DESIGN CONCERT

The earlier one is on Friday 11.12. 2009. Together with The Fakes, The Prostitutes will play as a very special guest of design SUPERMARKET in a building formerly known as the department store Perla, Perlová street no. 5. It is a corner of Perlová and Jungmannovo náměstí. Here is the map and here is a Facebook event. The concert starts at 21.00 and the entry should be free.

CHRISTMAS CONCERT

The second gig is a bit secret and will be on Monday 14.12. 2009. Right after Umakart concert at Kino Oko we’ll move to 2. patro but we are not allowed to tell what it is and where is it, you should know or find out for yourself. From approximately 20:00 there will be a theatrical play of Pixy, a famous comic book by Max Andersson. And around 22:00 we will start our very special, Christmas concert with piano, acoustic guitars, bass and drums. We’ll play couple of semi-unplugged versions of our songs plus our country favs in the coolest place in Prague these days. Entrance free again. A must-go.

The whole tour will be opened tonight (Friday 25th) in Music Club Kotelna in Litomyšl.  After the afterparty and maybe few minutes of sleep we move to Bastion No. 35 in Jaroměř. The club is celebrating its 2nd anniversary on Saturday 26th and for sure it will be a long and hard night too. We will be accompanied on stage by  -123 min. and UDG.

For next shows, have a look on the poster below or right sidebar.

Don’t be Zombie, wake up and let’s have a ride!

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.

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.

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:

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

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!

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.

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!

(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: