Q- Never ever seen such a success like the one the Strollers are currently enjoying ! Your first EP is already nearly sold out, a few weeks only after it appeared, and it seems that it's also gonna be the case with your new single. Are you conscious of your success, do you understand it, and how do you explain it ? What's the difference between you and the other garage bands that would explain this success ?

Mathias-Well,what would you say to a thing like that. Of course it's great to hear that people in Switzerland like what we\re doing. We didn\t know this until we heard it from you, but surely it's great news. The difference between us and other bands is really up to the listeners. We're just tryin' to do our best in writing & playing the kind of music that we like.

Q- Talking about this first EP, is there any chance to see a second pressing appearing ( maybe on another label), or is it destined to become a cult object ? How many copies of this one were issued ? same question with the single ?

M-For the moment there are no plans for a second pressing, but that\s really up to the Low Impact guys to decide. Both the EP and the single are pressed in 800 copies.

Q- Tell us the whole story of the band. Your past, your musical education and emotions, the basics of this love for the US 60s garage punk, how you got in touch all together, if the current line up is the same as in the beginning, etc...

M-Three of us (Mathias, Henrik & Martin) started out in our early teens playing mostly r'n'b stuff. At the age of 16 we moved to more raw garagepunk, inspired by all those great american 60's bands. At that time we had Joakim Dimberg from The Roadrunners on rythm guitar. Then some members has come and gone. The currant line up has existed for two 1/2 year.

Q- What were your first live appearances ? In which context ? What were the public reactions ? Any funny/ stranges anecdotes about them ?

M-The first gig we did whith this line up was at friends 30th birthday party. There were plenty of free booze so the crowd were eather crawling on the floor or jumping around on the tables so i guess they liked us. Nothin\more known about that party.

Q- If we ask you to define your sound, what would you say ? We must say that we're completly under the charm of this mix of fuzz killers and of moody tunes...

M-Well, actually that's it. All the great garage bands from the from the past is the main inspiration source. We all think that a straight, simple, primitive goes hand in hand whit our kind of music.

Q- Let's talk about roots and influences... what are the 60s bands that are true masters for you ?

M-On the american scene there's so much great bands on comps like "Back from the grave", "Pebbles", etc. So it's hard to pick out just a few. Little more "known" bands such as Music Machine, Seeds and the Elevators we also dig of cuorse. Over here in Europe bands like Q65, Namelosers, Them and Dynamites are favorites of us.

Q- We can feel, listening to your records, that a particular care is given to all your compositions, given already to the 6 titles published, the stage of �L classics ?. Is there an �L esthetic ? rule you're following concerning your songs ? On which criteria are made the selection of the titles that appear on the records ? you're the writer of all these trax... are all his songs of the same vein, it means all killer, or is there a lot of selection among lotsa songs before the best ones appear on record ?

M-As we said before, the influences are obvius. You can write about politics or all kind of stuff, but who gives a damn. I (Mathias) think we could release almost every song that is written, just beacuse I'm not having any interest in writing love songs.

Q- What do you play live ? a lotsa covers, I imagine.... which ones ?

M-We're plaing very few covers at our concerts, sometimes none. For the moment were doing "Ain't no miracle worker" and The Grucibles "You know i do". The point is that, we think we got so much great originals so why play 1-2-5 when nealy every 80's garage bands allready done it.

Q- For the Stollers maniacs, is there any traks from you that have appeared somewhere, before your first EP on LI ?

M-No there's not. We're only made some demotapes.

Q- Why having signed on such a little label as Low Impact ? With some so great stuff as are your songs, you could have pretend to a higher label...reason ?

M-They were the first label who wanted to release us. And we think they're doing a great job.

Q-.We're impatiously waiting for your Lp that should appear on LI at the beginning of next week... What's goin on currently with this project ? Do you think you'll be able to take up the challenge of 100% garage hit killers on a LP, like it's the rule on your 7'' ?

M-Of course. It'll be a smash hit.

Q- What is your place in the swedish garage scene ? Is there any place for bands like yours, or for the DeeRangers or Roadrunners, between the high success that punk heavy metal bands like Gluecifer or Hellacopters are enjoying ? Will we see arriving some other bands in the same vein as yours, that are currently in the shade, or are you really a isolated case ? What became the big and great swedish garage scene of the 80s ?

M-We're just doing our thing. But it's pretty much the same people who shows up at our conserts as theres. As far as we know we\re the only band who plays pure 60's punk.

Q- Will we see you before this LP on other 7'' ? Maybe on other labels ? We can suppose that many labels are now knocking on your door, to get a few trax from you... appearance on comps ? live ? tours ?

M-We hava recorded two songs for a little swedish lable called "Speed demon 1000". And that single will released in january. We`ll also do something for Estrus and Screaming Apple, but it'll also wait until next year.