Último Resorte
Interview ca. Summer '83 (possibly taken from the "Sintonía Cerebral" fanzine from Euzkadi, if to judge from the "S.C." initials)
Translation by Fernando Herrera from the original in Spanish from: http://geocities.com/eskupe1000/ultimo.html
"We met at the Zeleste hall in Barcelona, during a gig there by some horrible band from Leon. Vic (manager of a band called DICS) introduced us and some days after we met for the interview, when another interview was taking place in RADIO OBRERA; some time after, when we had some beers, we started the tape recording."
S.C. How did your first record work?
SILVIA. – Our first record sold pretty well, even being badly recorded and having bad sound.
SC. – But the dirty-like sound was what you wanted, wasn't it?
SIL. - No, that's not the idea, we want to sound sharp and loud. We haven't a fucking notion on PA, but we want the racket we make to sound well, but being the same racket, know what I mean? But the first single was the first thing we were making and we didn't know about how was it going to sound like, moreover, the studios were so bad.
SC. – Some stylist [(sic) elitist?] movements have emerged from Punk, as Oi!, post-punk and so on. Is it all the same thing for you?
SIL. - Punk isn't a big mass anymore, but something split up in pieces. I think the skins have nothing to do with it, but it seems they go to the gigs altogether. Oi! is older than punk, I like some Oi! bands but not their ideology.
SC. – Do you predict a future for any band from Barcelona?
SIL. – No future for any. I like Frenopaticss, Decibelios, Kangrena, Shit S.A., Código Neurotico, the three last ones only partly.
SC. – What do you think when an infamous music critic from Bilbao, after seeing you in the LA JAULA show, doesn't have a better thing to say that he had a hard on when he saw your nipple?
SIL. – Ha, ha, ha. I would tell him that it's not the first time someone's wanking in a gig by us, but it doesn't matter, let him think what he wants to. I did that for giving him something to talk about.
SC. What does sex mean to you?
SIL. – Something very important, but I think that people are still with taboos with sex, 'cos there's a lot of gossip.
SC. Your sleeveless t-shirt showing those cute little titties at every move of the arm, does it try to provoke the public?
SIL. – No, the tit's there to mesmerize the public, and then I can do with them what I want to. (Laughter.) No, I don't aim to hot them up, only the puritan people are gonna blush, the people who are more involved will see that as something funny and won't care about it, about what I'm showing (moving her arm).
SC. What do you think about black people?
SC. Poor people, they don't have a solution. Moreover, having Reagan where he is, they have it even worse.
SC. What do you prefer, humour punks or tough lyrics punks?
SIL. – Ha, ha, ha, ha. What a question! Humour punks make me laugh, but don't provoke me; they don't make me wildly pogo, but a band with subversive hymns does provoke me and make me pogo like a beast.
SC. Is there some person in the press or bands whom you hate?
SIL. Yes, I hate Ordovás [a famous music radio speaker back then], he's a guy manipulating lots of youths' opinion. When he doesn't like the band, he puts them down with very ironic questions, but when he likes the band, treats them as gods. Bands that are horrible to me, the NIKIS, I got them up to here, I don't like them at all. Besides that, I'm tired of people in their forties who have become embittered with life and try to embitter us. I hate them, I'd kill them.
"She started listening to punk in '77, starting with the RAMONES. Some time after she'd listen to DISCHARGE and GBH. Their first songs were based on VIBRATORS' ideas."
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