Continuing with the usual…

Stray Fossa: just found out about this Charlottesville, Virginia, band thanks to their song “These Days” which is their latest. And I am glad to have discovered them as this four-piece sound is superb! The band is formed by Nick Evans, Zach Blount, Will Evans and Arielle Korma. Looking forward to more songs by them!

Newmoon: more jangly and reverb music. This time from Antwerp in Belgium. Again this is a totally new band for me, so don’t know their back catalogue. I am just checking their latest track, “Collide Into Me”, which is pretty good. Seems it is the week for brand new bands for me?

Moving Panoramas: this sounds great! And it is also a new band for me. It is not new but my friend David from Madrid shared it on his Facebook and I really enjoyed it! The song is called “Baby Blues” and this is the video for it. I need to find out more about them! Are they still going? I know they hail from Austin and have two albums. This video dates from last November! Their latest work, “In Two” is available on Bandcamp.

The Artisans: wow! another new song by this most wonderful band! A Distant Call” is the song the band is releasing on Monday 12th! And it seems all the proceedings from this song will be donated to Chris Packham, Mark Avery and Ruth Tingay, three environmentalists to fight for wildlife!

Parsnip: ok! not a new band for me now. The last find this week is the new album the amazing Melbourne, Australia, trio is releasing at the end of the month! “When the Tree Bears Fruit” should be a top album, one not to be missed, if I judge it by the two songs we are available to stream on Bandcamp, “Lift Off!” and “Rip it Off”. The album is available on vinyl and CD!

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So cool to have stumbled with another superb Czech band! They are rare, aren’t they? I believe this is the third Czech band I’m featuring on the blog, the shoegazers Moving Holiday!

The band was founded in 1992 by Tomáš Svašek on guitar and vocals, Ondřej Faber on drum and Honza Dědek on bass. They would be joined later on by Vojtěch Probošt on bass and guitar, making Honza turn to second guitar for a brief time and then leaving the band.

According to a small bio I found on the web the band was influenced by early 90s shoegaze bands like Revolver, Ride or Moose. In February 1993 the band played their first gig supporting Tom is my Sugar and after their 2nd live presentation they went to record a cassette single with two tracks on it, “Lilian” and “Feel and Fine”. It was self-released and doesnt’ even have a catalog number.

They played alongside some of the best Czech bands from the period like Ecstasy of Saint Theresa and Sebastians. They even appeared on TV. Is there footage of this appearance? Then Cyril Tůma joined the band to play bass and Vojtěch turned to 2nd guitar on live gigs. Then in September of 1993 they recorded their second tape. It was a demo tape with two songs, “Foam” and “Tears of Your Hate”. With this tape they tried to reach MTV and bigger labels. It seems there was some interest by BMG, but I don’t think nothing ever happened from it. Then in October they supported Slowdive (it was the Moving Holiday’s 7th gig). They were also voted by the Czech music press as the 3rd best band of the year. Then the band split. It says they did just before releasing their first album. So, the question arises, was this album recorded? I would love to hear it!

Today Honza is a famous music journalist who is well remembered in the Czech scene for his work in Rock&Pop magazine. Vojtěch plays these days in the band Sweeper.

Oh! it is worth mentioning too that the band hailed from the capital, from Prague. What other information can we find?

I found on Facebook a 2012 concert listing of a band called Soundust which seems featured at least one member of Moving Holiday. Who might that be?

And that’s really it. Would be great to interview them and find out more. Who remembers them?

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Listen
Moving Holiday – Foam