Scoots and skanking in st pete

‘career’ started back in the late 1980s with my first band The Swindlers – playing rockabilly and neo rockabilly, we wanted to tour the world, play music, pick up girls, drink, all the usual young guy stuff. But at that time it was very difficult, you couldn’t get abroad easily. Even though perestroika had kicked in, it was still hanging over from the Soviet regime travel rules. So the band managed to move to Denmark and lived there for a couple of years before we split. I went back to St Petersburg to build