Silent at home group biography

The story of the Molchaat Doma group, which puts European clubs on the ears on January 26 on January 25 in the author: Alexander Chernukho. Photo: Maxim Tarnalitsky "My wife just gave birth, and I might at the concert in Vilnius." A few days later, three Belarusian guys will go on a big trip to Europe. From January 30 to March 7, they will play 34 concerts in Poland, Italy, Norway, France, England, Hungary, Croatia and other countries that Belarusians usually visit for tourism purposes.

For the MolChat Doma group, this is a tour right now - the beginning or continuation of the big path. It seems that this is only the beginning. The history of the Belarusian group that sounds in the advertising of Hugo Boss goes to the third European tour and is about to take a huge step beyond the continent, in the Onliner material. It was summer. Egor - sales manager - left the office for a smoke break, and when he returned, he found a bunch of missed people on the phone.

The name was to perform the headliners at the Lithuanian festival for a thousand people instead of the Russian group Ploho, who had problems with visas. The conversation took place at lunch, it was necessary to perform in the evening of the same day. Egor called Roma and Pasha, they immediately agreed to go. I called him and said: “Is there a visa? Are there any rights? Is there a car?

Get ready, we are going to Vilnius, ”Egor recalls. There was only one catch: right at that moment my wife gave birth in the hospital. We were already sitting in the car when they informed me: “I gave birth! This story perfectly describes the performance and selflessness of the musicians who began with the fact that they worked not thanks to, but contrary to. Already now, on the eve of the second European tour and other large -scale events, Yegor Shkutko, Roman Komogorstsev and Pavel Kozlov say that they could not think anything like that, and this whole success that had fallen on their heads is a series of accidents.

But, it seems, they themselves underestimate their hard work and perseverance. We met in college, created a group, one of the participants went away, the second rose in his place near the microphone rack, and then somehow accidentally found a bass player. Since then, the composition has not changed, and the musicians feel like the ultimate like -minded people. But there are things that distinguish MolChat Doma from most local groups: the ability to work hard, not complain about circumstances and draw the necessary conclusions.

You come already tired, play a concert and sometimes get Russian rubles for it. But we never complained and did not think that we were doing something wrong. Release from work - please. Even if they did not let go, it was still possible to leave for the performance. And the questions in the spirit of “I don’t let me go from work” never stood. It was a period of club hodgers, for which the group can maximize the fare and at least somehow work in its name.

Not everything for Molchaat Doma went smoothly: the Russians criticized them for the appearance, the concert could somehow magically coincide with the showcase of the festival “Pain” in the neighboring room. In short, there were enough troubles and difficulties. But at one point, the situation has changed in a radical way. The YouTube algorithm begins to offer “floors” in general, and we get thousands of enthusiastic reviews.

We sit and do not understand what is happening. So the history of the group makes a dashing turn and flies out at full speed to European autobahns - in Swiss squat, in Spanish clubs. And there the audience teaches the words of the songs of the Russian -speaking team and goes crazy at MolChat Doma concerts. Hundreds of visitors, millions of listening to YouTube and the first European tour, in which the musicians played an exciting game “Remember where you were five days ago” the winner Yegor, Roma and Pasha did not try to fight with chronic lack of sleep and other circumstances of irresistible strength.

The devil knows what happened. Probably, there was a permanent movement in the tour and it was difficult for the body to rebuild when the stop occurred, ”says Pasha. We played 33 concerts - we were everywhere and generally did not see a damn thing. In Barcelona, ​​they went to look at Sagrada Snay and spent ten minutes there. I did not want to go at all, and the only thought that I had when I saw this: “Damn, poor foreman ...” - in Switzerland we performed everywhere in squat - this is already talking about the first round of the group.

And we have the middle of the tour: we are tired, I want to wash and sleep normally. Around a bunch of punks who do not think to sleep. They thought to rent a hotel for their money to just relax, and then the organizer says to us: “You will spend the night in my girlfriend in the apartment.” We come to the apartment, we allocate a whole room, go there - and there is nothing in the room, just four walls, a window, a floor lamp and an evil dog.

