than that because of the long history of the house. We were, and especially in the last few critical years, representing a very broad counter-culture and housing a ton of different activities. From, being the base of the punkrock DIY community in Copenhagen - to housing jugulars and circus artists from the alternative arts scene.
6. The eviction was really brutal and many people faced severe charges – some of you were among them. What is the situation now with those individuals?
Christina: On March 1st 2007 the anti terror corps and the cops with assistance from the military, evicted Ungdomshuset at 7:00 in the morning. They shot shock grenades onto the roof (we had a flat roof) to put the people up there out of the game and then proceeded downwards into the house at the same time as going through the window of the pirate radio station on the 4th floor to prevent us from using it to broadcast an eviction alarm (that anyways through mobile phones…suckers!). Then they started gassing their way through the house, ending up in the basement. After 50 minutes, the house had been evicted and everyone was arrested and put in strips on the floor of the small concert room for about an hour or 2. While we were sitting there waiting to be taken to the police station, we could hear the people outside, police sirens and dogs barking. It was quite an intense moment.
What happened inside the house for those 50 minutes, we cannot really talk about as we are still awaiting trial. There were 30 people arrested inside the house, 15 of them being foreigners (from Sweden, Germany, USA, Poland, Hungary etc.)
The foreigners were deported and subsequently released in their own countries after a couple of days and the Danish people were held I custody for 3 months. Actually, a bunch of the people from inside the house came back Copenhagen to take part in the following protests. That must have been a weird feeling.
7. Do you have any plans to get new building?
Christina: Yes, and I believe we will get it.
Some months before the eviction, we started having meetings with the politicians (all parties to the left, starting from the social democrats) about finding a solution for the house, either ending up in an agreement that we could stay or a new building given to us as a replacement for the old one. We only had a few demands – one of them saying that we would not under any circumstances pay for the building. The Social democrats didn’t want to talk to us back then and without them we couldn’t get the majority of the votes in the city council, which we needed. After the eviction, almost nobody wanted to talk to us (except for 2 parties on the far left), but after they realized that we were not going to just die by ourselves, that we kept getting stronger and that we insisted on claiming a new house, they agreed to take up negotiations after a big squatting action with 8000 people in October. We are, since then, negotiating with the politicians and have made it as far as them making a decision that we should get a new building and that they will work actively to get that. Right now we are discussing 2 buildings (put together, the same size as Ungdomshuset) and an outside area in the north western part of Nørrebro, approx 2km from where Ungdomshuset used to be. There’s a bit of a cold war going on between us now concerning matters like putting up a deposit – they say that we have to pay 600.000 (about 120.000 dollars) – we say that we look forward to the next city-election :-) My bet is that they don’t want to make any more mistakes with us again – the last mistake cost them 72 million (almost 15 million dollars)!!! They could have given us the house for 2,6 million. I’d feel kinda stupid if I were a politician.
8. As Ungdomshuset was active in the city for so many years I wonder what was the reaction of ordinary people for the eviction and all the actions/riots in the city? Were they supportive or rather fed up with riots? You told me also that all this “support undgomshuset” thing became really fashionable – people buy t-shirts, pins without really getting into what is it all about.
Cormy: One thing I’ve noticed when I’ve been back in Copenhagen since the Ungdomshuset riots is how the atmosphere in Nørrebro (where most of the punks live) has changed; over the past five years there’s been ever-increasing gentrification of the area going on. It’s traditionally a very working class and immigrant neighbourhood, but the yuppies have been steadily creeping. Whereas before the riots, these yuppies just ignored us, were bemused by us or didn’t really notice us, they now hate and fear us. I often witness scowls and sneers from these people, and to be honest, I fucking love it –HAHAH, DIE YUPPIE SCUM.
Christina: Well, I’d only agree with Cormy to a certain extent…
Definitely, there has been a huge hype about Ungdomshuset with everyone having an opinion about it. You won’t find anyone in Denmark today that doesn’t know of Ungdomshuset!
