THE NEW LIVE ALBUM!
The new Ukrainians live album, 'Live in Czeremcha' is out now and orderable 'from all good record shops' (distributed by Proper in the UK) or directly from us via our shop page.
Recorded at the Spotkanie Folkowe Festival, Czeremcha, Poland, this album captures The Ukrainians in raw, punky, Respublika mode! Full-on zizzy guitars are to the fore in many songs, yet there are many moments of heart-rending delicacy. The packaging, too is remarkable - a gatefold, recycled card sleeve with a traditional-style embroidery on the front cover. Wow!
- "...in especially fine form. The set is imbued with a verve and immediacy that energises this near-essential collection..." **** ROCK'N'REEL (Mar/Apr 2008)
- "...a rousing live document, featuring two heroic cover versions. Excellent fun..." ***UNCUT (Mar 2008)
For tracklisting (19 tracks!) see the Live in Czeremcha page of this website.
2008 UKRAINIANS GIGS!
31.05.08
SZCZECIN, POLAND - DNI KULTURY UKRAINSKIEJ (Days of the Ukrainian Culture).
Featuring:
FLIT (UA), MANDRY (UA), THE UKRAINIANS (UK).
Start:
18.00 (concert of The Ukrainians: about 20.00)
Place:
ZAMEK KSIAZAT POMORSKICH, open-air / free entry
21.06.08
WROCLAW, POLAND - WROCK FOR FREEDOM
featuring
bands from Poland and Belarus (KULT, LAO CHE, NRM and other)
Place:
POLA MARSOWE
start:
at 17.00 (concert of The Ukrainians: about 21.00).
open-air/ ticket event
UK TOUR: 25.10.08 to 02.11.08 - DATES TO BE CONFIRMED
Email us at info@the-ukrainians.com and we'll let you know as soon as new dates are confirmed.
YOUTUBE
Take a look at these...
1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFTiTO63Tqg Spotkania Folkowe Festival, Czeremcha, Poland 29.5.05
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA6ATGe7CLY Endorse It In Dorset Festival, England 13.08.2005
3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn8K_VfmJIs Harbourfront Festival, Toronto, Canada 03.09.2005
4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu726gLSZwQ Ashton Ukrainian Club, England, 02.12.2006 - Cherez Richku Cherez Hai
5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L_X8NC8AvA A film made to accompany Batyar (Bigmouth Strikes Again)
6) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAbB8svHfoI A film made to accompany Chlib
7) http://www.youtube.com/ukrainians1993 A number of vintage Ukrainians videos edited by former Ukrainians drummer Dave Lee
8) http://www.youtube.com/user/ukrainianszirka Here you can find a number of videos on our own Ukrainians page
9) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHRw0Z_9_UU Gwint, Bialystok, Poland 16.10.2004
EMAILING LIST
To go on our Ukrainians emailing list Click here now! It's the best way to get up to date information about Ukrainians' tours, CDs and other news...!
CD offers
Please note the following special offers still apply:
1) The studio albums: 'The Ukrainians', 'Vorony', 'Kultura' and 'Respublika' CDs - £30 (GBP 30).
2) The Zirka releases: 'Istoriya - The Best Of', 'Respublika', 'Drink to my Horse - The Ukrainians Live' and 'Anarchy in the UK' (EP) - £25 (GBP 25).
These prices INCLUDE post and packing in the UK. Outside the UK please add £2 for first item plus £1 per extra item. Please make cheques payable to 'Zirka Records' and send to Zirka Records, c/o 66 Victoria Road, Wargrave, Reading RG10 8AE, England.
MySpace
We have started our own site at www.MySpace.co.uk/theukrainians - not a lot there yet, but there will be!
Also visit these three fan sites at: www.MySpace.co.uk/theukrainiansuk, www.MySpace.com/ukraintsi and www.MySpace.com/ukraina
ISTORIYA (THE BEST OF 1991 - 2002)
You can get our 'Istoriya - The Best of The Ukrainians' album either directly from us (see SHOP page) - or you can order it from all good record shops! It has 20 of the band's best tracks taken from it's first twelve years ... to find out more about it click here!
In the April 2004 issue of 'Classic Rock', Istoriya gets a 4/5 star review (the same number of stars as Franz Ferdinand, Bob Dylan and Courney Love! Also great reviews in 'Songlines' (the UK's leading World Music magazine) and fROOTS ("Genuine cultural cavaliers...wonderful and life-enhancing").
UKRAINIANS-RELATED MUSIC
Now available on Aaz Records are albums by The Legendary Len (The Ukrainians' singer/fiddle player) and The Sinister Cleaners (which includes Len, Simon Smith ex Wedding Present, John Parkes and Andrew Middleton of The Tripping Cherubs).
Songs about Love, Dreams & Domestic Appliances is Len's first solo album (all his own original songs, in English) and features guest appearances from fellow Ukrainians Peter Solowka (who provides guitar, mandolin and accordion), Mick West (gtr.), Jim Howe (bs.) and Woody (drums) as well as contributions from former WEDDING PRESENT drummer Simon Smith.
The Sinister Cleaners' Shine is a collection of the group's 1980's Indie guitar songs as they originally appeared on glorious 12" vinyl.
You can hear excerpts from the albums at: www.myspace.com/thelegendarylen , www.myspace.com/thesinistercleaners and www.the-sinister-cleaners.com .
To
get copies of these albums send a cheque for £7.50 / 7.50 GBP (£9 / 9 GBP outside the UK) to: Aaz Records,
66 Victoria Road, Reading, Berkshire RG10 8AE, England. Cheques payable
to 'Aaz Records'
please. For more information - or
to go on the emailing list - write to: legendarylen@yahoo.co.uk
ARE YOU A VIDEO MAKER?
We're always on the lookout for people who may be interested in making videos for us. We have very little money (only debt!) so we could only really pay for the cost of materials and your expenses. No commercial companies need contact us! But, if you're interested and make creative, broadcast quality videos or if you're a budding film/video student genius, please email us!
UKRAINIANS CONQUER THE EAST!
All four of The Ukrainians' studio albums (The Ukrainians, Vorony, Kultura and Respublika) were released by Moscow based Soyuz Records in June 2005. This means that our CDs are now officially available for the first time in Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
In Ukraine our 'Respublika' album has been released on Kyiv-based UMKA records. 'Respublika'. The Ukrainian release does not include the enhanced web-pages, but instead contains two bonus tracks: the two tracks on the 4-track 'Anarchy in the UK' EP which do not appear on the non-Ukrainian releases ('Khay Zhyve'/'God Save The Queen' and 'Anarchy in the UK'/'Anarkhiya' (acoustic). The booklet with the Ukrainian release also contains lyrics to 5 of the songs on the album. For more information go to www.umka.com.ua