Shoot Me Again Webzine. Interview. TRAINWRECK

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Il était temps pour moi de présenter ce groupe terrible à vous tous. Groupe né sur les cendres de deux groupes que j'ai beaucoup aimé : EAVES et ENGRAVE...Mais avec TRAINWRECK on va encore plus loin dans le plaisir. Fan de hardcore screamo au son puissant, lourd et rapide; ce groupe est pour vous.

Je tiens tout de même à dire que j'ai eu un peu de mal à traduire correctement leur interview, de bien rendre leurs idées...donc si vous lisez bien l'anglais je vous conseille de lire la version originale.

1.Hello TRAINWRECK, please introduce yourself, and then introduce the brief history of the band actually.

FELIX: Hi! I'm Felix, the drummer of Trainwreck. The Band started rehearsing in october 2005 and released a selftitled 12"/CDep on Yskalnari Records in January 2006. Trainwreck consists of ex-members of Eaves and Engrave, which both split up in the last two years. We still like playing in a band and we are excited about being a part of diy punk. We played a couple of shows at the beginning of the year and luckily were able to do a first tour through europe with Burial Year from the US in march.

ANDREAS: My name`s Andreas and I`m abusing the microphone.

2.Is it easy or uneasy to be the band of « ex-members of ». I suppose people expect a lot of TRAINWRECK. From my side i am more than happy on what's the band is offering us actually!

FELIX: Thank you! I think it's kind of both. On one hand we are lucky to have some names to drop, that people might already heard of. The kids seem to be interested in what comes from the ashes of those former bands, so we don't have to start on a complete unknown level. On the other hand we could be compared with our old bands all the time, which didn't happen that much so far. I hope we will do the same or even more than we did with our Ex-Bands so there'll hopefully be no need for namedropping all the time. I also think musically we are going in a little different direction with Trainwreck than our former bands did, and we want it that way. So we are trying to create our own new sound, that maybe has some similar influences but drives a different engine.

ANDREAS: I would have to agree with Felix in that it has positive as well as negative aspects, although i don`t mind if people wanna compare Trainwreck with our old bands or if they expect a lot from our new band. Of course i hope that people dig the band but first of all i am doing the band for myself and not to please someones expectations, furthermore we`re excited about our new band and we`re putting 100 percent of ourselves into the band. It`s still the same people (well in a different constellation) that have the same motivation, so not much has changed aside from musical aspects and if the ex-members thing helps people assess what they can expect from us then that`s fine for me.

3.How was the tour with American band BURIAL YEAR? Guess it was a nice first touring experience for the « new » band, even if your old bands have toured several times. Actually i know that band wanna tour as much as possible. Is it easy to combine this with « normal » jobs or studies? How do you do? Do you live up through it?

FELIX: The Tour with BY was incredible amazing! I mean all of us toured already and we know what it feels like being on the road with your stinky fellas, but we also experienced a lot of new stuff. Besides we grew together more within the band, we totally had a good time with those guys from San Francisco. They are wonderful people and kicked our asses every night with their music. It's unbelievable that these guys are still on tour in the USA without a break. For us, we are all studying at the moment, so we find the time for touring between the exams. I don't know how it will work when we have finished but i hope we still have the opportunity. There are jobs where you have 26 days for vacation in a year, and with this kind of jobs nobody is able to keep up a touring punkrock band. I hope no one of us is forced to do a job like this in the future...

ANDREAS: The guys in Burial Year proved to be genuinely nice people, which made touring extra fun and i think we made seven new friends during that tour, plus they even knew how to play kicker, so we had some all night kicker tournaments. Yes we are all still studying at the moment, so we have pretty much time to pull it off. But since three of us are close to finishing university the question of spare time will arise sooner or later. I don`t know what`s happening after i`m through with university and i don`t wanna think about it either, i guess that`s one of the reasons we wanna do as much with the band as we can while we still can...

4.Andreas seems to write very personnal lyrics, but in his way he explain his point of view onto the global economic system for example. Is it a wish of the band to be kind of « political », or is it just Andreas who wanted to write in such way?

