Recently, ANTYTILA have finished their big all-Ukrainian tour as part of which 45 gigs in 43 towns and cities of Ukraine took place.
Right after coming back from a massive American tour in support of the project “Culture VS War”, ANTYTILA started their much-awaited tour around Ukraine. Most of the towns and cities hadn’t seen the musicians for more than 5 years. The songs from the MLNL album had become a base of the tour program most of which sounded for the fans live for the first time. Favorite hits like “2Step”, “Fortetsia Bakhmut”, “TDME”, “Viryla”, “Lovy moment”, “Liudy yak korabli”, “Molokom”, “Vse krasyvo”, “Buduvudu” as well as the newest ones “Ty same ta” and “Vdoma” were also included in the program.
During more than two months, the band’s team covered 10,000 km and managed to gather more than 50,000 fans at their gigs and other events in their tour. In this time, the premiere of the song “Вдома” (‘Vdoma’ / ‘At Home’) took place claiming the top spot of the summary all-Ukrainian radio chart for 4 weeks already. It was performed live more than 200 times in big cities and small towns of Ukraine!
Beyond the gigs having been planned, the musicians’ schedule included daily nonofficial meetings. The band visited numerous military hospitals and rehabilitation centers with chamber performances and warm talks to support our injured defenders staying there under treatment; shared their experience and advice with the students of Chernivtsi university and youth community of Ternopil; supported the refugees from Mariupol and Zaporizhzhia with their songs; and came to visit the guitarists’ – Dmytro Zholud’s and Mykhailo Chyrko’s – parents in their native Inhulets.
Despite air raids lasting for hours and not making it possible to hold the gigs, there wasn’t a single one cancelled. Moreover, due to high demand and buzz in Dnipro and Pivdennoukrainsk, ANTYTILA played one more additional gig in each of these towns. Another peculiarity of this tour for fans was the contest “Access the backstage”. Due to this initiative, more than 100 lucky ducks got a chance to personally meet the musicians and plunge into backstage atmosphere always being hidden from the audience.
A charity objective is an important component of each ANTYTILA’s gig. The all-Ukrainian tour wasn’t an exception. The auctions from the ANTYTILA Charity Foundation having already become traditional made it possible to raise around ₴2 million in the course of the fall tour. Those funds will go toward boosting the special units of Defense Intelligence of Ukraine operating in the Crimean sector. As for the final Kyiv gig having taken place in the Respublika SEC to mark its third anniversary, most of the musicians’ fees will be given for rehabilitation of the militaries via the Revived Soldiers Ukraine Foundation.
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