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- ------------------------------------------ the following paper came up ca. January 1995 - ------------------------------------------ WHAT THE HELL ARE CHAOS DAYS? - - a question you possibly ask. But WHERE THE HELL did YOU have your eyes and ears, when the CHAOS DAYS of '94 made headlines everywhere!? When stupid punk rockers met in Hannover, terrorized old people and innocent babies and left a whole town in ashes! Perhaps some of you start to remember now, and, too, start to LIKE it! We also had much fun on this because most of the events described by the media NEVER happened - only in the heads of some so-called ~journalists~ and police officers. We assume that some of you REALLY want to know what's going on at CHAOS DAYS, and so we will tell you... CHAOS DAYS are no invention of the 90's but have a long tradition! Yes, folks, we won't sell you Punk as the next hot wave, because it's a real IDEA, and, from the early beginning, because of this German punks always liked to meet in the public. We had some big meetings from '80-82' in DUISBURG and WUPPERTAL where every month hundreds of punks made a big party in the shopping area of the city. Of course, police and business people did not like these "punk conventions", and again and again they tried to prevent the meetings, often with the well-known police brutality. However, in 1982 punks did their first CHAOS DAY in Hannover, where more than 1000 came to protest against a card index especially for punks, which was a nice idea of the police to get control over the scene but only initialized the history of CHAOS DAYS... Also many skins joined the meeting, and so the CHAOS DAYS of 1983 were intended as a big UNIFICATION of Punks & Skins. This time more than 1500 punks and skins came and made headlines, but a big group of Nazi skins managed to divide the groups. The next year, nobody wanted to know anything of a big "unification", but, of course, the CHAOS DAYS took place again in Hannover, and that time it was a real EUROPEAN meeting instead of a German one. More than 2000 punks & friends made the biggest CHAOS DAYS until then - you could meet punks from almost every west European country. However, it ended with big resignation because in the evening and the whole following night there was a big battle between police and punks at a youth center where most of the punks went to see a punk concert. It was a stupid fight between a brutal police and a crowd of drunken and brainless punks who also started to destroy the youth center. During the whole night, more than 1000 punks could not leave the place, were encircled by the police, imprisoned this way - some say in a modern German concentration camp... That was the end of the CHAOS DAYS and also the begin of the decay of German punk. Many punks left the scene, and a part of them put their ideas into the involving hardcore scene. But all over the years until today the idea of CHAOS DAYS never died finally. Every year there were small CHAOS DAYS, mostly in small villages and towns, with 50-100 punks. Not dead but also not alive, and nobody ever imagined to see a big meeting as the ones of the eighties again, now called "legendary"... Nobody knows how it came together, but in the beginning of 1994 sheets and flyers came up, and this time it was not any Chaos Days, it was T H E CHAOS DAYS OF HANNOVER again. It had a little smell of a big revival of "Woodstock for punk rockers", but it never happened this way The CHAOS DAYS have never been anything where anybody could make money or something. It is no meeting of record collectors or all-time protesters, not organized in any way, but a meeting where you can find MANY street punks - the guys who keep punk alive not in the record stores but on the streeets, in the public! So the jokes some people made about the new CHAOS DAYS could not prevent that more than 1000 punks met in Hannover last year, and also the media COULD NOT BELIEVE IT but saw it with their own eyes, cried: WE SAY THAT PUNK IS DEAD FOR ALL THE TIME! YOU MUST NOT EXIST! WHERE THE HELL DO YOU COME FROM? WHY DO YOU START TO DISTURB OUR LIFE AGAIN????? Yes, the CHAOS DAYS are BACK WITH A BANG, and the hysterical media are the guarantee that they will happen AGAIN EVERY YEAR! And because they made it known to EVERYONE, this year we expect more than 5000 punks and friends from all Europe. Now the CHAOS DAY virus has reached America where will be the CHAOS DAYS OF SAN FRANCISCO! Hey, where are the CHAOS DAYS ASIA/TOKYO, CHAOS DAYS AUSTRALIA/MELBOURNE and CHAOS DAYS AFRICA/NAIROBI? Not to forget CHAOS DAYS ANTARCTICI Who knows? However, we hope to have the biggest punk meeting ever, hope to meet YOU there! Come with your band, fanzine and all your ideas to make a CHAOS the way WE understand it. They can't prohibit PUNK - and also not our CHAOS! COME TO HANNOVER! COME TO SAN FRANCISCO! CHAOS DAYS AUG. 4th-6th, 1995 - -------------------------------------- CHAOS DAYS NEWS (Date: 06/30/95) - -------------------------------------- Some CHAOS DAYS News: Some people saw the bands NO FX and TERRORGRUPPE wearing CD-shirts on some of their gigs. Seems that they made the shirts on their own...