from left to right: Vanessa Violence, Gaby R, GitZe
WHO, WHAT, WHEN?
Gaby "R", GitZe and Vanessa Violence (aka Flizzer), were three very young and defiant girls from the area Augsburg (Bavaria), when they started to play together. In the beginning their band was called "Deutscher Abschaum", but soon they re-named to "Pervers". First they had also a male member, Ingo Riedl, but he left the band soon due to permanent fights with Vanessa Violence. They titled themselves "Punkband", but their music sounded not like the typical german punk sound of the 80's. They were quite inspired by german experimental DIY bands (e.g. Hirnheimer, Familie Hesselbach, Einstuerzende Neubauten, Toedliche Doris, Geile Tiere, MDK). Apart from e-guitar, bass guitar and a snare drum they often used objects which weren't very usual for punk music those days (cans, metal objects, distortion/noise modules and an e-organ). Their lyrics mostly dealed with the "shady sites of human existence". They recorded two longplayer tapes, which GitZe distributed to underground recordshops in and out of Germany. They also appeared on a few tape compilations on different labels. An offer to release a LP on a well-known german punk-label they rejected, because of the sexistic attitudes of the label owners. After two years they released their first record, an 7inch EP with 5 tracks (Zweckfrei Records, Frankfurt - in co-operation with GitZe's label S.U.F.F. - edition: 500 copies). After a review of that EP in the US Fanzine "Maximum Rock'n Roll" they got some attraction in the US and were invited to come to New York for some gigs, but since they still hadn't the full age, it didn't happen. Vanessa left the band then, but Gaby "R" and GitZe continued. After some (more or less) quiet years they did their second deal with Zweckfrei Records and drove to Frankfurt for a studio-session with friends of the Zweckfrei label-owner (C. & C..Oral, Roger Kobernuss) from Frankfurt. These tracks were not published on vinyl (as initially planned), but only on a simple CD-R, because there was an insoluble disagreement between Pervers and Zweckfrei about the design of the record-cover. In 1989 Pervers stopped to make music, because GitZe's and Gaby's musical preferences developed into different directions anyway. bio written by joseffa aggressiv, december 2003
WHAT ARE THEY DOING TODAY?
Vanessa V. is trading with dolls. Gaby "R" is a kind of welfare worker. GitZe is still making music (and runs a label called "Kommando 6").
WHERE CAN I LISTEN TO THEIR MUSIC?
At Bandcamp you can listen for free or buy the 2 EPs digitally. The tapes are either lost or their quality is too bad to share it.
Hi collectors, if you have tapes/articles/etc concerning Pervers and GitZe's tape labels, please check this: WISHLIST
Following things we already know, but there was surely some more:
Printed stuff from the 1980s:
Pervers on foreign tape labels: