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J: They were all good.
WW: I can't remember.
J: Bochum and Halle were really great. We can't complain; right now, we're on a real high. We should be a few days younger.
What do you think is the reason for this high?
WW: What high?
J: Yes, we have one.
WW: You don't remember anything afterward anyway.
T: We've been doing the same shit for 10 years now…
Is this a kind of “late thanks” that you're receiving now?
T: That's exactly what I told you today on the bus.
J: I think it's not a late thanks; it's pity. The old geezers, just in their last days. You have to applaud and say, “You had your life.”
WW: We have never changed! We have always been like we are now. We played for 80 people; that was just as great as last year's Force Attack. It's always great. That's our party!
Have you ever played at S.O. 36?
WW: No, never!! That was my thing. Back then in Kreuzberg… should I tell that? Sure, I have to write something.
WW: I was in Kreuzberg at the end of the 70s as a squatter. When I ran away from home. S.O. 36 was the place back then! That was around 1979 - 1980. Playing in that place would be something. It's a kind of youth dream coming true. I used to beg at Kottbusser Tor, where we just passed by; I had a can for the youth home, and people threw money in. When the people left, we took the money out and bought beer with it. That was totally cool! Then we squatted again, and the cops came, and there was a report because I squatted a house here. So, culture! Totally cool. Overall, I lived in Berlin for a month, on Oranienstraße.
Why only so short?
WW: Because I longed for home! So off to the Ruhr area. Then to London because I had trouble with my parents. That was a story… Well, very complicated. You were young, and that's what happens.
Have you ever had someone at your concerts say, “What are you wearing? Why are you coming to a concert in those clothes?”
WW: Yes, we had that.
How did you react?
We won't play! If someone stands there with a “Störkraft” shirt, then they have to go. In Kusel, we once had a concert organized by KRAWALLBRÜDER and KB Records; there was a guy helping on stage who had a swastika tattooed. We were told that the guy was okay and that his right-wing days were long gone. We then said that it was okay because supposedly he had changed. But we wanted him to not show his tattoo. If someone changes, they have to get rid of that kind of thing. That was just about okay with that guy. Otherwise, we have clear lines. Right-wingers have no place at our concerts.
T: You have to say, we haven't had problems at concerts for a long time. After we as a band took a clear stance, it quickly became that we had a proper audience and still do. There was no trouble, not even with the cops.
WW: A hundred punk losers begging at Kottbusser Tor are preferable to a single right-winger.
Willi, after 28 years of punk rock, how do you manage to get up every day and not long to become a bank clerk?
WW: I don't get up and try hard! I am who I am. That's my life! It's great! Two weeks ago, my mother passed away; I had a pretty rough time.
After a brief welcome, we were also able to greet drummer Timo among us. Timo arrived by train, which was, of course, delayed. Timo's first words were: “They're so stupid. They're all so stupid at the train company.” After repeating the question for Mr. Willi Wucher, there was still an answer.
WW: I can't do anything else but punk rock. I just think it's great! I grew into it and got into it. I have four children and a wife who just updated me on the football results. I don't go somewhere in the morning and say I have to be punk rock now. That doesn't work at all.
What are the band's plans for the future?
T: In 10 years at the latest, a new album will come out.
Timo: We're working on it.
WW: We want to rock! The plan is to take everything we can. Of course, we also want to make a new album. Why should we rush with an album? We're living well…
T: We've also burned a lot now. We've made a lot of exclusive tracks for samplers or for our own singles.
WW: First, we live!!
J: We've gotten old by now. After a tour, we first need a long break. When we've recovered from the tour and want to meet for rehearsals, we'll already be playing concerts again. It's a never-ending cycle.
On Friday, April 13, 2007, I had the chance to interview PÖBEL & GESOCKS. The band performed on that fateful day at the legendary venue S.O. 36..
It's unimaginable that this band would play at S.O. 36, but it was true. Where once people who were just a hint of rowdy were chased away by feminists (or feminists?), and banned for life, today a celebration of Ballermann Rock'n'Roll was taking place.
As is fitting for the party heads of PÖBEL & GESOCKS, they arrived an hour late. The anticipation must have been so great that they spontaneously pulled out their party chairs on the highway; in other words, traffic prevented the band from arriving on time in Berlin.
After the band left their bus, I immediately followed them, and shortly after, we were already sitting in the backstage room, enjoying the first beer of the evening and chatting.
Alongside Willi Wucher (vocals), Jennes (bass), and Trevor (guitar) answered my questions.
P.S.: Due to various difficulties, the interview has unfortunately only now been published.
However, I believe it is still relevant and interesting (editor's note)
