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UNICEF «DEFENSE OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS IN THE EAST OF UKRAINE» 

THE UNICEF YOUTH AMBASSADOR OF UKRAINE TARAS TOPOLIA TOOK PART IN THE OPENING OF THE UNICEF PHOTO EXHIBITION «DEFENSE OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS IN THE EAST OF UKRAINE» AT VERKHOVNA RADA OF UKRAINE.

The photo exhibition was organized within The Week of Human Rights in Verkhovna Rada and is a part of the UNICEF events devoted to the 30th anniversary of Convention on the Rights of the Child. As half a million of children in the east of our state face abuse of their rights every day because of combat activity in Donbas.
The head of the UNICEF in Ukraine Lotta Sylwander, the head of the Committee on the issues of human rights, deoccupation and reintegration of temporarily occupied territories Dmytro Lubinets, and the UNICEF youth ambassador of Ukraine and the lead singer of ANTYTILA band Taras Topolia took part in press briefing.

"The children's dreams in the East must come true. Now it is hard to talk about dreams, when hundreds of thousands of children have no opportunity to meet even their basic requirements. Our aim is to draw attention of everybody whom the future of Ukrainian children depends on, to their rights, and to urge on working towards their integral provision no matter how difficult political and military situations in Ukraine are", noted Taras Topolia at the opening.
Within the opening the performance of the Choir of young males under the municipal academic male chapel named by L. Revutskyi in which Taras Topolia used to perform. They sang «Щедрик» a capella.

“ANTYTILA” HAVE GATHERED THE “PALACE OF SPORTS” IN KYIV FOR THE FIRST TIME – TWO SOLD-OUTS AT A RUN

On November 16 and 17, the ANTYTILA band have played two sold out gigs in the Kyiv Palace of Sports within the stadium tour HELLO. Taras Topolia and his team sang their most popular songs together with the audience of many thousands. Those were two days of a real Ukrainian music celebration. The main thing is that ANTYTILA have announced the resumption of their tour – beginning from February 14, 2020, the band is going to cover about 45 cities and towns: from theatres to stadiums, from regional towns to cities of millions of citizens. The gigs are planned notonly in Ukraine, but also in Poland and Czech Republic.

When a real man's word is the law!

Punctuality is an incredibly rare thing for Ukrainian show business as spectators of large concert venues are not often amused with the gig beginning on time, that's why everyone was agreeably surprised when exactly at 7 p.m. the lights went off, and celebrity guests stepped onto the stage with loud applause.

On November 16, Taras invited a Polish rock band CHEMIA to rock up the audience. The day before the gig in Kyiv they have released a song in Ukrainian “Будь собою” (‘Bud soboiu’ / ‘Be yourself’) which was to take the audience by storm.

On November 17, it was MELOVIN who rocked the hot young blood in the Palace of Sports.

Those were documentary home videos on the screens which helped plunge into chronology of the ANTYTILA band’s rise, and made everyone look back nostalgically at their 2008.

It was important for the members of the band to get their way to popularity full of happy and crisis moments across to their fans.

As you look around the hall, you have a subconscious thought: who are they dancing, jumping, and singing to every hit? Mostly, they’re young boys and girls burning with Ukrainian, and it’s important for them to «seize the moment».

Taras’s joy and pride for two full Palaces of Sports have cheered the hall up to maximum.

The invited Choir of young males under the municipal academic male chapel named by L. Revutskyi has become a surprise for everyone. The joint performance of TDME has moved a thousand’s audience to tears.

Every song from the album HELLO is about important things, each of them has a unique background and makes a listener plunge into philosophic thinking of life dancing meanwhile.

The main thing is to be yourself and and have steel inside you! A sincere talk on thick steel, pretty girls, bearing the new life, and how important it is to have trustworthy and loyal partnets by your side – it seems that Taras hasn’t ignored any topic bothering a real Ukrainian talking from the stage.

In the Palace of Sports, patriots from different parts of Ukraine were singing for the peaceful sky which all of us are longing so much having been united by the love to true «nightingale’s» music.

THE ANTYTILA BAND IS «GONNA HAVE A SON»! PREMIERE!

