-I can imagine that touring Great Britain last summer and the USA now must be kind of a dream come true...
-No, we actually never dreamed about that, our recurrent dreams are more of a sexual kind.

-Oh, so I guess that reputation of rockers and perverts is true...
-Don’t ask compromising questions, please, we have our girlfriends.

-OK, back to the musical subject, has it been a big effort to be able to tour Yankeeland?
-Years of boozing to get to meet the guys who arranged the tour. Although the one to blame for it, us getting to the US, was our friend Mazapan (sic) who lives there and forced us to go. We were cheated, he is the one to blame and we will never forgive him.

-What kind of feedback have you had from the audiences?
-We don’t wanna sound conceit, but we have been making the best shows that I can remember of, there was a special motivation and people’s reaction was of the same kind. They cheered and clapped like ever and they went crazy!

-It was nevertheless easy to make it better than the chaotic noise ball that your shows usually are...
-We don’t complicate shit, we simplify it. Now we just have one guitar and we adopted the set list so it worked out, without guitar solos, with short, simple songs. It wasn’t easy to change from two to just one guitar, but we have got used to it and you can notice in the shows.

-Has the language been a handicap?
-Here (In Spain) people thinks we sing in English and there they thought it was Spanish.

-Well, that doesn’t say much on your favor...
-Neither against us. Just as an example: from Alabama to New York they all sang “La Barbacoa”.

-The USA is a country with a drug policy a little strict and you are not exactly some saints, did you have any trouble?
-I don’t know about policies but there was as many drugs as you could take, we smoked hash and weed all time and we carried some really good “dexidrinas” also, and we tried out some local drugs such as ice or crak, besides, in gas stations they sold some capsules that were a good help, just what we needed, truth is we had a nice supply all during the tour. And cocaine was excelent too, I almost forgot.

-Well, stop boasting, man. You know what they say here about dogs (perros): “the dog who barks wouldn’t bite”
-Nevermind you are lion or gacel, before the sun sets up you’ve got to be running (out from a “Pharmaton” advertisement). I thought you wanted to hear us barking. Well, truth is we didn’t even try beer, better that way? Anyway, when we go to Madrid you can come with us one night...

-What has been the most strange thing for you, touring the US?
-We haven’t got used to that tip thing in clubs and bars, but we acted like we didn’t know anything about it.

-That’s what they call a social conscience, yep... What has been the best and the worst about the trip?
-The best was the people we met there, the bands we have played with and the parties with local guys every night, we’ll be back! The worst was Paris while going there. We went to see the Eiffel Tower and we lost our plane for one minute. We had to pass the night at the airport with hobos and buy new tickets, fuck, to start the trip with joy. Anyway it was the only bad thing that happened to us, all in one dose.

-I guess you have a lot more of stories...
-Jane County showed us her tits at Manitoba’s and poked her tongue out at us. The bass player of a local NY band got us crack, and the Cynics’ singer took us to his home to sleep. We run out of all of his booze and weed!

-What did you feel when you put your feet on the CBGB’s stage?
-My eye dropped a tear, ‘cause I just had a fix of coke.
-It got me really down seeing the state it’s in and how it is exploited with a completely “eclectic” agenda.
-I don’t know about the agenda they have, but the best thing about CBGB’s to me is exactly the state it’s in. I was amazed by the stage wood, how shabby it was and I could imagine it with any band over that wood. You feel something special, sure, but nothing compared to Sun Records at Memphis, I think we got really sentimental there, more thatn anywhere else.

-I guess you ended up missing Spanish food...
-Not so much, although we were fed up of hamburgers at the beginning. Among us there are big eaters and we like to try out the typical food of every place.

-Would you encourage more bands to follow your example?
-Sure!

-You have recently released “Live! At The Star Club”, but being as prolific as you are I wouldn’t be surprised that you had something more on the go...
-We recorded a couple of songs in Atlanta for a split with The Carbonas (Atlanta’s Carbonas), a cover of them and a new song of our own that is bound to be our next big hit, it’s called “Quiero Crack” (I Want Crack) and soon every teenager in the world will be singing it. It’s going to be released in Die Slaughterhaus Records, the Black Lips’ label. The “prolific” thing must be a joke, man, we are releasing a record every four years! Although lately songs seem to come out easily.

-That’s what I ment, man, it seems you got on the go with “Rockeros” and you are not gonna stop...
-Before “Rockeros” we were in stand by for some time for some reasons and now it seems we have more eagerness, lately plans have been working good and that encourages you to do more things. Traveling and touring are an inspiration for songs... Everything’s connected: more shows, more songs, more songs, more shows.

-How was the Liam Watson experience? Would you repeat?
-As The Sidekicks, we had been three times in Toe Rag before going with Los Perros, and we had a good friendship with Liam. In fact, it was he who introduced me into real ale, which is the tepid beer they drink in the UK. This guy knows what he does and we took the chance of the tour to play and record, all in one. Of course we would go back and repeat but that’s not in our hands.

-Why “Live! At the Star Club” when you actually recorded it at Toe Rag?
-The name doesn’t lie. “Live!” means alive, and that’s how we recorded it, all at the same time, even the voice, and “At The Star Club” comes from the cover pictured, taken at the Star Club, Hamburg. We met it accidentally while looking for a thai brothel next to it. -As we said, these dogs never change...