He got excited: here was a piece of the past that belonged to very few, and if he unveiled it, it could belong to him as well. At the same time, he was worried: what if Sándor Kiss was mistaken about the band’s name? What if the band was called something completely different? (Now you have to stop it once and for all. Or keep going as you wish, but I’ll start a new chapter then – the Editor). A few weeks later he managed to dredge up one member of The Ceiling Puzzle, who by then was working in England as a restaurant manager.

Name: Gábor Kisfalvi Keller

Current occupation: restaurant manager (London)

Formerly: guitarist-trumpeter of The Ceiling Puzzle

Skype call. I don’t know what the room looks like, I only see pixels.

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B: You were an experimental group, right?

G: Yeah, I guess we were. We fooled around on the stage a lot, and we also put together a pretty good single.

B: Did you split up quickly?

G: We played five or six shows. They were good, I think. But then we split up, everyone went in different directions.

B: What was the reason for splitting up?

G: Karcsi. The singer-guitarist. The band was his, and he badly wanted to express something. We were kind of obstructing his self-expression I guess, even though we were his musicians. He was an asshole, and we got bored, so we quit to form another band. We never quite formed it, then we all went to college. That’s it in short.

B: I heard that you were greatly influenced by Fogtown.

G: Yeah, I heard that too.

B: Did you like them?

G: I haven’t heard a single song from them in my life.

B: So . . .

G: It was Karcsi who got obsessed with them. We spent all our time trying to be like Fogtown. Trouble was, we had no idea what they played. At first I didn’t even believe that the band existed, but then I heard about them from others too. Karcsi worshipped them, but he couldn’t tell us what they were like.

B: Why didn’t you go to one of their shows?

G: We wanted to, but we could never make it to one, no matter how hard we tried. They were totally nuts. Nobody ever knew when and where they would play. So we never saw them.

B: Who were the members?

G: Listen, I don’t know. I don’t think anybody I knew knows, maybe only Karcsi did.

B: And where can I find Karcsi?

G: In the graveyard. His heart stopped in his sleep a few years back. By then they say that he had already gone mad from drinking.

Balázs looked up all the remaining members of The Ceiling Puzzle who were still alive. Two of them didn’t want to talk to him and two of them couldn’t provide any substantial new information. He got hold of their single. It was professionally recorded, but extremely boring material, with remarkably feeble lyrics. Fogtown was brought up again two interviews later.