Red Zebra is a Belgian

post-punk Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of punk music that emerged in the late 1970s as musicians departed from punk's traditional elements and raw simplicity, instead adopting a variety of avant-garde sensibilities and non-roc ...

group from

Bruges Bruges ( , nl, Brugge ) is the capital and largest City status in Belgium, city of the Provinces of Belgium, province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country, and the sixth-largest city of the countr ...

. They started at the end of the 1970s and have the following members: Peter Slabbynck (

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

), Geert Maertens (lead

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

), Vincent Hallez (second guitar and

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

) and Johan Isselee (

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

). In 1980 they had their biggest hit ''I Can't Live In A Living room'', today still a punk classic. The group still exists and also has a related project today, namely ''The John Lennon Rifle Club''. On 6 December 2010, it was announced that the cooperation between singer Peter Slabbynck and the other members of the group was stopped. They announced this on their page on Myspace. In 2017 they reformed. Their song "I Can't Live in a Living Room" was used in Asia Argento's 2014 film Incompresa (English title Misunderstood).

Discography

* I Can't Live In A Living Room * TV Activity * Bastogne * Lust * Polar Club * Maquis * Always * From Ape To Zebra ( Parsifal) * A Red Zebra Is Not A Dead Zebra * Sanitized For Your Protection * Mimicry * John Wayne * Last Band Standing * Don't Put Your Head In A Bucket ( Parsifal) * Punks Don't Have Barbecues * Blue Nothing Day * The Art Of Conversation * Kookaburra * Spit On The City * I Got The Microphone * Live In Front Of A Nation * No Kitchen In The House * Graveyard Shuffle

References

External links

Myspace
Belgian post-punk music groups Belgian punk rock groups Belgian new wave musical groups English-language musical groups from Belgium Culture in Bruges Musical groups established in 1978 1978 establishments in Belgium {{Belgium-band-stub