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I Adapt in GADGIE!
31/08/2004
DESCRIBE I ADAPT IN THREE WORDS.
Villi: Fast fucking punk
Birkir: Naïve, clueless, driven.
) THE NAME “I ADAPT” – WHAT ARE YOU ADAPTING TO?
Birkir: Adapting to the world around us and the little worlds we create ourselves, be it bad or good. One has to adapt to survive and also to enjoy what life has to offer. But adapting to nu-metal and retro rock… that’s not gonna happen!
) A bit of background information on Iceland first. Is it really as harsh and hostile an environment as we are lead to believe? What are winters like in Iceland? When is the best time of year to visit? Where would you recommend travelling Punk Rockers go – both Punk and tourist places! And why is beer so expensive!?
Villi: Well that depends on what you are led to believe. WInters aren’t that harsh but they can get rough but not as bad as most people think. The best time to visit? well, anytime basically, depending on what you want. just dress well if you are coming in the winter. The best places to go… uhm there aren’t really any punk places (except for our flats hehehe) but there are two vegetarian restaurants in the center of reykjavik that are fairly cheap and at least one of them is organic. there’s no good record shop here, the only independent one that doesn’t just sell crappy second hand stuff does mostly classical and indie. Tourist places, lot’s of ‘em if you leave the city like the blue lagoon and thingvellir and all that. the north-eastern part of the country is also really nice. beer is so expensive because the government seems to think that people will drink less if they tax the hell out of it (it doesn’t work by the way)
Birkir: Well, the highland and those little fjords can be harsh when hard weather attacks but hostile, no. If you are naked and know not what to do, you’re in big trouble. And the weather condition can be kinda crazy but we are used to it and most constructions are built with that in mind. But some people think it’s covered with snow all the time with horribly low temperatures… That doesn’t happen a lot at all. Sometimes though but less and less every year because of climate changes and the greenhouse effects on a world scale. It means more warmth and less snow. I see a big difference in the winter especially. Like when I was growing up the winters were really snow-heavy and we’d get big storms that blew the snow over and the frost trippled because of the speed of the wind. It seems to be getting more rare these days. I’d say summer is the best time, so you can see out the window while driving or just hike around. But I’m pretty happy in the winter. It doesn’t affect me much. I pretty much don’t mind any season. It’s all the same to me. I get up, eat, try to do stuff and the go to sleep.
I’d recommend punks not to stay too long in the city and go as far up the West-fjords as possible. Also going from Reykjavík on highway one that will take you to the east coast. That road is pretty much stuffed with great sites and you don’t have to venture too long from “highway one” in order to get even deeper into nature. Punk places are few. I guess it’s my place and Villi’s place! You can make downtown punk by pissing on the walls and shout “I don’t buy pre-packaged food or fast food every time I’m hungry”. Or you could scream “No, I don’t think it’s cool to see someone get beaten up ‘cos he looks gay”. That will cause some friction. Jeez… Beer is so damn expensive ‘cos the state controls the import and is the only one who can sell it. They say it’s to add budget to the welfare system and stuff but nobody can see the results. They cut down on welfare. You know, capitalism gone out of hand. The same story like everywhere.
) I RECENTLY HEARD ICELAND HAD STARTED WHALING AGAIN AFTER 15 OR SO YEARS OF LEAVING THEM ALONE. IS IT DIFFICULT BEING VEGETARIAN/VEGAN OR CHAMPIONING ANIMAL RIGHTS IN A CULTURE SO STRONGLY LINKED TO THE FISHING INDUSTRY? IS THERE MUCH OF AN ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT OR CONSCIOUSNESS IN ICELAND?
