SERJ TANKIAN In Moscow: Photos, Videos Footage Available

June 21, 2008

SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian played two back-to-back shows in Moscow, Russia on June 18-19 at the B1 Maximum club. Photos from the June 18 concert can be found at The MetalList.

Tankian's setlist was as follows:

01. The Unthinking Majority
02. Feed Us
03. Lie Lie Lie
04. Saving Us
05. Baby
06. Sounds Of War
07. Sky Is Over
08. Praise The Lord And Pass The Amunition
09. Girl (THE BEATLES cover)
10. Money
11. Charades
12. Jazz Jam
13. Honking Antelope
14. Beethoven's Cunt
Encore 1:
15. Holiday In Cambodia (DEAD KENNEDYS cover)
16. Empty Walls
Encore 2:
17. Elect The Dead

Fan-filmed video footage from both concerts can be viewed below. Also available is a Russian TV report that aired on Russia's A1 channel.

As previously reported, Serj Tankian is collaborating with playwright Steven Sater on a musical called "Prometheus Bound", according to Spinner.com. Tankian has already finished eight songs for the show, which is based on the classic Greek tragedy. The Tony Award-winning Sater, who worked with musician Duncan Sheik on the Broadway hit "Spring Awakening", said about the new show, "It's got this amazing ancient Greek verse thing going on with this cool electronic hyperspace rock. It's unlike anything you've heard."

Sater said that the show will probably open in Boston first before a New York production is attempted, with an album also in the works.

The playwright added that he thinks the show could bring an entirely different audience to see a musical, explaining, "I just saw (Tankian) in concert, that audience was amazing...I think it will open up really different things for both of us. It's a really exciting collaboration."

Serj Tankian has announced select North American tour dates in July and August amidst a run of European shows. Tankian will perform at two Canadian festivals: the Pemberton Festival on July 25, with NINE INCH NAILS, and OZZY OSBOURNE's Monsters of Rock Festival on July 26. Tankian will also play a special hometown show at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles on August 2 before heading to Dallas for a mainstage appearance at Ozzfest 2008 on August 8 alongside METALLICA.

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