{"id":184,"date":"2007-12-19T10:42:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T09:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tempelores.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2019-11-13T20:32:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T18:32:22","slug":"16-12-2007-the-meteors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tempelores.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"16-12-2007 The Meteors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small><em>Date: 16-12-2007, Schlachthof Wiesbaden(Germany)<br \/>\n\u00a0 By: <a target=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tempelores.com\/?page_id=13#nina\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nina Mende<\/a><\/em><\/small><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Another Sunday night out to be at a gig. Tonight&#8217;s gig was supposed to take\u00a0place at the Schlachthof in Wiesbaden\/Germany, but as I entered the venue there\u00a0\u00a0 were only soccer fans having fun\u2026 So I asked the security and found out\u00a0that the show is going to be in a smaller room next to the main venue. Only\u00a0by seeing some of the fans, I could already tell that there were going to be\u00a0some drunk people and that there would probably be a mosh pit.<\/p>\n<p>The band that was playing tonight was the psychobilly band The Meteors from\u00a0the UK. The Meteors were started in 1980 by P. Paul Fenech (guitar and vocals),\u00a0Nigel Lewis (stand-up bass), and Mark Robertson (drums).\u00a0The Meteors played their first show during Rockabilly Night at The sparrow Hawk\u00a0in north London, but after being heckled due to their cross between rockabilly\u00a0and punk attitudes, decided to begin playing shows beyond just rockabilly clubs.\u00a0They developed a loyal following known as &#8220;the Crazies, or Zorchmen&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 who invented their own dance style called &#8220;going mental,&#8221; a cross<br \/>\n\u00a0 between fighting, dancing and moshing. The band began playing at punk rock clubs<br \/>\n\u00a0 alongside UK punk bands such as the The Clash, The Damned and later Anti-Nowhere<br \/>\n\u00a0 League and the UK Subs. Due to their unprecedented cult following, The Meteors<br \/>\n\u00a0 made a short film in late 1980 with comedian Keith Allen called \u201cMeteor<br \/>\n\u00a0 Madness\u201d. It was released as a double feature with two-tone ska film \u201cDance<br \/>\n\u00a0 Craze\u201d in March 1981. The movie featured four songs, which made it onto<br \/>\n\u00a0 the band&#8217;s first vinyl single. In August 1981, the band were signed to Island<br \/>\n\u00a0 Records and recorded their first full-length, \u201cIn Heaven\u201d.<br \/>\n\u00a0 The Meteors have gone through many line-up changes since, with Fenech being<br \/>\n\u00a0 the only original member today. The current line-up includes Simon Linden on<br \/>\n\u00a0 bass and Wolfgang Hordemann (who, though not from the original line up, is the<br \/>\n\u00a0 longest serving member by far after Fenech) on drums. They have 25 official<br \/>\n\u00a0 albums, countless singles, and numerous re-issues and compilation appearances.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Quite a legend in the psychobilly scene, not always liked but definitely respected.<br \/>\n\u00a0 They didn\u2019t have an opening act, it was only them. The fans were all totally<br \/>\n\u00a0 excited, sang along and as described above, did this weird moshing that looked<br \/>\n\u00a0 like fighting. A very aggressive band and audience it seemed at some points.<br \/>\n\u00a0 The stand-up bass player seemed very happy, he always had a smile on his face.<br \/>\n\u00a0 The gig seemed ultra short, it went by so quick although they played for about<br \/>\n\u00a0 an hour as usual. Very energetic punk rock\/psychobilly straight out of the UK.<br \/>\n\u00a0 The singer was not talking much to the audience nor did he really interact with<br \/>\n\u00a0 them much, but I don\u2019t think that the audience would have wanted that.<br \/>\n\u00a0 They were totally drifted away, only enjoying the music. It was a very interesting<br \/>\n\u00a0 gig to watch.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0 <\/center>Links:<br \/>\n\u00a0 The Meteors Official<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 16-12-2007, Schlachthof Wiesbaden(Germany) \u00a0 By: Nina Mende<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[418],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concertsfestivals","tag-418"],"featured_image_url":[],"post_author":"Sabine van Gameren","assigned_categories":"Concerts\/Festivals","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>16-12-2007 The Meteors - Tempelores Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tempelores.com\/?p=184\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"16-12-2007 The Meteors - 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