Church of Confidence

Church of Confidence

Church of Confidence is a German punk group from Berlin, formed in 1995. The group combines punk with rock and roll and is associated with punk rock and hard rock. The named members are Rolf Kötting, Ulrich Reiße-Gross and Zip Schlitzer.

Career

The band records its first album in summer 1996 at Freshtone Studios in Lübeck. It appears on Rodrec/Indigo in 1997. During 1997 and 1998, the group plays support tours, club shows in and outside Berlin, and festival dates, while also going through several line-up changes.

In 1999, Knockout Records releases the four-track EP Pray. Later that year, the album Living On Crime appears on the Berlin label ANTI/Zomba. In 2000, the band supports Marky Ramone at SO 36 in Berlin, then tours for 12 shows with the UK punk band the Buzzcocks. It also plays festivals during the summer and ends the year with a New Year’s Eve show at Wild At Heart in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Later releases and sound

In 2001, Church of Confidence records its third album, Teaching the Children the Blues, which is released on People Like You Records. Its sound brings together late 1970s punk rock, early 1970s glam rock and 1950s rock and roll, with references to artists such as The Clash, Slade and Gene Vincent.

Line-up details

The line-up associated with Teaching the Children the Blues includes Uli on vocals and guitar, Zip on bass, and Hermann on drums. Zip is noted as a former member of Terrorgruppe, and Hermann as a former member of Mad Sin.