Ladies and gentlemen let me present the Local Oafs, so dudes
What's up with that new recording session??

Nero: Hi boys and girls! We've recorded some tracks at our rehearsal
Space and we actually mastered it this time so the sound is full and
beautiful, 5:1 sound. The diversity between the tracks comes out better
this time because of the slick sound. It's gonna be a full length
something.

Full length seem to be maybe, err... what should we call it??? A
Less suitable format for your no-fi shitty hi-speed thrash rock n roll, a
7" is more like a full length for you when your hitting the record player
with 30+ songs. This record session must hold over 80 songs or?

Nero: An album feels a thousand times bigger than a 7". It's an ego
thing...with 28 songs. We have plenty of songs left unrecorded too but
since recordning sessions suck fucking shit we only did enough songs so
it'd be enough for a full length. I think the songs are pretty good, we
don't do these ultra-short tracks anymore 'cause they only end up as
fillers anyways.
The songs Have an average length <1 min though so it's not like
we're goin' prog rock on your ass.

So evolvement in the Mongo-Punk factories in Sweden, no more assembly line
crucifixion but a new finer hand job by these busy daycare workers, so
has the lyrics also evolved or are you still at the basic?

Nero: Nah. Something like "Put me out of my misery/Beat me beat me
violently" from the first 7" I'm still quite proud of and would use
If I came up with it today. When you've already written like 60 songs you
need to come up with new subjects though so I guess we handled the most
obvious subjects back in 99' and there's a natural evolvement there
towards new interests, thought and things that bother us. I think our
lyrics are quite good compared to many other swedish bands. There are few
who stands out.
Henry Fiats from the Swedish 7" and forward have good lyrics, Sunday
Morning Einsteins have some good ones to, same goes for Skitsystem and
Totalitär. Too many claim they have a political message/agenda and just
write the same unoriginal peace-punk rip off shit over and over again.

So all the lyrics are in Swedish?

Nero: No, some in Swedish...some in English. I planned to get this girl to
help me writing a song in Italian but she moved to southern Sweden. That
was kind of a turn-off.

So correct me if I'm wrong, but there's a risk for lot's of cheesy Eros
Ramazotti style Italian love songs?

Just that particular one was supposed to be a classic Italian hardcore
song but it didn't happen. Both me and Knullhålet wanted to show
Our ability for sensitive country ballads on the album but it didn't
happen for some reason. We don't really care if people yell "play faster"
and stuff like that. If we did music to please the crowd on a Swedish
hardcore festival we'd do Tragedy covers and there's a pretty slim chance
of that happening.

So what's up with all live shows that you're doing right now? It's been
totally dead about you and all of a sudden back with a new recording and
doing four shows in three weeks (lot's if you got in mind how big Sweden
is...)

Yeah. It's great that people seem to like our stuff and want us to come
back to play their town/venue for a second/third time. We rarely beg for
gigs. They just fall in our lap which is kinda sweet. We go where we're
wanted, play, drink, pass out and go home. The reasons for the six month
lapse in productivity is Knullhålet living 700 miles away in Umeå and the
Manikins - a more rock/garage type of group which seems to take time but
fortunately not too much focus from Knullhålet and André Van Dem Bourg.
The Manikins have done two albums and a time and money consuming european
tour and off course Local Oafs can't keep very busy with two members
abroad. There's no complaining from them though they have to rehearse
sometimes two times a day with different bands which is cool. They seem to
like to have their hands full so more power to them.

I guess that we could say that you are very productive thinking of the
situation, has this move from Knullhålet given any effect on the bands,
have it lead to problems or does it work out having a member about 760km
from the base? You have been up and played in Knullhålet´s home town
several time I seem to remember, and you have played shows in the southern
parts of Sweden, but never abroad! Is it time for an Mongoattack over
Europe soon or? Henry Fiats Open Soar has been down in
Germany right? and In England? do you know what the status for mongo music
is in these other countries? People from Poland have showed interest in
you because of your busy schedule on the Local Oafs webpage, well all
these seem to be a good possibility for a larger tour or what is stopping
you?

NERO: You're right sir. Our mummified friends in Henry Fiats Open sore
have played the continent several times. They've been active since 97'
and have released about ten 7" and two albums, know how to play and so on
so it's useless to even begin to compare the bands in that aspect.
We've actually played Åland which is in Finland if I'm not misinformed.
We'll probably tour but we're not in a hurry and we will not beg, borrow
and steal to get gigs. If we're wanted we'll go...anywhere. The Manikins
tour showed that it's probably not a good idea to go if you're completely
unknown. I know they had a great time but economically it was a monumental
failure and we/they don't have money for another trip like that (England
is off course the reason for the loss of money). Europe decides whether
Europe is ready for ze mongo attack. Knullhålet has been a real sport
coming down the long way to Nyköping whenever he's needed so it's been no
problem whatsoever.
Off course we'd do more stuff and rehearse on a more regularly basis if
he'd been livin' here though. Hope he's comin' home to papa soon. The
furhest down southern gig we've ever done is Gothenburg.

