DG 307

DG 307, a legend of Czech underground culture co-founded by Mejla Hlavsa (Plastic People of the Universe) and dissident poet Pavel Zajíček in 1973 are coming to London for the first time ever as part of the Made in Prague Festival. With special guest appearance by Aidan Andrew Dun and Lucie Rejchrtová.

Founded in 1973 by poet Pavel Zajíček and Mejla Hlavsa of the Plastic People of the Universe, the band was perceived as an outlandish musical entity creating musical collages designed to accompany Zajíček´s haunting poetry. DG 307 live shows were celebrated for their unique, artistic happening quality. Yet they ceased to exist in 1980´s when Zajíček was forced to emigrate after a period of imprisonment. Zajíček spend his first years in immigration in London, where he soon entered the local music scene. Most notably, he cooperated with THIS HEAT and recorded a demo of T. S. Elliot´s The Waste Land in their notorious Cold Storage studio on a broken keyboard. After the 1989 Velvet Revolution in the Czech Republic, Zajíček returned and surrected the band, which continues to perform and record their evocative music merging elements of alternative rock, jazz and classic. The raw appeal of DG 307 is and always has been inseparable from Zajíček ́s captivating, expressive lyrics, through which he constantly strives to “remain himself inside this mad frenzy”.

The London performance will feature the late 1970´s classics alongside more recent work and will also include excerpts from the aforementioned The Waste Land piece originally composed and recorded in Camberwell.

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Part of Made in Prague Festival, 17 October - 30 November 2014