Soviet rock comes out
NZPA-Reuter Moscow
A rock festival featuring 25 amateur and professional Soviet groups will be held in Moscow in January, Tass news agency reported. It did not say which bands would take part in the festival, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, but promised it would be the biggest such event in recent years.
The official attitude to rock, once regarded as decadent, has been slowly changing and a number of groups, such as the Lenin-grad-based band. Aquarium, have emerged from underground to almost full acceptance. Moscow’s central exhibition hall, which normally houses displays of Socialist Realist art, was the unlikely venue for a rock and poetry festival
earlier this month. But relations between the establishment and the rock world are still not entirely smooth. Arguments broke out at the exhibition centre between young fans and the older organisers, and at a recent concert in Leningrad, Aquarium refused to play because they said the number of police in the hall made it look "like a barracks”.
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