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Eject from Salt Like City. Starring Adrian Shepherd Bell.

destroyer — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:33:30 +0000

Adrian’s world was never unambiguous. The same you can tell about his musical journeys indeed. Turning himself into a bunch of mormons, he recorded the other night something he calls “Holy Eject”. Here you are, dress your overalls, take a shower and dance with your wives to a lovely tune. Eject yourself to the eternal kingdom.

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

“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!

Quiet, please.

destroyer — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:53:34 +0000

If the spirit of the band needed to be elevated in last weeks, the best thing possible happened to us during the end of this week. We started recording of the second album and in the first two days we have recorded four tracks plus having two already recorded in a past in a can. We finally choose Dušan Neuwerth as a producer and we had a fantastic time collaborating with him. Recording in studio Moskva at Barrandov Film Studios, Prague we took all advantages of this vintage/modern vintage studio and achieved sound and atmosphere we were dreaming about from the day we finished the debut album. With a support of sound engineer Lukáš and manager of the studio Risto we had everything we needed being focused just on music. We recorded some really heavy stuff, some really weird stuff and some quite exceptional stuff for a post-punk band. See for yourself:

Festival season just started (yesterday we played Mezi Ploty in Prague) and one of the most important european music projects and festivals – Europavox – just released their annual compilation of the best european music. We are proud that our song Don’t give a Damn was chosen as one of the most interesting songs in the Rock category and is a part of this double CD containing 31 songs from the whole Europe.

Bud-Bud-Budweiser.

destroyer — Sat, 24 May 2008 23:46:58 +0000

We went to the beautiful south to the city Bob and Dave think is a capitol of the world and Anheuser and Bush would sleep better if a nuclear bomb would raze this place out of planet Earth. Yes, we are talking about České Budějovice, a city well known for way more things apart from Budweiser Budvar but I just can’t figure out any of them except the beer and Drain, a rising heavy metal thunder combining rocknroll, grunge and metal. We came to the club called Marty’s Club and it was a pleasant place with a good bar and cool bartenders, with the nice guys from Drain and with the most horrible monitor speakers we saw in a while. And, with no Marty. We brought Paul Matthews aka Ladies Fitness Studio carrying just a two-string guitar (turning into one-string). Starting with his performance, Paul was just amazing. He did entertain people and grabbed their attention with the instrument I already described and his voice only, soon joined for a while by Adrian, Luk and some guy on drums, turning his set into spontaneous performance. After he finished I held a itunes set for two hours or so to try to play contemporary indie but ending with Baba O’Reily and Atmosphere.

The opening of the evening was served by Saxoon and their wipe-out/smash it/noise!noise!noise! “set” of one continuos wall of sound taking something like a half an hour. My ears were bleeding, my eyes were wide open. Definitely deaf, definitely something worth an attention.

Drain at home. What it means? It means the same like Drain anywhere else. Smashing set, booze, rocknroll and blood. Yes, they fight again and they bleed again. Remembering how their drummer looked like after the gig in Brno I may assume they probably won yesterday. Big thanx to these guys for inviting us there and making it happen. The first gig in České Budějovice was a pleasant evening and we were really happy how many of you came to have this party with us. Thanx to you too.

The real deal are the real friends and the real fans. Petra, Lucie and Adam aka Soulmate, Tcha-Tcha and Ringwraith. To see these guys anywhere and especially just in front of stage makes me after all these gigs feel almost like at home. Almost. To enhance this feeling, Soulmate invited us to her mother’s house to have chilli con carne and couple of hours of sleep. Unfortunately, we forgot the alcohol, so we finished the house reserva: a bottle of wine and couple of beers. Then we were singing to sleeping Šmity a song about what you shouldn’t forget when you want to party.

5 hours of sleep and we went back to the city to find a) Adrian’s bag b) Alex’s PC adaptor c) Alex’s shades d) a place to sit down and have a coffee with Petr Hanousek, my friend who was there with his family. We found the cafe. At least. The rest was found by Vodouch in a car and by Martin from Drain in the club. The “friday easyjet” guys thankfuly nod to these people!

Now as I am reading a comic strip making a fun out of this band and the “miserable state” pointing out the second record and new promo pictures I already know that till the end of this week I will be ready to bring you some really breaking news (and not just blah-blahs) and some really strange pictures even sooner.

