The government
| The government | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Independent |
| founding | 1982, 1990, 2006 |
| resolution | 1985, 1995 |
| Founding members | |
| Tilman Rossmy | |
| Current occupation | |
| Tilman Rossmy | |
guitar |
Spick |
guitar |
Ivi |
| Flo | |
Bass , vocals |
Mike |
| former members | |
bass |
Robert Lipinski (1984-1994) |
Drums |
Thomas Geier (1990-1994) |
guitar |
Armin Hess (1990-1992) |
| Thies Mynther (1992-1994) | |
| Mense Reents (1992-1994) | |
guitar |
Herman Herrmann (1994–1995) |
The government is a band around the Hamburg school . It existed with a break of several years from 1982 to 1995, in 2006 it was re-established with a different line-up.
history
The government was initially founded as a one-man project by the Essen musician and songwriter Tilman Rossmy , inspired by the Neue Deutsche Welle . Further musicians were found through the agency of Arthur Schilm from the Bochum city magazine Marabo . The first record, Super Garbage , was released in 1984, funded and distributed by Rossmy himself, but after its release, The Government was not active for the next several years. In 1990, singer, songwriter and guitarist Rossmy reorganized the government after music journalist Michael Ruff described Supermüll as the best German record of the eighties in Spex . The second record, So Alone , was produced by Alfred Hilsberg , ZickZack label boss and pioneer of the German punk scene , and it was a flop.
An at least modest success was only achieved with the two following albums. Although the government was only loosely assigned to the Hamburg School, she managed a short career in the wake of the boom in German alternative music in 1990, after the end of the actual band in 1994 there was a short interlude as a duo with Herman Herrmann , before the government broke up 1995 then finally dissolved. Tilman Rossmy started a solo career with the Tilman Rossmy Quartet in 1995, and in 2002 the band recorded an album with old government pieces while traveling in their own country .
In May 2006 the first appearances of a newly occupied "government" (except for Tilman Rossmy) took place, recordings have not yet been published, however, at the beginning of 2008 the long out of print debut Supermüll was republished .
At the beginning of 2015 the government announced the plan for a reunion concert in Essen with the line-up Rossmy, Lipinski, Geier. A new album, Raus , was released in 2017.
reception
The song Get rid of the album So Drauf was covered by the German band Lassie Singers as well as the American band The Walkabouts and Rocko Shamoni & Mirage.
Discography
- 1984: Supermüll (Elfmeter Records, re-release on Play Loud! Productions )
- 1990: So Alone ( Scratch 'n' Sniff )
- 1992: So on it ( L'age d'or )
- 1994: Below (L'age d'or)
- 2017: Raus (State Act)
- 2019: What (State Act)
Web links
- The government on Facebook
- The government at Play Loud!
- The government at laut.de
- The government at Discogs (English)