Братья Гримм/ ДДТ

С новым годом!!!!!
so last night the kind russian government rented trafalgar square in order to throw the second annual russian- london old new year's party.
there were thousands of ex soviets floating around the square. for a while (when DDT came on) it was almost impossible to move, there were so many people. it was basically like being in moscow, there was a huge tent selling baltika beer and those nasty street foods you can get in russia (shashlik...)
i went with igor, the event seemed just too surreal to miss. besides, luzhkov was promised to give a speech, and we of course could not miss such a momentous occasion.
the event opened with the red army orchestra playing the soviet national anthem (ok, it is the russian one now, with new lyrics, which no one seemds to have learned, since everyone was singing the old!) i wish my dad could have been there, he would have loved it: the soviet anthem in trafalgar square! baronness thatcher would have had a heart attack! then we had a few speeches, and then finnally, just as the sun was setting, DDT came on. they sang all the main hits.....when they played Рожденный в СССР the crowd got quite enthusiastic....it was funny....igor was laughing....afterwards Братья Гримм played a set...they had on very funny clothes;;;the organisers even payed for artifical snow to be blown through the air, and at least as long as DDT was on, it seemed that it was snowing....but then it started raining....and the nasty english rain washed away all the fake snow. igor and i finnally left before ivan kupala came on, mainly because i was freezing...that is the problem with outdoor concerts in the middle of winter, no matter what you wear you get cold....
so then we went to a pub near our unis. we sat in the back corner on huge leather chairs and decided to have an enormous typically english pub meal....only to find ourselves sitting next to a serbian couple who had also just been at the concert and had russian flags tied around their wrists...what can i say? brotherhood!