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How do you like your Eggs?

Lebanese punk band Scrambled Eggs talk about music and the industry, over whiskey and local beer at the iconic Torino, on Gemmayzeh Street.

I’ve always wanted to know, where did the band name come from?

Charbel: The official story is that we were 15 when we came up with it, and we weren’t very serious. Food in bands names was in, think Smashing Pumpkins for instance, and we thought Scrambled Eggs was a psychedelic name.

Thought? Have you considered changing it?

Charbel: We tried a few times.

Actually tried?

Charbel: We tried several times. One of the times was very serious; we brainstormed and tried to pick a new one. But any attempt to pick a new name felt like we were trying too hard. It isn’t easy changing your name once you’ve learned to live with it.

Has the music changed since your early days?

Charbel: Not changed, but it has evolved. We haven’t changed, we’re still the same teenagers: we still like Nirvana, we still even sound like them sometimes. It’s an identity that’ll stay with end till the end of our lives. The shows we perform, the songs we write, those have changed; they’ve become more structured, and easier to materialize. We’ve been fed so much in the past 15 years, we’ve toured internationally, performed, recorded.