///// BAD RELIGION told the press guys about CD in some interviews and did a CD shirt for their ongoing tour ///// some weeks ago a newspaper from Hannover printed a story about CD, and there you could see very well what these blood-wanting arseholes have in their mind: they say punks want to have the "biggest streetbattle of the last 10 year", and that their parole is "Kill all cops!". Of course, they DON'T say that these words are from a FUN paper that is meant as a parody of last year's headlines and is marked with the words "falsifikate!" ///// July issue of MAXIMUM ROCKROLL will have a 5 page story about CD ///// In its July issue, the Germany Music Magazine VISIONS did a big editorial about CHAOS DAYS ///// 3000 Punks came to see the last game of the German Soccer Club ST. PAULI. Also there the new ST. PAULI Fan-Magazine was sold, including several CHAOS DAYS flyers ///// Now also CHAOS DAYS Flyers from the German Rap scene are circulating ///// US punk band TOTAL CHAOS announced its "personal appearance on Chaos Days" (ahem). Seems that they will also play somewhere near or in Hannover ///// Also italian punk band DEROZER is trying to prepare a gig at CHAOS DAYS ///// A documentation is out with a collection of 90 (NINETY!!!!) different flyers for CHAOS DAYS. Flyers from Italy, Lithuania, Russia, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, France and, of course, Germany. If you want to have a copy of the documetation, or if you want to contribute your own flyer, contact Karl Nagel 100605.2242@compuserve.com ///// The same weekend with CHAOS DAYS in Hannover and San Francisco, english punkswill start their PUNK PICNIC in Edinbourough (Aug. 4-13). Seems that the first weekend in Augsut will becomee a real worldwide punk weekend! ///// Also the German Skinhead/OI!-scene is spreading flyers and calls for CHAOS DAYS ///// Everyone here in Germany expects the German mass media to start with lies and ugly stories about punks and Chaos Days with the end of July. Perhaps some of it will switch over the borders to your newspapers. Don't believe a word about "German Nazi punks" and punks who come to Hannover to rape old housewifes...! - ------------------------------------------ the following paper came up ca. September 1994 - ------------------------------------------ THE CHAOS DAY CHAIN LETTER! AUG. 4th-6th 1995 CHAOS DAYS IN HANNOVER/GERMANY! After 10 years of deep sleep the biggest Punk-meeting lives again! With a Big Bang, Punk found its way back into the media. More than 1000 punks and friends made clear that the next year's CHAOS DAYS will be THE cult event! Supported by the hardworking media: They had totally gone mad and spread their stupid lies. However, everyone had fun reading news like "Nazi-Punks came to destroy Hannover", because it has NOTHING to do with reality! Perhaps it's THEIR reality, but WE are preparing the next CHAOS DAYS. And it will be Anti-Nazi as alwaysl Now that one half of the world knows the CHAOS DAYS 95 will break every record, we care to make the other half know. From Alaska to Uganda everyone must know: From August 4th-6th 1995 in Hannover/Germany there will be the biggest punk-party ever! 5 000-10 000 punks, Skins & friends from the Netherlands, England, Poland, Italia, France, Scandinavia, Germany etc. (sorry, but it's impossible to name every country of the world...) will transform the shopping area of Hannover into a punk paradise. So let's start TODAY to tell it to your own scene: Translate this letter into your own language, make your own flyers and let your own ideas grow to make the CHAOS DAYS an event nobody will ever forget! IF THE GERMAN POLICE DOESN T LIKE OUR IDEA: . At the CHAOS DAYS 94 the police was shocked so hard by the amount of punks, so they tried to get everyone who looked like a punk into their dirty fingers and forced them to leave Hannover. But the most of us found ways to get into the city... THAT'S WHY THE POLICE WILL TRY TO TRICK US OUT IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY... Some examples: VERSION 1: A prohibition of the meeting! Just don't care, because we don't meet to demonstrate for this or that it just a CHAOS DAY! The day, punks like to visit Hannover as a normal tourist. And of course, they can't prevent to see other punks in the city, just because they're there... VERSION 2: They try to fool us! Someone could make big posters and preparations for a big concert with the best punk bands in the world, admission free... And, of course, it takes place outskirts of the town! They would hope the people would go to this place instead of the city. Don't let them fool you! And every band