In 1998, Aleh, who would become the vocalist and guitarist, gathered two school friends, bassist Maksim Dziewitsynski and drummer Alexander Vashchyla, to form a band.
In June 2004, Hair Peace Salon, along with Jitters, participated in the international festival Piirideta Muusika ("Music Without Borders") in Narva, Estonia.
By the end of spring 2006, Artur Luchkow also left his side projects with Jitters, and the band spent the year performing on stage.
[22] They participated in several concerts across Belarus,[22] as well as foreign festivals, notably in Poland, including "Rock bez Igły" in Tychy,[23] "Wiosło Jaćwinga" in Suwałki, and "Fiesta Borealis" in Olsztyn.
[31][32][1] The band already had a full-time bass player, and because he had bought a Roland JP-8000 on his business trip to Scotland, he became a keyboardist with vocal parts, as well as composing songs.
[better source needed][36] This CD contained Hair Peace Salon (Gypsy) and Jitters (Pick Me Up) EPs with the original artwork filled with two laced together shoes as a symbol that there were two bands, but since this release they are united now.
And today they caught up with them in skill, came near, and even outstripped them in some ways,” highlighted Elena Sobolevskaya from the newspaper Muzykalnaya Gazeta the music standards of both Britpop and brit rock collectives in her album review.
[37] In addition to regular gigs, given circa 30 live shows in the 2007 year, musicians were successfully participating in various music contests, such as "Musical Playoffs" (semi-finalists),[36] "Golden Acoustics" (the winners),[citation needed] The official video on the self-titled lead single of the EP "Hover" featuring new band member Konstantin Karman was filmed in February 2008 to be showcased on the television program «Pro движение+».
[41] The very first presentation of the EP In Tune was held in the "Bronx" club on its release date on 1 November 2008 supported by the folk band Akana-NHS with Irena Kotvitskaya and Rusya from Indiga.
[54] This notable track called “Studzień”[55] was put on the compilation CD of the project released in December 2009,[56][53] subsequently officially digitally re-released on SoundCloud in 2014.
So, Vial, Devichensky, Karman, and Agayan began to cooperate on a new CD,[47] as they made know on the air on the radio “Stalitsa” and on the pages of the 我爱摇滚乐 ("I Love Rock and roll") magazine.
[65] A new melodic and dress code switch was showcased on 10 April 2010, and the release event in the "Broadway" club was supported by Drum Ecstasy, Кассиопея, The Stampletons, and more.
[better source needed] Music works from the past three years[72] were merged in the album Gentleman, and this release was started rolling out for free from the official band's website hairpeacesalon.com from 21 March 2012.
[74] “10 good-quality tracks and nothing redundant ” from “the album we can certainly be proud of” via Tuzin.fm[75] received mostly positive response: “beautiful voice, good lyrics, excellent sound, flawless execution, competent flow”, “"Rolz'n'Rulz" rules”, “this collective is just about closer to the standard of the European tradition of combining rock instruments with enough pop melody than all", "melodic and melancholic songs, beautiful guitars, and the recognizable high vocals of Aleh Vial",[76] "the charm of HPS is not just in stylistic restraint and impeccably qualitative arrangements and compositional work, but also in unconditional organicness",[77] "polyphony that sometimes forces to recall the Fab Four gives lightness and a feeling of a large stroke to sound".
[81] Following the album launch, a substitution was made in the band which played live as a trio for a short time again, as Alex Stepanovich was found to replace Vladimir Agayan, who left Hair Peace Salon in July,[82] and the new drummer was officially introduced in September 2012.
[83] Supported the new album with a row of shows, acoustic[82] and full rock ones,[84] for half of a year,[better source needed] at its third appearance at an annual Acoustic of Spring event in March 2013, the band showed some new songs to be released under new Aleh Vial's Bristeil band copyright later on: a brand new song in Belarusian Nieba Abraz and Lana Del Rey's hit Video Games (both are from the Cyruĺnia Svietu EP, the latest one will be actually re-sung and covered in the Belarusian language).
[87] Having worked together on recording “VS ½ HPS” in Spring 2013, frontman and guitarist Aleh Vial and drummer Alex Stepanovich with two other musicians founded new Belarusian rock band named Bristol later in autumn.
[89] The music of the band gives emotions of sadness and empathy, so their work more closely matches the definition of brit rock, in which a depressive mood is often present.
[50] Volha Samusik, contributor for the “Muzykalnaya Gazeta”, told about the band's performance at the Basovišča'2005 festival on the pages of the periodical, stating: There is a noticeable claim on the Westernism of the sound.
[92] After one of their concerts around the time of September 2006, columnist for the “Muzykalnaya Gazeta” Slap highly praised the band, “There was an impression that this music is already crowded in a small club room.
Taking into account the incandescence of emotions, the quality of material, and its play, it was obvious that it is time to go onto big stages and to a large audience for the guys”.