STAGE BOTTLES

In the organizer's words:

Saturday, 20.03.2027
STAGE BOTTLES

Admission 18 / start 19

The Stage Bottles were founded in 1993. The initial line-up was recruited from a close circle of friends in the anti-fascist skinhead scene. At that time, a fierce public battle broke out between the skinhead scene, which described itself as "original"
skinhead scene against the Nazi skinhead scene in order to save or revive the original, non-neo-Nazi skinhead movement. The Stage Bottles were happy to serve this purpose. Initially, they actively supported and participated in SHARP (Skinheads
Against Racial Prejudice), followed by more political events organized by the skinhead group RASH (Red And Anarchist
Skinheads). Despite various line-up changes, the use of the saxophone characterizes the melodic, aggressive punk rock, which is strongly oriented towards the style and musical flexibility of classic English street punk in all its facets.
Lyrically, the focus is clearly on calling for active anti-fascism and a socially critical and anti-capitalist stance. A pronounced affinity to soccer and subcultural themes is expressed in a way that is often unconventional for punk rock.
and very open manner.
The Stage Bottles have already played many hundreds of concerts - not only in Germany, but also in many other European countries as well as Canada, Belarus, Mexico and Russia. Many of these events and concerts take a clear stance against homophobia, racism, nationalism, sexism, fascism, capitalism, etc,
capitalism etc., i.e. against the things that the Stage Bottles address in their lyrics.
The Stage Bottles have released 8 albums, 4 singles, a live LP, a best-of CD and 3 split singles with Los Fastidios, Scrapy and No Respect. There have also been many sampler contributions, some of them exclusive. The title of the song " Sometimes anti-social - but always anti-fascist " developed over the years into a slogan used worldwide by active anti-fascists.
It can be found, for example, as a mural on the back of the stand of the opposite stand of FC St. Pauli or adorns anti-fascist merchandise worldwide. The song "Dead but not forgiven" - an expression of relief at the death of the singer of the neo-Nazi band "Skrewdriver", who was killed in a traffic accident in 1993 - provoked several conflicts, some of them very tangible, especially in the early 1990s with the now officially banned neo-Nazi organization "Blood and Honour" (or its offshoot "Combat 18"), whose founder was Ian Stuart.
founder was Ian Stuart. This "threat" from militant right-wing extremists is a recurring theme, but is successfully fended off time and time again by the band's strong environment, defensive organizers and self-confident audience.
successfully fended off. Various murder and bomb threats have always turned out to be fakes, which fortunately have not been carried out. The Stage Bottles have also found their place in cinema productions in various ways: The song " Sometimes anti- social - but always anti-fascist " was used in the soundtrack of "Green Street 2". In the documentaries "Skinheads" (1995) and "Skinhead Attitude" (2005), band members were interviewed and live recordings of Stage Bottles concerts were shown. In the film "Gegengeraden" (starring Mario Adorf and Moritz Bleibtreu, among others), 3 songs by the band were used for the soundtrack.
In addition to the aforementioned songs "Sometimes Anti-Social - but always Anti-fascist" and "Dead but not forgiven", the Stage Bottles' biggest "hits" include "Russia", "All you need is hate", "Too young to die", "Come together", "One
world one crew" and the song "Solidarity" (based on the version by the band "Angelic Upstarts").

The current line-up:
Phillip - Bass
O2 - Drums
Olaf - sax and vocals
Holger - guitar
Michael - Guitar