The soloist of a Russian band at a concert in Minsk, it seems, was resuscitated by an ambulance — afterwards he sang in semi-darkness to a backing track

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The performance at the Sports Palace was supposed to start at 7 PM, with tickets costing from 135 to 295 rubles. However, the start was delayed by more than an hour — "due to technical reasons." According to eyewitnesses, a team of medics went backstage before the musicians came out.

"Have you ever waited for a concert and noticed ambulance doctors going backstage? And have you waited for the performer for an hour because that very ambulance was, presumably, resuscitating him? Well, I don't need to imagine it," one of the attendees wrote on Threads.

But when Viktorov finally appeared on stage after 8 PM, he was, apparently, in an inadequate state: he swore, forgot lyrics, and didn't hit the timing of the tracks. To hide the vocalist's condition, the organizers didn't even turn on the front lights.

At the beginning of the concert, Russian and red-green flags were flown on stage, and someone from the audience chanted "Russia" at that moment.

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"And as a result, the guy came out clearly on something, so much so that they didn't even direct light at him and barely showed his face on the screens. Almost the entire concert passed in darkness; only the back spotlights were on. The sound was also trash, a backing track, but sometimes he tried to out-sing it," another spectator shared her impressions.

Instead of the announced two-hour presentation of the new album, the concert lasted less than an hour. The musicians tried to drown out the soloist's voice with instruments, and the last few songs were played entirely to a backing track. The band never performed half of the anticipated hits: the lights in the hall simply came on, and Viktorov was led off stage without saying goodbye to the listeners.

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Outraged Belarusian listeners on Threads are calling the event "three days of cringe." They believe the soloist was intoxicated.

"He missed notes, forgot lyrics in places. Harsh, in short," one of the girls wrote. "Gleb 'Tri Dnya Dozhdya'! Thank you, but don't come out on stage to me again looking like that and with such preparation. I didn't pay you money for that!" another spectator summarized.

Previously, musician Gleb Viktorov publicly admitted his severe addiction to drugs (specifically mephedrone) and alcohol. In June 2023, after a similar drunken breakdown at a concert in Yekaterinburg, producers closed the project indefinitely, and Viktorov himself was repeatedly sent to rehab for detox and coded – his latest treatment courses took place in early 2025 and spring 2026.

Problems with substances are accompanied by the artist's political vacillations: in September 2022, he publicly supported Vladimir Putin, comparing him to a "tightrope walker who needs to be allowed to quietly reach the end," in 2023 he supported the so-called "SMO" (Special Military Operation), suggested those who disagreed with the war leave Russia, and announced charity performances in occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, and Crimea.

However, in July 2026, at another concert in Yekaterinburg, Viktorov unexpectedly spoke with an emotional anti-war speech. Immediately after that performance, the band's management and the musician's sister declared his words "unconscious delirium" amid a relapse of his illness, deleted the posts, and urgently sent the artist to Moscow for another forced treatment in a clinic.

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