Plastic People of the Un-verse
A visit from true, historic aliens. Co-hosted by Ivan D’Evan who worked on the Lp release, this promises to be live music alien to our time, as they describe an era that helped form the one we live in now.
Ivan will have to translate and in turn I’ll translate his accent.
3 are the relatively "youngest" members, while 3 are the "oldest" PPU members. Josef Janicek is one of the "very" original founders of PPU in 1968. (Milan Hlavsa, principal composer, guitar player, singer and leading spirit is no longer with us,
having succumbed to cancer at the time of their previously arranged UK PREMIERE, also at QEH
EACH member of PPU, both the original set up and current PPU equipe is an accomplished musician,
playing with other excellent Prague bands, in quite a wide variety of styles.
This is in fact a nice logical extension to the post-liberation day of the whole Czech
Musical Underground creative ethos,
as it developed in the conditions of dire illegality in the late 60s, 70, & 80s.
(I've co-produced their 1st LP album with extensively illustrated documentary book on their story.)
I hope to cope. Because are they as wild as Ivan? Here is Ivan snaked by his hair carpet, at We Are All Going to Die taken, and survived, by me.
