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JINGO DE LUNCH was a german punk band based in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin (Germany) and was founded in April 1987. Before they founded the band, all of its members have been involved into various other projects: Tom Schwoll played in many German punk bands, such as Zerstörte Jugend (1983). Sepp (Joseph) Ehrensberger played guitar for the Berlin based punk band Vorkriegsjugend (1984-85). Henning Menke and Steve Hahn also played in various punk bands in the early 80s. Yvonne Ducksworth (C...

JINGO DE LUNCH
was a german punk band based in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin (Germany) and was founded in April 1987. Before they founded the band, all of its members have been involved into various other projects:

Tom Schwoll played in many German punk bands, such as Zerstörte Jugend (1983). Sepp (Joseph) Ehrensberger played guitar for the Berlin based punk band Vorkriegsjugend (1984-85). Henning Menke and Steve Hahn also played in various punk bands in the early 80s.

Yvonne Ducksworth (Canadian) was involved as a lead singer in two bands: Combat not Conform and Manson Youth where she met Tom Schwoll and Sepp (Joseph) Ehrensberger. Since Manson Youth was relatively well-known in the german hardcore underground scene, they paved the way for Jingo de Lunch which was founded in 1987. In the same year, just 3 months after their 1st rehearsal, Jingo de Lunch released their 1st album Perpetuum Mobile.

Jingo de Lunch's music is a mix of Punk, Hardcore and Rock. They toured with the Ramones, Bad Brains, Die Toten Hosen. They split in 1996 after releasing 5 albums.

After Jingo, Steve Hahn was roadie for "Die Toten Hosen" and Tom Schwoll -after a short appearance at “Extrabreit”- played for “Kumpelbasis” and, since 2006, for reunited Die Skeptiker. Henning Menke played since 1999 in "Ojo Rojo" then he joined the Berlin band Skew Siskin . Sepp Ehrensberger plays in "Bomb Texas". Yvonne Ducksworth also acted in the movie "Trouble" in 1993. She lived in Arizona from 1996 til 2006 and didn't play in a band during this period.

In August 2006, Jingo de Lunch played 2 reunion shows at the White Trash Fast Food in Berlin.

In 2007, they released a CD called "The Independent Years" (1987-1989). It's a collection of remixed and remastered tracks out of their first albums Perpetuum Mobile (1987) and Axe To Grind (1989), plus Subhumans "Fuck You" (a cover recorded in 1991 to appear on Berlin Bullets compilation) and the rare Cursed Earth 12”, released as limited EP in 1988 by Bronzen Records. They also celebrated their 20 years anniversary with a German and Italian tour in September 2007.
In August 2008 they had been support band for The Stooges' Berlin concert.
The band split up in September 2012.

Links:
- Jingo De Lunch homepage
- Jingo De Lunch @ myspace
- Yvonne Ducksworth's blog: evilente.blogspot.com

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