• Take some cans of beer with you, open them, listen to their cd and read this interview! They do a perfect match...

• We are still waiting for the most important moment. So far nothing outstanding happened in the carreer of SOS.
• The current line-up is:
• Mr. Fizzi – Guitarts and Vokills
• Steini – Bass and Back Vox
• Oliver Kast – Drums, Programming and Back Vox

2.WHY HAVE YOU NAMED THE BAND THIS WAY? ISN'T THIS A LITTLE PESSIMISTIC? WHAT DO YOU WANNA EXPRESS? WHAT'S THE MESSAGE YOUR TRYING TO PASS?

• It’s almost 10 years ago that we chose that name, so I really don’t remember why we took that name. Pesimistic? Yeah, but why not. Just have a look around … our society delivers you every day with uncountable reasons to be sick of it …

3.WHICH ARE THE BAND INFLUENCES? COULD YOU NAME SOME OF THE BANDS AND ALBUMS YOU LIKE THE MOST?

• There are no particular bands that influenced us directly … neither now nor in the past. We are just sucking up everything that seems interesting to us and create our own kind of style … Porn’n’Roll! My favorite band / artist is … Pro-Pain and Madonna! Fizzi is pretty much into bands like Bad Religion, NOFX …, whereas Steini listens to a lot of New-Metal stuff … no wonder – he’s about 6 years younger than Fizzi and me.

4.GIVE US A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR MUSIC. IF YOU DIDN'T PLAY THIS SPECIFIC MUSIC WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY?

• Nowadays we play Punk-Rock with many foreign modifications ... as mentioned before, we call it Porn’n’Roll! To play in SOS means to play no specific music … if you check out all our former releases you’ll see, we differ from CD to CD and on each of those  we vary from song to song! Sick of Society is my home and I love my home!

5.WHY HAVE YOU NAMED THE BAND'S NAME FROM "WICKED POWER" TO "SICK OF SOCIETY"?

• Wicked Power didn’t any longer fit to the band’s sound, besides it’s a fuckin‘ silly name … we were about 15 or 16 when we came up with that moniker … so what do you expect by stupid little kids?

6.TELL US SOME THINGS REGARDING ALL THE BAND RELEASES AND ESPECIALLY CONCENTRATE ON YOUR LATEST WORK. ARE YOU STILL SATISFIED WITH IT? COMPARE THEM. WHAT DO YOU OBSERVE? IN WHICH FIELDS HAVE YOU PROGRESSED?

• Well, so far we released 4 self-financed CD‘s entitled „Silicon Valley“, „Underground“, „Sportsmän Sound“ and „Porn’n’Roll Forever!“. Except „Underground“ we recorded all of them in Studio Frizz in Ulm. After „Underground“ I decided to quit playing live in studio, but to program a sequenzer, which saves us a lot of time while recording. As for our last CD „Porn’n’Roll Forever!“, yes we are still satisfied. For sure there are little spots which we would change nowadays, but all in all … it’s a good SOS release. The major point in progress we did without doubt on the songwriting section. After all those years, the songs went shorter and shorter, but on the other hand straighter and as simple as it may sound … better!

7.WHAT ARE YOUR LYRICS TALKING ABOUT? CAN YOU TELL US SOME THINGS ABOUT THEM? WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM? WHICH IS YOUR SOURCE OF INSPIRATION?

• Well, we don’t focus that much on lyrics otherwise we would have printed them in the booklet. There are several songs, which just consist of fake words without any meaning. But when I put pen to paper I try to write about things that touched me in which way ever.

8.WHY HAVE YOU HAD SO MANY CHANGES IN THE LINE UP?

• Many changes? I don’t think we had many changes … the normal amount in this „biz“! Well, the concerned persons didn’t leave SOS because of the mandatory reason „musical differences“. They all quit because of personal things, which means we are still in good contact with them. There are no burdens left which strain our present relationship with former members … they all left in friendship!

9.DESCRIBE A TYPICAL SICK OF SOCIETY LIVE SHOW. HOW ARE YOU THINKING OF PROMOTING YOUR WORK?

• Stupid talking, beer, sweat and lousy playing! Well, as far as promotion goes, we’ll go the usual way other underground bands go too. Sending out promos to all relevant institutions, trying to get shows and running a webpage … www.sickofsociety.de!

