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What kind of audience feedback have you received being an all-female band covering an all-male band?
What has been the hardest struggle to overcome in order to be where you are now?
Has there been something that you've had to sacrifice in your personal life to be playing music?
You're website shows a picture of all four of you with Richie Ramone, did any of you ever get the chance to meet or see any of the other band members?
What was it like to meet Richie and what questions were just a priority to ask him? What feedback did he give you? of the other band members?
If you ladies had the opportunity to ask or talk to any of the members from The Ramones, what would it be?
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It is difficult to say, there are a lot of awesome female musicians out there. There are some great punk females at the moment such as:
Beki Bondage, The Dollyrots and Maid of Ace; however, because punk is not a mainstream music genre, there arent' many well-known female punk recording artists today. We were influenced by the likes of Joan Jett, The Runaways, Brody Dalle, and Suzie Quatro just to name a few.
We've had a lot of great positive feedback which is really humbling. Unfortunately, we were all too young to see the Ramones themselves but it's so great to hear so many stories and feedback from those who did get the chance to see them play. A lot of people like the fact that we are not a typical tribute band and that we put our own slight spin on it. Like we said earlier, we mix the Ramones with elements of ourselves thus creating the Ramonas.
Honestly, we haven't ever seen anything as a
challenge or a struggle. We just take everything as it comes and get on with it. I guess the hardest thing Cloey has had to deal with is being able to see through
her sunglasses on stage! A few times she's taken a tumble not knowing where the end of the stage is!
I don't think we've had anything we've had to sacrifice. However, it has taken time to build the band to what it is now and that is a key thing in being in a band. You need time and perseverance. So the main thing we've sacrificed is time if anything, but we haven't seen it as a negative thing.
We have met and played with Richie Ramone who was the drummer for the Ramones after Marky. He is a very lovely guy. We have also met CJ Ramone when he played in London last year and we hope to catch him again at Rebellion Festival this summer.
When we met Richie, he was so down to earth and supportive of what we do. It was an added bonus that Clare, the girl who originally started the Ramonas, now plays bass for him. CJ also was so nice and supportive of what we do and even wanted Cloey to get up on stage to sing with him.
There's not any specific questions we’d ask just because we know quite a lot about them from being in a Ramones tribute band for so long. It would be awesome just to meet them and hang out, maybe have a few beers and a laugh.
by: Nancy Casas