Grouping Leningrad 20 years for joy. Group "Leningrad", a concert as part of the anniversary tour "20 years for joy

Last year we did not manage to get to the Leningrad concert, this year my husband was in a hurry and bought tickets many months before the concert, when the price for them was still the purchase price.

After some time, exactly the same tickets cost three times more.

I have been to a variety of performances, both of ours and of world (real) stars. So I can compare. And for me it was surprising and for the first time, but the concert of the group "Leningrad" really lasted three (!!!) hours. Some who were also at this performance may argue that - less time. But these are only those who did not wait for the real finale. And he was unique.

In fact, the structure of the concert itself was original.

The beginning was promised at 19.00. But, since the screening of the audience was through the metal detector, the "prelude" dragged on for 1 hour. By the time everyone arrived, they sat down. The concert started at exactly 20:00.

Cords immediately marked construction of the concert. There will be three parts, separated by two 10-minute intermissions. Probably for smokers. Or for the less persistent who want to leave early. And yes, after the second intermission, the audience in the stands noticeably decreased. But, it seems to me, they did not go home, but moved to the dance floor.

I will immediately advise that if the concert will take place in large venues such as sports arenas or ice halls, take tickets to dance partner. The people there were just on fire. different ages and statuses. Better than anyone discos. Even in the seated places, people tried to dance. Too bad there wasn't enough room to turn around.

Cords cool leads the concert and communicates with the audience.

His leader is strong.

He managed to squat down the entire fan zone along with the dance partner, and this is not one hundred people (the concert was held at the Ice Palace), who then under his leadership were engaged in "fitness training". Yes, he is in excellent condition. physical form. I took a screenshot from my video. Look at the height of the jump (!).

Were different buns and surprises.

Repertoire. All hits for 20 years. Something less known. And there were a couple of completely new works for me. The fattest hits were performed in the first third of the concert. The second and third parts are less interesting.

Shnurov has two new soloists: white Vasilisa Starshova and dark Florida Chanturia.

The share of the little white fell Louboutins and a couple of songs. She sings, albeit strongly, but with a strange ugly timbre. I did not like. IMHO. It seems that I'm not the only one who thinks so, because 70% of the women's parts are performed by a dark one. Florida Chanturia also has a strong but pleasant voice.

Concert finale. So there were three parts with two ten-minute breaks. Shnurov and "Leningrad" said goodbye to the audience with the song "We are for everything good." A beautiful video sequence with rye ears was shown on the screen.

Time around 23.00. The lights went on and the audience began to disperse. But, since there were sooooo many people, it all went on and on.

And when there were literally 100-150 people left on the site, the Leningrad group, together with Shnurov, suddenly returned.

And with the words: "In such a small, but close company perform more comfortably the concert continued. Unexpected and very nice.

Again the lights went out, the colored spotlights lit up. The Show Must Go On. In general, another 15-20 minutes were additionally presented to us.

I liked the concert. He is very positive. Certainly, mata there were many. But we knew where and why we were going.

I bought these socks as a souvenir.

On November 23, the final concert of the tour "20 Years for Joy" by the group "Leningrad" will take place at the Ice Palace. After a triumphant concert on July 13 at the Otkritie Arena stadium, the group decided to make a New Year's gift to St. Petersburg fans and repeat the anniversary program for an encore.

By its twentieth anniversary, the group has achieved almost total "Leningradization" of society. Sergey Shnurov and his gang set one record after another: in November 2016, a record of attendance was set ice palace in St. Petersburg, more than 15 thousand spectators gathered near the non-standard circular arena. The usual capacity of this site is 12 thousand people. Tour "20 years of joy!" also started in St. Petersburg with a sold-out concert at the SKK, which was attended by more than 20 thousand fans of Shnurov's work. Geography anniversary tour covers not only Russia, but also world capitals: Voronezh, Nizhny Novgorod, Paris , London , Tallinn , Vilnius , Chisinau , Vladivostok , Khabarovsk . The culmination of the anniversary route was a grandiose concert in Moscow on July 13 at the Otkritie Arena stadium, where Shnurov gathered maximum amount spectators, which the stadium can accommodate - 47 thousand people.

Gazeta.ru: “Shnurov was visible to everyone and everywhere: he flew in the air over the stadium on large screens, cursed right in the ear, shouting over the fans, and then forced the fans to curse, shouting over him. And when at the end he dragged on the lyrical “Life is good”, the sweaty hands of the audience raised several thousand luminous gadgets - and it finally became clear how many people once again came to eat what Leningrad feeds them, and how many of them are now from this very very good."

Kommersant newspaper: “The stadium of FC Spartak, packed to capacity, met the fan of St. Petersburg Zenit for the second time - the first was once Mikhail Boyarsky. The artistic director of the Leningrad group, Sergey Vladimirovich Shnurov, brought the show “20 Years of Joy” to the capital. I don’t really believe in the figure stated in the title, among other things, due to the fact that Cord in his “poets” and “musications” always tries to grab the Zeitgeist firebird by its burning tail.

Over the past 20 years, everyone around was decently stormy, but there were also those whom the waves threw only up. Born in the centrifuge of bandit groups, the musical group "Leningrad" at first simply rushed over the history of Russia, then famously recorded it, and finally began to tune it.

If you ever ask me what I did for Russian culture, - says Shnurov, - in a serious way, without jokes, I will say that I returned her passion. That same Dionysian beginning, which we prefer not to see and hush up. Love fever, alcoholic madness, lustful fury I painted in my screaming songs. Those volcanic emotions, without which there is not and never is a complex, spontaneous person.

By the anniversary, "Leningrad" has accumulated an incredible number of hits and finally broke out of the boundaries of any of the genres: its commander Sergei Shnurov hosts a talk show for pensioners and voices a program for children, starts sectors football fans and raises the most conservative corporate parties to their feet.

- "Leningrad" is a group that evokes rather positive feelings. It's like being in a bath. Of course, it is impossible to live at a temperature of plus 120. But you go to the bathhouse, for some reason you need it. "Leningrad" - the same bath. You can't live there, but you have to come in, just to become cleaner. This is purification, catharsis, according to Aristotle.

Be popular - especially on stage - in Rus' for a long time was considered something dubious: behind this there were always either feathers, or a shirt unbuttoned beyond measure, or the utmost primitiveness of music and texts. "Leningrad" is the first group that proved: to please people is not shame, but real happiness. Concluding the tour "20 years of joy!" they will share this happiness on November 23 at the Ice Palace.

By its twentieth anniversary, the group had achieved almost total "Leningradization" of society. Sergey Shnurov and his gang set one record after another: in November 2016, a record attendance was set for the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg, more than 15,000 spectators gathered at the non-standard circular arena. The usual capacity of this site is 12 thousand people.

Tour "20 years of joy!" started in St. Petersburg with a sold-out concert in the SKK, which was attended by more than 20 thousand fans of Shnurov's work. The geography of the anniversary tour covers not only Russia, but also world capitals: Voronezh, Nizhny Novgorod, Paris, London, Tallinn, Vilnius, Chisinau, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk. The culmination of this anniversary route will be a grandiose concert in Moscow on July 13 at the Otkritie Arena stadium: the organizers are waiting for more than 40,000 spectators. And if 20 years ago the group performed in basements, then for one Last year the clip "Exhibit" scored more than 105 million views on You Tube.

“If they ever ask me what I did for Russian culture,” Shnurov says, “in a serious, no joke, I will say that I returned her passion. That same Dionysian beginning, which we prefer not to see and hush up. Love fever, alcoholic madness, lustful fury I painted in my screaming songs. Those volcanic emotions, without which there is and never is a complex, spontaneous person.

By the anniversary, Leningrad had accumulated an incredible number of hits and finally broke out of the boundaries of any of the genres: its commander Sergei Shnurov hosts a talk show for pensioners and voices a program for children, starts football fan sectors and raises the most conservative corporate parties to their feet.