During the time before the eviction, we experienced a huge increase of support locally, nationally and internationally. It’s a very important factor to keep in mind when you discuss the struggle for Ungdomshuset, that the house existed for 25 years and a lot of people have come through the house throughout the years.
In our research for the campaign we found that almost every venue, theatre, culture centre, media company and newspaper had someone directly sprung out of the Ungdomshus environment working there. And without the “playground” that Ungdomshuset was, they would never have gotten the job they have today. We found a sea of artists and media personalities that all supported Ungdomshuset (and still do) and were willing to talk about why it was such an important place for innovation and development in the creative environments.
A bunch of (now) high profiled bands played benefit shows to finance the campaign and to create awareness about the situation. We had actors, artists, musicians and others to support us – all the local venues issued support statements, youth organizations made support statements, political parties put us into their election campaigns and we generally experienced that a lot of people crawled out from whatever rock they were hiding under since they stopped coming in Ungdomshuset. Bottom line – an enormous amount of people have used Ungdomshuset throughout the 24 years it existed and you can hardly visit a venue, theatre, music company or art gallery without meeting someone that has at some point in their life had Ungdomshuset influence them. This makes our situation so much different from many other squats.
We had massive support from the locals in our area and when the house got evicted a lot of them also took the streets alongside with us. One of the demonstrations shortly after the eviction, gathered 15.000 people! I think even we were pretty amazed about just how many people continue to support us. It’s gone from being an issue that only the punks and radical left activists care about into an issue that also involves a lot of other people and scenes.
Denmark is going though a massive gentrification process and this affects a lot of people. I think what made the difference for us was that in this whole process, Ungdomshuset was the first ones to say “stop, we won’t have it!” and actually take up the fight with the authorities that force this normalization through. We became the vent that a lot of people needed and for many, the struggle for Ungdomshuset is just as much a struggle against normalization in general. My bet is that ¼ of all the people coming to our demonstrations these days have not even set their for in the house when it was still there. But our scene managed to set that spark inside of them on fire!
9. There is also some bad things happening to Christiania lately?
Cormy: It’s been a process that’s going on for about 4 years, based on the policies of the current neo-liberal government, the Dansk Folkeparti. Everything outside of the boundaries of conformist capital-based growth and expansion is being eroded; places like Christiania and Ungdomshuset, things that made/make Denmark one of the most free places in the Western world, are being systematically dismantled, and once these things are gone they will never return. It was a process of centuries to get to the stage in the mid/late 20th Century which allowed for such places to come into being, and now as conservative/neo-lib control gains further and further ground in every aspect of life, anything outside the socio-cultural matrix of profit and control becomes a target. It’s hard to say what will become of Christiania, but I suspect it will be similar to how governments in Germany, the Netherlands and so on dealt with squatting in the ‘80s and ‘90s: co-opt and legalise certain places, sell them to the occupiers for cheap, and thus delegitimise those who wish to continue squatting rather than climb in bed with the developers. Highly effective and successful divide-and-rule stratagem.
Christina: A few years back the politicians in government made a plan to “normalize” Christiania and they are really working on it. There used to be free-hash sales in Christiania – a market controlled by the people out there making it possible to have a hard-drug-free environment where you could go and buy your hash or pot. Now, the cops are patrolling in Christiania 24-7 and strike down hard on dealers. As a result, the hash market is now all over the city, in dodgy basements where you are likely to be offered a bit of coke at the same time as buying your hash.
A part of the “normalization” process, is also tearing down a bunch of old and new home-built houses that doesn’t fit into the standards of regular houses. These are really beautiful houses that people live in and of course this process pisses off a lot of people. Recently, the cops have done a few trial-runs out there, trying to tear down abandoned houses, but every time they have been met by protests and it have more than often ended up in street fighting with the cops, burned cars and smashed windows. Obviously this is not something we will just let the cops do and think they can get away with. Every time they have tried to do something to a house, professional workers have built a new one, over night!
Rest assure that if they try to evict the people out of Christiania to make room for fuckin’ yuppies they will get hell in return!
