random interviews with people on the street about dem “vandals”, courtesy of encik rat:

more clips from rat: here

note: Finally, in a loooong time, we have an interview to read on ricecooker. There should be more! Send your conversations with bands/people/trees to us, boss!

A bit of a background, taken from the band’s myspace page (which is pretty stale since the last time it was updated was April 2007!)

NUISANCE DRILLED was formed somewhere in 2000. Since then, the band had included core members of INJUSTICE SYSTEM ACCEPTANCE (RIP), BLOCKAGE (RIP), DASH OWN, OPPROBRIUM ADORNMENT (RIP), BANZAI 606 (RIP) and SARJAN HASSAN. The previous line up was Zaaba (drums), Uwis (bass), Zam (guitar) & Zaxx (vocal).

NUISANCE DRILLED solid line up now are Hassan (drummer), Nazam (bassist), Apizz (guitarist) & Zaxx (vocalist). The band have recorded 6 songs on Thursday, 04/05/2006 from 12:00 am till 3:00 am at Standing Wave Studio, Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. A debut CDEP entitled “In Memory Of Our Late Fear That Gave Us Wings” planned to be released on this February 14th, 2007

NUiSANCE DRILLED
interviewed by Fairul Grind Yr Ass Zine | answers by Zaki

Finally, after long waiting, the CDEP was finally revealed. I must say, congratulation for the releasing of that CDEP. How was your feeling when the CDEP is out now? How was the feedback from the listeners so far?

Hi, here’s Zaki answering your questions on behalf of Nuisance Drilled senile contingent. First of all, thanks for this interview and thanks for congratulate us, we appreciate it. It’s very rare for us to get an interview nowadays unlike those past few years. Yes, those were the days; it was the days of even bands without any single material will be getting at least 2 or 3 interviews in the mailbox waiting to be answered. Those were also the days of reading and writing/editing zines is a must for almost everyone. It seems all gone to ashes, thus it’s rare to really communicate with zine editors in this era.

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ricenotes: an interview by Cher Tan of Two Seconds Notice zine in Singapore, brought here via Kid Kah-Roe-Shi. Will have more pictures to break up the “wordiness” soon, too busy boss!

The people in 97-SHIKI have been playing together for years, but have only got together as 97-SHIKI the collective entity just this past spring. Playing a sort of discordant, yet seamless punk not easily pigeonholed into your hundred and one sub-genres (they don’t want you to!), they hope to bring their past musical experiences together to birth a monster of a new kind, resulting in a brilliant cacophony one might even describe as “beautiful fucking noise”, as they so very much proclaim to be.

97-SHIKI are Patrick Scott – guitar; Ryan Durkin – vocals; Kammy Lee – drums; and Douglas Ward – bass and vocals.

What in the world is “97-SHIKI”? Can you please explain?

Douglas: It is an odd name. “Shiki” is a Japanese word for “type” or “system” or “series” or “model”, so 97-SHIKI means sort of “System-97″ or “Number-97″. It doesn’t really mean anything other than we like it because it doesn’t sound like any other band name, and it is interesting.

In your own words, how would you describe the style of music you play? What spurred you to play this particular style?

Douglas: Maybe it’s easier to describe what we’re trying to do, musically, instead. When we got together to form the band, none of us was saying “let’s do a band that sounds like… hardcore/noise/grunge/crustcore/hip-hop…” or whatever. Also, we knew that none of us wanted to “pick a musical genre” and stay inside those lines. We all share a drive to make loud, weird, sharp, angry, smart music, and that’s what is coming out so far. I guess to toss labels you can say things like post-hardcore, noise rock, screamo-y post-punk -ish stuff.

But it is a real mix of all our past bands’ sounds. Personally, I am tired of bands who think punk is a sound, pick their favorite “style” and emulate it. Punk was born out of NOT copying the stuff that came before, not trying to fit in, and about being original and taking chances. I love old punk, and I’ve been doing various sounding bands for over 25 years, but I don’t want to either copy anything or repeat things I’ve done before.

Change and taking chances is what I think all of are interested in doing, and so that, if anything, is what our style is.

For how long has 97-SHIKI been playing? How did the band get together in the first place? Was it more of a “part-time” thing before, which evolved into a more committed thing now?

Douglas: We started practicing together at the end of 2007, and started playing out in the spring of 2008. Kammy and I played together in FOURTH ROTOR from 2000-2006, and Patrick and I played in V. REVERSE from 1995-1997. But we’ve all played shows with each other’s bands for years. We all knew and respected each other talents, and we all knew we’d come up with something interesting.

And everyone shared a desire to do DIY shows, and lot’s of touring all over the world, if possible. We actually didn’t even know, other than our drummer Kammy, what instruments we were going to play. Ryan, Patrick, and myself have all been “lead” singers before, Ryan played bass in another band once, and I’ve played guitar in all my other bands before this.

But we figured it out, and now I play bass, and do backup vocals, Ryan sings, Patrick does guitar, and Kammy drums. The bottom line was the the people, more than the exact instruments or “style” were the most important, and the rest fell into place after we decided to do this together.

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Fahmi Reza: Menjejak Sejarah Yang Dilupakan
oleh Elle J. Hafiz

28 Februari 2004. Fahmi Reza berlegar di hadapan Ibu Pejabat Polis Bukit Aman bersama ramai lagi orang awam yang turut bertandang ke sana. Ada bersamanya ialah poster dan beberapa material grafik lain yang direka sendiri untuk tujuan perhimpunan aman membantah keganasan polis Sabtu itu.

Dia kemudiannya bergerak ke sebatang pokok untuk mengikat kain rentang yang ada. Tali untuk mengikat penjuru hujung kain berkenaan terlebih panjang. Dia mengeluarkan pisau kecil pemotong kertas (paper cutter) dari dalam beg sandang yang dikendong untuk memotong tali tadi. Tak berapa lama selepas dia bertinggung ke bawah, ada jerkah kuat kedengaran seperti ditujukan ke arahnya, “Pisau! Pisau!”.

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In anticipation of their first visit to Southeast Asia next month, here’s an interview with War All The Time done by Do Not Consume’s shitworker Shammir.

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