FELIX: Me personally, i see myself as a political person as i'm not satisfied with the conditions of today's society. How could i? And so is diy hc punk for me. It is a possibility to express yourself in a free way without being restricted, to be critical, trying to make things different. Although i don't think that it is a way to actually change things in a bigger relevance and there are bands around whose politics i wouldn't support in any way. But it can change things for someone personally, and it does for me. I'm happy that Andy is writing lyrics with a political claim from his personal point of view. I mean he also could write lyrics about "red roses on the day she left him" (which quiete a lot of bands do and that's ok) but for me that would be pointless and not enough...

ANDREAS: Well you can`t help but write about what affects you. When we got Trainwreck started i had to get a lot of personal issues of my chest, so that`s why a lot of the songs on the record are in a more personal vein. I am interested in politics and i do wanna reflect that in the lyrics, but it`s not my aim to make the band out to be some political pedestal. I`d rather have a broad spectrum of topics covering a lot of different issues. I do think that punk should be political, but not everything has to have a political claim. The most important thing for me is that a topic is moving me so that i am able to make an honest, sincere and emotional statement for myself since i am not a fan of drama for drama`s sake cause i think that`s ruining music.
I like to keep things personal and rather abstract because for some people politics can be a turn off and writing from a personal point of view and keeping things rather abstract gives the reader the opportunity for his/her own interpretation. On a different note the song "Goodbye bloodsuckers" wasn`t meant to be a political statement, but from expanding the main-issue of the song - people being insincere and selfish - it just makes sense to see our social environment, shaped by the market economy, as one of the major reasons for this.

5.The song « goodbye bloodsuckers » seems very misanthropic. I sometimes feel a bit like that...but don't you think that the Global Market just wish us to give in, and stop hoping and fighting for something else? On the other way, it's hard to struggle and see all those people saying « pfff we don't care, it serve nothing ». What's your opinion?

FELIX: I would agree with you that what makes the conditions the way they are is not the people in the first place, who reproducing the logic of the political economy. It's the system of the utilization imperative of capital and the domination imperative of the state itself and it is all around so that you're not able to evade it. These circumstances could make up those human qualities Andy is speaking of in the song, or at least putting them in such a successful position. On the other way around the conditions of today's world are made by the human race and there is a major self-imposed immaturity in most of the individuals especially in modern bourgois society which maybe leads to that ignorance and self-righteousness. All in all i think it's an interaction of both the conditions and the people reproducing this state of mind.

ANDREAS: Well I`m kind of ambiguous about this: I do have a lot of hatred for mankind, for its wars, for its destruction of the earth and the extermination of animals in the big frame and the insincerity, self-righteousness and selfishness of people on a small scale. On the other hand i do claim a deeply humanitarian point of view and want to be a good person and trying to better things around myself and my fellow beings, i do not wish to see humanity perish from the face of the earth so to speak. I want to believe in the good of people but everyday experiences - and that`s not just restricted to strangers - just makes it hard for me to trust people and have faith.
Anyway the song was written when i was really disgusted by certain people around me, but of course it`s a harsh generalization and like you said it does drag me down from time to time but still i have hope and wanna see some change, I am by no means a fucking nihilist but rather a naive person that hopes for something better.
Anyway, aside from humans naturally being selfcentered, our surroundings/conditions (read: the capitalist system) are a major factor for producing this mindset like Felix already pointed out. The market is a heartless machine and if it`s not backed up by principles like solidarity or just distribution weak people simply get lost in its gears, adding up to this is the competitive character of the market which generates a survival of the fittest mentality, so i would say our economic system has a negative effect on the mindset of people.

6.The song « au revoir tristesse » is kind of a song glorifying the « diy scene »? What's your relation with DIY? How do you see it? How do you experience it? Is it how the scene should be for you?

