The Splin group was removed from the poster of the Wind of Siberia rock festival — earlier, the Union of Fathers social movement demanded to cancel the performance of the musicians. The telegram channel Sibirmedia drew attention to this.
On March 30, the leader of the Novosibirsk branch of the Union of Fathers, Sergei Mayorov, in his social networks, appealed to the organizers of the festival with a demand to cancel the performance of Spleen. The next day, the band's name disappeared from posters and from the line-up on the festival website.
“Alexander Vasiliev (leader of the group — MZ) showed whose side he is on and whom he supports. They will broadcast their views to a wide audience, and they will also earn money from it. And where will they spend them, where will they go, to support whom? It is necessary to strengthen control over these organizers. It is unacceptable to provide a platform for such performers. You need to understand that a special military operation is underway, people are giving their lives for their homeland, and this is at the level of betraying the interests of the state, ”wrote the pro-government activist.
The Wind of Siberia festival is planned to be held in Novosibirsk from 11 to 13 August at the site of the Mochishche airfield. As reported on the event website, more than 30 musical groups from Russia and Kazakhstan will perform at the festival.
At the end of February, for unknown reasons, the group’s performance was canceled at the Brother-2: Live Soundtrack festival, and in September, the Art Hall in Vladimir «due to technical reasons» postponed the concert of «Spleen». Earlier, local United Russia Alexander Tsygansky “on behalf of all Vladimir residents” asked the leadership of the Art Hall to cancel the concert of the “scandalous group”.
In the summer of 2022, at the Chernozem festival, the leader of the Splin group, Alexander Vasiliev, dedicated the song “There is no way out” to the artists who had to leave Russia. Before the performance of the composition, he said that he was «pleased to see so many people in whom mercy, compassion, philanthropy have been preserved, who do not accept cruelty, violence and murder.» After that, the performance of the musicians was cut out from the video recording of the concert, and the posts that there would be Spleen at the festival were removed from the social networks of Chernozem.