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How we met our Dad.

destroyer — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:41:28 +0000

A short documentary by Lukáš Franz aka Tucznak about 3 days in July 2008. Abe Cruz, singer and main character of the second music video for the album Get Me Out Of Here (2006), and his family came from New York City to the Czech Republic to conquer the biggest music festival, Rock For People.

3 days, 1 rehersal, 1 TV appereance, 1 music festival.

In July 2008 The Prostitutes were Adrian T. Bell, Martin Destroyer, Stevie LFO, Luk Santiago and Šmity. The Dad is Abe Cruz.

Directed and edited by Lukas Franz
Cinematography by Lukas Franz
Editing help by Martin Prikryl

Music by The Prostitutes [Crystal Clear (unreleased), Don’t Give A Damn (Get Me Out Of Here, 2006)

A lot, a lot, a lot. Loads of news, pictures, video and songs from last two weeks!

destroyer — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:04:16 +0000

We’ve been busy last weeks and we still are. You saw us: recording, protesting against policy of Board of Czech Radio, playing live at radio Wave.

THE NEW ALBUM, THE FIRST SINGLE, MUSIC VIDEO AND NEW TOUR

So, after two years of intense gigging and preparation of new material we finally recorded 14 tracks to be further developed. It took us less than two weeks in David Koller’s Cox studio where we were with producer Dušan Neuwert and sound engineer Petr Kaláb. Now, we are finalizing the songs in Tata Bojs studio and our own recording home facilities, mainly at my sweet Radiotron studio. In a week we should be ready with edits and additional recording and Dušan and us should move to Soundsquare studios to mix and master the record.

We are still not ready to announce the name of the forthcoming album, but we are pretty close. The record is playing a lot with the theme of all these hometown lost and dull souls around us and is conceived a bit as a film soundtrack, at least we are talking about it like this . One thing for sure, the first single is going to be released in the second half of January 2009 and it’s name is Leave It Like It Is. It is a rather not very cheerful duet of Adrian T. Bell and La Petite Sonja (Kill The Dandies!, ex-The Nihilists). I’ve got f***ing goose-skin everytime I listen to it so I hope you will have too.

Directing duo Mods, me and Michal Nohejl, we just returned from freezing Baltic Sea in Poland where we were shooting a music video for this song. Michal plays the main character together with his girlfriend, actress Petra Nesvačilová. The video is sponsored and produced by Bistro Films.

We can confirm that the whole new album is going to be released in March 2009 and immediately after the release we are going to tour all over CZ and also some other European countries.

THE LAST DISTORTION-DANCING-DESTRUCTION CONCERT

The Prostitutes will change. They already did, but they’re going to change more. The last concert of Distortion-Dancing-Destruction tour is going to take place in Rock Café, the same club we played our first gig 3 years ago, 27th December 2008, 8PM. Come and say goodbye to the old with us at this riotous post-christmas post-punk party!

RADIO WAVE LIVE SESSION, REMIX AND MOVIE TRAILER

We played and we enjoyed to play at “ZEROPOINTZEROFM” radio station persecuted by its own controller, protector and administrator – Board of Czech Radio. Here you can see some pictures from the show and at our myspace profile you can listen to live recording of “the” song which started it all – Swastika Eyes by Primal Scream – performed by The Prostitutes. Btw, at Swastika Eyes Day Com administrated by Sergei Macaroff you can listen to his remix of our song Sunshine called Sunshine (Beats & Beasts From Outer Space Remix) and, foremost, you can watch a movie trailer for the documentary about the collaboration with The Dad, Mr. Abe Cruz from NYC going to be ready in the same time as the new record. Click here to download the video or watch the youtube version bellow:

REMIXES OF REMIXES

We are also proud to offer you a remix of remix by The Fakes. They redid their last version of Sunshine and at our myspace we just uploaded 2.0 version which is really a new-romantic, hedonistic dance-floor anthemic smash hit IMHO but judge for yourself! This is the cover art:

LAST BUT DEFINITELY NOT LEAST: INFO ABOUT THE CHANGE OF MANAGEMENT AND BOOKING

Contact on our new managers:

Eva Pospíšilová, eva@theprostitutes.org, GSM 00420777808655, skype: evickap
Kristina Šedivá, kristina@theprostitutes.org, GSM 00420603513692, skype: crysta00

Veškeré nadcházející aktivity skupiny, počínaje 1.12. 2008, plánuje a organizuje nový management & booking skupiny. V případě jakýchkoli dotazů či nabídek na vystoupení se, prosím, obracejte na výše uvedené kontakty.

