Smash it up!CrashedOutInterview

Sunday 1st June 2008

CrashedOutInterview

crashed out

  1. Hi, how are you?

    fine just tired from a weekend of playing gigs and tattooing at a motorcycle stunt show, we supported the levellers on friday night tattooed all day at the bike show saturday, saturday night played with Dead Kennedys tattooed all day sunday at bike show a non stop weekend but real fun.


  2. How would you personally describe the band?

    3. street rock n roll! we are punk rock but probably have a more rock soundthan most punk bands out there so i call it street rock n roll,


  3. How’d you come up with the name?

    4. the name came from the exploited song, Lee (guitar) started the band whenonly 15 and learnt to play listening to exploited and crashed out was oneof the first songs he learnt so called the band after that.


  4. If you were stranded on a desert island (and somehow had a music player available) what is the one album you'd want with you?

    5. hmmmmm now if you asked me that on a different day the answer would probably be different every day. but if it happened today it would be metallica the black album. yesterday it would have definitly been rancid i was having a rancid day yesterday see what i mean!!!


  5. How has the punk scene changed since you first started? Is it better/worse or just the same?

    6. Better i reckon bigger crowds at shows more young uns coming to gigs moredecent bands its just healthy at the moment not too sure why but i aint complaining. dont see much fighting at gigs either which is good maybe thats why its growing its not getting the bad press it once did


  6. Whats your favourite song to play live/favourite place to play live?

    7. i personally love 'what do you know' i still get the hairs on the back ofmy neck standing upright when singing that song. the words are very strong and fucking true.


  7. Tell the readers five facts about the band / band members they will not already know.

    • Chris n lee are brothers, both work as tattoo artists in viking tattoostudio in jarrow which chris opened in 1995,
    • chris n lee both wereboxers. chris boxed 3 times on the henry coopers golden belt tv series andboxed at wembly for the ABA finals.
    • the band were told to leave the stage by gun wielding cops in sanfransisco apparently we were too noisy and the gig got shut down LOL
    • Chris used to sing for Angelic Upstarts playing tours in Italy Germanyand the UK (the gigs were great by the way) he stood in for Mensi when hehad personal problems Lee also played guitar for Upstarts for a while
    • Olga (toy Dolls)played a solo guitar piece on the song' freak show' onthe Pearls Before Swine album


    • You're prime minister for a day...what do you do?

      • bring back hanging for convicted child molesters rapists


    • Do fat punks really not pogo and what kind of structural damage do you think a fat pogoing punk could do?

      • well yes most dont or cant! but on some occasions and when the beer is flowing some of these big boned critters give it a go. i have witnessed it first hand once a really round short one pogoed so hard at a gig weplayed without a stage, that he bounced into our drum kit and got the highhat stand impaled up his arse LOL very funny indeed but not for him i dont think he'll try that again LOL


    • Plans, gigs and releases for the rest of 2008?

      • Still playing great live shows kicking ass working on new material for new album.


    • Any extra comments?

      • cheers Liz for the interest and in the words of the great stan laurel 'you can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be lead' wise words X