1. Kto si, čo robíš, čo ťa najviac zaujíma práve v týchto dňoch ?
ĎURI: Gitara, krik, posledné dni trávim hlavne v horách v prírode na strednom slovensku
PALI: Bicie. Posledné dni sa pohrávam s myšlienkou nového priestoru na koncerty v KE (zatiaľ len bublina nad hlavou)
DANO: Hrám na basu, pracujem, pomáham so spoluorganizáciou niektorých akcii v Colle a takisto tam osvetľujem akcie
2. Kde ste hrali predtým a ako ste sa dali dokopy?
PALI: Postoi je pre nás troch prvotina. S bratom sme začínali doma v garáži, kde sme si zriadili prvú skúšobňu. Dali sme dokopy hudbu, texty aj názov, ale v tom čase sme neboli súčasťou žiadnej punk partie, takže zohnať niekoho, kto by chodil skúšať 20 km od Košíc, bolo dosť nereálne. Asi o pol roka neskôr sme sa dostali viac do okruhu Collossea a Vajgel nám poskytol priestor pod Collosseom, kam sme si zriadili novú skúšobňu.
ĎURI: Pred dokončením druhej skúšobne sme sedeli v collosseu s kamošmi a vedľa sedel Dano, ktorého sme ešte nepoznali. Náhodou započul rozhovor a tvrdil, že by možno skúsil s nami niečo, že vie hrať na gitaru. Samozrejme, keď sme sa stretli v skúšobni o týždeň na to, tak bolo jasné, že nikdy nedržal v ruke žiadny nástroj:)
DANO: Chalani to viacmenej povedali jasne :D Prišiel som na pivo a odišiel som s kapelou, dobrý deal. Neskôr som ešte pôsobil na base aj v kapele BUG SPENCER, ktorá už žiaľ nie je aktívnou kapelou, ale kto vie, možno raz :)
3. Fungujete od začiatku v súčastnej zostave alebo ste mali nejaké zmeny?
PALI: Fungujeme kontinuálne v jednej zostave bez zmien.
4. Kapela vydala prvú dosku počas kovidu, ako ste fungovali v období lockdownu a do akej miery vás ovplynila pandémia pri tvorbe debutu?
PALI: Veľmi v skratke, ten debut vznikol ešte dávno pred pandémiou, v úplných začiatkoch kapely. V čase, keď sme ho nakoniec nahrávali, sme tie songy už ani aktívne nehrali, a aj sme váhali, či má vôbec zmysel ich dávať von. Nakoniec ale vyhral pocit, že by bola škoda to zahodiť a nepodeliť sa o tú časť nášho života s ľuďmi, ktorí to s nami vtedy prežívali.
ĎURI: v podstate debut vznikal ešte pred pandémiou v začiatkoch. Niektoré texty a hudbu sme mali ešte v časoch keď sme neboli kompletná kapela a chodili sme ešte do školy. Niektoré songy sme časom vyškrtali a vôbec ich nehrali. Samozrejme nahrali sme ho dosť opozdene. Cez pandémiu sa začali už pomaly tvoriť Črepiny.
DANO: Počas covidu sme hlavne boli zalezení v skúšobni a pravidelne každý piatok sme tam trávili čas s kamarátmi a pivkom. Samozrejme nam hrabalo občas riadne :D, ale na toto obdobie spomínam rád.
5. Z nejakého dôvodu mám Oi štýl spojený s ospevovaním pouličného násilia - mám to správne alebo mi niečo podstatné uniklo a ako to máte vy - čím vás očaril Oi?
PALI: Dá sa to tak vnímať: pouličné násilie, pivo, futbal, naleštené gebule… Nič z toho nás ale nezaujíma. Pre nás tam vždy bola hlavne autenticita hnevu a frustrácie, ktorou sme si ako mladí tiež prechádzali, a ktorú zo streetpunku jednoducho cítiť. Ľudia nemusia riešiť rovnaký problém, aby si rozumeli. Keď sa chceš podeliť o niečo veselé, prirodzene ideš za niekým, kto sa usmieva. A rovnako to funguje aj opačne, keď ťa zožiera hnev a potrebuješ ho dostať von. Pre nás bol teda Oi! hlavne ventil, miesto, kde šiel hnev von bez filtrov cez hudbu, a zároveň asi aj pocit, že v tom nie sme sami.
