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The Prostitutes are an indie band formed in 2004 in Prague, Czech Republic. The members are 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.

1 History
2 Gear
3 References and resources
4 External Links

[edit] 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 of 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 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 Radiournl (Czech biggest radio station) presented She's a Monster. NMM named The Prostitutes the best new band. 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. 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[1] playing on the same stage with 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 Radio Wave dominating at number 1 for 6 weeks [2] and 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. Concert in Valencia was canceled due 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.

[edit] Gear

Martin Destroyer plays mainly guitars of two brands: Rickenbacker and Fender, being specific Rickenbacker 330 and 360/12 and Fender Telecaster and Fender Telecaster Deluxe reissue. He used to play Godin Radiator and Epiphone Les Paul. His amplifier is Fender Concert Reverb and secondary he uses Radiotron AC-30, a custom made version of Vox AC-30. His pedalboard contains E-H Black Finger, E-H Big Muff, Ibanez Turbo Tube Screamer, Radial Tonebone Classic, Line 6 Echo Park, Line 6 Tap Tremolo and E-H Small Clone chorus.

Stevie LFO used to play Korg Polysix and during recording of Sunshine he also played Roland Juno. Currently he uses Yamaha AN1x.

Mark Jukebox plays vintage Ibanez copy of Rickenbacker from 1974, the same guitar as Bruce Foxton during the early days of The Jam. Main effect is MXR Phaser 100. Amplifier is an Ashdown.

Luk Santiago plays Premier set and Sabian and Meinl cymbals.