Biography
Deverova Chyba, a jazzcore trio, started off in 1997 in Tábor, Czech Republic. From the beginning the line-up is two basses, drums and vocal powered up with Czech lyrics. For the year 1998 violoncellist Ivana joined the band (CD demo Modra Ryma 1998).
They play a mix of different styles: alternative, punk, hardcore whereas the characteristic sound is given by the instruments line-up. In various reviews that were published all over Europe but also in the US they are being compared to bands such as NoMeansNo, Fugazi, Shellac, Unsane but aslo to the fundamental bands of the Czech alternative scene like Dunaj or Už jsme doma.
Deverova Chyba espouses to the DIY scene, thats why the first official record came out on their own label FreeDimension. The latest album Club 59 came out on the allied Prague-based label Silver Rocket.
For all three albums Deverova Chyba was nominated for the award Andel (paradoxicaly the official award of the Czech music academy) in the category alternative… however they never got the award. But in the year 2003 they got the Zluta Ponorka (Yellow Submarine) award given by the music critics together with the bands Sabot, Waawe and Sunshine as the representatives of the so called „Tabor scene“.
Deverova Chyba takes part on various festivals and thank to their wide music style scatter they are big international festivals like Alternativa Praha as well as all kinds of DIY festivals all over Europe. Doing the 11 years of existence they toured western and central Europe (Germany, Austria, Holland, Belgium, England, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Croatia, Poland and Slovakia) together with a personally interconnected band C. All around they toured Europe six times and made their dream come true when opening for NoMeansNo in Strasbourg. Later they opened for NMN again in 2007 in Brno (CZ). Besides NMN they got to play with another big band they appreciate - Girls Against Boys in Prague.
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