Big hair time.

destroyer — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:48:08 +0000

We had a great rehearsal tonight with Luk and Stevie. We combined a new motif I came up with today with an older Stevie’s song and created a power chord anthemic hard rock opus that a normal indie band would be ashamed to play. But not The Prostitutes. With our kinky interest in The Who, Cream and Ten Years After we think it’s alright. I already came up with a name for the song and now I am trying to put down some “lyrics”. It’s gonna be called Sound of Falling Apart and the sound of it will be like that. If not, and Adrian and Šmity will kill this idea immediately, it helped me today to decrease the level of overall depression and anger at least. Sometimes you need these monster-rock ballads, don’t you? Sometimes you are basically over all these ding-ding-indie moans and mews and you want to roar and destroy. And this tune should be about this. Let’s see how it develops.

For those who are interested to see me, I am going to be a guest of today’s TV program “Před půlnocí” on ČT 24 representing The Prostitutes and talking about Mezi ploty festival. Starting 23:32.

By the way, our dear readers, I had a better opinion of you. This is the most common words leading people to this blog. The world is full of filth. Especially in Brno.

Today

prostitutes
smashed guitar
link:http://divorcedcousinsclub.wordpres
fight for your right to party
pictures of prostitutes
my secret life as a prostitute blog
two hot hookers fucked on video
prague and prostitutes
broken guitar
fuck in brno

Yesterday

prostitutes
wien prostitutes
graphic charts on prostitution
prague prostitutes
broken guitar
vienna prostitute
smashed guitar
vienna by night prostitutes
video sur la prostitutions forcés
brno prostitutes

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.

Firemen’s friends.

destroyer — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:06:57 +0000

What a beautiful weekend! The right time to spend it entirely in a cold ball room. The lovely firemen of Lichovy lend us their ball room for drums recording. Sitting by the desk, having my heart being synchronized with the kick drum I was wondering what these sound engineers like about it. Maybe the results if they’re lucky. Adrian, being our host, was taking care of delivering catering (made by loving Bianca – thank you!), Martin, partly the sound assistant, partly the second pair of ears and partly the always-on-line marketing research director of our band (watch the video for details) was sitting by the other table with his notebook complaining about “too much work”. Luk, sitting on stage, was changing cymbals and drums sticks looking for the best “heavy metal” sound or just warming up by playing the drums as hard as possible. In these rare moments when I was allowed to go out for couple of minutes I was absorbed by the beautiful and peaceful village and the countryside dreaming about my own weekend house by the pond, listening to frogs and birds instead of f*****g Ludwig Custom 1968 drum kit regularly punched, bumped, kicked, knocked and hit by Luk Santiago. But that was our destiny this weekend. Saturday, accompanied by Hanči and Pavla, two lets-not-talk-about-the-age girls entertaining us by their loud laughter, flaunting funny Adrian’s accent and being around us all the time giving us a feeling that we are somehow special but definitely so much special as them, we recorded drums for Leave It Like It Is. We had a great evening in firemen’s club-pub and after watching all available videos of The Cream with Luk, we went to sleep. Today we recorded drums for Hometown Zombie, being visited several times by firemen coming back from a firemen contest. Happy and tired. We had a good time. And we saw The Simpsons clouds on the way back.

The biggest roar into the ears of European deaf beast.

destroyer — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:38:39 +0000

As these control-addicts in Brussels go nuts (and if all countries sent people like we sent, no fucking wonder – it has to be an unbelievable mighty brain-trust), we are facing more and more of really clever and time-proven directions which make Europe a very strong competitor to USA and Emirates for example. Scotland has to put their pipes down as they are too loud and can damage your ears. That’s probably the reason behind their strange English accent. So the new European direction should change it and help people of Scotland and mainly tourist from Brussels to enjoy traditional Scottish music with no fear! Brilliant. What about these kilts? Aren’t they a bit, y’know what I mean, like transvestite? Is a transvestitism a norm for Europe? No! I think I can be a parliamentarian in Brussels. I am just worried if my English is not too good for that. I think that all amplifiers with power over 5W should be banned and acoustic drums too, including tambourines and cow-bells. So all cows should be equipped with electronic beepers instead to avoid a hear-loss for all Austrian visitors. Lets stick to electronic pads and chinese-made amp-modeling gadgets for the ultimate rocknroll music (I mean the European version of course – I don’t play the US version as I don’t want to break the import quotes). Next time: Do you have a piano at home? You will be sued!

Here is the whole article in TimesOnline

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