I‘ve lived my whole life as a punk
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Petr Keřka was born in Teplice on 7 December 1965. He has loved music since his childhood and, following his elder brother‘s example, started playing the bass guitar. His own style was influenced by the then popular punk music style, which had a very strong base in North Bohemia. Following the example of the Teplice punk band FPB, he and a few friends formed their first band called Sklepní krysy, which later morphed into Svaz Áček. He was also one of the early members of the legendary band Už jsme doma, where he played bass guitar from 1985 to 1986, leaving after Miroslav Wanek‘s arrival. Petr Keřka got into trouble with the law several times. His biggest offence occurred in 1982. He spent three months in a detention centre in Litoměřice after an incident when he and his friends wrote several anti-regime and punk signs in Teplice. Compulsory military service did not concern him with the onset of mental problems and he remained free of service. At the end of the 1980s he actively participated in anti-regime protests, first in Prague and then in the environmental protests in Teplice, which heralded the fall of the communist regime. He lived in his house in Písek in 2024.
