1. So at first can you introduce your band, members and tell us
how do you know each other?
Oi! we
are The Wrongdoers, skinhead rock band from Helsinki, Finland.
Line up is: Renne - Vocals, Santtu - Guitar, Atte
- Drums, Tomppa - Bass.
We have known each other from long time since
early-mid ´90s through skinhead scene.
2. When and
why came decission to start Wrongdoers and why that name?
The Wrongdoers was born in 2001 with a
different line-up than today. We played few gigs in Finland and one in Estonia.
We did a demo cd-r in 2002 and some time after that the band called it quits.
In 2008 we thought about getting our shit together again but without our
original guitarist. At the same time Santtu and Tomppa were planning a new Oi!
band(we had talked about it for many years but with no success). So we decided
to ask Tomppa to The Wrongdoers to play bass which i played in the old line-up.
Tomppa joined the band and Santtu switched bass to guitar. The Wrongdoers
resurrected and the new line-up is the way it should have been in the
beginning.
The name was pretty obvious choice, isn’t every
skinhead a wrongdoer in society's eyes?
3. You have
out album Helsinki on Crowbar...how was the cooperation with the label? Do you
plan also vinyl release?
Yeah, cd came out on
Crowbar Records and Alive & Kicking. Working with these labels have been
great, no problem with that, only problems have been that we´re lazy bastards
so if there has been any delays it has been because of us. hehe. Vinyl should
be out soon on these labels as well.
4. I have
seen some webpage where your band member was in some kind of jury on some
X-factor competition...what was it?
Haha, you have done
your homework, you´re right our singer was one of the judges in Finnish
X-factor, think about skinhead in X-factor jury… There was huge problems with
media and papers when they found out that Renne is skinhead and he sings in
skinhead band, it was total madness. Renne and The Wrongdoers was couple of
weeks at front page news in every papers in Finland. In youtube it took like 3
days and over 100.000 visits, fucking unbelievable hahah.
5. What are
your musical influences...your sound reminds me Glory Boys a bit...
Our musical influences come from old and new
skinhead oi! bands. Don´t really see much common in our and Glory Boys sound.
Oh well, we are both new breed skinhead Oi! bands... anyway support Glory Boys,
great lads and good drinking company hahah.
6. I know
some bands from Finland like Hoist, Open Finger is a Broken Finger, Kalevalan
Viikingit, Prideful or Skinboiss...can you tell us about other new bands which
worth hearing?
There is not much
Oi!/streetpunk bands besides those you already mentioned. Check out The
Jacklads good guys and good brickwall Oi!. Also female fronted streetpunk band
The Dead On´s and punkrock band Rejected are really checking out.
7. What
about the scene in general...pubs, clubs, zines...
Skinhead scene could be better but a small
country like Finland, there’s a fair amount of skinheads here. It’s been good
to notice that in our gigs there have been skinheads from left to right,
“punks” are welcome too but we think they are too busy with internet hahah.
We got a skinhead pub here in Helsinki and it´s
run by skinheads for the skinheads. It´s open from friday till sunday morning,
skinhead rocknroll and beer for all weekend long.
8. Are
there some vikingrock bands in Finland?
No not really, more of viking heavy metal.
Finland don´t have viking roots like Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Kalevalan
Viikingit is closest to that genre.
9. You
become world champions in ice hockey this year...are you prefare football or
hockey? And why?
Santtu
and Atte is more into ice-hockey, they´ve been following it since they were
just young hooligans, problem is there is two teams in Helsinki and they
support different ones... Tomppa is more into football and of course we all
follow Finnish national football team, even we´re shit in football 
haha.
10. What
about the gigs in Finland...is it difficult to organise oi!/streetpunk gig in
Finland? And what about playing live, do you like it? You played in Spain some
time ago can you compare the warm south with freezy north?
Oi! gigs is easy to organise in Finland, cause
we´re do them ourself here in Helsinki, otherwise no one organises them. In
Finland there’s no point to organise gigs with Oi!, punk and hardcore bands
together or at least to book us to that kind of gig hahah. We we’re supposed to
play in august at 2 day punk/hardcore fest but the result was that majority of
the bands cancelled because of us and the whole festival was cancelled. It
seems that we bring wrong kind of audience to the gigs and also when we are not
interested in any leftist pc shit it don’t help much hahah. Yeah we really like
to play gigs but they take their toll and recovery takes many days hahahah. So
contact us if you want Finnish skinheads to drink and ruck in your town. Spain
was awesome, people we’re nice and all worked out great. Viva Espana!
11. Do you know anything about Czech skinhead scene?
Yeah, we
know you got good beer in Czech, that must be related to skinhead scene
somehow?! haha. You got some good bands aswell Orlik, Buldok, Disdainful(have
you ever heard them?! haha), Conflict Eighty Eight, Vlajka, Operace Artaban,
Pilsner Oiquel and The Riot to name some. We hope to come play there someday to
learn some more.
12. Plans
for the future...
Just keep on playing skinhead rock n roll. We
propably hit the studio in august to record few songs for split with one well
known oi! band, but don´t want to say anything more about that before
everything is 100% exact.
13. Last
words...
Cheers for the interview and support. Hope
we’ll meet you and other czech skins someday for beer or two. Keep the faith!
Kippis! Santtu and Tomppa