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The Prostitutes in Bucharest

adriantdb — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:37:25 +0000

After landing in Bucharest we were picked up at the airport and taken to the Czech Centre next to the Embassy. The drive in from the airport is impressive as we proceeded down the large boulevards into the centre of the Paris of the East. Bucharest’s architecture is Eclectic (lots of different styles). But as we talked to the driver he pointed out that the drive into the city was the nicest part of the city. The rest of it was very eastern block . We didn’t have the time to go and see it though although we had been met at the airport by three shabby looking young gentlemen who were insistent on helping us with our luggage and were obviously from the poorer side of town (Bengali in platforms).

We arrived at the club at around six and were impressed. The Silver Church is a spectacular club well designed , good sound system and a pleasure to be in. It has been open for just over a year and the owners have made it into the second best club in Bucharest. The manager Jiji, a well known actor and organiser of various underground events was very welcoming.

The sound engineer in the club was well prepared. All the items in the back line that we had asked for were there. Not like the night before when we had had to cancel a gig in the Jam club in Opava because they didn’t have any equipment at all in the club even if they knew we were going to play there for over a month and in the end handed over the cash without us even playing and then had to explain to a number of angry fans why we were leaving.

Most of the guys that were playing that evening were in the club. We met Stefan from Les Elephants Bizzares (original name Les Femmes Bizarres, when the boys thought the name would attract girls but in one drunken night changed to Les Elephants Bizarre because if you take the insides out of your trouser pockets open your zip and pull out…. well elephant bizarre emerges, which in a drunken state is obviously the best way of attracting les femmes bizzares

We also sat around chatting to the drummer Bogdan a cool relaxed guy from The MOOod and Gopo/Oliver the vocalist a very intense young man worried about the future, worried about the music scene, having a bad time with his girlfriend … the perfect combination for a vocalist. I don’t like comparisons so check them out for yourself. They are great live and have an intensity and stage presence which a lot of young bands are looking for ……. but are not desperate enough to find.

The MOOod came on stage and rocked the shop. After the MOOod followed AB4 who are also probably sort of a Romanian Lavagance (oops I made a comparison) They also went down really well when they had finished is was about one thirty in the morning and we were really tired so our show was probably not the best. Anyway I google-translated the MOOod’s blog entry from Romanian to English so you don’t get a false impression:

“Funk Rock Hotel 6, which dom’ne concert that bands, many girls! I would like to thank the ladies attending the concert that I remembered why I love Adidas from Korn. Saturday in Silver Church (bathrooms there and draw a Gopo! It’s a must!) I had the best concert so far, what was rock’n'roll! Sound insightful, Mircea I showed it can play solo from Mighty Man with eyes closed, destroyed Gopo microphone stand, I’ve knocked down and Horia cinelele has shown us once again why his nickname should be Voyoshel. For me, the series has been an attraction The Prostitutes. Up to listen, I was not synth’s fan but these guys have convinced me! Dark parts, a random voice Joe Strummer / Johnny Cash, an unbelievably good drummer (forget that it can be rock and metronome), very good guitarist, synth dubious hard bass line and a simple and very groovy. I can say that I became a prostitute after I saw, and, I invite you to prostitutes and you. That said, see you at the next concert! Spread The MOOod!”

Pictures from Favál, 8/10/2009

Stevie LFO — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:45:47 +0000

Report from Hunting for Zombies Tour 2009

Lots of smoke, extreme heat, perfect people and magic atmosphere. Typical Favál.

Tom Cerny was capable to capture all this on his camera. Below is a selection from his large photo set. Will you find yourself in the crowd? Thanks a lot, Tom!

all photos by

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.

Lockdown.

destroyer — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:16:28 +0000

We are in Cox Sudio in Jinočany right now. Recording the second album and it goes well. Very well.

Back from Berlin, still Insane

destroyer — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:03:56 +0000

Hard to explain and even harder to describe all what happened on Friday night in Berlin. To say It was simply great is way easier. Day of unity for Germany, heart of Berlin, insanity, coulture, decadence, punk, freaks, avantgarde inside of the theatre, outside police and demonstrations connected with the national holiday. The building of Volksbuhne (National Scene) hosted over 40 artists from many countries of Europe. The event conducted by mysterious Steve Morell from Pale Music evolved into great party with such an incredible appearances, ie. Atelier Theremin, Klill The Dandies!, drum session of Andrew Unruh from Einsturzende Neubauten, Call Me An Ambulance, Warren Suicide and many many others. We were absorbing the witty yet serious atmosphere of a decadence and creativity melting in a pot of this monumental communist theatre, thinking about possibility of doing “Fuck Off Prague Insane” in National Theatre in Prague with a support from the city’s major house happening on the main national holiday at 28th October. Hahaha. There are still reasons why “go west”, even when you are living in a country of freedom.

The Prostitutes were playing in crowded Red Salon ’round midnight. The crowd and The Fakes playing a short set before our show created the right temperature for the concert and Adrian was especially woken up by “The Beatles, just a band, Bloc Party, just a band, …” The show was energetic, half an hour set of oldies but goldies from our songbook. After the show we were enjoying the event till 5 AM. Then we went to Rock’n'roll hotel in Kreutzberg. Half past seven the girl in a hotel bar said that it is the right time to “fuck off” and we went to our rooms. Stevie LFO visited part of Dandies next door through the window at the balcony but he forgot to open it. Sound of broken glass was our last acoustical trail we made in Berlin this weekend. Saturday evening we went home.

Folk-rock?

destroyer — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:15:54 +0000

Saturday night was cool. We went to Rožnov pod Radhoštěm to play local festival Folkrockování. The weather was terrible, but people were warm, the production almost fantastic and we were heading one-off strange gig: Šmity is on holiday and we decided not to cancel the gig and play without a bass guitar. We managed to play almost everything this way except She’s Dead and Don’t Give A Damn where the bass lines are really prominent and build the song. Adrian was playing second guitar in couple of songs and he lost his virginity as a rock guitarist straight on stage. We were playing a lot more than usual playlist. We saw Distortion Dancing Destruction on the list together with Wired To Kill and Spider and we also played with a decent success for the very first time on the public song Leave It Like It Is – probably the first single from in-progress new album. After the gig we went to the hotel and spend some serious time jamming (turning ourselves into folk band) and writing down some really cool songs and some real solid bullshit, mainly about “Space Dust”, some mythical Merlin’s powder Alex found in a buffet and insisted on that it is one of the most necessary and magical things to use during sex. Believe or not, I think that Space Dust is normální šumák. It was a hard working day with a slight headache today for me but I think it was worthy, wasn’t it?

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:

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.

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.