KLEENEX – Beri-Beri 7inch EP (pUnK/KBD/ORIG.’78/SLITS/RAINCOATS/MEKONS/THE FALL)

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KLEENEX – Beri-Beri 7inch EP (pUnK/KBD/ORIG.’78/SLITS/RAINCOATS/MEKONS/THE FALL)    

Artist:  KLEENEX

Title:  s/t

Genre:  pUnK rOcK

Format:  7inch EP

Year:  1978

Label:   Sunrise (Switzerland)

Songs:   4 Songs

Extra Specials:  ORIGINAL SUNRISE PRESSING in alternate multi-coloured sleeve - has different images of all 4 band members and Rough Trade logo in corner.

Cover (VG = very good)

Das Cover ist stärker gebraucht und weist die üblichen Spuren auf.

Vinyl (EX = excellent)

Nur sehr leichte Oberflächenspuren auf dem Vinyl.

Cover (VG = very good)

The Cover is more strongly used and exhibits the usual traces.

Vinyl (EX = excellent)

Only very light surface traces on the Vinyl.

Englisches Info:

The fact that punk rock could capture the imaginations of young people around Europe and America in the late '70's was embodied in the five-year output of Switzerland'sKleenex (later renamed Liliput).  The music meant empowerment for many people to take chances and not worry about consequences.  This was especially so for women like guitarist Marlene Marder and bassist Klaudia Schiff, the two constants/mainstays of the group.

When punk groups began springing up in Zurich, it was a very small scene with a handful of bands that all knew each other, not many places to play and virtually no support from radio stations or the press there.  Marder(originally a saxophonist) had played with a group called the Nasal Boys. Two experimental film-makers, Schiffand drummer Lislot Ha had been bouncing around the idea of forming group before hooking up with the appropriately-named vocalist Regula Sing and a male guitarist who had much more ambitious musician plans. Marder liked what she heard from the band and was glad to step in to replace him.  Indeed, the group's aim was to have fun, more than to become rich and famous.  Armed with a repertoire of four-songs and three chords, Kleenexwowed the local crowds with their simple, child-like rock ditties, filled with joyful chants and nonsense words in the tradition of Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" but musically more in the noisy, exuberant spirit of their British comradesthe Sex Pistols.

Kleenex had local friends who decided to start up a label (Sunrise) where the band put out their first (self-financed) EP in 1978, which included the same four songs from their live sets ("Beri-Beri," "Ain't You," "Hedi's Head," "Nice").  The response was such that the first pressing sold out in weeks. A copy of the EP managed to get to John Peel, the famous English DJ, who fell in love with it and played it over and over for his radio listeners. Rough Trade got wind of their strange, wonderful music and signed the group to a record contract.  Their first single ("Ain't You" and "Hedi's Head" from the EP) made a splash with the UK press and led the label to organize a group of dates around Europe with label-mates Scritti Politti and Red Krayola.  Not even a year after their formation, the group was already an international sensation even though, at the time, they still held various clerical jobs back in Zurich.

Coming to England, they were unimaginatively dubbed the 'Swiss Slits' by the press and made their next single ("You"/"U", 1979) with Krayola leader/Rough Trade producer Mayo Thompson.  Soon, they were off headlining an English 'package tourí with local favorites like the Raincoats, Swell Maps, Subway Sect and Spizz Energi.

After the tour ended in late '79, Sing left the group to be replaced by Chrigle Freund, a recent high school dropout, much younger than the rest of the group.  With the loss of their original singer and threats to destroy all their records by the tissue company, which they took their name from, the group rechristened itself as Liliput in 1980, soon adding saxist Angie Barrack to their ranks. This five-piece line up recorded their next single 'Die Matrosen/Split' with its famous nonsense cheers/shouts ('Hotch-potch, Hugger-mugger, Bow-wow, Hara-kiri!'), making a splash on the UK indie/alternative charts.

Side 1:

Beri-Beri

Ain't You

Side 2:

Hedi's Head

Nice

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CD, CD digi-pak ( Portokosten / Postage Costs ):

(Inland)   1,80 EUR   (Deutsche Post Brief, unversichert + verschlossen)

(Inland)   4,30 EUR   (Deutsche Post Brief „Einschreiben“, der Empfänger oder ein anderer Empfangsberechtigter quittiert den Erhalt der Sendung.)

(Europe/Worldwide)   6,90 EUR   (safer option: registered + the receiver has to sign for the package.)

Single ( Portokosten / Postage Costs ):

(Inland)   2,20 EUR   (Deutsche Post Brief, unversichert + verschlossen)

(Inland)   4,70 EUR   (Deutsche Post Brief „Einschreiben“, der Empfänger oder ein anderer Empfangsberechtigter quittiert den Erhalt der Sendung.)

(Europe/Worldwide)   6,90 EUR   (safer option: registered + the receiver has to sign for the package.)

LP  ( Portokosten / Postage Costs ):

(Inland)   4,70 EUR   („Hermes-Päckchen“, versichert)

(Europe/Worldwide)   7,20 EUR   (safer option: registered + the receiver has to sign for the package.)

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Verpackung (nur für CDs als „Deutsche Post Brief“ oder als „Einschreiben“): Der Versand von CDs erfolgt grundsätzlich in fabrikneuen Schutzhüllen aus PE Kunststoff (ausgenommen natürlich digi-paks und DVDs). Verpackt in einem Polsterkuvert und einem normalen Briefkuvert der DIN-A-5 Größe mit der Aufschrift „Bitte nicht knicken“.

In diese Schutzhülle passt das vordere und hintere Booklet, sowie selbstverständlich die CD.

Packing (for CDs): The dispatch of CDs takes place in principle in new PE plastic-sleeves fresh from the factory (excluded natural digi-paks and DVDs). Packed in a bubble mailer and a normal letter of the DIN-A-5 size with the label "Please do not bend". Into this sleeve the front and rear Booklet, as well as naturally the CD fit.

Verpackung (nur für LPs als „Hermes-Päckchen“ + für Singles als „Deutsche Post Brief“ oder als „Einschreiben“): Die Zustellung von Singles/LPs erfolgt grundsätzlich in Schutzhüllen aus PE Slim und in handelsüblichen fabrikneuen Versandpappkartons für Singles und LPs.

Packing (for Singles + LPs):

The dispatch of Singles/LPs takes place in principle in PE Slim-sleeves and in new special record mailers.