The Prostitutes Corner

Thanx! Majáles was simply great. Which one? Each one. Zlín was just mind-blowing with that enormous attendance and, forgetting the column in the middle of the stage between me and Adrian, it was just how I always wanted to be. Praha was a tiny-stage-apprehension turned into big-gig-elevation. Again, great crowd and many cool reactions. Majáles got me really.

Yesterday Brno: We came when Tata Bojs were having the soundcheck and when we saw the stadium, we went “Bloody hell, what a crowd!” It looked like a gig of the year with all these people streaming from one side to another. We had a place at a indoor stage. Fával club is a cool place but “cool” was pretty far away from reality. Hot and steamy as hundreds and hundreds people were trying to get in and out constantly, one toilet, cues for anything, loading from backstage (actually placed in the “backvenue”) over all of of you was worse than a nightmare. I decided to go to a toilet some time befor the sound check and this whole operation took me 25 minutes (spending actually less than a minute inside of the room). But, sometimes you have to go literally through a hell to end up in a paradise: and it was you! Great crowd, great atmosphere. The guy in front of Adrian, looking like a younger member of Sunshine, singing Top! Top! The Radio! into She’s Dead made a great mash-up out of this improvisation reproducing Kay really well and made me laugh really. Šmity gave me a heavy-metal-hug during the last song and overall we had a good time on stage except one thing. My heart unfortunately “went boom” in couple of last days, so I didn’t feel very well, respectively I felt seriously bad. I was trying to keep myself kind of alright by drinking a lot of water, but still my health state forced me to be rather static, focused on basic life functions and basic chords.

But as I said the crowd was fantastic and we really enjoyed the concert. Thanx for your reaction, thanx for your myspace comments.

There are definitely couple of things which should be solved next time in logistics and organization, but overall we were GLAD to come over and play and we’ll gladly come back again! All the difficulties of the club were summed up after the concert by a guy parking his car right in the way of our van making the leaving really hard and risky. When Radek (our driver) asked the guy to park his car somewhere else, the appropriate answer was: “I am the fuckin’ owner of this club so you better shut up otherwise I fuckin’ punch you!” Not completely a Tony Wilson model, but pretty close, just more elemental.

I survived the concert but on the way home I decided to go straight to a hospital. Praha, Karlovo náměstí. EKG, blood tests of all kind and all this stuff and after two and half hours I felt at least psychologically better: it’s not a heart attack. I am not dying yet. Pretty good for a thursday, isn’t it?

Tomorrow, you can see us at Anifest in Třeboň. We are going to play there with Tata Bojs to celebrate the festival of animated films. Be there at 8PM please, as we have to start on time! Looking forward to see your animated bodies on the floor!