FELIX: For me the song isn't a total glorification. It is more a personal feeling which one can get when you're active and self-expressive, a feeling of being alive and taking things in your own hands. Making things the way you personally like to. A get out of you're allday passivity you seem to be forced into. The "scene", whose term i mostly dislike can also be full of shit. I can think of a lot of people, politics and forms of behavior i totally refuse within this "scene". But there are also so many people who putting their hearts and passion in it and i'm happy that i have the chance to meet them in person through the network of diy hc punk. I already got the time of my life through it and don't wanna miss it. But as this scene, this subculture of a subculture i am speaking of, also isn't and cannot be more than just an attempt of doing things better, the things happening outside of it concerning the logic of a system, that is not oriented towards people's needs, but towards the realization of capital, have to be changed.

ANDREAS: "Au revoir tristesse" wasn`t written as a glorification of diy, but like Felix said it`s more a personal reflection on what being creative - in our case making music with your friends, touring and playing concerts - means. It`s sort of an adventure and there`s not enough adventure in everyday live, no challenges in a daily routine of working a job, you just go through the motions and it`s brainnumbing and heartnumbing.
Of course diy is inseparable from what we do, so in a way, aside from being a celebration of feeling alive, it`s also a celebration of diy. The diy ethic to me is one of the major characteristics of punk/ hardcore, through doing things ourselves or together we`re independent from the music industry and it allows everyone to get active, start a band, put out records and go on tour. Sure you can`t reduce punk/ hardcore to just diy and naturally there are people within the scene who might share the diy ethic as a common denominator but are full of shit in other aspects. So i would say diy is a common ground in the scene which we can build upon and base our networks upon and from there on you can find out who is nice and trustworthy and shares the same ideas as we do.

7.You also run by yourself Yskalnari Records, and so you released by yourself your own album. Is it a choice? Self-contro? Or is it because nobody likes you and the band? ;-)

FELIX: To be serious, it was never planned just to release records from our own bands and with Yskalnari we hopefully be able in the future to release records from bands we are not involved in personally. Releasing the 12" of Trainwreck was more a decision because of the lack of time. It took us only 4 months from the first rehearsing to the studio and as fast as we recorded it we wanted it to be released for the tour with Burial Year. And after Eaves were splitting up in november 2005 we wanted to continue as fast as possible with a new band. So we were quiete in a hurry while we didn't thought about looking for another label that maybe would take a lot of time as nobody knew our band at that time. At last it was more a practical decision with that we could be sure to release the 12" in time.

8.What do you think of that new « anticopyright » movement, sometimes called « copyleft ». What the band thinks about copyright? Do you like to know your music is freely shared hand to hand, and by internet worldwide?

FELIX: I think that music and art should be accessible to everyone without the question of money. I'm totally fine with people sharing our music and then maybe coming around when we are touring their hometown. My experience is, that all the vinyl collector nerds wanna have the original record anyway. And as long as we can keep the Trainwreck running financially i don't care about money because i don't wanna make it for a living, i wanna make it for the fun and passion of it.

9.I sometimes like to know how people got into this hardcore scene. What brings you into this, and now what keeps you inside this. I know you're growing old...do you think to give up any day and get a normal life and normal job?

FELIX: Well, i just remember a friend showed me a biohazard cd when i was 14. There were the Dynamo Open Air Festival in '96 where Satanic Surfers, Slapshot and Rykers played on a small stage besides the bigger festival.. I guess that was the beginning.. Growing older for me doesn't mean to throw it all away for a daily job and family, it is a part of my life for a long time now and i don't think that i can miss it one day. The music and shows are still thrilling me, and as long as there are good bands around i think i'll stay interested...

