20 years after the bestseller “Village Punks” Rocko Schamoni has written a sequel. “Pudels Kern” tells of the Hamburg scene in the eighties. A conversation about his failed pop star career, his love for his old homeland and what he learned from women.
Mr. Schamoni, do you still style your hair with beer?
Am I still a punk? Of course not. Punk rock is a thing for young people. I’m still interested in subculture, but I’m no longer addicted to it. I don’t hang out in bars every night anymore. There are just different phases of life. “Every seven years turn your gaze, even a tear remains a long way away,” sang the band “Der Plan”. If the Toten Hosen claim to still be punk rockers, I think that’s okay. But I can’t say the same for myself, I always have to reinvent myself.
Rocko Schamoni wears white pants and a striped shirt. It’s a style quote that he wants to use to remind us of Paul Weller.