ĎURI: Násilie a futbal boli veci ktoré som nikdy nemal rád. Na Oi! ma skôr zaujala angažovanosť a poukazovanie na osobné ale aj spoločenské problémy.
6. Medzi prvým a druhým albumom je zreteľný posun od Oi punku k temnejšej post-punkovej tvorbe, ako k tomu došlo?
PALI: Povedal by som, že sa to začalo formovať už v skorých začiatkoch, keď sme s Ďurim, Rišom a Vladkom založili Nazi Tampons. Vytvorili sme si priestor, kde sme vedeli ventilovať tú veselšiu a drzejšiu stránku, a v Postoii tým pádom postupne ostával viac priestor na vnútorné veci. Svoje tam samozrejme zohrali aj vtedajšie stredoškolské egá a hudobnícke schopnosti.
ĎURI: V podstate Postoi bol náš prvý kontakt s tvorením vlastnej hudby. Debut vznikal so schopnosťami aké sme mali vtedy, časom vznikali aj iné projekty, teraz po rokoch už aj trochu vieme hrať. Asi no.
DANO: Za tie roky sa nám názory ustálili, a aj hudobne to už cítime inak.
7. A čo ten Oi - do akej miery je ešte aktuálny a kde ho na Črepinách nájdem?
PALI: Je pravda, že veľa Oi! kapiel spieva skôr o subkultúrnej identite, zatiaľ čo naše skladby sú viac o vnútornom prežívaní jednotlivca. Ten základ tam ale stále je: autenticita tém, krik a surový zvuk, ktorý drží pokope celý album. Zároveň sa ale radšej označujeme jednoducho ako post-punk kapela a to práve preto, že nás viac zaujíma osobný obsah a emócia než samotná subkultúrna identita.
ĎURI: Asi tak
8. V akých podmienkach a mentálnom rozpoložení vznikali Črepiny - aké pocity a vnemy prispeli do kreatívneho mixu?
ĎURI: Začali vznikať v období keď sme dokončili našu tretiu a terajšiu skúšobňu. Akurát prišiel lockdown. Únava z izolácie, z politickej situácie, názorovej polarizácie, ale aj z osobných hádok. Bolo o čom písať. A čo sa týka mixu, vždy sa mi páčil viac sound starých anglických kapiel ako moderný zvuk, len sme nevedeli ako ho dosiahnuť. Po rokoch sme to konečne vyriešili.
9. Kedy vznikol prvý akord a text Črepín a s čím ste sa počas tvorby a nahrávania museli vysporiadať?
PALI: Prvý song, ktorý sa dostal na Črepiny, bol „Ďalší krok“ (2019). Pointa textu bola pre nás príliš silná na to, aby sme ho nechali zapadnúť na starom albume. Najväčší kameň úrazu bol pri oboch albumoch samotný proces nahrávania a jeho nekonečné naťahovanie. Z toho sme sa už ale poučili a odvtedy sme pomohli s nahrávkami aj viacerým ďalším kapelám.
ĎURI: Nahrávať nikdy nebol taký problém, ako zvukári Collossea sme mali prístup k profi technike, ale dlho sme bojovali s mixom a mastrom. Najviac asi pomohlo že sme náhodou objavili Tomáša Malého. Jeho prvý mix bol Fukoty, Uchafu, potom Postoi 2, Nabosoposkle, Astris Lapsus, Pärník a stále sa len zlepšuje. Plánujeme s ním spolupracovať aj do budúcna.
10. Aký gear - nástroje, efekty a aparatúru ste použili na výsledný sound Črepín?
ĎURI: Fender bassbreaker, chorus BOSS-CH1, Telecaster od Squier, cudzie trsátko:)
DANO: overdrive BOSS DS-1 (v súčasnosti nahradený DIY pedálom), chorus EHX Bass-Clone, Precision bass od Squier
PALI: Malá jazzová sada od Tami nahratá na 6 mikrofóny (D6, 2x E604, 3x SM57), Všetko sme nahrávali DIY v skúšobni a za finálny mix vďačíme Tomášovi Malému.
11. Aké reakcie ste zaznamenali na Črepiny a podarilo sa vám získať pozornosť od post-punk / goth scény ?
ĎURI: Ani neviem. Aj keď hráme post-punk tak skôr sa pohybujeme a hrávame na akciách s DIY Hard-core punkovymi kapelami.
DANO: Po koncertoch som sa stretol hlavne s pozitívnymi reakciami od okolia, čo ma veľmi potešilo, avšak našim cieľom nebolo nejak získavať pozornosť, proste hráme čo máme sami radi.
12. Je možné že posuniete hranice žánru ešte ďalej - napríklad k death rocku alebo industriálu, prípadne metal-punkovým smerom?
PALI: Nemyslím si, že budeme robiť ešte nejaké žánrové odbočky. Rámec máme viacmenej daný a myslím, že aj náš zvuk už má dostatočne jasnú definíciu.
ĎURI: Nie. Čo sa týče Postoi tak skôr sa budú vyvíjať texty. Keď budeme chcieť hrať iný žáner skôr založíme ďalšiu kapelu, ako sme založili Nazi Tampons, alebo nedávno nám vyšiel debut s kapelou Pärnik. Tam hrajem na sax, Pali bicie. Do budúcna som skôr otvorený nejakej anarcho-punk alebo Hard-core punk kapele, ako hrať industriál alebo metal. To asi né.
13. Vždy ma poteší, keď v hudbe vyšípim asociáciu na mojich obľúbencov Type O Negative - u vás konkrétne zvuk basy a text skladby steny mi korešponduje so skladbou Gravitational constant z ich debutu "I built myself a nice little cage // With bars of anger and a lock of rage // I can't help asking, // "Who's got the key?" // When I know damned well it's me". Je tam prienik, hoci aj neúmyselný alebo som úplne off?
PALI: off
ĎURI: off
DANO: off veru :D
14. V Košiciach tvoria aj iné post-punk, industriálne kapely ako Fara alebo Standard Society, čo sú projekty Feriho, ktorý je dosť angažovaný v kultúrnom dianí na KE UG scéne. Ste prepojení s touto tvorivou skupinou a ich aktivitami, alebo fungujete úplne samostatne?
ĎURI: S Ferim sa poznáme, ale on sa skôr pohybuje okolo Košickej Tabačky. My sa pohybujeme okolo skúšobne v Collosseu. Hrajú tam u nás Nabosoposkle, Uchafu, Nerva, EX Nonconformist, Pipesh… Samí dobrí hudobníci. Dáva to priestor vzájomnej pomoci a k vytváraniu nových kapiel a projektov.
DANO: Fungujeme samostatne.
15. Ako je to s vašim pôsobením na scéne - máte pocit zázemia či už doma alebo v konkrétnych slovensko-stredoeurópskych mestách a komunitách?
PALI: Áno, za tie roky už máme pocit zázemia aj mimo Košíc v zmysle, že na viacerých miestach nás radi privítajú. V Košiciach patríme skôr medzi tých, ktorí to zázemie pomáhajú budovať aj pre ostatných. Vraciame scéne to, čo dala nám. Zároveň je ale dôležité držať si hranice. Ľudia si rýchlo zvyknú a niekedy začnú brať podporu od scény ako samozrejmosť z čoho neskôr vzniká zbytočné napätie.
ĎURI: Collosseum, Hájovňa, Bosorka tam som jak doma, či už tam hráme alebo len prídem pozrieť na koncert, ale určite je veľa miest, kde nás radi privítajú či už na slovensku, alebo aj v zahraničí.
