The importance of the support and ‘familia’ concept that is behind the band has always been a major point in ST concept of music. Following ST musically since 1987 saw me always searching for info on the band, their coverage in my country has always been so poor, that’s why me and my girlie decided to start promoting the band by ourselves when ST decided to come back and re-start the infamous Suicidal Records. Skateboarding and ST gave me so much during the years and I felt I had to give something back to the band that changed my life and living.

 

The start of their official webpage and a cancelled show around Basel-Switzerland in 1998 gave me the chance to get in touch with some guys of the ST crew and after receiving the first promo letter for the release of the ‘F&F1’ we decided to rework the official flyers and handed them out around our area. We had massive work and tried to keep the band updated on our activity via email. No one really asked us to do this promo thing, it was just our fun and determination to let as many people as possible know of ST reunion. The band has been immediately supportive and interested in what we were doing and asked us to keep it going. So we got our own flyers to promote the new ST releases and tours but until the ST comeback CD was released in 1999 it has always been a local thing. 

 

When the band wanted to start a massive promo to support the release of ‘Freedumb’ involving the fans worldwide, they immediately asked for our support to cover the European area: the EU ST Street Team was born. Since then we always supported any ST/IG release and European tours by sending our own promo packs to all the European fans that gave their help and time to support the band. A dedicated mailing list was created to keep them updated on the band and street team activities as well as tours and merch infos.

 

This street team is our joy and pride, the guys in the street team that have been following us since years now know all the effort we put in this thing, we don’t ask anything back, supporting ST and seeing our works in cities all over Europe is all we need to keep it going. The ST fans are different from all the other fans, they do feel being part of a ‘family’ and a life style and touring with the band during the last years gave us the chance to meet a lot of people and starting some great friendship with many of them, you know who you are guys. So my last words here goes to all the people involved with the street team, we thanx you for all your support, we’ll keep this going with all our strength and we’ll see you soon around EU. Start your local loco ST chapter today!

 

Lorenzo & Silvia