A guest on the show “Weekenders” was Thodoris Marantini and he spoke heartily about the first steps of the band and the skepticism they received, but also about his children, who are for him the main purpose of his life.

“Hatzigiannis paved the way for pop on the radio, to be fair, and he fell into the phase when we were making this music. We could and entered the road they built. After us bands started to become more mainstream. Until then, only underground bands had a career, such as Holes and Wooden Swords. The fun got in the way and live clubbing took place,” Thodoris Marantinis said initially and continued:

“I was impressed when I started sampling our first record, I had come to Athens with the demo. I took turns with Mesogeion with record companies and knocking on doors. I remember a person in charge telling me that your songs are very nice, man, but they don’t remind me of anything. They told me it’s not too Blue or C-Real and I told him that’s the point. Another told us that there are 6 of you and you don’t fit on Menegaki’s sofa. They stuck to some surreal things”

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“The biggest battle I fought and continue to fight is to have time with my children. Whether this costs me financially, time-wise or mentally” said Thodoris talking about the two boys he has had from his marriage to Sissy Christidou with whom they have now separated and not calmly and continued:

“The thing for me is to have a lot of time with my children because they are growing up and as much as we say it is the nicest thing in the world it is also the most difficult because they are slowly leaving. The old man has entered puberty, he is starting to be a little indifferent to all this with Onirama, since he doesn’t have a trap, he doesn’t like it. He listens to foreign trap”.