Hi-Tech and Rock'n'Roll: a well-known sound engineer and musician Oleg White lost somewhere in Ukraine. We worked with Oleg in recording studio for many years, and recently he joined us as a concert sound engineer. For the last Saturday's concert in Chernivtsi Mr. White choosed to go by his own car, making his way from Kyiv with a help of GPS-navigator. Oleg's plan was to get to the place short before the start of our performance, and he arrived to Chernivtsi in time... only it was "wrong" Chernivtsi. High-Tech devise brought him to the small town by the same name, 200 km away from the city we've been waiting for him. Oleg had no chance to get to the concert in time. Fortunately, MAD HEADS XL show wasn't cancelled, neither it was late. It was saved by Stas Zahonyayev, a guy who had been our FOH engineer before Mr. White and happened to be "on the right time, in the right town".
Recently MAD HEADS XL got into the movie again. The guys played themselves in a film "Seven days before the wedding" (directed by Sergey Lysenko). As it comes from the title, there is a wedding in the end of the film, and the band is performing the song "Dubky" there. The movie is still in the shooting stage, later it can be seen on the leading TV channels of Ukraine and Russia.
Vadym Nikitan is back. Our trumpet player is back after 2 month break, as soon as 7 September in Docker's ABC you can hear the band in the main line up. We are also getting back to work on the new album and we are going to put all efforts to make it possible for you to listen to it still this year.
Earlier anounced for 30 September, the concert in Chernivtsi is moved to 13 October.
Сегодня с утра наш трубач на замене Александр Гудзь оказался в больнице. Так как наш основной трубач Вадим Никитан так же находится на длительном больничном, ми вынуждены отменить наш сегодняшний концерт в Докер пабе. Приносим извинения за возможные неудобства.
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.
