Rogers (band)
| Rogers | |
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| General information | |
| origin | Dusseldorf , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Punk rock |
| founding | 2006 as an emergency room later Jolly Roger |
| Website | www.rogers.de |
| Current occupation | |
| Chri Hoffmeier | |
| Artur friend | |
| Dominic Sbarcea | |
| former members | |
Drums |
Simon Stratmann (2008-2014) |
Guitar, vocals |
Nicolas Feelisch (2006-2019) |
The Rogers are a punk rock band from Düsseldorf currently under contract with People Like You Records .
history
2006-2010
2006 founded singer Chri Hoff Meier, guitarist and bassist Nico Feelisch Artur friend the band already called emergency room with a rotating cast on drums after Hoff Meier and Feelisch had jointly visited some concerts of local bands. When the former got to know drummer Simon Stratmann at his birthday party in the rehearsal room district, which was also used by the emergency room, in 2008, after initially smaller appearances , he joined the band a short time later as a permanent member and thus completed the line-up. From then on they played in this formation at small concerts and festivals.
2010–2012
Early June 2010, then changed the band changed its name to Jolly Roger ( dt .: Jolly / Jolly Roger ), under which it their first EP called a month later Wherever it takes us , as part of which they the Ready to (K) board Tour 2010 by Germany, Austria and Switzerland played, published in their own production. They also toured for the first time on the Wellenreiter Tour as the opening act for the Meerbuscher band Massendefekt , with whom they later worked more often, and also played concerts with Sondaschule and Radio Havana .
After a headlining concert in the Autonomous Center Cologne on July 28, 2012, in which the majority of the shooting of the music video later took place alone , in which Sebastian Beyer, singer of Massendefekt, got a guest appearance, they received a contract offer from the record label People Like You Records that they signed. Under contract for the first time, they released the EP Faust hoch at the beginning of the next year , shortly beforehand shortening their band name to Rogers , not least because they were already called that at the time. This rose to number 24 in the "official German Metal-Rock Charts".
Escape to the Front (2013-2015)
With the release of their debut album Flucht vorwärts in late 2013, there was a sold out release show in the Düsseldorf Tube and further appearances in the opening act of bands like Pennywise and the Broilers as well as various concerts and the like. a. in the Hamburg logo. The music video for Stiller Wunsch then published was also released as a single.
In 2014 various other concerts, tours with Sondaschule and The Creepshow followed , as well as festivals such as Mair1 , With Full Force and Open Flair in Eschwege. Immediately before the festival summer 2014, drummer Simon Stratmann left the band for private reasons. Nevertheless, the band played every single festival and announced a new album for 2015 in September of the same year. Further concerts all over Germany followed. a. with the bands Marathonmann and Slime .
In January 2015, Rogers played a sold-out single release concert in domestic Dusseldorf that with the release of the first single Get up represented the start of the cycle of their second album.
Nothing to Lose (2015-2016)
After two months in the studio and a few individual concerts, u. a. with the band Jennifer Rostock , the band released their second album Nothing to lose in the summer of 2015 and dedicated themselves to a large number of festivals, a small acoustic tour and other tours through Germany, Austria and Switzerland, etc. a. with the bands The Bones and Sondaschule , with whom they have performed several times in the past.
In December 2015, parallel to the release of their new music video for the song Anders als ihr , they announced their first tour for spring 2016. Together with the bands Das Pack , Stereogold and Rivers become oceans , they traveled across the republic as part of their ten cities. Only drummer Dom had to be represented for the last three concerts due to short-term imprisonment and other problems with the police.
The Rogers played their biggest concert to date on October 8th in the sold-out ZAKK Hall in Düsseldorf after another show with Bad Religion and a second part of the tour that included eight other cities.
At the end of 2016 they released two cover versions of well-known titles by Madsen and Maxim with Mit dem Moped nach Madrid and Meine soldiers , which soon exceeded two million clicks and steadily increased in virality.
Open your eyes (2017 to today)
After further festival shows and a tour in the opening act of Callejon , the band released their third studio album Augen auf on September 8, 2017 via People like You Records . They split their release shows into three club concerts at Tube , Pitcher and Stone in Ratinger Hof in their hometown of Düsseldorf, to which they invited local support bands with Datenschmutz , NORDN and Vollkommen Egal .
Open eyes rose to number 37 in the German charts. The first edition of the album was a limited edition with a bonus disc with which cover versions of old titles such as Bata Illics I should like the button on your blouse his or Had you had stayed in Dusseldorf by Dorthe Kollo its own interpretation under the pseudonym The Roberts includes .
The associated tour was then announced for the beginning of 2018 under the title of the single of the same name I have to shit . This was expanded to include a second part after completion.
The band's biggest concert to date followed on October 12th after numerous other festival shows. Together with Billy Talent and Feine Sahne Fischfilet they played in the opening act for Die Toten Hosen in the Merkur Spiel-Arena Düsseldorf.
With the Middle Finger Forever Tour 2019, the Rogers then announced a new album for the coming year.
style
The band's music is primarily characterized by its melody, while the lyrics are mostly taken from real life or are socially critical, "without, however, calling for a big revolt, as other striking bands like to do". The modern, instrumental and vocally polyphonic music is accompanied by distinctive melodies and more modern sounds, "but without falling into dullness", hard, with a lot of energy, but still partly capable of masses.
