Daily Terror live in 1984 video

Someone posted this video on YouTube a couple of weeks ago, but since I can’t be sure that it will stay there, I added it to our own channel too. This is rough but, from my point of view, incredible footage that I’ve never seen before: Daily Terror live in Bingerbrück near Frankfurt in 1984 – so, about a year after Pedder Teumer’s transformation from punk to skinhead, and a few months before this line-up of the band split. As you can read in our Daily Terror band story, Pedder would go through a period of depression after the breakup, only to re-emerge with a new Daily Terror line-up the following year.

September 10, 2022September 10, 2022 by Crombieboy Categories: MusicTags: Daily Terror, Daily Terror Oi, German punk, German skinheads, Pedder Teumer Leave a comment

What is Möh? A historical debate

Arguably, some chapters of skinhead history are best left forgotten but, conscientious historians that we are, we talk about them anyway. Today we want to find out: what is ‘möh’? The expression was often seen in German skinzines from the 80s, usually accompanied by drawings of bulldogs or super-skins.

If you listen to live recordings of German skinhead bands from about ‘84 or ‘85 onward, you’ll often come across this crowd chant:

That’s Daily Terror live in Schöppenstedt ’87, an event we have described at length elsewhere – and the chant you hear is spelled “möh, möh, möh” [phonetically: mø: mø: mø:]. It follows this simple melody:

October 15, 2021October 19, 2021 by Crombieboy Categories: MusicTags: German skinheads, German skins, Hamburger Schafe, Möh 7 Comments

Until the bitter end: The story of Daily Terror and Pedder Teumer

Few readers, aside from fans of old-school European punk, will have heard of Daily Terror. Yet in the 1980s they were an important West German punk group – and later, they arguably turned into the best skinhead band the country had produced, even if the likes of Böhse Onkelz were more popular.

Truth be told, it’s hard for me to be objective because the matter is to a certain extent personal. 

December 7, 2020December 10, 2020 by Crombieboy Categories: Music, Skinhead historyTags: 80s skinheads, Daily Terror, German Oi, German skinheads, Germany, Oi!, Pedder Teumer 6 Comments

Are these the earliest pictures of German skinheads?

The first picture, shot in 1979, shows bassist Erwin Lieske of Hamburg punk band Kotzbrocken (not to be confused with Cotzbrocken from Cologne) playing live at Krawall 2000, a short-lived punk venue in the St Pauli quarter. Note the two skinheads  standing behind him. This is a scan from an early German book on punk titled Der Grosse Schwindel (authors: Jürgen Stark and MIchael Kurzawa, published in 1981 and long out of print).

March 16, 2017October 5, 2021 by Crombieboy Categories: Skinhead historyTags: German skinheads, Hamburg skinheads, Kotzbrocken, Krawall 2000 Leave a comment