{"id":1833,"date":"2021-04-14T06:17:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/an-interview-with-henry-rollins-uberlin\/"},"modified":"2021-04-14T06:17:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:17:02","slug":"an-interview-with-henry-rollins-uberlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/an-interview-with-henry-rollins-uberlin\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interview With Henry Rollins – \u00fcberlin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Interview With Henry Rollins<\/h3>\n

by James Glazebrook<\/span><\/h4>\n
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On January 31st, Henry Rollins hits Berlin<\/a>. Hardcore punk’s hardest-working road dog will deliver an uncompromising and candid spoken performance that pulls no punches. A true renaissance man, Henry also works as a radio host and runs music and book label 2.13.61, which recently published Occupants<\/em>, a collection of his own photography and writing about conflicted parts of the world. We used that book as a jumping off point for a brief email exchange about Berlin, travel and music.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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xmeltingboyx, "Henry Rollins", via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Occupants<\/em> documents conflicted parts of the world. When you visited the divided city of Berlin with Black Flag, what were your thoughts?<\/strong>
I didn\u2019t understand how anyone would build a wall around a city to keep people in or out. It seemed to me that the people running the show were very immature and in need of a change in direction. Every time I was there, I would walk along the wall, in disbelief that it was still there. I was in Switzerland when it came down. I think I was in Berlin a few days before.<\/p>\n

You’ve been to Berlin many times since – have you seen changes in the city?<\/strong>
As far as I can see, it\u2019s just another cool looking German city now. When the wall was up, there was a romance to it. However, seeing what people had to live through, I would go without the romantic element for the emancipation of people. It is to me, a very beautiful city.<\/p>\n

Will you have time to explore (and photograph) the city when you visit, or is it a case of in-perform-out?<\/strong>
On tour, I am pretty much all about the show. There won\u2019t be any time to look around, I\u2019m afraid.<\/p>\n