On 8 November our song "Zirky znayut" ("the stars know") has started on air nationally as a new radio single, from now on this song can be heard and demanded on most of the radio stations all over Ukraine.
Our new video for the song SCREENKA is on the air!!! Cool rocking clip by Victor Skuratovsky will start the broadcast on M1 TV. It can be seen for the first time in "Chipsy-chicksy-lavandos" show on 8 September from 3 to 5 p.m.
Festival SVIRZ-09 that promised to satisfy the aspirations of many music lovers, unfortunately noisily failed. Serious organizational and financial problems have been somehow managed to hide during the first day, but on 1 August in the morning, organizers completely lost control of the situation. Many artists who came to the festival, were not arranged a transfer from Lviv city to Svirz, the hotel accommodation, meals, there was no more talks about any fees, and some (including foreign) artists have been abandoned to their fate without the return tickets home, any support and assistance, even without any explanations. Meanwhile, with no shame, the tickets were still on sale for the audience that was arriving to the festival site. We (MAD HEADS XL) discussed this difficult situation with the leadership of ARTMAX company (which made the technical support for the festival and at that time already suffered significant financial losses) and reached a common agreement that we were not going to throw about 10 000 desperate people adrift. ARTMAX guys left one of the 5 stages, and we agreed on a voluntary basis to give a full performance. This initiative was supported by ZDOB SI ZDUB, ENVER IZMAILOV and other performers. We hope that this improvised concert at least partly compensated for those problems experienced by visitors of the festival.
On July 26 the performance of MAD HEADS XL at the
festival PIDKAMIN - 2009 was announced. Unfortunately, the festival promoters
showed the inability to implement fundamental conditions necessary for the band
to perform. We were put in front of this fact just before entering the stage,
which resulted in a step forced and very unpleasant for us – we had to cancel the
show. We sincerely regret about the incident and apologize to everybody who
waited for our performance at the festival. This was the first time in the
whole band’s history that such situation have happened. We hope that in future the
unfair-dealing of concert organizers will not become a barrier between our
music and those who want to hear.
From now on the song "Zbroya i Kvity" (Guns and Flowers) from
album FOREVER will receive national airplay. It's been chosen as the
next radio single. So now the song got an album version and a radio
version from FDR, both could be heard and demanded on radio stations
all over Ukraine. The album version is also available to listen on our
website, in MUSIC section.
After a few years break we go to Europe again. Attention, POLAND, we are coming! Meet us on 21 June in Warsaw, check the details in concert announcements.
There are rumours about the new "world music" festival, bigger than anything of the genre in Ukraine - SVIRZ'09. We are happy to anounce, that we will participate in this 3-days 5-stages action in the bosom of nature with beatiful scenery. While we are stated in the program as MAD HEADS XL, it is obvious that for the world music festival our new project UkrainSKA perfectly fits, and that's what we are going to perform there. Yet the biggest MAD HEADS XL hits won't be missed either. All the information on the festival.
Recently we are mostly talking of our new project UkrainSKA, but in fact MAD HEADS XL keep rocking as well. A few days ago we've shot a new music video for the song SKREENka from FOREVER album. The video is directed by a well-known Ukrainian clip maker and musician Viktor Skuratovsky, who promises to present his work to the public soon.
15 May in Obolon's Docker Pub we start the test shows with our new program UkrainSKA. Yet you won't miss some of the hottest MAD HEADS XL hits to close up the evening.
UkrainSKA now has a website in the Internet. Like the project itself, the homepage is under constraction, but is already available to visit.
We would like to say many thanks to everybody who participated in thinking of the name for our new project! We received a lot of responses on this subject, and most of them were saying we should keep our "working" name. We have to admit, there were a plenty of alternative propositions, interesting and creative. But in the same time, most of the authors were saying themselves, that the existing version is the best, so now we declare it as final: UkrainSKA.
We are planning to oficially present UkrainSKA project at KRAINA MRIY FESTIVAL in Kyiv on 27 June. But the program could be heard live even earlier, as we are starting the test shows since May in DOCKER PUB and DOCKER'S ABC. We are still going to perfom the usual MAD HEADS XL program as well, so check the concert anouncements carefully to see which one is that.
From now on the song SCREENKA (a slang word which means TV SET) from
album FOREVER will receive national airplay. It's been chosen as the
next radio single. So now the song got an album version and a radio
version from FDR, both could be heard and demanded on radio stations
all over Ukraine. The album version is also available to listen on our
website, in MUSIC section. The previous radio single, the song PROBKY
(TRAFFIC JAM) spent 16 weeks in national top 40 airplay charts, peak
position 11.
On 16 April at 16-00 a web conference with Vadym
Krasnooky will start on the website of public movement NE BUD BAYDUZHYM
(DON'T BE CARELESS). The questions could be already set here.
