Züri West

Züri West
Züri West at the «Stars of Sounds» concert in Aarberg, 1 June 2012.
Background information
Origin	Switzerland
Genres	Rock
Years active	1984–present
Members	Kuno Lauener Markus Fehlmann Gert Stäuble Manuel Häfliger Wolfgang Zwieauer
Past members	Peter Schmid (until 1986) Sam Mumenthaler (until 1986) Martin S. Silfverberg (until 1992) Peter von Siebenthal (until 2000) Martin Gerber (until 2000) Oliver Kuster (until 2004) Jürg Schmidhauser (until 2012) Tom Etter (until 2017)
Website	www.zueriwest.ch

Züri West (Swiss German for Zürich West) is a Swiss rock band. Most of their songs are written in Bernese German.

The band's name is an ironic reference to Bern, the capital of Switzerland, as merely a place west of Zürich, the largest city in Switzerland.

Line-up

Current members

• Kuno Lauener (vocals): since 1984
• Markus Fehlmann (guitar): since 1984
• Gert Stäuble (drums): since 1993
• Manuel Häfliger (guitar): since 2017
• Wolfgang Zwieauer (bass): since 2017

Former members

• Peter Schmid (bass): 1984-1986
• Sam Mumenthaler (drums): 1984-1986
• Martin S. Silfverberg (drums): 1986–1992
• Peter von Siebenthal (guitar): 1984-2000
• Martin Gerber (bass): 1986–2000
• Oli Kuster (keyboards): 2000-2004
• Jürg Schmidhauser (bass): 2000-2012
• Tom Etter (guitar): 2000-2017

Discography

• Splendid EP (13 December 1985) - Black Cat at Bebop
• Kirchberg EP (November, 1986) - Black Cat at Sound Service
• Sport und Musik (15 November 1987) - Black Cat at Sound Service
• Bümpliz - Casablanca (13 May 1989) - Black Cat at Sound Service
• Elvis (15 June 1990) - Black Cat at Sound Service
• Arturo Bandini (15 November 1991) - Sound Service
• Wintertour (21 November 1992) - Weltrekords at Sound Service
• Züri West (10 May 1994) - Weltrekords at Sound Service
• Hoover Jam (11 May 1996) - Weltrekords at Sound Service
• Super 8 (6 March 1999) - Weltrekords at Sound Service
• Radio zum Glück (25 August 2001) - Weltrekords at Sound Service
• Retour - Best of (15 November 2003) - Weltrekords at Sound Service
• Aloha from Züri West (12 June 2004) - Weltrekords at Sound Service
• Haubi Songs (12 January 2008) - Weltrekords at Sound Service
• HomeRekords (23 April 2010) - Weltrekords at Sound Service
• Göteborg (23 March 2012) - Sound Service
• Love (24 March 2017) - Sound Service
• Loch dür Zyt (8 December 2023) - Sound Service

Videography

• Am Blues vorus (28 March 2003)

External links

• The band's website