1980

Picture 1: Punks from Steilshoop at "Fabricus-Str." School, ca. 1980 (Inter, unknown Proll, ?, ?, Ulf, Prieve, Arne, Öne)

"This pic w/ Punks from Steilhoop was made during a show with my first band Blausiegel at the local school, sometime during summer 1980. I do not recal all names but i remeber a fight between the unknown proll during Pogo with Prieve so that all other guys from Steilhoop came in to help him...thats what you see" (Rudi K.)

Picture 2: Blausiegel, ca. 1980, "Fabricus-Str." School (Lehmann (v), Ingo (b), Raino (d), Rudi K. (g))

" We did rehearse 3 month with the band and tried about 4 singers - without success. Therefor i asked a Ted from my school to join in and i could convince him to try to sing in a punk band.... We were bloody bad that night but it did not matter as all the school did not see a band - not talking about a punk band - befor. We played 9 songs and 2 more and did cut time short for the main event after us   - a dump hippie-band wich had to stop after 3 songs as the place closed on time at 21:00!" (Rudi K.)

Picture 3: All the young punks, ca. end-1980, (Sommerfeld akla Das Zelt,Biber, Pizza w/ Beer, Richie (not seen), Schwabes then ex-Girlfriend (name lost), Rudi K.) on the way to a MONDIAL show at JUZ Reinbek.

Biber, Pizza and Rudi K. went on to form 'Die Knallschoten' whilst Sommerfeld appeared in some drug-fency related stories in the local newspapers years later - stuff like offering someone a nice "I am gonna kill you with my knife" whilst actualy pointing a knife at him being full drunk - it was police report time again...someone noted he went on to be lost in the drug-scene but that just might not be true.

Picture 4: Outside the Markthalle after the famous Clash-Riot show, Hamburg 20.05.1980 (you can spot Dr. Nob - now a real doc - on the far right!)

This was one of the famous "riot shows" at the Markthalle in 1980 - the hey-days of Hamburg Punk. The Clash were attacked by the punks as "sell out's" and "stars" and the show ended after Mike Strummer crashed his guitar on the head of a punk spitting at him. Police was soon on the spot and it was a lot of fun... And do you spot the punks look? I was short hair and classic motorcycle jaket with badges - no spikes, no iro, no fancy stuff. And: Police back then did not wear full riot gear but the nice leather-jackets all the punk were looking after in 2nd hand stores...

Picture 5-7: var. news clippings from the famous Clash Riot show, Hamburg 20.05.1980

Picture 8: Punks being arrested in Hamburg-Poeseldorf during the "Punk attack on Poeseldorf"

That was another great Hamburg Punk Gem: After the usual (and known) fights between Punks and Teds they united against the "Popper" (rich kids wearing LaCoste stuff) and made a storm on the Poppers hot-spot - being the part of Hamburg called "Poeseldorf". The outcome were smashed cars, windows and arrested punks. BIG FUN!

Picture 9-10: Assorted news clips from var. newspapers in Hamburg (the pics contain well known punks!)

Picture 11: Another fiend - local hustlers did not like punks iritating their business on St. Pauli

Picture 12: Girls getting personal at a Slime show in 1980 (watching: Finn (Nimm 2), Pizza (face cut off), forgotten location)

"Fantastic Snapshot from a Slime concert. Finn (Nimm 2) on the left , just look at her right hand. Next to her we see Pizza (Knallschoten, Channel Rats etc.) he still drums for several bands. The fighting girl on the right is "Gitte" , no one knows what`s going on with her today." (Minus)

Picture 13: Crowd at the sameSlime show in 1980 (forgotten location)

"Holy shit , what`s the idea of photos like this ? Anyway , let`s enjoy `em now. The guy on the bottom who turns around must be "Stauber" , you still see him around. The tall guy in the top right corner is "Roche". It might be "Brecher" in the middle but that`s hard to say. Photo was done at a Slime concert." (Minus)

Picture 14: News clip on the first shut-down of the Rip-Off record shop - the #1 record store back then (click to enlarge).

Picture 15: Votzer , Katja , Arne. Hanging out in some bar. Anyone an idea where this was?

Picture 16: Witte , Stauber , ? , Arne. Klick Cinema Karoviertel

This cinema used to be a popular hangout for Punks on weekends. They were rolling movies one after another, virtually all night long. Great stuff like 'Punk in London' and allways some trouble.

Picture 17: The legendary Dead Kennedys show 17.10.1980 in Rotenburg (some 50 km south of Hamburg) - only few dared to recon this one, US-Hardcore was not yet on the map. Thanks to torsten@nbg for this one!

Some nice posters, straight from the wall of Minus' appartment - an unbeliveable vault of treasure for old man like us (click to enlarge):

Famous Buttocks promo and show poster	Buttocks and Napalm 24.04.1980 in Hamburg	Razors, 10.05.1980 in Cloppenburg

Clash, 12.05.1980 in Hamburg (the riot show)	Razors and Sacked, 15.05.1980 in Hamburg	Abwärts, 27.12.1980 in Hamburg

Front (ex-Coroners), 14.11.1980 in Hamburg

Picture Credits: (1) -(3) by unknown (supplied by Rudi), (4) - (11) from The Holy War Archive, (12) - (13) and posters by Minus, (14) by Thomas Koch, (15), (16) by Stauber, (17) by Torsten - All pictures are (c) 2011 by The Holy War Archive Foundation and unagreed usage will result in unhealthy punishment by the Holy War Team.