Ukraine in the membrane

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Teaser for tomorrow's PWC clashes!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4984184.stm

"The festival's name "Sich" harks back to a kind of training camp for Ukrainian Cossacks that was a feature of the late Middle Ages.

The idea is that Ukrainian rock musicians are defending the country's music and culture from Russian pop in the way that Cossacks once defended the Ukrainian steppe from the Ottoman Turks."

Comments

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

What timing! I can't wait to see which side of the barricades juror8 will stand on, rockist Ukrainian or poptimist Russian :)

If anyone wants to hear the song mentioned in the article, drop me a note and I'll YSI you.

i vote for H OF STEPPES

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yet russia is also the land of ROCK DINOSAURS!? and "non-formal" alt.rock frozen beneath the tundra -- TUNDIE as it is known in minsk

this is my favourite sentence:

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"Skrypka tried to make it in France as a rock musician in the early 1990s"

Re: this is my favourite sentence:

[(Anonymous)]

"a kind of Ukrainian Bob Geldof, Mick Jagger and Robbie Williams fused into one."

No wonder the French were cold.

Cold Spice

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Tsch, they're as bad as the Serbians.

*shakes collabarateur fist* EMBRACE yr cultural differences ppl! Not "Embrace", obv. That's going a bit too far.

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Togo "to go" tomorrow, amirite?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

*slow applause*

[(Anonymous)]

If it weren't for the Cossacks, I wouldn't exist, as my grandma's family fled the Ukraine to get away from them*, ended up in Chicago where she met fleeing Belarussian and they engendered the man who helped engender me.

(*Probably were fleeing others as well.)

Odessa Spice