So better late than never! We made this interview with No Use For A Name and don’t confuse the interviews; The interview we made with Tony Sly was just about his acoustic tour and not about NUFAN, this time we had Matt (Bass), Tony (Vox, Guitar) and Todd (Drummer and drummer of the Mad caddies too) basically this interview is about how fucked up the music industry is, on these days and how grateful NUFAN is for having a really solid legion of fans through so many years, read it yourself, like it, hate it, share it. So ladies and gentlemen NO USE FOR A NAME!!!
So you are back in Europe now, how has been the tour so far?
Tony: Pretty good, we only have like 2 shows left after this, but it has been pretty easy.
Matt: It has been already 2 and a half weeks, it’s been a lot of time, the shows have been great.
I was reading that you will release something new, tell us something about it?
Matt: It will probably be released next year any time, we have a new drummer Todd, so we are trying to adapt him 100% to the band playing shows, tours and find ourselves and next year we will have a record hopefully.
Todd: Tony hasn’t written any songs so that’s the problem hahaha
You played on this very stage 9 years ago, so which were the main differences you noticed today after a long time?
Tony: I don’t know, I think it is still pretty stable, I think we have a really strong underground following here in Europe so I think it hasn’t change that much; But I also think the scene changed a little bit, is weird you see a lot of young people watching and showing up to our shows so that’s pretty awesome for me.
Todd: You see all the time different people; you see old faces and at the same time young new faces out there.
Tony: We played Munich and there were a lot of young people.
Todd: Is weird because NUFAN has a solid old school fan base but to see so many young kids coming to the show is fantastic.
Matt: I think it’s because the older audiences are showing the young audiences about bands, does it make sense? Because if you see out there most of the new music sucks to be honest, so it’s good to see that we just noticed it, happens everywhere in the world but in the U.S.A. and that’s because the U.S.A. is the dumbest country as far as music goes, here people still respect the good music.
Talking about your upcoming release, which differences 
will we hear on it? What will make it different than the others?
Matt: The biggest difference will be that now we have 2 persons who are way better than the others in the past.
Todd: Nah just different hahaha.
Matt: No, I said better, not different! So that will be the big difference.
NUFAN already achieved more than a lot of punk bands in the world, what are you still looking up to?
Matt: I think we reached a lot of our goals, you know what I mean? We are touring the world, playing our music, making money and playing to the greatest fans ever, I think those goals have been met. Does it make sense? I mean we are of course still looking forward for the next tour and stuff but a lot of bands don’t see it that way and they should! For example when we first started we never imagined to be playing all around the world, we were hoping like “Hey that would be cool” and look now here we are.
We all know Tony is playing his acoustic tours as well, but what we don’t know. What the other members do when not on tour?
Matt, Honestly, I spend time with my wife, my car, my video games, I practice all the time at home, I just sit down in my living room and if I’m listening to Iron Maiden I just play and I love that, I keep myself busy.
Todd: Me and Chris we have a band in San Francisco called “King city” we mixed different genres so we basically play, what we want to play and that’s what we do and just live man, you know?
Tony: When I don´t play with the band or acoustic I don’t do too much, just being at home, yeah.
Which you think are the factors that there are so many good bands out there musically and never get to be recognized and there are so but so many shitty bands which get to be really famous?
Matt: Fuck that’s hard to say, I think there are a lot of bands who have a major label push behind them which really is it! It is kind of what it is, there are not so many major labels anymore, there are not as many labels as it used to be in the past, you know these still existing labels have people working for the bands they pushed them into the radio, push them everywhere. We don’t have that in an independent label, you know what I mean? So we have to do everything by ourselves and you know you can’t pull the band so far by ourselves, I’m sure if a company invest a million dollar on publicity for us we will get bigger than we are and there are a lot of stupid people in the planet.
So, why you think that a lot of underground bands jump to a major label, release 1 Cd and immediately they go back to the independent world?
Matt: Because you have to be the band who is cool to like and then you are there at the label and in a few months the next big thing comes and that makes any band to be famous for what? 1 month? Then no one hear of them again. Now, now is not like it used to be, right now there are thousand bands out there, it is so easy to make music now. If you have a Mac you are in a band! You can make a song and it´s so easy now, so there is so much to choose from and everybody is looking for a band now that is cool to like and is getting worse and worse, so the future of music is going to be really weird, if you see music is so fake now.
Shout outs
Matt: I just want to thank everyone who likes our band, we were talking about this how the music world is now, but we are really lucky to have a really solid legion of fans and we are really grateful for that so I hope to continue doing this for more and more years so keep hearing to us and buy our records.
By: Miguel Guinness
Supported by: Fat wreck Chords
