söndag 30 september 2018

Sned (Flat Earth Records) interview from 1997

 1.      WHY DID SUFFER SPLIT UP? DO YOU HAVE ANY NEW PROJECT?
After we went and toured in the U.S I Canada in the summer of '96 we just sort of stopped, nothing was really said, it was always a strain to keep the band together along with our other activities - just wasn' enough time In the day. Alec quit the HC thing and has been really full on with his studies and aikido and is soon to become a father - whicl1 I guess is a fairly serious project! Chris got a free transfer to DOOM and they're going to Japan so he's happy. I do the label and all the mail and I'm not going to Japan! after about 18 months
break I'm now playing drums in JOHN HOLMES which is with people from MANFAT and HARD TO SWALLOW and is a lot of fun.

2. DID SUFFER FORM DIRECTLY AFTER HEALTHHAZARD SPLIT UP OR WAS IT ANY PERIOD BETWEEN? DO YOU STILL HAVE ANY CONTACT WITH MANDY?                                 _                                 -
Mandy carne to practice one day and was really upset and apologetic but just didn' want to do it anymore, we could never find a suitable replacement so we went on as a 3 piece. With Mandy we did one final gig and recording - we had a tour arranged in Spain which we went and did as industry, which affects and pisses us off every single day of our lives. It's been .funny reading reactions in punk I hc zlnes, almost like people are offended that we bring these ugly facts up... Yes we toured in a van - so shoot us.

3. 1HEARDTHATYOUHADDONESOMESONGSONACOMPEP ABOUT FOOTBALL. CAN YOU TELL US HOW YOU GOT IN- VOLVED WITH THAT AND WHY JUST THE FOOTBALL - SUB-
JECT?
Jase (Caught Offside Recs) asked us for a track and we obliged. Ask HlM why he did a record about fottball, I don´t know. (VOORHEES provided a particularly stupid (even for them) track celebrating the deaths of the 1958 Munich air disaster, other tracks were terrace chants by HC bands..), our track was about table football - of which Chris is the 1 in 12 champion, and our team is the 1 in 12 AFC, who we can go and see for free - DIY football! I used to go and s~e Newcastle when I was a kid and it was affordable - try getting a fuckin' ticket now! No chance. Fuck this - I don' want to talk about football.

4. I READINABSURD#4,ABOUT THE 1 in 12 FOOTBALL TEAM, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS QUITE STRANGE. IN HOW MANY LEVELSDOES1IN12COLLECTIVEWORKEXCEPTONDOING GIGSETC?
Damn _ more football! There are a lot of different sides to involvement with the 1 in 12, like - some folk are mainly into for the football, so ya won´t really see ém at the gigs and vice versa. There are people putting out rave parties wich is a seperate entility too – what I´m saying is that the place is used by many different people for a wide range of interestet, but all adhering to basic range of resepct, liberty, equality and solicarity. So there are footballers, punkers, ravers, food groowers, quiz teamers, game laeguers, these things overlap and are mutally supportive and when it´s working it´s great! I´d suggest any net nerds might to check out the website.


5. BOTH SUFFER AND HEALTH HAZARD HAS ANTICARSONGS. DOES THAT MEAN THAT YOU THINK THAT YOU SEE CARINDUSTRY AS MUCH AS BIG PROBLEMS AS OTHER?TOPICS YOU SING ABOUT LIKE NAZISM AND SLAVERY E.T.C ?
.Hitler had  a slgned  photo ofHenry Ford on his desk and regarded him as ”my.inspiration” ,what does that say to you ? I d suggest you print some of the stuff from the record sleeves along with this interview. Capitalism is destroying this planet and all of these issues are manifestation of that fact, we felt it was about time we had a pop at the auto industry, wich affects and pisses us off every single day of our lives. It´s funny reading reactions in punk/hc zines, almost like people are offended that we bring these ugly facts up--- Yes we toured in a van – so shoot us.

