IQ66

about

I.Q.66 is a 4-piece punk/post-punk/rock band from Ekaterinburg, Russia. Kseniya Zhorova on vocals, Alexey Pautov on guitars/vocals, Andrey Kipriyanov on drums and Maksim Cherkasov on bass. First three are former members. Music is the mix of styles such as punk-rock, post-hardcore, post-punk and more. That is because all of the members like different types of music. The band call it just ROCK music. The band “I.Q.66” started feb 8 2003. This is the first reheasal dated. First of all the band did skate-punk, fast punk rock style. When did a few songs the band felt ready to go on stage and show’em what they got. So they did - first gig they played was birthday party of a metal band that also did rehearsals in the rock club “Sfinx”. The gig didn’t make guys famous but guitarist made his first jump. The heroes were: Kseniya Zhorova on vocals, Alexey Pautov on guitar/vocals, Artem Laptev on bass and Andrey Kipriyanov on drums. Second guitarist Andrey Svalov entered the band and they did a few gigs with him onboard and made a record “We Have Guitars - We Are Punk Band!” that was recorded in one take in AV Music studio. You will never see that cd they hope. Then Artem Laptev left the band and they had to get new bass player so they had to play with side bass player some time. Then Andrey Svalov also left the band with his own reason - he wanted to play drums as well with his friends punk/hardcore band “RIOT”. After that there was a long and hard time for the band. Especially ther