Züri West

Züri West
Züri West at the “Stars of Sounds” concert in Aarberg, June 1st, 2012.
General information
Genre (s)	Dialect rock
founding	1984
Website	www.zueriwest.ch
Founding members
singing	Kuno Lauener
guitar	Markus Fehlmann
bass	Peter Schmid (until 1986)
Drums	Sam Mumenthaler (until 1986)
guitarist	Peter von Siebenthal (until 2000)
Current occupation
singing	Kuno Lauener
guitar	Markus Fehlmann
guitar	Manuel Häfliger (since 2017)
bass	Wolfgang Zwieauer (since 2017)
Drums	Gert Stäuble (since 1993)
former members
bass	Jürg Schmidhauser (2000–2012)
bass	Martin Gerber (1986-2000)
Drums	Martin S. Silfverberg (1986-1992)
Keyboard instruments	Oliver Kuster (2001-2004)
guitar	Thomas Etter (2000-2017)

Züri West is one of the most successful Swiss rock bands from Bern . The name Züri West is intended as an (ironic) paraphrase for Bern - the federal city ​​that lies west of the largest Swiss city, Zurich - and is viewed by the people of Zurich as a distant western suburb. The lyrics of the songs are mainly sung in Bern German .

Band history

Kuno Lauener , Sam Mumenthaler, Küse Fehlmann and Peter Schmid appeared together for the first time in 1984 as Sweet Home Pajamas and a few weeks later as Gianni Pannini . On February 9, 1984 they founded the band Züri West together with Peter von Siebenthal . In 1985 the band released a concert recording on the maxi single Splendid . With songs like Flachgleit and Hansdampf , the band provided the soundtrack to the youth riots around the Zaffaraya area and the cultural-political fight for the Reithalle cultural center in Bern. In 1987 the first album Sport & Musik was released .

With their second album Bümpliz – Casablanca (1989), the band made it to number one on the Swiss charts . The album Elvis (1990) was awarded a gold record for 25,000 copies sold. In 1991 the album Arturo Bandini was released and was also successful. With the live album Winter Tour, the band looked back at their development from a political scene band to a national pop great.

Gert Stäuble replaced Silvio Silfverberg on drums during the break that followed. The song I schänke dr mis Härz from the studio album Züri West (1994) became the band's biggest hit to date; on the album is I ha di gärn gha a Swiss German version of When You Were Mine from the album Dirty Mind by Prince available. With the album Hoover Jam (1996) produced in the United States, the band tried to distance themselves from the image of the hit band. After a three-year hiatus, the album Super 8 (1999) was released.

In the following two years guitarist Peter von Siebenthal and bassist Martin Gerber left the band. They were replaced by Tom Etter (guitar), Jürg Schmidhauser (bass) and Oli Kuster (keys). In the title song of the album Radio zum Glück (2001), the band criticized the music program of Radio DRS 3 . The film “Züri West - am Blues vorus…”, which came out in cinemas in 2002, dealt with the development of Radio zum Glück .

With the sampler returns Züri West celebrated the beginning of 2004 its twentieth anniversary. In June 2004 the commercially successful studio album Aloha from Züri West was released .

The studio album Haubi Songs was released on January 12, 2008. On March 14, 2009, Züri West played for the 110th birthday of the BSC Young Boys football club under the pseudonym the Häberlis (inspired by legendary striker Thomas Häberli ) in front of over 25,000 spectators at the Stade de Suisse in Bern.

The album HomeRekords was released on April 23, 2010. It is mainly about B-sides and demos of well-known songs.

The single Göteborg was released in January 2012, the album of the same name on March 23, 2012. In April 2012 the album reached number 1 in the Swiss charts.

On March 24, 2017, Züri West returned after five years (apart from the soundtrack singles Lied for Lotti and Goalie ) with the album LOVE . It is the first publication with the new members Manuel Haefliger and Wolfgang Zwieauer. In the run-up to the album, videos were released for the songs Schatteboxe and Schachtar gäge Gent , and the film was shot in western Bern at the Tscharnergut and Holenacker tram stops. Schachtar gäge Gent was released as a single.

