Mittageisen (band)
Mittageisen was a dark wave group in the early 1980s from Switzerland.
The name refers to a song by Siouxsie and the Banshees ( published in 1979 as a single ), which in turn by the photomontage ' is Hurrah, the butter all! ' is inspired by John Heartfield in 1934. This image was used as a title page for the " worker illustrated newspaper" 19 December 1935. Heartfield (1891-1968) was an early member of the Club Dada, which started as Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich in 1916. The image with the original title " Hurrah, the butter is all " shows a family that consumed iron. The trigger was the following sentence to a Goering 's speech: "Ore has always made an empire strong, butter and lard have at most made a people fat."
History
The group was founded in 1981 by Bruno W ( synthesizer, rhythm, voice / lyrics ) - by various punk activities ( inter alia, production of the first Swiss- punk LP " CRAZY " ) - initiated. The other two founding members Daniel S ( guitar) and Markus Sch (guitar, voice ) were active up to that point also in punk bands. Shortly after the foundation was completed by Ursula S as bassist, the group, but left mittageisen before the recordings of their first album in the fall of 1982. Previously mittageisen took a demo tape to six pieces, which were re-recorded partially released on the first album.
In addition to various concerts - among others with bands like Liliput, The Vyllies and propaganda - was mittageisen mainly through the release of their first album in March 1983 to one of the most prolific Swiss New Wave band. Their album was Record of the Week of the specialized for new sounds, program " sounds " of the Swiss radio and was especially often played in the corresponding items of radio stations in Germany and Holland.
As typical post-punk band developed mittageisen own original music style, in which (according to critics ) but also allow influences of Joy Division, early The Cure recognize the Velvet Underground. Besides music to impress, particularly the German- expressive texts by Bruno W, which supplemented the atmospheric melodies.
After the departure of Markus Sch and the addition of Manuela H ( synthesizer), the group released in January 1985, the maxi-single " automatic " with a novel for that time electro sound. The single found its way into the legendary John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and became the indie disco hit.
According to the latest recordings, the group was in 1986 due to " musical differences " dissolved. The head of the group W Bruno published a few years later under the name mittageisen v2 the single " money - labor ," which was published in two editions with different versions. In the second edition supported him Marco Repetto ( gray area ), with whom he collaborated with Paul Ott the fanzine " special edition " published in the early 1980s.