Bright to cloudy (band)

Partly sunny (proper spelling: Partly Cloudy , nor meantime hardener to cloudy or short HBW ) is a German punk band and cabaret group from Cologne . Her albums are a mixture of punk songs, radio plays and skits .

From 1986 to 2002 the group performed more than 1,100 times on tours in Germany, Belgium, Brazil, Austria and Switzerland.

history

1986-1997

The four original members got to know each other in 1982 in the school theater and together with six others founded the music cabaret Heiter bis Wolkig in 1986 . In 1986 the group performed at the Federal Youth Theater Meeting in Berlin. With a changing line-up, they performed several pieces and went on tour with them. Their first demo tape , which appeared in 1990, then sold more than two thousand times the single Hey Rote Zora , an adaptation of the theme song of Pippi Longstocking - series was a similar success and is still one of the most popular pieces HbWs. In 1992 they signed their first record deal with the Weser label . In the same year her single, Ganz in Schwarz , was released, a parody of Roy Black's famous hit Ganz in Weiß , in which a police officer falls in love with an autonomous punk girl. Her first album Musikka Lustikka , which was released in 1993, sold 11,000 times within a year. In the same year the vinyl single "10 kleine Nazischweine" was recorded together with the cult punk band " Slime ". The song Killer Clowns is an allusion to the better known song of the crashing carrier pigeons The horror returns and was recorded for a tribute sampler for the carrier pigeons.

In 1994, at a solidarity concert in Hamburg's Rote Flora, there was a scandal with autonomous feminists who perceived parts of the program as sexist . Thereupon an ongoing scene controversy flared up, which three months later escalated with a rape allegation against a band member. As a result, large parts of the autonomous scene, from bright to cloudy, distanced themselves, conversely, the artists of HbW - up to now scene protagonists - have since then distanced themselves from autonomous structures.

In 1996/1997 the band went on a tour of Brazil, played in Rock am Ring and Rock im Park in 1998 and was nominated for Viva-Comet in the Comedy category.

2012

Since the beginning of 2012, the two founding members Marco and Micha have performed a punk cabaret program. In 2012 the music video "Heiter bis Cloudy as the pig priests - Opus Dei" was released.

The red rats

Under the name "Die Roten Ratten" two of the members of HbW were on tour from 2006 to 2009 together with the musicians of Doc Summer (formerly "Dr. Sommer"; the name was banned in 1998 after a legal dispute with Bravo ). The formation focuses on rock'n'roll and German punk and plays old HbW songs, among other things. This HbW successor band had their biggest appearance to date at the Force Attack Festival in front of 15,000 visitors. On October 5, 2007, the album was released from the ruins.

Discography

1990 - Comet Dance ( MC )
1990 - SEK ( SonderEinsatzKomedy - MC)
1991 - Pirate Tour ( MC )
1992 - SEK / PiratenTour ( Live-MC )
1992 - Hey Rote Zora ( Single Vinyl )
1992 - All in Black ( Maxi-CD )
1993 - 10 little Nazischweine ( feat.Slime , single vinyl )
1993 - Musikka Lustikka ( MC, CD, LP )
1993 - Faxenkombinat ( single vinyl )
1994 - Alles Liebe ( MC, CD ) [under the code name "The Bengels"]
1995 - Terrorists ( MC, CD, LP ) [Harder to Cloudy]
1995 - On Vacation (Help, Help) ( Maxi-CD ) [Harder to Cloudy]
1996 - The 7th Nonsense ( CD )
1997 - 100 years HbW ( CD, LP )
1997 - Forbidden Fruits ( CD )
2007 - Risen from Ruins / Nonsal Rock ( Split-CD HbW and Die Roten Ratten )
2012 - Pop Ma $$ akker ( Maxi-CD )
2014 - Generation D ( single CD )
2014 - Pegidamann (feat. The true Heino , Elf and Klaus the Geiger , download single )
2016 - Manifesto ("CD")

Videos

1992 - pirate tour
1993 - Germany, united in a zombie country
1994 - The festival - 7 years of the HbW

Web links

Partly cloudy at Discogs (English)