Hi Folks,After the band, Tribe (with Phil, Atze and Alex), broke up, Atze and Alex refused to give up so they founded a 2 man combo and searched through an English dictionary for a name. On the same page that "perverse" was on Atze found "persimmon" which essentially said that it was an edible North American fruit of a date/plum variety (??) whose wood was used to make ugly golf clubs (uhhh, is that true??). It looks like a tomato and tastes like a peach and they thought this was so odd and funny that used it as their name.But a band of two is like cold coffee (or worse - alcohol free beer) so they harassed their former schoolmate, Franz, into abusing his brother's shabby, bent up bass with them. In the meantime he replaced that with another bass (that had something broken on it) and the first Schrummel (pseudo skate punk) songs, gigs and days of hangovers followed.In the middle of 1999 they recorded their debut album, "Ham & Eggs" for 100 DM. At the end of that year a crazy fan came up to them and asked if they needed a second guitarist. After a short "casting" and some pilsners they gave him the OK and Stefan "Steeefi" F. joined their Schrummelpop family!They gigged all over, wrote better songs and played concerts in Berlin clubs (Insel, Kiste, Come In, Bchse, Audio and others). Not even Harrogate (UK) or Bretnig (Sachsen) were safe from these guys and they got to know many great bands.After this followed TV appearances on FAB and OKB, compilation recordings ("Junimond"- sampler and the first Insel sampler, "Strandgut") and in 2004 they finally recorded their second album, "Skates & Blood" which was greatly celebrated because it also fell on their 50'th stage show anniversary.After a tiny summer break the band is again feeling creative. They're working on new songs and will tour all across the country and are excited to see what the future brings (they appear to be hoping for either a record deal with Fat Wreck, a regular salary or a band bus or all three combined!!)
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