The new wave band Hans-à-Plast, consisting of two couples, had their first performance in November 1978 at the first No-Fun-Festival in a small youth center in Hanover. The former anti-nuclear power song group, which had agitated passersby in pedestrian zones and sung "Wehrt euch, leistet Widerstand," was tired of "all the debating at the university." Instead of thinking for hours and practicing for three years, they got right down to business. In no time at all they familiarized Annette Benjamin, whom they remembered fondly from the performance of their Braunschweig band Schleim at the No Fun Festival, with their repertoire, so that they had a singer who not only went down very well with the audience, but also with Alfred Hilsberg, who booked her twice for his Markthallen festivals and judged in the music magazine Sounds: "Annette has the best temperature of all the new bands. There's an energy that comes out that can sing you to pieces."