Exactly 33 years after Kyiv gig, band digs up partial recording of Daydream Nation-era show to benefit World Central Kitchen
, Ukraine, one of the last Western acts to play in the then-Soviet city prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the U.S.S.R. Amid the current Russian invasion, the pioneering band has unearthed a partial recording of that Kyiv gig to raise money for humanitarian efforts.
“That SY Kyiv show was life-changing for all musicians that were there,” Hutz said of the April 14, 1989 show in a statement. “These were the new vitamins we needed. I made a decision to experience NY right there… The fact that it wasn’t shut down halfway through like all other punk gigs was the doing of a Ukrainian man named Mikhail Gorbachev, who set up the atmosphere of political ‘springtime’ and a promise of change.
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