Braty Hadiukiny


Braty Hadiukiny, or simply Hady is a Ukrainian rock band from Lviv, one of the most successful Ukrainian bands of Soviet times. The band's musical style combines different genres such as rock'n'roll, blues, punk, reggae, funk and folk. Ironic song lyrics contain a lot of local vernacularisms, slang and surzhyk. The name translates as "Hadyukin Brothers", where the fictional last name Hadyukin is derived from the word hadyuka, or "viper". The abbreviation literally means "snakes"
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Career

The band was active mainly between 1988 and 1996. Before 1989 they performed together with Sestrychka Vika under the name Sestrychka Vika i Braty Hadiukiny. In their initial years "Hady" participated in a number of concerts in Kyiv and Moscow. After their success at the Chervona Ruta, in the early 1990s the band toured Ukraine and also played concerts in Canada, Belgium, Germany, Slovakia and France. Braty Hadiukiny was also the first Ukrainian underground band to reach prominence in Russia, playing in Moscow with the organizational support of Russian star Alla Pugacheva. After 1992 they co-operated with a number of Ukrainian music artists, including Plach Yeremiyi, Mertvy Piven and Oleksandr Ksenofontov.
In January 2006 they held a big solo concert in Kyiv which was a big event in Ukrainian media space and was visited by a lot of famous people. After the band's leader Serhiy Kuzminskyi died in 2009 a big tribute concert was held in 2011, joined by prominent Ukrainian rock musicians such as Komu Vnyz, Vopli Vidoplyasova, Okean Elzy and others. In 2014 the rest of the band members released a new studio album.

Style

The band's music combines elements of post-punk, rhythm-and-blues, rock'n'roll, reggae and other Western styles with Ukrainian folk elements, such as kolomyika. The texts are written in Galician suburban argot and marked with irony, humour and cynicism. A typical hero of "Hady"'s songs is a moderate ordinary person, so called rahul'. The originality of the band's aesthetics stem from the satirical depiction of human brutality and lack of culture.

Legacy

Significant influence of the band's music on the Ukrainian society is demonstrated by the fact, that expressions from a number of their songs started to be widely used in common speech. For example, the word Bandershtadt, which was used in the name of one of their albums as an ironic name of Lviv has since been used by Leopolitans as a mark of pride for their city, and inspired the name of a musical festival.
Similarly, Braty Hadiukiny's song "Файне місто Тернопіль" became an unofficial hymn of Ternopil and even gave the name to an annual rock festival «Файне місто» - even though the song depicts the life of 17-year old junkie who had recently fled away from his parents, used different types of drugs and slept with an underage girl. In his interview Serhiy Kuzminskyi commented: "If I had known that this would happen, I would have written more decent words. Disgraceful song, I must say…”.
The band's songs are heard in a number of popular Ukrainian TV shows, such as the comedy Dovhonosyky Show, as well as in Mykyta the Fox, the first Ukrainian animated cartoon series, and the ICTV series "Cop from the Past". Hady also became subjects of urban folklore due to their reportedly chaotic lifestyle and drug addiction: the band's late leader Serhiy Kuzminskyi himself acknowledged, that the musicians used to hire an assistant, officially considered a porter, who was actually responsible for the preparation of opiates before concerts. It is also claimed that the drummer of the band Mykhailo Lundin, being in a state of narcotic withdrawal, once blocked the way for border guards by emptying between carloads while on the train Kyiv - Moscow.

Members

Timeline

;Current
  • Ihor Melnychuk — bass, vocals.
  • Pavlo Krakhmal'ov — keyboards, vocals.
  • Henadiy Verbianyi — guitar.
  • Mykhailo Lundin — drums, back vocals
  • Liliya Pavlyk-Kuvaldina — back vocals.
  • Olena Romanovska — back vocals.
  • Andriy Skachko — guitar
  • Anton Buryko — trumpet
  • Volodymyr Pushkar — trombone
  • Nazar Vachevskyi — saxophone
;Past
  • Serhiy Kuzminskyi — vocals, keyboards, lyrics, music
  • Oleksandr Yemets — saxophone, lyrics, music
  • Oleksandr Hamburg — bass, vocals
  • Andriy Partyka — guitar
  • Ernest Khreptyk — guitar
  • Stepan Koval — wind instruments
  • Bohdan Vatashchuk — wind instruments
  • Oleh Kachechka — wind instruments
  • Yuliya Donchenko — back vocals
  • Bohdan Yura — saxophone

Discography

;Studio albums
  • 1989 Vs'o chotko! '
  • 1991 My — khloptsi z Bandershtadtu '
  • 1994 Bulo ne liubyty '
  • 1996 Shchaslyvoyi dorohy (Bye, bye, myla) '
  • 2014 Made in Ukraine
;Live albums
  • 2000 Na!Zhyvo '
  • 2006 Live à Bruxelles
  • 2006 Vrodylo ' 2CD, DVD
;DVD
  • 2011 Ya vernuvsia domiv
;Other
  • 2007 Love Story
  • 2011 Ya vernuvsia domiv ''''

Videography

  • Narkomany na horodi
  • Misyachne syaivo tvoho tila
  • Zviozdochka moya
  • America
  • Vso chotko!
  • Istoriya odniyei kurvy

Awards

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