Villi: being vegetarian isn’t that hard but vegan is pretty difficult mostly due to insufficient labeling on food packaging. this is only easy because it’s a health trend to eat vegetarian these days, very few people are vegetarian for ethical reasons. championing animal rights is very difficult here, if you don’t eat meat for ethical reasons you are considered a nutcase not worth listening to. the people of this stinking country are so fucking ignorant about any issues other than those that concern themselves directly. people here hate greenpeace and animal rights activists and that makes life pretty hard for us. icelanders seem to believe that it’s their “cultural heritage” to hunt and kill whales and it’ makes me fucking sick. they are so fucking full of shit. this weekend greenpeace’s flagship “the rainbow warrior” was here and those redneck pro-whaling fucks decided it would be a good idea to throw a whale meat barbeque on the harbour where the ship was docked. and nobody said anything, there was no counter protest or anything. there is no animal rights movement here, we are always trying to get things started but it’s hard and discouraging when you live in a country whose main industry is killing animals (fish). this is probably the worst country in the world to be an animal rights activist or even just an ethical vegetarian. sorry about this rambling answer, those fucks just make me so damn mad.
Birkir: I wish Villi would just go out and kill everybody! It’s pretty damn difficult cause it’s so conservative around here and they will take it personally, like you’re attacking them with not going for the same diet as they do. And when you explain your reasons (them not being for loosing weight or joining the latest hip health craze) they will brand you as fucking mad. Most will. Iceland is very “bloody” when it comes to treatment of animals and I think the public here has a European record in eating animal meat. There’s no animal rights movement. There’s this one public figure that spoke out some years ago but he was humiliated for it. He spoke out in the media but got stoned pretty quick and has since then not brought it up. I think I Adapt is the first group of individuals to touch on this topic in a constructive matter. We also criticize the industry and how it treats the blind consumers, as well as touching on how we the public treat animals and the environment on daily basis. I hope the consciousness will grow. It has to. Things are getting out of hand and I think that one way or the other, people will come to terms with that and change their ways. In fact, the first vegetarian society is being formally put together here in Reykjavík. I talked to them and to my surprise it wasn’t going to be all about health issues and fancy recipes. It will also bring environmental and animal rights issues into to the spotlight. Hopefully we can help out with that.
) SPEAKING OF INDUSTRY, WHAT SORT OF INDUSTRIES, BESIDES THE SEA, DOES ICELAND HAVE? I GOT THE IMPRESSION OF A VERY CLEAN COUNTRY WITH FEW CARS AND FACTORIES POURING OUT POLLUTION … YOU’RE PROBABLY GONNA TELL ME HOW WRONG I AM …
VIlli: i think you’ve gotten the wrong impression. this country has the highest amount of cars per household in the world. a normal home has at least 2 or 3 cars. the streets are usually filled with cars with only one person each. you are right about factories though, we don’t have many and after having been driving around the uk I know why you got this “nice and clean” impression of iceland. our problem is not so much with smokestacks spewing out coal smoke or whatever but with huge parts of the wilderness in the highlands being drowned with huge dams to make supposedly “clean” energy (hydro-electricity) for huge aluminium smelters owned by americans. this is destroying a very important ecological area where thousands of migrating geese have used as breeding grounds/nesting places for thousands of years. this is also creating a huge amount of land erosion which means the ground is literally gonna be blown away with the wind. there have been big protests against this but since it creates jobs (that we didn’t need in the first place with our relatively low rates of unemployment) a large majority of the population agrees with the building of this dam because these ignorant fucks care more about making a little bit of money than preserving the largest untouched-by-man piece of land in europe.
Birkir: Well the tourist industry is really taking off. The same can be said about the publicity, -information and construction industry. It’s still pretty clean but there are some rotten apples that they don’t want you or me to know about and it’s getting worse. The number of cars here per person is insane. But it doesn’t have a dramatic effect that you can see first hand because of the size of the country and how spread out the towns are. But in Reykjavík you’re starting to see the effect and it breaks my fucking heart. The government wants to build more factories and power plants. They are trying to squeeze all the juice out of the natural resources in as little space of time as possible. It’s horrible. They undo rules about environment protection and balance, right before our eyes on the news just to build more and hopefully make the country even richer. And we’re filthy rich as it is. It scares the hell out of me. What’s even more scarier is that the majority of the public doesn’t give a fuck cos they think that the island’s capacity for these kind of exploitation is endless. So they just sit back and watch and hope it won’t effect them in their lifetime.