Discography

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Sport and music   CH 24 01/10/1988 (2 weeks) Bümpliz - Casablanca   CH 1  gold 05/28/1989 (19 weeks) Elvis   CH 2  gold 06/24/1990 (15 weeks) Arturo Bandini   CH 4th  gold December 01, 1991 (17 weeks) Winter tour   CH 10  gold 12/06/1992 (13 weeks) Züri West   CH 1  × 3 Triple platinum 05/22/1994 (45 weeks) Hoover Jam   CH 2  platinum 05/26/1996 (18 weeks) Super 8   CH 2  gold 03/21/1999 (26 weeks) Radio fortunately   CH 1  platinum 09/09/2001 (13 weeks) Return (Best Of)   CH 4th  gold 11/30/2003 (23 weeks) Aloha from Züri West   CH 1  platinum 06/27/2004 (27 weeks) Haubi songs   CH 1  × 2 Double platinum 01/27/2008 (37 weeks) HomeRecords   CH 1  platinum 05/09/2010 (19 weeks) Gothenburg   CH 1  platinum 04/08/2012 (26 weeks) Love   CH 1  platinum 04/02/2017 (38 weeks)

Singles

I thank dr mis Härz   CH 4th  × 2 Double platinum 05/01/1994 (49 weeks) Sofa / Rimini   CH 26th 04/28/1996 (12 weeks) Mojito / echo   CH 27 02/28/1999 (10 weeks) Did you get lucky?   CH 14th 06/06/2004 (8 weeks) Römer / Pünktli   CH 73 October 24, 2004 (2 weeks) Fish sink   CH 5 12/09/2007 (14 weeks) Johnny & Mary   CH 44 02/03/2008 (12 weeks) Güggu   CH 42 04/11/2010 (6 weeks) Gothenburg   CH 31 02/19/2012 (4 weeks) Goalie   CH 55 01/19/2014 (2 weeks) Shakhtar would Ghent   CH 62 02/19/2017 (2 weeks)

• Splendid (live recording from the Splendid cinema in Bern, on maxi single, 4 songs), 1985
• Kirchberg (maxi single, from the Sunrise studio in Kirchberg , 4 songs), 1986
• Sport & Music , LP (10 tracks), 1987 (later as CD, together with Kirchberg )
• Bümpliz – Casablanca , LP / CD (13 songs), 1989
• Elvis , LP / CD (11 songs), 1990
• Arturo Bandini , LP / CD (13 songs), 1991
• Winter tour , live CD with a selection of 22 songs, recorded at four concerts, 1992
• Züri West , Doppel-10-Inch (14 songs) / CD (15 songs), 1994
• Remixed , maxi CD by I schänke dr mis Härz with two remix or instrumental songs each, produced by By Just One (4 songs), 1994
• Hoover Jam , LP (13 songs) / CD (14 songs), 1996
• Super 8 , CD (14 songs), 1999
• Radio fortunately , CD (13 songs), 2001
• Retour , CD (anniversary compilation with 18 songs), 2003
• Aloha from Züri West , CD (12 songs), 2004
• haubi songs , CD (12 songs), 2008
• HomeRekords , CD (16 songs), 2010
• Gothenburg , CD, 2012
• Love , LP / CD, 2017

Movie

• Annina Furrer & Regula Begert: Züri West - am Blues vorus ... , road movie 35 mm, 92 min., 2002

literature

• Toti Flueger, Züri West on tour ISBN 3-85791-392-4 .

Awards

• 1988: Pop Tell '88 as the most popular Swiss rock band
• 1989: Gold for "Bümpliz – Casablanca"
• 1990: Gold for "Elvis"
• 1991: Gold for "Arturo Bandini"
• 1994: Prix ​​Walo in the rock category
• 1994: Double platinum for "Ich schänke dr mis Härz"
• 1995: Triple platinum for "Züri West"
• 1996: Platinum for "Hoover Jam"
• 1999: Gold for "Super8"
• 2001: Gold for «Winter Tour»
• 2001: Platinum for "Radio zum Glück"
• 2003: Gold for "return"
• 2004: Platinum for "Aloha from Züri West"
• 2008: Double platinum for "Haubi Songs"
• 2009: Swiss Music Award for “Best Album Pop / Rock National” for “Haubi Songs” and “Best Live Act National”
• 2010: Platinum for "HomeRekords"
• 2012: Music Prize of the Canton of Bern
• 2014: Swiss Music Award for "Outstanding Achievement"

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"Züri West" locomotive on a Zurich S-Bahn

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Booklet from Züriwestretour
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} hitparade.ch
3. ↑ "Home Record" announcement ( Memento from December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ ^{a b} CH chart discography
5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2004 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.  
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} http://hitparade.ch/search_certifications.asp?search=Z%FCri+West
7. ↑ Prixwalo.ch winner since 1994
8. ↑ Swiss Music Awards 2009 - successful second edition
9. ↑ http://www.erz.be.ch/erz/de/index/direktion/organisation/amt_fuer_kultur/archive/ausgabe_2_2012/musikpreis_2012_deskantonsbern gehtanzueriwest.html

Web links

Commons : Züri West  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Züri West
• Biography (Fama Film AG)
• Awards for music sales: CH