New date Gogol Bordello!

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"For the love of u, for the love of me, for the love of everyone who's yet to be free.
Borders are scars on face of the planet."

Eugene Hütz of the eccentric, richly coloured collective Gogol Bordello is – aside from frontman and figurehead, actor, DJ and composer – apparently also a poet on the side. But these three sentences, to be found on their facebook page, perfectly summarize the balkan-beat, gypsy, punk and dub infected gang of globetrotters' reason for being: Gogol Bordello is love! Love for a party and excess, love for the mixing of different musical styles, love for other cultures… Over the edge and always with a portion of infectious positivism! In our depression and repression riddled society, bands like these are needed more than ever. Gogol is back with a vengeance, just in time!

Following on from ‘let’s Get Crazy’, which served as soundtrack for Euro 2012 (co-hosted by the Ukraine, Hütz's birthplace), it rained reports of new work from Gogol Bordello. They weren't wrong either, as July 23 will see the release of ‘Pura Vida Conspiracy’, guided in the right direction by Andrew Scheps (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Adele, Green Day, Metallica). By the way, be careful, the first single is the cause of a serious pandemic that has been ravaging the world as of late: it's not easy to rid yourself of that persistent dance microbe after having heard the infectious ‘Malandrino’!

For Gogol's sixth album, songsmith Hütz was inspired by the Latin-American culture (he lived in Brazil for years) mixed with his Ukrainian roots. "Right now the focus is mixing Balkan music with Latin American, because those two have discovered each other and are going fucking bananas” is what he has mentioned about it and with such a decent whiff of gypsy, punk, dub and rock ’n’ roll to boot, there'll be quite some dust stirred up, just like in the good old days.

Gogol played at the Orion Festival hosted by Metallica, and on Sunday 7 July they'll be setting the fields of Werchter aflame, after which they run on to homebase in the US. On August 15 they'll even be sharing a stage with QOTSA so it can't get any more rock'n'roll than that. Or can it? Of course it can, as I'm forgetting to mention their show in AB on December 7. ‘Let’s Get Crazy’?

The husky baritone of Chuck Ragan, frontman of the fantastic Hot Water Music, has already served as warmer-upper for fellow folk-punkers Frank Turner and The Gaslight Anthem. Now he'll be stopping by AB with his fourth LP ‘Till Midnight’ and with a full band! Honest, authentic folk-punk/americana that warms the heart... and the legs. That works out well, as you'll need the latter in order to totally let loose with Gogol Bordello!

Northcote kicks it all off with a portion of punk-inspired folk! Singer/songwriter Matt Goud will be alone on the AB stage but that should be no problem for this Canadian version of pedigree performers like Billy Bragg and Bruce Springsteen.