that cooperates with them: Fuck you!! At the CHAOS DAYS concerts have to happen in the city or at a green space near the inner city! VERSION 3: Prevention! The cops could check the trains to Hannover and could force you to leave the trains. Who cares? You can use the tickets FOUR DAYS, so you can interrupt your travel as often as you like. So just take the next train and you're again on your way to Hannover! It's absolutely legal ! Besides, don't tell the cops you're on the way to the CHAOS DAYS! You're just a normal tourist, nothing else! But you should know that it is better NOT to leave the train at the Main Railway Station of Hannover. It's better to do this at some suburbs and take one of the many busses or trams. And if the police tries to force you to leave Hannover, resist! After that, it could happen that they arrest you, but you have done no crime! They just bring you to the other punks they have arrested, and | that's a nice travel to the biggest mass arresting after World War II! A mass arresting we will transform into a big jail party! That s our idea: If the police starts with arresting people just for being punk we'll encourage them to take everyone of us! Just consider: this will have NO CONSEQUENCES because the German law just allows them to take you to "prevent crimes". But because you have done nothing, they also can't judge you!!! So we will do our party in a football stadium or in a camp they have to build. So don't fear, but help us to FOOL THEM! And consider again: To plan it this way makes the police consider NOT to do these mass arrestings. They know the bad memories they would wake upagain this way... VERSION 4: Suckers! Some hippies or political activists could come and tell their sympathies for the poor punks, who are badly persecuted by the gouvernment etc. blabla... Suddenly there are 20.000 other monkeys and start to "organize" it, founding comitees and little parliaments, doing press conferences and the Big Speech, fighting for the "rights of the Punks~. Now THEY are the CHAOS DAYS, and every punk who doesn't like to do what they have in mind, would be closed out. The Result: The CHAOS DAYS in the strong hands of some polit-professionals, somewhere on a big green place, the total shit! Hey, suckers, we tell you: If you just TRY to get our meeting into your slimy fingers, we will kick your asses! Get off! Your politics make us sick! HOW COULD THE CHOAS DAYS TAKE PLACE? As you know, it is impossible to lock a whole town - so you should try to get into the city in a tricky and inconspicious way - and in time! Try to be invisible before the meeting itself starts! The cops should not be able to prevent our meeting, so the first meeting takes place Friday, 4.8. 4.00 p.m. PUNCTUALLY. It should be our goal to let the meeting happens exclusively in the shopping area of the city itself, not in other areas of the city! REMEMBER: AT THE CHAOS DAYS 95 WE WILL OCCUPY THE INNER CITY OF HANNOVER! There's our meeting, nowhere else! !! Here we are protected well against brutal police attacks because there are thousands other citizens, and of course journalists and TV teams to report of the craziest punk-party ever! If the police starts to arrest people for no real reason, remember: WE WILL NOT LEAVE THE CITY, AND WILL WlLL NOT MEET IN OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY! Remember also: Everyone who fears to be arrested because of this behaviour shouldn't care: You can be sure that this will NOT bring you to the court because you're arrested only because of your outlook! SOME OTHER IDEAS TO MAKE THE CHAOS DAYS BIGGER: FANZINE WRITERS: Tell your readers about the CHAOS DAYS! Use your contacts to bands and other people to spread the idea! What do you think of the idea to do a big international meeting of fanzine publishers? BANDS: Write on your posters, records and tapes, that there will be THE BIGGEST PUNK MEETING OF ALL THE TIMES! Tell it to your audiencel Consider possibilities to make your own gig at the CHAOS DAYS. The German band WIZO did it in 94 from a big van! EVERYONE: Spread this chain letter around the whole world. Create your own flyers and posters, prepare your own activities! Tell everyone about it - at gigs, on the streets etc.! 1000 ACTIVITIES AND 1000 DIFFERENT FLYERS F\R THE CHAOS DAYS 951 THE MOST GIGANTIC PUNK PARTY EVER - IN THE HEART OF HANNOVER! OR IN A STADIUM. TRANSSCRIBE, TRANSLATE & COPY! SPREAD IT AROUND THE WHOLE WORLD! TRANSCRIBE, TRANSLATE & COPY! SPREAD IT AROUND THE WHOLE WORLD! - ------------------------------------------ the following paper came up ca. February 1995 - ------------------------------------------ "THE 2nd CHAOS DAY CHAIN LETTER" "Transcibe, translate and copy! Spread it around the world!" It's halftime! Six months have passed since the Chaos Days 94, and an enourmous number of fanzines with reports of the CHAOS DAYS have been published. Now we shouldn't talk about the PAST any longer - there's something to do for the FUTURE! After all, it has spread like a wildfire, that MANY punks want to make it a REAL BANG in 95! Everything what we know today seems to make clear that we can expect 5.000 - 10.000 punks & friends from all of Europe, and some sensation sucking media freaks already sweat the whole time. We expect HUNDREDS of these lunatics running thru the city to get their story. They will start to sweat a lot more when they will know that the CHAOS DAYS in HANNOVER/GERMANY will take place the same time with the CHAOS DAYS in SAN FRANCISCO! 