Interview Marco Fusinato

TIARNEY MIEKUS

What music did you listen to growing up?

MARCO FUSINATO

The first music I became interested in was the first wave of punk. At the time when I was growing up a lot of guys around me were listening to AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, all that kind of stuff, which I could never connect with. As a wog growing up in the suburbs, it was like the skips that listened to that music, they’d hang out at the milk bar and pick on us. I really didn’t like what those bands represented and still don’t. When punk came along, I was completely into it. I found the satirical content of the lyrics, the raw sound, and, most importantly, the things spoken about in interviews really important. For example, I was into The Clash and in their interviews they didn’t speak about fast cars and girls, they spoke about social change, Marxism, terrorism—and that led down the path of wanting to find out more. It wasn’t just the music, it was the whole philosophical bent behind it. I was interested in a particular moment with The Clash, their first two records. After that I really