Interview: Getting to Know The Trousers

Garage rock and roll band, The Trousers, have been busy over the past few months supporting their new album, ‘Necessary Evil’. In this interview, we get to know them a little better.

1. Hello! Thank you for taking the time to chat to us. First things first, tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got started.

I learned rock n roll from my father together with my late brother. From the age of 7 rock music became the strongest part of our identity. We formed our band The Rag Doll in high school, but around 2004 we went our separate ways. I joined an indie rock band called Amber Smith, but around 2009 I returned to raw rock music and formed The Trousers. Since then we are here, alive and well.

2. Someone comes to you and asks you to sum up what kind of music you play – what do you tell them?

Well it’s a kind of mixture of 70’s rock, from the Stones to Motörhead, but we never intended to be a “retro” band like Airbourne or Great van Fleet. I find them uninspiring and they are copycats. So we also put some 90’s vibes like Alice in Chains or Monster Magnet and some 00’s sound like The Hellacopters or Queens of the Stone Age in the cocktail.

3. What’s currently keeping you busy? A new album/EP/single release? A new video? Playing live, or planning ahead?

We released our latest album “Necessary Evil” in 2025 November. It has had great reviews in Hungary and in Europe, Italy, Denmark or Germany as well. We are participating a compilation cd of Metallurg Magazine in Poland and also Metallized from Denmark. The band had a central – European tour in the Spring, we supported great punkrock bands like Konflikt, Degradace and Zakazan Yovoce, which was fun. In the autumn we will continue.

4. What is about this current period that is particularly exciting for you?

In the summertime we usually play some open-air gigs in the country, but this is the period when I have time to write new material. Sometimes its hard to start, but in July and August, when everything is slowing down I usually write an entire album-material. In the summertime we have more time to do longer rehearsals with the guys, guitarist Pete, bassist Bandi and drummer Sam. It’s less stress, more joy.

5. Tell me about the work that has gone into making it a reality and what it means to you.

My brother passed at the age of 50 some years ago. After that I had a dream in which some people had the same disease as he had (ALS), and they told me they kept praying that God would take them back to the stars. I heard a song in my dream with this lyrics, so I wake up and turned it into a composition, and included an old Rag Doll song into it that we wrote together with Peter. That became “Drive me to the stars”, which is the closing song on “Necessary evil”.

6. Making music and being creative can be a very positive experience and can be very good for the mind. In what way has making music had a positive impact on your mental health?

I always have troubles because life is complicated and sometime tragic. Some of the songs are the elaborations of these conflicts, and it’s good that I have a tool, music to work in these issues. I guess in a long run it supports my becoming myself, and, indirectly mental health. Meanwhile, as a psychologist, because that’s my everday job, I do not like “mental health”-concept because its too medical. I prefer “wholeness” or “authenticity”.

7. It can also be incredibly challenging, more so in the modern times. What have been some challenging aspects of making music and how have you overcome them?

Staying true to ourselves. We believe that LPs are still relevant in rock and metal, this is a true footprint of a given period, which is a milestone in your personal life and in the band’s progression. So we keep on making albums in every 2-3 years, and in the meantime we try to play as much concerts as possible. Trends come and go, we are here for twenty years now. I don’t care if we play for 50 people, because we feel free, we feel real and we have fun.

8. How do you handle the online aspects of being in a band? Having to put out content constantly, promoting across several different social media platforms, and having your success measured in likes and follows?

It’s a double edged thing. You get to wider audience but its becoming superficial. The reactions to a post are very absurd: for example you put out a post about an artistically significant event, and you get some dozens of likes, and you put out a photo with your pet and telling that you got drunk last night with the boys and you get hundreds. We are always joking about that, but from another perspective its rather sad.

9. How do you make this part of things enjoyable, and fulfilling, for yourself?

Maybe the best part of it is when we are doing it on the road, between concerts, because we might have some weird ideas what to post, and it is very funny.

10. Speaking directly to listeners – what would you ask they do to help support you?

What only music can give you: listen to it all the time and visit concerts. Everything else is just garnish, that you can get from other directions. Music is the feed of the soul, and our rock music is something that helps you connecting to your feelings, because it presents power and emotion.

11. Outside of music, what do you like to do to relax?

I am a big fan of nature and animals. I like reading and watching some kind of movies. I live in the part of Budapest, in the Buda hills which is very quiet and green and very vintage. It means a lot to me.

12. Where can people find you?

If you go to thetrousersband.com you can find direct links to Facebook, Spotify, Instagram or Youtube. Have fun!