“Thank you for supporting our music family,” Mykhailo writes from afar. He is unable to deliver the message in person. The 26-year-old musician is one of the organizers behind this evening’s concert at Nulovyy, a venue set in a former industrial complex in Lviv’s Pidzamche district, and he would have loved to attend.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. However, since joining the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in 2024, he has been serving in the Zaporizhzhia region. As a result, Mykhailo will miss the concert he helped organize. Today’s concert is staged by Erythroleukoplakia Records, a Ukrainian independent music label founded in 2019. It was established by Mykhailo and his two friends, Artur and Vlad. Vlad was killed by Russian forces in 2023. He is one of numerous musicians from Ukraine’s punk and hardcore scene killed since the start of the full-scale invasion. How does he feel about organizing a concert but not being able to take part in it himself? “I am feeling kind of rueful about missing each event that Erythroleukoplakia Records organizes. But I am happy that it is still happening even though the war is going on, and that such gigs bring a lot of unity, solidarity, and love in such difficult times,” he says.