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.
