Eurovision winners Kalush Orchestra have admitted they really feel a ‘enormous sense of accountability’ over their upcoming performance at the Glastonbury Festival.
Will probably be the primary time the Ukrainian stars have carried out within the UK – and what a primary live performance to kick it off with.
Frontman Oleg Psyuk advised Metro.co.uk: ‘I’m feeling loads of accountability as a result of it’s essential to us to showcase the Ukrainian tradition and simply the sense of accountability is large.’
He added: ‘Our principal objective is to carry out effectively and for everyone to return, ensure you come and hearken to our music and comply with and assist us.’
Oleg additionally urged followers within the UK: ‘Our tradition is, in the mean time, beneath assault [so] if you want to assist, hearken to our work, cultural music, and comply with us.’
Kalush Orchestra are set to carry out on the Reality Stage at Glastonbury within the early hours of Friday morning, between 01:10 and 02:10.
Regardless of the Ukrainian entry profitable Eurovision this 12 months, it’s been introduced that the 2023 contest will not be hosted in their home country, because of the ongoing struggle with Russia.
Oleg admitted he was ‘surprised’ by the decision, including: ‘I’m very dissatisfied as a result of we had hoped to host it in Ukraine.’
Shortly after the competitors, Kalush Orchestra auctioned off their trophy, elevating an enormous $900,000 (£700,000) to assist the Ukrainian military.
Reflecting on the public sale, Oleg mentioned: ‘It’s essential to assist our nation in the mean time.’
Talking concerning the different methods the group has managed to assist the Ukrainian effort, Oleg went on: ‘We assist as a lot as we will. I’ve a volunteering organisation, considered one of my musicians is preventing on the entrance line, and we’re additionally elevating donations and cash from the ticket gross sales and we ship all of it to Ukraine’.
Additionally becoming a member of Kalush Orchestra at Glastonbury are various Ukrainian bands.
Kyiv folks quartet DakhaBrakha will carry out on Sunday afternoon on the Pyramid stage.
In the meantime, Go_A will open the John Peel stage on Saturday with a efficiency of digital folks music and hovering vocal melodies.
The group, who shaped in 2012, represented Ukraine on the Eurovision Track Contest in 2021 with the anthemic dance monitor Shum, putting fifth.
Glastonbury may also host Jamala, who won Eurovision for Ukraine in 2016 with her track 1944, concerning the compelled deportation in Crimea through the rule of Joseph Stalin.
Headlining the competition are Sir Paul McCartney, Billie Eilish, and Kendrick Lamar.
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