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Phillip - bass

O2 - Drums

Olaf - Sax and vocals

Holger - guitar

Easy Dan - guitar

The Stage Bottles were founded in 1993. The first line-up was recruited from a circle of close friends from the antifascist skinhead-scene in Frankfurt/Main (Germany). At this time the anti-fascist-Skinhead-scene was struggling a lot against the Neo-Nazi-scene. The Stage Bottles were part of this process right from the start. So the band supported the SHARP-Movement (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice) and later also the RASH-Movement 

(Red and Anarchist SkinHeads).

Induring the following years after 1993 there were several changes in the line-up. Different drummers were playing on every so far released album. The leaving of the band of the female singer Manu in 1999 was one of the most effecting changes in history of the band. The female voice was – next to the use of the saxophone – one of the most characteristic elements of the music of the Stage Bottles. The saxophone – originally used at the start due to the non-existence of a solo-guitar-player – is still one of the most recognized elements in the band’s music. Even those people who think that a saxophone normally doesn’t fit to Punk-Rock changed their minds. 

In the last 27 years the Stage Bottles released seven albums, four 7-Inches, one Live-album, one Best-Of-CD (2003) and three spilt-7-Inches with Los Fastidios, Scrapy and No Respect. Additionally there were some exclusive songs released on compilations. The most intense collaborations the band has had in the past were with the record-labels Mad-Butcher-Records and Knock-Out-Records.

The Stage Bottles already played a few hundred gigs so far. Concerts in Germany, Canada, Russia, Belarus, Britain, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Spain, France, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Croatia, Denmark, Norway, Serbia, Slovenia, Italy and Greece took place.

The basic issues in the lyrics are giving motivation for antifascist actions, a critical point of view to society and capitalism, a strong affinity to football and its subcultural elements on the terraces and also issues from daily life. The issues are lyrically sometimes handled in an unusual way - compared to other Punk-Rock-Bands. 

The Stage Bottles are playing on many antifascist events and also on other concerts with a left-wing background. Also in the football-scene – especially in the Ultra-scene – the Stage Bottles have got a big influence with their clear positioning. They are often invited to events organized by groups like these to many cities in Germany and Europe.

In the past the Stage Bottles convinced a large number of people to leave the right-wing-scene. The Stage Bottles show the possibility of another subcultural alternative with a more healthy environment and attitude.

According to the political attitude the Stage Bottles have got no commercial interests.

Also in the football-scene – especially in the European Ultra-scene – the Stage Bottles have got a big influence with their clear positioning. They are often invited to events organized by supporter-groups of many different clubs all over Europe. A couple of band-members are very much involved into the football-scene of different clubs themselves.

The music-style can be described as a melodic-aggressive Punkrock with an orientation on the classic English Punkrock with all its possible musical flexibility.

The title of the song « Sometimes anti-social – but always anti-fascist » developed over the years since 1999 to a worldwide used antifascist slogan. You can find this slogan professionally painted on the back of one terrace of the football stadium of FC St. Pauli, for example.

The song „Dead but not forgiven“ – expression of being glad that Ian Stuart Donaldson (the singer of the Neo-Nazi-band Skrewdriver ) died in a car-crash in September 1993 – provoked some serious confrontations with Neo-Nazis especially with members from the organization “Blood and Honor”. This threatening by Nazis is still a topic but the strong following of the band and the awareness of promoters at concerts always made fend off successfully. Bomb-Alarms and personal threats to life luckily never were successful either.

The Stage Bottles also were involved into some movie-productions: on the soundtrack of the Hollywood-production “Greenstreet 2” the song « Sometimes anti-social – but always anti-fascist » was used. In the documentary “Skinheads” from 1995 and “Skinhead Attitude” from 2005 band-members were interviewed and pictures from concerts were shown. In the German production “Gegengerade” – it’s a story about members of the FC. St. Pauli-supporters-scene – three songs were used for the soundtrack.

The biggest „Hits“ of the Stage Bottles are Songs like „Sometimes Anti-Social – but always Anti-fascist“, „Hooligan“, „Solidarity“, „Russia“, „All you need is hate“, „Too young to die“, „Come together“, “Itchy Life” and a few more.

The latest release was the album “Fair Enough” and the 7-Inch “One World One Crew” (2013).Both releases and more can be ordered in our new online-shop.

Though there were many changes in the line-up the Stage Bottles are still alive after 28 years of rock ‘n’ rolling. The band saved its origin style of lyrics and music. They’ve still got a large number of followers and they will continue until – the end!

We are planning new releases when the f**ing covid-pandemie is over one day.