Well, it's once again time to play: Name That Tune! No in all seriousness, or silliness, when it comes to true hardcore music fans and musicians, the time has come around for the 2009 version of the Eurovision Song Contest, now in its 54th year.
Now let's go down to ringside here at the WMSC (World Mudslinging Song Contest) to hear he announcer's opening words. "In the right corner representing the host country of Russia, last year's Eurovision winner, we have from Ukraine, Anastasia Prykhodko singing Mamo. Her opponent in the left corner, formerly of Via Gra, Russia's T&A project for the 21st century, we have Svitlana Loboda!"
In all honesty folks, this is really what this whole thing has come down to, for all it's worth. In fact some Russians are fuming that a Ukrainian, would be representing them at this year's ESC and sing not in solely Russian or English for that matter, but heaven forbid, the chorus of her song in Ukrainian using the vocative case, which doesn't exist in the Russian language... You can read about the accusations of vote rigging at The Times Online.
As equally crazy is the fact that Georgia's ESC entry is a flash back to when disco was the craze, with a little bit of a new twist. It is mocking the name of the former Russian President Vladimir Putin, The Times Online reported it here. But just for a good laugh watch its right here for your vomiting pleasure.
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Showing posts with label Svitlana Loboda. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
How "silly servants" are self serving
Well it's been an awful long time since I sat down and have written anything regarding music in Ukraine, but that shouldn't surprise anyone, as not much really changes around here. Sure, Haydamaky were off touring in Europe and are back in Kyiv in the days to come, but have a full line up for the months ahead. Mandry played he Mississauga Convention Centre on the outskirts of what used to be Toronto, near Ukrainian Christmas. I'm pretty certain that Foma played a few seasonal tunes as a few weeks before that he was sitting with us at Kupidon and played a few seasonal pieces.
Mandry and VV were supposed to be playing in a project together with Capartiana called the "Dnipro-on-Thames" has hit a little bit of a set-back from what I hear from good sources, but it the project is going ahead, but on a different time table.
Nevertheless, based on the information I have from various sources, there are many different projects, that even the Minister of Culture, an old acquaintance of mine, is not certain about supporting. However, some the industry insiders have mentioned that the Minister is not averse to receiving nice little amount of cash into his personal pocket, somewhere around 20K USD, for making a personal appearance in the company of certain business interests during the city of Chernivtsi's 600th Anniversary celebrations in October of 2008, however, no one in the media or otherwise can substantiate this as being fact.
Whether this hearsay be true or not, it seems to me that government types in Ukraine don't change even with a so-called new group of people in key positions. Or maybe the old show biz expression "It's not who you know but who you b***!" is more befitting of what I want to share with you next.
It appears that back in December of 2008 a young "pretty boy" singer by the name of Alex Luna, (Alex Tyshchenko brother of Svitlana Loboda, of Russian pop-music fame VIA Gra) managed to get to use the Kyiv City hall premises for a private debut video release called Svet Luny. This did not escape a number of different local media outlets, nor did it escape the attention of Riffmaster who himself still lives in a communal apartment with is wife and young son, so they decided to find out just what it takes to get use of the Hall of Columns as shown in this report on STB.
So it seems that Kyiv's Mayor, so dearly referred to as Lyonya Kosmos by so many in the nation's capital, also isn't sure who gets the right to sing in the Hall of Columns. So there you have it folks, its not who you know... is who you ....But it in the report there is clearly a text with the name of Putin highlighted. So the question remains... Who's city hall is it anyway?
Mandry and VV were supposed to be playing in a project together with Capartiana called the "Dnipro-on-Thames" has hit a little bit of a set-back from what I hear from good sources, but it the project is going ahead, but on a different time table.
Nevertheless, based on the information I have from various sources, there are many different projects, that even the Minister of Culture, an old acquaintance of mine, is not certain about supporting. However, some the industry insiders have mentioned that the Minister is not averse to receiving nice little amount of cash into his personal pocket, somewhere around 20K USD, for making a personal appearance in the company of certain business interests during the city of Chernivtsi's 600th Anniversary celebrations in October of 2008, however, no one in the media or otherwise can substantiate this as being fact.
Whether this hearsay be true or not, it seems to me that government types in Ukraine don't change even with a so-called new group of people in key positions. Or maybe the old show biz expression "It's not who you know but who you b***!" is more befitting of what I want to share with you next.
It appears that back in December of 2008 a young "pretty boy" singer by the name of Alex Luna, (Alex Tyshchenko brother of Svitlana Loboda, of Russian pop-music fame VIA Gra) managed to get to use the Kyiv City hall premises for a private debut video release called Svet Luny. This did not escape a number of different local media outlets, nor did it escape the attention of Riffmaster who himself still lives in a communal apartment with is wife and young son, so they decided to find out just what it takes to get use of the Hall of Columns as shown in this report on STB.
So it seems that Kyiv's Mayor, so dearly referred to as Lyonya Kosmos by so many in the nation's capital, also isn't sure who gets the right to sing in the Hall of Columns. So there you have it folks, its not who you know... is who you ....But it in the report there is clearly a text with the name of Putin highlighted. So the question remains... Who's city hall is it anyway?
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