Sunday, February 21, 2010

desde faro, portugal sxe: PRESSURE


buenas!
para los que aun les importa el hc, les dejo una entrevista realizada a esta genial banda hc sxe, que sigue con el espíritu youth crew de la ciudad Faro en portugal... PRESSURE

NAME AND BAND POSITION?
Hey there! Name is Diogo I’m the singer. The other guys are Rafael playing drums, Valter on bass, João and David on guitars.

LETS TALK ABOUT YOUR INFLUENCES. CAPPO STYLE.. TRYING TO SAVE THE WORLD WITH THE POSITIVE OUTLOOK THINKING, OR IAN MACKAYE STYLE, TRYING TO BE MORE INTROSPECTIVE AND DIY. WHAT DO YOU THINK PRESSURE HAS TO OFFER TO THE HC SCENE TODAY?
I don’t know, I certainly can relate with both styles, being positive and still introspective. And I totally relate with DIY thinking, specially on small bands, where we can still easily do most of the things ourselves. From promotion, to booking our shows, and having control over basically everything that goes on with the band. I don’t think I’d want to be in a band with contracts and people telling me what to do… I do this for fun, and I have a great time when I’m writing songs, recording the songs, working on the layout, playing shows. doing merch and all that comes with being in a band. If I had someone pushing me to play more shows, put out new records on a specific schedule this would stop being fun, it would turn into a job… That’s why we choose this name pressure – cause we’re sick and tired of all the pressure we feel out there. We want this band to work as our relax time, our own therapy. I don’t relate with the “saving the world part” I’m here to save myself and if I can inspire someone along the way with my example – great, and if I don’t, that’s fine too.



WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE FOOD? VEG OR NOT VEG?
Well I’m the only one in the band not vegetarian, so my favorite food right now would probably be something Indian, chicken with those spicy sauces, they have great vegetarian dishes with potatoes and spinach too. Or Mexican burrito’s and stuff.. I love eating and trying different food!

WHAT DO YOU LIKE THE MOST, INSTED OR CHAIN OF STRENGTH?
Chain of strength absolutely. One of the most intense bands ever, every song seems the most urgent thing in the world!

WHAT HAPPENED WITH FARO SXE? IS IT STILL COOL, I REMEMBER POINTING FINGER TIMES WERE REALLY SXE POSI AND COOL..
Straight Edge has never been big in Faro. The first sxe band was Pointing Finger started in 1999! And people from Faro didn’t use to like us, that’s why we were always playing in Lisbon or doing Eropean tours. There was a band called Get Lost after that and Broken Distance but always the same members you know?
Actually this new band Pressure has the four guys who used to be in Pointing Finger (me, David João and Rafael) so it’s a new band but when we’re playing live it’s like nothing changed from the Pointing Finger days. Faro is a small town (about 50,000 people) so it’s hard to find enough people into this kind of music, and the ones who like the music don’t know how to play instruments, and the few who know how to play music don’t commit to sacrificing their time to be in a band.. that’s why me and Rafael when we started this band ended up inviting our old friends, cause we didn’t have any other valid options. The other guys play in this amazing band called Broken Distance.


AND, WHAT HAPPEND WITH POINTING FINGER?
Pointing Finger was around for 8 years… we started it when I was 16, it ended when I was 24 years old. We did 5 full European tours, released 2 demo’s, 4 7”s and one full length.. we had labels releasing our music all over the world but we didn’t manage to tour South America, Usa or Asia cause we were all students and were always broke .. so after releasing our full length we got to a point where it seemed like we’ve reached everything that we’ve aimed as reasonable. That’s why we called it quits. We did one last tour and played our last show here in Faro. I experienced a lot of things thanks to that band, I learned a lot, met a lot of different and interesting people, visited about 15 European countries and it helped me grow a lot too.

HOW OFTEN DO YOU PLAY SHOWS?
About once every 3 weeks or so.. it’s hard to find free time and we don’t want to play every week in our area.. We have a small tour planned for November through Europe with Broken Distance though.




I THINK, YOU ARE THE GUYS THAT BOOK THE SHOWS TOO? JEJEJE IS THE SAME HERE IN GUATEMALA.. WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT GUATEMALA HC...
I don’t know much man, I know a few bands like XSangre JovenX, Venganza, Fuerza X and xEterna Conviccionx… and now I know I’d like to go there one day, like a México/Guatemala surf trip or something

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE HC BAND RIGHT NOW? WHAT IS YOU FAV HC BAND IN EUROPE RIGHT NOW AND OLD TIME HC...
Right now it’s probably Gone But Not Forgotten from Seattle. In Europe Broken Distance, and from the old school Gorilla Biscuits. More recent but still gone: In My Eyes and Carry On!

what do you do for living?
Diogo - I’m a lawyer, Rafael works in a resort, David in a pharmacy, João in the airport and Valter studies management. Working class oi!

Do you have any sxe or hc tattoos related?
Diogo - I don’t, I’m not into tattoos.. João and Valter have stuff in their legs like youth of today’s fists and judge’s hammers.. stuff like that, Rafael has straight edge written on his back.. I guess we all should do whatever we want with our bodies, and there are a lot of tattoos that looks great, but seeing kids getting into hardcore and doing two full sleeves and chest pieces in a matter of months makes me wonder… I mean I knpw people who tattooed VEGAN STRAIGHT EDGE on their backs and by the time the finished the tattoo they weren’t vegan nor straightedge anymore.

