Interview med OXO86
What is the name of your band? OXO86
Name of the band-members? Willi – lead vocal, keyboards; Runkel – bass guitar; Robert – drums; Markus – guitar; Chris -
trumpet
Where did you grow up? Most of us grew up in different suburbs of Berlin e.g. Bernau or Zepernick.Only Chris is an original berlin plant. Now, Chris and myself are living in Berlin, the rest is living
in Bernau.
How old are you? We are between 23 and 40 years old
Who started the band? From the original band line-up, there are only Willi and Runkel left. They started the band in 1996.One years later I replaced the original drummer named Mütze. The guitar player changed different
times. Since 2008 there is Markus on guitar. In 2011Chris replaced Veronika, the original Trumpet player.
Where have you played 2012/2013? Generally we play gigs in Germany. 2012 we played in Vienna.
Where can people see you? This is different. We like to play in smaller Clubs because we`re closer to the audience and the clubcrews
have more time to care about the bands. But we also play on bigger and smaller Festivals like Force Attack or the Spirit Festival. It`s of course amazing to play in front of many thousand people. We endeavour to keep the balance between smaller clubgigs and bigger festivals.
Do you have a web-site? Yes. The original web-site of us is: oxo86.blogsport.de/
There`s also a Facebook-site that isn`t from us but we know the guys that care for it very well.
What is the name of your best song? Puh, I can say that there are some songs the audiance like to hear at every concert. And there aresome songs the crowd just clap their hands.But of course songs like `Walking class heros´, `So beliebt und so bescheiden´ or `Skinhead´arenearly on every setlist.
Who plays what? See above.
What kind of music are you into? Every handmade music is interesting for us but when we were young teenagers Punkrock, Hardcore
and Ska/Reggae was the music that influenced us most. Today we are open for Classic, Pop, Indie or Hip-Hop.
Have you been on tour this summer? No. Most of us have got own families and regular jobs (or university). We can`t get enough time togo on tour for more than a week.But in the past we played 2 little tours with 3 or 4 gigs.
Do you have a planed tour anytime soon? No.
Who came up with the band name? In 1990`s there was a guy in our youth club who took sometimes too much drugs and became alittle mad. E.g. he collected old money from the GDR for a time travel back in the year 1986.Inspired from his mazy expressions we tinkered the bandname OXO 86.
Who writes the songs? Willi writes the texts and at first he also got an idea for the melody and the structure of the songs.
What song do you play the most? I think this must be one of the 3 songs above.
Do you play the same songs each performance? No, but there are some songs that are nearly on every setlist.
Have you realesed a album or single? Yes. Since 1998 we released 1 Single, 6 albums and 1 splitt-album.
Are you working on any new songs? Not at this moment. We currently released our 6th album (March 2013).
