Piefke and Pafke and the guys from the darkroom

Piefke and Pafke and the guys from the darkroom was a band at the time of the Neue Deutsche Welle .

The group consisted of the musicians Manfred Wieczorke and Detlev Schmidtchen , both members of the German art rock band Eloy , as well as the lyricist and later magaScene Hannover publisher Reinhard Stroetmann . Their first single , originally released in 1982 on the Hanoverian underground label GeeBeeDee , ... and it goes off , was a parody of the Neue Deutsche Welle, with which they satirically portrayed the rapid flattening and commercialization of this genre . After a new release by Teldec , the NDW parody itself became a commercial success and reached number 58 in the German single charts in January 1983 .

In mid-1983 Piefke and Pafke released another single entitled Auf in die Galaxien , before the band members went their own way again.

Reinhard Stroetmann and Peter Frese recorded the single "Am Strand, am Strand" in 1983 under the cabaret project name (which has been running since 1971), working title Bone .

In 2008, Welle: Erdball covered the 1982 single and released it as "And it goes from (C 64)" on the maxi CD "Ich bin aus Plastik".

Discography

... and it's off / Format (1982, GeeBeeDee)
... and it's off / Format (1982, Teldec) (also in green vinyl)
Off to the galaxies / The lottery numbers (1983, Teldec)

Working title bones

When someone goes on a journey / The Ballad of the Leisure Cowboy (1972, Lava) (with Cake Walker's jazz band )
Teutonic songs to break the habit (LP, 1972, Lava)
Cartilage songs and bone breakers (LP, 1977, Lava)
Super-man returns home ... / Smoking blues 7 " (1979, Lava)
Once upon a time / - (1980, lava)
Of course we have nothing against cripples (LP, 1980, Lava)
On the beach, on the beach / Oh Ilse (1983, WEA)

literature

Matthias Blazek: The Lower Saxony Band Compendium 1963-2003 - Data and facts from 100 rock groups from Lower Saxony . Celle 2006, p. 158 ISBN 978-3-00-018947-0

Web links

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↑ memoryradio.de . Working title Bone had already released their debut album in 1972, around the same time as the bands Dull Knife (LP "Electric Indian"), Jane , Scorpions and Eloy .
↑ 1976–1980 guest at the Jazz Club Hannover .

[1] ryradio.de . Working title Bone had already released their debut album in 1972, around the same time as the bands Dull Knife (LP "Electric Indian"), Jane , Scorpions and Eloy .

[2] 1976–1980 guest at the Jazz Club Hannover .