) Do you find that coming from Iceland and not say, the UK, Sweden or Finland, has made it difficult for you as a band to get stuff released or sort out tours or gigs outside of your home country? Have you played outside of Iceland before? What sort of Punk scene is there at the minute (bands, venues, labels etc) and is it a relatively new scene or is it a long established one? Do you get any touring bands from Europe or USA playing Iceland?
Villi: our scene is a relatively young one, it started in 1998 as a mostly metal scene and has been slowly evolving since. I wouldn’t really go so far as to call it a punk scene since most of the people only listen to metal and metallic hardcore. the scene is actually quite similar to the boston scene because you get all types of people showing up at all gigs and not a lot of boundaries between kids which is of course a good thing. it can be frustrating though to have so few punks here. there’s a lot of bands playing lot’s of different styles. venues are few, we mostly use halls/venues connected to local colleges or youth centres but also sometimes bars but that’s difficult because of age limits. we do get the occasional touring band but not many and it’ usually has some members of I Adapt involved in it. there aren’t really any labels although there was one that just released demos locally but he hasn’t released anything in ages so bands just do it themselves. being from here has made it difficult to get our name around, mostly because we never had an established scene here so few people know that punk/hardcore exists on this tiny island. another problem with being from here is that we are an island in the middle of the atlantic and it’s expensive to get off it. that means that it’s difficult to tour. we are the only icelandic band that has toured europe in a diy way.
Birkir: First and foremost, not to many people know about this band so we’re not exactly getting sleepy from reading juicy label offers. But I guess a label wants a band to tour as much as possible to push their release. That’s kind hard for us because we live in the butthole of this planet and we can’t just jump in the van and drive off. Some people are very interested in the band and we like to play for people abroad so we’ll try to book a tour by ourselves and most of the times, the people who’ll do the shows are just nice enough to hope that we won’t let them down. So if we tour, we’ll play all those shows these people put up, like they were our last. We won’t take their efforts for granted. To all the people that helped with this tour, can’t thank you enough! The scene in Iceland is fun, but way to metal. Hardly any hc/punk bands wich is kinda depressing. But the turn-out for shows is good and there are alot og girls involved wich makes me kinda proud.
) Although Iceland doesn’t have an army of it’s own, there is a considerable US Air Force presence there. What was the Icelandic government’s attitude to “The War Against Terrorism” (Afghanistan, Iraq and wherever else)? Was there any protest actions from the Icelandic people? How do the locals view the US air bases? HOW HAVE THE MEDIA COVERED ANY SUCH EVENTS? WHERE DO YOU SEE THE “WAR AGAINST TERROR” LEADING US?
villi: the icelandic government jumped on the war bandwagon right at the beginning and supported the us all the way. they did not have the consent of the icelandic people, over 80% of the population in iceland were opposed to the war on iraq and there were many protests against the war, some of them quite big. the media of course ignored these protests as well as the protests across the world and instead relied on us-censored news courtesy of cnn and the likes. there has been a us army presence here ever since ww2 and when iceland joined nato around 1950 they made a long term agreement about having an army base here. that day (when iceland joined nato) was actually the only time there have ever been riots in iceland. Anyway, the americans now want to leave but the government as well as the stupid people who inhabit this stinking island are begging them to stay because apparently it’s good for the local economy. i adapt take an active stance against the army as well as iceland’s membership in nato. I think twat (the war against terrorism) is gonna last for a long time and be my generations’ cold war. terrorist attacks will continue and the us will retaliate with more and more force. this will lessen civil liberties in each respective country (it’s already happening in most western countries) and this will have a dramatic effect on all political activists because now it will be easier to label them as “terrorists”. i know this view is very bleak and dark but unfortunately this is the most realistic view at the moment. the only good thing about this is that is will generate more angry kids which means there will be more angry punk bands:)
Birkir: The government loved it! They loved it so much that they were one of the most enthusiastic bunch to green-light the war and offer the U.S. any support possible be it financial (which they did, just shortly after the cut down money to the health care and educational systems) and also provided aircrafts to carry supplies to the “warzone”. To my surprise the public didn’t like this and more than 80% of the people were against the war. That was a great feeling. I wish we could use this attitude to benefit other issues and causes that need attention and action. The media was pretty pro-war. They get all the info from Reuters, so that figures… The War On Terror is bringing us less freedom everyday and biting pieces and pieces of human and civil rights away by the minute. It’s self-explainatory.
