Die Unbekannten

Die Unbekannten (The Unknown) were formed in June 1981 by 2 ex-pat Brits living in Berlin, Mark Reeder and Alistair Gray, for the legendary Konzert Zur Einheit Der Nation (concert for the unity of Germany) held in the SO36 club in Kreuzberg on 17th June 1981. They actually had no name when they appeared at SO36 and so a local journalist dubbed them "the two unknown Englishmen" in a local magazine review, after which the name Die Unbekannten stuck. The band performed semi-legal gigs in Czechoslovakia and Hungary before morphing into the poppier outfit Shark Vegas around 1984/85.