Scheisse Minnelli

Scheisse Minnelli

Scheisse Minnelli is a hardcore punk and skate punk group from Germany, based in Aschaffenburg, and active since 2003. The band starts in late 2003, when two Californians and two Germans form the first line-up. Its early history centres on Samuel el Action, who settles in Germany after travelling through Europe and the Middle East and wants to play the California punk he grows up with. He meets drummer Dudel in Aschaffenburg, recruits Egore from the United States, and adds bassist Dash. That first line-up plays an early house-party show at the Shit House, then tours the Netherlands and Belgium and opens for Poison Idea at Lintfabrik.

Egore later leaves and is replaced first by Felix, then by Alex. Over time the group plays more than 200 gigs and tours widely across Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Italy, France, the Czech Republic, England, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia and the United States. It also tours twice with Raw Power and shares stages with acts including Poison Idea, Murder Junkies, Retching Red, Butt Trumpet, Municipal Waste, Seein' Red, D.I., Christ on Parade, Antiseen, U.K. Subs, Subhumans, Beowülf, Pennywise, NOFUN and NOFX.

Releases

Scheisse Minnelli's debut full-length, Exist to Get Piss't, is issued on vinyl by TWF Records in Germany and on CD by King Fing'r/Hairball 8 Records in the United States. Other releases follow, including the 7-inch The Shit House on Sick of Talk Records. The band then signs with Destiny and releases its second album, The Crime Has Come, which also appears in the United States on Beanies Records. A third album, The Fight Against Reality, is recorded with the then line-up, and the band tours in support of it in Europe and the United States.

By the time Mikey Porter joins the group on guitar in 2011, Scheisse Minnelli has established a long-running presence in European and American punk and hardcore circuits.