Briefly how and when did Albert Fish form and who are you all?
Albert Fish starts in 1995, by the hand of 5 friends with the same love: punk-rock! Basically we were thinking about have a good time doing what we like and having our say.
Actually our line up is: Rattus - bass and back vocals (26 years old, working in a communications firm and studding law. Helps in skinhead zine "Vontade de Ferro" ), Gustavo - vocals (23, studding anthropology), Johnny - drums (22, working in a wood firm. Also plays in punk bands Zootic and Simbiose), Tó - guitar (23, working in a big supermarket and studding outsourcing. Also plays in hardcore band Fiona At Forty), Rafa - guitar (27, working in a TV studio setting up the scenarios).

Why did you choose the name Albert Fish?
Well, at first we just think how funny was the Albert Fish story (Albert Fish was a American serial killer from the 30's) and the spelling of the name was cool...then we even made a song called Albert Fish were he turns vegetarian (the real one was cannibal)! hehe...hm m...nothing to take too seriously though...

You have released one album ‘Strongly Recommended' through Anti Corpos/ Zerowork Recs how has the response been to this in Portugal? Do you have much distribution outside of Portugal?
The response inside and outside Portugal has been awesome! Really great! In Portugal we sell really well and have more people from concert to concert following the band. Outside Portugal we have a good distribution and the prove is that we have interviews for fanzines and sites from every parts of the world!

You have just finished a tour with The Varukers, how did you manage to get that gig?
I'm (Rattus) friend of the drummer and when I was in London last November I planed their tour in Portugal. When I was contacting the venues with my partner Zé to the gigs, some of the venues ask if Albert Fish could play too as support band for Varukers, so come the idea to do all the tour with them.
How was the tour, did you guys get a good response from the crowds?
The tour was fantastic and we get a good response from the crowds, especially in Lisbon with a full venue with everybody crazy... many stage invasions by skinheads and punks! Ahah! In Vigo we also play with Keltoi! (a great oi! band from Galiza).
The lads from Varukers are really nice people and was amazing to tour with them, we stay really friends of them... crazy old bastards!! (

What future plans for touring and gigs do you have now?
From 17 April to 07 May we have our European Tour!  We're going to play in Basque Country, Holland, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Spain.
In August we play in a big festival in Galiza (with bands like Dr Calypso, Betagarri, Banda Bassoti, Inadaptats, etc). In September we're going on tour with Skaparapid from Spain.

Which bands influence you the most?
Punk rock and streetpunk from 77... Stiff Little Fingers, The Clash, Cock Sparrer, The Adicts, Sham 69, etc. And more recent bands too, like Dropkick Murphys, Komintern Sect, Rancid, The Templars, Roots & Boots, etc...

Who is the main songwriter or it is a group effort?
It's a group effort.

How would you describe the Albert Fish sound?
You can say we're a punk-rock band or you can say we're a streetpunk band... with a little bit of HC and oi! touch. I agree with the Skinflicks when they say: Punk-Rock - that's what is all about!

You sing in English as opposed to Portuguese, is there any particular reason for this?
English is the universal language, the language you can be understood in every part of the world. Beside that our main influences sing in english.

What's the scene like in Portugal, many skins and punks about, do they get along etc?
Portugal is a small country, so our scene is really small too. The good thing is that, since we're just a few, we are really united. Punks, skinheads and hardcore kids hang out united! There's no ska or oi! bands (there was Skamioneta do Lixo, a good ska band where played our drummer, but ended). There's many hardcore bands and a few punk bands. Still playing is Mata-Ratos, a old classic street                       punk band. About labels, the most important by now are Anti Corpos DIY and Zerowork Recs
 Unfortunately the Skinhead scene is the smaller and be a bonehead in Portugal is a fashion now, because the football scene.

Any closing comments or things you want to say but haven't been asked the right question?
Thanks for the interview! Hope that some day we could play in Australia too!
Hate politics, love music!  Cheers!