First of all: you guys have a very impressive biography:
Fabio ate some poisoned cactus which made him stuck with the sound of drums in his head, Vladimir got saved from becoming a savage boy thanks to a guitar he found in the snow, Mario’s grief because he could not become a professional football-player made him play the bass and Daniel is rather normal.
Fabio (drums): It is not entirely true. The origins of us in there are true, but not the stories. I didn’t eat that cactus (laughs). We wanted to make a funny biography that is not typical. Most biographies are summing up who was in which band before and when. We wanted to do something else with our biography. The origins are true though. Vladimir has a Russian background, Daniel lived in Hongkong, Mario is the real German guy and I was raised in South-America.
Mario (bass): I am a football-player and I did hurt myself while playing football, but it wasn’t that bad that I had to quit.
Daniel (vocals): I entered Disposed to Mirth only a few months ago and we haven’t found the time yet to write a cool story about me. We should sit together during a night of drinking and make something up that fits into our biography.
Since you all have such different backgrounds: How did you find each other?
Mario: We found each other around four years ago. All of us played in different bands, but we all knew each other and came together in the band. We had another drummer at the very beginning. When he left, I was introduced to Fabio by a friend and after a few times of jamming, we took him in. Daniel joined us around April this year.
Daniel: The old singer Matze quit the band because of personal reasons. They played over a hundred shows a year at that time. At such points you have to make a choice between putting all your energy into the band or not. Matze thought he achieved what he wanted to achieve with Disposed to Mirth and made the very hard decision to leave the band. I knew Mario, Vladimir and Fabio already because I have played shows with them before when I was in another band, ‘The Utopia Experiment’. When Matze left, they asked me if I would like to take over the vocals.
What influences your band the most? (Russian/oriental influence already included)
Fabio: The lyrics are Daniel’s part.
Daniel: I got kicked out of society I guess. What I write and sing about is basically the best thing to let out what you live every day. What you see every day, what you live with, the world you are living in. I try to take this in mind when I write. I think it’s crazy fucked up world and we try to find our ways to fit into this world and that is hard enough. Writing about it and singing about it is the best thing to let out what you live every day.
Fabio: Everyday stuff. It is not that we write songs about love and relationships. We make music about things that are much deeper than that.
Daniel: Every genre has its own themes to talk about. Poprock usually is about love, deathmetal usually is about death. I think that is too little. That is not really talking about who you are or how you want the world to be. We want to do our own thing, not just walking between the lines.
Fabio: That was the lyric part. In the drums I add Latin beats and then some blastbeats again or some jazz influences. I try to play every kind of music as a drummer, which means I am influenced by all sorts of music.
Daniel: You can clearly hear that we have all different backgrounds. In the guitarparts you can hear Russian and oriental harmonics that we have put in there. We try to put everything in that we have experienced and we try to express ourselves as good as we can. Diversity is a good way to express yourself.
At 11/11/’11 your new album will be released, what can we expect?
Daniel: What people can expect? That’s a secret. (laughs)
Mario: We won’t make it to release the album in November, it will be at the beginning of 2012. We will be in the studio in August.
Fabio: We want to experiment some more with the music. There is a new song that has electro and dubstep influences and we’re thinking about using some more synthesizer. All of our songs are still in progress, so we can’t tell yet how it exactly will sound like.
Daniel: We try to figure out exactly what our sound will be like on this album. That is what makes the music we are writing now so important to us. We want to spend as much time as we can rehearsing. We want to make this special album that people can see we really worked hard on this and that it is thought through. It will be shitloads of work. We will have to quit school and work… (laughs) No, in the end it is just organizing. We are four guys that really want to do this and if you really want something, then you make time for it. You cannot deny that this is hard sometimes because you need to work and go to school. We also need money so we work from time to time, but in the end it is the music that matters to us. Every second that we have, we put that into our music. It is a 24 hour job, it is constantly on our minds.