10. How is life in Denmark in general? Is it easy? Are there punks in places other than Copenhagen?
Cormy: I would say yes, very much so. It’s a lot less violent than where I come from, it’s a lot less conformist in many ways, and people are a lot more open and free in terms of intellectual development, sexuality, education options, work options etc. It’s very easy to get an unbelievable level of social welfare and stay in interesting education options well into your 30’s, and I had a wide range of very nice jobs there where I was decently paid, could dress how I wanted and generally felt a lot more respected than everywhere I’d previously done shitwork. Copenhagen’s a great place to live.
Christina: Denmark is a small country and this has the negative side-effect that everything is under control – it’s very hard to just disappear and live outside of society, squat houses or trailer parks etc. but living standards are pretty high and it’s easy to get along if you have a little creativity. It’s ridiculously easy to dumpster and fines for shoplifting is a farce so the risks are minimal. Schools are free and you get a student-benefit when you take an education, so probably I’d have t say that it’s fairly easy.
There are punks spread all over the country and lots of bands!
11. Scene in your town has really young people involved, 15 years old kids form pretty good bands. Do they stay in the scene when they grew up?
Cormy: 80% of them don’t. It was weird for me to move there and become friends with people and see them disappear, as people tend to stick around and only become trusted after 5 years or so in Ireland, in a lot of ways (for better or for worse).
Christina: True - but at least we’re lucky enough to have a big and growing scene with lots of active people in it and if just 2 out of 10 stick around, we’ll be pretty well off!
If you’re into the whole myspace thing, you should try and check out the bands Højspænding and Reaktion. These guys are from 9-12 years old!
12. I heard also about drugs problem among punks?
Cormy: Yeah, drugs came into the scene in a pretty big way in the last few years, they continue to as far as I’m aware. I think a lot of it had to do with a very anti-drugs attitude that was around for many years in Ungdomshuset and Copenhagen, which arose as a necessary response to over-the-top drug abuse and addiction going on in the house in the ‘80s and early ‘90s, which affected everything that was going on there. However, the next generation who came in after that took the anti-drugs doctrine as dogma and ended up with a very unbalanced view of things, and naturally, there came a reaction against those who were so authoritarian in relation to drugs, resulting in drug problems amongst young punx. I’ve used drugs for many years and continue to, and like everything, I believe it’s a matter of personal responsibility. I’ve heard all sorts of ridiculous reasons against drug use, such as that you can’t trust people when they’re on drugs etc. If that’s a viable reason, you’d better ban alcohol aswell, and perhaps loud music too, as that’s another thing that causes people to get out of control. Maybe sex should go too; people’s sex drives are pretty dangerous and unpredictable. I’ve been around a lot of the dogmatic PC punk types on any kind of chemical you could name, and for the most part they’ve been unaware that I was high or stoned on something, which goes some way to show the level of ignorance and misguidance involved. All I can say is that if you’re going to use drugs, educate yourself, take it slow and easy, try not to make decisions about what to ingest when you’re already intoxicated, and stay the fuck away from heroin –and never ever fucking inject that shit.
Christina: Well, I guess I fall into the category of the PC punk types described… although it’s not as black and white as it might seem.
I agree that there has been a kind of taboo surrounding drug-use/abuse and the situation Cormy describes is fairly true, but it’s a learning experience for everyone and I definitely believe that a lot of people are now learning to deal with it a much ore serious way.
You have to go through a lot of shit to really find yourself, and for some people that involves trying out drugs. But when that’s been said, I still feel that hard drugs don’t belong in any kind of radical environment where you have to be able to trust each other on a personal/political level. And by trust, I mean that you can snap out of being drunk (when the adrenaline takes over) if some critical situation occurs, like if a bunch of nazis attack a gig or you have to deal with someone being violent at the gig you’re at. And you’re not just going to pop out of a chemical trip! I’m not going to argue that there are people out there, capable of controlling their drug-use to an extent where it doesn’t affect other people any more than if she/he was drinking. But I’ve also seen the long-term effects of drugs on people and how it fucking disables people and puts them out of the game. It turns great activists into apathetic and ineffective people and takes the threat out of punk!