) RIGHT, YOU’VE JUST FINISHED A TWO WEEK DIY EUROPEAN TOUR. WAS IT POSSIBLE TO DO A DIY TOUR WITHOUT LOSING MONEY? DO YOU HONESTLY THINK THAT DIY IS A SUSTAINABLE APPROACH TO TOURING SO MANY COUNTRIES? WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE MERITS OF THE DIY “CIRCUIT” AROUND EUROPE? ANYTHING YOU FEEL SHOULD BE DONE TO IMPROVE IT? AND WHY ON EARTH DID YOU PLAY WITH SO MANY SHIT SKA PUNK BANDS IN THE UK?!
Villi: uhh, actually it was a three week tour:) we didn’t lose any money except our flight tickets but we didn’t mind paying them out of our own pockets anyway since this tour was our summer vacation anyway. i don’t really know if diy is a sustainable way to do tours, we played so many shows that weren’t really diy (well at least 3 or 4) and that distorts our viewpoint a bit. i think diy tours can be sustainable if they are arranged in a smart way with few long drives and so on, it just takes a bit of effort. I thought the diy shows and festivals we played were by far the best shows and i enjoyed them the most.
BirkirThree weeks baby! It was a dream come true! We didn’t lose a lot of money at all. We got a pretty affordable van rent. But we had to pay the price for that cos it was a tiny van. But it meant saving money. I for one think that DIY can get you far while touring and when put together with the right people you might even break even, granted that you’re not wasted all the time and eating expensive meals whenever you feel like it. That’s what got us a financially positive tour. But it wasn’t our goal, it just turned out that way cos this is how we approach this band. The circuit did great things for us so I for one have little negative to say about it. I mean, that’s all we know first hand about DIY in Europe. That’s what I want to base my opinion on, rather than base it on what I read or hear about from other people. Shitty ska bands hahaha! Hell, there was one pretty good one actually that we played with in Peterborough. Can’t remember their name. The thing is, we’ll play with anybody. We’re no rock stars. We can’t pick and choose the bands we like, we’re just happy to get a show and we’ll play it. If the bands on the bill are good than it’s just an extra bonus. We met so many cool people in some of those bands. That doesn’t change the fact that some of them played awful music! I don’t mind… We got on so well with The Barnhouse Effect, Discarga, I Shot Cyrus, Children Of Fall (the only radically political boy band out there!). I miss so many of these people and bands. I wanna tour now! But the U.K. seems to be lacking more hardcore sounding hardcore bands. I believe there are more though. Fuck what I heard!!
) COME ON THEN, WHAT WERE THE HIGHLIGHTS, BEST GIGS, BEST BANDS, THE OBLIGATORY AMUSING TOUR STORY AND OF COURSE HOW DID YOU GET ON AT APE CITY (BOSTON)!?
Villi: well you were so nice as to send us an email, that’s why we played boston which by the way was, in my humble opinion, the second best show of the whole tour. I’m sorry but the fluff fest in the czeck republic was just so fucking great, nothing can top that show. The best bands, damn what a difficult question, uhm, i shot cyrus from brazil and also discarga (also from brazil) were fucking great. 1000 travels of jawaharlal from japan were really good, the barnhouse effect who we played with in leeds and boston were really good, hhh, agathocles were the highlight of the ieper fest along with the impassioned speech the south americans did after those nationalist fucks integrity played. I don’t know, so many great things happended during this tour that I can’t pick any one event as a favorite. don’t really have a funny tour story though, I’m serious all the time.
