Femmes Fatales is a pop-rock girl band from Bratislava established in 2007. The band consists of following band members:
- Viktória Kochtová (vocals, electro-acoustic guitar)
- Sandra Tatierska (vocals, keyboards, tambourine)
- Ľubomíra Repková (vocals, bass guitar)
- Miroslava Čechová (solo guitar)
- Marta Hornyak (violin)
- Ivet Mikolaiová (drums)
- ex FF - Miroslava Benka (drums)
Most of the girls already new each other from previous musical cooperation. However, the first steps that led towards Femmes Fatales formation made Mirka and Lubka. They met one day at beer and agreed to set up a guitar duet where they would play their favorite cover songs. So they started to practice on regular basis with the goal to put together a playlist. What would no one guess, they soon moved from cover songs practicing to composing tunes of their own, tunes they really felt from inside. At this time songs like” Hold on!” or “Morning and the bottle” were composed. But something was lacking. Therefore the girls decided to ask the singer Viki whether she would be interested in playing and singing with them. She joined them without any doubt.
As they were used to, Mirka and Lubka decided to pay a visit to a rock pub and get musically inspired by their favorite band. Unexpectedly they met Sandra, the keyboard player. Just a short note about starting a band and she got involved as well. It was the time to come up with a proper band name. So the girls started a campaign with a slogan „we are searching for the band name“. It didn’t take long, just one hint and the name was there- Femmes Fatales.
Now there was only one detail missing, the drums. After short persuasion her yes said also the drummer Mirka Benka. So the band was finally complete. The girls started to work intensively on their own songs and the repertoire kept growing and growing. In 2009 they decided to move ahead and recorded chosen songs in the studio. By the end of the year the first Femmes Fatales demo comes into existence.
After almost 2 years of plying was the band hit by so far the biggest stroke. Mirka Benka, the drummer, decided to terminate her musical career for good. Therefore the girls started to look for a suitable replacement. What seemed impossible in the beginning suddenly changed. Thanks to a short notice on the internet the band stumbled on Ivet Mikolaiová, the future Femmes Fatales engine. As people say, Ivet was at the right time at the right place. And not only her J Few months later came to see the girls’ concert Marta Hornyak, the violin player. Because she liked the band very much, she approached Sandra. They agreed that Marta will come to the following FF rehearsal and together they will try whether also violin could fit into the girls’ rock. And it did!