A month before the final gigs of the first part of the Hello tour which are going to take place in the Palace of Sports of the capital citythe ANTYTILA band have presented the new video. This time ANTYTILA have filmed the most romantic song – «Буде син» (‘Gonna Have a Son’ / ‘Bude syn’). It is the fifth track from the «Hello» album having received video support.

The song «Буде син» has become a record holder by the number of playbacks since the LP was released. On ANTYTILA’S YouTube channel it has got more than half a million of views. And the fans have named it «the main soundtrack to the first dance of the married, 2019». During six months ANTYTILA have received a great amount of videos where the married are dancing their first dance exactly to «Буде син». These home videos have inspired ANTYTILA for an idea to the official video being familiar to many people: birth of a new family, procreation, and, of course, cooperation in work and sincere cheerful emotions from the opportunity to be together.

The work «Буде син» is based on two real stories of the Topolia and Shneideris families. It’s the Shneideris family having given their family wine making property and vineyards to film the video. The shooting was taking place at Beikush vinery in Mykolaiv oblast. This was the place where father Yevhen has made up his hobby into the work of life, and made it familiar with his closest people – his beloved woman and his children. It was a small idea which realized into a big dream of a couple in love: a big happy family and a successful business. In the video, Taras Topolia together with his wife, a famous singer Alyosha and two sons, Roman and Mark, have played themselves, shown the story of their relationships, and lifted the veil of their private lives a bit. At the same time with the main plot, the documentary shots of Taras Topolia’s family appear which haven’t been demonstrated before: birth of the first child, the ANTYTILA lead singer’s wedding, narrative of how the sons were growing up, and the ways the married couple spends their free time. It’s worth mentioning that in the video «Буде син» Roman and Mark have had their debut as actors and done well. Before it was a rare thing to observe the whole Topolia celebrity family in media space. 

The members of the ANTYTILA band, Taras Topolia and Serhii Vusyk, have directed the video.

«The song «Буде син» is autobiographical in a way. Our closest relatives and friends know that these were exactly the Carpathians, along with nature, where our relationships with Olena were being born, and, namely, we have almost completed the plan being sung about in the song. We’ve got two sons, and it’s just about the girl we’ll be happy to have, of course. Why is it a story with vineyards? Because we have a good tradition with my wife to sit together with a glass of good dry wine and talk about everything. When I saw these wonderful vineyards, this location, and found out the story of the family growing these grapes, I proposed the ANTYTILA crew to drive there and shoot a good, warm family video of how the whole family is working on their household to create something together. The story has succeeded. The video appeared to result the way we had planned it, and, of course, it didn’t go without true shots from our family archive which make a big deal in this video, too. We have decided to film our children and share family video, because, I’ll say it again, the song is greatly autobiographical. It was easy to work with my sons. They behaved well, supported us, and almost weren’t naughty» – shared his thoughts Taras Topolia.

We remind you that the ANTYTILA band have announced their additional gig in the Palace of Sports of the capital city. The song «Буде син» (‘Gonna Have a Son’ / ‘Bude syn’) along with the other songs from the new album «Hello» and the most powerful hits for 10 years the ANTYTILA band is going to perform two days running.

ANTYTILA – “HELLO” LIVE FULL CONCERT 2019

The first stadium gig of the band! Two hours and a half, around 20 000 people sang together with ANTYTILA at «Lviv Arena». World class technical and stage equipment and hits beloved by millions of people around the world, live sound and sincere words of the lead singer Taras Topolia from the stage. This is how the stadium tour “Hello” began as well as the new sheet in history of the ANTYTILA band.

On May 25, 2017, the band performed the final gig within the tour “Сонце” at the helipad in Kyiv, and starting from that moment the preparation for the tour of a new format and scale began. Almost two years' work of the crew with more than one hundred people, implementation of courageous ideas and direction, contemporary visualization. But there were obstacles, too! The weather forecasts promised us rains, and someone considered that sport and football match on the new pitch cover of the stadium were more important than music. We managed to fix everything, ANTYTILA completed the gig having though accepted the limits according the half of the stadium and minimizing the threats for the pitch cover and the upcoming match of the National team of Ukraine. 

