The Alternative Buttons is a well known Dutch band which was active in the … Read Full Bio ↴The Alternative Buttons is a well known Dutch band which was active in the early 80's. The group-members where: Josje Mulders, Frank 'Jam Boy' Kitzen, Thei 'Blockhead' Schreurs, Frans Houben, Lian Storcken, en Paul 'Costello' Hendrix. They were influenced by the Gang of Four, P.I.L. and the Neue Deutsche Welle. A small village Grevenbicht was their home-base, from where they travelled all around Limburg. In 1983 en 1984 they toured in Germany en Belgium.
In 1983 they became well known with the compilation album
"Alle honden blaffen" which appeared on Free Limbabwe Records. They recorded for this album two songs 'Help me nurse' and 'über alle Gipflen ist ruh'. The first song was written by the famous limbabwian songwriter Roger 'Steemo' Smeets.
Unfortunately the group split up at the summer of 1984, but was on stage in 1997 for the last time.