Xmal Deutschland Allein ( Official Music Video)

From the upcoming compilation Early Singles: 19811982 out on Sacred Bones Records on March 8, 2024. Original live audio recording from Nosferatu Festival 1982. Preorder, presave: Gothicsa time before the word goth had even taken shapebelieved in the doityourself punk ethos that anyone could pick up an instrument. This, alongside the bricabrac fashion of Adam Ant and the longwinded atmospheric malaise of Bauhaus 1979 single, Bela Lugosis Dead, gray clouds were starting to form. And in the unlikely city of Hamburg, a brazen and haunting gang of five women formed Xmal Deutschland. Amidst the dark ruckus that coalesced at the turn of the 1980s, these similarlystyled incendiaries began practicing in a rehearsal room that belonged to some of their boyfriends bands. As any true punk would, Xmal Deutschlands members Caro May, Rita Simon, Manuela Rickers, Fiona Sangster and Anja Huwe, started the band despite not having had any