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"Pancerne Rowery" (“Panzer Bikes”) were created in the spring of 1981 in Gdynia. The band played their last concert at the Jarocin festival in the summer of 1989. Eight years of the existence of "Pancerne Rowery" can be divided into two main stylistic periods: Period I - 1981–1986 - punk – avant-garde; Period II - 1986–1989 - grunge (hippie – punk).

Period I - 1981–1985 - punk – avant-garde.

The "Pancerne Rowery" team was founded by three 16-year-old buddies from 1st grade high school; Jędrzej "Kodym" Kodymowski, Michał "Misiek" Orlewicz and Roman "Asfalt" Sebastyański, having no formal musical skills. The main idea of ​​"Pancerne Rowery" was to create so-called "emotional messages."

The first concert took place in the fall of 1981 in a small student club "Trops" in Gdańsk. It was an informal (underground) review of local punk bands, organized by the band "PKS" (from Gdańsk), next to which (incl Pancerne Rowery) also played "Zwis" from Gdańsk and "Zero" from Słupsk. At this concert, "Kodym" played bass, "Misiek" played guitar, and "Asfalt" sang and played guitar. He played "Kwiat" (the only concert) on drums. From 1982 (until the end) he started playing drums in "Pancerne Rowery", Mariusz "Badżi" Dunaj. The band rehearsed in the basement of "Badżi”s" parents' house.

During the martial law (December 1981 - July 1983), "Pancerne Rowery" played underground "rehearsals-concerts" for several / a dozen people, in various rehearsal rooms (their own and those of their friends' bands). At the end of 1983, "Kodym", who founded the Apteka band, left "Pancerne Rowery".

In the 1983–1986 period, "Pancerne Rowery" rehearsed at the "Kolejarz" Culture Center in Gdynia, having access to many instruments, such as: piano, organ, double bass, saxophones, trumpet, flute, xylophone. The band is joined by Elżbieta "Malwina" Wyczyńska (vocals) and Jasiu "Gruby" Pawlik (bass, guitar) and Darek "Darko" Wojciechowski (keyboards, French horn, trumpet).

For three years, the group has been experimenting musically, creating a style that it calls itself "film impressions". During this period, similar to "Pancerne Rowery", the following performers in Poland were: "Szelest Spadających Papierków" (Gdańsk), "Reportaż" (Poznań), "Orkiestra Ósmego Dnia" (Poznań), "Praffdata" (Warsaw) and "Radio Warszawa" (Warsaw).

In the summer of 1984, "Pancerne Rowery" organized the first, informal review of the progressive music of the Tri-City Alternative Stage in "Kolejarz" in Gdynia, inviting "Apteka", "Bóm Wakacje w Rzymie", "Polish Cham" and "Szelest Spadających Papierków".

A year later, in the same club, "Pancerne Rowery" is organizing a formal (with all required approvals and censorship) review of the Tri-City Alternative Scene in full line-up. All these bands then passed to Warsaw’s "Out of Control" nationwide Review of Alternative Music and Rock Avant-garde (after being transferred from Toruń), organized by Grzesiek Brzozowicz's "Rock Front" Agency.

At this Review, "Pancerne Rowery" was recognized as the best avant-garde team (the jury was Henryk Palczewski, an expert on the subject). In his article for a Japanese music magazine, in the column "From the World Scene - Poland", Palczewski then presented the Polish avant-garde scene, juxtaposing "Pancerne Rowery" and "Szelest Spadających Papierków" from the Tri-City alongside contemporary Polish avant-garde performers, such as "Reportaż", "Radio Warszawa" and "Orkiestra Ósmego Dnia" as well as historical celebrities such as "Romuald i Roman", "Dżamble", Marek Grechuta, "SBB" and "Osjan".

In 1986, "Pancerne Rowery", together with "Radio Warszawa", went to a few concerts around the Ruhr Area in West Germany, where they recorded 3 songs in a music studio in Recklinghausen (including one together with "Radio Warszawa" and the German band "Les Funny Beduins ”).

In the years 1985–86, "Pancerne Rowery" played over a dozen concerts in various student clubs in the Tri-City and in Poland (together with other bands from the Alternative Scene). In the spring of 1986, "Malwina" and "Darko" left the band, and Janusz "Pierzasty" Sokołowski (guitar) joined.

The music of "Pancerne Rowery" is slowly evolving towards guitar psychedelia, combining the strong energy of punk-rock and trance of American hippy music of the 1960s.

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