Tell us in short the history of Second Chance.

Perry: "Wilco and I started the band back in early 1996 and we recorded our first demo in 1997. Then in the summer of '98 we had a line up change; a new drummer and a new bass player were introduced. From the moment when we first got into the rehearsal room, we were all confident that this was gonna work out. It's like, we were all having the same ideas and stuff, and it felt right. Than, in the summer of '99 we started recording our first record and during the recordings Marco decided to leave the band, and he was replaced by Dries just before the recordings of the vocals. That's also the reason why I'm singing two songs on the new record."

You know people like to label music. How would you label yours?

Perry: "I'd say we play old school hardcore."
Dries: "With some influences oi! and whatever we like to play."

You recently released the CD "Premium Hardcore". Could you tell something about the recording.

Perry: "We recorded the drums at GT Studio's in Ridderkerk, and then we took the recordings home, sampled them onto my computer and then we recorded both guitars and the bass at my place. We just put a microphone in front of the amplifier and plugged it into my computer's sound card. But it took us almost two months until we found the sound that we were looking for, so at some points we wished we would have gone into a studio like normal people would have done! And when we were finally satisfied with the guitar parts, we recorded the backing vocals at our practising studio, with a tape recorder and two microphones. The lead vocals were done at Dennis Knopper's home studio in Brielle. At least most of them, we also recorded some vocals at Peter Magnee's studio."

Dries: "One time when we were gonna record the backing voacals they overbooked the practising studio and the only thing they had left was a storageroom from 2 by 3 meters, thats where we did most of the backing vocals of Too Late."

You released the CD on your own Hardcore Lives Label. Are there gonna be more releases on this label (by other bands)?

Perry: "Nah, I don't think so. We kinda made it up, it's not a real record label or anything. Just the name of the fanzine we used to do."

What's up with the Hardcore Lives fanzine?

Perry: "It's dead. I've been thinking about picking it up again, but I don't have the time to do it. Maybe some day when Second Chance decides to split up. But I don't think that will happen any time soon. Things are just starting to roll at the moment!"

Dries: "Maybe when we are rich and famous you can hire someone to do it for you hahaha."

How were the reactions to the CD so far. Onno Cro-Mag from the Aardschok magazine was pretty impressed by it, wasn't he?

Perry: "Yeah, we have had quite some positive reactions. When we met Theo from the Noizz at the A.F. show in de Melkweg in December we gave him a few CD's. A week later we were on the phone with Onno Cro-Mag doing our first interview in Aardschok Magazine. It was awesome, we never thought the CD would have had such an impact. Even Free Record Shop is selling the record!"

You have undergone quite some line-up changes over the last couple of years. Who is in the band now and do you think you finally found the right guys?

Perry: "Wilco and I are the only two original members. Jordy Two Sticks plays the drums, Rene Age-Of-Correl is pulling the bass and Dries is our singer now. I don't think we'll be changing our line up any time soon, cause we're all one hundred percent behind it at the moment."

You have recently been to the USA to play a show, but that got canceled I heard. What happened?

Perry: "Well, we planned to have our record done in September 99 so we would have had three months to get us some shows in New York City. But we never made it in time. Actually, the cd was pressed only a week before we left off. We picked up the cd's at the fabric the day before we flew over. We did manage to book us one show in the Lower East Side, at a place called Z-Bar, but when we came there the place turned out to be taken over by a new owner who didn't wanna do any live shows. In the Village Voice, a cultural news paper in NYC, we read that Sick Of It All was playing at the Roxy, so we went there. But that show got cancelled too. We heard that a little while ago some rich kid had broken his neck and died after a stage dive. His parents sued the place for a million bucks and they won. So now there's hardly any club who wants to book hardcore shows anymore, cause it's too fucking expensive to pay for the insurances... A lot of people told us that the NYHC scene is dead at the moment, from what we saw over there, I'd have to say they're right."

Was it a total bummer, or did you have a good time anyway?

Perry: "We had a great fucking time. We celebrated Jordy's birthday at CBGB's, we went to a Mike Ness show, and we did lotsa stupid tourist things. We really enjoyed ourselves, and some of us are allready thinking about going back this summer."

Do you have any plans to do it over in the future?

Perry: "We might do a little tour in the Chech this summer. Brielle has a sistertown there, and we might go there as part of an exchange project."

Was New York what you expected it to be?

Perry: "I had been in NYC before, with Marco, our former singer, in '98 so I kinda knew what to expect."

Dries: "If we are talking about the hardcore scene then.. no, but New York is a great place to spent a few days in, but we've also been in Boston and I had a great time there too."

Perry: "Yeah we met up with our bro Chris there. He was the roommate of Ian and Mike from Blood For Blood. We stayed over at their place when Marco and I were in Boston in '98, after we hooked up at a show with Madball and Blood For Blood. He took us to their local bar and we drunk some beers and we had a great time there. Jay, his other roommate is coming over to Holland in May with his band Out Cold."

When did you start listening to hardcore and what has it done for you?

Perry: "I was listening to Suicidal Tendencies and Sick Of It All back in 1989, but I really got into hardcore in '94/'95 I guess, when Madball put out Set It Off. Hardcore has since then been one of the few things in life that keeps me going."

Wilco: "For me it began with Madball and Sick Of It All but when I discovered Agnostic Front, I got really hooked."
 

Name one thing that bums you out.

Perry: "Budweiser."
Dries: "My sexlife."
Wilco: "People who don't respect others point of view. Like the thing about straigt edge or not."

Name one thing that makes you go "yeah!".

Perry: "Good Old Heineken."
Dries: "When I just had sex, oh yeah baby!"
Wilco: "Brand Beer."

What can we expect from Second Chance in the upcoming year?

Perry: "We will try to play as many shows as possible, and we might go into the studio after the summer to record a full length album."

Any final comments?

Perry: "Hardcore lives."
Dries: "Don't always take us seriously. But we do have something to say."
Perry: "Yeah, people should stop taking everything so fucking serious. We should fight the outside world, not eachother. It may sound like a cliché but it's true: united we stand and divided we'll fall."
Wilco: "Respect eachother! Unity!"