We keep targeting for more! There are 2 days of final gigs in Kyiv ahead. And by then, to plunge into the atmosphere, see the backstage of the band's life, become a part of our team for a while and live it through together with us - we propose you to view full live video from “Lviv Arena”. Feel and watch the HELLO power live. See for yourself, that ANTYTILA are more than just music!

Thanks everyone who spent time with us at the stadiums! You can go through these emotions once again! We invite everyone who hasn't managed to attend us to the final of the first part of the HELLO tour in Kyiv. The turn has come for our native capital city! Exclusively, we are going to bring the stadium stage to the Palace of Sports! And we also prepare surprises.

We are grateful to the whole crew, to our friends, sponsors and partners:

ANTYTILA 

Lead singer, author of lyrics – Taras Topolia 

Bass – Mykhailo Chyrko

Guitar – Dmytro Zholud

Keyboards / arrangement – Serhii Vusyk 

Drums – Dmytro Vodovozov

Music / arrangement – Maksym Syvolap


Co-organizers of the stadium tour: Serhii Vusyk, Olena Dubovytska, Serhii Ivanenko, Sviatoslav Roman, Anna Dolynska

Gig directors: Anna Oboyanska and ANTYTILA

Sound producer - Dmytro Nuzhnyi

Light director - Andrii Popov 

Video Visual - Oleh Kindrativ, Serhii Vusyk, Oleksii Verenchyk

Technical provider - PR Music

Technical management - Vitalii Kovalevskyi

 
Mastering - Dmytro Khomulko «Bobina Records»
Shooting / video edit - PicOi Production

Public engagement - Denys Fediunin

ADDITIONAL GIG IN THE PALACE OF SPORTS

Two days — two massive shows in the Palace of Sports of the capital city. The first stadium tour of ANTYTILA «Hello» 2019 has reached its  turning point. Sixty thousand of fans in four cities of the state, where the tour gigs took place, have already felt what the live sound and energy from ANTYTILA feels like.

They were getting down to the song «Ми», singing «TDME», «Лови момент», «Вірила» and other band's hits by entire stadiums. Now the time has come for the band's native city - Kyiv - to take up the torch. There are two months left till the final gig in the capital city, and all the tickets were sold out for the date planned. In this regard, ANTYTILA announce the additional gig at the same place — in the Palace of Sports, on November 16. You can already buy the tickets in the box offices of the city.

«When we were choosing the date and place of the Kyiv gig within the tour «Hello», we wanted that everyone interested could attend this important event. That's why it's autumn, November, that's why it's the Palace of Sports. 

The only pleasant detail not taken into account — the number of the ones interested. 

Today we take note that yet before the start of wide advertising campaign in the capital city all the tickets to the Palace of Sports have been sold out. That's why we announce the additional gig and open the ticket sales. Now the «Hello» album is going to sound live two days: November, 16, and 17! See you!», Taras Topolia commented.

Two days running the ANTYTILA band are going to present the show lasting two hours and a half having already been appreciated by fans in Lviv, Kharkiv, Poltava, and Odesa. The band is also preparing surprisesfor the gig in Kyiv. What exactly it will be remains a secret by now. But it’s known exactly that there will be an exclusive stage in the shape of semicircle, and the weight of 68 tons, the one specially designed for the tour and used at the stadiums. Extremely modern light and sound remain unchanged.

We remind you, the «Hello» tour is taking place in support of the new album of the same name. The first gig within the tour took place at «Lviv Arena» in Lviv, May 25, also, three other successful gigs took place at the stadiums in Kharkiv, Poltava, and Odesa. Kyiv will be the final city of the tour this year.

BACKSTAGE 1 HELLO TOUR / LIVE САРАФАН

Now the words «сарафан», «океан» and «лаванда» can’t exist separately any more. Pure hedonism and summer mood in the new live-video from the HELLO tour by ANTYTILA band.

Radio airs, preparation, team, backstage... we'regoing to tell more soon. The new video - the same moment we gather 2000 likes! And those leaving the best comments will get our brand merch! Farewell to the summer? No! We say, See you on November 17, in Kyiv, in the Palace of Sports. There are less and less tickets left.

