Bellybutton & The Knockwells

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Bellybutton & The Knockwells
General information
Genre (s) Beat , pop , soul , heavy metal
founding 1985
resolution 1994
Founding members
Vocals, bass
 Peter Vuk
Drums
 Thomas Vuk
guitar
 Joachim Wölke
(until 1988)
former members
saxophone
 David Oswald
(1985-1991)
Keyboard
 Rainer Wanninger
(1985–1986)
Patrick Harz
(1986–1991)
Alban Gayer
(1991–1992)
Mike Lindauer
(1992–1998)
Cheerleading, trumpet, backing
 Christian Seidel
(1986-1991)
guitar
 Joachim Wölke
(now Joachim Heine)
(1985–1987)
Thorsten Steenbock
(1987–1988)
Rolf Gentner
(from 1988)
trombone
 Gerald Asshoff
(1988-1994)
Trumpet, marching trombone, acoustic guitar, backings
 Michael Och
(from 1990)

Bellybutton & The Knockwells was a rock band from Friedrichshafen / Konstanz . In the late 1980s they were one of the most successful South German independent live bands. Their music was a mixture of 60s beat combined with soul and heavy metal elements.

With around 600 concerts in Germany, they were a classic live band. However, they did not manage to build on these successes with their studio work. They gave their first concert in 1985 in the Festhalle Mengen . They found their largest audience in 1991 in the Bodensee Stadium in Konstanz at the Rock am See Festival (with The Pogues, Gianna Nannini, Bob Geldof, Dave Stewart, among others).

In 1989 a band portrait with the title "Schnell, dreckig, Funny" was published, in which the author Julian Aicher describes the history of the band's origins and touring experiences.

In 1994 the band broke up after several line-up changes in order to make German-language, chanson-like music with a similar line-up as Dramagold . The first Dramagold CD was produced in 1995 by Sven Regener ( Element of Crime ).

Discography

  • 1988: Look Around / I left the Army. (Tollton Records, 3-track 12 ")
  • 1988: Look Around / I left the Army. (WEA, 3-Track 12 ", Reissue)
  • 1989: Love will keep us together. (WEA, 7 "single)
  • 1991: Rainbow. (Tollton Records, 3-track 12 ")
  • 1991: Blow Baby Blow. (Tollton Records, audio CD)
  • 1992: Live '92. (Promo, 6-Track-12 ")
  • 1992: Rock'n'Roll Jamboree. (Rock City Records, audio CD)

Sampler contributions:

  • 1989: Welcome to Rock 'n' Roll Hell - Volume One: A Tribute to AC / DC & Motörhead (Double Trouble, Berlin)
  • 1990: Stop the Army II. (Stop The Army Project, Zurich)

literature

  • Julian Aicher: Fast, dirty, funny. The rock band "Bellybutton & the Knockwells" . Direktverlag, Ravensburg 1989, ISBN 3-925295-11-9 .

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