ABOUT US | Distant Bells - Pink Floyd revival band

The Distant Bells band was founded on 3rd November, 2003 originally as a live band for theatre play called "The Pink Floyd Odyssei" written by Premek Dofek and Karl Carbol. Founding members were: Premek Dofek (g,voc), Ondra Bystry (sax,keyb,g,voc), Honza Vokurka (keyb), Libor Treska (g,voc), Milan Zink (bg), Kuba Sedlak (ds,voc), Iva Macikova (voc). Before the first performance Libor Treska became the sound engineer and his possition was taken by Honza Sysel (g,perc,voc). The first concert was performed on 9 May, 2004 In 7 and half theatre.

We have desperately looked for some new vocalists. On 21 and 22 June, 2004 Marketa Sedlackova singed along with Iva but she left the band after these performances. Special light effects and video projection has been directed by Pavel Drlik. Another important person, Vojta Kala, has helped us as a technician and second sound engineer. Kamil "Kimi" Fedr, talented young photographer, shot many pictures during our shows. Premek together with Honza cut a brand new video projection for our live concerts. In summer 2004 we decided to call our group DISTANT BELLS. In September 2004 the band was finally joined by two vocalists, Katka Hanakova and Lucka Horakova.

2005.. we are preparing acoustic show called The Pink Floyd Unplugged for clubs and smaller stages. Unfortunatelly Iva Macikova, one of our founding members, left the group....:(

Summer 2006. We hace recorded a demo, but unfortunattely it took over one yer to finish mastering. Jana Ondrakova - new vocalist joined the band. We've appered on first vol. of 'Rock Legends Night' in Svatoboj organized by Pavel Lojda, our unplugged concerts in Stara Pekarna club became a tradition. Keyoboard player Honza Vokurka had married and left the band. Our friend Filip Sokol got on for few concerts.

2006/2007: Stable line-up of the band finally? New drummer Vojta Bystry, keyboard player Honza Mendelson and vocalist Nada Sterzelova. Thanks to idea of Pavel Karas we've prepared a show called 'Pink Floyd under the stars' in Observatory in Brno. Concert is accompanied by video projection and light effects. The main merit of good sound belongs to our new sound engineer Martin Stepanek.

2008:We have more and more concerts and we are very glad that you all enjoyed our shows:-). This year final unplugged concert in Stara Pekarna club was such a great evening with our former band members appered on the stage - Libor, Lucka and Honza. Do you enjoyed jazz-like version of Money with brass section?