Interview with:
 
 
Meet the Novi Sad's greatest rock attraction...GARAGE FUCKIN' 
 
 
 
•  Should young bands become kidnappers of radio DJs? How to abduct a DJ?

So you heard about our little scam many years ago then! Okay it was a cheap shot but it did get us some national airplay so why not? Yeah, the world would be a better place if every young punk band went out and abducted at least one radio DJ each - in fact why stop there? Why not go for a few TV presenters as well and perhaps a few weather girls! Although for best results I suggest the Head of Broadcasting at your national TV station should be your target - abduct him (and maybe his wife) tie him to a chair until he can repeat, "PUNK'S NOT DEAD!! (It's just not very well at the moment but it's going to get better soon!)"
•  What is a worst thing that can happen to a band on the roads of Poland and Germany?

Leaving aside things like your wife or girlfriend turning up unexpectedly or your mum coming to a gig this is probably the worst thing that can happen - imagine that it's snowing and it's minus 8c outside, you've played 14 shows and have another 6 to play, you're on a German autobahn and the van is rattling like a box of nails because the Polish roads were full of holes and everything is coming apart. Then one of the front wheels comes away from the steering and you just about make it to the side of the road while your driver is laughing like a complete madman. You wait for roadside assistance for 4 hours and the van cannot be fixed - the driver of the tow truck speaks no English (and very little German) and takes you and the van to a village in the middle of nowhere and the garage is closed for two days ( you have a gig that night more than 400   kilometers   away ).  And...the village DON’T HAVE A BAR!!! Dying in a horrible crash on the autobahn would have been preferable!
 
•  Since you are all serious middle-aged men, are you married and do you have kids?
Oi! Who are calling serious!? We've never been serious in our lives! Anyway you don't get this good by being a teenager. Steve and I are married but rock'n'roll is our mistress!  Steve and I have got kids - why do think we want to tour all the time! But time has been good to us and we all have the bodies of 20 year old athletes.
 
•  Wherever I look (in zines and indie-mags) and find something about GG, there is a regular quote: "very underestimated and great band...". Do YOU think that you are too unknown and unpopular?

Yes! How do we get famous please? Seriously, I don't think we are underestimated and probably not unpopular with anyone that has seen us live. On record we don't always put it across with the same power but people that do get to see us live seem to like the band. Trouble is, we are not one of the original punk bands but we sound like one - most punk or Oi! bands formed in the eighties have a more... err.. musical violence to their sound.  We're unknown 'cause we've never known the right people to get the high profile gigs.
 
•  Which Football club you support? Are you die-hard football fans?
Don't really support anyone these days. What's the point when almost every player in your local team is from another country. Phil and I used to play a lot - Phil used to play centre back at quite a high level and not many forwards got past him unless they were as fast as me!
 
•  What are you doing beside the band?

We've all got day jobs working in offices - don't forget were old and serious.

•  Do you hang out with some respectable punk/oi! Londoners?

Who exactly are you thinking of?! The pearly punks of awld London town? You see many of the same faces at gigs in London but there no places that are really punk friendly - for that you need other parts of the UK but not London.
 
•  Top 5 punk songs (or singles,LPs..)

I'm Stranded - The Saints
Brickfield Nights - The Boys
Know Your Product - The Saints
Somebody Put Something In My Drink - Ramones
One Hundred Punks - Generation X
 
 •  Favorite brand of beer and why (must find a good explanation!)

Wadworth's 6X because it's like the early morning dew on the forest floor on the first day of spring, with an effervescence that babbles like the brook that weaves it's way down from the mountains of very heaven itself  - and it doesn't make you fart either.
•  To be honest I think you could pick up some better name for the band (it sounds like some blues pub attraction to me),Why did you pick up this one? Would you ever change it?
Well thank you!! The name was kindly given to us by Mark Brennan for our first release on "Underground Rockers Vol 1". We were too slow to come up with an alternative and the record sleeve was printed and we've grown into it. No I don't think we would change it now because that would make us even more unknown, unpopular, underestimated and generally unloved. But what would YOU call the band? Your top five suggestions please!
 
•  What was the biggest embarrassment in your life?
Putting a condom on inside out while the intended recipient watched.

•  Wise words for scabby readers...
Always leave the lights on when putting on a condom! Never eat a sausage with a vein, don't judge a band by their name or hairdo and keep off Polish roads.

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