Fine cream fish fillet: Punk singer Monchi: Don’t see me as a part of the left scene | EUROtoday

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Jan «Monchi» Gorkow, entrance man of the punk band Feine Sahne Fischfilet, orders himself politically in a different way than earlier than. “I don’t see myself as part of the left scene,” Monchi instructed the German Press Agency in an interview on the event of his band’s new album.

It was totally different prior to now, however: “Whether with football, whether with such scenes, these drawers are always too small for me at some point and I realize that I wouldn’t be in there,” he added to the Ultras of Hansa Rostock.

Monchi: Not searching for the needle within the haystack

The entrance man criticized: «The 16-year-old Monchi wouldn’t have felt addressed by the left. That would have put me off fully, this elegant, all this at all times good and no evil phrases. You could have been shit. ” He himself is a humanist. It is about showing clear edges, for example, with racist or homophobic statements, but “not at all times searching for the needle within the haystack.”

Fine cream fish fillet has been campaigning towards proper -wing extremism for years and is due to this fact repeatedly hostile from the proper warehouse. At the identical time, a number of constitutional safety reviews from the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania assigned the band to left-wing extremism. The musicians, alternatively, additionally fought legally.

“They don’t even know what is right”

Monchi was shaken by the AfD election successes. He had shocked that the AfD in its hometown Jarmen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania had reached 54 p.c of the second votes. “I can understand that people have not felt picked up by democratic parties in recent years, but I find these national whine lobes unbearable.”

Unlike folks from city quarters, he’s additionally at all times confronted with proper -wing extremism – additionally as a result of he’s a projection floor. «What do you wish to inform me any folks from Kreuzberg. They knock out any slogans, they do not even know what is correct. »

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