CHVM SK
Chór vážskych muzikantov (CHVM) celebrated forty years on stage last year, and this year their member Ľuboš Dzúrik (whom metal fans and people involved in punk music, electronic music scene and the underground music call “daddy”) received the Award for Contribution to Music. Thanks to the band, Trenčín became the centre of Slovakian alternative scene. They have helped many bands, including Bez ladu a skladu. Their first official concert took place at the first year of the Gympelrock festival in Trenčín. The positive response from the visitors of the concert was not shared by communist officials: they turned off the electricity during the bandʼs concert, and the band was ʻenjoyed similar pleasuresʼ up until 1989. The first years after the collapse of communism, paradoxically, brought about a decline in the bandʼs activity. CHVMʼs second peak years were 2005—2010, when they recorded three albums in a short sequence. They celebrated their 30 years on scene with a joint concert with The Stranglers at Pohoda 2010. The band, which influenced the alternative scene in Slovakia in an extraordinary way, will perform on the stage of the Stromoradie club. The head of the club wrote about this booking: “We love them very much. I still remember the very first meeting at Pohoda 98, where we changed each other’s recordings and listened to them on the way home. Slovak bands must never be missing.”