The biographic information
- · Leonid Soybelman - guitar, vocal
- · Ilja Komarov - bas guitar
- · Vitali Redchits - drums
- · Andrei Kulagin - objects,vocals, euphonium
- · Oleg Davidovitch - trombone, guitar
- · Veeremaa Vadim - brass, backvocal.
There were no changes in the band during all these years, except for participation of keyboard player Avi Nedzvetski in the period within 1989 - 1990.
First performance of their own music the group has given in November 1987 in Tallinn, hence has at once won reputation of a non-standard team.
First festival appearance of Ne Zhdali was held in May 1988 on "Rock-Forum" in Vilnius (Lithuania). Later - performances in Sverdlovsk, Riga, Tobolsk, Kaliningrad, Moscow, Leningrad. Performance at the first "Syrock-festival" in December 1988 Ne Zhdali have received intrigue popularity in the circles of soviet alternative music.
In the
beginning 1989 a sequence of concerts in Moscow, St.Petersburg and Kiev
has been given. Later this year they have presented half-acoustic, half-theatrical,
half-avantguard performance "Poco a poco ma non troppo" after Boris
Polevoi's "Real Man Story" at the Meierhold memorial evening in Jermolova
Theatre in Moscow in March 1989. In May after the invitation of the "Next Stop Soviet" Ne Zhdali go to Denmark. Hence the intensive west-European tour policy had begun. In the end of May 1989 the group played the large festival "Independent artist for South Africa", where such bands as "Djungle", "Zvuki Mu", "Polite Refusal", Fred Frith, "Cassiber", and others had appeared.
Since 1989 "Ne Zhdali" ever more play on West, occupying steady positions on alternate scene.
August - October - tour in Holland, Germany, Denmark; shootings documentary film "Ne Zhdali" for Danish TV; participation in concert on the central square of Copenhagen in the telebridge Moscow - Copenhagen.
The end of November - festival of soviet art in Glasgow: where "Ne Zhdali" together with "Collegian Assessor" and "Agate Christie" represented soviet fate - culture. Concert in London, record of radiosession "Sevooborot" on "BBC". December - concerts & festivals in Holland and record of an album "Rhinoceroses and other forms of life" in studio ADM in Amsterdam.
May
- June - release of LP "Rhinoceroses and other forms of life" in
Holland label SEMAPHORE and subsequent tour on Holland, Belgium, Germany,
Switzerland, Yugoslavia. Radiosession on the national Dutch radio. August - took part in a large festival ParkFest in Venlo city (Holland).
Autumn - tour in soviet Baltic.
December - seeming disintegration of group, described by the different editions in connection with departure L.Soybelman in Israel. Farewell concert in Leningrad rock-club and Tallinn, visiting two concerts in Moscow where we could not play.
May - June - big European tour in Germany, Switzerland, France, Austria, Italy and Yugoslavia. Participation in festivals of new and other music. Shootings on TV in Zurich.
February
- March - preparation and record of an album "Muscle Thing" in
Tallinn.
March - July - largest tour (44 gigs) on Europe with concerts in Paris,
Amsterdam, Brussels, Zurich, Geneva, Bologna and etc.
Participation in a festival of new music "BabyLom" in Czechoslovakia.
October - November - tour in France, Austria, Belgium, Holland,
Switzerland, Germany.
January - re-release of an album "Rhinoceroses and other
forms of life" on a compact disc by French label AYAA.
April - May - record of a new album in Tallinn. Performances in Tallinn,
Moscow and St.Peterburg. Record for transfer "Ad Libitum"
in the program "A" on Russian TV.
September tour in Germany, participation in a festival "Transit" in
Kassel.
November-December series of concerts in Switzerland, Holland, Germany
and Austria.
July - participation in one of the most significant festivals "MIMI in St.Martin de la Crau", together with Ornette Coleman, Tenko, Blech. Rehearsals and preliminary records in Geneva. Participation in a festival "Frick Open Air" in Switzerland.
October - November - rehearsal in Lucerne & tour in Germany, Holland and Belgium, record of a new album together with producer of an album Dolf Plandteidt in Amsterdam.
November - December - rehearsal in Lucerne and tour around Switzerland, Austria, Check and Germany.
May - June - 13e Festival Musique Actuelle Victoriaville in Canada, open air festivals in Mainz and Salzwedel, tour in Germany and Austria.
14 August - 2 concerts on Pepsi Sziget '96 festival in Budapest(Hungary).
December - rehearsals in Tallinn
October - Autumn tour in Germany, France & Austria.
April - May -
Spring tour Germany, Check, Holland.Austria. Release of "Pollo d'Oro".
June - Festival in Zagreb,
July - rehearsal in Tallinn,
October - Concert in St.Peterburg with "Auctyon" in DK
Lensoveta.
November - little tour in Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto, Kobe and Osaka). Concerts
in festival (Kobe), in clubs, in record store and even in recording studio.
April - spring tour in Germany, Swiss, France, Belgium and Italy (20 concerts). New design of cover for re-release of "Rhinoceroses and other forms of life" on German label "No Man's Land".
July - rehearsal in Tallinn.