13. Cormy, you moved to Copenhagen few years ago and now you went back to Ireland, why? How is punk scene there?
Cormy: I went back to Ireland to finish a degree in English Literature that I’d been studying some years ago and had never completed. I only planned to stay one year, to finish that, but then I ended up doing well and was offered a scholarship to stay and do a Masters degree, which is what I’m doing at the moment. It makes it hard to do stuff with the band, but I go to Copenhagen every 4-6 months to play, write, record & tour with NDT and we do it like that. I’ll be finished in mid-2008, and perhaps go on to do a PhD, though not in Ireland.
The punk scene in Ireland is excellent. It’s not easy to keep going, and it’s down to the hard work of a couple of individuals (people like Damo from Easpa Measa/Tunguska/Mongolia) who’ve been heavily involved and dedicated to DIY for many years now. It’s hard to find & keep venues, it’s difficult for Irish bands to leave the country and tour, and it’s ridiculously expensive to rehearse. As such, there’s a great feeling of (bring out the cheese dish) unity. At gigs you’ll have SxE hardcore bands with street punk & oi! bands, with raw punk & crust bands, with post-hardcore & electronic bands, with hip-hop with metal with stoner rock bands etc. I love it. Compared to the exclusivity of scenes in other countries I’ve witnessed, I think it’s fantastic. Keeps things fresh and interesting. In recent years the scene has swelled since there’s been a lot of immigrants coming to Ireland, mostly from Eastern Europe. I’m still getting used to the idea of people wanting to immigrate to Ireland, as until the ‘90s no-one could get out of here quick enough! But now with Ireland’s explosive economic success comes a huge wave of immigration, and there’s now loads more punks here from other countries. It’s mostly positive but there are problems with people who don’t understand how we like to do things here, people who don’t respect women or who insist on dancing violently at gigs, which we have absolutely zero tolerance for, so there’s unfortunately been quite a lot of violence at gigs over the last year. Anyway, the scene here is excellent –check out De Novissimus, The Freebooters, Terrordactyl, Crowd Control, The Frigits, Another Day In Hell, Putrefaction, Drainland, Only Fumes And Corpses…the scene is stronger than ever at the moment, musically.
14. There is another big city just 20 minutes by train from Copenhagen, but as it is besides the water, it is already different country. I think about Malmö in Sweden of course. Seems like people from both cities support each other and national border doesn’t disturb them too much?
Cormy: Yeah, there’s a good cross-pollination, even though Ian from Fy Fan is a total bumpirate.
Christina: Malmö is a lot closer to Copenhagen than most Danish cities that do gigs. We have loads of friends there and we all go to each others gigs if something cool is on the programme. I consider bands like Skitkids, Fy Fan, Project Hopeless, Kamikatze etc. being just as local as any of the outer-copenhagen bands that I ask to support when I do gigs!
15. Lets get back to the band – your first tour was quite a surprise also for you?
Cormy: Yeah, hahah, we were asked four days before it could we step in to do a tour that our friend Andy had booked for his band, MOTÖRHATE, cos they had to pull out. We panicked, wondered, and then said fuck yeah we’ll do it! We borrowed our friend Daniel’s van, which required being push-started every morning, and did it. Was pretty funny as although we’d been playing and preparing a set for a long time before, we’d only just played our first gig and I think we might not have even recorded a demo by then? Anyway, it went amazingly, we had a lot of drunken fun, got offered records on lots of labels cos we were so great blah blah blah.
Christina: Yeah, that was pretty amazing. Of course people were expecting to see the other band playing melodic neo-crust type music… and then we showed up! I hope nobody went away disappointed! As it turned out, we were playing a few gigs with some old-time friends of ours, APATIA NO from Venezuela and then we knew we were going to have a blast!