SIX THOUSAND FLASH-LIGHTS / ODESA

Challenging hot weather conditions, a present from the soldiers, six thousand flash-lights at the “Spartak” stadium, and Taras Topolia dressed in vyshyvanka – this is how the “ANTYTILA” band have celebrated the Independence Day. On August, 24, in Odesa, already the fourth gig took place within the successful stadium tour Hello by “ANTYTILA” band, performed across the cities of Ukraine in support of the new album of the same name, says the media office of the band.

In Odesa, it was a special gig, as it fell on a festive day - the Independence Day. The atmosphere at the stadium was respective. A lot of people came to the gig dressed in vyshyvankas and took yellow-and-blue flags with them. It also didn't go without surprises from the band.

Taras Topolia stepped onto a massive stage, five-storeyed house in size, dressed in the designer white vyshyvanka. There was the symbol of life and development embroidered on it - the tree, where the elements symbolized: the roots - the past, the trunk - the present, and the big crown - the future. The fans of "ANTYTILA" from Odesa were happy to hear the song "Завжди моя" ('Zavzhdy moia' / 'Forever mine'), devoted to Ukraine and its defenders.

It's worth to note that the song "Буде син" ('Bude syn' / 'It will be son') from the new album Hello is breaking records in number of views on YouTube official channel of "ANTYTILA" band among the songs not having an official video.

“At first, we were losing our breath from the heat, and then from the love to the people having come. The atmosphere in Odesa was very special. Maybe, it was the festive mood of the Independence Day, or, maybe, Odesa citizens had been waiting for us for long at the stadiums, or maybe, we had missed the drive after Poltava. Or, maybe, everything came together. We remembered how the whole pitch was lifting off to the beat in tandem to the song “Ми”. Nowhere was such a unity”, – Taras Topolia commented.

The “ANTYTILA” band have also received presents from Odesa citizens. The soldiers of the 28th separate mechanized brigade of Odesa named by the Knights of Winter March and the soldiers of the 7th separate signal regiment came to the press conference taking place before the gig.

The soldiers wanted to thank for active support to the soldiers during battling in the east of Ukraine during 5 years and gave a brigade flag as a present together with the commendation for the “ANTYTILA” band.

The stadium tour Hello is going on. On November 17, in the capital city the final gig of the tour is go

HELLO HALFWAY MARK

Mining, scandal with tickets and flash mob from the fans, what the first gigs of the stadium tour Hello by ANTYTILA stayed in memory with.

On June 15, the gig of ANTYTILA took place at the stadium «Vorskla named after O. Butkovskyi» in Poltava. It's the third gig out of five within the stadium tour “Hello”, having happened in support of the new album of the same name. In the West and East almost 50 000 people have already heard and sung «Hello» together with the ANTYTILA band. Odesa and Kyiv are ahead.
The tour «Hello» is remarkable for ANTYTILA and Ukrainian show business as a whole.

In the year 2018, the musicians were not only the first to have announced their stadium tour, they also were the first to have later used extra modern sound and light equipment on their gigs around Ukraine with support of the technical partner PR music. This is exactly the equipment used by the stars worldwide: Daddy Yankee, Tokio Hotel, etc. Everything became possible thanks to the long term preparation and work of a big team counting about 100 people. The members of the team do a great amount of work every day so that modern Ukrainian music sounded powerfully in the five cities planned in the tour.

Let’s sum up what the gigs of ANTYTILA in Lviv, Kharkiv and Poltava stayed in memory with for the audience and organizers… 
Little was said about it, but two first gigs of the Hello tour were close to the edge for different reasons. Thus, in Lviv, after the first stage of the tour promotional campaign, the Federation of Football of Ukraine demanded to reschedule the gig because of worries for possible damage of the new pitch cover of the stadium «Lviv Arena», having been laid before the match of the National team of Ukraine. The representatives of the band have defended the event, though they had to accept the limitations and use just a half of the stadium having moved the stage and minimizing the threats for the pitch cover and the upcoming football match.

