Brausepöter Concerts

Brausepöter (Martin Lück: vocals, guitar, synth and Bernd Hanhardt: bass, Kemper: drums, still exist in this line-up today!) were founded in 1978 in East Westphalia and were called
Originally Northwest German Eiterlager, or NWE for short. Brilliant name, but Brausepöter isn't bad either!
They are therefore one of the first German punk bands, punk in the true sense of the word, or as the US fanzine Maximum Rocknroll put it: “It's indie punk in the purest John Peel sense” or as Martin Lück put it: “We always wanted to take all the rock out of our music”.
In 2019, Brausepöter released their last regular album, "Nerven geschädigt." The punk magazine FAZ headlined its review, "The new Brausepöter record shows what punk means today." They described Brausepöter as "a German band that was unfortunately too good to become as famous as Trio or Die Toten Hosen." Spiegel Online also liked "Nerven geschädigt": "In its radical disinterest in everything that's currently happening and might promise success, Brausepöter's music seems even more consistent today than it did back then."
In December, the lost 1979 album "Keiner kann uns ab" (Nobody Can Leave Us Behind) will be released on Tapete Records. The record, recorded in '79 on a cassette recorder, was originally supposed to be released on ZickZack, but that never came to fruition. Did the tape get lost in the mail? Were the recordings too good? Or too radical even for ZickZack? We don't know.
If "Keiner kann uns ab" had actually been released back then, who knows, perhaps the album would be mentioned today in the same breath as "Monarchie und Alltag," "Amok Koma," or Slime's debut. But maybe not, because the Brausepöter sound is too unique, too ramshackle, too DIY—closer to the TVPs, closer to The Fall, or closer to the early Mekons than to all those punk rock bands. Brausepöter are simply "indie punk in the purest John Peel sense."