Colossal youth
| Colossal youth | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Hamburg , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Independent , rock |
| founding | 1988 |
| resolution | 1991 |
| Founding members | |
| Kristof Schreuf | |
| Pascal Fuhlbrügge | |
| Klaus Meinhardt | |
| Christoph Leich | |
| Last occupation | |
Lyrics, singing |
Kristof Schreuf |
guitar |
Pascal Fuhlbrügge |
bass |
Klaus Meinhardt |
Drums |
Christoph Leich |
Kolossale Jugend was an indie band from Hamburg founded in 1988 and disbanded in 1991 . She was a pioneer of the Hamburg school .
history
The band Colossal Youth was in the late 1980s alongside Cpt. Kirk &. and Ostzonensuppewürfelmachenkrebs one of the first significant bands that music critics assigned to the so-called Hamburg School . Her first LP Heile Heile Boches was released in 1989 and her second Leopard 2 in 1990. Both albums were released on the L'Age d'Or label.
Colossal Youth was named after "Colossal Youth", the only album by the British post-punk band Young Marble Giants .
Discography
- 1988: No pat on the back (single | 7 ") Lado
- 1989: Heile Heile Boches (LP) re-released in 2004
- 1990: Leopard 2 (LP / CD) re-released in 2004
useful information
In the crime novel Fridays you eat fish by the team of authors Ilja Bohnet and Ann-Monika Pleitgen , the colossal youth has a (fictional) appearance in the Hamburg scene bar Lehmitz on the Reeperbahn , which unintentionally leads to a dramatic escalation of the plot.
Web links
- http://www.kolossalejugend.com , last accessed on July 25, 2013
- Colossal Youth at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marcus Kalbitzer: COLOSSAL YOUTH - Shut up Germany! , Westzeit , November 1st, 2004
- ↑ Bohnet Pleitgen: Fridays you eat fish , (Ariadne Krimi. Vol. 1177), Argument Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86754-177-0 , p. 224ff.