Devils from the snuffbox

In the new touring season, many events await us that can be called a good tradition - for example, Depeche performances Mode and Michael Jira with Swans , what can we say about the unchanged Nazareth , Manowar or 30 Seconds to Mars ; And we will not forget the Moscow festivals, which are still hiding their lainaps - “ Ahmad TEA Fest "," Park Live ! ”,“ Subbotnik ”and the picnic“ Poster ”. Promises a touring season and surprises. Further - 10 such surprises selected by the COLTA editors . Ru .

1.

"Strange Games"

January 31, Manifest
February 2, "waiting room"

Pioneers of SKA-Panku and the absurd scenic action from the Leningrad rock club were one of the four groups, the records of which Joanna Stingre secretly took out and published at the collection “ Red Wave ” to introduce the West to the Soviet rock anddegun. Together with the Aquarium, Alice and Kino. “Strange Games” got an unfair fate - their famous album “Look at both” (1988), which even DJ has in the collection Shadow , went to the "melody" after the group after the death of one of the founders of Alexander Davydov broke up into tough post-punk "games" and theatrical-satirical "Avia". It seems that it is impossible to return to the stage after two decades of absence, however, the group of Victor Sologub, Nikolai Gusev and Alexei Rakhov did this. In 2011, Philip Sologub, the son of Basist Viktor Sologub and the nephew of the guitarist Grigory Sologub, who passed away in 2009, joined the 30-year anniversary of the Leningrad Rock Club, and now the group even performs the songs of “strange games”, which in the 1980s sounded only a couple of times. Moreover, one in French. Vinyl reprints of both studio albums of the group-“metamorphosis” and “look at both” come to the first Moscow concert-resort. In fact, the group (devoted-yes) repays debts. All of us and for ourselves.

2.

WAKA FLOCKA FLAME

February 7, "A2" (St. Petersburg)
February 8, "chapters"

MC from Atlanta Waka Flocka Flame was knocked into the stars from the encirclement of the most popular rapper in America Gucci prisons Mane , which is now, perhaps, the most notorious gangster from the Billboard charts. The 27-year-old Waka Flocka , despite the impressive size, abundant tattoos, obscene vocabulary and the image of a dangerous guy, are rather a victim than a bandit. He had problems with cops due to the illegal storage of weapons, which the artist began to wear after they tried to rob him. Space Flocka Flame , in the songs offering “ Fuck ” everything that moves and does not move, is persecuted by personal tragedies. In December 2011, Slim Dunkin, a friend, colleague, co-author, was shot dead in the Atlantan studio. At the very end of 2013, the younger brother of Waka FLOCKA , who barely began his career as a career of the rapper. The Russian fans of TREP , who will gather “dancing the elbows” at the rapper’s concerts, the spiritual experiences of Waka Flocka Flame , I think are indifferent. If only the second time I did not cancel the trip.

3.

Lydia Lanch

February 28, Megapolis

The sex Christmas tree and the punk singer, the Russian edition of the book of whose confessions was removed from the sale of law enforcement agencies, suddenly goes to Moscow to spread its “Retrovirus” . So called a retrospective concert program, a kind of BEST underground diva, where she performs the songs of all her noisy groups - Teenage Jesus and the Jerks , Shotgun Wedding and, of course, a solo period. 54-year-old Lydia Lanch, who had affairs with many prominent men of the 80s (nickname Kayw, Michael Jira, Jim Tyrwell), will be on stage in the company of strong musicians from the New York Andigund who played Swans and Sonic YouTH .

4.

Oval

April 5, "Solyanka"

The intellectual from electronic music Marcus Popp, who rebelled against the sound recording industry and the dudges of the DJs, has somehow trained for the past few years. After a trip to South America paid by the Goethe-Institute, he is already released the second album, recorded together with young South American vocalists. And this is compared to abstract plays woven from sound defects-compared to glitches and click-n-Kats, which Popp personified and promoted in the late 1990s and early 2000s-absolute pop music. His last album, released last year, “ VO A” , which is translated from Portuguese means “I am flying”, contains 18 songs, which, despite openwork and asymmetric electronic substrates, can be called a delight for hearing. Once for Marcus Popp, this was a terrible curse. Something here is unclean. Perhaps his concert will find what the catch is.

5.

Ulver

April 26, Volta Club

The Norwegian group Ulver for the first 15 years did not perform concerts, while accustoming the fans to expect the most incredible from her. So, for example, they released an album on which they recited the verses of William Blake-which somehow does not fit with the image of a metal group called “wolves”. Their last album " Messe I.​ X - VI . X ” is also a twist, which, however, is no longer surprising. Firstly, it is recorded with a symphonic orchestra-that for rock groups now a common place. Secondly, this is the soundtrack to some incomprehensible ritual, what can be said about every Ulver album. Much more intriguing leverk ü hn Symphonic Orchestra , with whom they intend to fulfill this mass in Moscow. Google does not know what kind of orchestra this is named after the composer that did not exist in the real life of Tomas Mann “Doctor Faustus”, who entered into a deal with the devil. Here you have an intrigue.

