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Thank you! We wish you well.

destroyer — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:34:58 +0000

After three years, one album and more than a hundred concerts, Šmity is leaving the band. He helped the band in the moment we needed it the most and he elevated some of our skills to new heights. We would like to thank him for all this and we wish him well. Let all his dreams and plans come through smoothly and fast!

The very last concert together with Šmity will be next week in U-Klub Olomouc, 9/12/2009. Come to salute him. As a guests we proudly present Genius Mess Poets and DJ squad The Fakes (DJ Sin vs. Destroyer set). The evening will be powered by our deer friend Jagermeister.

We would like to announce that the new member of The Prostitutes who is going to take bass duties on a regular basis is Adam Piaf Vopička, lead singer and guitarist of Prague’s indie-outfit Fake Tapes. You’ve had already a chance to see him playing with us on many concerts during this year when Šmity was touring with Black Lips. Adam, welcome on board and we wish you to maintain your young blood in a companion of mature prostitutes.

Did The Prostitutes practice occult rituals to get into Mexican press?

destroyer — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:27:38 +0000

I will never let you to know this but ask me anything else tomorrow, Tuesday 30. June from 1.00 PM at LIVE CHAT idnes.cz and I swear by the Almighty that I will answer that. If I will tell the truth? Hard to say, probably not, but I will accept and answer all questions in Czech and English too. See you there!

The Rolling Stone experience.

destroyer — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:03:33 +0000

In 2005 students of some university in Mexico City asked us on myspace to come over and play at their party. Even though they started a petition, we never made it to Mexico. Last issue of mexican edition of world-famous music magazine Rolling Stone shows Depeche Mode on the cover, but hides something way more surprising inside and it puts us back on mexican music map. An above-average review of Hometown Zombies album, competing with Pete Doherty and hungarian band Hangmas on the same page. Btw, Hangmas have got two music videos made by Šimon Šafránek, the director of Boom and Elephant music videos recently released by The Prostitutes. Is this a possible conection? We don’t know yet.

The english translation coming soon.

And big thanks to Aldo Salinas, who pointed out the review for us and sent us the scans!

1, 2, 3, 4! Hometown Zombies tomorrow in Filter magazine.

destroyer — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:57:30 +0000

Tomorrow, 3th March 2009, the second album called Hometown Zombies, is going to be released. You can buy it in Czech Republic in all news-stands as an addition to the new issue of Filter magazine (for the price of the mag). Plus a feature, a review and some crazy photos inside.

Do you want to hear more about our new band member, who is completely robotized, is relative of R2D2 and is called Wédéčko? Read the Filter mag!

Looking forward to hear what you think about you’ve heard. Digital release to follow in couple of days. We will keep our international fans and supporters informed here on our blog, which is now becoming the main web page of the band.

Do we feel thrilled? Yes, we do.

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.

Kauza Radio Wave.

destroyer — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:57:14 +0000

Chcete-li podpořit otevřený dopis, který jsem adresoval Daně Jaklové, mluvčí Rady ČRo a petici vyzívající Radu k rezignaci v souvislostíi s nepochopitelným útokem na vysílání stanice Radio Wave, klikněte zde.

Otevřený dopis naleznete zde.

Audio záznam zasedání Rady naleznete zde.

Insane Instinkt.

destroyer — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:50:55 +0000

Check out todays issue of Instinkt magazine (CZ) for double page review of Berlin Insane!

“The biggest success scored The Prostitutes as they belong to the best, what Berlin Insane offered this year.”

Šimon Šafránek, Instinkt

Press Release – International booking

The Prostitutes — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:38:19 +0000

The Prostitutes now have an International booking agent.

We are glad to announce that The Prostitutes are now associated with A.S.S. Concert + Promotion GmbH, one of the leading German booking companies based in Hamburg. A.S.S. will be in charge of German and European booking of The Prostitutes. Booking and management for the Czech Republic and Slovakia remains exclusively in hands of Nora Production.

The Prostitutes would like to express its appreciation of a very straightforward and open dealings leading to mutual cooperation. We understand it as a fundamental step opening a new horizons in the band’s future.

http://www.ass-concerts.de/ http://www.ass-concerts.de/band.php?band=338

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The Prostitutes mají mezinárodní bookingové zastoupení.

S potěšením si dovolujeme oznámit, že The Prostitutes vstoupili do stáje společnosti A.S.S. Concert + Promotion GmbH, jedné z nejvýznamnějších německých bookingových agentur. Společnost A.S.S. je od této chvíle zodpovědná za německý a evropský booking The Prostitutes, s výjimkou České republiky a Slovenska, kde i nadále zajišťuje booking a management exkluzivně Nora Production.

The Prostitutes by rádi vyjádřili své poděkování za velmi přímé a otevřené jednání vedoucí ke vzájemné spolupráci. Chápeme to jako klíčový krok otevírající skupině nové obzory.

http://www.ass-concerts.de/ http://www.ass-concerts.de/band.php?band=338

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