Birkir: Boston was mad and so much fun, Leeds, Peterborough, Fluff Fest (Check Republic), Freital (Germany) was bordering on the absurd - perfect and Fredericia HC Fest (Denmark). I forget these shows as long as I’ll live. My story is that I didn’t jerk off and look my penis in the eye at all the whole fucking tour!! Never. But I came twice in my sleep though, which was re-assuring. I’m pretty damn healthy and fresh I must say. When that happens Icelanders call it “Að spæla egg”, which means “to fry eggs” or something. Like you cracked an egg in your pants while sleeping. Also, seeing kids sing along and go crazy for One Life Crew at the Ieper Fest was pretty damn disturbing. Helping south american hc kids to get away from some violent jocks that call them self hardcore kids in Belgium was pretty unforgetable too. So many stories but so little brain…
) THE I ADAPT SOUND IS A MIXTURE OF STYLES ON RECORD, BUT LIVE I SAW MANY SIMILARITIES WITH THE CURRENT WAVE OF THRASH BANDS LIKE DS 13, VITAMIN X AND CO. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT SUCH A COMPARISON AND WHAT DO THINK OF THE CURRENT TREND FOR GOOD OLD FASHIONED FAST HARDCORE?
Villi: I love the comparison, I think those bands you mentioned are great. We as a band aren’t really going for that sound though. We are inspired by a lot of different bands and styles and mostly we write songs that are fast but melodic and our biggest songwriting influences are Section 8 from Sweden I think but then again the people in the band listen to such different styles of hardcore that they all come through in some way or another, that’s why we sometimes sound like a NYHC band, sometimes like a thrash band, sometimes like melodic hardcore bands or whatever but when we play live we like to go all out and enjoy it and play fast so that’s why we come across as more of a thrash band live (along with the fact that we don’t know shit about gear and amps and stuff). Most of these bands that we sound like on record, are boring live because they are so fucking busy looking cool or playing tight or whatever and forget to fucking let it all out but if I can’t let my frustrations out while playing then what is the point?
Birkir: Villi said it. I love that comparison cos I’m crazy about those bands. But I don’t thing it’s accurate. Especially on record. But live on stage we might come out like that cos we’re pretty out of control and the delivery tends to be kinda thrasy. With those bands along with Limp Wrist, Life’s Halt, Down In Flames, Strike Anywhere even and many others, bringing the good old into the hc was the best thing they could have ever done. It had to be done to save hc from super-techno metal and pretty boys as well as pop music passed on as being “emo” or post-hardcore. Also, these bands starting to sing about something that matters again and they wouldn’t give a shit about all the millions of lyrics about ex-girlfriends or blood coming out of the sky of sadness and moon of the grave in the twilight of her skin and the kiss of the cold wind and her dress… blablabla! You know. To put it short: if it’s a trend, then it’s the best trend in years...
) YOUR LYRICS ALL SEEM PRETTY POSITIVE AND BY YOUR OWN WORDS SOMETIMES NAÏVE OR CHEESY (“NO LIFERS” AND “THAT’S ALL IT IS”), BUT ALSO SUGGEST THAT THE MUSIC IS NOT ALWAYS THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT OF HARDCORE. COULD YOU EXPLAIN WHAT YOU THINK IS? (AFTER THE DISCUSSION WE HAD WITH SOME LOCALS IN THE IQ … HAHA!)
Villi: hahaha, that was a fun discussion. Actually I’m not very fond of that “posicore” tag because our lyrics are very much all over the place, some positive, some negative. But yeah, we are aware that most of what we are screaming about has been said before and that we aren’t that original or whatever so why try to fool ourselves? It’s better to just admit that we are sometimes cheesy and just have more fun instead. We are not trying to be the next Refused or something, we don’t mind writing songs that sound like other songs or lyrics about subjects that have been sung a million times over. Punk and hardcore has always been more than music and to us (or me at least) punk/hc means a community of friends and like-minded people getting away from the “normal” world for a while, the ability to let go of all your frustrations in a positive way and getting the possibility of expressing your feelings and thoughts, be they political or not. To me personally punk/hc is closely connected to left wing ideals and activism but it’s not some rule that you have to be political but to me personally it means a lot and I can not and this band does not in any way tolerate the intrusion of right wing fascists into the scene and unfortunately apathy is the current trend in hardcore and because of that apathy right wing bands/people have been coming into the scene and bands like One Life Crew are gaining popularity again and we have to fight that and kick them and those views out again. This should be the one place where people can be free from that and not have to fear for their safety because of their colour, nationality, sexuality or just general nerdy-ness. Punk and hardcore should be by the nerds, for the nerds! We should be a threat by example and that’s not possible if we tolerate right wing views in our scene.
