Brunettes Shoot Blondes

Career

Since 2011, Brunettes Shoot Blondes have performed numerous concerts in their homeland Ukraine and across mainland Europe. The group has played at festivals including Wybieram Wschod (Poznań, Poland), OstAnders 2013 (Nuremberg, Germany) and at Eastern Hipsters (Białystok, Poland, 2014). In 2011, they also participated in the BalconyTV project in Poznań. The band continues to work on new songs and music videos, in between their appearances on Ukrainian TV channels.

Brunettes Shoot Blondes has also cooperated with famous commercial brands to produce music for advertising, including Watsons (song: You Broke My Heart) and Nova Poshta (songs: Tomorrow and Nothing At All). The music video for the song 'Bittersweet' was produced in partnership with German car maker Opel.

"Knock Knock"

In September 2014, Brunettes Shoot Blondes released a new music video on YouTube for their song 'Knock Knock'. The story features an animated love story of a rabbit and a girl, shot in real time using 14 Apple iPhones, iPads and MacBooks. The band's members produced the video, with the band's frontman Andrew Kovaliov assuming the role of video director. The video attracted more than 600,000 YouTube views in the first five days after being uploaded. By April 2015, this number was more than seven million. The video was also posted on Facebook and received over 26 million views and 800,000 shares.

In October 2014, the video topped YouTube in the category of 'New performers «Emerging Artists From Across the Globe»'. Various international media outlets conducted interviews and features with the band following the release of 'Knock Knock' including Billboard, Yahoo!, The Daily Mirror, Rolling Stone, Mashable, Business Insider, Daily Mail, USA Today, The Verge, Dezeen and The Huffington Post.

In May 2015 the music video "Knock Knock" won the "Best Concept" award at the Berlin Music Video Award 2015.

The band's success was recognized by the Ukrainian president's administration, with frontman Andrew Kovaliov becoming one of the first Ukrainian citizens to receive new biometric passports. Kovaliov thinks the video has improved Ukraine's international standing and relationship within the European Union, saying "everybody should actually do what they can to make our country stronger, to show that we're a European country and that we have to do something for this country".

Bittersweet

In the beginning of 2015, Brunettes Shoot Blondes released a debut EP 'Bittersweet'. The album features four songs including the well-known singles 'Knock Knock' and 'Bittersweet'.

Front man Andrew Kovaliov says: “EP 'Bittersweet' is the band’s first release, in which we invested lots of strength and inspiration. Most of the material was recorded in studios in Warsaw and Kyiv”. The song was produced in partnership with German advertising agency Scholz & Friends and with German car maker Opel. The video develops the use of a 'picture in picture' effect used in the video for 'Knock Knock' – consisting of footage performed directly from the screens of devices, without editing.

EPs

Singles