More boisterous and anarchic than some of their angrier, more politicised peers, Lustfinger were one of Germany's early punk bands of the 1980s who continued to kick out bouncy, scuzzy rock & roll anthems made for football terraces and drinking sing-alongs through the next three decades. Formed in the Lohhof suburbs of Munich by front man Tom 'Doc' Fock, their 1986 album 'Last Tractor to the Kremlin' helped build a cult following all over Europe and even earned airplay in the US, and the band went on to tour with The Ramones, The Pogues and UK Subs as a support act. The 1990s saw them release more rowdy, ramshackle records like 'Everything Under Control' and 'No Mercy for Jesse James', but Fock was forced to undergo back surgery and the band stalled in 2000.
Despite several line-up changes, they proved to be one of punk's more long-lasting bands, returning with some force with the albums 'Eiszeit' in 2002 and 'Achtung Heilig' in 2006, and in 2012 they wrote the song 'We Are Lions' as an anthem for their local Bundesliga football club 1860 Munich. They went on to celebrate their 25th anniversary and in 2014 released their ninth studio album 'Ignition' to much acclaim.