8/4 - 8/6 95 THIS IS NO JOKE! The American punks too, have been infected by the CHAOS DAY fever. They already spread flyers and appeals for the CD Kalifornia, to invite punks from all of America (North & Sounth) to San Francisco." That means that on the first weekend in August 95 the BIGGEST PUNK EXPLOSION OF HISTORY will happen! On two continents at the same time, punks will meet in a number nobody EVER seen before! If you start to save money now you can live BOTH meetings. Just fly from Hannover Airport at Saturday evening to San Francisco and because of the time change you will arrive there without a time loss... For US it should mean that now we must take finally to make ALL European punks get knowledge of the CHAOS DAYS and also COME TO HANNOVER! And even it is still 6 months till then, we don't have all the time in the world. It takes some time for the flyers to reach the last village and because we know of some guys who wanted to make their own sheets and translations, but never did (you lazies...), you should consider the following: We only can make the CD 95 a PUNK EXPLOSION, if YOU don't wait that "someone" "something" "sometime" does. "Somebody" does NOTHING, and it will not work without YOU, and also not in the last moment! The CD are no TV program somebody puts into your hands that you only have to use your remote control!" Okay, a nice evening with a Coke and a hamburger is not that hard work - we are all lazy dogs, we know. But exactly NOW is the right time for you to make YOUR OWN flyer, to write many letters to all your friends in every country, to tell it to the people at a local gig. Don't start to do this in three months but TODAY or NEXT WEEK to make the news run on it's own, faster and faster! Make new flyers again and again, in every language you eventually master. Spread your OWN ideas for the CD, write about it in your fanzine. That's the way we can make clear that punk lives from the BASIC and not because any "big" guy" tells the people what to think and where to go! It's the punk of IDEAS and INITIATIVES, the punk of the STREETS - not the one MTV tries to sell us only to make us record buyers and consumers!" Some words to the BANDS: Your records are travelling over the whole world, and you're doing gigs, some in foreign countries. YOU are the ones to reach people who never read a fanzine, who live outside of information structures of the punk scene. You are the ONLY ONES to tell these people of the CD, to make it known in MUCH MORE places and countries! Did you ever think about doing your own show at the CD, the same way the german band WIZO did in 94? Just come with your van, unload your mini-PA and instruments at any place and start to play! There should take place as many gigs as possible, to make the CD an unforgettable event. And again, it won't work without YOU! And to all the others: Speak to the bands who maybe never get this chainletter into their hands, to give them a chance to join the wildfire! Besides, that would be a good chance also for dome "big" bands with punk-roots (Bad Religion, Green Day etc.) to show they did not forget these roots - amongst all these record promotions, tours and interviews... FUCK THE CHAOS DAYS! Perhaps some of you are a little sceptical, because, on the one hand you don't like to run through the city in a big crowd, and, on the other hand don't want to get in trouble with police. That's no problem: It's not the intention of the CD to make a big "demonstration" or to involve you in a never ending bloody battle with the police. Just come to Hannover to make YOUR punk, however it may look like! Just grab yourself a nice Greek punkboy, look in the eyes of a russian girl - and then go to one of the many green parks of Hannover and let yourself be told of the secrets of punkrock... Do anything else, but come to Hannover, because noone will force you to join anything you don't like. Its just important to see as many punks as possible in Hannover - the way you want and the place you choose! THEY CANN NOT STOPS US! Perhaps others ask themselves, if it's possible at least to reach Hannover, because it could be impossible to cross the borders. NO! THEY CAN NOT MANAGE THIS! At last we live in the European Community, with OPEN BORDERS! This means if you're in ONE country of the E.C. you can cross the borders without control. Even