NOM

The legendary St. Petersburg band NOM is coming with its signature dramatic-idiotic show.

Music, theatre, absurdity, satire, and that utterly unique world of NOM that is impossible to mistake for anything else. The programme features songs that have stood the test of decades, the band's greatest hits, and, of course, new material.

NOM emerged on the Leningrad rock scene back in the late 1980s and, from the very beginning, existed in a universe entirely of its own. While everyone around them was busy trying to be serious rock heroes, NOM chose a different path: “the idiotisation of the dramatic aspects of life and the dramatisation of its idiotic aspects.”

From garage rock to electronics and something approaching comic opera, from classical Russian poetry to absurdity entirely of their own making. And through it all, NOM has never lost its ability to laugh at the world around them — especially when reality itself begins to resemble the theatre of the absurd.

Critics once called NOM “the last bastion of merciless satire”. The years have passed, but somehow that description seems more relevant than ever.

All the hits. New songs. And absolutely no guarantee that what happens on stage will be any stranger than what's happening outside.

Andrey Kagadeyev, bass guitar (founder of the band)
Alexei Zubkov, guitar
Pavel Korshunov, vocals

YouTube channel NOM