interview with Sewer
Have any of you played in other bands? Juan Pablo. our bassist, used to play in a band called "Perros de nadie" and Mablei, guitar player, used to be in a band called "Gangi" playing bass
How is it that you started playing music? We felt inspired by bands like Guns N Roses, Ac/Dc, Ramones, Arctic Monkeys and many more. Each of everyone has learned to play instruments by ourserves
What are your names? / Who plays what? / How old are you?
Rafael Abad Ronzoni (25) - Singer
Lucas Ogallar (25) - Guitar
Matias Sewer (26) - Guitar
Nicolas Gonzalez (26) - Drums
Juan Pablo Soria (36) - Bass
Rafael Abad Ronzoni (25) - Singer
Lucas Ogallar (25) - Guitar
Matias Sewer (26) - Guitar
Nicolas Gonzalez (26) - Drums
Juan Pablo Soria (36) - Bass
Have you had other previous members? Drums were initially played by Leandro Artaza, who was also our producer in the beginnings. The bass has a bigger history. Matt Pfeil, Nicolas Maiola and Gustavo Lanari played it before Juan joined.
Did you make music even when you were young? We discovered that we coud do something similar to music later, in our teenage years
Where are you from? We are from Buenos Aires, Argentina
What year did the band form? In October of 2012
What's your style of genre? We like to think we have our own style. Like if you put Guns n Roses, Velvet Revolver, Arctic Monkeys and Royal Blood in a mixer, we drink that and then we transpire.
What inspires you? Nights, days, nature, parties, living
How often and where do you reherse? Three times a week
How have you developed since you started with the music? In a lot of ways. We are more mature, less naive and with bigger will of making music
Do you have other interests of work outside the band? Footbaill is something we all like to watch and practice. Also movies, books, drinks and pubs.
Are you looking for a booking agency, and what are your thoughts around that? Not really, there´s nothing they can offer that we cant do by ourselves. But we´ll see eaht happens
Are you looking for a label, and what are your thoughts around that? Same answer as the one above
What made you decide to make this music? Because we feel we can offer Rock music a fresh new start in a world where every popular song sound the same
What are your songs about? Having fun, introspective thoughts, party, love, what most of the people feel and dont know how or dont want to express
Who does the composing and writes the lyrics? We all do everything
Do you start with the music or the lyrics? Nowadays we start with the music and then we write lyrics that could represent the spirit of the music
Do you compose in a certain inviroment? In our own rehearsal room, thats where we feel at home
Have you done any covers live? Yes, usually 2 or 3 cover per show. Generally we choose a song from a totally different style and make it sound like if it was ours
What language do you sing in? We have songs both in english and spanish
What are the least and most people to attend one of your gigs? There was one show when we played very far from home in a town called San Justo and we literally played just for the sound engineer and the waitress. And on the other hand, when we presented our first album we played in front of 450.
What ages are most of your concert attendants? Mostly our age, between 18 and 30 years old
Do you always play the same songs live, or do you vary? Always different setlist, specially crafted for each gig
Do you have a regular place you play live often? We played many times in a place called Marquee, but we are not the "house band"
What was your first gig like? Crazy, we gave an interview for a very famous Tv show here called "Intrusos" before going to the stage. We played awfully but had a lot of fun
What was your latest gig? Last week when we played in a great place called "Kirie"
Have you had to cancel a gig? Yeah, we didnt want to play so we said our drummer had an accident one hour before the time we had to be on stage
Where have you played live this year? Just in Kirie, we are focused on creating new music
Where do you plan to gig the comming year? Hopefully far from Buenos Aires, maybe in another country
When did you start to sell merchandise, and what do you have for sale? Just our album, music is the most important thing for us
Where can people buy your merchandise? In our shows or can contact us via Instagram, Faceboo,, etc
What do you think about people downloading music instead of buying records now a days? More music reaching new ears, that cant be bad. To buy a new record is great too, but maybe more complicated and expensive than listening to it in a digital platform
How do you think the music industry have changed because of this? Everybody can make music and make it public, thats awesome. Its up to each one of the listeners to decide if its good music or not
What do you think of my work? What you are doing for musicians around the world is great!
How do you think and know that this interview will help you in the music business? I hope it will inspire someone to express his feelings by making art
Do you have any role models or idols? I dont believe in idols. but yeah there is a lot of people i admire in different ways
Why do you think that they exist? Because they represent what many people would like to be
Is it easier to find inspiration from older bands, or bands that are more active today? I think both have a lot to be taken as knowledge in many ways. Every music style, at any age could teach us something
What have been your biggest obstacles? Choosing the bands name haha. To make 5 people agree in anything is not too easy
What advice would you give other bands or artists? Just do what makes you happy and dont mind what the people say
How do you get psyched for a gig? A couple of drinks before and motivational shouting to be ready to rock
Do you have any new material?Sooner than later, stay tuned
What are your web sites? I think web sites are not to useful today, we prefer social media like Instagram
How can people reach?Any social media or via email
What are your plans for the future? Create more music, maybe in spanish, and to break the mold. Rock music in our country is very bad seen because of the mysoginism, machism and abuse to women the famous rockstars here have been doing for many years. Thats awful and has to change right now. Hopefuly we can help being inside more than from the outside
Do you have something to add? Just be happy
