Someone posted this video on YouTube a couple of weeks ago, but since I can’t be sure that it will stay there, I added it to our own channel too. This is rough but, from my point of view, incredible footage that I’ve never seen before: Daily Terror live in Bingerbrück near Frankfurt in 1984 – so, about a year after Pedder Teumer’s transformation from punk to skinhead, and a few months before this line-up of the band split. As you can read in our Daily Terror band story, Pedder would go through a period of depression after the breakup, only to re-emerge with a new Daily Terror line-up the following year.
The punk/skinhead split was almost complete by 1984, and nearby Frankfurt was a city where skinheads were particularly hostile to punks, so it would have been interesting to see what kind of crowd Daily Terror attracted to the gig. Unfortunately you don’t get to see much of the audience, though I think I can make out both skinheadish and punkish silhouettes. In any case, this is Daily Terror at their peak: their second album Aufrecht, released in the same year, ranks among the best European punk/skinhead records of the 80s.
Inevitably, some of you will wonder when we’re going to publish the conclusive part of our Daily Terror story. While it’s impossible to give an exact date, it will definitely happen before the end of the century. In the meantime, check out some of the other stuff on our YouTube channel, we’ll be adding more as we go along. Also, have a look at the Digitized Scars channel – Thomas of Rixe (the Paris Oi band) has been doing some very valuable work digitising rare 80s skinhead archive footage there, for example a 1990 live gig by Klasse Kriminale.
Matt Crombieboy
Songs in the video: Knüppeldicke Intoleranz – Hallelujah – Schluckspechte – Andere Zeiten – Schmutzige Küsse – Aufrecht – Der Countdown läuft – Bundeswehr
Creases Like Knives 