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Question: Hey guys, nice to meet you. How is the tour going so far?

Johnny: Fantastic! It's been the best european headline tour for us

Mike: Yeah, I agree.

Johnny: Even if there are smaller crowds everyone likes getting involved.

Mike: Europeans are not just standing around, they are getting into the pit. At a couple of our shows they are starting circle pits and that makes us happy. So this time the european tour was crazy. The fans have been great. Beeing on tour with Civet is great.

Question: Are there any funny moments you remember so far, maybe backstage stories?

Johnny: Oh yeah, the first one was in Stockholm. We and Civet stayed the night on a boat and so we went to the bar after the show, it was a great show in Stockholm, and my voice was shut. I had some whiskey combined with many different Guinness. We took some shots at another bar and we were drinking and everything gets blurry. In the morning we realized that one of the Civet girls didn't make it back - as well as Toby, our guitar player. The other girls were very nervous - they were so emotional because she got lost, but everything came out fine. Oh the alcohol...

Question: Have you seen anything beside the clubs here in Germany?

Johnny: We're driving in a van this tour, on other tours we had a bus, that's nice because you can wake up in the city and walk around all day. This tour we haven't really seen more then the Autobahn. We've been touring Europe for about 15 years now and I think Germany is one of the smartest nations in Europe. Germany is always above other nations when it's about engineering, the infrastructure and keeping the cities and towns clean. The people are very straight up to you. They tell you when you suck and we like that.

Question: Can you tell us something about how the Street Dogs started an how it is to be in this band?

Mike: We started jamming for fun on poker nights, just fucking around and that turned into the Album 'Savin Hill'. We toured a lot with the next albums. That's why we do it. It's for the fans. We don't wanna be on the cover of the "Rolling Stone" - just keep it honest.

Question: Mike, you played for the Dropkick Murphys before. Are you still in contact with the guys or do you play shows together?

Mike: I think periodicly I didn't get a long with Ken but then I talked to him and we solved that. I think the relation between the bands is good. We're always looking forward to the possibility to play with them. There are no bad feelings between the bands and the people.

Question: What is the difference between the bands?

Johnny: The Dropkick Murphys are way more Celtic. They use more Celtic elements - it's a strong part of the band. For us it's more the punkrock. That's the only difference I see.

Question: What are your plans for the future? A new album is coming. Can we expect more musical stiles like yodeling or something?

Both: (laughing)

Johnny: It could be. We release our new record this year and we're working with a former Dropkick Murphys guitar player. It's great to have him involved. We're alternating a new song on this tour every night and we're putting together a lot of stuff. When it's folk it's folk, when it's punk it's punk, when it's hardcore it's hardcore and when it's Celtic it's Celtic.

Question: So you are not limited?

Johnny: No.

Question: You mentioned the Boston hardcore scene. Do you have contact to other bands in the hardcore oder punkrock scene in Boston?

Johnny: All of them I think (laugh). I grew up with all the Punkrock and Hardcore bands so we knew everybody in the scene.

Question: One of my favourite Boston hardcore bands is Blood For Blood. Do you know something about them? Any news?

Johnny: Yeah, when I was in the Bruisers we took them to our european tour and ten years later when we formed the Street Dogs we did a couple of shows with Blood For Blood and I was so happy to see how popular they became in Europe.

Question: Are they still active? Because when I'm researching in the internet for Blood For Blood, I couldn't find something coming up so far.

Johnny: Buddha has got a side project called "Buddha and the Boys". We don't know what's going on with Rob. I'd love to see him again.

Mike: Maybe there will be a Blood for Blood reunion.

Question: You did a Split-EP with the Dents. Is there another band you want to do one or get on tour with?

Johnny: Yeah, we actually got an email asking to do a split-cd with Discipline. It's a great band and I hope it'll work out. We planning something with the Aggrolites like we're doing punkrock cover of their songs and they do dub songs with our stuff. It's nothing worked out yet though...

Question: Which bands or types of music are your main influences? Or is it more like playing what you want, because you're in the business for so long?

Johnny: Honestly, on my iPod I listen to audiobooks and news...I don't listen to hardly any music. When I do, it's weird folk music. When we're working on a record I try not to listen to music just to make sure that the new song ideas are just coming from me and not from other bands' stuff.

Mike: It's the opposite for me as a singer, I listen to everything because it might help me to get a vocal melody. The roots are Ramones, Clash and Stiff Little Fingers but I listen to whatever I want. (outside a Blood For Blood song is playing) Oh, that's Blood For Blood. We never did an interview when a BfB record is on.

Question: So it's a good sign...

Mike: Yeah definitely - a fucking great sign! (laughs)

Question: Thank you very much for your time and the last words are yours.

Johnny: Don't join a band.
Mike: Do whatever you wanna do.

Johnny: So long it's not joining a band.

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