The Rolling Stones to heat up capital this summer.
Just days after I wrote about the upcoming George Michael gig, news of a much cooler show came in – The Rolling Stones. It looks like Kyiv’s concert scene is really heating up this summer, and it cannot but please the music loving Kyivans. The Stones will kick off their “A Bigger Band” 2007 summer tour across Europe on June 5 in Werchter, Belgium, and are set to tour more than 20 countries, including the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Hungary and Romania. The Stones will reach Ukraine’s capital July 25 – a day before Mick Jagger’s birthday. The audience will have a great chance to congratulate him personally – or at least by shouting from the crowd. It would be fair to say that The Rolling Stones will be the first artists of such renown to perform in Ukraine – the rockers on pension like Robert Plant, who played in Kyiv in 2003, hardly count. After all, The Stones are absolute rock idols, living legends and symbols of rock-n-roll itself. After more than 40 years the musicians remain at the top of their game, with a gigantic fan base, releasing new albums and remaining fair to their original style. Their latest album, “A Bigger Bang,” which gave name to the tour, proves better than anything else that the guys are more fit than ever. The closest The Rolling Stones have ever come to Kyiv was in 1998, when they performed in Moscow. This summer they will return to Russia, only this time playing in St. Petersburg.
The only thing known so far about the Kyiv concert is that it will take place at Olimpiyskiy stadium. But whatever the price for tickets will be, the stadium will surely be as packed as ever. It’s also easy to predict that this gig will cause as much turmoil as Madonna’s Moscow concert did last September. And I just can’t wait to see it happen.
