Půlnoc

Půlnoc (pronounced "pool-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).[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]

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

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. 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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