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The legendary Finnish HC82 punk legend is back. They hold their fort in the heart of new imperialism: http://www.myspace.com/sekundapunk Kivi from Sekunda interview Sekunda started in 1980. Can you write me short bands history? The history of Sekunda goes further back, to the day I saw Sex Pistols on TV, or the day Ramones played .Finland the first time in 1977. To become a punk rocker was not about fashion to me, it was something i had been for a long time but it didn't have a name before. I was not cool (i read too many books and was not good in fighting), i had few friends (and they were mostly idiots), i was in a rough school and i spent nights out in the park drinking and smoking with the bad boys' gang rather than stayed at home, even if it meant that i got beaten up often. In the school i met Pakarinen, the original singer of Sekunda. He was a young criminal, whose only interest was to become a football player until he broke his back and had to give that up. After that he wanted to be a poet, he would read things like Arthur Rimbaud to me when we went to drink in the park with the alcoholics and the homeless. Pakarinen pointed Janne, the bass player to me. We were at a Lama gig in Lepakko, the squat music house in Helsinki, and Janne had a jacket with Motorhead logo in the back. He had to be the bassist because he liked Lama and Motorhead. Janne found Haba, the drummer. They were neighbors and both their fathers worked for the City Transport driving bus, and