Maggots 1998 Why I love garagerock As a young boy in the early 70’s me and my friends mostly listened to Sweet and Kiss. Other groups  of interest was Slade , Nazareth and Uriah Heep but music was not my main interest – I wanted to be  a cartoonist. All that changed during summer of 1980 when my parents sent me England on a language travel  course in Bude, Cornwall. There I got in touch with the embryonic mod- and skinhead culture and I  discovered SKA-music. Back home in Stockholm me and some other friends directly became mods  and soon realized that maybe SKA wasn’t the real deal as it was mostly favoured by our arch  enemies, the skinheads. Stomachmouths. In Orbit session 1987 So from there we instead turned to The Jam , The Chords , Purple Hearts etc and from there back to  the 60’s with groups such as The Who , Small Faces , Kinks and so on. For me my mod days ended in  1982 because I was fed up with the narrow minded scene and also had found other kind of musical  influc

Il existe des groupes mythiques dans la scène rock, les Nomads , les Dictators ainsi que beaucoup d'autres. Les Fuzztones y ont une place à part... Leur chanteur Rudi Protrudi nous l'a expliqué ! Let's talk about your work as a drawer. You've created the record or cassette covers for Garage Sale / Sixties Rebellion / Best Of Pebbles for example. Can you tell us which artists inspire you or have inspired you? As well as most of The Fuzztones and Jaymen covers. My main inspiration was the artists who illustrated the EC horror comics of the 50s, as well as Ed “Big Daddy Roth” and his creations, such as Rat Fink and various monsters driving customised hot rods. Did you learn to draw by yourself and what is your way of working on drawings ? For example, did the drawing of the first LP take you a long time to do? My parents were both artists. My mom put a pencil in my hand when I was two years old, and I’ve been drawing ever si

What is a Monster interview? Unlike the lengthy interviews we sometimes offer, it's limited to a few questions. From week to week, you'll find different recurring themes. It's up to you to choose your favorite questions, or to read the whole thing. Have fun with Nicole of THE DARTS ! Taste question: Which artists have influenced you the most, and what can you tell us exemples about this influence? Who is the artist you dislike and why will he/she never influence you? Nicole: The Darts are influenced the most by Thee Trashwomen , for their primitive, trashy girl-gang sound, but also by classic garage like The Animals , for the vocal melodies and organ vibe, Nick Cave , for the ballads we have, and The Cramps , for the guitar riffs and tones and the overall style on stage. I can't say that we violently dislike anything, in fact I have very wide and differing musical tastes in this band, but modern power pop and modern country music are definitely very very low on our tas

I got to know Gabor Nemeth through a web page dedicated to Bauhaus. At the time, I was looking for their TV appearances in good quality. At one point, it was planned to release them all on DVD. But, as is often the case in the music industry, this project fell through. So, as usual, enthusiasts helped each other out, and with his help I was able to get them. Since then, to my great pleasure, we've kept in touch. He was kind enough to share his passion with us. How did you discover BAUHAUS? I got a copied tape from a friend, it was just labeled as Bauhaus - Burning from the inside (but actually it also had The Sky's Gone Out on side A) and he told me it was sort of art rock music, although he had no idea about the art school roots of the band. Incidentally he also became an art school student later. I remember I described them to another friend as 'avantgarde'...I still like to think of their music that way rather then goth. And you know, Perry Farrell described David

FRUIT TONES have released their second studio album, PINK WAFER FACTORY, in november last year. Tom Harrison (guitar and vocals) answers our questions.  First of all, how did you come to Rock music ? What was the first time you enjoyed music and which band was it ?  The first music I ever bought was Pulp’s Common People single on cassette, I got into more rocking stuff through listening to my parents music collection, my Dad had a Sex Pistols CD that was probably my introduction to punk and my Uncle gave me his old records which had a lot of Velvet Underground, Beatles , Stones kind of stuff. An old man at a cafe I worked in on weekends saw me wearing a Rolling Stones t-shirt and gave me a load of the old blues stuff that influenced the Stones too so I started exploring all the roots of that sound as well. How old were you when you first played an instrument ? My Grandad had a piano/organ that I used to mess about on as a kid and I remember a small toy guitar as well but I couldn’