Meaning
bandname:
Maquiladoras are free-trade zones in Mexico. ‘Free’ means free to exploit,
the workers in this kind of places don’t have any rights. At the Drive In made
a song about the Maquiladoras and especially about the many women that were
murdered when they were traveling to their job. Most of us love deathmetal, so
we could have chosen a name like Decomposing Carcasses, but this name is a lot
scarier when you know what it means.
History: in the spring of 1999 the guitarplayer of the Hoogeveen band Venders of Smut got converted to christianity. His punkrocklive was over, but the rest of the band decided to continue. The line-up was Dennis (drums), Rick (bass), Michel (guitar). At first they wanted to do the singing themselves, but a flexible-walk-by-substitute-worker from Groningen (Eva) is much easier. Dennis left, came back and left again for good in the spring of 2001. In this time we also had a second guitarplayer: Martijn. The gap that Dennis left was filled with Bart in the summer of 2001. Recorded in 2001 7 songs in the Bunt's Studio in Utrecht and this was released as a 10" in the beginning of 2003 by a cooperation of several labels. New plans are a split 7" with RADIO BIKINI and a thematic LP about gentechnology. In March 2004 they will be the first Dutch diy band to tour Israel!
Lyrics:
they
are a way to get rid of frustrations.They are about things like social
inequality; people that force you to be nice and friendly; work (our national
religion); Maxima (our national daughter-in-law) and racism (our new national
passtime). Most lyrics are in dutch, the native language of Bart and Eva.
Description:
Metalpunk Line-Up:
Bart
(drums), Eva (vocals), Michel (guitar), Rick (bass) Tours:
December
2001 - January 2002: Germany, France, Spain (+ PCP) Email: cavia [at] bacteria [dot] nl |