The song "A ya na mori" hits the highest position of Ukrainian National Airplay Chart , which means this song currently has more airplays on all Ukrainian radio stations then any other.
Our trumpet player Vadym Nikitan has 2 important news. First is hard to call a pleasant one, he has recently overcome a serious operation and cannot play in the band for the nearest couple of months. That is why on the last few concerts we had other trumpeters to play with us (first Anton Buryko, now Oleksandr Hutz). Meanwhile, Nikitan has a good news, too: he got married last Saturday! Congratulations from the whole band to Vadym and Anna!!!
The song "A ya na mori" may become the biggest of all hits for MAD HEADS XL. At least, where the radio is concerned: the song started in National Airplay Chart 2 weeks ago right at the position 3, and last week it already was #2. Meanwhile, the previous single "Naykrascha Myt" still can be heard on Ukrainian stations quite often, though it recently left airplay top 40 resulting in 13 weeks and #7 highest position.
MAD HEADS XL, Comp Music/EMI record company and the group of companies "Bohemia Service" present a special action: win one of 5 weekly tickets to SZIGET FESTIVAL 2007 . Buy our CD "Naykrascha Myt. The best hits and ballads", or one of the following releases of Comp Music/EMI: The Chemical Brothers «We Are The Night», Recoil «Subhuman», Beastie Boys «The Mix-up», Paradise Lost «In Requiem», Acoustic Alchemy «This Way», The Rolling Stones «Tattoo You» and «Exile on Main Street». Action CDs have stripes with the word "Aktsiya" and the info sheet with all the details on the back.
MAD HEADS XL PERFOMANCE WAS BANNED ON TV IN DONETSK. On 7 July Donetsk region finnished the celebretion of it's 75th anniversary with a big concert on a central square of Donetsk. The show was dominated by Russian performers, there were a few ukrainian singers as well, but only those who sing in Russian language. So it was somewhat strange to see MAD HEADS XL among the others, but when the band sang their songs in Ukrainian the people on the square definitely were not upset. Donetsk inhabitants were glad to greet the musicians and were singing along the words of "Nadiya yea" song, then they meet the powerfull version of the folk song "Dubky" with the cheerful ovation. Meanwhile, local TV channel "Ukraina" was broadcasting the concert with a short delay in time, and perfomance of MAD HEADS XL mysteriously disappeared from the TV version. It looks like the local authorities have a hard case of ukrainophobia hysteria. We already met such attitude before. For instance, we've been hinted that we might be invited to perform on town's celebrations if we prepare the set of songs... in Russian language. The band is very sorry of such state of things, we have a lot of fans in Donbass and we would like to come and play concerts for them much more often.
Our perfomance at TAVRIA GAMES festival is moved from 30 to 29 June. MAD HEADS XL will appeare on stage around 18-00. You can also see our show live on air of M1 TV channel. Meanwhile, on 30 June we will play another show in Kiev, on Kontraktova square.
Since 24 June the long awaited summer song "A YA NA MORI" is available to listen and demand on the most of Ukrainian radio stations. The video for this song is also ready, we will additionally announce when it goes to the TV. The song "A YA NA MORI" is the second single for the forthcoming new album of MAD HEADS XL, planned to be released in Autumn. There are 4 versions of the song prepared for the broadcast. 3 of them have minor differences and are pretty much alike to the live version that you could here at our concerts. The fourth one is very different, it's a disco remix for dance music lovers, produced by Victor Strannik.
"NAYKRASTCHA MYT" first time on air on radio JAM FM (Kyiv 95.6, Donetsk 101.6, Dnipropetrovsk 90.5) in the "OVOCHI-FRUKTY" show, 2 April, at 13-00 and 22-00.
