My first punk record was by a band called "The Diggleres Portions" and the album was Feed Us & Feed Us. Some of the songs were a bit fashionable, like lyrically, but some of them, I think, are some of the best songs that I've ever heard in my life- definitely back in my first albums that I got. I saw them in 1985 and that got me into punk rock.

I was fifteen.

When I can't stand lying there thinking on my nightmares. The fortunate situation of ours (Propagandhi) is that we can manage to and get to do something about it with our band and with our label.

Actually, we did that as a local band, just as a joke, we played it like four times and then we never played it again. The last time or one of the very last times we played it was when we opened for Nofx in 1992. Mike really pressured us to have that song on the record and Ska Sucks, we didn't plan on having those two songs on the record at all, he kept them and it turned it into like a big success. Ska Sucks is maybe the worst song we ever did but people like it more than anything.

Well, I dont necessarily think we have lost the humour, if people check out the CD-rom part of the CD, theres a whole band history section, which I think is pretty funny. But I think outside of that, for the new record itself, we wanted to portray a dark nation, especially with the direction that America and Canada are heading. The humour content on the CD-rom is a bit separated because we didn´t want to mix something funny with something serious.

I think it depends on the three in the band, we all came up to the metal scene and then got into punk through the metal and then from getting into punk we got into political punk. Our biggest influences lyrically are Dead Kennedys, Subhumans, DyS, D.O.A. etc

We never played with D.O.A., I never met them actually, and they live 24 hours driving from our homebase. And then musically something like Motorhead, to Slayer we have a lot of musical influences

We have been doin' some dates together with Strike Anywhere, they are great guys and seem like a great band. Lately I haven't been into a lot of new music just getting into older stuff. But we really like things like Randy, they are one of my favourite bands.

Probably Todd joining the band, I think basically Chris and myself share similar cultures, history and backgrounds. Todd is different to John (ex-bassist); Johns lyrical and musical style is much better reflected in the Weakerthans.

Yeah, I mean one reason for that is Todd, he plays really hard and has got a much more hardcore background. I dont know, we play the new songs, like very fast, we are working on a new record, that will have more variety, it's gonna be like some parts on "Todays Empires" but maybe a little bit different .

Definitely political from getting into punk rock music, we were kids, we were 15 and we started buying records from M.D.C, D.O.A, Oi Polloi and some other political bands. Then the ideas started getting through after a while, we definitely try to extend the political tradition of punk rock to the whole punk community, thats why we created the band. And about our past, I dont remember being ashamed of my mohawk, its funny.

Yeah, what seems to be in our nature over the past thousand years is blind authority and that there must be certain people who govern institutions of power whether economic institutions, the church, the military, the power, we've been convinced this way throughout our history.

We cannot keep this structure up; we don't have to have the power structures that do keep it up. The problem is that George Bush and governments in general dont wanna change their economy and dont want the 3^rd world countries to gain and reach an equal position into industry etc. Because that would mean they are losing the power and control over them, so they are limiting power and controlling economies.

This interview was a little bit longer but I couldnt transcribe it all as the venue was so noisy. Sorry.

Thanks a lot to Matt who is the co-owner of the questions and to the band for being so kind to me.