ANDREAS: As with most people the beginning was kind of cheesy, little by little the music i was into just got heavier and at one point i started listening to Sick Of It All and other New York hardcore stuff and it must have been at the beginning of `95 or so when Madball played the Bürgerzentrum in Cologne and i went to see them. Looking back on it it sure was a mindaltering experience, i mean of course Madball sucks and i wouldn`t call them hardcore nowadays but the concert spread an atmosphere of community: It was a rather small club, the band members standing among the audience, talking with kids, kids were singing along during the concert. So there was already that atmosphere of a community and a personal vibe to it all as opposed to rock-stardom. And from there on it all started for me, i just started going to shows on a regular basis and picking up fanzines and records at shows and it just evolved i guess.
Growing older is a weird thing, back when i started going to shows i was always among the youngest kids, nowadays i belong to the older kids and generally it seems that the people that go to shows are rather young kids, so there has to be some point to it that people growing older lose touch with punk/ hardcore. I don`t think it necessarily has to do with working and starting a family cause there are ways to combine that, i don`t think that punk/ hardcore has to be exclusively a youth culture thing. But maybe people growing older grow accustomed to their roles in society and forget about what once made them scream their hearts out. Once your stuck in that daily routine of some stupid nine to five job i guess it`s easy to resignate and just give in...
I don`t know where I`ll be in ten years from now, but right now I`m enjoying all that awkward noise and screaming more than anything else. Punk/ hardcore has occupied my life for such a long time and has influenced me in so many ways that i can`t imagine myself leaving it behind plus there are still bands, old and new, that are exciting and move me...

10.What are the next things scheduled for the band? Album, split, tours, whatever else?

FELIX: Next is another tour at the end of may through UK and France with Cease Upon The Capital from Tennessee. They touring europe for the first time and we joining them for two weeks. By the way check out their new album coming out on React With Protest and Impure Musik! We are planning to do a split record with Burial Year in winter, we'll see. And as these guys are crazy we maybe can do a US-tour with them later in fall next year, in case we get our shit together. But we won't believe that until it really happens i think. Until that i think we will try to play weekend shows as much as possible, and maybe another week of touring in spring next year.

11.OK, already a final line for you...sorry for such short interview, i am very busy actually, but i really wanted to introducde the band to Belgian audiance. All the best and i let you the final word!

FELIX: Thank you for the interview, Julien!

ANDREAS: Thanxxx a lot for your interest in our band!

