Interv iew: Konfl ikt
Our next interview is with
a Slovak punk-rock band
Konflikt. Even if the name
means conflict, the band
itself isn’t conflictive at
all. To this day they have
been on the music scene
for 25 years. They have
had concerts in other
countries aside from Slo-
vakia and Czech republic
like Germany, England
and even in south Amer-
ica. The members of the
band will tell you more
about themselves in the
next few lines.
How did you come up with
the name?
Jury: We‘ve created the
name a long time ago.
We wanted the name to
be something that would
mean the same thing in
every language and it’s
easy to remember, mainly
because we play all around
the world. At first, we
called ourselves ‘’Konflik
A”, but then we got rid of
the “A” because there were
problems with pronounc-
ing it in other countries.
In some cases someone
skipped the “A” and said
“Konflikta” or in another
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case, someone else said
“Konfliktika”. In the end,
we got rid of the “A” and
that’s how we became
Konflikt.
As you’ve already men-
tioned earlier you play all
over the world, what is dif-
ferent from an audience in
those countries?
Jury: It’s different in oth-
er countries aside from
Czechoslovakia, because
in other countries the au-
dience doesn’t understand
what we sing about unless
they translate it. But it’s
nice that everywhere in
any state people still en-
joy our music and they try
to phonetically sing our
songs. They sing along
with us like this even in
Russia, Hungary, Germa-
ny and even in England or
south America where we
have played as well.
How did the collaboration
on a song “Janíčko Janko”
with Arzen started?
Jury: Arzen, they are old
friends. Since Pali and Vic-
tor are from Žilina, we got
to know each other a long
time ago. It was Dušan