Cat strike

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Cat strike
General information
Genre (s) Punk rock , emocore
founding 1997
Website http://www.katzenstreik.org/
Founding members
Bolle
Hagen Sieber (1997-2006)
Tobias Hoyerswerda
Current occupation
Bolle
Ansgar Zeroid (since 2009)
guitar
 Jörg Saalbourg (since 1999)
Tobi Heuerswerda

Katzenstreik is a German-English punk rock / emocore band that was founded in 1997 and has already released five albums. She is considered one of the pioneers who “ imported the emo variety of punk and hardcore from the United States to Germany”.

style

The band was one of the first in Germany to mix punk and indie rock with the typical singing of emo . However, cat strikes have not been able to benefit from the later trend. In terms of the text, the cat strike attracts attention due to a mix of German and English. The way they play is also differentiated from the common music clichés by combining emocore with Jamaican offbeats or post-rock influences. The emo style did not initially fit the identity of autonomous leftists who came to their concerts. With their songs, Katzenstreik repeatedly provoke identities in subculture scenes , such as their song Hassmaske (1999) or the disturbing breaks on the album IIII (2006), which defends itself against expectations and listening habits and ends in a crossover of experiments, styles and forms . Critics describe the style as "not assignable to a single musical genre". "Here and there a little punk, a lot of emo, a shot of hardcore and indie rock, sometimes in English, sometimes in German" - the wild mix of styles is ready.

history

Katzenstreik was founded in 1997 and its members come from Erfurt , Bristol , Hamburg and Berlin . Bassist Hagen got his band to go to a studio to record the compositions. Publication was not intended and there was no donor. At the end of the 1990s, Göttingen was known for an active left-wing cultural scene and so numerous cassette copies quickly circulated, which finally ended up at the small label Frohnatur , which wanted to publish the recordings on vinyl . After the vinyl version was released in 1999, it was released on CD in 2000 on the Freecore label in Göttingen. In 2002 the second album "Emowürstchen" was released here. The first few years took the band across Europe, on tour with Against Me! they played shows as far as Spain. In cooperation with its current label under average the most successful album was released Solves Your Problems (2004). After the fourth album IIII was released in 2006 , the band played the last isolated concerts in 2007. From then on there were rumors that the band would break up. After a few years without concerts or new releases, the band released their fifth album Move in 2009 . Bassist Hagen Sieber was no longer involved in the recordings after his departure and singer Bolle played the bass. After the recordings, a successor was found in Ansgar Zeroid, with whom the band then went on tour.

Political reference

The band made clear their profeminist attitude z. B. through exclusive concerts in women's prisons and concerts for organizations with a feminist focus or through appearances in women's clothes. See the connected they are union or union similar interest groups, shows Katzenstreik not only by their name, the English term for a wildcat strike is borrowed, called a strike wildcat . In the song "Reconnection" from the 2009 album Move , it says, for example, "Nobody stands above nobody, competition only makes sense when marching."

The focus of their texts is Katzenstreik, which focuses on their own feelings and doubts about the rightness of life. Contrary to younger emopunk bands like Captain Planet , political content was never excluded from the cat strike, although it was never slogan-like. The political was more the private and personal in her songs.

The song hate mask

Earlier cassette copies already gave rise to discussions about cat strikes in the cultural and political scene in Göttingen. The provocative song Hassmaske , which the drummer Tobias Heuerswerda wrote, gave cause for this. It was addressed to the autonomous scene and asked them to behave accordingly. In particular, he criticized the fact that hate mask wearers often went to “eat a piece of carrion” (quote from hate mask ) at McDonald's after demonstrations . The band later distanced themselves from this song and corrected their statement on the 2006 released record IIII in the song Hassmaske Disco .

Discography

  • 1999: Katzenstreik (LP / CD, Happy Nature / Freecore)
  • 2001: Emowürstchen (CD, Freecore, below average )
  • 2004: … Solves Your Problems (CD / LP, below average)
  • 2005: For an autonomous center in Bandung (split CD with AM Thawn )
  • 2006: IIII (CD / LP, below average)
  • 2009: Move (CD, below average)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article by Matthias Roman Schneider on visions.de
  2. ↑ Article ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of Prince Bremen @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bremen.prinz.de
  3. ↑ Review of the Beatpunk Webzine at beatpunk.org
  4. ↑ Article ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Linus Volkmann on Intro.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.intro.de
  5. ↑ Interview conducted by Kevin Goonewardena in Ox magazine, issue # 60 (June / July 2005)

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