Miscast was one of the first HC Punk band in Switzerland, first band by Dietmar Gallhammer.(I wrote about him when I posted the music by Jaywalker and Religious Overdose). Here I C+P an interesting note taken from a Discogs page dedicated to this band. Enjoy it.
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Band History translated from the Miscast 7" liner notes
Miscast
were formed around September 1983 by people in and around Olten, at a
time when American hardcore swept into Switzerland. Back then I was
working with Felix Fischer at Jamming Distribution and we were probably
the first in Switzerland who were trying to sell stuff like This is
Boston Not L.A. and Flex Your Head comps, 7"ers and 12"ers by SS
Decontrol, Negative Approach, Minutemen, White Cross, Minor Threat and
the like.
Miscast played somewhere around 13 shows in
Switzerland, among them one supporting Toxie Reasons and another playing
after Toten Hosen. There were several smaller gigs too, one of them we
did along with Haine Brigade at an anarchist meeting in Lamastre
(France) on July 13th, 1984. It was a time bereft of enthusiasm (the
"Youth Movements" had been crushed*), various gangs of fascist skins
kept attacking gigs, punks beat up on each other, and so forth. There
wasn't very much happening in the way of bands either, most of them were
musically and ideologically still rooted in '77, except for a few...
GKH for example, from Baden, who were very young (average age: 15) and
therefore had quite a devil-may-care approach (meaning guitars with
strings missing etc.). Still, they managed to get one song on the second
Flipside compilation LP. One of them also published the first Swiss
hardcore fanzine before he changed sides and became a nazi-skin (with
all but the drummer and their later bassplayer doing likewise... The
drummer is now in Jaywalker). Brutal Menekken, Decontrol, Attax and
Kosili too were early, moderate (and tame!) attempts at hardcore.
None
of them, however, were quite as fast, original and hard as Miscast. But
sometime in Autumn 1984 the story had already come to an end, about
half a year after the Miscast demotape was released on
Stechapfel-vertrieb.
* This refers to the social upheaval that
surrounded the struggle for the Autonomous Youth Centre in Zurich
(evicted and pulled down in early '82). Massive riots went down in
1980/'81 and then petered out in late '81/early '82, a setback for
subculture/anarchists in Switzerland that left some people with a sense
of disillusionment -Simon
