The largest rock festival in Russia has been held since 1999. Its main organizer is the radio station "Our Radio". The festival covers all fans of Russian rock, young and old. The names of the participants of Invasion-2012 are well known among the fans of rock music.
The current festival is being held in the town of Bolshoye Zavidovo, Tver Region, under the slogan "The Main Event of Summer", this is already the 11th rock festival held in Russia. The main difference of this festival from the previous ten is that the participants are divided into two categories: "Format" and "Unformat", and they play on two different stages.
The "Format" includes musicians, whose work is not only constantly broadcast on the waves of "Nashe Radio", but without whom, in principle, it is impossible to imagine the "Invasion" festival. These are groups and groups that are already recognized as legends, they have been dictating the fashion for Russian rock for several decades and are its brightest representatives: "Alice" and "Picnic", "King and Jester" and "Spleen", "Zdob si Zdub" and Lyapis Trubetskoy, Chizh and Ko and DDT, Nike Borzov and Aquarium, SerGa and Garik Sukachev, Bravo and Kukryniksy, Alexander Kutikov and Kipelov.
For "Semantic Hallucinations" and "Chaifa" this is an anniversary performance at the "Invasion": for the tenth time they become participants in the festival!
The relatively young generation of "format" groups will be represented by LOUNA, Brainstorm, Animal Jaz, Igor Rasteryaev, Murakami, Surganova and Orchestra. More than half of the participants play full concert sets of at least 40 minutes.
The headliner of the first day of the festival is the most popular group Pilot, after which Ivan Kupala plays a program consisting of songs from the new album for an hour. The main participant of the second day of "Invasion" will be Zemfira, beloved by everyone, who has not performed at the festival for ten years. The headliner of the last day of the main event of the summer will be the magnificent Ural four - the Chaif group.
The "Neformat" includes groups that are unknown to the listeners of "Nashe Radio" or which can rarely be heard there, but the organizers of the festival decided that "Invasion" would be incomplete without them. These are 7B, Amatory, Distemper, Jane Air, Mujuice, Alai Oli, Non Cadenza, Rotoff, Total, Monoliza, Zero People, Znaki, Angel NeBes, Brigade contract, December, Casta, Lamps, MPTRI, Fly, Both Two, River, SLOT, Mordor, Time Out, Torba-na-Kruche, Troll Bend Spruce, Zorge. These groups are dearly loved by listeners of other radio stations, they are representatives of different and sometimes opposite styles, but absolute leaders in the chosen musical direction.
