Lee Hollis

Lee Hollis (2012)

Lee Hobson Hollis (* 1963 ) is an American punk rock singer and author .

Lee Hollis came to Germany in the early 1980s as a GI in the US Army and was stationed in Kaiserslautern . Here he discovered the local punk and hardcore scene and became the singer of the bands Spermbirds and Walter Elf in 1983 , then by 2BAD and in 1990 by Ankry Simons , from which the band Steakknife emerged in 1995. He also worked on the punk fanzine Zap by Moses Arndt .

He has published several books of English-language short stories since the 1990s and occasionally gives readings. Hollis has lived in Saarbrücken since 1995 .

Works

• Driving In A Dead Man's Car ( Ventil Verlag , 1996)
• Got To Land Somewhere (Ventil Verlag, 1998)
• Monsters! (Ventil Verlag, 1999)
• Strategy For Victory (Ventil Verlag, 2007)
• Many Injured, More Dead: Short Stories (Ventil Verlag, 2017)

Discography (excerpt)

solo

• 1998: Selling the Ghetto (mouth robbery)

With spermbirds

• 1986: Something to Prove ( We Bite Records )
• 1988: Nothing is Easy (We Bite Records)
• 1990: Common Thread ( Rookie Records )
• 1992: Joe (EP, X-Mist Records)
• 1992: Eating Glass (X-Mist Records)
• 2004: Set an Example (Common Thread Records)
• 2010: A Columbus Feeling (Rookie Records)
• 2019: Go To Hell Then Turn Left (Rookie Records, Boss Tuneage)

With steak knife

• 1995: God Pill (X-Mist Records)
• 1997: Songs Men Have Died For (Steakhouse Records)
• 2000: Plugged into the Amp of God ( Noisolution )
• 2006: Parallel Universe of the Dead (Rookie Records)
• 2015: One Eyed Bomb (Rookie Records)

Web links

• Lee Hollis on the Ventil Verlag website
• Lee Hollis at Discogs (English)