It was like a mad night at Eurovision
Gogol Bordello at Tramshed, Cardiff
IT WOULD surprise many that a band coming out of the Lower East Side of Manhattan features a crazy crosssection of nationalities, with hardly an American among them.
With band mates from such faraway places like Ukraine, Belarus, Ecuador and Ethiopia, it’s a United Nations of like-minded musicians who have found themselves presently holed up in the Big Apple and currently creating madness and mayhem wherever they play.
The band’s music, an eclectic fusion of Eastern European Gypsy music and punk rock with a little Latin and Folk rock thrown into the pot, is a potent and powerful mix, yet they stand delicately on the verge of being likened to a mad night at the Eurovision Song Contest.
But what the group have that the drum, if you weren’t into the the music, “Euros” never have is simple, great the energy put into the performance was songs. breathtaking and just could not be
They are visually striking to watch and ignored. with a boundless energy, and in the Every member played their part and boiler house that was the Tramshed it the combination of violin and accordion was surprising they lasted so long with gave the songs some subtlety when they air in such short supply. needed lifting as the group powered
Led by their charismatic frontman through their set with the brilliant Start Eugene Hutz, the nine-member group Wearing Purple and their latest offering set about their set with relish and Saboteur Blues. virtually from the minute the first chord The band like to boast there “Ain’t no sounded it was bedlam. The highly party like a Gypsy party, ’cause a Gypsy talented group were all fascinating to party don’t stop.” And given the watch as they danced and weaved opportunity, I’m pretty sure they’d be around each other at break-neck speed still playing now. and whether perched precariously on An evening that no one witnessing will amps, or in Hutz’s case, held up by the ever forget. audience on a big marching band bass Tony Woolway
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