INTERVIEW SICK PORKY

Time has come for an interview with Sick Porky. A very good band of stoner rock (as I allow myself to classify them) that I discovered some months ago on myspace, and Jeremias (guitar) aswered our questions:

Hello Sick Porky. What’s up there in Argentina ? What do you do these times except kicking some french rugbymen’s ass? ;)

Hey man! Everything here in Argentina is ok. We are working in our second album, doing new songs, reharsing a lot , doing some live gigs and stuff. Our plans are to release the new album in September,we start the studio work in May, so by these dates the album will be on the street.

Can you introduce your band to us? From the very beginning to now?

Sick Porky started in 1997,so we have been rocking for more than 10 years.The band had lots of integrant changes,bassist,drummer,etc. But we still being the same motherfuckers since 2002. The band actually is:
Carlos -Voice
Mariano - Guitar
Jeremias - Guitar
Leandro - Bass
El Tio - Drums

Can you tell us what made you realize that you HAD TO create a stoner/rock band?

 
Satan told us so ahaha. No,really,we never thought about genres. It just came by, we all grew together listening a lot of music, rock, heavy metal, doom, stoner, sludge, hardcore, blues, classic rock etc,etc. So the final result of our music  is a mix of all of our main influences gathered in one piece.We don’t think that we are doing stoner rock, or rock or sludge or whatever you want to call us, it’s hard to classify our music, at least to us.  

And what about the influences of Sick Porky?

Well, as i said we listen a lot of bands and music. Many different genres, but we mostly are into heavy shit. Some of the bands we love and main influences of sick porky are Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, Danzig, Alice in  Chains, Soundgarden, Down, Crowbar,Corrosion of Conformity, Goatsnake, Kyuss, QOTSA, Mastodon, Pelican, Isis, Neurosis, The Mars Volta, At the drive in, to name but a few.

How is the scene there in Argentina? I mean firstly, the stoner rock one but then the metal one (can you give us some bands names)? What are the most popular genres in your country?

The scene of the stoner rock is growing on, that´s a good thing. But in a slow way, i think it’s a matter of time to get a bigger scene. Actually very good bands are representing heavy rock, stoner and doom music , some of them are Taura, Buffalo, Dragonauta, Poseidotica, Humo Del Cairo, Cruzdiablo, and the pioneers Los Natas.
And the metal scene is more popular than the stoner scene. It’s an older scene too. It started in the 80´s with bands like V8, and Hermetica and today, it is really consolidated amongst the heavy fans. Today you have Almafuerte, O connor, Horcas,etc.
And the most popular music saddly don’t have anything in common with the music we listen, shits like Reggeton, Cumbia Villera take over the music market. It’s hard down here to be taken seriously with all that shitty sounds and fucking shitty bands going around people’s ears hahaha.

Is Sick Porky your only band or do you (or members of your bands) have other bands next to it?

No,we dont have another bands or projects. Our loyalty is to Sick Porky, we only serve to  the pig hahaha.

 
Are there some other kinds of music that you like apart from stoner rock,metal?

Yeah sure. I like blues, jazz, flamenco, etc. We love the good music, no matter what the genre is.

 
I heard a very good cover version of ‘Demon Cleaner’ from Kyuss on your myspace profile. Can you tell us more about that tribute? Who made it and where can we find on this stuff? Which bands can we find on it?

Well,the tribute to Kyuss was done by an independent Argentine label called Dias de Garage records. The label offered us to do a Kyuss cover and  we said: “hell yeah!”. It was a great idea coz you know, to us Kyuss are music gods, and a huge influence. So we recorded “Demon cleaner”, and it was an honor to us to appear in the first tribute to Kyuss ever done.

Beside Sick Porky you can find bands like Taura, Gallo de riña, Buffalo, Los Natas, Melissa, Cygnus, Avernal, Sereen, Superextra, etc. Some of these bands don’t exist anymore in these days.
You can find more info on the label´s webpage that is www.diasdegaragerecords.com.ar

So what about cultural things there? Are you fond of literature things or in cinema?What are your cult books or movies?

Sadly in Argentina the culture matters are not too important for the government, so music, movies and literature are kinda left behind. Anyway it starts to be little changes about that, hope that in a near future all  these things will have the place in society that they deserve.
Every member of the band likes a lot to go to the movies, and read. Our favourite movies to name but a few are Scarface, The Godfather, Goodfellas, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Orange Clockwork, Taxi Driver, etc.
And our favourite writers are Charles Bukowski, Jose Saramago, Tolkien , Henry Miller, etc.

 
To come back with music what are the 5 cds you would take on a desert island (with your beers and naked ladies)?

This is a tough question man!! Only 5 ?!? Oh shit, Let me think... Ok these are my 5 choices in no special order

 
Down  Nola
Alice in Chains  Dirt
Black Sabbath  Masters of reality
Led Zeppelin 4
Pelican  The fire in our throats will becon the thaw

 
Are some shows planned for Sick Porky in Argentina? And what about abroad? Any plans to come and play here in Europe?

We have a great show for April 11^th  with Buffalo, Dragonauta and Poseidotica.That gonna be a kick ass gig, coz we are some of the pricipal exponents of the stoner/doom scene. So we belive it gonna be great. We always doing live shows here in Buenos Aires, at least 1 to 3 per month. After that show we gonna be in stand by, so we could work and center all our energies in the new album. But after the second semester of the year we gonna normalize the gigs, and start to play a lot again, presenting the second album.
And yes, we have plans to go to Europe in 2009. We start our tour in Pais Vasco and Spain in March 09, and we are planning to be 1 month or more. Actually ,we have a great friend in Pais Vasco who is helping us and working to make that dream tour come true. It gonna be the second tour in a foreign land, the first one was to Chile in March/April 2007,and was a great experience. To us, Europe is a bigger thing, really a dream that comes true. So, we hope to visit France, who knows, that would be fucking great.

Thanks a lot for the answers dude... The last words are now for you. Feel free to say what you want, be sure censorship won’t strike your words hahaha

Allrite man,tnx a lot to you for this great interview and for the inconditional support, we trully apreciate that. We love to be in contact whit heavy and stoner music fans like us around the world. To all the fellas in France , Sick Porky salutes you! Thanx for your time and excuse my bad english hahaha
Rock on fellas,see ya on the road!

www.myspace.com/sickporkyrock