interview with Morbid Strings
Have any of you played in other bands? answer:yes,just the drummer,he play in two other punk bands,drummers always missing
How is it that you started playing music? answer:desire for we do something which we love it ,we was inspired from other bands which we listen
What are your names? / Who plays what? / how old are you?
answer:Daniel Ristov-guitar player and vokal,30 years old ,
Goran Danev-drummer 28 years old
Valentin Stancev bass player,25 years old
Have you had other previous members? answer:yes,we change three bass players before, because of some reasons they leave the band
Where are you from? answer: Macedonia-Kocani
What year did the band form? answer: 2014
What's your style of genre? answer: HardCore,street punk
What inspires you? answer:i'm inspired by society,street life...
How often and where do you reherse? answer:we rehearse 2-3 times on the week,in my basement
How have you developed since you started with the music?
How is it that you started playing music? answer:desire for we do something which we love it ,we was inspired from other bands which we listen
What are your names? / Who plays what? / how old are you?
answer:Daniel Ristov-guitar player and vokal,30 years old ,
Goran Danev-drummer 28 years old
Valentin Stancev bass player,25 years old
Have you had other previous members? answer:yes,we change three bass players before, because of some reasons they leave the band
Where are you from? answer: Macedonia-Kocani
What year did the band form? answer: 2014
What's your style of genre? answer: HardCore,street punk
What inspires you? answer:i'm inspired by society,street life...
How often and where do you reherse? answer:we rehearse 2-3 times on the week,in my basement
How have you developed since you started with the music?
answer:so..we start playing in klubs,mini bars,squads,and everywhere
where we got a call for playing,we do communication about playing our band
and other punk,hardcore,punkrock bands
Do you have other interests of work outside the band? answer:yes,of course...
Are you looking for a booking agency, and what are your thoughts around that? answer:for now not,and i never been thinking about that
What made you decide to make this music?What are your songs about?
answer:Morbid Strings it's a band who present society full of misery,
Morbid political faces,broken freedom,kapitalizam,anger,and that is
the inspirration to make this music
Who does the composing and writes the lyrics? answer:usually i
Do you start with the music or the lyrics? answer:when you have the lyrics,the other come easy
Do you compose in a certain inviroment? answer:usually i do that when i'm alone
Have you done any covers live? answer:yes,we done about 10 or more covers in live,songs from bands
which we listen
What language do you sing in? answer:english and macedonian,more songs are on macedonian language, and some songs are on english language
What are the least and most people to attend one of your gigs?
answer:least 50 people,in little cities or cities where
underground people are in little number,and most 300 people,
we hope on next gigs for more
What ages are most of your concert attendants?
answer:most of them are 16 to 28 age,
young people and kids get more will and energy for a gig
Do you always play the same songs live, or do you vary?
answer:we play same songs because we have one album
and some new songs,but when play cover songs from other bands we vary
Do you have a regular place you play live often?
answer:yes,that are two places,one bar and one nightclub
(Kmet-Bar,Kocani),(Rock Club Shadows,Skopje)
What was your first gig like?
answer:first gig was in Bitola on Punk Recharge
that was before 3 years,that was punk fest,
we played with other bands that night on beautiful stage
What was your latest gig?
answer:that was in Skopje,nightclub Shadows,
we played with another punk band(Kaktus-Bitola)
and was a beautiful night with a 100 attendants
Where have you played live this year? answer:this year we played live just once in Rock Club Shadows,Skopje, sometimes we have problems in the band,and we missed several gigs
Where do you plan to gig the comming year? answer:maybe some balkan journey or europe...
When did you start to sell merchandise, and what do you have for sale?
answer:we start to sell CD's when we finish our studio album,
we did album promotion gig,we sold 35 CDs,
we give gratis 10 CDs to nearby friends
and few CDs was steal from the packet :D
we sold few badges,now we have some CDs for selling
What do you think of my work? answer:it's cool,your work is cool,the bands want attention and you do that
What do you think and know that this interview will help you in the music business? answer:in the music business i really think,not much but that the band will be a bit more popular,yes
Do you have any role models or idols? answer:i have idols,of course,Wattie Buchan,Phil Anselmo and some others
Why do you think that they exist?
answer:they exist because they do inspiration and send to other people
which find herself in that inspiration and give them big attention,
that is society,maybe is wrong i dont know
Is it easier to find inspiration from older bands, or bands that are more active today? answer:is easier from older bands,but and most of the bands active today are good for inspiration
What have been your biggest obstacles?
answer:biggest obstacles are misunderstanding among band members
about idea for songs making or gig organization or some bad communication
What advice would you give other bands or artists?
answer:to be originally and never give up from playing,
never give up from band,HARD CORE PUNK NEVER DIE!!!
