I know FFD for some years, but this is our first interview. From Parma with love and all over the world. Punk rock, ska and oi FFD have eveything you need. C’mon kids, stand up,stand up…. Enjoy it.
Mirceone (MPTY ZINE): Ciao guys. Congrats for the Antifa Riot album, how is life?
FFD: Hi everybody, thank’s for everything…about the band is great , that’s a good time for the FFD, but about real life everyday it’s a bad time, too much work without gaining everything, it is a time of world crisis, people find it hard to get to the end of the month…anyways, let’s talk about music…
I know that you have started in 1992, for those that still don’t know you can you please make a short bio?
yes, we’ve started in ’92, we were very young, the guitar player was only 13 and me I was the older and I was only 17. At that time we were the youngest punk band in Italy and for people was fun to see 4 punk kids, drunk with crested and spiky hears, so we started to tour italy very soon…in ’94 we pressed our first demo tape and was sold out (500copies) in only one week, so in 1995 we self our 1st 7″ and for about a couple of oi!-punk distributors after a few months it was sold everywhere , from USA to Japan (obviously only in the punk shops and mail-orders ) In 1996 we started a collaboration that continues to this day with los fastidios ad we sheared a split lp “hasta la baldoria” and from there we played more than 1000gigs , in italy an in europe, we played from in all of the squats in Italy to the big outdoors summer festivals we sheared the stage with a lot’s of bands…20 years is a lot’s of time, if someone wants can find all about us in the www.
You will start a mini tour with this album. Any news and info about this?
We’ve already done the first part of this promo tour, almost 15 gigs in all the parts of Italy during the winter, and now (6 april) we start again another mini-tour with 10 gigs during spring and summer in Italy as well.After that we would like to play some gigs in europe and we’d like to come to play in your area, we never been there.
Please make a me top 5 of your favorite bands.
It’s a very hard question, we like a lot’s of kinds of music ,from oi! to h.c.,and from skinhead reggae to northern soul but just for answer 5-Kortatu, 4-The Addicts, 3-Symarip, 2-Cock Sparrer 1-The Clash
Los Fastidios, Banda Bassotti just to name a few of the bands that have appeared with you along the time…name one band that you want to have a split ep.
Talking about dreams…The Clash
How’s the punk scene in Parma.
Not so good and not so bad, there are some good bands, but we wish there was more collaboration. It’s more than 20 years that we organize gigs and oi! punk events in Parma, but the most of the other bands wants only play and they are not available if you ask for a help
Any news with One Step Records for a new album?
May be… ANTIFA RIOT has been realized 4 month ago, and it’s our first collaboration with one step, we are finding good so we’d like continue to work with them.
Name 3 things without you can’t live
Music,food,booze
Now is the time: RedSka or Talco?
RedSka, just because we are friends, but I think that Talco is a good band as well, but not our favorite
Thank you for the time guys, please add few words for MPTY ZINE and for our few readers:)
Good job, I think you are very important for the scene, you give the bands a chance to make known their music by investing your time and your passion
Ok, i really hope to see you live along with all my favorite bands soon, maybe in Romania or i will come to Parma. Thank you once again. If you have something to add, please fell free.
thank’s very much, I hope that some of your readers will listen our music and to come to play in Romania soon.cheers.
Mirceone vs. FFD – march 2013
Thanks to Fra (RedSka/One Step), FFD and to everybody who support independent music. Sorry for our english but we are not native:).
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