What bands have been lined up for the "Adios Moshable" festival and will there be any recorded material from this?

Lars: The "Adios Moshable" festival will take place March 31st and April 1st in Copenhagen. The lineup Friday: The Nomads, The Royal Beat Conspiracy, The Burnouts and The Turpentines. Saturday: The Hellacopters, The Flaming Sideburns, Union 69 and Colombian Neckties (ex-Shake Appeal). I think it will be a swell salute to the death of Moshable.

What are some upcoming Bad Afro releases?

Peter: With the Scandinavian scene I think it is going back to metal. Since I have listened to a shitload of heavy metal, I think it is getting quite boring. The Hellacopters are a kind of strange Kiss/Rolling Stones; Gluecifer is a Ted Nugent, AC/DC tribute band; all this glam thing is getting kinda huge in Sweden. Backyard Babies started the glam thing. I think all along the Backyard Babies have been lumped in with all these other punk rock bands, but they actually want to be Guns n' Roses. There are a lot of glam bands coming and all this Scandinavian stuff is going to turn back to metal eventually. Turbonegro helped this along because their last album (Apocalypse Dudes) was hugely influenced by Alice Cooper, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, and The Sweet.

Is Bad Afro going to be picking up metal bands like Man's Ruin has in the USA?

Peter: Maybe. Lars loves stoner rock, so there might be quite a few Scandinavian stoner rock bands. With the Scandinavian thing I think the best bands have already been here. The original ones had kinda started and The Nomads were already there. The Nomads have inspired a lot of bands. The Hellacopters, Gluecifer, and Turbonegro have already been here, so a lot of the bands coming out now I think are really good, like The Peepshows, but they will always be second generation. I think we have already seen the best bands to come out. The Gluecifer's, etc., are not going to be matched.

What is the worst and best part of running your own label?

Lars: The worst part is all the bullshit about accounts and the daily frustration with things that fuck up and don't turn out the way they were supposed to. The best part is when you hold the final product in your hand, and all the frustrations of making a record disappear. It's a good feeling to be able to put out music you really love yourself and then maybe other people will like it too.

Peter: In our fanzine we write whatever we want. We don't care about what others think. It helps to be super big fans of the bands.

So, you don't have an editor overseeing your writing?

Peter: I would get extremely pissed off if anybody edited anything I wrote. We have been in arguments about this a couple of times. A couple of sentences were edited out of our Goatsnake review a few issues back (in Earpollution). [err...i blame all those $1 schmidts at garage shock for that one, my friend. --ed.]

I think it is quite amusing that the rest of the world is catching on to the Scandinavia vibe now. I think it died out with Turbonegro when they split up. They were extremely popular over here; they would sell out 5,000-capacity shows in Germany and Levi's also sponsored them. Turbonegro, together with Union Carbide Productions (now Soundtrack of our Lives) were definitely the best Scandinavian rock band ever, in my opinion.

So you lost the best band, Turbonegro?

Peter: Yeah, I think they were the best of the bunch. All of the Scandinavian bands, especially in Sweden, can hardly get out of their rehearsal rooms without somebody wanting to sign them. They do one demo and there are already two American labels who want to sign them or a German label wants a 10", so they are already signed before Bad Afro gets a chance to really hear them. Bad Afro should have signed The Peepshows; their first couple of singles were shitty, now they are really big and I think Epitaph Europe signed them.

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