On the web : http://www.trainwreck.de

Interview par Julien ajoutée le 01-07-2006

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	Lire cette interview en version originale / This interview in french Il était temps pour moi de présenter ce groupe terrible à vous tous. Groupe né sur les cendres de deux groupes que j'ai beaucoup aimé : EAVES et ENGRAVE...Mais avec TRAINWRECK on va encore plus loin dans le plaisir. Fan de hardcore screamo au son puissant, lourd et rapide; ce groupe est pour vous. Je tiens tout de même à dire que j'ai eu un peu de mal à traduire correctement leur interview, de bien rendre leurs idées...donc si vous lisez bien l'anglais je vous conseille de lire la version originale. 1.Hello TRAINWRECK, please introduce yourself, and then introduce the brief history of the band actually. FELIX: Hi! I'm Felix, the drummer of Trainwreck. The Band started rehearsing in october 2005 and released a selftitled 12"/CDep on Yskalnari Records in January 2006. Trainwreck consists of ex-members of Eaves and Engrave, which both split up in the last two years. We still like playing in a band and we are excited about being a part of diy punk. We played a couple of shows at the beginning of the year and luckily were able to do a first tour through europe with Burial Year from the US in march. ANDREAS: My name`s Andreas and I`m abusing the microphone. 2.Is it easy or uneasy to be the band of « ex-members of ». I suppose people expect a lot of TRAINWRECK. From my side i am more than happy on what's the band is offering us actually! FELIX: Thank you! I think it's kind of both. On one hand we are lucky to have some names to drop, that people might already heard of. The kids seem to be interested in what comes from the ashes of those former bands, so we don't have to start on a complete unknown level. On the other hand we could be compared with our old bands all the time, which didn't happen that much so far. I hope we will do the same or even more than we did with our Ex-Bands so there'll hopefully be no need for namedropping all the time. I also think musically we are going in a little different direction with Trainwreck than our former bands did, and we want it that way. So we are trying to create our own new sound, that maybe has some similar influences but drives a different engine. ANDREAS: I would have to agree with Felix in that it has positive as well as negative aspects, although i don`t mind if people wanna compare Trainwreck with our old bands or if they expect a lot from our new band. Of course i hope that people dig the band but first of all i am doing the band for myself and not to please someones expectations, furthermore we`re excited about our new band and we`re putting 100 percent of ourselves into the band. It`s still the same people (well in a different constellation) that have the same motivation, so not much has changed aside from musical aspects and if the ex-members thing helps people assess what they can expect from us then that`s fine for me. 3.How was the tour with American band BURIAL YEAR? Guess it was a nice first touring experience for the « new » band, even if your old bands have toured several times. Actually i know that band wanna tour as much as possible. Is it easy to combine this with « normal » jobs or studies? How do you do? Do you live up through it? FELIX: The Tour with BY was incredible amazing! I mean all of us toured already and we know what it feels like being on the road with your stinky fellas, but we also experienced a lot of new stuff. Besides we grew together more within the band, we totally had a good time with those guys from San Francisco. They are wonderful people and kicked our asses every night with their music. It's unbelievable that these guys are still on tour in the USA without a break. For us, we are all studying at the moment, so we find the time for touring between the exams. I don't know how it will work when we have finished but i hope we still have the opportunity. There are jobs where you have 26 days for vacation in a year, and with this kind of jobs nobody is able to keep up a touring punkrock band. I hope no one of us is forced to do a job like this in the future... ANDREAS: The guys in Burial Year proved to be genuinely nice people, which made touring extra fun and i think we made seven new friends during that tour, plus they even knew how to play kicker, so we had some all night kicker tournaments. Yes we are all still studying at the moment, so we have pretty much time to pull it off. But since three of us are close to finishing university the question of spare time will arise sooner or later. I don`t know what`s happening after i`m through with university and i don`t wanna think about it either, i guess that`s one of the reasons we wanna do as much with the band as we can while we still can... 4.Andreas seems to write very personnal lyrics, but in his way he explain his point of view onto the global economic system for example. Is it a wish of the band to be kind of « political », or is it just Andreas who wanted to write in such way? FELIX: Me personally, i see myself as a political person as i'm not satisfied with the conditions of today's society. How could i? And so is diy hc punk for me. It is a possibility to express yourself in a free way without being restricted, to be critical, trying to make things different. Although i don't think that it is a way to actually change things in a bigger relevance and there are bands around whose politics i wouldn't support in any way. But it can change things for someone personally, and it does for me. I'm happy that Andy is writing lyrics with a political claim from his personal point of view. I mean he also could write lyrics about "red roses on the day she left him" (which quiete a lot of bands do and that's ok) but for me that would be pointless and not enough... ANDREAS: Well you can`t help but write about what affects you. When we got Trainwreck started i had to get a lot of personal issues of