“ A good piece of sound carrier with a modern, fresh, appealing sound for the younger or young at heart generation of punk rock. "
The band itself expressly differentiates its style from traditional punk, nonetheless describes itself as a punk rock band that develops its own contemporary style from the respective influences.
“ So if you no longer wanted to call it punk, then what !? "
engagement
In their texts, announcements and interviews, the band speaks out against anti-Semitism , xenophobia , violence , the general German rock movement and its politically unclear positioning, "even against the brown pulp". They are also critical of issues such as patriotism.
In August 2013 they also began to support the environmental protection organization Sea Shepherd by providing information material at their appearances, visually representing the organization in the form of flags and setting up a donation box.
In the summer of 2015, the band organized a day trip for Syrian refugees between the ages of 20 and 30 in cooperation with Diakonie Düsseldorf, to offer them an alternative to their everyday life in the refugee home and to give them the opportunity to communicate in public during a video shoot.
Trivia
- The band has been working with photographer Kay Özdemir right from the start, who not only produced all of their videos but also works with artists such as Massendefekt and the Broilers .
- All of the band's studio releases were produced in collaboration with music producer Michael Czernicki at Rock or Die Studio Düsseldorf.
- So far they have shared a stage with bands such as Die Toten Hosen , Jennifer Rostock , Broilers , Sondaschule , Massendefekt , Pennywise , Rise Against , Flogging Molly , Slime and many more.
- The band plays specially made picks with alternating Rogers / Sea Shepherd imprints.
- In addition to winning the annual City Beats Band Contest on December 4, 2010 in the Düsseldorf House of Youth, the Rogers were also able to win the Planetrox music competition. This victory enabled them to perform at the 2011 Envol et Macadam Festival in Québec , Canada . In the preliminary round, the music video of the song Alles Für Nothing was to be voted on, from which the band qualified for the final.
Discography
Albums
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 2013 | Escape Forward People Like You Records |
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First published: June 3, 2013
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| 2015 | Nothing to Lose People Like You Records |
DE90 (1 week) DE |
First published: June 26, 2015
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| 2017 | Eyes on People Like You Records |
DE37 (1 week) DE |
First published: September 8, 2017
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| 2019 | Middle finger forever People Like You Records |
DE14 (1 week) DE |
First published: March 7, 2019
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EPs
- 2010: Wherever It Leads (in-house production, as Jolly Roger)
- 2013: Faust hoch (People Like You Records)
- 2016: With the moped to Madrid (People Like You Records)
Music videos
- 2011: All for nothing (Kay Özdemir)
- 2013: Alone (Kay Özdemir)
- 2013: Silent Wish (Arkadiusz Goniwiecha)
- 2014: Forever (Kay Özdemir)
- 2015: Get up (Kay Özdemir)
- 2015: Never Forget (Dirk Behlau)
- 2015: Migratory birds (Arkadiusz Goniwiecha)
- 2015: Different from you (Kay Özdemir)
- 2016: Kreuzberg Nights (Arkadiusz Goniwiecha)
- 2016: With the moped to Madrid (Bettertimes)
- 2016: My soldiers (Bettertimes)
- 2017: Open your eyes (SPECTAIR GmbH & Co. KG)
- 2017: I gotta shit (Artur Freund)
- 2017: Being Heroes (feat.Sebastian Madsen)
- 2018: earlier
- 2019: The neighbors from above
Singles
- 2013: Stiller Wunsch (People Like You Records)
- 2015: Get Up (People Like You Records)
- 2016: Kreuzberger Nights (People Like You Records)
Web links
- Official website
- Chart sources: DE
swell
- ↑ Jolly Roger Blog
- ↑ a b c Mass defect Streetteam: Friends - Rogers ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ringrocker.com archive
- ↑ Düsseldorf Community: Jolly Roger (ex emergency room!) ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Useless Fanzine: Mass Defect Tour and Interview
- ↑ a b Blog "In the Mind": The song for Sunday
- ↑ World DJ Charts
- ↑ Triggerfish: Rogers Tour with Das Pack 2016
- ↑ Facebook: Statements by the band
- ^ People Like You Records
- ^ Sony Music
- ^ Official German charts
- ↑ Announcement on the homepage of Die Toten Hosen
- ↑ Riot Kids Review: Fist Up
- ↑ Anvil Mag Review: Escape Forward
- ↑ Music Reviews Review: Where It Takes Us
- ↑ a b Nameless Magazine Review: Faust Hoch ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Die Toten Hosen Recommendation: Escape to the front ( memento of the original from November 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Musikszene Düsseldorf: Act of the month
- ↑ a b Favorite tape: Rogers
- ↑ a b c d Mass defect Streetteam: Friends - Rogers - Commitment & Cooperation ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Rocktimes: Review: Where It Takes Us
- ↑ YouTube: "Music video: Migratory birds"
- ↑ Jolly Roger at Center.TV .
- ↑ Open Flair Acts: Rogers
- ↑ Local compass: And the winner is: Jolly Roger!
