CONCERT
Gogol Bordello |
Written 30 January |
Tuesday 16 December, 00:00Bataclan, 75011 [map]
Native Ukrainian Eugene Hutz first took a shine to gypsy music after being evacuated to western Ukraine following the
Chernobyl disaster in 1986. After 7 years of living as a refugee throughout Eastern Europe and Italy he moved to New York and hooked up with guitarist Vlad Solofar, accordianist Sasha Kazatchkoff, fiddle player (and former Moscow theatre director) Sergei Riabsev and drummer Eliot Fergusen.
Initially performing as a gypsy music band at Russian weddings and other events, the band quickly progressed towards the high energy gypsy-punk you'll hear tonight, culminating in their Jim Sclavunos (
Bad Seeds drummer) produced debut LP
Voi-la Intruder (1999). Via numerous lineup and direction changes, the band have toured to progressively larger audiences and Hutz's DJ shows in
Mehanatahave become the stuff of legend.
