The Prostitutes

Infobox musical artist
Name = The Prostitutes


Img_capt = The Prostitutes in 2007
Martin Destroyer, Adrian T. Bell, Smity, Stevie LFO and Luk Santiago
Photo by A. Dobrovodsky / Filter
Background = group_or_band
Origin = Prague, Czech Republic
Genre = Indie rock
Post-punk
Years_active = Since 2004
Label = Championship Records
URL = [http://www.theprostitutes.org/ www.theprostitutes.org]
Current_members = Adrian T. Bell (2004–present)
Martin Destroyer (2004–present)
Stevie LFO (2004–present)
Luk Santiago (2004–present)
Šmity (2006–present)
Past_members = Mark Jukebox (2004–2006)
Discography = The Prostitutes EP (2005 Radiotron Rec.)
Get Me Out Of Here (2006 Championship Records)

The Prostitutes are an indie band formed in 2004 in Prague, Czech Republic. The original members were singer Adrian T. Bell, guitarist Martin Destroyer (Martin Přikryl), keyboard player Stevie LFO (Martin Převrátil), bass-guitarist Mark Jukebox (Marek Dziuba) and drummer Luk Santiago (Lukáš Přikryl).The Prostitutes released their first album "Get Me Out Of Here" in September 2006.In December 2006, Mark Jukebox left the band after long-term mutual disagreements. New bass-guitarist Šmity (Martin Chmátal) was on board immediately. Šmity is also known in the Czech Republic for his own band called Roe-Deer.

History

The pre-history sees Luk Santiago and Martin Destroyer playing in bands like The Night Traffic and Angličáky in 1989-1995. Santiago, LFO and Destroyer played together in another band called The Radios, which disintegrated in 2004. They invited a bass player and a singer and started a new band in November 2004.

In April 2005, the band recorded their first EP with four tracks: Look into My Eyes, She's a Monster, She's a Prostitute and Sunshine. In July, they appeared in the Star Guitar programme of [http://www.ocko.tv Ocko TV] , the biggest music TV station in Czech Republic and Slovakia. Since then, the Ocko TV has been broadcasting their video-clips for Look into My Eyes and She's a Monster. Also in July, the Alternativa programme of Radiozurnal (Czech biggest radio station) presented She's a Monster. [http://www.newmusic.cz NMM] named The Prostitutes the best new band. [http://www.radio1.cz Radio 1] listed the single Sunshine into their broadcasting scheme. On the 5th September, the Alternative Programme of Radiournl presented The Prostitutes again, this time with an extensive interview. An article on The Prostitutes was published in the Filter magazine in that same week. [http://www.idnes.cz iDnes] , the biggest Czech news portal, ranked the single She's A Monster 10th in the chart of the "20 most significant tracks of September 2005". She's A Monster was in Hitparade at Ocko for 7 weeks beating up popstars such as Madonna, Rammstein or Depeche Mode.

The band was concerting a lot during 2005/2006 including major towns and cities in Czech Rebublic as well as major festivals like United Islands Of Prague [http://www.unitedislands.cz] playing on the same stage as Placebo.

Their debut album was awaited with big expectations and they were, according to huge press response, fulfilled. Get Me Out Of Here was released 4th September, 2006 under Championship Records and is distributed by Sony/BMG. Filter magazine gave it 4/5, Music magazine gave it 5/5, Musicserver gave 9/10. NMM gave them 4/5 saying that some of the tracks are the best what came out of Czech Republis in last 10 years so far. First single Sunshine hit the charts at [http://www.wave.cz Radio Wave] dominating at number 1 for 6 weeks [http://www.wave.cz] and [http://www.radioakropolis.cz Radio Akropolis] being in top ten for more than 3 months. The music video for the single Sunshine scored in all Czech major TV charts.

In November 2006 the band toured in Spain, together with a Spanish band called Catpeople. They played in Granada, Cartagena, Jaen and Barcelona. A concert in Valencia was canceled due to technical problems in the venue. Despite the fact that they were in Spain for the very first time, they raised quite big media attention having a music video appearance in MTV Spain, interview and a part of live performance in main Spanish national television, interview and songs broadcasting in a prominent Spanish music show compared to John Peel Session at NRE 3 and also very good internet coverage at Spanish speaking music servers. They were also invited back to Barcelona in May and August 2007.

In January 2007, The Prostitutes were awarded Band of The Year by the main Czech music magazine Filter, being nominated also for Song of The Year with "Sunshine".They received prize for Music Video Of The Year at prestigious TV Óčko Awards 2006 for the song Sunshine, being nominated also for The Best Rock Band Of The Year and Best New Act.In the readers part of Fllter Awards they received prize for the best song of the year with their successful single Sunshine.They were nominated for "Czech Grammy" - Anděl Award 2006 for The best new act.

In May 2007 they played support for Mick Harvey in Prague's Lucerna Music Bar.

Gear

Martin Destroyer used to play mainly guitars of two brands: Rickenbacker and Fender, being specific Rickenbacker 330 and 360/12 and Fender Telecaster and Fender Telecaster Deluxe reissue. He also plays Gibson SG Classic and ES-335. He used to play Godin Radiator and Epiphone Les Paul. His amplifiers are Hiwatt and Fender. In studio he also uses Radiotron AC-30, a custom made version of Vox AC-30.

Stevie LFO used to play Korg Polysix and during recording of Sunshine he also played Roland Juno-106. Currently he uses Prophet 08, Clavia Nord Lead 3, Yamaha AN1x and Korg Poly-800.

Luk Santiago plays Ludwig Custom set, Ludwig snare and Sabian and Meinl cymbals.

Šmity play through Hiwatt amplifier and Ampeg cabinet, using Fender Precision, Jazzbass, Gibson Thunderbird and Les Paul bass, Hamer 12-string bass, double-bass and Rickenbacker bass

References and resources

[http://www.theprostitutes.org official The Prostitutes site]
[http://blitzkrieg-destroyer.blogspot.com Martin Destroyer's blog]
[http://www.myspace.com/theprostitutes The Prostitutes myspace profile]
[http://www.popchild.com/viewArt.php?id_articulo=2655&id_tipo=1 Spanish review at PopChild.com]
[http://show.idnes.cz/filter.asp?r=filter&c=A051004_131932_filter_kot first article about band in czech music magazine Filter - 2005]
[http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/eveningchronicle/angeleyes/tm_method=full%26objectid=16516980%26siteid=50081-name_page.html New Castle The Evening Chronicle article about The Prostitutes]
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/theprostitutes/ Flickr gallery of The Prostitutes]

External Links

[http://www.theprostitutes.org official The Prostitutes site]

[http://www.myspace.com/theprostitutes The Prostitutes myspace profile]

[http://blog.theprostitutes.org The Prostitutes official blog]