After almost 40 years of recording sessions, tours and drug excesses, punk rockers apparently are reaching their limits: The dead trousers are increasingly struggling with health problems, as Frontmann Campino has now admitted. The band has meanwhile adjusted to this.
In the meantime, the group has been prepared for someone to injure their tendon during a concert. "This has become such property damage in the meantime," said the 57-year-old on the radio Bremen talk show "3nach9", "that you'd better say we get a physio for the tour than things have to be canceled."
The obligatory visit to the hotel pool after a gig looks very different today than it did in the eighties: "We look like a retirement home that practices treading water," said Campino. "We swore to ourselves: Nobody is allowed to take pictures. It stays between us."
"There is a very strict plan"
The punk rockers also paid close attention to their diet. He always had his last meal in the afternoon, Campino said: "I eat my little portion of pasta every day at 4pm and that's it for the day." The time for culinary experiments is over: "We just have to physically look where we are, and there is a very strict plan."
He did not reveal whether this diet program was also carried out on the holidays. But there is a ritual for him: "Christmas is something very special. That's why I also do things that have to be special - for example cleaning up my apartment again."
Campino, who had a hearing loss in June 2018, has been paying more attention to his fitness for a while. In March he made public that he slipped into a kind of full-body rubber sock when traveling - "because it stimulates the circulation and you arrive fitter after a twelve-hour flight."