S.C.A.B.Interview: The Hives

We present you...


Hej!Hur mar du?Forget your toaletten spolar inte,and kylaren lacker problems...Ubats Drom presents you the Hives!
Interview by Alexa.




Q:Introduce yourselves to uor readers.
A:We are 5(almost) orinary boys named Mikael,Per,Mattias,Christian and me,Niklas.I'm the oldest since I recently turned 20 years and the others are all one year younger than me.When the moon is full we all grow hair and turn into The Hives.We are renamed to names like(in the same order as above) Barely Legal,Howling Pelle,Dr. Destruction,Chris Dangerous and Nicholas Arson and at once start to play furious punk rock.And that's basically it.
Q:I think you can do better.Try again.
A:We are 5(almost) orinary man...Sorry,no can do!
Q:How did you pick your name?Do you have problems with hives or what?
A: It was given to as by our great leader and songwritter Randy Fitzimmons.I believe though that it's a name as good as any other.

Q:What would you say about your music?On the Burning Heart advertisement,there's a short description saying something like:"This is the future of R'N'R".It also says:"Operation Ivy meets...".I don't know what.
A: They might be right but we do ourselves believe that we play pretty straight forward punk rock.
Q:Do you have troubles asking yourselves how liquorice,or any other candy for that matter can taste when having laid out in the sun for too long?
A: Not so much trouble asking ourselves but I believe we all know how shitty it tastes when candy has been out in the sun for too long.
Q: Would you like to tell us a joke?
A: Alice in Chains!!!It's not very good joke but neverthless it is in fact a joke.
Q: Why does Berder lady hates you?
A: She does not hate us,she does in fact love us too much.I mean the women has got a reard for crying out loud.
Q: Did any particular band have influence on you?
A: Our biggest influences are bands like Rancid and New Bomb Turks,but also other bands that we like and cherish such as Turbonegro,Electric Frankenstein,Dead Kennedys and Zeke.

Q: Is there any influenza in(flu)eced you?
A: We don't have the flu or the hives.We are acually quite healthy apart from when we turn into the Hives.I do believe though that you can get the flu from telling bad jokes or drinking too much alcohol.
Q: Asian maybe?
A: If you are talking about Asian influences and bandsno, I'm talking about Asian flu-Alexa] I can say that I haven't really gotten to discovering the bands from Asia ,but Asian bands that I listen from time to time are Teengenerate and sometimes Shonen Knife.
Q: Why did Estrus burn down,and what's your role in that case?[What's that have to do with the Hives!?-Milan]
A: We had nothing to do with it,honestly!I personally think that they were putting out records at such incredibile speed that Estrus label got overheated and went up in flames.Too bad,really.They had some good bands.
Q:How would you translate new NoMeansNo album tittle:"The Worldhood of the World(as such)" on Serbian?(Please take a shot).
A: La mondial du la monde.French perhaps?
Q:Is there anyone you would like to send regards to?
A: We would like to say hello to Chris Isaak and everyone else who live and breathe punkrock.
Q: Say "bye" or "bye" to me.[???-Milan]
A: Buy
Q:If you picked "buy" then I'll ask you "To buy what?"
A: ????????
Q: And your answer is...?
A: My answer is :to buy a sixpack of beer and pair of running shoes and then find out how funny it is running drunk.



Write to the Hives on:Almqvist(The Hives),Regnbagsvagen 46,73743 Fagersta,Sweden
They've got site on http://www.algonet.se/~tobias-a/hives/index.htm