Gogol Bordello is an enduring and much-needed music phenomenon. During their last passage at AB in 2014, we wrote: ‘Gogol Bordello is love! Love of party and excess, love of mixing different styles of music, love of other cultures... Boundless and always with a dose of infectious positivism! Bands like this are needed more than ever in our society tainted by depression and repression.’ Could it be more topical?

The fun-loving gipsy punk collective led by the charismatic Eugene Hütz provides one Belgian stopover during their Fall European Tour, in AB.

Growing up in Ukraine, Hütz was totally captivated by the punk scene but didn't find his real home until the late 1990s, in New York's Lower East Side. First to go to concerts, later to perform himself in Ukrainian bars and at the legendary club CBGB. In 1999, he came out with Gogol Bordello, a multicultural collective of seven musicians, combining Eastern, Western and Latin traditions. Live, they made it an energetic and crazy party every time. What they continue to prove after several albums -helped by Rick Ruben and Steve Albini, among others- and countless gigs with like-minded people such as System of a Down, Primus, Rancid and Dropkick Murphys is that they can transcend their incredibly compelling fun punk with commitment, unbridled freedom, dedication and -in spite of everything- zest for life.