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The Overall Brigade
Flora 6 Köln-Nippes
Florastraße 6
15. März 2025
20:00 MEZ
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About this concert
Songs of the other America: Hobo. Hillbilly. Working Folks Blues.
[ENG below]
Das Köln-Berliner Trio The Overall Brigade spielt Hobo-Hillbilly-Folk in der Tradition von Joe Hill und Woody Guthrie übertragen ins 21. Jahrhundert: Punk mit menschlichem Antlitz und akustischen Mitteln (Akkordeon, Banjolele & Ukulele, Kontrabass, Gesang), dazu eine Prise Ska, ein guter Schuss Polka und ein Löffel Blues.
Amerikanische Musik aus einer Zeit, in der Züge für Freiheit, Ungewissheit und Abenteuer standen, Arbeiter*innen gemeinsam in Bewegung waren und von Besserem träumten als Eigenheimen, Sofagarnituren und Jahresurlauben.
Songs von Wobblies, Hobos, Tramps und Rebell*innen. Die meisten auf Englisch, manche auf deutsch.
Die Overall Brigade hat die ersten deutschen Versionen von Joe Hill-Stücken veröffentlicht.
Die drei bearbeiten das musikalische Erbe der US-amerikanischen Wanderarbeiter*innen und Immigranten, wie die Pogues den irischen Folk bearbeitet haben. Heraus kommt eine tanzbare Folk-Punk-Country-Mixtur.
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The Overall Brigade play Hobo-Hillbilly-Folk…
…in the tradition of Joe Hill and Woody Guthrie transferred into the 21st century: Punk with a human face and acoustic means, plus a pinch of ska, a good shot of polka and a spoonful of blues.
The Berlin and Cologne-based Trio works on the musical heritage of US-American migrant workers and immigrants like the Pogues did work on Irish folk. The result is a rocking folk-punk mixture with a Rhineland-Kraut-like touch.
The Overall Brigade plays music from a time when riding trains meant freedom, uncertainty and adventure. When working folks moved together and dreamt of more than a new sofa corner and the next holiday trip to Thailand.
Workers and work resisters' songs by Wobblies like Joe Hill, T-Bone-Slim and other hobo hillbilly rebel roots stuff. Union songs. Some classic punk cover versions. In German and English.
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The Overall Brigade Biography
The trio is based in Cologne and Berlin, Germany.
Their sound is quite unique and so is their style and attitude. In fact, it is a kind of American folk music – hillibilly, roots, old time music – but sounds like acoustic punk with a touch of ska.
The band describes their attitude as "Punk with a human face" or "music with meanig played by red blooded bindlestiffs".
"We interpret folk and traditional music in the spirit of Joe Hill, Shane McGowan and Loretta Lynn."
They do not have an ordinary guitar and they do not use any effects. As a hobo band The Overall Brigade ride trains with a very small equipment.
They almost never sing about love and happiness but about hobos, work, strikes, exploitation, fighting the law.
The Overall Brigade entered the history books of world music with the first German translations of Joe Hill songs in October 2022.
This is no coincidence: the band's origins lie in a local group of the legendary Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in Cologne, which in 2007 appropriated Wobbly songs for May Day, the working class' day of struggle, and performed them at the legendary Connection in Cologne-Ehrenfeld.
The band name is borrowed from an IWW agitation posse that traveled on trains around 1908 around Spokane, Portland, Oregon, Seattle, sometimes as far away as Chicago, promoting membership in the IWW and its goals. These were no less than the abolition of wage slavery and the emancipation of the working class. There was no way this was going to end well. It was in the historic Overall Brigade that Joe Hill got his start, and it was here that Haywire Mac played who became famous for the hobo anthem The Big Rock Candy Mountains. The Overall Brigade translated the tune into German as "In den Kandiszuckerbergen".
Their signature instruments are accordion and banjolele. The former is generally considered cute. But here it becomes a weapon. Elmore Why plays the banjolele hard and driving. The bass comes from the black keys of the accordion of Jessi Landlos, who doesn't miss any double bass. The drummer Mark can do much more than the formal hillbilly framework allows, but (mostly) doesn't let it hang out.
The band initially started without drums, but with the tea box bass player Fritz Habegger, later Chad Hawkins took over the double bass for a short time. Drummer Mark joined the band in 2021.
Jessi Landlos was the singer of the legendary Rhineland punk band Now or Never in the 80s, which unfortunately broke up much too early.
Elmore Why played distorted electric bass with the Cologne hardcore punk band Ministry of Good Vibrations and the punk crossover formation Tecbilek, both from the environment of the squatter, autonomous, Antifa and trailer camp movement of the late 80s and early 90s.
Bass player Howie What was member of the famous German Klezmer Band "Aufwind" that was founded 1984 in East Berlin. After the wall came down they toured the USA...
Mehr lesenTheir sound is quite unique and so is their style and attitude. In fact, it is a kind of American folk music – hillibilly, roots, old time music – but sounds like acoustic punk with a touch of ska.
The band describes their attitude as "Punk with a human face" or "music with meanig played by red blooded bindlestiffs".
"We interpret folk and traditional music in the spirit of Joe Hill, Shane McGowan and Loretta Lynn."
They do not have an ordinary guitar and they do not use any effects. As a hobo band The Overall Brigade ride trains with a very small equipment.
They almost never sing about love and happiness but about hobos, work, strikes, exploitation, fighting the law.
The Overall Brigade entered the history books of world music with the first German translations of Joe Hill songs in October 2022.
This is no coincidence: the band's origins lie in a local group of the legendary Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in Cologne, which in 2007 appropriated Wobbly songs for May Day, the working class' day of struggle, and performed them at the legendary Connection in Cologne-Ehrenfeld.
The band name is borrowed from an IWW agitation posse that traveled on trains around 1908 around Spokane, Portland, Oregon, Seattle, sometimes as far away as Chicago, promoting membership in the IWW and its goals. These were no less than the abolition of wage slavery and the emancipation of the working class. There was no way this was going to end well. It was in the historic Overall Brigade that Joe Hill got his start, and it was here that Haywire Mac played who became famous for the hobo anthem The Big Rock Candy Mountains. The Overall Brigade translated the tune into German as "In den Kandiszuckerbergen".
Their signature instruments are accordion and banjolele. The former is generally considered cute. But here it becomes a weapon. Elmore Why plays the banjolele hard and driving. The bass comes from the black keys of the accordion of Jessi Landlos, who doesn't miss any double bass. The drummer Mark can do much more than the formal hillbilly framework allows, but (mostly) doesn't let it hang out.
The band initially started without drums, but with the tea box bass player Fritz Habegger, later Chad Hawkins took over the double bass for a short time. Drummer Mark joined the band in 2021.
Jessi Landlos was the singer of the legendary Rhineland punk band Now or Never in the 80s, which unfortunately broke up much too early.
Elmore Why played distorted electric bass with the Cologne hardcore punk band Ministry of Good Vibrations and the punk crossover formation Tecbilek, both from the environment of the squatter, autonomous, Antifa and trailer camp movement of the late 80s and early 90s.
Bass player Howie What was member of the famous German Klezmer Band "Aufwind" that was founded 1984 in East Berlin. After the wall came down they toured the USA...
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