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He says his first ever show saw him song for me, only because it’s a song about know it’s your own fault; you could have
screwing up big time. The band performed the whole band and how the whole band is done it. It’s much more plausible than you
at a senior prom party at school. “I screwed feeling on tour, and its ups and downs; might think. This makes you your own
it up and I sang really shitty, but it was a lot good times, bad times, fighting, separating, worst enemy. At least that’s what the song
of fun, and after that show, I knew I was winning, losing. Sometimes you want to is about.”
gonna be a singer someday… and I’m still quit and sometimes you just wanna hug the
working on that!” he laughs. world, so ‘One More For The Road’ might he New Roses (Timmy and Urban
be the most important song for all of us on Tare joined by Norman Bites on gui-
immy is very modest as he’s a great the record.” tar and Hardy on bass) are definitely getting
Tsinger. And the years of practicing Going back to ‘Life Ain’t Easy (For A to see lots of places. And their song, ‘Every
and performing shows have definitely Boy With Long Hair)’; that song, as Timmy Wild Heart’ is one that could also symbolize
helped him become a strong frontman. But mentioned, backtracks to those early years the band’s rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle, like ‘One
these days, he doesn’t just sing. Now, he of Timmy getting into music that we talked More For The Road’. At least, a wild heart is
plays guitar too. about previously. He sings about being 12 something that Timmy tries to keep to
“In between that show that I was talking years old. Was that when he first decided to some extent. And even if you’re not in a
about and The New Roses, there must’ve grow his hair? band, having a wild heart is not a bad thing
been 200 or 300 shows. I played a lot with “It started a lot earlier,” he replies, “but, to have. “It doesn’t matter how old you are.
my first band…Trivial, it was called… and to be honest, I didn’t have long hair at that It’s never too late to do something crazy,”
after that broke up I met Urban, the drum- time, I had my hair cut like Elvis till I was 16, says Timmy. “It’s not a no-go, it’s not for-
mer of The New Roses,” Timmy reminisces. I think. But that was pretty uncool too on bidden to do stuff that might be crazy in the
“We played in a rock ‘n’ roll cover band and the schoolyard. That was like an invitation eyes of everybody else. You keep your wild
I was just singing at that time. And then, the for black eyes. But I couldn’t resist, I loved heart, your wildness, inside your heart.
same shit happened again; our guitar Elvis so much, I thought he was the coolest That burning that makes you want to do
player quit, and so I had to learn how to dude on the planet. I knew everyone else stuff. You want to see crazy places and do
play guitar, because we had not got enough was stupid, I’m the only guy that knows crazy stuff; dance naked in the rain or just
money to pay for another guitarist. So I had how cool he is, and how cool that haircut get shitfaced on Monday in the night, what-
to learn how to play guitar. So I really felt is, so I showed up every morning again and ever. Sometimes you just have to do this
uncomfortable again on stage because I again. I always had my troubles with that.” stuff. If you grow up… and I’m at that point
now had to play guitar AND sing; two The song’s message itself is more in my life, in my early 30s, so I’m kind of
things that I never desired to do. But then I about realizing who you are and sticking starting to very slowly grow up a little now.
got used to that too, so when we started with it no matter what you go through – You kind of realize that everybody else
playing with The New Roses I was feeling more than it is about a certain hairstyle. around you is growing up so fast, buying
much more familiar with all of these things. Timmy says, “It’s just about realizing who houses and making babies, settling down
But then there was a new thing and that you are, what you want to do, and then just and becoming very responsible people,
was playing your own songs. Now you had doing that no matter what everyone else and I try to motivate myself with those
to make a record, so this was all new too. says, just go on and do that and you will songs to keep that childish attitude of
The first show of The New Roses, I was re- definitely find out sooner or later that it’s a dreaming and keeping your head in the
ally nervous again. I’m really happy that fucking great feeling to do that. It doesn’t clouds and just wanting to do stuff and tak-
those days are behind me and I can really matter if you win or lose or accomplish ing the moment and seizing it.”
