Monday, 15 August 2016
The Halfway Festival in Poland
Bialystok is a lovely town which has a stunning Opera House. It was in the gardens of this
opera house, in a modern amphitheater (usually used for opera) where we performed on June the 24th this year.
This is the first time Ilya have played live in 13 years! We had a stripped back 4-piece band with Ruth Hammond (Ruth played keys and bv's in the original band during the Virgin days) and Matt Jones who has played drums with us on our last 3 albums.
We had requests from the organisers to play some songs from our debut album, They Died For Beauty. So our songs like Bellissimo, Bliss and They Died For Beauty were re-arranged to replace the string and horn arrangements with vocal harmonies. A challenge that worked - thank god!
We went on stage at 12.30 am and played to a fabulous audience until nearly 2am. By the time we got to the encores we had the entire audience up and dancing and singing along with us.
It was a fabulous 3 days - amazing venue, very well run by the generous and lovely organisers.
We very much hope this is the beginning of Ilya live!
opera house, in a modern amphitheater (usually used for opera) where we performed on June the 24th this year.
This is the first time Ilya have played live in 13 years! We had a stripped back 4-piece band with Ruth Hammond (Ruth played keys and bv's in the original band during the Virgin days) and Matt Jones who has played drums with us on our last 3 albums.
We had requests from the organisers to play some songs from our debut album, They Died For Beauty. So our songs like Bellissimo, Bliss and They Died For Beauty were re-arranged to replace the string and horn arrangements with vocal harmonies. A challenge that worked - thank god!
We went on stage at 12.30 am and played to a fabulous audience until nearly 2am. By the time we got to the encores we had the entire audience up and dancing and singing along with us.
It was a fabulous 3 days - amazing venue, very well run by the generous and lovely organisers.
We very much hope this is the beginning of Ilya live!
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| Photo by M.Heller |
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| Photo by M.Heller |
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| Photo by Cykady.com |
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| Photo by M.Heller |
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| Photo by M.Heller |
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| Photo by M.Heller |
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| Matt chooses drink to compliment auburn beard. |
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| Voluptuous views. |
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| The entrance area of Opera Filharmonia Podlaska. |
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| Refection's in window. |
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| Soundcheck |
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| Ilya were assigned 2 lovely Karolinas to help them. |
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| Lost in translation. |
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| Finding the dressing room could take days! |
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| But once in the dressing room ........ |
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| Almost ready to go on stage at 12.30 am. |
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| A portion of our audience. |
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| The 2 faces of Madame Butterfly |
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