HOPSKATCH
By; CorixA ska punk politically inspired with their new line-up will share their knowledge to us.
NO BULLSHIT: Where did you get the name HOPSKATCH and what does it mean?
Mark [guitar/drums]: Hopskatch was basically Al’s Idea, the sport where in you jump around and it’s fun, the basically describe our music. Sam [guitar]: It’s a game but I don’t know what kind of game it is.
Catong [vocals]: Hopskatch or Piko, it’s fun happy game but you strategy on it, like the Hopskatch way, it’s Al’s idea.
Ninoy [bass]: Hopskatch originnaly had a deeply meaning religiously, the hopskatch pattern often look like a floor plan of the church and the game was widely played through the age.
NB: Your music was politically inspired ska punk, do you think you can help our country’s economic crisis, political bullshit problem of what you are doing right now?
Froilan [guitar]: awareness lang.
Bob [vocals]: medyo lang.
Sam: I don’t know if I can help anyone, but I wont help anyone or anything for this so called political problem.
Mark; We cant help our country crisis because our country is too shitty! And the way people think here are different, we’re all assholes!
Catong: We are not only political, because there are times that people like us do shitty things, and blame all to the government, we want to change the system, but lets change ourselves first.
Ninoy: Help is not the right term, and hindi naman political eh! siguro hindi lang kami open sa mga ganyang usapin kaya kinakanta nalang nila.
NB: If someone offers you a break to sign in a major label in the Phils. Will you grab this opportunity? If yes, why? If not, why?
Bobby; Hindi siguro kasi gagawin lang business.
Froilan; No, thanks! Free GMFF ok!
Dave: Ay! Hindi pala.
Sam: No! we’re just having fun, we’re not taking this shit as job or anything.
Catong: Big NO! we don’t want to be a corporate puppet, get gig and fame but they still a bullshit for us!
Mark: No, thanx! Because we will become famous like KAMIKASHIT!!! [laughs] and it’s more fun playing in the underground gig.
Ninoy: Yes! And so their balls! Syempre mag-iisip ako, kung ayaw nila ako nalang magsosolo, parang si Luke Mijares.
NB: Which place here in the Philippines you really wish to perform live? Why?
Mark: Anywhere and everywhere.
Froilan: kahit saan.
Bob: Laguna, Davao
Sam: Under the sea coz I never heard any water resistant guitar.
Dave: Eto lang sagot ko, Davao!
Catong: Cebu/Davao kasi maganda eksena dun!
Ninoy: Pikit Cotabato
NB: What are your definition of Mohawks and skin head punk? And pogo punk and Oi?
Mark: Mohawk Indian, skin head working class, pogo running around having fun, Oi reality punk.
Ninoy: Lecture ba? Kay Bob nalang.
Bob: Rebellion
Catong: Mohawk is being tired of traditional look, skin head or skins, those punk are properly dress, when you sing chorus all together your band is an Oi, but most of all respect not only punk but other scenes too, like metal or hiphop, the important is how you deliver and attack your messages, stop labeling yourself your freewill to be who you are!
NB: Will you influence you kids someday into punk music?
Mark: [laughs] yes!
Froi: yes
Sam: I got crooked dick, I don’t know if I could stick it into the right hole.
Ninoy: I’ll push them naman, basta ba matuto lang siya magbasa ng diyaryo at mahilig sa balita, awareness ba, and to their part, ok yon! Kahit hindi sila makinig ng gusto ko maging malaya sila, asawa ko muna influence ko ng kama sutra! [laughs] Catong: Do what he/she wants, just express their selves and be real, just don’t be a lose up pose up!
NB: How long you’ve been into punk music?
Ninoy: have I been?
Catong: 12 or 13 years, when pinoy punk got big and punk gig is just around Makati and Manila and freedom of expression is on my way, I drop high school just to get long haired Mohawk
Mark: since highschool, but I’ve known punk since kid, you Ramones spiderman?
Bob: since highscool
Sam: Since they picked me up at the street they kinda like…
NB: What are your recent heading materials that you enjoyed? Please share what the fuck is all about?
Mark: Punk, ska, Oi, street punk, emo sux!!!,…band like Blank77, Defiance, Choking Victim, Funeral Dress, The Oi Scouts, AAA, Old Suicide Machine, Rancid, Operation Ivy, movies, girls, boys, school, work.
Froi: Punk rock, ska
Dave: Transtech
Ninoy: Ang paboritong libro ni hudas
Bob: Emo, punk, alternative
Sam: Time spent driving, Coheep and Cambria, Deftones
Catong: Alcohol, beers, girls, beers, punk rock, beers, ska, beers, ska punx, beers, post punk, naked chicks, more beers, suicide machines, Operation Ivy Rancid, The Unseen, The Toesters, etc.
NB: What are your memorable gigs?
Mark: All gigs are memorable, specially the first time in Cavite, where there was a stampede…[laughs]
Froi: lahat
Ninoy: Hopskatch? Wala, sa PCU ok dun.
Sam: I never thought of memorable gig we performed on.
Dave: Lahat
Bob: Lahat
Catong: Lahat daw sabi nila e!
NB: Did you ever get paid some of your gig?
Catong: I think I get laid if that yes, but paid no even free beer, we get nothing just fun and sing our message straight to them.
Mark: Nope! I hope, I wish, sometimes we also pay the entrance.
Froi: Nope!
Bob: No!
Sam: I wish someone will give a 7.5 deck
Ninoy: Pag dumating yung point dun, kukunin nila akong manager tapos pasisikatin ko sila, tapos pag marami na talagang pera, pag aawayin ko sila! Mas mahal yung value ng produkto nila, mas marami akong pera!
NB: Who are your influences?
Hopskatch: Minor Threat, Suicide Machine, The Hippos, Skankin, Pickles, LTJ, The Unseen, OP Ivy Rancid, Lars and the Bastards, Kemuri, Skandaloza, G.I and the Idiots, Ienstein Chakrass, Lasenggos, Blank Bullet, Betrayed, Chino Moreno
NB: It’s your time to shout somebody.
Hopskatch; Thanx to all our parents, friends, girlfriends, family, classmates, punx, hiphoppers, metal heads, and the bands: Disappearing Toy, Justin Pearce, A.F.M, Lasenggos, No left turn, HUH, Sigh, Sassafras Roots, Bad Omen, Betrayed, Beauty of Doubt, 15 minutes of Shame, Butoy Squad, mga tangero, Sk8 shops, sk8rs, Porno at Retardo, Makati sk8/punx scenes, Laguna sk8/punx scene, Cavite sk8/punx scene, Davao/Cebu punx, Donna Game Aint Over, Fishbone, YOF, Corix.
NO THANK TO: Government, multi national rich kid, and their lazy man, critics, backstabbers, balasubas na jeepney driver, security guards,
BIG THANX TO: GOD at sa fanzine na to!.
HOPSKATCH INFO: http://hopskatch.cjb.net
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