The Valentines

17/9/2022

23:15 - 24:00 (main hall)

MuNa | Music Navigator 2022

Love, pink color and guitars. The Valentines are a pop band from Hradec Králové, formed in 2017, consisting of Honza Doležal – bass guitar / vocals, Ondřej Čepek – guitar / synth and Matěj Novotný – drums. The young trio, oscillating between David Bowie’s 80’s Let’s Dance aesthetics and contemporary guitar pop, plays “happy songs about the saddest things” in their own words.

In 2019, The Valentines won the Radio Wave’s Starter (song contest), earning the opportunity to make the song and the video “Did My Back Hurt Your Knife?” Their single “Just Us” also appeared as the only song in the film A Certain Kind of Silence nominated for the Czech Lion (Czech film awards). The song with which The Valentines reached the Czech final of the Eurovision Song Contest, as well as the two previous songs, was produced by frontman Honza Doležal and Filip Vlček, who also mixed it. The song which was recorded in the bedroom was mastered by Ted Jensen, who has produced albums by Madonna, Talking Heads, Rolling Stones, Bring Me the Horizon and many many others.

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