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General information
Genre (s) Ska
founding 1983, 2008
resolution 1996
Website https://www.facebook.com/Blechreiz/
Current occupation
Chris "Examiner" Proofley
Olli "Professor" Scholz
Hermann Lamboy
JB beat
Matthias Bonjer
Michael Rühl
Wolfram Segond from Banchet
Rüdiger "Rütze" Rossig
former members
Christopher 'Joisy' Großkopf (until 1989)
Johannes 'Honey' Wagemann (until 1989)
Eike Dierks (until 1992)
Oli Petrowski (around 1989)
Christian 'Benny' Bennat (around 1990)
Folke 'The Shoplifter' Paulsen (until 1987)
Lorenzo Allacher (until 2010)
Mike "2 tables" Betz (until 2011)
Marcus Renner (until 2012)

Blechreiz is a ska band from Berlin .

Band history

Founded in 1983 in the south of Berlin, over the years the formation has achieved an outstanding position as a Berlin live band and as one of the most important representatives of the German ska scene in the 1990s.

The variety of the Ska music genre of the early 1980s by British bands such as Madness , The Specials , Bad Manners , The Beat , The Selecter and The Bodysnatchers as well as New Wave, Rock (e.g. The Jam ) and Punk bands (e.g. B. The Clash ) were role models for the band members of Blechreiz.

The band relied almost exclusively on self-composed, texted and arranged songs. Various reshuffles allowed the style to vary over the years.

In the summer of 1989, Michele Baresi, the “only ska band from East Berlin”, planned a joint tour through the still securely walled GDR, which initially fell victim to the administrative chaos before the fall of the Berlin Wall, but was implemented in spring 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In many of the concert halls that Blechreiz played on at this time, the band was not infrequently the first “western band”.

At the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, Blechreiz with Skaos from Krumbach in Bavaria, No Sports from Stuttgart, The Blue Beat from Jülich , The Braces from Cologne, El Bosso & die Ping-Pongs from Münster and The Busters from Wiesloch were among them the first pioneers of the German ska scene and played numerous concerts together.

In the following years, many concerts and tours in Germany, but also guest appearances in France, London, Northern Italy, Belgium, Austria and Poland made the band known with their stage show.

Ska has always been music for skinheads too . Blechreiz always sympathized with anti-racist and anti-fascist skinheads and the global anti-racist movement SHARP (SkinHeads Against Racial Prejudice / Skinheads against Racism).

In 1993 the Berlin concert audience voted Blechreiz as the best live band in Berlin . A concert with many guest stars in the Berlin Tempodrom generated a lot of press coverage.

From 1994 the project SKASDROWJE was launched with the popular music band Apparatschik and Russian folklore was performed as a big band in the ska rhythm at various festivals.

In 1995 the television film "Which Side Are You On - Ska in Berlin" was shot, in which portraits of the two ska bands Blechreiz (from West Berlin ) and Michele Baresi (from East Berlin ) were drawn on film.

In 1996 Blechreiz made their big farewell tour through Germany, and they finally gave their last concert at SO36 in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

In 2008 Blechreiz reestablished itself with the original line-up from the 90s. The pilot concert took place on February 29, 2008 in the Red Salon in Berlin-Mitte. Since then the band has released a new album and played concerts in various German cities and the Czech Republic.

Discography

Albums

  • 2009: Those were are the Days - Live-CD (Blechreiz / Pork Pie )
  • 1995: Schnaps or Soup - Live-LP-CD ( Traumton / Zensor )
  • 1994: Rude Gangsters - LP-CD (Traumton / Censor)
  • 1993: Which Side Are You On? (Dream tone / censor)
  • 1991: Who Napped JB - CD including bonus tracks (Rude Records)
  • 1990: Who Napped JB (Rude Records)
  • 1988: Out Tonight (tape recording / Blechreiz)

EPs

  • 2012: Two for the price of one (Blechreiz / Pork Pie)
  • 2011: Let there be Ska! (Tin stimulus / pork pie)
  • 1996: The boys are back - EP-CD (Blechreiz)
  • 1994: Rude Gangsters - EP-CD (Traumton / Zensor)
  • 1993: Loving Couple - EP-CD (Traumton / Zensor)

Filmography

  • "Out Tonight" - Video-Clip (Adrian)
  • "Winner Of Senate Rock Competition" - video recording
  • "Live in the KOB" - 10-minute feature (Fishfinger-Productions)
  • "1199" - guest appearance on the former GDR television
  • "Ska in Berlin" - ORB Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg - Report on the 10th anniversary of the band
  • "Berlin-Warszawa" - Live recording of the 1st Polish TV from the friendship concert in Warsaw
  • "Which Side Are You On?" - TV documentary (Arte / Yildiz Film)

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