Waikīkī Aquarium

On March 10 Aquarium was a shock guest on the Tallinn Festival of Popular Music, the place they played a set of 4 acoustic songs and gained the prize for the most interesting and diversified program. In the 1970s and early 1980s, rock and roll was strictly regulated in the Soviet Union, and only a few artists managed to be accredited and signed by the federal government record label Melodiya. Aquarium’s usual concert venues have been private apartments and so they faced many years of fierce competitors to land a spot on the label. These “condo concert events” (квартирники) were a novel Soviet phenomenon created by underground musicians. In late 1973, guitarist Edmund Shkliarsky was briefly a member of the band.