You go to the toilet and think: "If only this beast cannot be met." Let's go! If you go into the nuances and look for the most unusual interpretations, then you can find such pearls: “Thunderstorm clouds gather over Europe. Society is replete with tension and uncertainty, reminiscent of a stormy, cruel past, which, as we thought, was left behind.Some groups have perfectly caught this mood, anxiety and unrest that fuel their creative potential, since they seek to understand the meaning of madness - such groups as MolChat Doma.

” This is a free translation of the description of the music of the group on one of the many European sites that are now actively trying to enter the team’s work in some appropriate framework. Of course, all this is very far from the true state of affairs, but the musicians admit that they love hoaxes and periodically add a few copyright comments to these legends.

For example, they explain the name of the group with parallels with development in a stone hill - it sounds gloomy for a decent resident of Minsk, but at the same time fun. The Russian language is exotic for them, and when you say that from Belarus, there are even more questions. Shout: “Drink vodka! In general, there were few cities in which it is difficult to stir up people.

Here, for example, is cognition ... We come, and there is nothing at all. There is only an organizer who shows: “Well, here is a scene ... Here is the entrance, tickets you sell yourself.” No equipment, no cashier, no security - only sound engineer and bartender. There have come a lot of people, we start playing - they stand and look. They pat and continue to continue.

We say: "We have the last song." They: “In the sense of the latter? We went to the BIS - and then the dances began, and after the concert people were so grateful that I could not even get into the dressing room. I stand with the glasses of beer near the door, and everyone is taking pictures with me. Approximately at the same moment, when MolChat Doma appeared in the media space, the methodical comparisons of the group’s work with classics began.

All this is directly related to the sound of the group - curtsy towards the Soviet futuristic sound of the mid -eighties.

The musicians do not refuse all these parallels, but they say that they did not set themselves the goal of copying someone. We listen to the music of that era and make the sound that we like and close, but we do not try to copy the eighties. Depeche Mode, Joy Division, “Cinema”, “Technology” ... If we are compared with such a huge number of excellent groups, then we do not look like someone specific.

Fold your hands and do nothing at all? It seems to me that if in the eighties the music was as affordable as now, similar things would talk about the “movie” group, which is similar to The Smiths and The Cure. By the way, the most fun visualization of the work of the group was born precisely in Spain. The local director was inspired by the hit of MolChat Doma to “dance” and made it a VHS mystics-a vampire clip, which in content as far from the text of the song, but adds some additional shade.

In general, this is a worthy fan art from a rather unexpected location. Many groups are faced with it, but usually everything comes down to household issues, demanding wives and other prose of life, which is not so easy to get along with. MolChat Doma in this regard turned out in the best way. If we take a chance and start doing music, then there will be no time to work.

I have two children, a good job - to lose stable earnings was a serious solution. I made a choice, but I did everything consciously and was sure that I could provide my family. There was an opportunity to recover, but if I did it, I would not go to a tour. I did not recover, but now there is no time for this. Now the muscle will shoot! Muzlo really shot. Now the musicians are on the threshold of other fateful events, but more on that later.

Currently, the group does not work out only with the most demanding public - Belarusian. Musicians describe this problem with a prose of life: why organize a loss -making concert in Belarus, if you can go to St. Petersburg, Moscow or Vilnius and gather a good site there? At the same time, there were many events in the biography of MolChat Doma, which temper every self -respecting domestic team and are an adornment of its track record.

For example, once the group did not give a tour for participation in the club hodgepodge in Re: Public: Then the Russians of Ploho and three Belarusian groups should have performed on the site. In general, the first solo concert of MolChat Doma in Minsk will take place after the group returned from the second European round - on April 11 at the Hide club. When you understand that it is very easy to go to Vilnius and gather the darkness of the people there ...

- Yegor argues. People had no interest here, but now they began to notice us, we often appear in the media - against this background, we decided to show who we are and what we can. Moscow, Peter is already reacting to us very well. Now let's see how the Minsk audience will meet. I think everything will be fine in Belarus too. What is happening with the group now resembles a beautiful fairy tale, written by some talented marketer to win the minds and hearts of the gullible public.

But this is not a fairy tale.