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October 2016

Q: How long have each of you known you’ve wanted to
be musicians?
Isis: I think everyone in this band has been saved by the
blessings of rock & roll. I know that if I wasn’t in this band,
I’d either be in jail or in a psychiatric ward.
Q: It’s awesome that the band is originally from Greece!!
Could you fill in our readers on the current rock & roll
scene there? How does it differ from the U.S. and the
European continent? Do you feel it gives the Dolls an
additional edge?
Isis: Great things come from desperation. That’s why
“Desperate” was the perfect title for our new album. The
scene in Greece brought us desperation. When we started
the band there was no place to play on the island of Crete,
especially being a loud and distorted rock band. So we
had to take the 9 hour boat ride to Athens to play shows,
but even then no one would book us because we were
from Crete and couldn’t guarantee these clubs that we
would bring a crowd. We ended up taking over a rock bar
on Sundays and putting on all ages free shows in order
to start a scene and gather our own fans. The success
Photo Credit: Hannah Verbeuren Pho
of that echoed out
tography
and our demo got
picked up by the
legendary Rodney
Bingenheimer who
started playing our
tunes on the biggest
rock radio station in
the world: KROQ.
We were invited to
go play Los Angeles
where we became
the first rock/punk
band from Greece to
play the U.S., which
inevitably opened
up the doors for
other Greek bands
to make their debut
in the U.S. and start
touring.
Official video for “Drown”, the lead off track from “Desperate”
https://youtu.be/QlJ5swz726E

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