How do you get psyched for a gig? answer:most excited!that is most beautiful feeling
Do you have any new material?
answer:just some songs,it's too hard for inspiration
to create music which is original,so much bands
so much music with the same genre and need time for good inspiration
What are your web sites? answer:https://morbidstrings.bandcamp.com/releases
How can people reach you? answer:with contact:phone number,social net:Morbid Strings
What are your plans for the future? answer:plans for the future,i hope on new album and more gigs
where we got a call for playing,we do communication about playing our band
and other punk,hardcore,punkrock bands
Do you have other interests of work outside the band? answer:yes,of course...
Are you looking for a booking agency, and what are your thoughts around that? answer:for now not,and i never been thinking about that
What made you decide to make this music?What are your songs about?
answer:Morbid Strings it's a band who present society full of misery,
Morbid political faces,broken freedom,kapitalizam,anger,and that is
the inspirration to make this music
Who does the composing and writes the lyrics? answer:usually i
Do you start with the music or the lyrics? answer:when you have the lyrics,the other come easy
Do you compose in a certain inviroment? answer:usually i do that when i'm alone
Have you done any covers live? answer:yes,we done about 10 or more covers in live,songs from bands
which we listen
What language do you sing in? answer:english and macedonian,more songs are on macedonian language, and some songs are on english language
What are the least and most people to attend one of your gigs?
answer:least 50 people,in little cities or cities where
underground people are in little number,and most 300 people,
we hope on next gigs for more
What ages are most of your concert attendants?
answer:most of them are 16 to 28 age,
young people and kids get more will and energy for a gig
Do you always play the same songs live, or do you vary?
answer:we play same songs because we have one album
and some new songs,but when play cover songs from other bands we vary
Do you have a regular place you play live often?
answer:yes,that are two places,one bar and one nightclub
(Kmet-Bar,Kocani),(Rock Club Shadows,Skopje)
What was your first gig like?
answer:first gig was in Bitola on Punk Recharge
that was before 3 years,that was punk fest,
we played with other bands that night on beautiful stage
What was your latest gig?
answer:that was in Skopje,nightclub Shadows,
we played with another punk band(Kaktus-Bitola)
and was a beautiful night with a 100 attendants
Where have you played live this year? answer:this year we played live just once in Rock Club Shadows,Skopje, sometimes we have problems in the band,and we missed several gigs
Where do you plan to gig the comming year? answer:maybe some balkan journey or europe...
When did you start to sell merchandise, and what do you have for sale?
answer:we start to sell CD's when we finish our studio album,
we did album promotion gig,we sold 35 CDs,
we give gratis 10 CDs to nearby friends
and few CDs was steal from the packet :D
we sold few badges,now we have some CDs for selling
What do you think of my work? answer:it's cool,your work is cool,the bands want attention and you do that
What do you think and know that this interview will help you in the music business? answer:in the music business i really think,not much but that the band will be a bit more popular,yes
Do you have any role models or idols? answer:i have idols,of course,Wattie Buchan,Phil Anselmo and some others
Why do you think that they exist?
answer:they exist because they do inspiration and send to other people
which find herself in that inspiration and give them big attention,
that is society,maybe is wrong i dont know
Is it easier to find inspiration from older bands, or bands that are more active today? answer:is easier from older bands,but and most of the bands active today are good for inspiration
What have been your biggest obstacles?
answer:biggest obstacles are misunderstanding among band members
about idea for songs making or gig organization or some bad communication
What advice would you give other bands or artists?
answer:to be originally and never give up from playing,
never give up from band,HARD CORE PUNK NEVER DIE!!!
How do you get psyched for a gig? answer:most excited!that is most beautiful feeling
Do you have any new material?
answer:just some songs,it's too hard for inspiration
to create music which is original,so much bands
so much music with the same genre and need time for good inspiration
What are your web sites? answer:https://morbidstrings.bandcamp.com/releases
How can people reach you? answer:with contact:phone number,social net:Morbid Strings
What are your plans for the future? answer:plans for the future,i hope on new album and more gigs