And a few days before the gig in Kharkiv the manager of the ANTYTILA band Serhii Vusyk was regularly getting messages about possible mining of the stadium and offers to «get the situation right» for some reward.
Here we should give thanks to the managers as well as the members of MIA and Security Department of Ukraine in Kharkiv who have taken control of this situation. It’s worth mentioning that the preparation and promotional campaign for the Kharkiv gig weren’t stopping even after the imposing the martial law in autumn 2018, though a lot of events have been canceled in Kharkiv after that. 
The preparation of the gig in Poltava also hasn’t avoided a scandal: the former mayor of the town and a potential candidate for deputies Oleksandr Mamai has officially bought 700 tickets from ANTYTILA and started to spread themfor free among the citizens of the town which has interested the media greatly.

But despite all the shades of the preparation process the thing having stayed in memory of the people in Lviv, Kharkiv and Poltava the best was a unique atmosphere of unity which only ANTYTILA are peculiar for. It’s worth mentioning that at these three gigs there were lots of the band’s fans having arrived from different countries: the USA, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Israel, etc.

«We’ve crossed the halfway mark of the tour! To say that we are excited means to say nothing. We’ve expected dozens of thousands of people in Lviv, and this happened. But we exactly weren’t ready for those number of people and courage in Kharkiv and Poltava. Everything having happened to ANTYTILA during last month is some kind of magic. Our fans are gathering from around the world. Could we imagine that they would fly from Austin, Minsk? And to Lviv those would be Switzerland, Canada and Israel. We’rebringing HELLO to Odesa on July 24! It’s gonna be independent, free and hot. And we’re seriously thinking about widening the geographyof the stadium tour», confesses Taras Topolia.

ANTYTILA prepared music surprises for each city. Thus, in Lviv about fifty children have performed with the band on the stage, they have interpreted the song «Лови момент» in gesture language. Also the presentation of the song and video «Symphony» in collaboration with the band Clean Bandit took place in Lviv. The guests from Kharkiv and Poltava have heard Taras Topolia featuring Oleksii Verenchyk from the DETACH band. They have performed the song «Смотри в меня» together. The ANTYTILA fan club members also didn’t trail far behind and greeted ANTYTILA in original way. During the performance of the song «Hello» they have raised hundreds of banners with the name of the song.

In Kharkiv and Poltava the audience have also greeted Taras Topolia’s parents having visited exactly these cities. Due to some conditions of life they rarely visit performances of ANTYTILA. 
What remained unchanged in each city were the music program from ANTYTILA lasting for two hours and a half, the show with graphic and visual effects, and an exclusive semicircle shaped open stage of more than forty metres having been created special for the HELLO tour. The stadium tour «Hello» is going on. The next gig is going to take place on August, 24, in the city of Odesa at the «Spartak» Stadium, and the tour’s going to finish on November, 17, in the Palace of Sports in Kyiv.

ANTYTILA are more than just music!

Антитіла – більше, ніж музика!

ANTYTILA – SYMPHONY / TBRG OPEN X CLEAN BANDIT – OFFICIAL COVER

PREMIERE. ANTYTILA have presented their work in collaboration with a famous British band Clean Bandit.

The video and song created in collaboration with the Grammy owner - the Clean Bandit band. The representatives of the British band contacted ANTYTILA and offered to join the International project within which they had to create their own version of a famous song in Ukrainian. ANTYTILA have accepted, and the two bands have united for a music experiment in Ukraine.

It should be noted that ANTYTILA'S fans were the first to observe the video and song «Symphony» (TBRG Open x Clean Bandit - Official Cover) on May 25, during a massive gig at Lviv Arena having started the stadium tour «Hello» across the cities of Ukraine. Almost 20 000 people having gathered at the stadium appreciated the work with tremendous applause.

The ANTYTILA band have brought national colours with their arrangement having added Ukrainian music instruments and Ukrainian lyrics to the song by Clean Bandit. The experiments in the band's collaboration weren't limited with the music part but can be observed in the video as well. Following the director Eugene's idea ANTYTILA have shot the video about how the shootings of the videos take place. 

«The task we had wasn't simple - to shoot the video on the song «Symphony», the original version of which is a world hit having 800 millions views on YouTube. We had about five ideas from which we've stopped on the most challenging one. Such shooting style is not typical for our show business, it is customery to us to fill the «format», it's about the videos as well. But I have always wanted to show the viewer what the shooting process is like from the director's position, and what an enormous amount of work of the whole team is behind the creation of the final video. I'm sure many people will change their vision of it after watching this video,» - shared his thoughts the director Eugene.

