The band “Vopli Vidoplyasova” is the founder of Ukrainian rock ‘n’ roll and non-ethno-rock style. It was they who first sang rock in Ukrainian. VV 5 years older than Independent Ukraine. Over the years, the band has become a true legend. For 30 years Oleg Skrypka with musicians recorded 20 albums, conducted more than 5 thousand concerts, sang more than 300 songs, traveled around 100 countries, the audience of the band reached 3 million listeners!

Three decades of VV are 30 shades of Ukrainian rock and roll. Under the music of this group grew more than one generation of Ukrainians. This is the underground of the Soviet “flight-year”, the romance of student dormitories, the French drive and the Ukrainian Renaissance.

In the waves of music VV plunge into the memories of school and student years, the atmosphere of “flats”, informal parties and underground concerts.

VV songs such as “Dances”, “Spring”, “Birthday”, “Yeah-Yeah”, more than a quarter of a century in different countries lit the hearts of millions of fans.

Sometime in the 70’s Oleg Skrypka, along with his classmates in the distant Zaporozhia, created his first band “Imposters”.

In the 8th grade, Oleg began to write his own copyright songs in English. At school evenings, his band played explosive rock nets in the act and gyms

In contrast to the stage, which prevailed in the 80’s, Oleg wanted something else in music – more lightning and branded. The musician moves to Kyiv, where he has been studying at the KPI for six years. There, already at the institute, Oleg intersects with the future bassist VV – Sasha Pipa. Pipa introduced Skrypka to guitarist Yuri Zdorenko. In 1986, young musicians gathered three in the KPI dormitory on the Metalist Street and composed a repertoire. This was a week after the Chernobyl explosion.

The first magnitude album was recorded in the kitchen at Zdorenko. The name “VV” appeared a year later – in the fall of 1987. By that time, the drummer Sergey Sakhno joined the band. At the same time the first performance of VV took place at the Molodist cult festival. The festival was always going to extolled young people, who was following the latest musical horizons of the then Soviet Kiev and one of the first to absorb the pearls of ultra-fashionable Ukr-punk.

“It used to be simple,” Oleg Skrypka remembers, “you write a cassette, you pass it to a friend, and in a week you hear how your music is echoing from the windows.”

So when VV played their first concert, their songs were already known.

The second concert of the band took place at the festival “The First Kyiv rock parade” in November 1987. All the rock bands of Ukraine were presented. VV played at this festival and unexpectedly for many and even took for themselves the first place. After that Volodymyr Ivanov, who started promoting the band, took on the group’s production.

VV went with concert performances in the cities of the USSR. Soon, inflammatory Ukrainian rockers were invited abroad.

In 1988, Poland hosted the first foreign concert, and in the 1990’s, VV had toured in France.

In 1991 – the musicians moved to France. However, musicians changed over time, the French came – guitarist Felix Le Bars and drummer Stefan Moufflieu. And the band became Franco-Ukrainian. But the previous repertoire in the style of Ukrainian folk-punk has been preserved.

“At that time, – recalls Oleg Skrypka, – in France there was a powerful state support for the advancement of the Soviet year to the west. The project was called “Red Wave”. It was a period of warming relations with the Soviet Union. And VV immediately fell into the forefront of French show business.”