Aftermath. Part two.

destroyer — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:15:17 +0000

I don’t like photos very much despite that I am really fascinated by them. Especially I have very ambiguous relationship to photos of me. They are not “memories” as I never remember the moment they were taken, they work much more as a “feedback reflection” as I always see how horrible my haircut was that time.
Here are photos from our friend Soulmate capturing Rock for People show. Couple of pictures from Superbeat (including the one in this post) are here. and here. Superdance pictures are here. And a gallery from Czechian is here.
Some pics at Rock for People page are here.

Visit of Abe Cruz and his family in Czech Republic made a remarkable footprint in our memory and touched hearts of people (words courtesy of Tony Wilson). Hopefully, we will see each other soon with another collaboration. Till then I will hang out with Anne-Marie on iChat disturbing her from her work from time to time.

News and reports:

CT TV
Interview with Abe Cruz for Superbeat.cz
partypeople.cz
idnes.cz
idnes.cz #2
Helena v krabici
Muzikus
i-legalne.cz a even more i-legalne.cz
Rock for People

And as a bonus, some pics from MFF KV in Rotes Berlin, Karlovy Vary:

Aftermath. Part One.

destroyer — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:12:19 +0000

It was like a dream. Tucznak, shooting all this for three days, wrote a nice post which sums it up for me quite well. “Internet makes the world smaller” finally got a real picture for me. We met people who really dare to be different without being unwillingly (or intentionally) silly. They do it by their spontaneity, fervid effort and extraordinary sincerity – something we use to call “rocknroll”.

I finally met my e-friend Anne Marie and we had a chance to “take drugs together”* and it was simply great. Mr. Abe Cruz aka The Dad made a show like he was on stage every night for many years and people loved it (according to what i heard on stage). Somebody mentioned Buena Vista Social Club and I nodded smiling. We had two beautiful evenings inside two nice restaurants, super-quick rehearsal, TV appearance, the Dad made couple of interviews for diverse media and we had a great time at the festival on stage together. 3 days stay is a luxury for a rock-star on tour to spend in one country, isn’t it?

Hard to describe the atmosphere, so I will rather use videos to talk about it instead of words.

This one was shot by Tucznak on stage at Rock For People festival in Hradec Králové.

This one we found on youtube:

This is the final encore of the show, Blue Friday. You can tell we liked it:

Here you can see the special appearance of Abe Cruz, Anne Marie Cruz and me in Czech TV, presenting the video in TV premiere:

Pictures will follow.

Tomorrow you can see us at International Film Festival Karlovy Vary (MFF KV) in club Rotes Berlin. The start will be around 11-12 PM.

* Don’t take it literally, please

Knock, knock! The Dad is coming!

destroyer — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:29:45 +0000

In couple of hours, 10AM exactly, The Dad and his family will land at Prague’s airport. We can’t wait. We planned everything properly, bought presents, made schedules, transport plans, media meetings. I think now we are ready. Adrian and Stevie will wait for Abe Cruz and his family at the airport (together with Tucznak, who will take care of camera and will be shooting doc about this official celebs’ visit . They will take our guests to the hotel and in the evening we will go for a drink or two following our guests being in advantage (they will have – 6 hours). The next day in the evening we will rehearse for the friday’s Rock for People concert (starting 15.50 at green stage). If you are interested, don’t miss this one-and-only show with The Dad on stage! More info here. After the rehearsal we will go to Czech TV for a live interview in Události v kultuře at 21.00 and then for a dinner in a restaurant. On friday, 4th of July (!), we will leave Prague around 12 o’clock heading to Hradec Králové airport to play at the festival. Hopefuly, the show will be good. On Staurday Abe and his famiy are going back to U.S: Normal boring life of superstars as we know it.