Birkir: The IQ discussion was hilarious. But I guess it’s normal for people to take that stand, like the drunken dude who claimed he was more punk than all of us and gave the worst arguments ever. It has always been very clear from the day this band was born, that lyrics were as important and sometimes, more important than the music. I felt that nobody in Iceland was addressing anything that mattered and to few artist were sincere… The lyrics were all very superficial and save. I Adapt was to be a vehicle for thoughts, issues and emotions that were dear to us and in our opinion worthy to be discussed and addressed, be it personal or political. Sometimes I feel naïve cos I believe strongly that things can change for the better and I have faith in people. This attitude is often met with suggestion that I’m stupid and a hopeless romantic. When every one keeps telling this to me I feel like a 5 year old kid that is yet to be fucked by the haters and those who gave up hope and are just waiting to finish this life without much of an effort to change things for the better. I have my negative side and days of depression but I rather concentrate on the positive aspects of my existence. This comes out in our lyrics, cos we all have our ups and downs and we’re not the same personalities. It can be positive, angry, political, depressed, arrogant, funny, personal and all that. But on the other hand, I totally get bands that are all about the music and the lyrics are abstract or whatever. It’s just not gonna happen with this band. If I felt the need for that I’d get it out in another band.
) TELL US A FUNNY STORY FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD THAT WILL MAKE THE READERS OF GADGIE GIGGLE!
Villi: I was 13 and it was the second time in my life that I was drunk. I fell asleep at my friends place and in the middle of the night he woke up to some dripping sound. He found me peeing on his clothes that were in a pile by his bed. Then I went back to my bed and puked all over myself. It was funny at the time (my childhood was pretty boring).
Birkir: I used to pee in bottles and collect them to use them when pulling practical jokes on grown-ups that I disliked. I think I started to jerk of regularly when I was three or something… christ. I tried to kill my teacher twice. Once by wanting him to trip down the stairs after I put duct-tape over the stairs. He saw it though. The same week a stuffed the exhaust pipe on his car with a potato and mud and actually thought the car would explode with him in it. I was also playing soccer games with my team all the time. When we’d go out of town to play other teams I’d dress as metal as possible, with my denim jacket with all coolest patches and I’d still where the jacket when entering the field/stadium and wouldn’t take it of until the game itself started. All in order to represent metal and make it clear to everyone that I’d out-metal them, no matter how old and cool they thought they were.
) DO YOU THINK THE FILM “PLANET OF THE APES” (THE ORIGINAL PROPER ONE) IS FACT OR FICTION?
Villi: It will be fact soon enough!
Birkir: I can tell you this; there were no real apes in this movie. And the one’s who looked like apes and spoke english, were in fact humans. Make-up you know. Fuck that movie. Watch Freddy Got Fingered at all times.
) HAS ICELAND BEEN AFFLICTED WITH THE EMO VIRUS YET? HOW CAN WE, THE PUNKS, BEST DEAL WITH THE SPREAD OF THIS WORRYING AFFLICTION?
Villi: yes, unfortunately we have been affected by that dreadful virus and I think it should be dealt with by force (yes, that was a joke).
Birkir: I can’t help but laugh when I read this one hehehe. I picture a grumpy Marv burning emo cd’s while listening to Los Crudos! There’s no virus here connected to “emo”, but there’s a big virus here, easy to see. It’s people who listen to shitty metal bands and that horrible new wave of rock and roll bands. I myself listen to tons of music you would describe as emo. I love some of those bands: Sunny Day Real Estate, Mineral, Cursive… The new Small Brown Bike is amazing. Ha! The truth is out, hairy Gadgie man! The best way to deal with this is to kill all people that wear tight shirts and white belts to gigs.
