Půlnoc

Půlnoc

Půlnoc

Czech rock band

Půlnoc (pronounced "pull-knots" and Czech for "midnight") was a Czech rock band established in 1988 by three members of the Plastic People of the Universe: Milan Hlavsa (bass guitar), Josef Janíček (keyboards), and Jiří Kabeš (violin and guitar).[3] Hlavsa chose his sister-in-law, Michaela Němcová, to be the band's lead singer. Hlavsa started Pulnoc because the Plastic People was denied permission to travel or perform openly by the Czech government.[4] In the spring of 1989, Pulnoc went on a tour of the United States that led to them gaining considerable favorable attention there. For example, Robert Christgau named a bootleg of a concert the band played in New York City the best album of 1989.[3] Steve Hochman described this tour as "remarkable at least as much musically as it was culturally," writing that when the band played a show in San Francisco in 1989, "Plastic People fans and the uninitiated curious alike were floored by the combination of heavy metal, art-rock, operatic vocals and locomotive-worthy propulsion."[5]

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In 2011, the band reunited (without Hlavsa and Kabeš) and played a number of concerts during the following decade. In April and May 2022, they embarked on an eight-date final tour, culminating on 13 May 2022 in Jihlava.[6]

Discography

  • Pulnoc (Globus International, 1990)
  • City of Hysteria (Arista Records, 1991)

References

  1. ↑
    "Poslední pražský koncert legendární české kapely Půlnoc bude na HABROVCE!" (in Czech). Superbeat.cz. 20 May 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
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    "Poslední pražský koncert legendární české kapely Půlnoc bude na HABROVCE!" (in Czech). Superbeat.cz. 20 May 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  3. [3]
    Hochman, Steve (27 October 1990). "Revolutionary Czech Band Pulnoc to Make L.A. Debut". Los Angeles Times (published 1990-10-27).
  4. [4]
    Pareles, Jon (24 April 1989). "Czechoslovak Band That Suffered for Its Art". The New York Times (published 1989-04-24).
  5. [5]
    Hochman, Steve (July 1990). "The Distinctive Pulnoc Is but One Czech Band". Los Angeles Times (published 1990-07-01).
  6. [6]
    Varhaník, Jiří (13 May 2022). "Undergroundová kapela Půlnoc se loučí na malé scéně DKO". Jihlavské listy. Retrieved 17 May 2022. Czech
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