That is not true as I saw the band for the first time 25 years ago in Joensuu in the Festival "Maailmat kohtaavat" (Joensuun laulujuhlat/Joensuu Song Festival) performing in the "World Party" concert together for example with David Byrne and Rei Momo, Billy Bragg and so on. Even a special stamp was made about that festival, as you saw under the link above!
And that was a very nice Festival indeed, as were the festivals following to it in the following years.
One of them was "The small Nations and Cultures of Europe meet in Joensuu" in the year 1992. That was something! If you look at the list of European small nations who had artistic performarces there.
By the way, listen to the record "Radio Africa"by Aquarium if you can find it somewhere. Well, the record "Radio Africa" is very good! Although may be many of those more or less 30 records of the band too. The band was formed in the year 1972 in Leningrad/St.Petersburg.
According to wiki-pages the popular story behind the name "Aquarium" is that it was inspired by the Budapest street Leningrad pub "The Aquarium" and suggested by one of the band members. However, Grebenshikov has given differing stories in interviews, suggesting alternately that it came through band word association sessions or was inspired a glass aquarium-like building.
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