my chest, so that`s why a lot of the songs on the record are in a more personal vein. I am interested in politics and i do wanna reflect that in the lyrics, but it`s not my aim to make the band out to be some political pedestal. I`d rather have a broad spectrum of topics covering a lot of different issues. I do think that punk should be political, but not everything has to have a political claim. The most important thing for me is that a topic is moving me so that i am able to make an honest, sincere and emotional statement for myself since i am not a fan of drama for drama`s sake cause i think that`s ruining music. I like to keep things personal and rather abstract because for some people politics can be a turn off and writing from a personal point of view and keeping things rather abstract gives the reader the opportunity for his/her own interpretation. On a different note the song "Goodbye bloodsuckers" wasn`t meant to be a political statement, but from expanding the main-issue of the song - people being insincere and selfish - it just makes sense to see our social environment, shaped by the market economy, as one of the major reasons for this. 5.The song « goodbye bloodsuckers » seems very misanthropic. I sometimes feel a bit like that...but don't you think that the Global Market just wish us to give in, and stop hoping and fighting for something else? On the other way, it's hard to struggle and see all those people saying « pfff we don't care, it serve nothing ». What's your opinion? FELIX: I would agree with you that what makes the conditions the way they are is not the people in the first place, who reproducing the logic of the political economy. It's the system of the utilization imperative of capital and the domination imperative of the state itself and it is all around so that you're not able to evade it. These circumstances could make up those human qualities Andy is speaking of in the song, or at least putting them in such a successful position. On the other way around the conditions of today's world are made by the human race and there is a major self-imposed immaturity in most of the individuals especially in modern bourgois society which maybe leads to that ignorance and self-righteousness. All in all i think it's an interaction of both the conditions and the people reproducing this state of mind. ANDREAS: Well I`m kind of ambiguous about this: I do have a lot of hatred for mankind, for its wars, for its destruction of the earth and the extermination of animals in the big frame and the insincerity, self-righteousness and selfishness of people on a small scale. On the other hand i do claim a deeply humanitarian point of view and want to be a good person and trying to better things around myself and my fellow beings, i do not wish to see humanity perish from the face of the earth so to speak. I want to believe in the good of people but everyday experiences - and that`s not just restricted to strangers - just makes it hard for me to trust people and have faith. Anyway the song was written when i was really disgusted by certain people around me, but of course it`s a harsh generalization and like you said it does drag me down from time to time but still i have hope and wanna see some change, I am by no means a fucking nihilist but rather a naive person that hopes for something better. Anyway, aside from humans naturally being selfcentered, our surroundings/conditions (read: the capitalist system) are a major factor for producing this mindset like Felix already pointed out. The market is a heartless machine and if it`s not backed up by principles like solidarity or just distribution weak people simply get lost in its gears, adding up to this is the competitive character of the market which generates a survival of the fittest mentality, so i would say our economic system has a negative effect on the mindset of people. 6.The song « au revoir tristesse » is kind of a song glorifying the « diy scene »? What's your relation with DIY? How do you see it? How do you experience it? Is it how the scene should be for you? FELIX: For me the song isn't a total glorification. It is more a personal feeling which one can get when you're active and self-expressive, a feeling of being alive and taking things in your own hands. Making things the way you personally like to. A get out of you're allday passivity you seem to be forced into. The "scene", whose term i mostly dislike can also be full of shit. I can think of a lot of people, politics and forms of behavior i totally refuse within this "scene". But there are also so many people who putting their hearts and passion in it and i'm happy that i have the chance to meet them in person through the network of diy hc punk. I already got the time of my life through it and don't wanna miss it. But as this scene, this subculture of a subculture i am speaking of, also isn't and cannot be more than just an attempt of doing things better, the things happening outside of it concerning the logic of a system, that is not oriented towards people's needs, but towards the realization of capital, have to be changed. ANDREAS: "Au revoir tristesse" wasn`t written as a glorification of diy, but like Felix said it`s more a personal reflection on what being creative - in our case making music with your friends, touring and playing concerts - means. It`s sort of an adventure and there`s not enough adventure in everyday live, no challenges in a daily routine of working a job, you just go through the motions and it`s brainnumbing and heartnumbing. Of course diy is inseparable from what we do, so in a way, aside from being a celebration of feeling alive, it`s also a celebration of diy. The diy ethic to me is one of the major characteristics of punk/ hardcore, through doing things ourselves or together we`re independent from the music industry and it allows everyone to get active, start a band, put out records and go on tour. Sure you can`t reduce punk/ hardcore to just diy and naturally there