Goldenvoice Presents
LENINGRAD
Leningrad has a reputation of a non-refusable band, they traditionally play everywhere and for everyone, which, naturally, calls for annoyance and promiscuity accusations. In all fairness, it has to be reminded that all those corporate parties in their quantity were never a sign of greediness, but merely a child of the censorship (because during Luzhkov's mayorship Leningrad concerts were briefly banned, right during the band's golden age).
Besides that, Leningrad works with large concert venues, which are initially created anticipating the certain level of «whateverism». There cannot be unpopular Leningrad, it's a betting pool band, a mass phenomenon to begin with. Shnurov perfectly understands that, and because of it during concerts he insists on all those staged by him applause, sing-alongs and the lights in the audience. Leningrad's success — it is by itself not a compliment or a valuation to him, it is more of an inborn character, without him those songs don't make sense, they were written for and because of him. That's why they are usually listened to until they make you sick.
Goldenvoice Presents
LENINGRAD
Leningrad has a reputation of a non-refusable band, they traditionally play everywhere and for everyone, which, naturally, calls for annoyance and promiscuity accusations. In all fairness, it has to be reminded that all those corporate parties in their quantity were never a sign of greediness, but merely a child of the censorship (because during Luzhkov's mayorship Leningrad concerts were briefly banned, right during the band's golden age).
Besides that, Leningrad works with large concert venues, which are initially created anticipating the certain level of «whateverism». There cannot be unpopular Leningrad, it's a betting pool band, a mass phenomenon to begin with. Shnurov perfectly understands that, and because of it during concerts he insists on all those staged by him applause, sing-alongs and the lights in the audience. Leningrad's success — it is by itself not a compliment or a valuation to him, it is more of an inborn character, without him those songs don't make sense, they were written for and because of him. That's why they are usually listened to until they make you sick.
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