[6] Spitalul de Urgenţă is also the Romanian title of the American television show ER, but band leader Dan Helciug says that the name actually derived from a time they were playing a concert and "all the musicians arrived injured… we looked like a band from a hospital.
"[2] Helciug has now worked with quite a range of musicians and continues to release music in this style under the name Spitalul de Urgenţă more or less regardless of exactly who he is playing with.
He also plays in the more rock oriented band Nod, which he describes as a blend of Rammstein, Depeche Mode and Korn.
[1] Helciug's lyrics often feature a bitter wit that does not lend itself to easy translation,[citation needed] especially because of his tendency to paraphrase (both musically and lyrically) pieces of well known traditional songs.
The album Alcool Rafinat ("Refined Alcohol", 2005) includes a number of covers and parodies including a reworking of the Judas Priest song "Breaking the Law" as "Caut un bou" ("Looking for an Ox"), in which a cow wanders through Bucharest looking for love, and a more straightforward translation of the Tiger Lillies' song "Whore" as "Curva".