Showtime

The Swiss Showband is performing alongside the world’s most prestigious military formations at this year’s military tattoo in Basel. The 130-strong music/dance team was recruited from across German speaking Switzerland, and has been practicing its unique show for a year now. (swissinfo, Julie Hunt)

Singer vents his anger on tabloid

Swiss singer – or singing hairdresser – Piero Esteriore has tried to avenge himself of an article in the tabloid Blick that wasn’t to his taste (apparently the journalist wrote that his recent celebrity birthday party was more akin to a mafia funeral.) On Thursday, he crashed a Mercedes through the front door of the [...]

Geneva firefighters rap

Fed up with people calling the fire emergency number (118) looking for telephone numbers (instead of calling one of the 18xx services), Geneva’s firefighters decided to get the message across – and have some fun at the same time – that if you ring their bell, it had better be for the right reasons. Their [...]