DANO: V Collosseu prakticky trávim väčšinu času, či už v skúšobni, dole na pive s partiou, alebo na koncertoch. Je to už druhý domov.
16. Kde vás v roku 2026 uvidím hrať naživo?
DANO: Najbližšie na turné s kamošmi Nabosoposkle (B.Bystrica, Olomouc, Brno, Budapešť, Záhreb, Bratislava, Viedeň), potom pár zatiaľ tajných festivalov a určite aj doma.
17. Čo počúvate, pozeráte a čítate v týchto dňoch?
PALI: Zo zahraničia napríklad A Culture of Killing alebo Viagra Boys. Z domácej scény ma extrémne prekvapili posledné dva koncerty na Hájovni: 50m Znak a nedávno Hory
ĎURI: Akurát mi hraje nový album Eduv Syn, ešte som ho nestihol vypočuť. A nezvyknem toho až tak veľa čítať, ale teraz čítam napríklad Franz Kafka-Proces.
DANO: Nedávno som bol na koncerte v Budapešti kde hrali S.G.A.T.V, perfektná egg-punk formácia, veľmi ma to bavilo. Inak je to random, rád objavujem nové kapelky.
18. Je niekto s kým by ste si radi prečítali rozhovor na JDØS?
ĎURI: Causa Motiva (nová kapela u nás v skúšobni, členovia z Nervy a Nonconformist, o pár týždňov prvý koncert)
19. Motto alebo odkaz na záver.
DANO: Podporujte lokálne bandy!
ĎURI: Robte nové priestory a kapely! Oi!
PALI: Využijem to na promo nášho ďalšieho hudobného projektu
1. Who are you, what do you do, and what interests you the most these days?
ĎURI: Guitar, screaming. Lately I’ve been spending most of my time in the mountains and nature in central Slovakia.
PALI: Drums. These days I’ve been playing with the idea of a new concert space in Košice (for now it’s still just a bubble above my head).
DANO: I play bass, work, and help co-organize some events at Collosseum, where I also do the lighting for shows.
2. What bands did you play in before, and how did you come together?
PALI: Postoi is actually the first band for all three of us. My brother and I started at home in a garage where we built our first rehearsal space. We already had the music, lyrics, and even the name, but at that time we weren’t part of any punk community, so finding someone willing to rehearse 20 km outside Košice was pretty unrealistic. About half a year later we became more connected with the Collosseum circle, and Vajgel gave us a space underneath Collosseum where we built a new rehearsal room.
ĎURI: Before we even finished the second rehearsal space, we were sitting in Collosseum with friends and Dano was sitting nearby — we didn’t know him yet. By chance he overheard our conversation and said he might try playing with us because he supposedly knew how to play guitar. Of course, when we met in the rehearsal room a week later, it became obvious he had never held an instrument in his hands before :)
DANO: The guys already explained it pretty clearly :D I came for a beer and left with a band — good deal. Later on I also played bass in the band BUG SPENCER, which sadly isn’t active anymore, but who knows, maybe one day :)
3. Have you been functioning in the same lineup since the beginning, or were there any changes?
PALI: We’ve been going continuously in the same lineup without any changes.
4. The band released its first record during COVID. How did you function during the lockdown period, and to what extent did the pandemic influence the creation of your debut?
PALI: To put it briefly, the debut was actually created long before the pandemic, back in the very beginnings of the band. By the time we finally recorded it, we weren’t even actively playing those songs anymore, and we were unsure whether it made sense to release them at all. In the end, though, we felt it would be a shame to throw it away and not share that part of our lives with the people who experienced it with us back then.
ĎURI: Basically the debut was already taking shape before the pandemic, during our early beginnings. Some lyrics and music were written back when we still weren’t a complete band and were still in school. Over time we cut some songs out completely and stopped playing them. Of course, we recorded the album pretty late. During the pandemic, Črepiny slowly started to take shape.
