The Prostitutes Corner » video

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)

Summer videos, enough for starting our very own The Prostitutes TV.

destroyer — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:43:09 +0000

There are some videos captured by Smity’s camera at Rock For People, 4th July, Cool Stage. For an early afternoon, we enjoyed the gig extremely well. Less enthusiastic were our drums and guitars technicians.

Loads of pictures from this year’s festival are on Facebook. Maybe one day we will put them all on our flickr account, but for now, depend on that asocial network.

What does Wédéčko, a familiar name for our WD-40 robot co-synth-player, when he is not on stage with The Prostitutes? Well, see for yourself in a video from Rock For People and in a video showing Wédéčko persecuting people in Prague’s Metro, but in the end singing loud & proud.

We played last week at the official closing ceremony of International Film Festival Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad). There is one lo-fi video of Space Oddity live captured by Jack from Carlsbad. Enjoy!

And I found one curious video of The Fakes remix of our song Leave Like It Is made probably by a fan in UK. The picture selected can be a cover image for this remix with no doubts. Good taste!

And, there is one more video, Leave It Like It Is from United Islands of Prague:

Boom and Elephant officially on youtube!

destroyer — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:01:15 +0000

Our two brand new videos are available on youtube from now. Apocalyptic Boom and a pre-sequel starring Adrian and Wédéčko called Elephant. Directed by Šimon Šafránek. Enjoy.

Boom and Elephant. Two brand new music videos at idnes.cz exclusively!

destroyer — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:32:55 +0000

Here is the article including two brand new videos for Boom and Elephant, exclusively presented at idnes.cz

Directed by Šimon Šafránek, these two videos are introducing the new singles from “Hometown Zombies” album. Elephant, staring Adrian and Wédéčko, is currently nr. 2 on Radio 1 chart, so if you want, you can support us.

Here are the complete credits:

DIRECTOR: Šimon Šafránek
DOP: Zbyňek Kunc
ART DIRECTOR: Marie Hladíková
COSTUME DESIGNER: Josef Čechota
MAKE-UP ARTIST: Marta Janotová, Dana Kohoutová, Kristina Šedivá
PRODUCED BY: Eva Pospíšilová and Kristina Šedivá for The Prostitutes

Technical crew & equipment list

CAMERA: DVP studio, Zdeňek Kučina
CAMERA AC: Marek Havel, Zdeňek Kučina
LENSES: Vantage film, Jindřich Čipera
LIGHTS: Axius, Martin Granila

ROBOT WÉDÉČKO (WD-40) OPERATOR: Stanley Povoda

POSTPRODUCTION: Mirage Prague

Thank you!

Loads of new videos, live chat and charts!

destroyer — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:57:13 +0000

Thursday 21-05-09 we played in Události v kultuře program of Czech Television as already reported by Stevie LFO and here are three videos of songs we played that evening in live broadcast for over 60k people – so our biggest audience so far!

Next week we will come out with two new music videos directed by Šimon Šafránek – Boom and Elephant. They are going to be introduced exclusively on idnes.cz

On the same server, Martin Destroyer will hold an online chat with anybody interested on Friday, 29-05-09 from 2 to 3 PM. Any questions? Insults? Messages of love? Your welcome!

Thanx for your support ion all the charts, we are doing pretty well.

Also, the CDs should be finally in all shops in CZ, so if they are not around, let us know or ask your CD shop assistant to order.

Radioheads like transmission.

destroyer — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:47:04 +0000

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.

New Single Preview

Stevie LFO — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:21:01 +0000

Here we go!

This is our official second album single pre-release trailer by M&Ms.

Unfinished but…

More to come… no doubt

Follow this blog!

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.

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