"Leningrad" is a group that evokes rather positive feelings. It's like being in a bath. Of course, it is impossible to live at a temperature of plus 120. But you go to the bathhouse, for some reason you need it. "Leningrad" - the same bath. You can't live there, but you have to come in, just to become cleaner. This is purification, catharsis, according to Aristotle.

Being popular - especially on the stage - in Rus' for a long time was considered something dubious: behind this there were always either feathers, or a shirt unbuttoned beyond measure, or the utmost primitiveness of music and texts. "Leningrad" is the first group that proved: to please people is not shame, but real happiness.

Only two concerts in honor of their 20th anniversary will be given by the Leningrad group in the USA: October 12 in New York and October 15 in San Francisco. Tickets went on sale today.

As Sergei Shnurov once said: “Prejudices are different for everyone, but the dream is one. And it just so happens that she's American." It seems that both Shnur and his fantastic team have all their dreams come true, and the American one even a couple of times. Now the dream will come true for the US public - a long-awaited meeting with a group that has been bringing joy to millions of people around the world for 20 years now. It is no coincidence that the anniversary program that the group is bringing to the States is called “20 Years of Joy. 20 years for Joy". After all, the concerts of Leningrad are pure, uncomplicated happiness on both sides of the stage.

The Leningrad group, led by the intellectual and hooligan Sergei Shnurov, has long outgrown the boundaries of all musical genres and has become cultural phenomenon, about which they write not just critical articles, and integers Scientific research. Guided by the only motto “so as not to be bored”, Shnurov made his way from a punk rocker to a glamorous hooligan and, according to the results of 2016, entered the top three of the Russian Forbes.

Cord's work is a vivid encyclopedia of the era, which contains all the types and plots modern Russia. The musician himself refers "Leningrad" to the old Russian tradition of buffoonery, folk theater when an artist in a fool's cap could cut the truth with impunity.

This year, the "traveling circus", as Sergey Shnurov calls his team, turns 20 years old. Their songs, disassembled into biting quotes, have long gone to the people. And cooperation with leading Russian clip makers has led to the emergence of a clip of mind-blowing clips that are gaining tens of millions of views in record time. Suffice it to recall "Healthy Lifestyle", "Sobchak Points", and the legendary.

Before the concerts in New York and San Francisco, Leningrad will have time to play the anniversary program in all largest cities Russia, the CIS and thoroughly travel around Europe. IN tour schedule groups: Warsaw, Paris, London, Chisinau, Tallinn, Vilnius, Riga, Tel Aviv, Sevastopol, Nice, Limassol, Frankfurt am Main, Dusseldorf, Prague, Berlin, Budapest and many other cities. The concerts of the tour have already been held in numerous cities of Russia, and the biggest concert venues Minsk, St. Petersburg and Moscow could not accommodate everyone, so the concerts in these cities will be repeated.

The American public can be envied, because for the first time she will hear live the main hits of Leningrad in recent years: Monkey and Eagle, Sobchak Points, and she will also be able to appreciate the new vocalists of the group - Vasilisa Starshova and Florida Chanturia.

The anniversary program will include not only new songs full of optimism and subtle irony, but also reckless hits tested by time. So at concerts in New York and San Francisco, in addition to the uninterrupted flurry of songs and the heat of the brass section, one can expect manifestations, as Shnur says, of the eschatological delight of the public.

Tour "20 years of joy!" started in St. Petersburg with a sold-out concert in the SKK, which was attended by more than 20 thousand fans of Shnurov's work. The geography of the anniversary tour covers not only Russia, but also world capitals: Voronezh, Nizhny Novgorod, Paris, London, Tallinn, Vilnius, Chisinau, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk. The culmination of this anniversary route will be a grandiose concert in Moscow on July 13 at the Otkritie Arena stadium: the organizers are waiting for more than 40,000 spectators. And if 20 years ago the group performed in basements, then over the past year, the clip "Exhibit" has gained more than 105 million views on You Tube.