are people within the scene who might share the diy ethic as a common denominator but are full of shit in other aspects. So i would say diy is a common ground in the scene which we can build upon and base our networks upon and from there on you can find out who is nice and trustworthy and shares the same ideas as we do. 7.You also run by yourself Yskalnari Records, and so you released by yourself your own album. Is it a choice? Self-contro? Or is it because nobody likes you and the band? ;-) FELIX: To be serious, it was never planned just to release records from our own bands and with Yskalnari we hopefully be able in the future to release records from bands we are not involved in personally. Releasing the 12" of Trainwreck was more a decision because of the lack of time. It took us only 4 months from the first rehearsing to the studio and as fast as we recorded it we wanted it to be released for the tour with Burial Year. And after Eaves were splitting up in november 2005 we wanted to continue as fast as possible with a new band. So we were quiete in a hurry while we didn't thought about looking for another label that maybe would take a lot of time as nobody knew our band at that time. At last it was more a practical decision with that we could be sure to release the 12" in time. 8.What do you think of that new « anticopyright » movement, sometimes called « copyleft ». What the band thinks about copyright? Do you like to know your music is freely shared hand to hand, and by internet worldwide? FELIX: I think that music and art should be accessible to everyone without the question of money. I'm totally fine with people sharing our music and then maybe coming around when we are touring their hometown. My experience is, that all the vinyl collector nerds wanna have the original record anyway. And as long as we can keep the Trainwreck running financially i don't care about money because i don't wanna make it for a living, i wanna make it for the fun and passion of it. 9.I sometimes like to know how people got into this hardcore scene. What brings you into this, and now what keeps you inside this. I know you're growing old...do you think to give up any day and get a normal life and normal job? FELIX: Well, i just remember a friend showed me a biohazard cd when i was 14. There were the Dynamo Open Air Festival in '96 where Satanic Surfers, Slapshot and Rykers played on a small stage besides the bigger festival.. I guess that was the beginning.. Growing older for me doesn't mean to throw it all away for a daily job and family, it is a part of my life for a long time now and i don't think that i can miss it one day. The music and shows are still thrilling me, and as long as there are good bands around i think i'll stay interested... ANDREAS: As with most people the beginning was kind of cheesy, little by little the music i was into just got heavier and at one point i started listening to Sick Of It All and other New York hardcore stuff and it must have been at the beginning of `95 or so when Madball played the Bürgerzentrum in Cologne and i went to see them. Looking back on it it sure was a mindaltering experience, i mean of course Madball sucks and i wouldn`t call them hardcore nowadays but the concert spread an atmosphere of community: It was a rather small club, the band members standing among the audience, talking with kids, kids were singing along during the concert. So there was already that atmosphere of a community and a personal vibe to it all as opposed to rock-stardom. And from there on it all started for me, i just started going to shows on a regular basis and picking up fanzines and records at shows and it just evolved i guess. Growing older is a weird thing, back when i started going to shows i was always among the youngest kids, nowadays i belong to the older kids and generally it seems that the people that go to shows are rather young kids, so there has to be some point to it that people growing older lose touch with punk/ hardcore. I don`t think it necessarily has to do with working and starting a family cause there are ways to combine that, i don`t think that punk/ hardcore has to be exclusively a youth culture thing. But maybe people growing older grow accustomed to their roles in society and forget about what once made them scream their hearts out. Once your stuck in that daily routine of some stupid nine to five job i guess it`s easy to resignate and just give in... I don`t know where I`ll be in ten years from now, but right now I`m enjoying all that awkward noise and screaming more than anything else. Punk/ hardcore has occupied my life for such a long time and has influenced me in so many ways that i can`t imagine myself leaving it behind plus there are still bands, old and new, that are exciting and move me... 10.What are the next things scheduled for the band? Album, split, tours, whatever else? FELIX: Next is another tour at the end of may through UK and France with Cease Upon The Capital from Tennessee. They touring europe for the first time and we joining them for two weeks. By the way check out their new album coming out on React With Protest and Impure Musik! We are planning to do a split record with Burial Year in winter, we'll see. And as these guys are crazy we maybe can do a US-tour with them later in fall next year, in case we get our shit together. But we won't believe that until it really happens i think. Until that i think we will try to play weekend shows as much as possible, and maybe another week of touring in spring next year. 11.OK, already a final line for you...sorry for such short interview, i am very busy actually, but i really wanted to introducde the band to Belgian audiance. All the best and i let you the final word! FELIX: Thank you for the interview, Julien! ANDREAS: Thanxxx a lot for your interest in our band! On the web : http://www.trainwreck.de Interview par Julien ajoutée le 01-07-2006 Voir la fiche de TRAINWRECK
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