{"id":18598,"date":"2024-03-03T15:05:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T14:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gehkacken.de\/?p=18598"},"modified":"2024-03-05T15:23:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T14:23:10","slug":"memory-lane-ctd-brausepoter-2024-vs-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gehkacken.de\/?p=18598","title":{"rendered":"… memory lane ctd: Brausep\u00f6ter 2024 vs. 1980."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Plenty of me mates took a jog down memory lane on Wednesday at the Monkeys, cheering towards Cheetah Chrome & his Dead Boys. Whilst i definitely uphold the Dead Boys original vinyl output (two great LP’s, a couple of singles) it was the live videos i saw of this 2024 version that did turn me down. Big time actually. So i did let go, though later friends where full of praise of “great 1970s NY rock” … ok, choices – as ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another choice for a jog down memory lane was Brausep\u00f6ter at the Hafenklang. And in contrast to them Dead Boys their original recorded output (one 7″ on Zick Zack in 1980) is simply shite. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also by the account of the band, as Zick Zack head honcho Alfred Hilsberg dragged them out of the Scala aka “New Scala Wave” in Herford straight into a studio in Hamburg manned with a bearded Jazz Hippie. And the output was poor, forgettable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That Brausep\u00f6ter still have a name in Hamburg (whilst having only ever played two shows here, 1980 and 2014) is down to this show:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zick Zack Festival 1980 ( (c) oldpunks.de)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was maybe the one show where the Hamburg Pogo Punk contingent and the Neue Musik lovers (soon to be Neue Deutsche Welle and hated) did split apart. Previous Festivals at the Markthalle (forever put to memory by Robert Nitz on Konnekschen) did keep a unity between the two – as late in 1980 the split seemed unavoidable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brausep\u00f6ter guitar player Martin memorized it like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nQ: Alfred Hilsberg also organized the legendary Zick-Zack festivals in Markthalle (Hamburg), where you also performed. When was that?<\/b>\n\nA: That was in late December 1980. We played together with Radierer, the partner combo of The Wirtschaftswunder, they both come from Limburg. And Abw\u00e4rts plus Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten.\n\nQ: The mood is said to have been explosive, as you can read in J\u00fcrgen Teipel's book \u201cVerschwende Deine Jugend\u201d. What was going on with you?<\/b>\n\nA: So for us it was like this: Abw\u00e4rts was the only band that was accepted by the audience. But they only came at the end. Although, that's not entirely true: Einst\u00fctzende Neubauten continued to play afterwards. It was their first appearance outside of Berlin. The whole Markthalle was almost empty by then. There were only 30 people left and I was standing in the middle. It was like a moon landing that you just happened to be there for. I had never seen anything like that: the way they banged around on their instruments, with that archaic industrial sound, unbelievable.\n\nQ: And how was Brausep\u00f6ter received?<\/b>\n\nA: As I said: Abw\u00e4rts were accepted. Otherwise the festival was not well received by the audience. The Hamburg punks were also strongly influenced by the British scene; It was very rough there. I don't remember whether they booted Die Radierer off the stage. I believe yes. In any case, we remained adamant. I told them: \u201cDo what you want, we\u2019ll play through our set here\u201d. And maybe they spit on us, you wouldn't believe that. I was wet! From top to bottom. And then there is also a photo of me getting a full beer can in front of my head. I bled like anything else. \u201cKeiner Kann Uns Ab\u201d in its purest form.\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
And indeed the moment where the Hansa Pils can (cheapest piss back then and often used as a messenger) did meet Martin was memorized on a picture:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Markthalle 27.12.1980: Hansa Pils meets Brausep\u00f6ter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Their “signature” song “Keiner Kann Uns Ab<\/em>” (roughly “No one digs\/likes us<\/em>“) from that night with some pointed pictures is out out there too:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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