You have a lot of shows coming up, even a few in the UK, looking forward to it?
Mario and Fabio: Of course!
Daniel: That is the orgasm of making music, being on stage. As I said before, it is shitloads of work. While being on stage you feel like that moment is why you delivered all that hard work.
Fabio: It is our first time in the UK with Disposed to Mirth.
Daniel: we would like to expand, to play more shows in more different places. We want to reach as much people as we can. Disposed to Mirth has played lots of shows in Germany and also some shows in the Netherlands and in Belgium. It feels great to be 2000 km away from home and people are standing there singing your songs. That is what we want to do. We want to play live and we want to play everywhere.
Fabio: Everywhere, all the time.
You have two music videos online: from ‘A martyr’s trial’ and ‘Diamonds in his throat’. How was it to make those videos?
Mario: We recorded ‘Diamonds in his Throat’ in this room. It was very spontaneous and the recording was planned only one week in advance. We posted on Facebook and Myspace that we would record our song and over 60 people came to join us for making the video.
Fabio: We invited people and told them we would take care of some beer for them if they would show up. The recording itself was really crazy, people were climbing up the fridges, everybody was going nuts. It was recorded with a small camera, nothing special about it. But the result is great.
Mario: it was the first song that lots of people knew the lyrics from. With this video we wanted to show that we are close to our fans. We actually made this video for the fans, because this song seemed to be one the favourite ones, no matter where we played.
Fabio: The people in this video are our first fans and it also a way to thank the people for being there and supporting us. The feeling of being one big family comes forward in the video. We knew every single person from shows. It felt like one big family meeting.
Daniel: ‘A Martyr’s Trial’ was made by a cool guy called Doom Design, who does lots of cool videos. He is down to earth and knows how to use equipment. It was a nice and cool experience. There were different camera angles and we recorded the song like 200 times. (laughs) The funny thing was that we couldn’t hear ourselves. The only thing we could hear was Fabio hitting the drums all the time.
Fabio: One time I stopped playing and we could hear the guitars playing without the amplifier.(laughs)
Mario: It was recorded right around the corner by the way. Hey let me take a picture for facebook!
(Mario takes a picture from Daniel, Fabio, Jasmien (my beautiful and skillful photographer of the evening) and me)
Daniel: it will be online in ten seconds. (laughs)
Nice, we'll check it out then! up to the next question: 2 girls one cup vs one guy one horse?
Fabio: One guy one horse?
Daniel: That just doesn’t sound good. That poor animal! What would PETA say?
Mario: I watched two girls one cup.
Somebody confesses!
Fabio: I tried to watch two girls one cup. I almost threw up, I could not watch it. When I was looking away I could hear the sounds and even that was hard to stand.
Daniel: I have this funny experience with this video in Hongkong. There was this café where you could go online and put on a video on the big screen so everybody could watch it all over the place. One guy came up with the idea to put on this nasty ‘Two girls one cup’ video. Can you imagine everybody eating their brownies while... You know what I mean! (laughing)
Mario: I’m no Xbox or PS fan. I just play a footballgame on computer.
Daniel: Xbox.
Fabio: (looks at Daniel in an astonished way) Playstation! I hate Microsoft. It doesn’t work well, but Sony isn’t working well either. I like the graphics more from Playstation 3. PSP is also a nice little thing. When I was a kid I used to be in love with PS1, but it bored me after a while. The best games are the old Nintendo games, for example Super Mario
Daniel: The Xbox controller kicks ass. Maybe it’s just the controller that attracts me. So it’s 1-1. What are we going to do? Stone, paper scissors!
(Daniel and Fabio start to play stone, paper, scissors with the serious ambition to beat each other)
Daniel: stone, paper, scissors!
…
Daniel: YES, Xbox won!
Disposed to Mirth would like to thank:
We would like to thank everybody who supports us for example: Titus in Münster and Street Ready. We would also like to thank the people who supported us, who come to our shows and buy merchandise.