So, one more time:

3.7. 21.00 ČT 24/ČT 1 Události v kultuře – interview with Abe Cruz aka The Dad
4.7. 15.50 Rock For People Hradec Králové The Prostitutes & The Dad at green stage

The last and the first.

destroyer — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:09:25 +0000

While the video for the last single from our debut album finally got its sound post-production treatment and The Dad enters youtube again but in a higher quality, the first single from our upcoming album was already mixed and mastered. It happened on thursday in Dušan/Tata Bojs’ studio at Delta. It should be hopefully out due September and it seems that Mods, me and Michal, will do the music video for this one as a followup on our successful video for The Prostitutes’ Sunshine, again produced by Bistro Films production house in Prague.

But first of all, already mentioned new version of sensational The Dad sings The Prostitutes:

Thanx Anne Marie for all these DVDs (and Frank) with iMovie and Garageband projects! Everything worked perfectly. My respect to you and your dad for such an outstanding effort and see you soon on stage at Rock for people!

Special thanx to Apple for making things easy…

See you today at Planet Festival in Tábor!

“The Prostitutes got The Dad. But better don’t ask for details.”

destroyer — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:11:56 +0000

Look into the last issue of Filter magazine and apart from the undergoing main theme which is “Splits, break-ups and divorces” in music business and we are happily not a part of it this time, you can find at page 17 a short mention of The Dad video. The editors are, by their own words, confused and “…we are frightened even to call Martin Destroyer to ask him what is all this about.”…”Massive!” Thank you Filter and don’t be frightened next time or just read this blog for more information in “The Dad” category (find in the side bar). The Dad rules, indeed.

Thats why we would like to announce that The Dad with the family is coming over to Czech Republic 2nd of July (my birthday). We will see each other for the very first time as to this point I have a contact just via internet with The Dad’s daughter, Anne Marie, who produced and filmed the video for us. We are really looking forward because we can also confirm that The Dad will appear with the band on stage at Rock for People festival, 4t of July (US, my dad and Šmity’s birthday), to perform Don’t Give A Damn live! Don’t miss it and see you there!

Domestic WOM.

destroyer — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:53:15 +0000

Word of mouth works always best in pubs. Thats probably how The Dad’s video is becoming famous in US. This guy from Divorced Cousins Club (what a name!) tells his story how he met Abe Cruz.

The Dad sings The Prostitutes. Watch now!

destroyer — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:56:01 +0000

Anne Marie sent me the link with the video yesterday and we want to share this with you immediately as this is one of the best gifts we’ve ever received! Smashing video, stunning the Dad. Roller skates, NYC, tuxedo, the Dad and The Prostitutes. Ingredients of the great video directed and edited by Anne Marie Cruz:

For those who are new to this, don’t miss the other two videos “Dad sings Radiohead” and “Dad sings Sinatra” at Anne Marie’s youtube profile!

We are going to receive a hi-res copy of this video in couple of days to be able to do some things further with it. (Like “hype” and stuff, y’know us…)

And now some secret stuff. If all will go well, Anne Marie and her father, the Dad, will come over to Europe and may show up at our gig at Rock For People festival. What a climax.

And one more thing: We have an idea, inspired by this video, and we dare to ask you: For you who would like to contribute with your own version of Don’t Give A Damn song (audio or audio & video), here you can download karaoke-ready version of this song and shoot your own video or just record your own version of this song. Send us the link and we will post it here! Everything, no censorship (except thing against law and internet policy, of course). A good chance for friends, fans and enemies too.

Let me remind us with this video just couple of months old from Catherine and her ex-boyfriend Daniel from Ireland:

FURTHER NEWS:

We had a meeting today with the producer and we finally agreed on a date of the first recording session for the new album. Hurray.

