On Saturday 17 January our drummer Volodymyr Zyumchenko will change his social status. A bachelor will become a husband. All the band sincerely congratulates Vova and Yulia with this important event in their lives, wishing love and harmony.
In the year that is passing, MAD HEADS XL got a new record of band's own. This time it's about mobile content. Over 50 000 people have placed Ring-back tone of the song "A ya na mori" to their cell phones, as informs our recording and publishing company COMP MUSIC. While there are no ring-back tone charts officially published in Ukraine, it is clear that this song have become one of the biggest national mobile hits of 2008.
The New Year's Eve with MAD HEADS XL. At about 10 in the evening 31 December we will enter the New Year stage at the main square of Ukraine. This show is going to be the last in the current line up. The saxophone player Bogdan Gumenyuk is leaving the band, from now we are going to perform as a quintet.
We are planning to resume our concerts in Kyiv's Docker Pub and Docker's ABC in February 2008.
The most prominent recent news that we have is that on 10 December our bass player Maxim Krasnooky has become a dad - in his young family a boy was born, named Kyrylo. Everybody in the band wishes all the best to the young parents and the newcomer inhabitant of planet Earth!!!
Now about our concert plans: on 27 December we play the last gig in 2008, in traditional for us Kyiv's Docker Pub. This one is also going to be the last in a sequence of succesful, well attended, cheerful and crazy shows that we performed almost every week during 5 years in Docker's family venues. In January 2009 we are not playing in those clubs. The plans are to resume concerts in Docker Pub and Docker's ABC in February.
Meanwhile we are going to check the new places and invite you to join us. The brand new club CHESHIRE CAT is still under construction at the moment, but on 2 and 16 January we gather up there to see how good it is. Then, the young bike rock'n'roll club ROUTE 66 awaits for us and all of our friends on 9 January. And by the end of the month we plan to play clubs in Lutsk and Kostopil.
Mad Heads' XL frontman Vadym Krasnookiy has taken part in a chat conference with the readers of a popular Ukrainian online newspaper "PiK". Replying to the questions asked, Vadym congratulated the Americans with the new President, suggested that people in Kyiv leave metro for bikes in response to the rise in public transport fare and told some interesting things about his personal life. Complete text is available here (Ukrainian only).
It's time for the new radio single! 17 October is the national airplay start for the song "PROBKY" ("traffic jam") from our new album "FOREVER". The previous song "BUVAYE" can still be heard on air, it even holds the 14 position in National rock chart, while it left National airplay top 40 a month ago after spending 22 weeks there with the peak position 9.
Please take notice that our concert in Docker Pub on 10 October will start a little later then usually - 22.30 And the next show in Docker's ABC will be on Saturday, 18 October. From now on we are going to perform in this club on Saturdays.
28 September in Snyatyn, one of the towns that had most suffered of this summer's flood in western Ukraine, the charity concert will happen featuring RUSLANA, DRUGA RIKA, HAYDAMAKY and MAD HEADS XL. While the flood and it's aftermath disappeared from the TV news a while ago, the problems are still there, and the people still need our help. We call you to join the charity program "You are not alone!", which will be summed up on 29 September at 23.00 on 1+1 TV. Sending SMS to number 216 you donate to the flood victims.
4 October we join the social movement "Don't be indifferent!" in action "Mazepa. Made in Ukraine", which will take place in Kyiv's Sport Palace. This sport & music event dedicated to 370 birth and 300 death anniversary of the prominent Ukrainian statesman Ivan Mazepa. The goal of the action is to attract attention to an outstanding figure of the hetman, explore the less known details of the Ukrainian history. The event will start at 13.00 with Ivan Mazepa Cup competition arranged by Karate Federation of Ukraine. The concert will start at 17.30 featuring MAD HEADS XL, TANOK NA MAYDANI CONGO, VOPLI VIDOPLYASOVA. Free entrance.
