Coronavirus destroys best opportunity to enhance Russian culture!
The Russian Ministry of Culture invited Australian super-group
Dustyesky to sing in Red Square for the Immortal Regiment at the Grand Victory Day Parade on May 9. However, the COVID-19 pandemic stopped the event and
Dustyesky's big trip to the Motherland.
Instead, Russian television reporters helped the choir to put a clip together. Filmed on their iPhones in isolation, the group of Aussie men recorded a beautiful yet tragic song about tanks on the battlefield, and a soldier who will not make it home to his family. The Russia Today TV network edited the clip and broadcast it during the Victory Day telecast.
"We are 28 men, middle-aged, very hairy, and we all live outside the tiny little hamlet of Mullumbimby or, as we call it, Mullumgrad. When we decided to form a choir we looked for hairy people, so hairy men, woolly men, men that you could find at the bar late at night."
Comrade Swivel likes to say all the choir members live in shipping containers, work in a typewriter factory, are salmon smokers and make gherkin liqueur.
(Best Youtube Comment:
An entire shipping container for a single comrade? The capitalist excesses of Australia is truly astounding!)
The full story of the group and the sad loss for Russia's culture is now available.
Some of their old stuff...