[quote="TOSCS"]Who is this Gogol Bordello?[/quote]

This review was in one of the weekend papers:

Gogol Bordello are surely several years Pussycat Dolls' senior but, since the New York gypsy punks don't perform in sequinned thongs, you can't really hold it against them. Not that you would necessarily put it past them. Lavishly-moustachioed leader Eugene Hutz is already wearing a pair of bejewelled velvet knickerbockers beneath a lurid wife-beater vest.

If sartorial elegance and choreography aren't GB's forte, it barely matters. Slowly but surely, the overwhelming joie-de-vivre of their live performance has been inspiring crazy devotion, and "Start Wearing Purple", from last year's Underdog World Strike album, has become something of a word-of-mouth anthem.

Should the phrase "gypsy punk" have you murmuring "bloody Levellers" with the next breath, fear not. Gogol Bordello's sound - a heady blend of folk musics from Nazareth to Nashville - can more accurately be compared to Les Negresses Vertes, Joe Strummer's Mescaleros, Szeki Curva and Mano Negra.

The oppositional lyrics are Route One: the refrain "Well, fuck 'em, we don't give a fuck" seems to crop up in three or four songs. But the way this audience (comprised mainly of schoolies waiting for the Strokes in the afternoon sun) respond to their accordion ska rhythms and hi-speed barn dance hoedowns, it's easy to envisage Gogol Bordello becoming the surprise hit of the 2006 festival season.

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/musi ... 096311.ece

Hey Toscs

Irish Festival - Peckham Rye 2nd July.

I'm heading over.. it's a good laugh.. have you been before?

this place is always worth a look - ace crowd & it doesn't cost the earth either:

http://www.dirtywaterclub.co.uk/

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gogol_Bordello]Wikipedia on Gogol Bordello[/url]
[url=http://www.gogolbordello.com/home/]Official Web Site[/url]

[quote="Christine"]Gogol Bordello are playing on 6 July, Koko
"The Field" is on at the Tricycle in Kilburn until 1 July, that should be good: http://www.tricycle.co.uk/htmlnew/whats ... hp3?id=89;[/quote]

Yeah I went to see The Field, it was a great show.

Who is this Gogol Bordello?

Thanks for the rest, I mgiht try adn get tickets for the FM gig and maybe the Hothouse one

I just noticed that I missed Don Letts DJing at the Jazz Cafe last Saturday - how irritating! He must have played some Pogues.

Attila the Stockbroker, 29 July Brentford, Stripes Bar.

Hothouse Flowers at the Shepherds Bush Empire on 7th October should be good.

Gogol Bordello are playing on 6 July, Koko
"The Field" is on at the Tricycle in Kilburn until 1 July, that should be good: http://www.tricycle.co.uk/htmlnew/whats ... hp3?id=89;

Flogging Molly are playing at the Mean Fiddler on 25/7.

Does anyone know of any upcoming events in London (gigs) that would be worth going to? It's a bit hard to keep track of everyone, especially bands I don't know :P