Anyone who has ever questioned the adage that "Punk's not dead" should be left in no doubt that it is still alive and kicking after the mini festival "Back to the CBGB" at Ikra on Wednesday. The concert, named in homage to the legendary New York punk venue, features seven bands inspired by the anti-mainstream rock of the 1970s.
Headline act, The Lazy Bitches, which combines youthful exuberance with no small measure of experience, faithfully adheres to the loud, simple, two-minute guitar songs that characterize the punk genre.
The group, consisting of Natalya Ivashkevich on vocals and guitar, Sergei Nefedov on drums, Andrei Melikov on bass, and Dmitry Spirin on guitar, started out in 2006 when teenagers Ivashkevich and Nefedov started writing songs in English, inspired by the three-chord power of acts such as The Ramones.
"I listened to punk all through my childhood," said Ivashkevich in an interview this week. "My mother was a punk, and there was no question for me what kind of music to play. Pop and R&B just don't do anything for me." Далее...
