Interview with PSG

finnbands: PSG - Psycho Star God: What does it mean?
Wege: It doesn't mean anything.
Misty: When I joined the band I was told that our ex-drummer did some kind of drawing which was titled 'Psycho Star God' and then the guys did a song about that or just titled the song like that.

finnbands: Misty, you were wearing wings on one of your last gigs in Helsinki. What is it about?
Misty: I don't remember exactly how I got the wings but it was one of the last gigs with Jay doing the vocals and we decided to do something special and somebody gave me the wings and I put them on and yesterday (Nuremberg) I had some wings from a girl called Riika.

finnbands: How was the touring so far? It seemed to be pretty much chaotic today. Was it like that all the time?
Misty: Pretty much like that all the time, but fun and fun and fun and tired and tired and tired…ups and downs. We also had to cancel one gig.
finnbands: What did you expect before you came to Germany?
Mike: Not much, a nice little trip in a nice little country. *laughter* I don't know, we didn't expect anything. Just get here and play some gigs. This is our first time abroad.
finnbands: You will also go to Spain after the German tour.
Jay: Yeah, on Monday. We have four gigs but one of them is private. There is some kind of festival in Fuengirola, it's called Feria de los Pueblos.
Wege: It's a sort of festival where there are a lot of tents and every country has their bands…
Jay: *interrupting* No not bands, it's something from their country to present and the Finns have bands and us and food and other stuff I don't know.
Mike: *singing* I don't know.

finnbands: Talking about your new drummer...
Mike: Arse.
Wege: Sir Arse.
Jay: Mister Sir Arse.
Renske: Yes, that's me. Mister Sir Arse.
*laughter*
finnbands: So you just joined a couple of weeks before the tour, right?
Renske: Yeah, a couple of days before tour to play this tour and I think I am in the band now.
Misty: He played one gig and we did two rehearsals before the tour we lounged for the tour.
Wege: About three and a half to four hours.
Renske: I never did anything like that before.
Mike: This is a great guy, you know. He is a kind of daddy, that we needed in the band. *all the guys are laughing*
Wege: Yeah, right.
Jay: Mum and dad…
Mike: I thought he is my mom and so I started to cry. *loud laughter*
finnbands: *to Mike* I see you are limping.
Mike: Yeah, I fucked up my knee in Leipzig. I tried to do a spiral like this on the show. *throws up his arms and pretends to spin around while sitting on the sofa* But suddenly I fell over the monitor and the place suddenly looks like after the war. The microphones were all over the place and everybody was laughing because of that. I started to sing the song to it's end and afterwards that the pain came over me. I had like a water bulb there (pointing at his knee) filled with liquid and I couldn't sing anymore because the pain was killing me.
finnbands: And you went to see the doctor then?
Mike: I went to the doctor one week after that. Yesterday.
Misty: Because the pain came back…
Mike: Away from Finland we just have pain.
Jay: I feel no pain…*all laughing*

