1. Hello! How are you?  “Sex Drugs Anarchy” is your third full – length release. How do you feel about it? In which ways do you believe you have evolved your sound?
Rod: Im fine thanks, how are you Nikos?

This time we acted as producer ourselves and this is what GEMINI FIVE has always been about; loud guitars and great melodies. The songs and the sound of the new album are simple because this is always what GEMINI FIVE has been all about from the start. We have not succeded in putting all that frustration into our previous records though... So we figured, this time we do it ourselves! No one is gonna tell us what to do or how to sound. This is the first time Slim Pete, Tin Star and myself are a 100% satisfied of how the band is being presented. This is how we have always been expressing ourselves live on stage. We're not a pussy band! The anger comes from the sweet taste of revenge. We do not want to be compromising with an outside person like a producer. It's like trying to please someone that is there for his own 'brand' which sometimes does not sum up with what we're all about! I mean, this new album is the best damn album in this genre for 20 years! And it's all thanks to Slim, Tin and I. A lot of the frustration came from not being happy about the band's 'situation' last year 2007.  We sat down and discussed the whole thing and came to the conclusion that some things had to change to make this band big! We fired the guitarist since he wasn't happy with the direction of the new songs. We ended the partnership with our management and ended the collaboration with the supposed producer of the album, Kory Clarke. He didn't bring what we had in mind for the album and it ended with me producing the producer... We even threw out the recordings we did with Kory and Snoopy since it really gave us angst just listening to it. Kory may be a great singer but he wasn't cutting it as a G5 producer.

Rod: Problems = exposure! I wanted a title and cover that would make you go, "what the hell"!!! A reaction of people being put off and offended because of the album cover. The title is just a play of words from the cliché; "Sex drugs and rock n roll" but that's a lame phrase to me. Also the album cover photo shows what the music is all about: a good old smack on the teeth! SEX PISTOLS are my heroes so there are a lot of references on this album to them. One song is titled "All pistols" and we are using the Anarchy sign "A" in a circle to the artwork and stage backdrops etc. The title song itself is about a non working, non healthy relationship between a girl/boy. "-what are you doing to me - we got sex, drugs, anarchy"

Rod: Tin Star and Slim Pete released 3 albums with the band JEKYLL & HYDE during the 90's. That band also had members and can today be found in bands like HAMMERFALL and THE POODLES. I played guitar with the American band BEAUTIFUL CREATURES in 2000 and that band is still going strong. The lead guitarst DJ Ashba is to be found in Nikki Sixx's new  band SIXX A.M.

Rod: I came up with the name since we didn't want a lame pussy name like Dixxie Lixxie Dangerous Whizpers. We wanted a name that is universal and didn't sound glam or rock n' roll. It's the name of a NASA rocket ship from the 60's. Surely people have heard about the Apollo project taking man to the moon but before that there was the Gemini project rocketing man to the sky. Just simply rocket number 5 or in Roman "V".  However we spell it F-I-V-E.

Rod: You are a 100 % absolutely right! WE ARE NOT A GLAM BAND. We are about metal guitars, black leather and studs and we have heroes such as JUDAS PRIEST, DIO, MOTLEY CRUE. This is about to be changed. Of course such a decription makes people not listen to us! There's a prejustice to bands who are wearing tight leather and eyeliner... There's an obvious flirt with the 80's band like RATT and MOTLEY CRUE, but they were COOL bands. We have absolutely nothing in common with bands like POISON etc. We even share the same manager as HAMMERFALL and BULLET. That's metal! :) So set aside your bias and vist our myspace to find out what we're all about: WWW.MYSPACE.COM/GEMINIFIVE

Rod: Yes, we threw away some 4-5 songs which simply didn't stand the standards of what we wanted a great record to be all about. Then we wrote 3 new GREAT songs with Martin Sweet from the band CRASAHDÏET. One left out track  "Crash city" is to be found on an American compilation; Mama Trash Family Artists - Volume II

Rod: Some dumb ass Norweigan critic wrote to our first album 'Babylon Rockets' [2003] that we where  "too old to be wearing tight leather and chains" and he wrote that "this first album was our last". Hehehe. We get a lot that we're sounding like ALICE COOPER's "Trash" and BON JOVI, but I don't agree since we do have a totally different approach and we do not  exist to reach fame among critics...

Rod:There's one story that comes to mind on the spot! During the tour with HARDCORE SUPERSTAR in 2004 there were a lot of practical jokes and fun and specially the last show was the highlight. We have a song called  "TwentyFourSeven" and on each chorus we point our right arm straight to the air when singing and the HARDCORE SUPERSTAR guys smeared some oily black grease to my microphone foam cover. This resulted in me getting a black moustache and by that time I had by bangs combed to the side which made me look like Hitler doing a Sieg Hail... Hehehehe. People where staring and laughing at me and I had no idea of what they all where laughing at... Funny as hell :)

Rod: I guess so. Maybe we would have a major label backing us up and there would a lot more album sales... People don't buy music today but there's other ways to promote a band today with the Internet etc. And we have a great flow of recognition and fans worldwide thanks to the Internet.

Rod: Thank you and hope to see you all very soon. In the meanwhile, do check out our MySpace for great music, hundreds of pics and free downloads of 5 new tracks from "Sex Drugs Anarchy".
www.myspace.com/geminifive
Greets// Hot Rod - GEMINI FIVE