The Bill (band)
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Poland
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punk rock
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
band, formed in 1988 by Artur "Soko" Soczewica, in the Polish town of Pionki
Pionki
Pionki is a town in Radom County, Masovian Voivodeship, central Poland with 20 063 inhabitants . Previously it was in Radom Voivodeship and in Kielce Voivodeship .Punk rock band The Bill comes from Pionki...
. The band's name is pronounced in a similar way to the Polish word 'debil', which means 'moron'. The Bill played several times at the Jarocin Festival
Jarocin Festival
Jarocin Festival was one of the biggest and most important rock music festivals in the 1980s Europe, by far the biggest festival of alternative music in the Warsaw Pact countries....
and The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity finales.
Past Band members
- Jacek "Szmery" Szulikowski - drumset (1988-1989)
- Robert "Mielony" Mielniczuk - drumset (1989-2011)
- Artur "Soko" Soczewica - bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, vocals (left band after "I give you fire" album in 1996) - Dariusz "Skóra" Stawski - vocals (Played with the band, but was never an official member)
- "Jędrek" - guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
(2000 - 2005) - "Ludek" - bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
(2000 - 2005) - Maciej "McKurczak" Stępień - bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, vocals (2005 - 2010)
Current band members
- Dariusz "Kefir" Śmietanka - guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, vocal - Gerard "Gere" Chodyra - bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Sebastian Stańczak - guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, vocal - Artur "Artie" Woźniak - drumset
Discography
- 1993 - The Biut
- 1994 - Początek Końca (The Beginning of the End)
- 1995 - Sex 'N' Roll
- 2000 - Daję wam ogień (I give you fire) - recorded in 1996, but not released until 2000
- 2007 - Niech tańczą aniołowie (Let the angels dance)