DLSO To the side of pink, this week's Cheap Valeria and Industry interviewed Andy Ross, the charismatic frontman Andy Fag & the Real Men. "
There is a beast in the town and its name is "Andy Fag & the Real Men."
If you do not know who they are, run
here to download their EP "A 'sfaccimm dda people," and prepare to confront the real animals from the stage, whose sound has taken the punk, hardcore and rock and roll and there has shaken wildly, using a highly unconventional mix, the music more honest and direct and can be heard at this time.
Andy Fag & the Real Men are best live: fast pace and put bold, wild pogo and honest, and a chameleon frontmen that ensures a different show at every performance.
And now we leave the word to him, the great one and only Andy Fag.
How to be the Fag in a group of "Real Man"?
I like to think "Real Men" as my bodyguards, my good, ready to save and defend whenever there is a need, every time that my life is endangered by a violent mosh ... bring me breakfast in bed in the morning, book the hairdresser styling, let me shop, pay my bills at the post ... in short, serve ... but this is only my erotic fantasy ... I actually despise and do not save to dispense kicking (Vic) and Rasche (Lenny), during every live show and are increasingly disgusted by the way I introduce myself ... but they can not do without me, would be a group of hard, rough men, but deep down I think a balance needs to put on the My masculinity on the one hand and their other three of us ... verify that weighs more!
How did the idea behind this group?
"Andy Fag & the Real Men" group are far from reality that exists in 2004, formed after a primordial nucleus r'n'r called "The Niggers", where I did not appear. Initially we were a cover band r'n'r 50s and 60s with many live behind. The group saw Ramona Paco on drums, bass our current drummer Lenny, the guitar and I Nigger Otto on vocals. The dress code was superaccentuati banana bunches, tie and jacket vintage microphones (Tom Ford would be crazy). The group disbanded in 2007 when Otto and I are leaving for Australia. In Melbourne we went to play in an old record shop where the owner he wanted a battery and used it as a rehearsal room. I played the drums and his tireless Otto guitar. Baptized those days Fried Chicken and Rock and Roll (there was an excellent rotisserie and nearby was our only food for the whole day). Thus were born the first pieces of "'A sfaccimm dda people." When we returned after a year in Naples called Lenny Wild for the battery and Captain Vic on bass (who played already in the Niggers) and suddenly we discovered a new common factor: speed. Now I do not know if we can speak of Rock n Roll in effect ...
Who's "A sfaccimm 'of a ggent?
This is a good question. Andy Fag & the Real Men are not a politicized group. Andy Fag & the Real Men do not believe in anything and anyone. Andy Fag & the Real Men are more form than content. It 'hard to have ideals today. I think to survive. I prefer to entertain and pariare to the people who come to the show rather than raise awareness about this bla bla bla bla and so ... then Andy Fag & the Real Men are "A sfaccimm dda people," because if you do not give a damn if you love them or hate them, you disgusted the same and treat you the same bad or vice versa. But the best thing is that we think a bit 'all of you who follow us and all the characters in the underground circuit to be "A sfaccimm dda people." Rubbish '! They are very welcome however beggars, prostitutes, murderers, pedophiles, prime minister, justice and personal revenge, thieves, necrophilia, sex addicted, compulsive manic-depressive, and suicidal stalkers ... We attract the slums.
When sei sul palco, interpreti qualcun altro o metti in luce un più vero te stesso?
Non ho un me stesso a cui faccio riferimento. Se penso ad Andy o Andrea non so chi sia il più vero dei due... ma quello che di solito si esibisce sul palco non è per niente lontano da quello della realtà... anzi. Certo mi piace scoprirmi ogni volta e cambiare, tanto è vero che per un periodo c'era una terza persona dentro di me che usciva fuori durante i live ed io ribattezzai Manuela. Più che un cantante cmq piace pensare a me come un intrattenitore, un commediante e, se riesco a vedere dipinto sui volti delle persone che vengono ai nostri show stupore e disgusto contornati da un bel sorriso, allora sono felice e vuol say that I succeeded in my goal!
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Is there someone who inspires you for your costumes?
I usually am inspired by my common sense ... but I have to tell the truth are an avid fan of Divine, the star of many films of director John Waters. It 's a bit of my spiritual guide.
Where to buy your "costumes"?
A little 'everywhere, mainly outlets and vintage store. I buy a lot especially when I travel, accessories that may not be able to find here in Naples and then keep them for my live. For example, last week I was at Turin, where I discovered this fabulous sex shop. It was made like the house that Barbie pink and white with the lift, remember? Except that all the furnishings were hard dildo and Underwear. I bought some nipple red satin heart-shaped pendant with a burlesque style! Marò I would wear them now!
The accessory that you can not do without in life?
The pocket watch that my father gave me. Ah, I am a patient of scarpe... le scarpe mi fanno impazzire. Ho almeno 10 paia di scarpe comprate negli utlimi due anni che non ho mai indossato... che malattia.
Il tuo feticcio on stage?
La pelle. Devo indossare almeno un accessorio che sia di pelle, se poi si tratta di scarpe, cinte o maschere e guanti ancora meglio. Il top sarebbe un intero completo da uomo fatto completamente di pelle... oppure una divisa da generale nazista! Guiltyyyyyyyyyyy!
Un rituale appena sveglio - uno prima di dormire.
When awake I'm not even in the bathroom ... straight to the coffee machine ... Start with four cups at home, then go down and during the day I drink at least 15. In the evening before bed I need to reread a few steps of some novel by Jean Jenet (I have all his books stacked on the nightstand) and I think before you close your eyes it's the only man she ever loved despite not having met him. ..
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