Clox

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Clox
General information
Genre (s) Punk , post-punk
founding 1977, 2008
resolution 1986
Website www.clox-77.de
Founding members
Steve Waymouth
Bernd Weiermann
Uwe "Max" Pless
Manfred "Manne" furrow (†)
Ralf Zeigermann
Current occupation
singing
 Steve Waymouth
guitar
 Bernd Weiermann
guitar
 Martin Coesfeld
bass
 Roman Berndt
Drums
 Ralf Mannchen

Clox is one of the oldest German punk bands . She comes from Dortmund and was founded in 1977. Her first piece was published in 1979, so that 1979 is often incorrectly mentioned as the year of foundation in publications.

history

Until it was dissolved in 1986

The band began performing in 1978. Unlike most other German punk bands, they wrote their songs with English lyrics, sung by their English singer Steve Waymouth. With their song No attitudes , a piece originally recorded in 1979, they were featured on the Schallmauer sampler released in 1980 on the label of the same name by Lothar Rieger. The sampler is considered the first German punk recorder and was the first release for the Clox, but also for bands like the pioneering KFC .

In 1983 her debut album For You & Me was released on the Dortmund label H'Art.

In 1983 and 1984 the Clox toured Germany together with the then little-known Toten Hosen .

Her second own release, a mini-LP on the Hagener JA! Music Record Label (Jalousie Musik Verlag), appeared in 1984 and was ironically titled Probably One of the Longest LP-Titles in the World . 1985 the LP Identity Crisis was released , again on JA! Music.

In 1986 the band broke up after the all active members no longer brought their work and the band activities under one roof.

Since 1992

On the initiative of the Association for Independent Culture (VUK) from the vicinity of the Freizeitzentrum West (FZW), Despera DO s - Dortmund-Sampler Vol. 0, a compilation with Dortmund underground bands, appeared on the Dortmund label Terz Records in 1992 . It bears the subtitle “15 years of subculture history in Dortmund! (1978-1992) ”and also includes a piece by Clox, a first recording of their 1979 piece No Attitude .

In 2008 the Clox appeared again for the first time, at a punk festival in the FZW, the organizers of which had wanted to bring the Clox back on stage as local punk heroes for some time. As a result, they reappeared occasionally, including a. with TV Smith , Extrabreit , 999 and The Boys . In 2010 they recorded new pieces with Dortmund-based producer Bart El Monte, and a CD-EP with five new pieces was released in 2011, published by the band themselves. In 2014 they recorded a new album, released again in 2015 by the band itself. The bassist and co-songwriter of the band, Uwe Pleß, left the band in the meantime, because the increasing amount of time for the band was becoming too much for him.

On October 10, 2015, the drummer and co-founder of the band, Manfred Furche, suddenly died one month after the concert with the Bollock Brothers in the traditional Dortmund venue Musiktheater Piano in Lütgendortmund. Furche was buried on October 30, 2015 at the south-west cemetery in Dortmund .

The death groove marked a turning point in the band's life. After that, they only slowly resumed their activities, for example they performed with the Northern Irish punk legend The Outcasts for their 40th anniversary in Düsseldorf in 2017. In the meantime, the clox appear again regularly, annually at the end of the year z. B. with the Bollock Brothers in Dortmund. In February 2019 they shared the stage with the UK Subs in the Piano Musiktheater Dortmund, and in March 2019 they played with 999 in the HdJ in Düsseldorf.

Discography

  • 1980: No Attitudes (sampler contribution Schallmauer , LP, Schallmauer-Records )
  • 1981: 17 / Rebel Song ( H'Artcore , LP, H'art Musik)
  • 1983: For You & Me (LP, H'art Musik)
  • 1984: Probably One of the Longest LP-Titles in the World (Mini-LP, JA! Music)
  • 1985: Identity Crisis (LP, JA! Music)
  • 1986: Dread (Sampler contribution Father Frost , LP, Mekka Records)
  • 1992: No Attitude (first version 1979) (Sampler contribution Desperados Vol. 0 Dortmund-Sampler, LP, Terz Records)
  • 2011: Nothing Changed (CD-EP, self-published)
  • 2015: No Secrets Anymore (CD, self-published)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary for the late Clox drummer Manfred Furche from October 28, 2015 on www.tongebiet.de, accessed on July 27, 2019
  2. ↑ Thomas "Paradise" Junggebauer: Punkwax - German Punk & Hardcore 1977-85 , Junggebauer & Hannemann 2007, p. 56f
  3. ↑ Biographical information on the band's website www.clox-77.de, accessed on July 27, 2019
  4. ↑ Some concert information on the Clox homepage , accessed on July 27, 2019