6.

Aerosmith

May 24, SK "Olympic"
May 27, SKK (St. Petersburg)

One of the records of the rock band from Boston was called “nine lives”: it seems that Stephen Tyler, the American Mik Jagger and Kita Richards, is in one bigborn face-and his famous group, which has been afloat from the 70s, is indeed no less than cats. “Walk This Way” -one of the main hits of the group founded in 1970-first thundered in 1976. During the heyday of MTV He was reactionallyzed by hip-hop frants Run - D . M.​ C.​ Where is Run -DMC and MTV now? And Aerosmith , having survived the next Cambet, gather stadiums again around the world - despite the fact that the last surge of interest in the group was caused by Tyler's participation in the television show “ American IDOL ” and his memoir book, and not the album “ Music from Another Dimension! ” (2012).

7.

Black Sabbath

June 1, SK "Olympic"
June 3, Ice Palace (St. Petersburg)

Another Reyunion, which fell like snow on the head this winter. Maybe other fans of Ozzi Osbourne and Tony Aimmy knew that the moment when they began to perform together again - to come - albeit after 35 years. But after so many unrestrained promises, it was somehow not believed. Moreover, it was not believed that the group that was fundamental for the Hevra-metal genre will appear in Russia-not only with old hits, but also with the new material with an unexpectedly successful album “13”, which turned out to be due to the producer Rick Rubin, or the fact that Ozzi Osborn really sold his soul to the devil.

8.

Tangerine Dream

June 6, Crocus City Hall

The German Cracutian group, founded in 1968 by Edgar Freze, is also genre-forming-its classic records of the seventies serve as textbooks for electronic, New Age and Embimed Muscents and Soundtracs. It is amazing not even that Tangerine Dream still releases five albums a year, and the fact that with this performance they have not yet lost interest in tour. The tour, in which they will come to Russia for the first time, is called farewell. Unfortunately, this is not a Reunion: the group contains neither Conrad Schitzler, Nor Klaus Schulce, nor Johannes Shmeralling, each of which is a character and legend. Their places are occupied by some young women who can play on drums, violins, thermen, percussion and flute. In the center of the scene, furnished with synthesizers, the gray -haired patriarch sits Edgar Freze. Classical S Thangerine Sounted Sound Dream times “ Phaedra ” and “ Rubycon ” should not be expected, arrangements are rethought in the spirit of a restaurant forecast with New Age Stations-and this is truly sad. But this is a farewell tour - you can cry.

9.

Nine Inch Nails

June 13, Ice Palace (St. Petersburg)
June 15, Stadium Live

Trent Rezor was about to finally hang his famous industrial group on a nail, but last year he suddenly changed his mind and took it off , announcing the release of the new album “ Hesitation MARKS ” and the new round in his support, called “ Tension ” . They promise the show non -standard - according to the technocrat and visionary Reznore, so exciting that not even to leave to be touched. He can be believed - the previous tour of the Nin “Lights in the Sky” (2008) has harvested a crop of premiums for multimedia effects. James Cameron in 3D was supposed to shoot him instead of the second part of the Avatar. In a word, an abundance of electrical equipment, light and visual effects is expected. If it is at least half as bright blue as on the recently laid-up-up concert film shot in New York, even frank hateers of the patented furious hysteria of Rezelor must go to it. Blue calms.

10.

Rob Zombies

July 11, Stadium Live
July 12, "A2" (St. Petersburg)

The American musician and film director, inspired singer of Trash culture, can compete with Marilyn Manson for the title of best student Alice Cooper. To say, in fairness, Rob Cummings a little earlier embarked on this path-the art student turned into a zombie in 1985, founding with a comrade White Group Zombie , and since then has not come out of an obvious image. The zombie robes shows the amazing speed of reaction and performance, managing not only to record albums and give concerts, but also to shoot clips for their group and full -length horror, sewing them like a patchwork blanket from the scenes of favorite films of category B. Together with him, former members of the group of Marilyn Manson, drew up for killer maniacs, are on the stage,-the guitarist-virtuosa John 5 and drummer Ginger Fish. However, there are no signs of enmity between the students of Alice Cooper - they even concerts together under the inviting slogan “Gemini Evil”. If the first (the second?) Geminist of Evil to Russia travels regularly, then Rob Zombies with his horror stories has not yet been shown.