Albert Fish (band)

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Albert Fish
General information
Genre (s) Punk rock
founding 1995
Current occupation
Gustavo
Dani Hell
Rattus
Claudino
Saavedra

Albert Fish is a Portuguese punk rock - band from Lisbon .

history

The band was founded in Lisbon in 1995. After a few demo tapes and concerts in the 1990s, they released their first demo CD in 2001 before releasing their first official album in 2002. The CD entitled Strongly Recommended contained 9 pieces, including the clearly anti-fascist Sindelar , which is about the Austrian footballer Matthias Sindelar (1903-1939), who had opposed the National Socialists.

In 2003, the group accompanied the British The Varukers on their tour through Portugal and Galicia , and then toured Europe themselves, including Spain, Italy, Germany, Hungary and the Netherlands. They also appeared at international punk festivals, for example at the Faísca Festival in Galicia in 2003 , with Banda Bassotti , Inadaptats and others. a., 2005 at the II. Urban Beast Festival in Ciudad Real , Spain , u. a. with Los Fastidios , Brigada Flores Magon , Malas Cartas , and Opció K-95 , or at the Dinamo Punk Rock Fest 2009 in the Hungarian Komárom , u. a. with bands like Sham 69 and No Fun At All .

In 2006 her split CD with the Brazilian Oi! -Band Garotos Podres , with whom they had already played in Portugal and with whom they went on a tour of Brazil after the joint CD release. After a series of sampler contributions , they released their second album, News from the front , in 2009 . In 2010 a split CD was released with the Oi! / Streetpunk band Blind Alley Boys from Coimbra . Of the six pieces featured on it, three were cover songs , one by the Portuguese mod band Opinião Pública ( Puto da Rua ), the Lisbon punk band Crise Total ( Autista ), and the Kortatu piece Mierda de Ciudad , a version of The Business piece Drinking & Driving .

Albert Fish played in Portugal with a number of international punk / street punk bands, including Deadline and Klasse Kriminale (2006), and The Casualties (2010).

The band was named after the American murderer Albert Fish (1870-1936) and sings mostly in English and only rarely in Portuguese .

Discography

  • 2001: Albert Fish ( Demo - CD-R )
  • 2002: Strongly Recommended (CD)
  • 2006: Garotos Podres & Albert Fish (Split-CD)
  • 2009: News from the Front (CD)
  • 2010: Blind Alley Dogs & Albert Fish - Friendship (Split-CD)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.criminalattack.com ( Memento of January 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 27, 2012.
  2. ↑ Biography of the band's own site on Myspace , accessed October 27, 2012.
  3. ↑ lastfm.com.br , accessed October 27, 2012.