The performance of the Zveri group, which was supposed to perform as part of the traditional concert on Palace Square during the days of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, was cancelled. “Chizh & Co” and “Django” will perform instead of “Beasts”, writes fontanka.
Former event organizers reported“romantic rockers, the band Beasts, will be the protagonist of Palace Square.
“We’ve seen more than once how the hall exploded as soon as their soloist Roman took the stage,” the announcement said.
Why was “Monsters” removed?
Konstantin Chebykin, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the city, this week, demanding a ban on the performance of “Monsters” in St. Petersburg prosecutor appealed to Viktor Melnik. According to her, the soloist of the Roman Bilyk group has repeatedly criticized the decision of the Russian authorities to launch a military operation in Ukraine. Chebykin claims he received “numerous messages” from disgruntled Russians after the band’s performance at a free public event became known. In a letter, the deputy said that if the musical group is allowed to perform on Dvortsovaya, it will be perceived as an “insult to all those who risk their lives to ensure the safety of the population of the Russian Federation” (screenshot published earlier by the publication) “Paragraph”).
Yuri Kot, Dean of the Moscow State Institute of Culture, Faculty of Media Communication, said that Roman Zver has “a rich biography of a true representative of the fifth column.” Noting that Bilyk actively supported director Kirill Serebrennikov, especially when the Seventh Studio case was being discussed, he also called the elections in Russia illegitimate and called for a boycott.
“Everyone knows that the leader of the Zveri group, Roma Zver, publicly condemned it on social networks with the launch of the special operation,” Kot said. blogNoting that “Monsters” continue to give concerts in Russian cities.
Talking about the concert at SPIEF, he expressed his surprise, “How can the representatives of the Northern capital government and deputy governor Boris Piotrovsky, who oversee the activities of the Cultural Committee, allow this”, and also noted: after the performance of the Bi-2 group in the Super Cup, “governor Alexander Alexander Nothing else should be expected from Beglov.
The St. Petersburg Cultural Committee told Fontanka that Smolny did not have time to come to an agreement with the artists.
It is noteworthy that Sergei Chigrakov, the leader of Chizh & Co, which will replace Animals, lived for a long time in Kharkov, Ukraine, where he performed as part of the Different People group.
Cancel”Bi-2″
Last year the Bi-2 group was going to give a concert at SPIEF but eventually the performance was canceled at the last minute and then the Chaif group took the stage.
In the spring of 2022, the band refused to perform in Omsk, because a banner with the inscription “Za President” hung on the floor of the Russian flag in the hall. First Deputy Minister for Youth Affairs, Physical Culture and Sports of the Omsk Region, Ivan Kolesnik, said that the night before the concert, the band members hung a banner with a “black mourning veil” and the administration removed the banner. Morning. B2 claimed to have installed a black cabinet around the stage for “visual isolation”. Then the Bi-2 concerts in Kazan, Ufa, Astrakhan, Cheboksary, Tallinn, Perm and Yaroslavl were rescheduled.
On July 9 last year, Bi-2 played in the Russian Super Cup match between Zenit and Spartak, after which the Ministry of Justice asked the Russian Football Union for information about the organizers of the performance. The soloist of the group, Yegor Bortnik (known in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent) soon went abroad. In May 2023 he declarationthis will not go back to russia.
The Justice Department has added Bortnik to its blacklist. pointedHe said he opposes the SVO and “speaks negatively about the Russian Federation, its citizens and officials.”
“B-2” is now on a world tour. Summer concerts are planned in Astana, Limassol, Lisbon, Marbella, Nice, Barcelona and other cities.
Source: Gazeta
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