Gölä

Gölä certainly are a Swiss/German rock-band that enjoyed chart-topping, award-winning achievement within their homeland for quite some time before switching dialects from Swiss German to British in 2004 and therefore alienating a lot of their homegrown market. Led by vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Marco “Gölä” Pfeuti (blessed June 7, 1968, in Thun), the band’s primary primary lineup also included Zlatko “Slädu” Perica (electric guitar), Thomas “TJ” Gyger (keyboards), René Maurer (bass), and Urs Frei (drums), along with sisters Sandra and Barbara Moser on back-up vocals. This primary lineup performed music in Swiss German (i.e., Mundart rock and roll) and produced its saving debut in 1998 over the Audio Service label using the recording Uf u Dervo. The recording spawned a set of strikes singles (“Keini Träne Meh,” “Schwan” — the previous a high Ten strike) and became an extraordinary achievement, topping the Swiss albums graph in its ninth week of product sales and eventually charting for just two years (i.e., 110 weeks) overall; additionally, the recording earned Gölä the 1998 Prix Walo honor in the rock and roll category. The band’s follow-up recording, Wildi Ross (1999), was another large success, also topping the albums graph and spawning a set of strike singles (“I Hätt No Viu Blöder Ta,” “Scho Lang Verbi” — the previous a high Ten strike). Gölä continuing to enjoy achievement in the years that adopted, liberating the live albums Volksmusig (2000) and Live: 02 (2002) — which charted at number 2 and three, respectively — aswell as their third studio room recording, Gölä III, that was another chart-topper and spawned three strike singles (“Gfüeuropean union,” “Nacht,” “Nimm Mi Mit”). After that in 2004, after putting your signature on a long-term documenting agreement with Capitol Information, Gölä left out Mundart rock and not just began singing tracks in English, however they essentially became another music group. Renamed Burn off and pared right down to a trio lineup (Pfeuti, Perica, and Gyger), this fresh incarnation from the music group released the self-titled Burn off (2004), and even though the recording charted pretty well at quantity five, it spawned no strike singles and fallen from the albums graph quickly. Moreover, there was a significant backlash among enthusiasts, particularly provided the band’s working-class identification. Acquiring heed, the music group turned its name back again to Gölä and came back to a quintet lineup, employing an entirely fresh backing music group made up of Ueli Bleuler (acoustic guitar), John Woolloff (acoustic guitar), Peter Keiser (bass), and Walter Keiser (drums). Despite these crucial changes, the music group continued to execute English-language songs, and therefore the ensuing albums Gimme a Band (2005) and Rock and roll & Move (2007) had been received relatively badly in commercial conditions, charting at amount 31 and 25, respectively, and spawning no strike singles. Within a bet to reclaim a few of their previous group of fans, Gölä eventually released the dual record Tättoo, whose initial disc (Greatest of Bärndütsch) highlighted newly documented Swiss German variations from the band’s most significant strikes, plus a few brand-new music, and whose second disk (Therefore Damn Sexy) highlighted a fresh platter of English-language music. The bet paid well, as Tättoo debuted atop the Swiss albums graph and spawned the very best Ten strike one “D’Stadt.”