A recording studio moved into Kyiv’s Sports Palace: the concert twenty-five thousand people saw is going nationwide

The band Antytila filled Kyiv’s Palats Sportu (Sports Palace) three nights running — on March 20, 21 and 22. Twenty-five thousand people saw the show across those three evenings, and the band itself called it the biggest and most technically demanding of its eighteen years. Now the television version of that concert is being released for everyone to see.

The premiere date was announced by Suspilne Movlennia, which produced the television version together with the band’s own production team.

The premiere is set for September 6 at 8:50 p.m. on the Suspilne Kultura channel. From September 8 the concert also goes up on the YouTube channels of Suspilne Kultura and of the band itself, so anyone who misses the broadcast can catch it later.

Why a recording studio was hauled into an arena

The team spent almost a year on the show. The Palats Sportu concerts closed out the nationwide Vdoma tour: 38 cities, 30 of them sold out.

The hardest part turned out to be neither the lighting nor the staging, but the sound. Instead of a standard concert rig, the team took a different route — and brought into a sports arena what normally never leaves a studio.

“We take a recording studio, we move it into the Palats Sportu, so that we get the sound we got in the studio, the sound you hear in your headphones, only with the energy of a live concert,” explained Maksym Syvolap, the show’s composer and arranger.

The visual side leaned on lighting equipment brought in specially from abroad — the kind used at world-class concerts. Light, sound, staging and movement worked here as a single whole.

What the show is actually about

The concept of Vdoma is about where and when a person feels they belong. That theme came to the fore exactly when millions of Ukrainians were forced to leave their own homes.

“For some, home has been lost; for some, home has been rebuilt; some are looking for it abroad, some are looking for home in new cities, new spaces, villages. And we want every viewer to find something of their own,” said director Pavlo Zakrevskyi.

Every concert on the tour had a charity side: money was raised for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and HUR (Defence Intelligence of Ukraine). The three nights at the Palats Sportu were no exception.

Frontman Taras Topolia admits the scale this time was unprecedented, yet for him the main thing lies somewhere else entirely.

“What matters to me is that people walk out of a concert happier than they came in. And I believe that even through a screen you can feel the atmosphere that was in the hall,” said Taras Topolia.

The band has already announced what comes next: new concert dates, a new show, a new album and a collector’s edition of all its records on vinyl. There is also talk of large concerts abroad.

Earlier we wrote about how MONATIK mapped out a European route for 2027 — another Ukrainian artist heading for foreign stages after a Ukrainian summer.