Gogol Bordello are living out the title of their forthcoming Rick Rubin-produced album Transcontinental Hustle, taking their ragbag of gypsy music, punk attitude, global grooves and raggle-taggle rollicking on the road this spring, including four shows in the UK.
Live From Axis Mundi, last autumn’s live CD and DVD, encapsulates the marvellous mayhem of a Gogol performance: Gypsy Rose should know, as she’s shimmied herself into the giddiest of kippers on every UK tour since 2005’s Steve Albini-produced Gypsy Punks. Insane energy isn’t the half of it: not since The Pogues has there been such a gloriously raucous knees-up.
Eugene Hutz, the ringmaster for this motley crew based in NYC but hailing from the four corners of the globe, is up there with Iggy Pop, Lux Interior and Nick Cave when it comes to throwing himself into a performance. Gogol’s delirious sweat-soaked nights of intoxication are in the true spirit of Eastern European gypsy music: just when you think it’s as fiery and impassioned as it’s possible for music to be, the band turn up the heat. This is the kind of travelling circus you dream of running away with: check www.gogolbordello.com to see when the caravan parks up near you.
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