Yekaterinburg looks like a small European town with its fairylike (for the Russians of course) parks and public gardens, with its streets paved with brick, with Europeans and Americans everywhere, with its friendly-looking chavs (who helped me to get rid off my topographic cretinism). The benches in parks and on bus-stops are sooo comfy that i've even wanted to spend the night out on them.And i have to admit that this is the only city where i could drink beer wandering through the streets without being afraid of our Russian police). The prices for food in restaurants are really reasonable and the prices for Irish/British beers are really wallet-friendly).
The venue is called Teleclub and it lies a bit too far from the city center, practicelly out of the town. It looks like a strange deserted ex-plant building, but when you get into it, you'll see that it's the spitting image of the Arma club (in Moscow).
I can't really remember all the bands we saw there (they were predominantly local). But they were good enough to sustain))
And then The Horrors appeared on the scene. Well, before going there, I thought that their audience should be not older than 15-year-old anorexic teenagers in skinny jeans. But when they released the second shoegaze-post-punk-like album, i've changed my mind) And know i can say that YES, The Horrors make stunning performances, they never turn out potboilers. They really look like devilish creatures, but they turned out to be very friendly and communicative with the fans. So we snapped some pics after the gig.
And of course we've made some videos)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0m5krM9xo (Who Can Say)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXV20_EVwGU (New Ice Age)
