Boris Grebenshchikov and his supergroup Aquarium will
play Petersburg tonight.
Hot from their Moscow tour, Russia's leading group Aquarium will play their Christmas concert on Tuesday.
During recent years Aquarium's Boris Grebenshchikov, who still closely follows western musical trends, has drifted toward Russian folk. The band's last album, "Navigator," was even criticized for being "too Russian" -- despite strong English involvement.
Slightly different music will be played at the Polygon rock club on Saturday. The all-night "New Year's Eve Ball of Satan" will feature St Petersburg's gloomier and heavier bands such as Bestial Deforms, Front, and Painful Memories. "The name of the event does not mean that Satanic masses or Satanic poems will be performed," says the organizer of the event, Igor Chernomor.
If you survive two exhaustive dance nights at the trendy and alternative Fish Fabrique on Friday and Saturday, you are also welcome to the New Year's Eve Carnival starting at 9 pm on Sunday.
There's no sense in going to the Nora Club - a dance club operated by the popular band Dva Samolyota - before 2 am; the club and the band will be having their own, strictly private New Years' Eve party. But after 2 am the public will be let in.
The TaMtAm Club will also change its usual timetable and celebrate the first day of 1996 with a concert featuring the German-Russian experimental band Sivvi Moss and three "house bands," Markscheider Kunst, Motema Pembe, and the Rainbow Army Band.
And, finally, for those out to rave, the Theater of Young Spectators will offer a New Year's Eve techno dance program "Zero Countdown" featuring the group New Composers German DJs, Magic Marsh and Marc Schneider, plus a dozen local ones.
For the other events' details see Petersburg Gig Guide.