Okie Dokie

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The Okie Dokie (also spelled okiedokie and okieDokie ) is a concert and music club in Neuss .

history

1970s: rock, folk, jazz

When Mike Otto opened the Okie Dokie in the 1970s, the former Zur Stadt Grenzen pub became a music pub where rock and folk music groups and songwriters such as Hans Keller performed with a band. A planned concert by the Krautrocker Kraan was canceled in 1976. In December 1979, the First General Uncertainty appeared with their Christmas show at Okie Dokie.

1979–1987: Punk and New Wave

After the operator of the Ratinger Hof in Düsseldorf changed at the end of March 1979, the Okie Dokie became an increasingly important concert stage for emerging German punk bands such as ZK , who gave their last concert here on November 21, 1981, Die Toten Hosen , lunch break , which took place here on December 31, 1979 also gave their last concert, Fehlfarben , Family 5 , Male , Fred Banana Combo , Hour-X , Palais Schaumburg or Einstürzende Neubauten . To mark the opening of his Rondo label in December 1979, Franz Bielmeier celebrated a Rondo New Year's Eve in Okie Dokie with Aqua Velva, Male, ZK and a lunch break. The Okie Dokie is considered "the place of origin of the [Toten] Hosen." A guest author writes in Rolling Stone that the Okie Dokie looks back on "a glorious punk and concert past." International acts such as Bauhaus , The Jesus and Mary Chain , Modern English , Scritti Politti , UK Decay , Poison Girls , Christian Death or Killing Joke also performed here. The Düsseldorf record label Pure Freude invited new German bands as well as punk and new wave groups from England and the USA to concerts in the Okie Dokie between 1980 and 1985 . This also included Belfegore , who appeared three times in Okie Dokie from 1983 and Conny Plank also came to their appearances . Occasionally there were clashes between the fans who had come from large parts of the Federal Republic and the police. B. at the Crass concert on March 26, 1980. At concerts by Berlin political punk bands ( catapult , ejection ), conflicts arose with motorcycle clubs .

Also festivals were held in Okie Dokie such. B. in May 1979 the Sauhatz Festival with SYPH , ZK, lunch break, Der Plan and others, or the Lubricating Festival in May 1980 with ZK, Clox , Östro 430 , EA80 and KFC, among others . On October 27, 1984, the Okie Dokie hosted a festival to present the sampler Breath of the Jungle with the participation of Family 5, The Mimmis, Friends of the Night, Asmodi Bizarr , Chim Chim Cheree and EA 80 . Shortly before it was closed, the first German Ska festival (with The Blue Beat , Skaos and The Braces ) took place in Okie Dokie on October 24, 1987 . In May 1986 Die Toten Hosen performed together with Rocko Schamoni and the Golden Lemons in the Okie Dokie, then again on November 20, 1987, shortly before the Okie Dokie was closed and torn down.

Until today: International and German rock, new Okie Dokie

The Okie Dokie did not only host punk or new wave concerts. Reggae , jazz as well as international and German rock bands also found their audience here. In the summer of 1979 and March 1980, the Food Band performed with Wolf Maahn and Helmut Zerlett in the Okie Dokie. At the beginning of 1983, Dunkelziffer from the Cologne Stollwerck scene with singer Damo Suzuki played in Okie Dokie.

Okie Dokie has existed again as a concert bar since the 2000s. The Dennis Hormes blues band and Vdelli regularly play there . The Mimmi's played in both the "old" and the "new" Okie Dokie.

meaning

Salvio Incorvaia writes in The Classic Punk - An Oral History that the Okie Dokie, together with other factors, people and locals, played a decisive role in the development of the early punk scene in the Düsseldorf area in the late 1970s and early 1980s . In the autumn of 1979 the Okie Dokie took over the function of "a concert venue that gives impulses to the scene". With its diverse range of concerts and festivals, the Okie Dokie had a wide acceptance among bands and visitors. It became the venue of the concert initiative Pop-Club of the punk activist Jürgen Krause, who organized their concerts there every 14 days and also brought bands from other cities to Neuss. The Okie Dokie, together with the Neuss record store and label Schallmauer, became a forum for national networking of the punk scene. Until its closure in 1987, the Okie Dokie remained a popular and recognized music club despite the increasing number of concerts in the fields of punk, post-punk and new wave .

literature

  • Jürgen Teipel (Ed.): Waste Your Youth - A documentary novel about German punk and new wave ; Suhrkamp 2001 ISBN 3-518-39771-0
  • IG Dreck auf Papier (ed.) No future was yesterday - punk in Germany ; Hirnkost Verlag 2008 ISBN 978-3940213457
  • Rüdiger Esch : Electri_City - Electronic_Musik_aus_Düsseldorf ; Suhrkamp 2014 ISBN 978-3-518-46464-9
  • Michael Fehrenschild, Gerti Keller, Dominik Pietsch (Eds.): No Future? 36 interviews on punk - here the interview with Monique Maasen, Aspirin, Asmodi Bizarr; Hirnkost Verlag 2014 ISBN 978-3-943774-49-8
  • Tim Hackemack: Yesterday's Kids - here the interview with Fabsi from Die Mimmis ; Hirnkost Verlag 2016 ISBN 978-3-945398-15-9
  • Salvio Incorvaia: The Classic Punk - An Oral History. Biographies, networks and self-portraits of a subculture in the Düsseldorf area 1977–1983 ; Klartext Verlag 2017 ISBN 978-3-8375-1704-0
  • S.-A. Dreyer / M. Wenzel / T. Stelzmann: No respite - music from Düsseldorf ; Droste Verlag 2018 ISBN 978-3-7700-2067-6
  • ar / gee gleim : ZK - Die Toten Hosen the early years 1980–1983 ; Fanpro Verlag 2017 ISBN 3-946502-09-1 , with many photos of the dead pants in the Okie Dokie

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Jürgen Teipel (Ed.): Verschwende Deine Jugend - A documentary novel about German punk and new wave . Suhrkamp, ​​2001, ISBN 3-518-39771-0 .
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  20. ↑ Bauhaus - 1980-04-03 - Okie dokie, Neuss, Germany. In: bauhausgigguide.info. Retrieved May 5, 2020 .
  21. ↑ The Jesus and Mary Chain Concert Setlist at Okie Dokie, Neuss on October 28, 1984 - setlist.fm. In: setlist.fm. Retrieved May 5, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Scritti Politti way back in 1979 In: bibbly-o-tek.com. Retrieved May 8, 2020
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  24. ^ The Mettmist: Concert report on the American band Christian Death , p. 19, 1984
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  37. ^ Neuss-Grevenbroicher-Zeitung of November 20, 1987: City rejects all guilt
  38. ↑ Okie Dokie - home page. In: facebook.com. Retrieved May 5, 2020 .
  39. ↑ Successful start of the Go music series yesterday in Okie Dokie, Neuss, tomorrow in Gdanska - Oberhausen. In: lokalkompass.de. Retrieved May 5, 2020 .
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