In Sheffield for the Hell On Earth Tour, Faye caught up with Terror vocalist Scott Vogel, for a lengthy discussion about his disdain for barriers, his ‘alcoholism’, keeping the faith and so much more!
Faye: How’s the tour been going so far? I heard you got the barrier took down yesterday in Manchester.
Scott: The UK usually has a lot of barriers, we always try to get them to take them down, but if we can’t, then we just deal with it. I guess I understand the theory of them, but they cause more damage than help, because if you fall into that moat of metal and no-one is there, then you’re going to get hurt. Just to me, they ruin the show. Like today, it won’t be ruined, but it won’t be the same. The stage is a little bit high too, but I don’t want to sit here and be too preachy, because if we really, really cared, then we’d make sure beforehand that it wasn’t there. We just show up and try to get it how we can, and if they won’t take it down, then they won’t take it down, we’ll do our thing anyway.
Faye: What’s with your fascination about stage dives?
Scott: In about 2004, when Terror was kind of new, but not new, we had so many fights at our shows in the States. At every show, people were fighting and beating each other up, it was getting bad, and I think to get the attention off of people dancing really hard, I just kind of tried to get people to move up and stage dive more, to get the attention off smashing the person next to you. We had to work kind of hard to kill that violent vibe at our shows, it’s pretty much gone, so hopefully that helped. I just think what separates underground music or hardcore from other types of music is that people can do whatever the fuck they want, they can get on stage. At a Terror show, everybody should be involved and I can just remember when I was young and stage diving and stuff. I mean like, especially at a show like this, a lot of people have probably never done it and are probably a little timid too, so if they get encouraged then they’re going to do it and go from there. Hopefully, they don’t just get hurt. A couple years ago, we played with Full Force which was about 9,000/10,000 people with a huge barricade and it was one of the craziest shows we’ve ever had, the most energy. You can get up there and let a thing like this bum you out or you can get up there and be like, “I don’t give a fuck what they put in front of me, we’re going to make this crowd go off.” You just got to do what you go to do, like when I was jogging with Alan from Down To Nothing before, we were talking about that. It sucks that the stage is so high with a barricade, but just go in there and do your own thing. You can’t really worry about it.
Faye: I saw a HardTimes.CA interview with you one time, and you said you like to get drunk before playing most shows, why is that?
Scott: Well, it’s called alcoholism. [laughs] No, I’ve definitely gone through spurts where I get drunk all the time, but right now, I haven’t been getting drunk too much. I think on this tour, I’ve only been drunk once, so far.I don’t know, I sit around all day and there’s beer, and I like to drink. Is this like an intervention? [laughs] I have an easy life, I don’t have a wife, I don’t have a fucking other job, I don’t have fucking kids, I’m just a free semi-young man and if I feel like drinking, then I’m going to drink, but sometimes I do think it’s dumb and I’ll stop for a while. In the summer when we were over here, in the first month, I didn’t drink at all. It’s not like I can’t do it, it’s just like, I like to do it.
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