UPDATE:

Due to the demands, there are the lyrics for the song:

Don’t Give a Damn

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I know you’re never gonna love me anymore
you took everything you could from me
you made a promise that youd never kept now, did you
you took everything that you could see

but you keep on smiling
yes you keep on smiling
But you don’t give a damn now
No you don’t give a damn now

but you keep on smiling
yes you keep on smiling
But you don’t give a damn now
No you don’t give a damn now

One day I don’t know when
it’s coming back to haunt you
you say there’s nothing going on at all
you took everything you could and say that
you still love me
you think I dont see anything at all

but you keep on smiling
yes you keep on smiling
But you don’t give a damn now
No you don’t give a damn now

but you keep on smiling
yes you keep on smiling
But you don’t give a damn now
No you don’t give a damn now

you don’t care for me at all now do you any more

You thought that you could get the best of both worlds didn’t you lady
but Im not that kind of bloke thats alll
One day I dont know when
its coming back to haunt you
you think i dont see anything at all

but you keep on smiling
yes you keep on smiling
But you dont give a damn now
No you dont give a damn now

but you keep on smiling
yes you keep on smiling
But you dont give a damn now
No you dont give a damn now

And after three days…

destroyer — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:29:30 +0000

First of all, there are couple of new dates in our list of confirmed concerts. So, look up for your closest one!

(if the pictures included in this post don’t animate, click them for gif slideshows. there may be a bug in wordpress.com right now)
photos (c) Soulmate, Stevie LFO, Destroyer, Ringwraith

Three days on road last week. Party bigger than bang and Adrian found himself exhausted and I found myself today…

Zlín was simply fantastic. We starred later than planned because people were unable to get in so we were waiting. When we finally showed up, there was a lot over a thousand people in Golem club looking eagerly for music, dance and entertainment. We had a great night though. Amazing crowd, pogo dance and reaction. A gig you will remember.

Day before, in Ústí, we had a chance to see Control (film by Anton Corbijn) and it’s not so bad as I heard. It’s a nice film with just a little too much literality expressed through the connection of the actual story and music, resp.lyrics of Ian Curtis. But it is touching and true-to-the-reality biopic, plus a great visually aesthetic entertainment. The after-party had a atmosphere of the film as the whole town looks a lot like Macclesfield. We had a good time and so the people who came to see us after the film. Tucznak and his father showed up as well as Tcha-Tcha and her boyfriend (is he called Martin?). Stevie performed Máj by K.H. Mácha and The Prostitutes hazard their reputatiton by playing She’s lost control live.

Ostrava welcomed us with a big article in Mladá Fronta Dnes newspaper and we expected quite a lot. Especially when some of our posters covered Daniel Panda’s ones. My phone, lost in Zlín and found by Stevie again, was finally totally broken so I spent some time by shopping for new one (unsuccessfully). Boomerang is closed, so instead of this traditional place for rock concerts, we played in Templ, the place where I attacked our prime minister last year. Soulmate and Ringwraith showed up. Thay had a little anniversary with us as he had a 20th and she had a 10th gig of The Prostitutes in Ostrava. We bought them to their surprise a bottle of sparkling wine during the concert inviting them to stage to celebrate. We agreed that we will turn our concert in České Budějovice in a little party staying there with Soulmate and her friends. Then we went t the car and we took off to our country road. The rest is in Adrian’s previous post.

As you can see on the pictures above, I had a first live appearance with my new Fender Telecaster ‘52 beauty I bought last week which plays so clean, so dynamic and overall so well that I was floored immediately. Big thanx to GuitarPark.cz for help, support and good taste for guitars! Looking forward for a strat this week coming from US. Then the Gibson/Fender forces will be in balance again.

Anne Marie sent me an email saying she is finishing a music video for Don’t Give A Damn with The Dad. I am so looking forward.

This week we have a couple of really important meetings concerning the recording. Cross fongers for us please!

There is a repotage (in three parts) done by Pavel Kučera for Knokaut, TV Óčko from our concert in Lucerna Music Bar: