page_title: DDT (band)
section_title: 2005-present
hierarchical_section_title: DDT (band) / History / 2005-present
caption_attribution_description: Юрий Шевчук (Jurij Sjevtjuk / Yuri Shevchuk) в Киеве 14.08.2007
context_page_description: DDT is a popular Russian rock band founded by its lead singer and the only remaining original member, Yuri Shevchuk, in Ufa in 1980. Named after the pesticide DDT, or by other sources, Detskiy Dom Tvorchestva Cyrillic Детский Дом Творчества, where the group rehearsed in their early days, they are one of the better known and most prolific Russian bands of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
context_section_description: In 2005, DDT celebrated their 25th anniversary with an extended tour throughout Russia, Europe, and North America, and the release of a new album entitled Propavshiy bez vesti (Vanished without a trace), which received a critical acclaim.
  In 2007 DDT released the album Prekrasnaya lyubov (Beautiful love), a collection of previously unreleased songs which had been performed by the group for many years in addition to several new songs. The album differs from the previous albums, showcasing a greater focus on political and social subjects, rather than the more common musical abstraction of their last albums. Many songs are in the chanson style.
  On March 3, 2008, DDT performed at the Dissenters' March in St. Petersburg to protest the controversial election of Dmitry Medvedev as President of Russia.  Subsequently, in May 2010 Shevchuk received considerable media attention following a pointed dialogue with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in which he openly confronted him (on state television) with questions regarding such controversial topics as democracy, freedom of speech, assembly, and freedom of the press in Russia.
  On September 24 and 26, 2008, DDT presented an anti-war program called Ne strelyay! (Don't Shoot!). These concerts (featuring musical bands from Georgia, South Ossetia and Ukraine) were dedicated to victims of wars, particularly the victims of the war in South Ossetia. The concert in Petersburg was shown on TV by Channel 5 without commercial breaks.
  In the summer of 2009, DDT participated in the "Rok nad Volgoy" festival ("Rock above the Volga") in Samara and in the international music festival "Sotvorenie mira" ("World creation") in Kazan. On September 2, 2009, the band performed on VVC Square to protest the demolition of historical buildings in Moscow.
  By the time DDT started recording a next studio album, Shevchuk had become the only member from original Piter line-up and had brought together a brand new team:
  Konstantin "The Cat" Shumailov - keyboards;
  Alex Fedichev - lead guitar;
  Artyom Mamay - drums, vibraphone;
  Roman Nevelev - bass;
  Anton Vishnyakov - trombone, tambourine, shaker;
  Alena Romanova - backing vocals
  In 2011, DDT released the concept album Inache (Otherwise). According to Shevchuk, the album's central theme is a freedom in all their forms and the lyrical hero is a Prince Hamlet of the 21st century which has no doubt about the question "To be, or not to be?", he clearly knows: "To be!", but the question - "In which way?"
  The band embarked on a big and successful tour which lasted from 2011 to 2014. On April 5, 2012, DDT released a film titled Nebo pod serdtsem (Heaven under the Heart) a compilation of behind-the-scenes and concert footage from the band's performance at the "Olympic Stadium". That was the first multiple-camera concert films made in Russia. Later that year, the band took part in the rock festival The Best City UA in Dnepropetrovsk. In 2013, the band toured in Germany, performing at Tempodrom in Berlin and at Grugahalle in Essen. A concert in Essen was later released on CD+DVD in 2014.
  DDT always was and still is one of the most popular rock groups in Russia, and their concerts typically attract tens of thousands of fans. Shevchuk put together the first incarnation of the band in the summer of 1980, and although its members have changed over the years, he continues to voice the concerns and frustrations of the Russian people in his music today just as he did in the band's infancy. The more than 20 albums in DDT's discography not only chronicle the history of a rock group, but also provide poignant narratives that examine many aspects of life in the Soviet Union and Russia during the past 35 years.
caption: Yuri Shevchuk in 2007
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