Biography

It all began in the end of 1987, when two Med School students, Pasha Kolotenko and Grishka Seriy first met. Half a year later, Pasha offered Grisha a position of bass player in one of Dnepropetrovsk first rock bands that played Black Sabbath style.

Besides Pasha (guitar) and Grisha (bass), the band Vremia Ch also included Igor Yeshinsky (vocal) and Aleksey Panteliy(drums). The bands life was rather short, but fruitful - a record on the local radio and even some very successful gigs that crowded a decent amount of fans. One of the shows featured one of the most prominent Ukrainian rock bands of that time -T.O.K-. The band Vremia Ch participated in Bdzhola (The Bee) 90 Rock Fest .

In October 1990, Grisha, who was truly Jewish, and was suffering from being so far from the Fatherland, leaves with all his family to Israel, and resides in a beautiful city called Beer-Sheva. After his withdrawal Pasha looked for new members for his rock band, and since Grisha left, Pasha had been very frustrated, but he got over it very quickly. He reunited his band under a new name - Cotton Fields. He had been successfully performing with his new band, playing their new blues-rocknroll program. But the last straw that broke the camels back was the untimely departure of their second bass player Dmitry Kholevitsky who followed his predecessor towards the Holy Land.

Pasha Kolotenko , the founder of the band, left music and went into business, and since then, one may encounter him in his black BMW 245i, which he makes sure to keep clean.

Meanwhile, after living through some difficult times, and almost graduating from Ben Gurion University of the Negev, in Beer-Sheva, Israel, a newly-fledged archeologist Grisha Seriy, decided to continue his music career. In the beginning of 1994 he joined a local rock-band CIRCUS as a bass player. They recorded 2 albums, but that was it. After that, in 1996, Grisha and the drummer Rami Raznoshik left the band, which by that time already ceased to exist, in order to create their own music.

For a long time his nameless band had remained underground, sharpening their technique. In 2002 the bands members were: Grisha Seriy (bass), Rami Raznoshik (drums), Eva Hermon (guitar), Vadim Belov (guitar). This is how the first name of the band was born G.R.E.V. after the initials of its members. They started performing with a program that consisted mostly of instrumental compositions. Beer-Shevas public could hear them in the Windows Club, in the Enosh Club, in Matnas Yud-Alef.

In summer 2003, as a result of the hurricanes in the Carribean and floods in the Philippines, G.R.E.V. was spontaneously disbanded. As swiftly as the old band disappeared, a new project emerged AfterGREV It was essentially different from the old one contained new musicians, and a singer. Till the beginning of 2005 the band had been as follows: Olga Braverman vocal, guitar; Pavel Riazanov guitar, backing vocals; Gregory Seriy bass; Arkadiy Mashiah drums.

But natural disasters kept following them and in March 2005 the band starts working on a new program with a new cast.

Alice Shparaga (vocal)
Vlad Fridman (guitar)
Pavel Riazanov (guitar)
Gregory Seriy (bass)
Arkadiy Mashiah (drums)

Nowadays AfterGREV are:

Natalie Turnianskaya (vocal)
Vlad Fridman (guitar)
Pavel Riazanov (guitar)
Gregory Seriy (bass)
Arkadiy Mashiah (drums)

Past Members:

Leyla Zvenigorodsky (vocal)
Olga Lavrenkova (vocal)
Alice Shparaga (vocal)

Today the band still lives, breathes and rocks on. And there is one thing I want to add from the bottom of my heart . Lots of things have changed in last 20 years, many are yet to change, but while I am here, AfterGREV have played, are playing, and will play some fucking awesome rocknroll!