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I'm an absolute beginner in fiction.
I don't read much fiction generally.
I only read books on specific subjects
scientists might be dealing with
and I also like...
'A Thousand and One Jokes'. I would choose that.
Or that book about machine guns with pictures over there.
When I get my hands on a good book, it is engaging.
I have a friend who passes me some good books,
like "you might like this one..." so I give it a try.
I like reading when I have the time for it.
I used to read more before, now there's a bit less of that.
But yeah, I like reading.
This is very interesting, because this is exactly the place that's somehow linked to us;
we love it here.
We've known each other since childhood. Since we were thirteen, I guess.
I remember the first time I played with Pavel in some beat-up rehearsal room.
Miro, who joined us at last; we've known each other for a long time as well.
He replaced Jakub Joštiak, so he's like the latest addition, but it's interesting.
These were my friends since growing up.
We hung out and of course I've always listened to their music.
I went to their concerts when I could
so it really clicked for me, because it's hard to find a band, to find people you know well and with whom you get along with musically too.
Because we've known each other for so long, we understand each other musically pretty well.
We were The Uniques before and all of a sudden we changed to Nvmeri.
People perceived us as a new band, as something different,
but behind both bands are basically the same people.
So all we see is the result of a change from the outside, but on the inside it's pretty much the same.
The target group for our music could be people like us, maybe.
But it doesn't work like that.
No two people are really the same.
No two people are really the same.
I think it's clear we're kind of introverts.
But whom our music should be addressed to -- I don't know.
But I'm guessing people similar to us.
Maybe everyone who loves what we call 'math pop'...
people who like something more complex in their music...
it's not easy-listening anyway, we are aware of that.
People who like this genre or that kind of complexity.
Pišta is the master-mind behind this, but I have to say that this changed on our latest record.
We started to collaborate more -- me and also Miro.
And we're now searching for a way in how we're gonna be creating a new album together.
e.g. 'Coal Stains' - the song we played today - is more or less Pavel's song
of which I'm very happy with.
Because suddenly there was something new and fresh that kind of helped cure the feeling I had of repeating myself
or doing something similar to something I might have heard from somewhere else.
And I would like us to do more of that.
Also 'Ghost Town', another song from the album, is one of the first songs made by the three of us at once,
without me bringing some pre-made ideas.
The whole thing was written in the practice room.
And that's a big "thumbs up" for me.
I felt like it was two-thirds of the way further; it again made things fresher and more varied.
It still reminds me that the process is what I enjoy the most.
I don't even know where we are headed because for me the actual making of the music is the goal.
Everything else, like marketing, is indeed nice and it's all very necessary,
but by then the most important thing has already happened for me.
So practically the journey, not the destination, is the goal.
Our long term goal is to make music our jobs, so we can dedicate ourselves to it.
But after our last experience, when I found out my favorite bands have day jobs and live just like we do
and have far fewer people at their concerts than us,
I realized what I actually wanted wasn't really what I wanted, but what we have now.
I'm speaking for myself, I don't know what your opinion is, guys.
We are not hopeless dreamers, I can see that from a realistic angle.
But of course we do it because we want to.
We want it to cross the borders, to reach more people,
but it's not why we do it.
The important thing is we feel the purpose in it,
but if it's going to go even farther and if people behind the borders will like it,
it's gonna make us very happy.
Yeah, I agree.
Yeah?
OK then.