Speaking of gig's and tour's the best way to get used by a pimp is getting
a nice transport, rumours though say that some obscure Punk band from
Nyköping have destroyed your car? Can you fill us in?

Those rumours are completely false. We lend out our van to Disfear but
they're all good drivers. Our van was, to use the words of Ice T, Born
Dead.
We're gonna switch engine soon though. That Ford OCH-motor is not
action-rock enough for us. Americans cant build cars worth shit.

When we are on the subject, you are from the City of Nyköping, a city that
has had lot's of problem with Nazis (as Ultima Thule) and Action-rockers
as Action 69), do you see any connection between these groups and the
quite large punk scene in Nyköping? And what do you feel about the fact
that Action 69 has played on punk gig´s? Have you come over this problem
today or is it just getting worse as the actionrockers is slowly
infiltrate Burning Heart through VoaG, this is not quite unlike the Ultima
Thule insident in the begining of the 90´s when they signed big labels and
trying to get house-clean...

As far as Nazis go: they are all gonna die! But they're not a big
problem here since they keep to themselves in the redneck areas surrounding
Nyköping. About Action 69 I can't really give you a review since the
last time I saw them live I was really drunk and got thrown outta the
place they where playing and that was a couple of years ago. On a personal
level Jonas and I have done a little male bonding so there's really no beef
there. I haven't really heard VOAG in a couple of years so I can't really
talk trash about them either, though I'm sure you're disappointed. I have
only nice things to say about the current members of VOAG. They seem to
be nice people. Dannes and Kimmos other band the Accidents rocks ass and
Dannes Genocide SS is da bomb too, I know that much. I rarely take
interest in the bands on Burning Heart since It's not my style but I think
the new Nasum album is the best stuff they've done in a couple of years. I
don't really care what they put out to tell you the truth.
Well to get back on track, as always life is a big disappointment, I'm
not talking about the fucked up swe-crust "oh poor me" way, I'm talking
about the general darkness surrounding all of us, you have your self taken
up some of these thoughts in your lyrics and spoken about "everyday hate",
could you please tell us a little bit about your beliefs in today's world
and and also on your local surrounding.
Different people focus on different things when they write songs. I think
it's a personal obligation to do what you're best at rather than doing
what's the current trend or the most pc at the time. We're not a gloomy
band, the negative tone in the lyrics rather come from a dark sence of
humour and the fact that we're not interested in Blink182/Millencolin/Toy
Dolls-type lyrics with just a silly content. I you scream "I wanna die!"
or "I gotta knife and I'm gonna cut you motherfucker!" get peoples
attention and makes us feel good. Since they stand out in a bargain-bin of
swe-crust records some people tend to remember them rather than
combinations of "Napalm/nuclear war", "Scene poilitics/voilent dancing",
"Death/destruction", "Animals/children/women in pain",
"Cops/nazis/machos/Americans are bad" etc.
There's very few people in Sweden who can write good political crust-type
lyrics: Wallenberg, Tompa, Peken and Jallo are the ones I can think of at
the moment. I may have forgot someone but that's a pretty slim fucking
chance. Off course they reflect issues that concern me too but I could
never live up to their standard in that genre of lyrics. Believe me, I've
tried when I heard Svart Snö for the first time about ten years ago but it
came out like most other Swedish pc-punklyrics today - like a mongoloid
three year old wrote them while watching 60 minutes. I think our lyrics
are at least a bit better than that.  And don't even get me started on the
self pity type lyrics or the kooky abstract ones that have become a fashion
lately.

As I was listening to you I was just gonna reflect on the Svart Snö thing,
I believe Higo has once again become a vital part of the swedish scene
since he started up Sunday Morning Einstein, this band can't get enough
props in today's punk scene, I believe they combining the old and the new
in a real good way and are staying top notch even though lot's of changes
in the lineup. As being as cool as we are name dropping bands once again,
what bands works for you today?

I think SME really needs a dirty mean recording to make a real classic.

Ok, let's do active/recently active bands:

Swedish Bands: Pricks, Regulations, HFOS, Sayyadina, Unabombers, Victims,
Rabid Grannies, Sportlov, Genocide SS, Public Toilets, Eva Eastwood,
Skitsystem and a couple more.
Foreign bands: Spits, Exploding hearts, Severed Head of State, Anal Cunt,
Dillinger Escape Plan, Mike Patton related shit, Kids at Widney High, Dean
Dirg, Wesley Willis [rip], Steve McQueens, Dead Moon, Queers, Kidnappers,
Dwarves, Prima Donnas, Senor Coconut, Chumps, Minds and a whole lot more

So I think that summon things up, or? any last words?

We love you all...and remember: have a good time all the time!