[2] Cited musical influences include the Residents, the Damned, Ebba Grön, Pere Ubu, Uriah Heep, Omega, and the Rock in Opposition movement.

[3][4] Rolling Stone's David Fricke referred to them as "an amazing Czech quintet...that rattled like a combination of Hot Rats-aphonic Frank Zappa and John Zorn's hyperjazz.

Until the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1990, the band was considered illegal by the Communist state and was forced to hold secret concerts and risk arrest if caught.

They played their first of several illegal concerts on a riverboat on 6 July 1985, with the punk bands FPB (which featured Nový on drums and several future members of Už jsme doma) and Plexis.

[1] After a dissolution of the original incarnation in 1986, the group settled as a four-piece, featuring Wanek (bass and vocals), Hanzlík (guitar), Horváth (drums), and Dolanský (saxophone).

The early years of Václav Havel's regime marked a major change for the band in that they were able to not only play concerts legally, but also make a living off their music and thus involve themselves in a wide array of outside projects, including work with theatre groups.

In 1991, Kalousková left (she would later join the all-female group Zuby Nehty), and Wanek had begun playing second guitar and piano during live concerts.

In 1993, Už jsme doma recorded Hollywood, their third album, which began to stray back towards harder-edged rock, while still incorporating progressive compositions.

Relations were short-lived, however, and the group, dissatisfied with BMG's distribution setup, began working with the Czech label Indies Records, whom they have remained with ever since.

They also re-recorded the vocal tracks to Nemilovaný svět in English and released the reworked album on the American label Memphis Records, under the translated name Unloved World.

The opening act of this performance came in the form of a reunion of the Wanek–Dolanský–Hanzlík–Horváth lineup who, calling themselves the UJD Revival Band, played a set of early Už Jsme Doma material while disguised in wigs and sunglasses.

In 1995, American avant-garde collective The Residents picked Už jsme doma as the backing band for a musical play based around their 1990 album, Freak Show.

In 1996, Už jsme doma began working with American label Skoda Records, who issued Hollywood and, later, the rest of their back catalog.

[8][9] It was produced by Dan Rathbun, known for performing with the bands Idiot Flesh and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, as well as production work on punk rock and experimental records.

[10] Už jsme doma began the twentieth century with the release of Patnáct Kapek Vody, a fifteen-track retrospective featuring three songs from each of their five albums.

This left the band without their distinct saxophone sound, and new arrangements of old material used keyboard, guitar lines, and vocal melodies to replace it.

With Rathbun again recording but with production credit going to Wanek, the new material incorporated guest instrumentation and choir vocal layers, including appearances by members of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tin Hat Trio, and Faun Fables.

[12] After briefly questioning the future of the band, Wanek hired all new replacements —Pepa Červinka on bass, Petr Židel on guitar, and Tomáš Paleta on drums.

The first half of this performance was a forty-minute medley of songs from 1985 to 1999, with guest appearances by various former members, including Dolanský, Alice Flesarová (née Kalousková), Závodný, early xylophonist Roman Kolařík, Čejka, Cvach, Hanzlík, and Böhm.