DANO: During COVID we mostly stayed hidden away in the rehearsal room, spending every Friday there with friends and beers. Of course sometimes we were going pretty crazy :D, but I actually remember that period fondly.
5. For some reason, I associate the Oi! style with glorifying street violence — am I right, or am I missing something essential? And what about you — what drew you to Oi!?
PALI: It can definitely be seen that way: street violence, beer, football, polished heads… But none of that really interests us. For us, it was always mainly about the authenticity of anger and frustration that we also went through when we were young, and which you can simply feel in street punk. People don’t have to deal with the exact same problems to understand each other. When you want to share something joyful, you naturally go to someone who’s smiling. And it works the same the other way around — when anger is eating you alive and you need to let it out. So for us, Oi! was mainly a release valve, a place where anger could come out unfiltered through music, and probably also the feeling that we weren’t alone in it.
ĎURI: Violence and football were things I never liked. What interested me about Oi! was rather its engagement and the way it pointed to both personal and social problems.
6. Between the first and second album there’s a noticeable shift from Oi punk toward darker post-punk songwriting. How did that happen?
PALI: I’d say it already started taking shape in the early days when Ďuri, Rišo, Vladko and I formed Nazi Tampons. We created a space where we could vent the more playful and cheeky side of ourselves, and because of that Postoi gradually had more room left for inner, personal things. Of course our high school egos and musical abilities at the time also played a role.
ĎURI: Basically, Postoi was our first contact with creating our own music. The debut came together with the skills we had back then. Over time other projects appeared too, and now after all these years we actually know a little bit how to play. I guess that’s it.
DANO: Over the years our views settled down, and musically we simply feel things differently now.
7. And what about Oi! — to what extent is it still relevant, and where can I find it on Črepiny?
PALI: It’s true that many Oi! bands mainly sing about subcultural identity, while our songs are more about the inner experiences of an individual. But the foundation is still there: authenticity of themes, shouting vocals, and the raw sound that holds the whole album together. At the same time, though, we prefer to describe ourselves simply as a post-punk band, mainly because personal content and emotion interest us more than subcultural identity itself.
ĎURI: Pretty much that.
8. Under what conditions and in what state of mind was Črepiny created? What feelings and impressions contributed to the creative mix?
ĎURI: It started coming together around the time we finished our third and current rehearsal space. Right then the lockdown hit. Exhaustion from isolation, the political situation, ideological polarization, but also personal arguments — there was a lot to write about. And as for the mix itself, I always preferred the sound of old English bands over modern production, we just didn’t know how to achieve it. After years we finally figured it out.
9. When did the first chord and lyric of Črepiny emerge, and what did you have to deal with during the writing and recording process?
PALI: The first song that made it onto Črepiny was “Ďalší krok” (2019). The message of the lyrics felt too strong for us to let it disappear on the old album. The biggest stumbling block with both albums was the recording process itself and the endless delays around it. But we learned from that, and since then we’ve also helped several other bands with their recordings.
ĎURI: Recording itself was never really the problem — as sound engineers at Collosseum we had access to professional equipment — but we struggled with the mix and master for a long time. What helped the most was accidentally discovering Tomáš Malý. His first mix for us was Fukoty by Uchafu, then Postoi 2, Nabosoposkle, Astris Lapsus, Pärník, and he just keeps getting better. We’re planning to keep working with him in the future.
10. What gear — instruments, effects, and amps — did you use to achieve the final sound of Črepiny?
ĎURI: Fender Bassbreaker, BOSS CH-1 chorus, a Squier Telecaster, and somebody else’s guitar pick :)
DANO: BOSS DS-1 overdrive (currently replaced by a DIY pedal), EHX Bass Clone chorus, Squier Precision Bass.
PALI: A small Tama jazz drum kit recorded with six microphones (D6, 2x E604, 3x SM57). We recorded everything DIY in the rehearsal room, and we owe the final mix to Tomáš Malý.
