started a band together

The musicians Jürgen Dobroszcsyk, Raymond Ebert, Gerrit Meijer, and Knut Schaller met on February 25, 1977, at a concert of The Vibrators at Berlin’s Kant-Kino. They started a band together on March 10, 1977. In 1977, PVC quickly became popular in Berlin; on August 20, 1977, they were included on a one-hour program with Barry Graves on the Berlin radio station RIAS entitled Ein Hauch von Punk (English translation: “A taste of punk”). On September 8, 1977, they played as the opener for The Vibrators ; on September 12, 1977, they opened for Iggy Pop . In the following year PVC played at the Punkhouse and at the Lehniner Platz in Berlin; thereafter they played regularly at the Lehniner Platz on Wednesdays beginning in the summer of 1978. PVC played at the opening of the famous punk club SO36 in Berlin-Kreuzberg on August 12 and 13, 1978; this was 2-day festival with an estimated crowd of 700 people advertised as a Mauerbaufestival, an ironic celebration of the anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall. Beginning in 1979, the band’s line-up changed several times. After experimenting with different musical styles, PVC broke up in 1984.