The Etters Interview!

 

The Etters are Sjerrie guitar/vocals Leona bass/vocals and Keet drums/vocals

Interview conducted with Sjerrie (AKA Jerry Hormone)

Shock Treatment: Hello Jerry! Thanks for doing my interview! Let’s start by telling me how you all met and decided to form the band?

Jerry: I was going through a debilitating midlife crisis. A shrink told me I had two options: 1) Buy a Harley-Davidson or B) start a stoopid punk band with two life loving, energetic females in their early twenties. Harley’s are expensive, so that’s where Loena and Keet came in and now we’re here, playing sooper stoopid punk and I'm doing a lot better.

Shock Treatment: What bands influenced The Etters sound the most?

Jerry: All that fine fine 90’s lo-fi Rip Off Records kind of punk. Loli and the Chones, most of all

Shock Treatment: If your grandmother asked you what The Etters sound like, how would you describe it to her?

Jerry: It’s stoopid and catchy and you can leave your hearing aid at home, grandma.

Shock Treatment: How come your songs are so short? Why don’t you write longer songs like Golden Earring? I mean, Radar Love is over 6 minutes!

Jerry: We’d love to write our own Radar Love! The royalties could buy us a mansion on the tropical island Curacao next to Golden Earring singer Barry Hay’s!

Shock Treatment: You guys write such mean, angry songs! Have you tried writing more positive songs, like maybe songs about kittens or delicious candy?

Jerry: We do have some songs about liking fries and snacks and the delicious ice cream sensation that is Viennetta. Oh, and about snorting speed. We love that too. Yummy.

Shock Treatment: What are Etters shows like? What do you want the audience to walk away thinking about after seeing you guys live?

Jerry: We pretty much play the whole album start to finish and say dumb shit in between the songs. The audience will either think we’re the best thing in punk since forever or they won’t. But hey, we don’t care, there’s no cure for stupidity or lousy taste.



Shock Treatment: You guys recently played Grauzone 2026 with some other pretty cool bands like Home Front, Die Spitz, and The Chisel! How did that show go for you? Was the crowd getting into and dancing to The Etters?

Jerry: It was at the Zwarte Ruiter, which is one of our favorite places to play. People really get crazy there. Lots of shouting along, pushing and shoving, the whole package. Love you, people at the Zwarte Ruiter!

Shock Treatment: What does the rest of 2026 look like for The Etters?

Jerry: A bunch of shows, at some cool festivals too, like Sniester, Kliko Fest, Get Lost Fest in Hamburg and we also play the legendary The Pit’s in Kortrijk this summer. We’ll be doing some 7”'s too, one on Amsterdam’s Wap Shoo Wap Records and probably one on Fink City from Canada. We’ve got more songs laying around ready to be recorded, so dear record labels: if you wanna lose some money, just give us a call!

Shock Treatment: Tell us where people can go to hear your music and buy your records?

Jerry: Digitally you can listen to us in all the usual horrible places. We’d love to collect that 0,00000000000000001 cent per play. Physically our album ‘The ETTERS maken je hartstikke DOOD!’ is out as a one sided 12” on Fink City (on black and black/yellow and black/yellow/white/clear vinyl), Bachelor (red vinyl) and Plato Utrecht (neon green vinyl). The French Fish & Cheap RCDS might have some copies left of the repress of our one sided three song 7” on clear vinyl, but you’d have to hurry, because they only did (another) 50 of those.