Ukraine hosts international biker music festival

The third annual ‘Musik Bike Ukraine’ festival took place in Uzhgorod (Ukraine) on July 10-13. It was attended by more than 2,000 people, including 580 bikers from Ukraine, Hungary, Russia, Poland, Slovakia, Moldova, Germany, Sweden and other countries. The participants drank 9,500 liters of beer and ate 2,100 kilograms of ‘shashlyk’ during these days.

The festival was supported by the Uzhgorod City Administration. Traditionally, Alexander Sukhanov (nickname Shonya), a member of the ‘Padonki Mira’ motorcycling club was the main organizer of the event. The main sponsors were Internet portals BikersPublic.com and Motonews.ru, a company Tvin, the Ukrainian magazines Bike and Motodrive, an Uzhgorod night club called Viper and Obolon beer. Nonetheless, Padonki Mira was the main driving force behind the festival. Alexei Sidorchik (nickname Ritualshchik) from Moscow and Rodion Radik from Uzhgorod were the masters of ceremonies for all three days.

There was a biker post organized right where Uzhgorod begins. Guests were met by nurses and taken to a kind of treatment room to enjoy an alcohol enema. Afterwards, they would receive a certificate saying that there is no alcohol in their blood.

The following bands played their music: D.V.S. (hard rock, Kiev), Radar (heavy metal, Budapest), Brem Stoker (punk rock, Rovnoye), Korroziya Metalla (trash punk, Moscow), Kommendantsky Chas (hard rock, Moscow), King Size (heavy metal, Lutsk), Kruger (diesel rock, Moscow), Rada (rock, Kiev), Mechanical Poet (progressive, Moscow), Cherny Obelisk (trash heavy, Moscow) and others.

The bikers along with the other guests warmly welcomed some of the stars of rock music, especially D.V.S. with its frontman Sean Carr, who arrived at the festival with his wife Evgenia Tymoshenko. Carr, who is also a profibiker, was so impressed that they played two sets instead of one.

Well, of course, a song ‘Biker’ played by Sheriff (Mikhail Yevteyev) and Kommendantsky Chas was the hit of the festival. During the day, bikers traveled around Transkarpathia and visited an old castle in Mukachevo, a beautiful place 30 km away from Uzhgorod, and swam in the lake in Beregovo 28 km from Uzhgorod.

Padonki arranged a premier their movie called ‘Pineapple Sunrise, or Padonki in the Siam Kingdom,’ which was about the motorcycle club’s winter tour to Thailand. Like all other movies, this one was of great interest for the bikers and other festival goers. Padonki promised a large airing of the film on the internet at BikersPublic.com in September. And finally, its worth mentioning that the portal’s main aim is to develop a bikers’ movie and photo industry.