Lunch break (band)

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lunch break
General information
origin Dusseldorf , Germany
Genre (s) Punk rock
founding 1978
resolution 1980
Founding members
Peter Hein
Franz Bielmeier alias Monroe
Markus Oehlen
Gabi Delgado-López (until 1978)
Last occupation
singing
 Peter Hein
guitar
 Thomas Schwebel (from 1979)
guitar
 Franz Bielmeier alias Monroe
Drums
 Markus Oehlen

Lunch break was a Düsseldorf band that played an important role in the early days of German punk and still enjoys cult status today .

Band history

The band was formed in July 1978 from the formation Charley's Girls , founded in 1977 , to which Peter Hein (vocals), Franz Bielmeier (guitar) and Markus Oehlen (drums) belonged. The future DAF singer Gabi Delgado-López was part of the first line-up as the second singer.

One of their first appearances was the lunch break at the legendary SO36 opening festival, which took place on August 12, 1978. On the sampler of the same name , the only recordings in this line-up can be heard, as Delgado-Lopez left the band after a Christmas concert in the Düsseldorf Dreieckstube on December 26, 1978.

At the beginning of 1979 Thomas Schwebel (guitar, ex- SYPH ) joined the band. As a result, lunch break developed a very special, unique sound: since the band had no bass player, Franz Bielmeier switched to very deep and pounding rhythmic chords, whereby he is particularly characterized by his regular, almost clockwork-like style of playing. Thomas Schwebel delivered to hyped melodies and offbeat, on the one hand form the melodic counterpart to Biel Meier's rhythm guitar and in the later stages of the band sometimes almost to radio remember (Mr. Reiter, Japanese in Dusseldorf). The tempo is rather slow compared to other punk bands (inspired by reggae, among other things), carried by Markus Oehlen's uniform drum beat (“Humtata rhythm”).

The songs from lunch break live more from their catchy, monotonous rhythm than from a melody, and not least from Peter Hein's singing. In his staccato pronunciation of the texts, Peter Hein has also created a very idiosyncratic, unmistakable sound that completes the choppy, military-looking punk sound. Most of the texts with a lot of local flavor also come from Hein . This is how the group became a cult band in their hometown.

In the summer of 1979 she released her first double single on her own, which contains two songs, Militürk and Ernstfall , which were later adopted by Fehlfarben . At the end of 1979 the single Herrenreiter / Paff was released, with Paff being a cover version of an old chanson by Marlene Dietrich . With this cover, lunch break proved that they looked beyond the musical horizon.

The last lunch break concert took place on December 31, 1979 in the Okie Dokie in Neuss as part of the Rondo New Year's Eve organized by Bielmeier .

At the beginning of 1980 the group broke up. In the final phase of the band, Hein and Schwebel had already founded Fehlfarben as a side project, which later became one of the most influential German New Wave bands. Bielmeier concentrated on his record label Rondo, Oehlen was mainly known as a visual artist, but occasionally played in various bands ( Maybeors , Red Krayola , Flying Klassenfeind , Van Oehlen ).

However, the cult factor of the lunch break persisted over the years. The group only released LPs after their separation, for example the 1981 live LP Punk macht thick Arsch.

In 2004 a best of was released on a Japanese label.

Discography

  • 1979: lunch break (double single)
  • 1979: Herrenreiter / Paff (single)
  • 1979: test image (double 7 ″)
  • 1981: Punk makes a big ass (live November 10, 1979 in Wuppertal) (LP)
  • 1983: Lunch break (new edition of the double single, remix , LP)
  • 1992: Herrenreiter ( Demos ) (CD)
  • 2004: 1979-1982 (Best Of CD, Japanese pressing)

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