It all began in 1978 at the edge of the town in Wollishofen with the Band Nilp. Since then, Boni Koller was a member, and usually the main lyricist of numerous Bands: Duo, Doberman, Baby Jail, Duo, Cheerful, bonuses, and Bubi, Allschwil Posse, Schtärneföifi, Zloty Machine, Vamos Gygax, El Watusi, Sunne Buebe. A walk with the 57-Year-old is therefore always also a journey through Zurich’s music history.
the parish house Hauriweg
“In the Entlisberg I’m to school,” says Boni Koller. Right next to it, in the parish house Hauriweg in Wollishofen, began his musical career. “In the youth room we rehearsed and gave our first concert. I was even Vice-President of the young Church.” Nilp was the name of the Band, consisting of four students, and apprentices, the here on 1. March 1979, its stage baptism experienced. “Kleenex inspired us to start our own Band. Like you, we had at the beginning of enthusiasm and ideas, but yet a little musical.”
Koller (center) with his first Band, Nilp. Image: zvg
the music business at the Albisstrasse 11 still exists, where Koller once Guitar lessons. The Kino Morgental, however, has disappeared. “Sometimes we looked at there stoned Heintje-films, or “The clown from the first Bank” – maybe my affinity is, therefore, to the German Schlager.” Wollishofen was for Koller at the time, “a home for the aged” and Nilp, one of the youngest punk bands in Zurich, a way to get out. They played in 1980, when the occupation of the Red factory, and then in the AJZ, released two Singles, and disbanded in 1983. “In the beginning of 20 the interests of the individual members have changed rapidly.”
hellmut road 9
“I’ve played there, there and there,” explains Koller on-the-go in a circle 4: in the occupied houses at Stauffacher, a cellar of Baker street, in the people’s house and in the office gym. There is almost no Zurich stage, he is not confessed yet. “Even in the Opera house, only in the indoor stadium.” In the stairwell of the hellmut road 9 the next important Chapter with the first concert of B. B. Foc began in the autumn of 1985. “The drums on the first landing, the Band was spread on the steps, and at the bottom of the input area of the audience urged.” 40, 50 people were at this private concert.
Legendary staircase concert: B. B. Foc live at the hellmut road 9. Image: zvg
“if you Believe the later stories, must be over 100 to have been there,” says Koller. Shortly thereafter, the group changed its name in Baby Jail and was one of the formative Züribands of those years, the donated it to the city with “Rapperswil ZH” a line of defense against the “bright As” from the East of Switzerland, or a hymn to “sponge things” “But we have never seen ourselves as a dialect-rock band,” stresses Koller, “we wanted to also occur in Germany.”
B. B. Foc Baby Jail: The Band in the El International. Image: zvg
Letzigrund stadium
To the indoor stadium, it has managed bonuses Koller never, “the large Open-Air stages, we have a Baby Jail is always avoided, because we did not want to drain away the water and prefer to be on regular tours to Packed concert halls played”. A stadium concert, but there was: 2011 with Schtärneföifi in the Letzigrund. “The Hoard of the city of Zürich celebrated its 125th anniversary with a large. The stage was in front of the South stand on the lawn. In the curve, stood and sat for about 5000 children. All pennants flags, so that it was found on the back. It was impressive.”
Were very popular with the children: the Band Schtärneföifi. Image: Renate Wernli
Schtärneföifi began in 1995 with a contribution for the first “Ohrewürm”-CD and developed for the most successful children-rock band from Switzerland. Against 2000 concerts Schtärneföifi played, and they gave Zurich with “Why isch Züri so popular?” or “Züritüütsch” some of the special town hymns. New songs or performances, there will be but Schtärneföifi in the near future. Like Baby Jail, the group makes up another break.
currently Pause, this Song is still always on the Radio: “Tubel Trophy” from Baby Jail. Video: YouTube/Tubel Trophy
Badi Oberer Letten
Today bonuses Koller lives with his family near the river Limmat square. In the Badi Oberer Letten, many of his Songs were: “In the summer I moved my office each there and quoted my text ideas. At the time, Badi was still an insider’s tip – before you stand in any travel guide. Today, Writing no longer goes there as well. I’m maybe an hour for a Schwumm here and not a whole afternoon.” A few steps from the Latvians, in the Limmat river house, experienced Koller another memorable performance: “Allschwil Posse was booked for a Hip-Hop Festival, the former Swiss dialect-Rap-scene has gathered. As Black Tiger, and P27 were so exactly those of Basel, the Rapper, the we made fun of. Their friends stood with us in the first row and dissten us all the time.”
it Was a Posse as a Rapper on the way: Boni Koller and Bubi Rufener aka Allschwil. Image: zvg
As the MC Folio and VR Horny Koller and the Bernese Bubi Rufener provided from 1995 onwards, with their Rap spoof and Basel dytschen Tracks like “Kettesagi”, especially in the early days for some of the Irritation by the audience. “For today’s Rap Generation but we are now long since Old School,” says Koller, “find the good for us!”
Helsinki
“With the Helsinki club connects me to a long story,” says Koller. With many of his Bands, he has appeared here, the Tätschquiz series took together with Katja Alves in Helsinki. The obvious choice for the 40-year-old stage anniversary, the Koller Songs from his most important Bands is presented. Most of them are history, at the Moment, Boni Koller, especially as a writer and author. In September, his first children’s novel “summer of the Zombies”.
in recent years, a number of times on this stage: Koller at Club Helsinki. Picture: Fabienne Andreoli
Like he would as town clerk for a few months somewhere invited the first applications to run. “A dream destination, there is not, just as far away from the normal Zurich life and a place I don’t know.” A new music project but there are also: The Helsinki Koller plays Songs from Linx & it is not too, the Duo he founded with Baby-Jail-guitarist Nico Feer. “Electronic songs in high German” is the name of the Genre, in the autumn an Album to appear. The stage trip from Boni Koller will continue.
Fr — 20 watch
Helsinki
Geroldstr. 35
entrance is 18 Swiss francs
www.helsinkiklub.ch
(Züritipp)
Created: 27.02.2019, 11:55 PM