10.IN OCTOBER 1995 YOU TOOK PART IN A LOCAL BAND COMPETITION AND YOU WON THE SECOND PRIZE. CAN YOU TELL US SOMETHINGS ABOUT IT? AND SOME YEARS LATER YOU TAKE PART (DECEMBER 2000) IN ANOTHER COMPETITION AND YOU WIN THE THIRD PRIZE. HAVE THEY HELPED YOU IN YOUR CAREER?

• Well the first competition was pretty cool. More than 50 bands of our area took part among them Die Happy and Chroming Rose, which are meanwhile international acts. Actually the competiotion started in spring 1995 and ended in October. During that period each weekend the jury put two or three bands together to see them performing live at a local venue. It seemed the jury was pretty impressed by our performance … The other one wasn’t very spectacular … 8 bands at one evening … third winner: SOS! Helped? Not really. We made some bucks at the first competition, which we used for our first CD „Silicon Valley“. This was probably the one and only benefit from that we had.

11.IS IT SICK OF SOCIETY AN ONE MAN BAND AFTER ALL?

• A one man band? Who came up with such an idea? Sick of Society is a 3-piece-band. Of course Mr. Fizzi and I are doing that shit together for a long time, but the third guy in SOS will always be a fully accepted and equivalent member of the band.

12.IF YOU HAD THE MONEY TO MAKE A PROPER AND EXPENSIVE VIDEO CLIP, HOW WOULD YOU LIKE IT TO BE?

• Many girls, buckets of beer and beautiful looking banddoubles, as we are such ugly motherfuckers!

13.WHICH WAS YOUR BIGGEST DREAM WHEN YOU WERE FORMING THE BAND?

• I had no dreams at all! I just wanted to make noise and smash up my drumset … well and that’s what I’m still doing after all those years.

14.WHICH WERE THE REACTIONS OF THE FANS AND PRESS ON YOUR LATEST RELEASE? ARE YOU STILL SATISFIED WITH IT OR IS THERE ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO CHANGE?

• Fans? We don’t have fans. The bandmembers are the one and only SOS fans! The reviews were as ever … pretty varied … some positive, some negative and a lot of in between. We are used to it, so we didn’t wonder about it. Besides we don’t care about the opinion of others … we do our thing, all the same what people say!

15.WHICH DO YOU THINK IS THE BEST AND WHICH THE WORST PART OF YOUR MUSIC? WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU NEED IMPROVEMENT?

• We’ve damn good songs, but the instrumental skills of the members in SOS leave something to be desired. That’s where we have to get better …

16.WHICH IS MAN'S BIGGEST TEMPTATION?

• Women and beer … all across the planet!!!

17.WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY REGARDING HUMAN RELATIONS? CAN WE TRUST ONE ANOTHER? ARE YOU AN OPTIMIST OR A PESSIMIST ON THAT FIELD?

• None of both … I would call myself realist, with pessimistic tendencies. Trust one another? Nowadays? Forget about it … I don’t trust nowbody, except my girlfriend and family. If you trust you are lost!!!

18.IF YOU HAD THE ABILITY TO CORRECT SOMETHING IN THE WORLD, WHAT WOULD THAT BE?

• I would ban mankind from that planet forever. We are not worth living on earth!

19.IF YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO MEET THE CREATURE THAT CREATED THE UNIVERSE, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO ASK HIM?

• Dude, where the fuck is Atlantis?

20.IF TIME TRAVEL WAS POSSIBLE, WHICH HISTORICAL PERIOD WOULD YOU LIKE TO VISIT AND WHY? WHAT WOULD YOU MISS THE MOST FROM OUR TIME?

• I for sure would not go backwards in time, cause where should I start? There are so many interesting periods, times and events in history, that it would take lifes to check out all the interesting stuff … I would step on the gas and see what’s up in my future … much more insteresting to me!

21.WHAT PROLOGUE AND TITLE WOULD YOU LIKE THIS INTERVIEW TO HAVE?

• I don’t want to take away your job. Think about it yourself … haha!

22.THANK YOU!HAVE I FORGOTTEN TO ASK YOU ANYTHING AND YOU'D LIKE TO MENTION?

• Thanks a lot for the interesting questions. Was a pleasure to answer them! Keep your eyes open for a new Sick of Society next year … check out www.sickofsociety and don’t forget to visit our guestbook!