Bitch queens
| Bitch queens | |
|---|---|
 Bitch Queens, JKF Basel 2013 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Basel , Switzerland |
| Genre (s) | Punk rock , death punk , skate punk |
| founding | 2000 2008 as Bitch Queens |
| Website | www.bitchqueens.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Melchior Quitt | |
| Daniel Schönenberger (since 2012) | |
| Marcel Colomb (since 2009) | |
| Harry darling | |
| former members | |
| Dan Solbach (until 2012) | |
| David Atwood (until 2009) | |
Bitch Queens is a punk rock band that in 2008 Basel ( Switzerland was founded).
history
The band was founded in 2000 in Basel by school friends Dan Solbach, David Atwood, Melchior Quitt and Harry Darling under the name "Hot Cut-Up Pancake & the Grannies On Flying Wheelchairs".
In 2008 the band was renamed to today's name "Bitch Queens". In 2009 singer and bassist David Atwood left the band. In August of the same year the guitarist Melchior Quitt took over the role as singer. Marcel Colomb was accepted into the band as bass player.
After recording two demo albums in 2004 and 2007 and the EP High Strung in 2009, the band's actual debut album, Female Shotgun , was released in 2010 . Joachim Hiller came to the conclusion in the Ox-Fanzine : “The production is perfect and super dry, and if you didn't know that the men are from Switzerland, I would have guessed the USA and a Jack Endino production. Eleven songs that run through very smoothly. ”Moritz Alves, who has already reviewed the EP High Strung , recommended the debut album on the online magazine RockTimes with the words“ Testing is worth it! ”In 2013, founding member Dan Solbach left the band, and Daniel became the winner Schönenberger recorded as guitarist.
In 2014 the album Kill Your Friends was released. The publication took place as part of the 4-year anniversary celebration of Soulseller magazine under the motto “Respect The Rock” in the Berlin-Kreuzberg “Cortina Bob”. In his review on musikreviews.de, Norman R. came to the final opinion that Bitch Queens “as a fan of the above-mentioned bands ( The Hellacopters , Backyard Babies , Turbonegro , Danko Jones ) should definitely be on the slip and at the next opportunity with one Concert of the boys really let the pig out ”should. Jens Peters and Thomas Kupfer rated the album at Rock Hard with a grade of 8.0.
In 2015 the band was nominated for the Basel Pop Prize and toured in Japan . They published their impressions of the tour as a four-part video tour diary on the video platform YouTube .
In 2017 the third album LOVE was released on the Basel label Lux Noise with which the band toured in Europe and the USA. The Ox-Fanzine rates the record with a grade of 7/10 and describes the Bitch Queens as the successor to Turbonegros .
In autumn 2019 the band released their fourth album City Of Class. The record was released with three music videos and was named "goddamn R'n'R record of the year" in Classic Rock Magazine with 9/10 points.
Publications
Albums
- 2004: Hot Cup-Up Pancake (Demo)
- 2007: Blood On Our Hands (demo)
- 2010: Female Shotgun ( Lux Noise / NonStopMusic)
- 2014: Kill Your Friends ( Lux Noise / Cargo Records )
- 2017: LOVE ( Lux Noise / Ghost Highway Recordings / Savage Magic Records)
- 2019: City Of Class ( Lux Noise / Spaghetty Town Records)
EPs
- 2009: High Strung (Promo)
- 2012: Suck It Up! (Lux Noise)
Singles
- 2011: Bitch Queens / Trashmonkeys (7 ″ split; Lux Noise )
- 2011: Bitch Queens / Dirty Blondes (7 ″ split; Lux Noise )
- 2012: Bitch Queens / The Lombego Surfers (7 ″ split; Lux Noise )
- 2013: Gimme A Kiss (7 ″; Lux Noise )
- 2013: Bitch Queens / Delilahs (7 ″ split; Lux Noise / Subversiv Records)
- 2015: The Hip Priests / Bitch Queens (7 ″ split; Speedowax Records)
- 2016: The Hip Priests / Bitch Queens / The Chuck Norris Experiment / King Mastino - tribute to Alice Cooper (7 ″ -Split; Lux Noise / Strange Magic Records / Ghost Highway Recordings / 442e Rue / Beluga Records / Woimasointu)
- 2016: Bitch Priests / The Hip Queens (7 "-split; Lux Noise )
- 2016: The Hip Priests / Bitch Queens / The Chuck Norris Experiment / King Mastino - tribute to Lemmy Kilmister (7 ″ -Split; Lux Noise / Strange Magic Records / Ghost Highway Recordings / 442e Rue / Beluga Records / Woimasointu)
- 2017: Anti-Social (7 "; Lux Noise)
- 2017: Bitch Queens / Scumbag Millionaire / The Empire Strikes / VCPS (7 "-Split; Lux Noise )
Compilation Contributions
- 2007: Lover Boy on Glamnation Vol. 1 ( 272 Records )
- 2010: Thrill Machine on Ox-Compilation # 92 ( Ox-Fanzine )
- 2011: Hooked On Gasoline on Rockförderverein Basel Sampler
- 2015: Gimme A Kiss on Classic Rock Compilation 38 ( Classic Rock )
- 2017: "R'n'R Idiot" on "RFV - Pop Basel 2016"
Music videos
- 2012: Ain't Good Enough
- 2014: Gimme a Kiss
- 2015: Kill Your Friends
- 2015: Lick It Like You Like It
- 2016: Again, Again & Again
- 2017: Anti-Social
- 2018: Techno Is Dead
- 2019: R-rated
- 2019: City Of Class
- 2019: Süperböy
- 2019: Never Say Never
Web links
- Official website
- Bitch Queens at Allmusic (English)
- Bitch Queens at Discogs (English)
- Bitch Queens at Musik-Sammler.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maximilian Blom: Interview: Rock Hard Magazin. February 11, 2015, accessed November 6, 2015 .
- ^ Joachim Hiller: Bitch Queens - Female Shotgun. In: Ox-Fanzine, No. 92, October / November 2010.
- ^ Moritz Alves: Bitch Queens - High Strung. In: RockTimes, October 6, 2010.
- ^ Moritz Alves: Bitch Queens - Female Shotgun. In: RockTimes, September 26, 2010.
- ↑ Julia Kluthe: In the pit at: Bitch Queens + Sonic Beat Explosion. In: Metal Hammer , February 10, 2015.
- ^ Norman R .: Bitch Queens - Kill Your Friends (Review). In: musikreviews.de, February 2, 2015.
- ↑ Jens Peters, Thomas Kupfer: Bitch Queens - Kill Your Friends. In: Rock Hard, 2014.
- ↑ bz Basel, Basel, Switzerland: Short portrait - Sexual rock offensive against the honesty. (No longer available online.) In: bzbasel.ch. October 13, 2015, archived from the original on November 16, 2015 ; Retrieved November 8, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Article: Week of the day. November 11, 2015, accessed November 12, 2015 .
- ↑ Alexandra Michels: Bitch Queens: Tour videos from Japan are online. In: Rock Hard, October 28, 2015.
- ↑ Ox-Fanzine: Reviews: BITCH QUEENS / LOVE :: ox-fanzine.de. Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
- ^ Ox Fanzine, Solingen Germany: Review. Retrieved August 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Bitch Queens: 'Anti-Social' video released . In: RockHard . ( rockhard.de [accessed April 29, 2017]).
- ↑ Laura Steiner: Press release: RFV Basel. February 13, 2017, accessed March 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Bitch Queens: 'Anti-Social' video released . In: RockHard . ( rockhard.de [accessed April 29, 2017]).
