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ROCKNATION ISSUE 16                                                                                                             PAGE 11





     Rocknation: What future shows       pate a reaction that ‘justifies’ our
     or tours are lined up?              existence. But we deliberately
     Wrathchild: We have received        set out to play some back yards,
     many enquiries from around the  to homeless people, to punters
     world. It is incredible the way     who couldn’t care less who was
     this record has been received. It  performing, in pubs and clubs
     will not be possible for us to visit  that are struggling to pay the
     every country that has shown        bar staff let alone the band! This
     interest. Some promoters are        way we re-connected with what
     even offering to fly us, accom-     Wrathchild is all about…., ‘Enter-
     modate us and compensate us         tainment!!’ We put on a show, we
     for lost hours! But we’ve all got   get a reaction, we’ve even had
     commitments back home so we         grown men cry after the show!!
     are in the process of weighing      We don’t know what it is but just
     up some options. You gotta          about everyone who has seen us
     realise it is not possible to cram  loves the set. We gotta be do-
     200 years of combined history       ing something right! Some girl
     into a twenty four hour flight to,   told us she had spent her whole
     say, Japan. We gotta think this     life ‘watching’ other people liv-
     thing through. But we are think-    ing theirs – until she witnessed
     ing, alot!! Marc will only fly if he   a ‘Wrathchild’ show! Then it was
     can sit with his precious ‘Guild’   like, for her, here is real life, in
     bass and Eddie (Star) will only     the fast lane, full frontal. She saw
     fly sitting facing the back of the   skin and flesh and tattoo’s and
     plane so it can take a while to     sweat, and she realised that for
     ensure the ‘Wrath’ entourage is     that moment she was alive, wav-
     going to be happy to leave the      ing her arms and singing along in
     country                             her own world, and not someone
     Rocknation: What can someone        else’s. That was cool!
     expect to see at a Wrathchild       Rocknation: What songs have
     show?                               you or will be shooting videos
     Wrathchild: Ha! Four guys do-       for?
     ing what they have spent their      Wrathchild: Well we’ve missed
     entire lives perfecting! We have    out on Halloween for this year so
     played some shows in recent         that about counts out ‘Trikk Or
     times which have brought us all     Treat’. But any one of the songs
     back to the reality of perform-     on ‘STAKKATTAKKTWO’ could be
     ing. It is easy to convince your-   a single so we’ll wait to see what
     self you are a ‘Rokk’ God. That     comes up. Nobody buys singles
     everything is easy. We could all    any more, which is a shame.
     trade on past glories and antici-   (continued on page 12)
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