6.WHAT DOYOUTHINKABOUT LORENZO/MINSTRELAS HE RIPPEDYOUOFFANDMANYOTHERBAND?
I thought the guy was pretty weird in the way he did things, like he sent me a load of crappy records to distribute that I hadn' asked for - but, I mean, quite a few people do that! We never met him or anything which is a shame because we might have had more of an idea of what he was about, however I've got to say that he did NOT rip us off! We've had so many hundreds of copies of that EP that I've lost count, and there are 700 more copies on their way to us - and we don' really want them, I guess we're going to be giving away HEALTH HAZARD 7"s away with orders soon! From a mutual friend - Macafio, i learned that Lorenzo isn' t doing -- the label anymore. Maybe he has ripped other bands off, but not HEALTH HAZARD.

7.WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG TIME FOR THE  SONGSTHAT ARE RELEASED ON THE SPLlT WITH SAWNOFF TO COME OUT? AND WHAT IS IT FOR KIND  OF DISCO-BAND THAT ARE PLAYING IN THE BEGINNING OF THE RECORD?
It was originally a split with HOMOMILITIA on Scream recs of Poland, Pawel had aske dus and we were well into it, we did´nt want to send our only DAT tape and it took us a while to find a place to make a copy, we send the DAT and artwork, next we know scream put out the HOMOMILITIA/DISCLOSE split, so we felt a bit pissed off – HOMOMILITIA said they´d record again and still do the split HH, but this never happened.. We eventually got tired of waiting and released it ourselves with the raging sawn off who are good friends, what really pissed me off is that I wrote to Pawel numerous times to try and get our DAT/artwork back – with no response, so we had to do the cover again etc,,, I prefer our stuff on our own label – so we know what´s fucking going on! The ”Disco Band” was just us fooling around, I especially love alec´s sexy BARRY WHITE vocals, I think we took longer to do that than the other 4 songs.

8. IT SEEMS LIKE THE MOST (WELLKNOWN) CRUSTBAND IN ENGLAND RIGHT NOW HAVE CONNECTION WITH DOOM/HAD PLAYED IN DOOM, OR ELSE PLAYING IN A BAND WITH DOOM MEMBERS. WHY HAS THE BRITISH SCENE BEEN SO INBREEDED?
From here it really seem like that at all, there are plenty of things going on unrelated to DOOM! As for inbreeding – it´s friends getting together and expressing themselves through making music/noise, like – Bri (from DOOM) has allways been in a few bands at once, as they appeal to different sides of his tastes. Another reason is that are there are not so many people doing this sort of thing, a lot of the bands I know have members living in 2 or 3 different parts of the country and that be a real strain on getting things done.

9. SPEAKING OF THE BRITISH SCENE. IS IT STILL MORE LIKE MANY SMALL SCENE RATHER THAN A BIG NATIONAL SCENE?
There loads of different scenes that could lossely roped together under the umbrella of punk/hc, I have friends all over the country through this thing, and I´ve been able to arange cool DIY tours for DROPDEAD, CRODOS and STATE OF FEAR – I´ve allways made a point of getting to Scotland and Ireland as a lot of bands don´t make that little extra effort and are content to play to southenes! I see all these little scenes locally and just wish that people could make more conections and co-operarion instead of all this fucking post morden irony and cyniscism wich really wears me down. Once you can recognise and deal with the fact that people are allawys going to differ, and working on a common ground is a lot more use than the endless backstabbing and bickering then you´re onto something! Celebrate our differences – they are our strengths” – SUFFER.

10. I READIN AVERSION SOMETHING ABOUT THE ”MAYDAY” THING. WHAT EXACTLY IS IT ABOUT, AND WHAT IS HAPPENING IN BRADFORD THE FIRST MAY THIS YEAR?
(To quote from the leaflet) ”In May 1886, Chicage was the scene off bitter strike demonstrations against poor working conditions. During a peaceful meeting in Haymarket Square, the polce charges the crowd and a bomb exploded. During the repression that followed four anarchists were executed and others imprisoned for many years. All were later found innocent.
Since there events, May 1st became an international day of working class solidarity, based on the principles ofLiberty, Equality and Solidarity. Each yar, millions of people around the world gather to march, talk and celebrate their strenghts. In the UK, May day been shuffled to the nearest Monday, almost forgotten. In Bradford May Day has been reclaimed as the one day of the year we can truly call our own”.

