Gypsy punks Gogol Bordello to bring UK tour to Roadmender this summer
Gogol Bordello will headline the Roadmender this summer as part of the band’s tour supporting their latest album ‘We Mean It, Man!’ which was released last month.
They will head to Northampton in August and tickets for the gig go on sale next week.
Gogol Bordello were formed by frontman Eugene Hütz in the late 1990s and are known for melding Ukranian and Romani sounds with punk and techno.
‘We Mean It, Man!’ is their ninth album and was released via frontman Eugene Hütz’s label Casa Gogol Records
Driven by relentless, primitive techno-like beats, optimistic energy and clever socio-political lyricism, the band ground themselves in hyper-futuristic post-punk textures that entrance crowds and new listeners alike, inviting them into the ‘Wild Sonic West.’ Inspired by and building on their 2023 collaboration with Bernard Sumner (New Order, Joy Division) on their previous album Solidarity.”
Gogol Bordello’s new album is a bold continuation of that electrifying direction where grandiose arrangements are distilled into an impactful post punk dance anthems.
Talking about the record, Hütz said: “Gogol Bordello has always been a cross-pollinator. And We Mean It Man! brings all our original inspirations together more than any other - punk, gypsy music, hardcore, and techno.
“I conceived this album as a collaboration with one of my favourite producers of all time, Nick Launay, who’s been so much responsible for the flourishing of post-punk as a genre.
“In terms of boiled down multimedia collage this is the best Frankenstein we’ve done since Gypsy Punks. This is our post-punk groove revenge”.
Together, the band knocked out 12 super-punchy, hook-laden songs, fusing Gogol Bordello’s raw energy with and boiled down song form with electronic layers, loops and gated-drum rhythms – a evolution of the experiments first explored
on the Steve Albini produced album Gypsy Punks.
A lifelong lover of the punk scene growing up in Ukraine, Hütz found himself where he felt he belonged, in New York’s Lower East Side in the late 90s, where he went to shows and later performed at the legendary CBGB.
Crashing at friends’ apartments and playing acoustic sets in NYC Ukrainian bars, his group steadily grew to an eight-piece multicultural band, combining Eastern, Western, and Latin traditions.
Hütz is a tireless advocate for Ukrainian solidarity, partnering with Nova Ukraine and ArtDopomoga, as well as putting together benefits with Patti Smith, The Hold Steady, Suzanne Vega, and more.
He has also appeared in arthouse films such as Liev Schreiber’s Everything Is Illuminated with Elijah Wood, Filth and Wisdom helmed by Madonna, and last year’s Vice documentary Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story.
Tickets for the gig on Sunday, August 23, cost £30 in advance before fees and go on sale on Monday, March 16, at 10am.
For more information, visit https://www.gogolbordello.com