Boxing hamsters
Boxing hamsters | |
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General information | |
origin | Giessen , Germany |
Genre (s) | Punk , post-hardcore |
founding | 1987 |
Website | www.boxhamsters.net |
Founding members | |
Martin "Co" Coburger | |
Markus "Weilo" Weil (until 1993) | |
Philipp Lampert (until 2014) | |
Current occupation | |
Martin "Co" Coburger | |
Manuel Pertl (since 2015) | |
Ulf Jachimsky (since 1988) | |
Rieke Beckmann (since 2018) | |
former members | |
Niels Rohrbach (1993-2015) |
Boxhamsters is a punk band from Giessen, founded in 1987 .
The name of the band goes back to the Upperclass Twit of the Year sketch from the film Monty Python's Wonderful World of Gravity , in which a Mr. Boxhamster wins the competition (in German translation) idiot of fine society . The Boxhamsters sing in German. Her musical role models include US bands like Hüsker Dü and Sonic Youth as well as English groups like Buzzcocks and The Who . In some of the songs they use samples from the German dubbed versions of various films, such as Der große Diktator , Das Boot , Star Wars , Jim Knopf and ¡Drei Amigos! . The album Saugschmerle from 2000 was rated 12 out of 12 points by the music magazine Visions .
Discography
- We children from Bullerbü (1988)
- The Divine Emperor (1990)
- No Room ( 7 " , 1991)
- Killensen (1991)
- The kids are fine (7 ", 1992)
- Blackbox 7 " (Boxhamsters- / EA80 -Split) (1992)
- Prince Albert (1993)
- Weilo goes to earn money (7 ", 1993, added to LP Prinz Albert )
- Steal me! (Boxhamsters Best Bean) - Compilation (1993)
- Tupperware Party (1996)
- Sucking loach (2000)
- The Meatball Farm - Compilation (2001)
- The kids are fine, part 2 (7 ", 2002)
- Humility & Elite (2004)
- Brut Imperial (2009)
- Philipp Goes To Children's Wars (7 ", 2010)
- Thesaurus Rex (Best Of, 2010)
- The kids are fine, part 3 (7 ", 2012)
- Silver Wedding (7 ", 2012)
- Black Beauty Farm (2018)
The Boxhamsters also delivered various contributions to the sampler .
Side projects
Boxhamster singer Co and EA80 singer Junge run the fun project Die Böse Hand , of which there are several singles with mostly cover versions , as well as a CD with all previous releases. The Boxhamsters' drummer, Ulf Jachimsky, has also been playing for Nagasaki Frontal since 2009.
Web links
- Official website
- Carsten Wilhelm: BOXHAMSTERS: Gießen strikes back . Interview with Co in the internet music magazine Gästeliste.de
- VISIONS : Bands → Boxhamsters
- Boxhamsters at Discogs (English)