finnbands: I wanted to ask if there were some funny situations on this tour but this already seemed to be quite funny. Even if it was painful for Mike.
Mike: But that was nothing. The whole tour has been like 'Spinal Tap'.
Misty: In Cologne we were about to go to the venue. We came out and didn't see our car nowhere. It was towed away. And we were like 'Where the hell do we get our car back?' Luckily we stayed at that local girls place and she then took care of everything. So, that was no problem then. Just some extra money.
Jay: So we did support the town of Cologne.
Wege: It's been a hard ride, but the thing is that it gives it the strength to carry on. It makes you stronger and stronger and keeps you going. Then you understand why you are here. I am happy to tour because this are my best friends and the Jade guys too. Ten People in this little car…*Mike suddenly starts to do some weird aching noise as background noise for this sentence*
Misty: Accidentally we are touring in the same little car. We were supposed to have two cars but there were some problems on the way so we just have one car. We have all the equipment and luggage and everything. There is also one extra person in the car which means 10 persons and just 9 seats. So everybody has to have something on the lap and we were doing like 500 km in the night.
Mike: From Berlin to Cologne and then to Leipzig that was fun. *everybody laughing* Luckily I was drunk so I didn't give a fuck about that. *grinning* I think these guys did because they had to listen to my stories. I'm sorry. *after a short break* Just tell that we had big trucks.
Wege:…Helicopters.
Jay: ...and Nightliners.
Wege: UFO's.
Jay: Jumbojets.
Wege: I can see dead people. *pointing on the interviewer* One is sitting on your lap, but don't worry she's friendly.
Misty: What? *looking a bit puzzled at Wege*
Wege: It's been a long ride…
Jay: ...but not that long *all laughing*
Mike: Somehow you are the only one that is talking…
Wege: From Indians, from them I know, they are weird. *ome of the guys laugh*
finnbands: *somehow tries to get out of this situation* Did you enjoy the German beer?
Jay: Yes.
Wege: A little bit too much sometimes.
Jay: I like beer.
Wege: And Vodka.
finnbands: But Vodka isn't some typical German drink.
Renske: Oh, but Jägermeister is.
Jay: *shakes his head* I don't know, urgh. *grimaces*
Mike and Wege: *singing* I don't know.
Mike: It's been a great ride. I have so many new friends.
finnbands: I think there are not many people coming tonight.
Misty: We are used to that.
finnbands: How many people have been to the other concerts?
Jay: Not that many. It seems that people in Germany don't go to gigs.
Misty: At least on weekdays.
Jay: Weekends were better.
Wege: The best visited gig was in Leipzig. Thirty or fifty persons.
finnbands: How did the audience respond? Did they like you?
Wege: People that came to our concerts were really positive. That's a good thing if you have five people that like you they tell others so in a few months it's ten or fifteen. It goes up then.
Jay: I haven't heard any bad comments about us.

finnbands: In your opinion which was the best concert on this tour?
Jay: You know, it's not only about the audience. Some clubs were not really friendly toward us. They had done nothing and treated us quite bad. I don't get it.
Wege: But Leipzig was great. The pub owner was a really nice guy. We have to thank Tobi so much, because he was doing everything for us, for all the bands and also giving us drinks. We've got to drink with him after the concert when everybody else was out of the club. The next morning he invited everyone of us to his place to have breakfast and shower. That place in Leipzig and yesterday in Nuremberg were the only ones that were advertised a little. But Leipzig was the only one where the owner had put some posters to the walls and put it on the schedule on the internet. No one else has done it. Ok, here in Aschaffenburg they had it on their website too. So people don't know you are in town. So how can you go to a gig if you don't now about it. We have already received messages like: Damn, we missed your gig.
finnbands: I haven't seen Posters anywhere. That's right.
Jay: We send posters to all the clubs and we supposed to have street teams to spread all the stuff but we haven't seen anything.
Wege: They all keep explaining it with the thing, that they didn't receive it. So, there must be something wrong with the post. *laughter*
Jay: We don't know how do they benefit if they don't advertise the night. Wouldn't it be better for all if they did? But maybe that's the German way…
Wege: I don't think that's the German way. That's the way of people who are working in the restaurant and music business at the same time. The are getting tired and tired and tired. The same shows going on and on and on and it is vanishing the first kind of ideal feeling. This 'Yeah! This is fun!' and you don't even notice. I mean we are not from here and we don't know the way how things here are handled.
Jay: You know in Cologne somebody had called the club "What is on schedule on Friday?" and they couldn't tell him anything about the night. So, that's really weird! That stuff has happened here pretty much.
Misty: Also the first gig in Berlin, it was pretty much the same. It was Monday and the next day we heard that the place is usually closed on Monday and there wasn't any kind of advertising.
Wege: There were like five people.
Jay: That was funny. It was a really huge hall and there were just five people in. They have like three floors there and we were supposed to play at the small stage. But some other gig was cancelled so we played the biggest stage.
Wege: With five people in front. But they even got a Finnish flag with them. So 'Wow'.
Jay: We took them all to the Hostel upstairs and had a good good party.
Wege: I don't remember... *all laughing*
Misty: It was good and fun!

finnbands: Thank you for the interview!

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