1.Hi so, can you tell us brief history of the band, members, hobbies, age, work
etc...?
Hi Peddy,
here we go:
-Hannes(Guitar),
Harry(Drums) , Schmottey(Vox) and Koppel (Bass) started the Band in January
2001...
-8 months
later we've played our first gig...
-more
gigs...
-in October
2002 we recorded a Demo-Tape...
-more
gigs...
-In the
Beginning of 2003 Hannes and Harry left the Band due to musical differences...
-March/April
2003 Basti (Drums)joined the Band, also Zdenka, Koppel's Girlfriend , joined
Spy Kids on Bass (She never played an Instrument before, but learned really
fast)...
-Koppel
changed from Bass to Guitar...
So, since
March/ April 2003 Spy Kids are:
Zdenka: Bass, 29 years, Salesgirl, hobbies: playing Bass,
going to gigs...
Basti: Drums, 29 years, Postman, hobbies: playing drums
Schmottey: Vox, 26 Years, automation
service operator, hobbies: Spy Kids +spy kids
+spy kids....organize conzerts in the Boot Boys Weimar club, booze, booze+ smoke!
Koppel: Guitar, 33 years, out of work, hobbies: playing bass
and guitar, graphic designs, recording and mixing music, going to gigs and
stuff like that...
2. How you
came to decision to start a band and why do you choose the name Spy Kids? Did
any of your band members played in any different band before Spy Kids? And next
question..it seems that every German band has girl on bass like Mummys
Darlings, Donars Groll, Roials...and you also...have you got some explication
for that? And even bass player from Roials and yours have Czech name(Katka and
Zdenka haha) so can you told us anything about her origin if she don´t mind?
The main
reason we started with the band was bloody fucking boredom ;]. We thought Spy
Kids (which means Skinhead in some areas in Great Britain back in the days)
would be a cool name for our Band...to many German bands with „Oi!“ or „Sturm“
in the band name, you know ;)?
Yes, Basti
played in a Band called „Garagenterror“ before he joined Spy Kids.
Haha, yeah,
there are some bands with girls on bass, but i think every country has some
bands with girls on bass or other instruments...Haircut, Reazione, The Veros,
Pilsener Oiquell...and what about the girl who played in Disdainful ;]? ...No,
i have no explication, but i think it's easier to choose your girlfriend to
play bass then to search and search some guy...it's (for us) a good choice, i
live together with Zdenka, so i can show her every time how to play a Song...
But i want
to see a lot more girls playing in a band, it looks (most of the time) better
then some ugly guys, haha...
Yes, Zdenka
was born in Mariánské Lázně ,
but her parents went to GDR when she was 1 year old...
Czech woman
rules ok ;)
3. What are
your musical influences?
There are so
many influences, Zdenka and me (Koppel) listen to stuff like the good old British
Oi!, Rabauken, Skinflicks, Anti-Heros, Orlik, The Protest but also Hardcore
like Gorilla Biscuits, Youth of Today, Gallows, Slapshot, Warzone...Metal...the
old stuff like early Metallica, Iron Maiden,Slayer, Ac/Dc to Darkthrone, Bolt
Thrower, Impaled Nazarene, Autopsy, Death and also Bands like Blondie, Tilt!,
The Sounds, France Gall, The Bellrays and much more...
4. What
about the lyrics and music, who is responisble for them? Do you play any cover
songs?
Schmottey is
responsible for the most of the lyrics, Basti also wrote some of them and
sometimes we wrote them together...Me (Koppel) is responsible for the music, I
am the musical Dictator ;)
Yeah, we
cover some songs, at the moment we play:
-Hey little
rich boy (Sham 69)
-Shaved for
battle (Stars and Stripes)
-Riot (The
Oppressed)
-Riot Squad
(Cock Sparrer)
-I'm a Spy
Kid (Angelic Upstarts)
-ACAB (The
4-Skins)
5. What
about some releases? I know you have one EP and you are planning split CD/LP with
CZ punk rock band Normals!?...how did you came to that idea?
Forget the
EP, it's not a official release...Yes we'll do a split 12'' with The
Normals!?...a friend of us will start a label, he really enjoyed the Normals!?-
show at Motoraj, so he asked the guys if they were interested...that's all ;)
6. How was
the scene in your city and can you recomand us any other bands from your area?
And what about the gigs, how many do you played and with whom?
Hmm, i think
there is no real scene...ca 10 people, we have our own club, called
„Drums“...We (Bootboys Weimar) organize gigs at Drums...Hardcore, Oi!,
Punkrock, Metal, Stoner...
There's just
one Oi!- Band in Weimar, that's us, but there are some other Bands in
Thuringia...Punkroiber, Bombecks. In Jena there are some guys, playing in a Gay
Skin Movement – Band called Nasty Matter... faggots...
The gigs...
i think we played around 30 Gigs, maybe 40...not sooo many in 9 years...we've
played with bands like Punkroiber, Backstreet Firm, Brachial, OB, Red London,
Warfare 223, Haircut, the Veros, Stomper 98, Vortex, The Last Resort,
Razorblade, Lion's Pride, Last Riot, The Gonads, I Don't like you, the Jinx,
Discharger, The Casuals, Get out, Bombecks, Anti Clockwise...and of course with
Disdainful and the Normals ;)...
7.In February 2010 you play in our country for the first time, how do you like it
and do you know anything about our bands before?
Yeah, it was
a fucking great weekend in Praha, we've enjoyed it very much. Cool location and
a great audience, much better than Germany...
You mean Czech
bands in general? Yes, we listen to Czech bands like Orlik , Branik, SPS, The
Protest, Master's Hammer, Krabathor, Daniel Landa...
8.Where can
we buy your stuff like t-shirts, cds, pins..etc...?
No stuff
available at the moment, but I think we will sell our merch on the myspace-
side in near future...watch out...
9.Plans for
the future?
Trying to
release a LP, playing more gigs, playing another gig in your country ;)...
10.Words on
the end...
Na zdraví!
Spy Kids,
April 2010