The shooting took place in Kyiv, and the post production was made by the crew of HEADSHOT studio. It's not the first collaboration of ANTYTILA with this crew. It's already made post productions for the videos «Лови момент» and «Hello».

«It was an interesting experience of working with a world level artist for us. There were some kind of difficult details as we're divided by a great distance, and sometimes it was hard to communicate quickly. The main thing is that we've always made all our creative decisions by ourselves, and this time we needed to coordinate everything with our creative partners. But in the end everything was okay. I'm sure that our version of the song will be liked by millions of fans,» - gave his comment the leader of the band Taras Topolia. 

Clean Bandit, a trio of Grace Chatto and two brothers Luke and Jack Patterson, have also told how pleasing it was to collaborate with ANTYTILA band. Speaking of the results of this collaboration Grace Chatto said: "We are glad to work with the ANTYTILA band and find out more about people and places inspiring them to new music experiments. It's an interesting experience for us, and we've been looking forward to the results of our collaboration".

The song Symphony (TBRG Open x Clean Bandit - Official Cover) by ANTYTILA will be possible to hear very soon live during the Hello tour in four cities of Ukraine: June 7, Kharkiv, «Metalist» Stadium, June 15, Poltava, «Vorskla» Stadium, Odesa citizens will hear it on the Independence Day, «Spartak» Stadium, and the capital city with its guests will evaluate the song live on November 17, in the Palace of Sports.

ANTYTILA HAVE GATHERED THEIR FIRST STADIUM!

A popular Ukrainian band ANTYTILA, who have surprised everyone with their choice of the start guest of their tour Hello, on Saturday, May, 25, presented the first live show in the tour, having gathered about 20 000 of fans at Lviv Arena.

The preparation for the stadium tour lasted for two years, as after the final gig of the previous tour "Сонце" ('Sontse' / 'The Sun') the musicians at once started to plan and soon actively implement this idea. Now it's possible to say confidently that they've managed to surprise their fans.

The ‘HELLO’ live show directed by ANTYTILA and Anna Oboyanska is the new format of the band’s gigs having surprised Lviv citizens with massive stage construction, sizes of screens, and number of lighting equipment. What remained unchanged were the songs, quality live sound, the musicians’ energy, and Taras Topolia’s sincere words from the stage.

The band’s fans have received a quality live-show with visual and graphic effects totally plunging into the atmosphere of the songs. Except this, the musicians have led a visual tour through the 10-year-old history of the band. Thanks to the technical partner of the tour, the PR Music Company, ANTYTILA were the first in Ukraine to have presented the most modern sound and light equipment holding the leader position in the world in its segment. 

The musicians have been giving joy to fans with their songs for about two hours and a half presenting the new album HELLO. Except the well known hits TDME, “Вірила” (‘Viryla’ / ‘You to believe’), “Лови момент” (‘Lovy moment’ / ‘Seize the moment’), and LEGO, the band have performed the other songs from the album as well as the hits from the previous ones.

“It is a historical event for us. These are loads of skin crawlings from the stadium choir when together with you, and often instead of you people sing the songs. It is an incredible recognition that for these dozens of thousands of people our music makes sense and has an important position in life. I saw a lot of families with their small children on the stands, I saw children and teens singing the lyrics of all songs. And another half of the gig both the fan zone and stands were madly dancing and jumping. Sometimes I was even worried about the safety”, noticed the band’s leader Taras Topolia.  

The musician has also told that the gig was at risk of failure because of the football match of the National team of Ukraine. 

“There was one detail that the gig at Lviv Arena itself was at risk of failure. We didn’t say anything about it, but somebody supposed that sport and football match on the new pitch cover of the stadium was more important than music. But, fortunately, we managed to fix everything and defend the gig, having though accepted the limits according the half of the stadium and minimizing the threats for the pitch cover and the upcoming match of the National team of Ukraine. Consequently, everything has happened, and we’ve made sure that ANTYTILA are more than just music for thousands of people”, shared his impressions Taras Topolia.