Manlifting banner

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Manlifting banner
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General information
origin Haarlem (Netherlands)
Genre (s) Hardcore , straight edge
founding 1990, 2012
resolution 1993
Founding members
singing
 Michiel Bakker
guitar
 Paul van den Berg
guitar
 Roland "Lord Bigma" roller
Drums
 Olav van den Berg

Manliftingbanner , also ManLiftingBanner, was a Dutch hardcore band. The band was the first straight-edge band on the scene to explicitly see themselves as political and communist . The band existed from 1990 to 1993 and has been active again since 2012. The sub-scene that described itself as the Communist Straight Edge went back to manlifting banners and their activities.

Manliftingbanner originally went back to the straight edge band Lärm , in which the two brothers Paul van den Berg (guitar) and Olav van den Berg (drums) played from 1980 to 1985. Later, from 1988 onwards, they were with the band Profound, which already had almost the Manliftinganner lineup. Only Lord Bigma joined as a further guitarist.

The first two publications included texts by Lenin , Leon Trotsky and Rosa Luxemburg, among others . In the years of its existence the band played a few smaller tours in Germany and a tour in Italy and broke up after the release of an EP and a maxi single. Nevertheless, she had a profound influence on the hardcore scene in the following years. The band members report that years later, on tours with other bands, they met people in Japan or Mexico, who told them how much manlifting banners had changed their lives. Some of them even had tattoos with the band logo. Manliftingbanner served as inspiration for many of the left-wing, later straight-edge and hardcore bands such as the Swedish band Refused .

Since the band split up, all band members have continued to be politically active and play in various other hardcore and punk bands such as Seein 'Red . While all band members still refer to themselves as communists, they have not used the self-description Straight Edge since 1993.

Publications

  • 1991: Myth of Freedom ( EP , Crucial Response Records)
  • 1992: Ten Inches That Shook the World (Crucial Response Records)
  • 1995: The Workers United Will Never Be Defeated (split album with Burn 51, AHC Records)
  • 2014: The Kids Will Have Their Fuel (Split EP with Deadstoolpigeon, Refuse Records)
  • 2014: Red Fury (Crucial Response Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Gabriel Kuhn: Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics. PM Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-60486-051-1 , pp. 44 ff .