) RIGHT WE ARE ALL OFF IN THE GADGIE TIME MACHINE – WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO AND WHY? (IF YOU COULD VISIT ANY ERA IN HISTORY!)
Villi: Fuck that’s a tough question. I think I would like to go to America before the white man came there and see what it was like but then again there a million other options. I’m a history buff and I find it very hard to choose a favorite time and place.
Birkir: Fuck. I’m going with the same as Villi. But I’d also like to go back… dunno. I also would like to use that very machine and go back to Iceland around 1900 and tell everybody that I was a vegetarian and then french kiss the man next to me. In all honesty, I just wish I could go back to when I was 12 years old or something.
) RIGHT TIME TO SIGN OFF! ADVERTISE YOUR NEW CD/TOUR/SHIRTS/WHATEVER HERE! WHERE IS THE STRANGEST PLACE YOU HAVE EVER PLAYED? WHO IS THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD? WHO IS THE BEST FOOTBALL TEAM IN ICELAND? WHO’SE HARDEST – FREDDY KRUEGER OR JASON VOORHEES? WHAT WILL THE NEXT BANDWAGON IN HARDCORE BE? ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANNA SAY …
Villi: Thanks for interviewing us and having us play in Boston, it was one of the best nights of my life. We have a cd called “sparks turned to flames” and it’s really good, I promise:) We also have shirts and all that crap. Send us an email or a letter or something and we’ll tell you more about it. Listen to Tragedy and Satanic Surfers as they are the best bands that are around these days but don’t forget the golden oldies like Anti-sect, Conflict and all that shit. Freddy Krueger is the baddest and meanest so don’t mess with him, oh and the weirdest place I’ve ever played was on the main stage at the independence day celebrations in Iceland, hundreds of people watching us behave like phsycopaths and hating us after we gave a speech against nationalism and “flag-pride” and said that we would not celebrate this so called independence day until people of all races were accepted as equal. The next bandwagon is gonna be us, everybody’s gonna move to Iceland and try to sound like I Adapt. And last but not least I’d like to say to kids; don’t just mosh and dance, read the lyrics, think, form opinions, read and inform yourself about what’s being done to our earth and to all it’s living things. Take a stand and resist fascism in all it’s forms. Oh and we are planning a short UK tour in December so if you can help out get in touch, contact me at: Vilhelm Vilhelmsson, Kirkjuteigur 14 kjallari, 105 Reykjavik, Iceland. I love letters and mix tapes. Contact I Adapt at I_ADAPT_HC@yahoo.com or www.iadapt.tk
Birkir: Don’t buy our crappy releases. Buy I Shot Cyrus, Dys (Iceland), Fighting Shit (Iceland) and some other shit instead. Playing Iceland’s independents day was pretty surreal. So many out-of-town shows in Iceland are fucking weird. I could write a book about that shit. Best band in the world: Skarhead, hahahahaha! Best football team: shit, I dunno pal, but I’ll send you some t-shirts. I think Nickole Kidman in The Others will fuck up Freddy and Jason on any given day. Next bandwagon is metal music with keyboards and operatic singing passed on as hardcore cos they have short hair, tattoos and Van’s shoes. By that time, I Adapt will be packing automatic firearms… waiting. Thanx Marv for giving us the opportunity to be featured in one of our favourite zines. Thanx to everyone that supported us on tour, all the people we met and all the people that write us via e-mail and snailmail. Get in touch! We’ve written a lot of new stuff, still fast, melodic and furious, so don’t fall asleep just yet. I do a distro, zine (which Villi writes tons of reviews for) and an on-line radio show so you might wanna get in touch with me directly: gagnaugadhc@yahoo.com and Birkir Vidarsson, Hverafold 21, 112 Reykjavik, Iceland. One love – One Earth – One People – One Tom Green
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