11. What reactions have you noticed to Črepiny, and did you manage to gain attention from the post-punk / goth scene?
ĎURI: I honestly don’t really know. Even though we play post-punk, we mostly move around and play shows with DIY hardcore punk bands.
DANO: After shows I mostly encountered positive reactions from people around us, which made me very happy. But our goal was never really to gain attention — we simply play what we ourselves like.
12. Is it possible that you will push the boundaries of the genre further — for example toward death rock, industrial, or metal-punk directions?
PALI: I don’t think we’ll be making any more genre detours. Our framework is more or less set, and I think our sound already has a pretty clear definition.
ĎURI: No. For Postoi, the development will be more in the lyrics. If we want to play a different genre, we’d rather start another band — like we did with Nazi Tampons, or more recently with our debut in the band Pärnik. There I play sax, Pali plays drums. In the future I’m more open to an anarcho-punk or hardcore punk band than to industrial or metal. Probably not that.
13. I’m always happy when I catch an association in music with my favourites Type O Negative — in your case, specifically the bass sound and the lyrics of the song Steny seem to correspond with the song Gravitational Constant from their debut:
“I built myself a nice little cage
With bars of anger and a lock of rage
I can't help asking,
‘Who's got the key?’
When I know damned well it's me”
Is there any overlap, even if unintentional, or am I completely off?
PALI: off
ĎURI: off
DANO: definitely off haha :D
14. In Košice there are also other post-punk / industrial bands like Fara or Standard Society — projects of Feri, who is quite active in the cultural life of the Košice UG scene. Are you connected with this creative circle and their activities, or do you function completely independently?
ĎURI: We know Feri, but he moves more around Tabačka in Košice. We move around the Collosseum rehearsal space. We play there with bands like Nabosoposkle, Uchafu, Nerva, EX Nonconformist, Pipesh… a lot of great musicians. It creates space for mutual help and for forming new bands and projects.
DANO: We function independently.
15. How is it with your position in the scene — do you feel a sense of background or support, either at home or in specific Central European cities and communities?
PALI: Yes, over the years we’ve built a sense of support even outside Košice, in the sense that in several places we are warmly welcomed. In Košice we are more among those who help build that support for others. We give back to the scene what it gave us. At the same time, it’s important to keep boundaries — people quickly get used to things and sometimes start taking scene support for granted, which can later create unnecessary tension.
ĎURI: Collosseum, Hájovňa, Bosorka — I feel at home there, whether we’re playing or just coming to a show. But there are definitely many places where we’re welcomed, both in Slovakia and abroad.
DANO: I basically spend most of my time at Collosseum — in the rehearsal room, downstairs having beers with friends, or at shows. It’s basically a second home.
16. Where will I be able to see you play live in 2026?
DANO: Next up is a tour with our friends Nabosoposkle (Banská Bystrica, Olomouc, Brno, Budapest, Zagreb, Bratislava, Vienna), then a few still-secret festivals, and definitely some home shows as well.
17. What are you listening to, watching, and reading these days?
PALI: From abroad, for example A Culture of Killing or Viagra Boys. From the local scene, I was extremely surprised by the last two shows at Hájovňa: 50m Znak and recently Hory.
ĎURI: Right now I’m listening to the new Eduv Syn album — I haven’t had time to fully go through it yet. I don’t usually read that much, but currently I’m reading Franz Kafka’s The Trial.
DANO: I recently went to a concert in Budapest where S.G.A.T.V played — a perfect egg-punk band, I really enjoyed it. Otherwise it’s pretty random, I like discovering new bands.
18. Is there anyone you would like to read an interview with on JDØS?
ĎURI: Causa Motiva (a new band from our rehearsal space, members of Nervy and Nonconformist — they’ll be playing their first show in a few weeks)
19. Motto or message for the end.
DANO: Support local bands!
ĎURI: Build new spaces and bands! Oi!
PALI: I’ll use this opportunity to promote our next musical project.
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Links:
https://tvoipostoi.bandcamp.com/
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