16. Then you toured with Visions of War?
Cormy: Nah, we did two tours in the UK and Northern Europe before that, aswell as some short 3-4 day things in Sweden and Germany. Then we did the Scandinavian tour with Visions. Eh, yeah the tour was cool and some good gigs, but it wasn’t really what it should have been…it was just before this that Yogi left the band because of his drug addiction and then Jonas stepped in on drums to help us out, so for most of the tour I was getting drunk and depressed after people would ask where Yogi was and I had to explain (I wasn’t going to lie about it). So the tour had a pretty big shadow cast over it since I was thus preoccupied with the problems of a former very close friend.
Christina: Yeah, I think we all felt like that. It was something we wanted to do with V.O.W. for a long time and it was great hanging out with them for the whole tour. I just wish we didn’t have to tell Yogi that we didn’t want to bring him on tour, but that was just a problem we had to deal with at the time.
17. This time you decided to go east, and do it in winter! How was Belarus? Was it hard to get into the country, and was it worth the attempt?
Cormy: Yeah, and we still can’t figure out why the fuck we decided to go East in Winter –as far as I remember we’d planned to go to Italy and Greece?! Oh well, we survived the hellish frozen wastes and it was actually one of the best tours ever! Belarus was excellent –we didn’t have problems at the border like we’d expected and everything (aside from the crippling cold) went perfectly there. We had excellent gigs and the punx in Minsk and Grodno took excellent care of us –it was TOTALLY worth the attempt and I’d encourage every band that gets the opportunity to try and go there. People went fucking crazy at the gigs and were friendly and welcoming. I’m just disappointed that we didn’t make it to Russia, Romania, Serbia and some of the other less-traveled places we’d hoped to go to, that bands don’t go to so regularly. I really hope we’ll make it to those places in the coming years.
Christina: I’m so glad we decided to head that way and try to get into Belarus. We were fortunate enough to get to know a very nice guy called Ruslan, who helped us get all the necessary papers and arranged the gigs! We had these nightmare visions of a fortress you cannot enter when we thought of Belarus, but because of the help we got from Ruslan and Filip (Trujaca Fala), we were well-prepared and got to enter pretty easily after only about and hour of waiting. There’s a good chance that the weather was a bit on our side as well, cause it was freezing fuckin’ minus 23 degrees and none of the border cops wanted to tear the van apart outside… they probably just wanted to get it over with so they could go back behind their window and drink hot tea. We on the other hand, happily went back into our van that was just as freezing cold as it was outside!! All we could eat on the tour was the stuff we could consume at gas stations, because every time we tried buying food + drinks at a supermarket to think ahead, it would freeze up in the van and be impossible to eat! Haha!
18. So far you have a demo and LP out – any plans for new recordings?
Cormy: Yes, we’ve just done a recording session in Sweden. Half of that’s going on a 4-way split LP with Guided Cradle, Instinct of Survival and Visions of War, which we’ve been talking about for 2 years and is actually finally going to happen, and the other half is for a new 7” EP we’ll have out on Plague Bearer in the next few months.
Christina: As I’m writing this, the 7” is just about to be sent to the press. Everything is finished and it looks great! We are all really satisfied with the end-result and just can’t wait to get it out!
The split will hopefully get out sometime this summer, but it’s always hard to coordinate with all these bands! It’s going to be a split release between Plague Bearer (Denmark), Hate Records (Germany) and Insane Society (Czech). Black Seeds (Malaysia/Ireland) and maybe another label will do the CD version.
19. Many people reading this had this pleasure to take part in the K-town and than shit town festivals, definitely one of the best DIY fests in Europe lately. Will it happen this year?
Christina: Yeah, we’re doing it again this year. It will be the 8th year we do it! Fuckin’ crazy how time flies! Again this year, we’ll cal it SHIT TOWN because Copenhagen is still a shitty place and we still don’t have our own house to do it in. Maybe when we get a new house, we’ll call it K-TOWN again??
We will do the fest in Christiania in “The Grey Hall” and already have a lot of great bands + activities on the programme. Check out www.shit-town.dk for more info about the festival!