INTRO Volos, Gr, January 18, 2021 - currently listening to ‘Cheer’ by Drug Church
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On the other hand, if all goes well, by the time this gets to the pressing plant I will have delivered / presented my master dissertation on ‘music movement of hardcore in Greece, etc.’, for which I’m pretty excited. I intend to release it in a small book or sth later in 2021, let’s see how it goes!
issues in almost 6 months?! That’s insane! But guess what… Soulcraft is back with its 3rd issue, and if this is not already a banger, there’s thoughts of transforming this fanzine in a biannual publication! Dunno if this will ever happen or if it takes 3 more years for issue 4, but I can assure you that I’ll try my best! At the Outro of the previous issue I wrote ‘let’s hope Soulcraft 3 will be released before my 40th birthday, that means before December 2022’ and I’m still 38 and it’s out baby! I made it! Soooooo, not much happened from summer 2020 and on. I worked at a shitty, underpaid, job (in a courier service, delivering parcels) for 3-4 months, tried to move to Athens with my girlfriend Lina, stayed there till lockdown no.2 (which was in early November), got back to Volos, my hometown, one day before everything was closed once again, and I’m here since then. Worked a distance job which was pretty cool and paid well for a month or so and… that’s all.
In other news, yeap, I’m still stuck in this shithole called Greece, trying to figure out what to do with my life and when I finally get that goddamn decision to move out of here to a more prosperous country and eventually settle there. Let’s see if issue no.4 will find me out of here… One thing’s for sure, times are hard and we have to take crucial decisions. To be honest, I hate living here and even though I get by financially (hustling a lot!) and I am trying to be as creative as I can, I really can’t get used to the mentality of this country, its government and first and foremost its people. Greece is a beautiful country, that’s all, no more, fullstop.
No tours, no shows, no travels. Life sucks!
Anyway, talking about creativity, not to forget to
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