The Medusa Fora

Shaz wrote:
I've been to Santa Marinella!

in Santa Marinella there is an immigrant detention center where Eugene Hutz has stayed a year or two, learnin' some Italian (there is "uno mille lire" which is the typical thing immigrants used to ask before euro came). the things that he learnt better are certainly curses to St.Mary, of which the song is stuffed (da uno, da due, da uno, da ***** *******).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZOnw2EXAaQ

This is a link on youtube to gogol bordello backing up Madonna at Live Earth. Whoooors....whooooors.....whoooors!!!

Eric V wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZOnw2EXAaQ

This is a link on youtube to gogol bordello backing up Madonna at Live Earth.

Argh, what a dilemma... I'd love to see Gogol Bordello, but I've sworn to avoid watching Live Earth. Do I click that link or do I not?

Cheers, Eric. Anyone heard the new Gogol Bordello album yet?

Eric V wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZOnw2EXAaQ

This is a link on youtube to gogol bordello backing up Madonna at Live Earth. Whoooors....whooooors.....whoooors!!!

OMG, Madonna starting a revolution - is there no mercy?

I'm just listening to the new Gogol Bordello album here:
http://www.myspace.com/gogolbordello
so far it lives up to expectations.

There will be a full concert webcast of Gogol Bordello on NPR on July 18th. Info as well as a feature about the band is here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... c-20070712

I checked this lot on out Amazon after reading all this and thought they were truly and absolutely awful. Just sounded like a load of old tuneless shite. Sorry - just couldn't get it? Now the King Blues rock ...

Gogol Bordello will appear on The Late Show with David Letterman tonight, Tuesday, July 31st.

Esther wrote:Gogol Bordello will appear on The Late Show with David Letterman tonight, Tuesday, July 31st.

Thanks for the tip. It was a good show...Old Faithful and Gogol Bordello. Dave asked them if they had ever been to Wyoming. Hopefully they are now on their way.

You're welcome! I watched as well and really enjoyed the band's performance. You can listen to an entire archived live concert at the link I posted previously.

Gogol Bordello will be in Vancouver, BC on September 02 2007. The venue has been changed from Richards on Richards to The Commodore Ballroom, which is a much larger venue. Looks like ticket sales were good! Any Medusans want to have a preshow pint?

Here's an interview with Thomas Gobena, aka, Tommy T, on Ground Control. The dude is pretty awesome.

http://www.groundcontrolmag.com/detail/1/467/

He's coming home to play in LA again...now if I can just find someone to go with...

Coming to San Diego too but playing the House of Blues (bleh!), maybe I'll just have to go to Vancouver Steve!

KathleenwithaK wrote:Coming to San Diego too but playing the House of Blues (bleh!), maybe I'll just have to go to Vancouver Steve!

Get on up here, then! The Commodore Ballroom is a great venue. It was closed in the late 90's for a couple of years, then renovated and upgraded in 1999. It's now run by HOB, and has been sanitized a bit, but even they can't hide the original character of this great room. The sprung dance floor is legendary. When The Pogues played there in 1995, Turkish Song of the Damned had the whole floor bouncing!

KathleenwithaK wrote:Coming to San Diego too but playing the House of Blues (bleh!), maybe I'll just have to go to Vancouver Steve!

Yes all HOB are awful.