the eXile - bar-dak

Issue #11/92, June 8 - 22, 2000

b a r - d a k


	Here, the Bloodhound Gang wow their fans with a picture depicting homosexuality.

Bloodhound Gang. Tuesday, June 13th. Lidovy Dvorets CSKA (Hockey Arena, Leningradsky Prospekt 39, Metro Aeroport). 19.00

The last time that the Gang came to town, they played at the semi-legendary, semi-alive punk club on the edge of Moscow, U-Too. Now, the Gang has entered the Big Leagues of Russian ahndergrrround youth kultur. These Philly boys just put out a new hit single, and they're nuttier than ever. You can get a free ticket to the concert if you show up to greet them at Sheremetyevo-2 wearing a monkey costume (their plane arrives at 21:35 on June 12th from Copenhagen). This, we shit you not, folks. Now you can expect great big numbers of grungy molodyozh of the slightly Westernized student variety to show up in great numbers, eyes bloodshot from baking out on too much anasha and shitty shake from Krasnodar, and cannonballing it down with 2-liter bottles of Ochakova pivo. No problem. For dyevs, this could be your chance to make groupie history and become a minor legend if you can bang someone from the band, even if it's just the drummer. Guys, this is your opportunity to pretend that you're Bloodhound Gang's art director and you need to do casting for the next video, which the Gang wants to shoot in Moscow. Whatever your reason for showing up, it shouldn't be because you actually like songs like "Bad Touch", "The Ballad of Chasey Lane" or that Burning song... not unless you bought a pirate copy version. Our take on all of this is that the whole rock thing is just a fad. Tix: 150-300R

Susan Vega. Thursday, June 15th. Mirazh. 23.00

You may have thought her name was Luka, that she lived on the second floor, and that she had been abused and molested as a child. You may have even been very excited by the thought of it all. If so, you're a sick fucking maniac. Susan Vega is her name, and thinking-woman's alterno-rock is her game. For awhile in the early 90s, Vega was a femme hero among the mainstream-alternative set for her intelligent, depressing folk rock works. Some were comparing her to the Lou Reed of the "Berlin" album era, while others compared her to a female Leonard Cohen. She also popularized that whole liberal arts college look where you look like a babe because you're actually not trying to look like a babe. Except that she has always been far thinner, and prettier, than the college womyn whose look she appropriated. Her big hit song was "My Name Is Luka", which propelled her Bloodhound-Gang-style into the big halls of the mainstream world, but she also dabbled in some cool-folk-rap stuff that was pretty sweet. It's unlikely that she'll show her snapper to the audience, but that's because Vega isn't that type of girl. This is a rare opportunity to see an act like this in Moscow, but you'll have to scrape up a rare sum of money to pay for it: 1000R.

Krylya Rock Festival. Saturday, June 17th. Tushinsky Airfield (Metro Tushino). 12.00 - 24.00.

Stary Melnik Pivo is putting together this grand festival of prole shite that's bound to result in a grand guignol. An all-day orgy of vomit, rape, fisticuffs, and truncheon-flying arrests. Why's that? Welp, you offer people a day in the sun with their favorite groups at 20R a pop, tons of beer at 20R for a half liter, and you've got problems of the kind you'd only find here in Swingin' Moscow. Groups include Alisa (metal), Akvarium, Krematoriya, ChaiF, Leningrad, Garik "The Suka" Sukachyov and others. A good way to kill the day. And yourself. Tix: 20R

Respublika Beefeater's 3rd Anniversary Bash! June 9th - June 12th. Respublika. 20.00

One of the most successful local dance clubs/tusovki is celebrating their birthday, and you should come to celebrate their contribution to expat debauchery. Known for its slightly more upscale crowd of students and waitresses, popular with Frogs and other expats, Respublika is throwing a 4-day birthday bash with different scenes every night. First night, they have Zhuki, a Russian pop band trying to be Nirvana, takes the stage, with their hit "Batareika". The second night, they're featuring a "Sex With A Jaguar" thing, which promises to fulfill your demented bestiality fantasies... and lots of nasty deep cuts. The next night some b.s. about "X-Treme Sports" show, whatever the fuck that means (probably bungy-jumping or roller skating or whatever undersexed yuppies like to do), and on the last night, there'll be a big lottery prize to win a free banquet at Respublika. Groovy, eh? Tix: 50R

Voodoo Lounge's First Anniversary Party. Friday, June 16th. 20.00

One of Moscow's top meat markets and a pioneer in the whole Latino thing, Voodoo Lounge is celebrating its first anniversary and U oughtta be there to celebrate it with them. It's quite an accomplishment what they did, taking over a failed flathead club called "From Dusk Till Dawn" and transforming it into a sweaty, dyev-packed discotheque. What's the secret? The Cubanos Locos who mix up Moscow's meanest drinks, the funky DJs, local legend Jean-Michel, and yes, dyevs. For the anniversary party, they're throwing a Brazil theme gig, fireworks included. Tix:

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