enjoy the show, because in the early days whatever you wanted to do, just try hard;
it was just nerve-racking. I just wanted to being yourself gives you a good feeling. his album, ‘One More For The Road’,
die and I just wanted to get it over with. I’ve seen so many people around me Tcomes just a year and a half after
Now I’m always kind of sad when the show changing so many times their style, their the band released their second full-length
is over, so this has changed a lot.” preferences, whatever, and I don’t think you album, ‘Dead Man’s Voice’. And it’s packed
can be really, really happy inside this way, with all killers, no fillers. It seems that
hen Timmy writes lyrics for The so ‘Life Ain’t Easy’ – at first it’s not easy for Timmy and the band now have the knack
WNew Roses’ albums, they come you doing your thing, but in the end you for writing great rock ‘n’ roll songs.
from personal experiences and thoughts. might turn out to be a very happy person.” “I love doing it. Sometimes it’s like pick-
Although sometimes he doesn’t realize Timmy’s a happy person indeed, which ing an apple from a tree,” explains Timmy.
how personal the songs are until they’re makes us wonder why he wrote a song “You just reach out and there it is, finished,
done. “And sometimes I don’t even know called ‘My Own Worst Enemy’. Is he his and you can just eat it and enjoy it. But
that something was on my mind until I write own worst enemy? sometimes it’s like really, really hard work
it down,” he says. “It sounds really crazy… “You know, sometimes you realize that to get to the point where you’re happy with
Songs like ‘My Own Worst Enemy’, for ex- you’re desperately looking for someone to it. Things change, of course, the more suc-
ample, stuff that is in my head, but it’s not blame for shit that’s happening to you,” he cessful you get, because more people want
in the spotlight, it’s not there. It’s just like says. “You want to believe that life, karma a piece of your ass, everybody wants to de-
hunting around, and then you take the pen or something is treating you like shit and cide with you, everybody wants to talk to
and something becomes real and it gets out you’re always the guy with the bad luck, you about your stuff. Sometimes that’s a
of your system. You realize that it was on and in an honest moment, and I have these tough thing, but I still find a way to really
your mind and it was like a boulder on your in the bus when we’re driving through the enjoy it, and I really enjoyed writing for the
shoulder for a long time, but you didn’t night, for ten hours or something, you have new record because I knew exactly what I
know what it was. So ‘My Own Worst these very scary moments of truth where wanted to do, because we’ve been on the
Enemy’ was one of those songs. ‘The you finally realize stuff out of the blue. And road so much.”
Storm’ is another. For me, it’s a very politi- then you see that most of the time when In ‘Nitro Nights’, Timmy sings, ‘Give me
cal song, because the song is about all this you’re uncomfortable with something from more of what I need’. So we end by asking;
crazy stuff that is going on, and all anger your life, you realize in most of those mo- as a band, what do The New Roses need
that you can feel around you that is coming ments that you’re responsible yourself for right now?
to your neighbourhood, and people react to this stuff, so you could change that any “More shows, more rock ‘n’ roll, more
this anger with anger. So the anger is get- time, but you don’t have the balls for it. fans, more countries, more of everything,”
ting bigger and bigger and this is the storm Your job sucks, for example… why don’t answers Timmy. “It’s like the Queen song;
that is coming. Sooner or later everybody you quit? Don’t blame your boss, just quit ‘I want it all, and I want it now’. That’s how
will be very, very angry and that’s very, very your fuckin’ job. This is what I mean by that. we feel, and we’re not talking about fame or
dangerous – so this is a very important You live day by day, and someday you real- money; of course that’s a very, very cool
song for me as well. ‘Life Ain’t Easy’ is a ize ten years have gone by and nothing has side effect, but what we really want to do is,
very important song. It might be funny but changed and you wanted to see so many we want to get our songs out there. It was
it’s actually dealing with my past, and ‘One places and do so many things but you such a cool feeling to come to London and
More For The Road’ might be the most im- didn’t, and you try to blame somebody else, see people there wearing your shirts, wait-
portant song for all of us. It’s not a personal or something else for it, but deep down you ing for you and singing your songs. It’s so

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