Bart wrote:Hello everybody...
Perhaps a dumb question (but hé, who could "ban" me for asking such question
)...
On the latest info I have it was uncertain where Chris would perform on March 1st. The plan was Kiev, but this could have been replaced with Minsk. Is there anyone who can give me the exact city and venue where he played yesterday? Thanks !
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Hi Bart,
Chris was in Minsk on Friday, February 29, and gave a press conference at the hotel "Minsk." He spoke about all different things including vinyl recordings and the whole concept of special radio and TV programs, magazines dedicated to music which are all but gone now. At one point he ventured into "the real music" made by people from wooden boxes and sang by big choirs like the Russian Army's "Aleksandrov's" choir - 80 people in it....
At another point he promised to play (at the Minsk's gig) a song "dedicated to British soldiers who are fighting in Iraq and who keep on asking themslves 'what are we doing there'", and said that "it's' better to build hospitals and organize the Olympics instead of venturing into global, world politics..."
He pointed out that "had the mp3 existed (was invented) some 20 years ago, we would not have all these great musicians because they would not record on vinyl..."
Chris said that while in Minsk he wrote - on the spot - "a very good", emotional blues for his wife, to express his feeling of yearning to (for) her. For me, he said,
"the song is perfect when I write both: the music and the text at the same time. This way I can remember well and exactly when I wrote (composed) a particular song."
Here's the link to a short video and some written information in Russian, I believe. Anyway, I could read it all right. The difference between the two languages - Russian and Belorussian (the country itself is being called now: Belarus) is not that big.
This page says clearly: "he is to perform on March 1 at he "Sports Palace" in Minsk", so I presume the gig took place there on Saturday, March 1, as planned.
http://naviny.by/rubrics/culture/2008/0 ... _117_1669/
There are also bits of written information about Chris, but it's all in Russian....sorry.
Just "click" on the red links some 10 centimeters under the video to open these text messages.
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Buy the way, a week or so ago, I've asked you in an e-mail whether you would like me to send you a scan of my ticket from Warsaw (Feb. 20), but apparently you didn't get a chance to read the mail (sent to your webmaste's address.)
Take care,
Chris