A bad deal successTime of publication: 05.05.2006 |
After the gig, everyone greeted Tatu backstage with their second birth
Despite of heavy advertisement, first Tatu gig in Russia grandiosely flopped. Organizers sadly watched ocean of empty spaces in the huge venue and nervously calculated their losses.
Among audience, which bought not so cheap for St. Petersburg tickets from 600 to 1500 roubles (18-45 ?, rem TatySite.net), a former producer of Tatu's, who's considered to be the creator of the duo – Ivan Shapovalov could be spotted. Now, they don't allow him to approach the girls closer than a mile. He watched everything that happened on stage with envy and silence and carried a direct responsibility for the half-empty arena. Those, who bought the tickets, knew beforehand that they were heading for an event of two crap-makers, who had god-knows-how managed to catch Miss Fortuna and international success. Frankly speaking, no one expected anything spectacular at all.
Nevertheless, those – who put their budget at risk, won a real jackpot. The audience was given an almost flawless live gig of world class with wonderful playing of virtuosos, who put everyone in the state of shivering excitement by the light set and a purely positive charge.
It turned out that Tatu are not only Yulia and Lena any longer but a greatly tuned top class band, every member of which was finally granted applauses of gratitude. They are: a guitar player – Troy, bas guitar player – Doman, keyboard player – Sven and, of course, their drummer – Steve. They are all from LA and had previously passed a tough casting to accompany these two mindless pop-birds.
The pop birds – Yulia Volkova and Lena Katina, to our greatest surprise, didn't look as a bad decoration on the tailor made music suit. They even sang live for real during one and a half hour. I wouldn't say that one's fine tuned musical ear got hurt by this singing, though some additional liveliness in walking and the girls themselves, as for instance Shirley Manson, wouldn't have hurt.
Seeing this, you got an urge to give Shapovalov a round and to ask why it hadn't been this way for instance in Riga at Eurovision Song Contest? If they hadn't mumbled ‘Ne Ver, Ne Boisya, Ne Prosi' like two soaked chiken but instead rocked with this kind of drive and flavour as at the gig, then we would have had Gran Prix instead of the consolatory third place, which was given not even because of any quality but because of all international PR.
After the gig, everyone greeted Tatu with their second birth – applauded with joy and predicted a glamorous future this time for real. If it only could…
Artur Gasparyan
MK, Russia
Translation: TatySite.net
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