11. WHAT DOES MEAN?
”Health Hazard” in Japanese.

12. MOTÖRHEAD?
Who dose´nt love them?

13. ANY NEW RELEASES FROM FLAT EARTH? ARE COOPERATION WITH CRUST REC/DROP DEAD STILL GOOD?
There are loads of things on the way, as I write this the last things out were the HEADACHE LP and a collaboration on PEACE OF MINDS LP. I don´t like to avertise stuff til it´s actually out as things have a habit of getting delayed – like the HEADACHE LP artwork took over a year to be completed… (that´s nothing to OI POLLOI!!), stuff fairly sure of include – 2nd SUFFER EP, DOOM/CRESS 10”, SOLANKI 10”….
Ben (DROP DEAD/Crust recs) is cutting down the label and playing to tour again – and it will be great to see our friends! No news on new DROP DEAD stuff but I´m pretty sure I´d help ém out again.

14, .., AND WHAT ABOUT THE OI POLLOI ”CARSON” 7”? HAS IT BEEN RELEASED YET?
Has it fuck - it was recorded almost 3 years ago, I´ve had the Dat for about 18 months – we´re just waiting for the artwork! I´ve give up asking but was informed recently they made a start on it! Don´t hold your breath.

15. MANY OF YOUR LYRICS ARE ABOUT DIRECT ACTION AND SOMETIMES EVEN (VIOLENT) REVOLUTION. ARE YOU INVOLDED IN ANY DIRECT ACTIONS BY YOURSELF, AND DO YOU THINK IT´S TIME FOR A REVOLUTION RIGHT NOW?
I eat, sleep and shit: bands, label, records, and trying to stay sane, I never seem to find time to do anything usefull ther than what people may get from writing/music, so shot me! Revolutiob will not occur overnight – right now seem the perfect time to start! Your daily actions, the way you live your life and so on . these are part of revolution, one must free one self, and the more people who fucked we are and what to do about it the better, sometimes you feel like you´re banging your head in abrick wall but somewhere inside there is smething that keeps you going, believing we can past this shit.

16. HAVE THERE BEEN ANY DIFFERENCES SINCE TONY BLAIR IS IN POWER, OR IS HE JUST KILLING THE SOCIALISM, WHEN MAKING THE LABOUR PARTY MORE RIGHT WING?
I´ve noticed no signifant changes in the balance of power, New Labour pretends to be trendy inviting rock stars etc to Downing ST but the system still in favour of the rich and powerful, and fuck the rest of you! There are millions of disenfranchinised people in this country – well are of the superfacitility of it all, like the difference of Pepsi and Coke. ”Must´nt grubble” is a Great British saying.

17. YOU SEEM TO HAVE A GOOD EYE WHAT´S HAPPENING IN CHIAPAS, MEXICO. DO YOU GOT ANY NEWS OF WHAT´S HAPPENING THERE RIGHT NOW?
Since the massacre of 45 people from a group sympatethic to the Zapatsistas called ”Las Abejas” (the Bees), mostly women and children in December by goverment supporte gunmen (while local police did nthing to intervene) the tensions have esculated, and the Mexican Army continued to move the people of Chiapas. For as the latest information (if you have a computer that is) you should check out the A-Infos News service. To subscribe via email write to MAYORDOMO@TAO.CA with the message SUBSCRIBE A-INFOS in the header.

18. WHAT IS THE MAIN ADVANTAGE/DISADVANTAGE BY RELEASING YOUR RECORDS BY YOURSLEF, THAN LETTING OTHER PEOPLE DO IT?
We have the absolute control over the pressing/cover and every aspect to do with it, it´s just central part of me – on the occation when we´ve let other people relaease our band there has been some sort of problem or missunderstanding. I´m in a positiob now where I can afford our shit ourselves without any great delays, so I´m more than happy to do that – the buzz is still there,  after all the shitwork and holdups, when it all comes together, and you released a record that you pleased with and proud of, having said all the HEALTH HAZARD/SUFFER  Discography CD is comming out through Prank recs (U.S.), it´ll be going through shops – this we don´t usaly do as the prices get hiked up somewhat, in this instance though I think it work out cheaper and more accessible for people in the U.S. and Japan, as the £ is so strong and vinyl is heavy and expensive to post… I like to collaborate with others of like mind.

19. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT AIDS AND HIV IS SOMETHING THAT IS MADE UP BY THE U.S. GOVERMENT TO CONTROL OVER PEOPLES SEXUALITY?
It´s possible.

20. WHAT IS ”RESPECT FOR ANIMALS” KIND OF ORGANISATION? WHY DID THEY THINK THAT ”UP IN SMOKE” AND ”KILL EM ALL” WERE TOO CONTROVERSIAL TO BE LINKED WITH THEIR ORGANISATION?
It´s cuddy single issue animal rights group, who felt it unwise to be linked with a bunch of extremists like HEALTH HAZARD! We might put off the landlord police store detective pol tax collector royalist type of animal lover from their cause… it was a noble enough intention on Lorenzo´s part – waiting to include animal rights flyers with our record, and I don´t want to slag off ”Respect…”, it´s just that they had put our name behind a more approciate group – like ALF supporters group, hunt Saboteurs or Anarchist Black Cross or whatever

21, YOU SAID IN PROFANE EXISTENCE #29/30 THAT MANY PEOPLE IN 1 IN 12 GROUP ARE GROWING THEIR OWN FOOD. ARE DOOING THAT TOO?
I don´t know I said MANY people! Just like, a dozen people are involved inthe peassent collective, they have 3 allotment together. I was using it as an example of what people are doing to take back control of their lives, at the meetings there are sometimes vegatables for sale, the money goes back to the collective – also there are large commnual meals at harvest time, people eating together as well as drinking together, I don´t grow my own food – but I´m willing trade for records! (and have done) Barter system lives on.

22. IN THE SAME INTERVIEW YOU SAID THAT A SUFFER LP SHOULD BE RELAESED SOON. THE INTERVIEW MUST BE OVER A YEAR OLD, BUT HAVE´NT SEEN IT YET. WHEN WILL IT BE POSSIBLE TO BUY IT?
There is no SUFFER LP, we ceased to exist right after that tour where the interview was done (summer 96) we recordes a demo on 8 track in April 96, but it was only last week when we finally got to mix it /needed to find the right machines etc) and that´ll be out pretty soon as a 7” and also a split 7” with URKO, then it´s all over. I´m glad we were able to get these songs out at last as I really like them. Maybe SUFFER is more suited to 7” blast than a full LP´s worth too.

23. ONE THE ONE BY ONE 7” ”TRAPPED ON A FASCIST PLANET2 IT SAID SOMETHING THAT SOME PEOPLE UCKED UP, BECAUSE YOU REFUSED TO PLAY WHEN 2 NAZIS CAME INTO A CLUB YOU PLAYE. DO THINK THAT PUNX IN GENERAL ARE TO LIBERAL AGAINST NAZI SCUMS?
We don´t play to/for nazis – plain and simple. It´s fucking annoying when the people thee just did´nt get where we coming from, it could have turned ugly but I just could´nt live with myself if we hadn´t made this point clear, this all thies with the fact that there are some (so called) ”punx” in Newcastle who are friends and hang out with nazis. Alec was nearly stabbed in confrontation with one of them. It´s no game, and you do not have privilege of sitting on the fence!

24. I ALSO READ IN RIOT #8 THAT HEALTH HAZARD PLAYED IN A BIKE CLUB AND THAT CAME TO YOU AFTERWARD AND ASKED IF YOU PLAYED THE SAME SONG FOR 20 MINUTES. WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT?
It was about us taking our fast short songs – wich DID mostly soundthe same this time, and played the to people who had never heard of before! It´s fun to turn people´s heads, to let people like it before! It´s fun to turn people heads, to let people who that there are horrible, angry bands out that give a shit.

25. ANY LAST COMMENTS?
Thank you for the interview . I´m pretty busy so it may comes out a bit rushed . gotta get on,… all answers by me (sned)

.bye.




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