And I have to say, Yiassas! In the Spirit of Greek camaraderie, I feel like a sibling to this next awesome woman who rocks it like she talks it with her amazing and tantalizing band! They are making waves on both sides of the ocean and I am so happy to call them my friends! They are none other than the rockin' and rollin' Barb Wire Dolls and they are shaking up the earth in ways we never knew existed! Henry Miller called Greece "The Navel of Earth", and I gotta say, the Barb Wire Dolls are the ultimate piercing felt around the globe! To top that, their front woman is gorgeous to boot! Here She is, folks! Fresh from the Mediterranean Motherland! Greece! Isis Queen of The Barb Wire Dolls!


I have to say it! Yiasssassss!!!! (kiss on each cheek!) Ti Kanete? How are you doing, Dolls? Ti Nea? What is new with you and the band?

Craziness!!! We haven't stopped our rock 'n' roll travels to even relax for a week because the road is our home and we embrace the experiences that lie ahead!

You are rockin' the Youtube waves with your latest promo video and I have to ask, What is this album about? Your music rocks for me! It clicks! You have a melodious, heavy, fast sound I love!

It is connecting to a whole generation of apathetic rebels out there that need a sound track to their lives. The majority of music in the mainstream just doesn't do that for them. Our new album 'Edge Of Innocence' can provide the energy to fuel a new movement. And it is!


You have an impact in twenty two countries so far and probably more. How does it feel to come from The Motherland (Greece) making an impact there, and crossing over to the US?

It's amazing how the process of life always finds ways to structure itself with out you realizing it. Barb Wire Dolls started out on the island of Crete in a remote mountain village in an Artist Commune called 'The Ikarus'. We were bored with the music being pushed on the radio and in the media. We couldn't even get a gig in the big city because NO ONE played punk rock. Some how though through the internet our demo got discovered and picked up by Rodney Bingenheimer on LA's rock station KROQ. He invited us to play a KROQ show in Hollywood and we immediately packed our bags and sold everything we had, from instruments, surfboards, to our car and bought our tickets to Los Angeles. The music has always been our number one priority so I guess we have accomplished quite a lot in such a small amount of time, especially being a DIY band. Now there are several punk bands in Crete and venues to play at. With the chaos happening in Greece there is already a huge artistic explosion coming from it. Watch out world, here come the Greeks!


Who collaborated with you on your new album?

The new album hasn't been released yet but the songs are getting out there like wild fire! We have played over 700 shows in 4 years and these new songs really capture the whole vibe of touring relentlessly in those 22 different countries around the world. The lyrics 'take me home' seems to re-occur in this album a lot! We have been approached by so many record labels who want to put our new album out, so once we choose the right one who has a real commitment to real music, it will come out and change everything!

I know that you are on tour right now, who are some of the acts you are on the bill with?

We just finished a West Coast tour with the all-star-punk-line-up Dead Men Walking that features members of The Damned, Stray Cats, The Alarm, Foo Fighters, Pogues, and we've toured with NoFX, Jello Biafra, GBH, Descendents, and lots more. Now we're off to NYC for Joey Ramone's Birthday Bash hosted by Joey's brother Mickey Leigh... GABBA GABBA HEY!


What do you love more? Recording? Or Playing live?

They are two totally different experiences. Playing live creates the music and perfects it, and recording it finally puts the ink to the paper. The joy of hearing back the music the way you have it in your head and playing it to audiences is like having an organism after mind-blowing sex. Finally you can relax after the recording process is done and the songs are put down the way they should be. The recorded music is an elixir to entice you to come to the real thing, the live show. That's where the energy is electrifying and erotically on a deeper level than the body can handle!

What is the best feeling when performing live?

Connecting with total strangers that no other form of art can ever do.

Who are your influences for the music you do today?

Rebel attitudes and authentic expression. There aren't a lot of bands that can deliver that in this day and age. We salute the pioneers but we need the new generation to kick their way through and join us!


What was it like growing up in Greece? Did you have support from various sources, including your family to play, perform and write music?

No. The style of music we were playing was so different to what was going on in Greece at the time, that we had to create our own shows and build a scene from scratch. We couldn't get shows in Crete so we had to take the 9 hour boat ride to Athens to play shows. No one in Athens would book us because we were from Crete and couldn't guarantee a crowd, so we found a bar and started putting on free shows every Sunday afternoon. We promoted it with flyers and and after a few weeks, the shows took off and really were wild. It just goes to show you that a way is always possible. You just got to put yourself out there and don't take "no" as an answer. Ever!


What's the best reaction so far that you have received from both sides of the continents about your music?

Both have been very accommodating and open minded since our music doesn't really fit in any category. People and the press try to pigeon hole our look and sound, but no-one can figure it out yet. We are just a band that turns up load, says what we feel and mean, and do it the only way we know possible.

What places have inspired you where you have toured so far?

Every city or country has a well of energy that has influenced us some how, and all the special people that come to our shows and inspire us to keep doing what we are doing. They have no idea how much we appreciate that kind of support and punk love. We have gotten stuck in several towns across the U.S. because of finances though, and the craziest of situations would occur that you would only think happen in movies... But playing venues like the 100 club in London, The Whisky A Go Go in LA, a riverboat in Paris, playing around 40 states in the U.S., having so many rock and punk icons come to our show and give us hugs, headlining massive festivals all over Europe, to traveling in a haunted R.V is just the begging of this rock 'n' roll extravaganza! Long live the rock 'n' roll odyssey!


Who are your musical influences?

Our name was influenced by The New York Dolls and how cool they were. We mostly are inspired by the first wave punk bands when Punk Rock didn't have any rules - and being different was what made you a punk.

What do you want to say to the readers of Punk Globe?

You're obviously reading Punk Globe because you know that there is a world going on in the underground that the mainstream isn't a part of and doesn't know about... Hold on to that and know how important it is to be able to explore the counter culture. We play this music because we choose to, where as the majority in the mainstream have to follow what is being pushed down their throats, and they have no idea that there is an alternative. Support the scene that inspires and fulfills that side of you. Together we are the Street Generation, so escape your fate and re-create! Opa!


I have to say to you, Kali Apetiheia! Good Luck to you and may you have amazing experiences on tour and may this album be a total success! Sas Efharisto! Thank you so much!

Barb Wire Dolls Music Video Promo!