if they TRY to control the borders, they don't have the personnel to do this perfectly! If you really WANT to come to Germany, you can manage it! And if you have problems at one border station, take another one!! The same way you should behave at the rest of your way to Hannover. Don't start too late, and you don't have to take the biggest roads! Hannover itself is, if you see the traffic net, a real open town. You'll find uncountable roads to Hannover! If you come by train, read this: If the police takes ou out of the train, don't lose your faith: You can use your tickets 4 DAYS, and you can interrupt your travel as often as you like! Just take the next train and you will reach Hannover! Your destination should NOT be the main railway station of Hannover - take a train to the suburbs and take one of the many busses and trams! Nevertheless, if some cops try to stop your way, just be a very friendly and understanding person. Say YES to everything they want, but DO the things you WANT to do! That worked perfectly at the CD 94, and will work again in 95! For all our foreign guests it also means: Of course you don't understand neither German nor English... If the police don't let you fool them as an exceptiojn, don't let them make you travel home, even if the police says "Go home or go to jail!"! Our parole is "Go camp", because it's better to make a big jail party with thousands of punks instead of watching everything at home on a TV screen! You should know that your behaviour will have NO LEGAL CONSEQUENCES, because you'll have done NOTHING! They only can take you in to "prevent crimes"... It will be IMPOSSIBLE for the police to make Hannover a locked fortress, and they KNOW that. So we think you will have no real problems to reach Hannover. The only exception would be a total media terror, followed by an exclamation of state of emergency, with tanks and troops and barbed wire. You know what to thik about such an idea..." If we talk about MEDIA TERROR: Again the media will spread uncountable lies and fairy tales against the CD. You will know that punks eat little kids and always like to smash up every weak grandmother. We can not do ANYTHING against it, because the media are in THEIR hands. But we CAN do something to make them cry the way WE WANT! As an example, some people want to take rubble and ashes to Hannover and spread it over the city, because in 94 the police and media told the people we intended to "leave Hannover in ashes". After the desruction of Grosny/Chetchnia and the earthquake in Japanwe should demonstrate OUR version of that police lie... Join this initiative, so we REALLY will leave Hannover in ashes this time! Some words aboutto the CD itself and it's "organization"! As mentioned earlier, we DON'T intend to make a big mass performance (like a Michael Jackson concert...), with people running through the city led by a "central command", doing the things the "organizers" want them to do. There will be NOTHING organized! WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE A BIG CONCERT. but would like to see 1000 small gigs on every possible street corner! There will be many people following their own ideas, and you, too, should not not come with an expectation to find any "program" or "offers". It will happen what must happen, because it's the CD! The same things we have to tell the "other side", to tell all the guys and groups who believe they can use us for THEIR targets. CD are NO big demonstration or an appeal to start the "big fight" against this or that, but just an INVITATION to Hannover to make everyone who comes there do his/her OWN thing! A whole city as get-together to meet people that NEVER would cross your ways otherwise. It's a start for initiatives, may they be political or absolutely not, accompanied by music or screams, beer or mineral water. You see: To make the CD an unforgettable event you must do something ON YOUR OWN! Get out of the your cinema place and turn on your fantasy! And that's much more political as EVERYTHING they try to feed us with or want to make us pray. Against ALL REGIMENTATION, from which side ever! The last item: The experiences from all CD up to now made clear that it is very stupid to let the big meeting take place in other parts than the inner city! We EXCLUSIVELY meet in the city, near the main railway station, and NO BIGGER ACTION should take place in parts of Hannover where people LIVE! Besides, these are the places where most of the CD guests will sleep! It is YOUR responsibility to care for the keeping of this settlement, that EVERYONE does! So it's YOUR turn to make the CD great! If you're still sleeping, we never want to hear you talking about "good old times" and "nothing happens". "There IS something happening - THE BIGGEST BANG OF PUNK ROCK! PAROLE: GO CAMP! THE MOST GIGANTIC PARTY EVER!" "CHAOS DAYS EVERY YEAR: 8/2-8/4 96 8/1-8/3 97 7/31-8/2 98 8/6-8/8 99 8/4-8/6 2000!!!"