"Adboryshcha" - a cunningly planned step or just another failure?

Minsk has never seen such "Adboryshcha" before: 10 people in the audience, darkness in the fuggy hall of the "Rocker" bar, horrible sound, bewildered Ales Tabolich as a host of some odd event. And two participants of the contest. PaNaNieba and Pawa. That's all.

Ales Tabolich

"I can tell you for sure - it should not be done like this! Both "Adboryshcha" and "Basovishcha" should be prepared for a half a year!, - outraged Ales Tabolich, who was appointed responsible for the so-called "Adboryshcha" by the Polish side, although the musician had just returned from the fest in Lithuania.

PaNaNieba came onstage first, sang two songs and left. After the long-time tuning of the instruments the musicians of the band Pawa appeared onstage. There were 7 people! They sounded like a real festival, ethno-rock-electronic band. They played 4 songs.

 Pawa musicians

Yuras Pankevich

"I think the problem would have been solved very easily if this festival was prepared by the Belarusians themselves, by Belarus. It would organize the festival if it had taste. No taste, no organization. Therefore, we cannot take offence because we have what we have, and thank God that our neighbours-Poles give us an opportunity to hold such a festival", - musician of the band Yuras Pankevich comments upon the sad "Adboryshcha".

After Pawa, there were no more contenders. The rest three bands simply didn't come. Sonika informed about their absence via the vk social network page, the Russian-speaking bands probably decided not to participate in the Belarusian-language festival. This made the work of the jury easier. This year, the jury was presented by "Basovishcha" organizer Hanna Pyakarskaya with her colleague.

Hanna Pyakarskaya

Hanna Pyakarskaya: Pawa is something new. However, we don't know what the other bands have to offer, we'll see who will win.

Euroradio: They say there are no bands left. How are you going to pick the winner?

Hanna Pyakarskaya: Well, then the two bands that didn't come lost their chance. We have two bands and we'll decide whether Pawa or PaNaNieba win, or maybe we will accept both of them.

Unia

While the winners of the previous "Adboryshcha" - the band called Unia - performed onstage, and the jury was trying to decide who would be the young participant of the fest this year, we talked to Yauhen, who has come to the "Basovishcha" festival together with his friends for 5 years in a row. This year, he is going there as well. However, he does not exclude that the level of the festival will sink even deeper someday and it will be no use to go in the direction of Gródek anymore. Yauhen thinks that the best way out of this situation is to take a time-out:

"Well, this would probably be a good variant. If people took a rest for a year or two, forget it all a little bit, and then to renew everything with new powers, good headliners - it would be good! This is a very interesting variant".

… So, the jury made the decision, and Hanna Pyakarskaya unexpectedly told the following:

 "This "Adboryshcha" was an experiment in a certain sense. We invited 5 bands and wanted to see who indeed had the right to sing at the festival. The bands found out that they would play at the contest only three days ago. 2 bands came here. This means, they have the right to play at "Basovishcha". So, both of them will go there".

You see! It turned out that the bad sound, and absence of at least minimum organization of the contest had been carefully planned before! A sort of a challenge for the contenders! If you manage to perform in the conditions like this - you are ours, you can play at "Basovishcha"! I really want to hope that "Adboryshcha" will not become a rehearsal of this year's "Basovishcha" and will not disappoint the devoted adherents and musicians. 

P.S.: Hanna Paykarskaya also said that Neuro Dubel will sing at "Basovishcha" as well.