Petra Chapel

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Petra Chapel
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Schmidt, Scholz, Gazelle, Siepmann
Schmidt, Scholz, Gazelle, Siepmann
General information
origin Hamm, Westphalia
Genre (s) Indie pop punk , indie rock , pop rock
founding 1996
Website www.kapelle-petra.de
Current occupation
Guido "Grandpa" Scholz
Rainer “The Daily Siepe” Siepmann
Markus "Ficken" Schmidt
Stage sculpture
 gazelle
Live members
guitar
 Andy Schmaus (2016)

Kapelle Petra is a German-speaking indie rock band from Hamm . The band is under contract with the label "OMN Label Services".

history

The band was founded in 1996 in Münster . Since then, the trio around guitarist and singer Guido Scholz has performed in German-speaking countries. Rainer Siepmann (bass, vocals, organ) and Markus Schmidt (drums, organ) complete the band. In the early years, the Petra Chapel was often associated with the then popular Hamburg School . However, the band itself never intended to work on socially critical, postmodern and intellectual topics. Kapelle Petra's songs are largely based on humor and melancholy.

In 1997 the debut album Felsen was released , a video for the song carol singers was produced. In 2001 and 2002 the band won the regional competition Hamm's best band. In 2002, the second album followed, with Cabinet and, like the debut, was released without a record company or distribution. In 2005, Petra Chapel accompanied the affluent children as support on their farewell tour.

The band achieved first national and media awareness through the enormous viral distribution of their music video for their birthday in 2007. a. Played by Sarah Kuttner in her VIVA and MTV shows and has since been heard repeatedly on the radio and in various TV shows. 2008 appeared with Stadtranderholung the third studio album at the record company Skycap Music. Videos were produced on Gazelle trained for the Olympics , Uganda and thunderstorms . In 2010 the remix album Ramba Zamba and Ruck Zuck was released in a limited edition and without a record company , which was only available at concerts for an apple and an egg. In 2011 and 2012, Kapelle Petra could be seen as a "band in a closet" at neoParadise .

In 2012 the musicians decided to leave their hobby status and ambitiously intensified their commitment to the band. In 2013, Internationale Hits was the fourth and most successful studio album to date under Skycap Music. The band played around 70 shows this year under the motto Goes more for concerts . Videos were going to concerts (with guest appearances by, among others, Joko Winterscheidt , Klaas Heufer-Umlauf and Mambo Kurt ), These successful family fathers everywhere , talking about football (which was shown, among other things, at the Bundesliga match of Borussia Mönchengladbach against Eintracht Braunschweig in Borussia Park ) , Where others go and finally Festival rotated. The band had appearances in 2013 on the television program Circus HalliGalli on Pro7 and Saturday Live on Sky and on WDR television . As a result, the band appeared nationwide at numerous well-known festivals, followed by a national club tour (“Go on more concerts” tour).

In 2014 the Petra chapel was on an “international hits” tour through Germany. Numerous festivals, u. a. the open flair followed. In December 2014 the band could be seen again at Circus HalliGalli as part of the awarding of the “Golden Umberto”. Further club and festival appearances followed in 2015, including at Bochum Total .

On June 1, 2015, the band started a crowdfunding campaign via Startnext to finance the recording of their next album. Within 70 days, € 32,195 was collected, the target of € 25,000 was clearly exceeded. As part of the campaign, the band went on a small living room concert tour (5 concerts). The album The Underforgotten Table was released on February 5, 2016 . A three-month tour for the album followed.

Kapelle Petra was seen in November and December 2015 as a live studio band from episode 4 on the TV show Ponyhof, nominated for the Grimme Prize , on the pay TV channel TNT Glitz . In the second season (broadcast from September 4, 2016) the band was present in all eight programs.

Since 2016 there has been an official fan club, the “Kapellejugend”, with sub-organizations in Germany and Latvia.

From February 18 to March 6, 2016, the special exhibition "100 Years of Petra Chapel - Crazy Pop through the Ages" was on view in the Gustav-Lübcke-Museum in Hamm. The vernissage took place on February 17th, here the band played a half-hour set with pieces from all five studio albums in chronological order in front of invited guests. On May 12, 2017, a live DVD was recorded in the Kurhaus Hamm together with the orchestra of the Hamm Music School . In September 2017 the band played a concert on the Hallig Langeneß. On December 15 and 16, for the 20th stage anniversary, the band played all five previously published albums in chronological order in the community center shoe factory in Ahlen .

On August 31, 2018, the band held their first own festival. At the “Kapelle-Somma” in Hamm, in addition to Kapelle Petra, the Killerpilze and Elfmorgen were also present.

The year 2019 was the band's most successful to date. The album "Nackt" entered the German Top 100 album charts at number 41 and contained singles such as "Since I've been Johnny Cash", "World cultural heritage", "Some day the world will end" or "So we toast". The accompanying "nude" tour took the band nationwide through almost sold out clubs and at numerous well-known festivals.

style

A humorous live performance is characteristic of the three musicians in a classical line-up ( drums , guitar , bass ). A special trademark of the band is a living stage sculpture called "Gazelle", which supports the band on stage largely passively. “Gazelle” was the first bass player in the Petra band, but took on the role of stage sculpture at an early stage and was replaced by Rainer Siepmann.

  • Petra Chapel

  • Guido "Grandpa" Scholz

  • Markus "Ficken Schmidt" Schmidt

  • Rainer "The Daily Siepe" Siepmann

  • Stage sculpture Gazelle

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Naked
  DE 41 March 29, 2019 (1 week)

Studio albums

  • 1997: rocks (without label)
  • 2002: cupboard (without label)
  • 2008: Recreation on the outskirts (Skycap)
  • 2010: Ramba Zamba and Ruck Zuck - limited edition (remix album, without label)
  • 2013: International hits (Skycap)
  • 2016: The underforgotten Table (Skycap)
  • 2019: Nude (OMN Label Services)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.wohlstandskinder.de/konzerte_2005.html
  2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WEh1GhvY7k
  3. ↑ We have fools freedom. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 13, 2016 ; accessed on May 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.subway.de
  4. ↑ http://www.endemolshine.de/ab-7-11-auf-tnt-glitz-eigenproduzierter-show-format-ponyhof-mit-jeannine-michaelsen-und-annie-hoffmann/
  5. ↑ http://www.grimme-institut.de/html/index.php?id=44
  6. ↑ Live TV band for the complete 2nd season Ponyhof - The Show! Retrieved August 1, 2016 .
  7. ↑ http://www.wa.de/hamm/band-kapelle-petra-hamm-eroeffnet-ausstellung-gustav-luebcke-museum-6132027.html
  8. ↑ Petra Chapel - Culture on the Halligen. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Chart sources: Germany