Arabic version: فرقة breathe. الأسترالية تحيي حفلاً في مهرجان أطلس بكييف

According to ABC News, Sydney electronic and soul band breathe. travelled to Kyiv to headline the Atlas Festival after building a large audience in Ukraine through online music platforms.

The band, created by Sean Walker and Andrew Grant, said Ukraine is its largest YouTube audience, accounting for a fifth of its views. Their song Are You All Good has more than 13 million YouTube streams. Collaborator Dylan Wright, the 2024 winner of Australian Idol, joined the group for the trip.

The musicians arrived during one of Kyiv’s largest ballistic missile attacks since the war began and spent the night in their hotel’s bomb shelter. Despite the attack, the festival was cleared to proceed on its final day. An air-raid alert later forced the evacuation of the crowd to an underground shelter before breathe. performed.

Atlas Festival was relaunched in 2024 as a three-day event after earlier cancellations. In 2025, nearly 100,000 people attended at Blockbuster Mall, whose underground car park can be used as a bomb shelter. The event also raises funds for the war effort and hosts military, NGO, disability-awareness and first-aid activities.

Breathe. are donating profits from the tour to the festival’s fundraising initiatives, including support for a Kyiv children’s hospital that was bombed during the war, UAME Music Saves Ukraine and drone-defence capability through Come Back Alive. After performing, the band visited locations where bombs had fallen during their stay.