LORD LITTER & THE LAZY SLEEPERS
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By Jasper Jackson JASPER JACKSON: Please introduce your current lineup to our readers. LORD LITTER: There is Sven "Guitar" Mass--guitar, Mr. Nitz---drums, backing vocals and me, Lord Litter---lead vocals and bass. We create the songs together and I write all the lyrics. JASPER: How long has your band been in existence? LORD LITTER: We started in 1992 with a different lineup. Sven and I were already there. We had a different drummer and bass-player. Then the bass-player left. I took over the bass. I play lots of instruments. Since then all is cool! JASPER: In your own words briefly describe your band's sound and influences? LORD LITTER: The best description we once found in an Australian fanzine: "Rock and roll in the purest form. Honest, with balls to the wall pub rock attitude!" A singer-songwriter from Memphis once said, "Original redneck music out of Berlin, Germany"---I guess that describes it quite good. We started with a more country-rock oriented approach, then it became very straight. Now we put more groove, Texas shuffle and blues into the sound. I guess the general influences can be described as natural, honest down-home music. Sven is into Texas music, southern rock. Mr. Nitz listens to basically anything that I'm into...ahem...from country to thrash metal...it just has to be natural! JASPER: Name some bands in which you've shared the stage and opened for? LORD LITTER: I don't think that the bigger bands we played with are known to the world, like Monokel, an East German blues rock legend. JASPER: Does your band have an independent CD, demo or video available? LORD LITTER: Our main activity is live onstage. We still spread the demo from 1996 and we slowly get all things together to record the first CD...you know, I was mainly involved in the recording business for more than ten years, so what I really want now is noise onstage! JASPER: What is the current scene like in your area? LORD LITTER: In Berlin, there is probably too much going on, so I was at several gigs. Great bands played and there were 15 people in the audience. Plus---like everywhere, I guess---there are many separate scenes. If you play some strange "indie" sound you'll find a lot of venues. If you play non-fashion music it's hard to find clubs for concerts, so we mainly travel to the countryside where people just want to have fun and not follow any trend. JASPER: What are your long and short-term goals and plans? LORD LITTER: We only have one goal and plan: to have fun with the music and keep developing. If something happens, great! If not, we still have the music that we love. You know, I've been in the music biz for a long time, I know how it all works, how it is all dictated by rules and regulations---we don't care, we are here only for the music. JASPER: What would you say is your biggest gripe about the music industry? LORD LITTER: Well, basically that it is really only an industry today. The '80s changed everything. Punk was the last real thing that happened and entered the music industry. After that, everything was transformed into a product before it was presented via the music biz. Today it's only fashion, rules and regulations, etc. JASPER: Any last words? LORD LITTER: Whatever your taste is, check out the releases of small bands---here you still find truth and real music. All big productions went through too many phases of corruption to still be real. I host a radio show and I get the proof every so often how the music changes when people become "big." Suddenly, they start to cooperate with known people and all becomes polished and meaningless. It's a big machinery, there is no way to stay "real" if you enter..."just a product" is the result. If you are interested in real music of all genres check out Lord Litter's Netnews at http://www.snafu.de/~litter.dittmar---this is the place where honest music is alive. Oh, and keep reading BallBuster, the best magazine in the world for the real hard sounds! Cheerz, Lord Litter. Copyright 1999, BallBuster, The Official Int'l Underground Hard Music Report |
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