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Czech punk rock band
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Dirty Pictures (stylized as dirty pictures) is a punk rock band formed in 1992 in Prague, Czechoslovakia..[1][2]
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History
After parting ways with his New York–based band, The Cockles, vocalist/guitarist Huckleberry Dirt (James Donahower)[1][3] moved to Czechoslovakia and joined forces with bassist Zdeněk Marek and drummer The Walking Fly (Pavel Špaček), Czech musicians who had previously played together in Ticha Dohoda and 77 Betlémů.[1][4]
The band played its inaugural concert on 11 December 1992 at the club U Zoufalců[5][6]. In February 1993, they recorded a four-song demo[1][7] that caught the attention of Vladimir Vintr and Pavel Holý[7] of Bengal Records (a sub-label of Panton Records)[3][8], who signed the band to a record deal in April 1993[1].
In April and May 1993, Dirty Pictures competed in the first-ever “Marlboro Rock In.” Nearly six hundred bands entered the competition, from which a jury selected twelve semifinalists. The band ultimately took second place at the final in Prague’s Lucerna Palace[9][10].
The band recorded its debut album, Escape from Sloppy Lake, in 1993 at Studio West in [[Plzeň][7]][1]; it was released in January 1994[11][12] and produced by Eric Grossman[13][14]. The record’s title is a reference to Slapy Reservoir.
Two songs from Escape from Sloppy Lake, “Custom Auto” and “Don’t Be a Slut”, appeared on Czech radio charts in 1994[15][16].[17]
In the autumn of 1993, while the record remained in production, the band released a video for the third song on the album, “Custom Auto”, and it was picked up by MTV[4][1]. In 1994, the band became the first Czech group to have a video selected for MTV Europe’s 120 Minutes “Best Of” compilation[13][18]
The Czech music press responded positively, with publications such as Rock & Pop and Bang![19] devoting features and cover stories to the band and praising its melodic songwriting and hip-hop-infused punk energy[6][3][20]. One writer said the music “strongly hits the dance nerve”[21], while another highlighted the "epic" lyrics as “entirely stripped of pomp and artificial profundity.”[1] A March 1994 review called the album “one of the highest quality rock records created on Czech soil.”[3]
Dirty Pictures also performed in Germany and other European countries.[21][6][22][23]
Joe Strummer, a fan of Escape from Sloppy Lake.[24][25], joined Dirty Pictures for a set of Clash songs at the Rock for Refugees benefit concert in Prague’s Obecní dům on 16 April 1994[26][27][28][29]. Organized by the band, their manager Kyle Carmone[6][25], and the OPU (Organizace pro Pomoc Uprchlíkům)[30][25], the event featured more than 20 acts[31][23] and raised funds for refugees from the former Yugoslavia[32][25]
In 1995, Dirty Pictures released a final EP before disbanding.[32]
They reformed to play a reunion show at Rock Café in Prague on 14 September 2013, with the three founding members joined onstage by Eric Grossman on guitar.[13][32]
The band reunited again in 2015 for several shows in the Czech Republic, with Lukáš Vincour replacing Špaček on drums.[32]
That same year, the band released its first new recording in 20 years, the single “Letiště”, which featured Huck Dirt singing in Czech. [18][32]
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