Lassie are a punk band from Germany. So might be a bit chaotic but that is maybe close to the real thing! Lassie are from Leipzig, Germany, and one of you are currently in Berlin; what can you tell us about where you live? MARI: You can imagine this neighbourhood as a nice mixture of a never ending variety of Arabian restaurants, meth addicts yelling at you on the street and hip people showing off their vintage Fila trousers.
Officially they put them up to handle drug criminality but there is really just lot of racial profiling going on. MARI: Shreddy is quite the dedicated aircraft spotter, she has an impressive collection. It is only 5 minute walking distance from where we live. TEUN: My parents thought it was a good idea to give me drumming classes to train my arms for some reason. They came to regret it quite soon when the neighbours started to complain with increasing regularity. Later I figured that that if you play synth you can still hang with the cool kids.
MARI: Then reality hit you hard and you were stuck with us. I started learning guitar when I was 11, my major influence was Nirvana and then Mudhoney which I still love both. There was a squat in my hometown and my friends and me had a rehearsal space there. A concrete cube filled with high jump mattresses which could only be entered via a fire escape ladder, so we always had to use a pulley to get in and out our stuff for shows. The squat eventually got evicted with police lowering down on ropes — crazy!
I liked to sing so pretty fast I wanted to write songs by myself. As a teenager I listened to loads of sad guitar music, probably a bit too much haha. But I also felt influenced by other music somehow. My best friend at that time and me became really huge fans of Sonic Youth, which are still one of the most important bands for me personally I adored Kim Gordon, of course.
Actually Lassie is the first band where I play electric guitar. MARI: Hahaha, so should we meet in the backyard? So I think I chose Lassie. MARI: Ahh so many good names! In case you, dear reader will use one of them, please let us know! MARI: Right now during the crisis. I feel inspired often and then again fall into a state of apathy, then I will just watch TV, play games or listen to music. Some of the things that inspire me: other music, Point and Click Adventures, Love and Rockets comics.
