Gypsy punk is definitely an acquired taste. (If this is too much, try techno-gypsy: Balkan Beat Box.)
Two songs from Gogol Bordello’s latest CD, Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike, live on Jools Holland Show. Fun fact: Front man Eugene Hutz starred as the translator in the 2005 flick Everything is Illuminated. The band had a small cameo.
Language warning. Heck, the whole thing is pretty subversive.
Wow… never expected to find such great music on a gardening blog! A touch of The Pogues about Gogol Bordello methinks – and from the Jools Holland show back home the England too. Great stuff!
You’re not half as surprised as I am having Graham Rice visit and encourage my bizarre taste in music.
Yes, The Pogues. It’s amazing what traditional music can do when you put a little punk energy and drums behind it.
I started on this folk-rock-ish business long long ago with Fairport Convention… Steeleye Span and then the Albion Country Band… But it all seems so genteel compared with this more raucous style of Gogol Bordello and The Pogues.
Martin Carthy et al are playing here in Ithaca March 9. http://www.cornellfolksong.org/
My freshman roommate back in college days played Fairport Convention non-stop, and I still like them.