Mad Heads XL have spent 12 weeks in the National Airplay FDR Top 40 chart with the song "Zirky znayut" ("Stars know") which the band leader Vadym Krasnooky believes to be the most romantic tune on "Forever" album. Recently the composition received the second breath on air, as the group prepared two remixes. Those were made by a well-known Kyiv's sound producer Victor Strannik, who is hidding behind the letters VS. In his portfolio there are works for Ukrainian top names such as Tartak, Gudimov, Motor'rolla, Scriabin and many other performers. Victor worked with Mad Heads XL as well, providing dance rhythms into half a dozen of their hits, including the most successful songs "A ya na mori" ("I'm at sea") and "Nadiya yea" ("There Is Hope"). And now it's "Zirky... " turn. This time Strannik made 2 versions instead of just one. And not to pick which one is better - it was decided to present both. They definitely vary in mood: the first remix is straight ahead dance, and another - quieter and closer to the lounge. So everyone can choose a track to taste.
Meanwhile, work on the clip to the song "Zirky znayut" is almost finished. Video fantasy by Igor Stekolenko must get to TV next week, which is to be announced further. Although the public has not seen the finished work yet, the band liked to work with Igor so much, that it was decided that he was to direct the next video immediately for the song "Dobre" ("Good"), which cause band's frontman Vadym Krasnooky a trip to Argentina. Sunny images of Buenos Aires is now only awaiting processing, and the finished video can be expected in several months. Some pictures from both video shootings can be viewed in the blog.
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.
