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april 2001

NB: When I heard your (probably) 1st 7"EP "The Incredible Return Of Boonaraaas" I was really nicely surprised with your great songs. What are your biggest musical influences? 

B: "The Incredible Return of The Boonaraaas" is actually our second 7"-single. The first single is called "She Sound 2000" and is out on "Thunderbaby Records", too. All kinds of punkrock and garagepunk, for example Trashmen, Sonics, Saints, Ramones (we are very sad that Joey Ramone is suffering from cancer), Groovie Ghoulies, Swinging Neckbreakers, Phantom Surfers, Mummies, Detroit Cobras, Problematics ...

NB: How long do you exist as band and how many releases do you have? 

NB: When and how did you meet? Tell me more about yourselves. 

B: We all worked at the same popcorn machine at our local cinema and discovered that we were all wearing the same buttons and so it was no problem to find our way to our musical style. 

NB: Did you play in some other bands before? 

B: Patricia still plays bass in Germany's #1 surf band "Cave4", Veronika played bass in Germany's #1 girl pop band "Orange Crush" which is no longer existing and Christina played drums in Germanyís #1 rock'n'roll garage band "The Scamps".

NB: Who is writing the songs? 

B: We wish to have several ghost writers, but actually we have to write the songs ourselves. We all sit together and plan something together in our local pizzeria. 

NB: On "U.G.L.Y. Girl" LP you covered The Ramones and The Beatles. Who do you like more? 

B: We love both. 

B: We think that feminism influenced the development of each woman's life. It's still important ­ we live it, but don't talk too much about it. 

NB: Do you like comics and what are your favorites? 

B: Yes, absolutely. We like especially She-Hulk and Hulk, also Batman, Superman, Simpsons, Gaston and Hello Kitty.

NB: Cecile Musy played organ on some songs on your 1st 7". What happened with her? 

B: Cecile was playing in our band, but she was eating too many frogs and so people from the german society for prevention of cruely to animals came and took her away. 

NB: Somewhere I read that somebody from Boonaraaas plays in Curly Wurly. Is it your side project? I must be honest I didn't like Curly Wurly. It's too indie pop for my taste. 

B: Two years later she was seen playing organ with Curly Wurly.

NB: What can we expect from Boonaraaas in the future? 

B: We plan to do a new LP in summer and we will do a video, and then we expect to get into the "heavy rotation" of MTV.

NB: Do you play gigs often? I hope I'll see you soon here in Holland. 

B: Yes, we play a lot of times. All over Germany and sometimes in foreign countries like Italy, England, Belgium, Denmark. Once we played in Holland, Groningen at the Vera Club. We liked it very much and hopefully we will do some more shows in Holland. So if you know someone who can organize gigs let us know.

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