Půlnoc

In 2014, the band reunited for a performance on the Habrovka music festival.[1]

Půlnoc (pronounced "pool-notes" 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).[2] 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.[3] 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.[2] 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."[4]

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.
  2. 1 2 Hochman, Steve (1990-10-27). "Revolutionary Czech Band Pulnoc to Make L.A. Debut". Los Angeles Times.
  3. ↑ Pareles, Jon (1989-04-24). "Czechoslovak Band That Suffered for Its Art". The New York Times.
  4. ↑ Hochman, Steve (1990-07-01). "The Distinctive Pulnoc Is but One Czech Band". Los Angeles Times.
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