What do you think about hc and sxe have done for you in your personal life? school, work, etc
Diogo - It has taught me a lot!
It has helped me grow and thanks to hardcore and straight edge I think I’ve been living a much richer life, in the sense that I’ve experienced more things than I would if I had never been in contact with this sub culture. Specially the “do it yourself” ethics, have made me improve and learn about a lot of things, like music, editing, writing, recording, distributing, you know?
A band is almost like a small business, there’s a lot of stuff to take care and manage besides playing and writing music.
And at a small level we need to do eveything ourselves, most times as a team.
As I started working I realized how hardcore has shaped me into someone ready for the real world! There’s a lot of things you can’t learn from books. Thanks to hardcore I’m ready to talk in public, I’m not stage frighten like most people are, I can go to court and speak to the judge’s face without blinking ‘cause these past 10 years I’ve been singing in a band and facing a crowd of people who are looking at me and judging what I do and how I act.
Hardcore has taught me hard work, preseverance, honesty, opened my eyes to other countries and cultures.. It’s hard to imagine my life without this whole thing.


Thanks for this interview, you can reach us at myspace.com/xpressurehcx

xxx




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Saturday, February 13, 2010

quien necesita emo cuando tenes turning point...



Why must it be this way?
The trust we built has faded grey
When will this all be gone
You left me all alone, you left me holding on
today passed so long ago
you left me bruised and broken
I had no chance to grow
I never thought it would come to this
But there's so much more bad than the good times I’ll miss
I'm not sorry it turned out this way
because the only way you acted only left me saying "life goes on"
it means nothing now
because it worked out once but I’m wondering how
and how can you lie when you know it's true
I'll never forget what you broke in two
a lifeline worn from the love we shared
but trying to hold didn't have a prayer
and it crushes down, it crushes down on me
what you offered wasn't love just misery
I look around my room and I think of you
and I hope you never know what you put me through
all those letters you wrote, those words burn in my head
lies written in stone
don't you remember what we said?

Saturday, February 6, 2010

REMISSION chile hc

les dejo parte de la entrevista que estamos realizando con esta increible banda de chile hc...



BOT xq el cambio de rtbs a remission, obvio q cambio el estilo musical, se mantiene la idea, la cultura, las influencias

REMISSION: No es que haya cambiado Remains... si no que la banda murió el día que el guitarrista y co-fundador no quiso seguir tocando para concentrarse en su otra banda, Approach. Daniel y yo amamos la música y todo lo que comprende estar involucrado en la escena hardcore por lo tanto formamos Remission con dos amigos mas. Al principio la música era mas rápida pero eso fue cambiando ya que los cuatro escuchamos muchos estilos distintos y no queríamos encasillarnos en una linea como habíamos hecho en el pasado. "Escribir lo que vaya saliendo, ahí cachamos (vemos)". La cultura y las ideas permanecen igual con la excepción del straight edge. Algunos seguimos, otros no. Algunos son vegetarianos mientras que otros no. Tenemos ideales humanitarios, liberales y estamos contentos con nuestra escena hardcore. Algunas de nuestras influencias son One Step Ahead, Verbal Assault y Dag Nasty.


BOT: como es un típico show en santiago hc, el que usualmente remission toca? quien los arma, con que bandas suelen tocar, describan las bandas, luego una breve reseña del show, hr, cuanta gente va, q ambiente se vive, etc.

REMISSION: Es raro que te invite alguien quien no conozcas al menos de vista ya que la escena se mantiene cercana y no es muy grande. Suele ser siempre algún integrante de una banda amiga/conocida. Across The Line + En Mi Defensa (Redención recs), Against All My Fears, Tiempos De Honor y 562 organizan buenas tocatas. Solemos tocar casi siempre con las tres primeras bandas mencionadas. Un típico show es así mas o menos: Día Sábado o Domingo (en pocas ocasiones) el afiche indica que comienza a las 4 pero por impuntualidad típica de local o quizás porque hay poca gente al principio, comienzan 1 hora tarde. Suelen ser 6-7 bandas con las que el publico se va prendiendo a lo que avanza la tarde. Tocamos de los primeros, en el medio o al final, va variando siempre. A pesar de ya haber vendido varias copias de nuestro lp, no prendemos mucho a la gente. Algunos cantan, algunos cabecean, otros disfrutan tranquilamente y otros quizás lo estén odiando haha. No tenemos partes mosh ni partes muy rápidas. Somos tranquilos y nos complace estar ahí para tocar y compartir con típicos amigos, conversar, comerse una hamburguesa de soya con un jugo, etc.

BOT: cual es su perspectiva del hc latinoamericano en general.

REMISSION: Nuestra perspectiva por lo que vemos a través de myspace, de fotos o conversaciones es que en cada país hay y siempre habrá gente involucrada en el hardcore para que no sea algo que solo escuchas desde el computador o reproductor. Esto se vive en los recitales y se aprecia en ellos, en los discos, escritos y eventos que organiza la comunidad. Hay personas con mucha motivación que permiten que bandas de otras ciudades o veces hasta países que pasen por su ciudad a tocar y compartir. Rescato que ustedes en Guate tengan muchas bandas, amigos y han visto tocar a Soul Control, TFS, IA etc. Lo repito, la motivación es clave

REMISSION-accept LP

Seattle hc




Sincerity, feel it in this song
Commitment, with one we can't go wrong
Beliefs are straight, set in concrete
Persistence, won't stop will our goals are complete

Till death, do us part

Trust, gained from true friends
Not just passing acquaintance
Blowing in the wind
Conviction, we're staying true
Friendship means we'll never stand alone

Straight edge, it's meaning and it's goals
Dedicated to the movement forever strong
(BROTHERHOOD-till death)