Welcome on this wonderful hot summer day and I don't want to stay long at the Computer because life is calling me, so here we go: the Salinos consisted of Achim (vocals/guitar), Lotte & Peter (guitars), Bert (bass), Siggi (drums), Beate (accordion/flugelhorn/minimoog), Gabi (accordion), Meggi (percussion) and was formed 1978 in Gelsenkirchen and featured members of the theatre group "Küchentheater". Their first performances were done in the same year under the name of "K.O.T.S." (Küchentheater On Tour Secretly). In late June 1979, the Salinos released a six-track EP, which was one of New Wave's first self-produced singles. In September they performed at the 'Antifascist Festival' in Berlin. On December 29th they took part in the event 'Geräusche Für Die 80er' in the Markthalle Hamburg (they belonged together with Minus Delta t, Tempo and Liebesgier to the experimental bands, which were attacked by parts of the audience (Stupid Morons) and sometimes physically attacked). In 1980 the live tape Überzeugungstäter was released, and in August 1981 the album Du Siehst Nicht Aus Wie Ich Ausseh and it sold thousands of copies within a few weeks. Until 1982, the band played regularly in trendy bars in the Ruhr area and repeatedly in the Ratinger Hof in Düsseldorf. Their heterogeneous audience included "Punks as well as old freaks or many NORMAL people". Since then there have been various event-related reunions. Musically, they took their cue from early Rock'N'Roll and refined it with their own garage-like New Wave/Punk sound and played their self-written material: In addition, they adapted classic German Schlager. In their songs they showed a "sense of enigmatic wit, a rarity in the otherwise so stupid, dead serious German Punk scene" (Sounds/1979) and "constantly walked on the border between genius and kitsch" (Spex/1980). Thomas Groetz recognized in the lyrics of the song a "tongue in cheek criticism of social conditions". In 1985 the band split up. - Enough words; beer ready+go!
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