Is there a commercial punk movement existing in St. Petersburg?
Of course. On the Sex pistols gig in June (where I went and which was brillant by the way) there were 2300 people, which I would consider as much. But when Exploited played 10 years ago, there were twice as much people. So probably the old punks are dying out here slowly as well. But we also have commercial bands here that usually play melody-core or similar and which are playing in stadiums from time to time. And there are still some old bands from the early years that are filling big venues. You also lived a while in Australia and also traveled to Western Europe several times already: Where do you see the main differeneces between the scenes here and there, e.g. regarding sexism etc.? I think these things are not dicussed that much over here. Here the kids are now beginning to realize what all this is about. I´d say, one of the main differences is that in the so-called “western world” you have a certain continuity regarding anarchist ideas. Here, the so-called “communism” annihilated
