Antonín Mikšík

"It was organised by Janek (Jan Soldán - author of the book). It was the second event. Before that, he had his wedding there and that all happened peacefully. The other one was attended by police cars with cops and dogs. A policeman took me there because he knew I had a camera. I had lots of tapes in my pockets, so I thought it all sucked. He wanted me to pull the film, so I unscrewed it and lit it. Then I was dragged to the car. I asked if I could take a leek or else I could piss myself inside the car. He sent me to the fence. I could see that they had problems with other people, so I disappeared through a hole in the fence and went to the train station. A bunch of people were waiting there for a train, and then they came back with the dogs again. With one buddy of mine, who played in the Obligatory Blind Band, we ran through the meadow into the woods. He was carrying his baritone saxophone on his back, but he could not run fast enough, so he hid it in bushes. We saw them chasing us with their dogs. It was like some stupid Russian film. We ran through the forest through the puddles for them to lose track. When I think about it now, it seems funny. They never got us, but probably discovered and seized the baritone saxophone because we have never found it.”

„Workmen coming back from work would stop by for a beer, so we used to call it Čtverka, meaning the fouth factory hall. As it was aside from the city, cut off the park, it was all quiet and nobody complained. We used to enjoy various music events and so on. That would not be possible in the centre. So we used to hang out there. After I came back from the military service, I used to go there for almost ten years. It was not about getting drunk, but rather having a chat, about music and all. Then we exchanged various samizdat and underground recordings, some materials to signs from VONS, Several sentences and so on. It all happened there.“