UK news! Eugene, Pied Piper, live dates!

[alison]

I'm literally so excited I could dance!

Eugene Hutz from Gogol Bordello will be back in the UK in January with the
Kolpakov Trio, at the following places:


23 Jan in Brigthon

24 Jan in Bristol

25 Jan in London at the ICA

26 Jan in Oxford


THE KOLPAKOV TRIO & EUGENE HÜTZ (Gogol Bordello) will perform live, followed by Gypsy-inspired clubnight featuring Eugene Hütz’s turntable madness, DJ Scratchy, Nick Luscombe (Roots&Shoots) & Nova (CostaUrbana), and will also include the official launch of the documentary road movie The Pied Piper of Hutzovina.


Documentary film The Pied Piper of Hützovina follows Eugene Hütz, lead singer of Gypsy Punk band Gogol Bordello, as he travels across Eastern Europe to Siberia, to meet his musical idol and major inspiration, Russian Roma legend Sasha Kolpakov. Tonight we feature their UK premiere encounter on stage, as the ‘Ukrainian Iggy Pop’ joins the seven string guitar maestro live in a vibrant fusion of tradition and modernity. It is a rare and intimate performance in the very same venue, where Gogol Bordello had their first sell out gig in the UK on their way to becoming one of the summer’s favourite festival bands.

http://www.thepiedpiperofhutzovina.com/


About the Kolpakov Trio:

The Kolpakov Trio, from Moscow, is the first Russian Roma ensemble to tour North America in the post-socialist period. The striking style of the group reflects the training of its members at Moscow's Romen Gypsy Theatre, which arranges traditional music and dance for polished stage performance every night during the theatre season. Founded in the 1930s, the Romen Theatre is the only Roma theatre in existence in the world and represents the best of the Russian Roma performance tradition. Sasha Kolpakov, the group's director, was born in 1943 in the district of Orienburg in Eastern Russia. He was raised with music among the Servo group of Roma and began playing the seven-string guitar as a
boy. In the 1960s he moved to Moscow and has since worked with a number of groups, including the Romen Theatre. He is a composer as well as a singer and instrumentalist. His nephew Vadim Kolpakov mastered the seven-string guitar, the vocal style and dance tradition of Russian Roma Gypsy music at an early age and is from the Saratov region of Russia. In 1992 he moved to Moscow to train with his uncle. He has toured internationally and recorded with the Kolpakov Trio, and in addition sings, dances and plays the guitar in his own group Via Romen, which he founded in the United States. Luda Kolpakov, Sasha’s daughter, is a member of the Romen Theater in Moscow and is in high demand both as a singer and dancer.
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[Little Spy]

Rock the fuck on!!!!!!!!

So there. Oxford and London...I don't give a shit what days they are.

[alison]

I'm so excited I didn't even read it properly. Can I go with you?
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[Little Spy]

Hell yeah! I checked the ICA page and you can book the tickets for the performance and the film now. I think that might have to wait until all my wedding craziness of the weekend is over then I can spank my credit card.

[alison]

Don't worry, I'll book it and you can owe me.
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[Little Spy]

okay, if you're sure? I'll sort the money out when I get back from Devon next week.

Any idea where in Oxford they're playing?

[alison]

Nope. I shall book the London tickets, spin around a bit, and then find out.
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[alison]

Okay, so I bought the tickets from the ICA site... are they just for the documentary, do you think? Or are they for the gig bit too? *confused*

I work just down the road from there, so I guess I could just ask when I pick up the tickets.
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[Laura Claudia]

Oh for fuck's sake.

[alison]

Are you coming? Come! You did promise! You can come over for that and stay the WEEKEND OMG.
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[Laura Claudia]

I'm seeing Jarvis on Sunday the 28th...and I have my last exam on the 23rd...going to London inbetween those two dates would fit in more or less perfectly, it's almost sickening.
Are ya going to all of the dates?

[alison]

London for sure, pretty much certain Oxford (because if Ruth is going, why the hell not?)

Come. COME COME COME COME! It's a gig, a movie, a club night and quality time with your Indian Wife.

*cough*http://www.scandinavian.net/*cough*
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[Laura Claudia]

Well there's no way IN HELL I can book a plane ticket now, I haven't even bought a single christmas present yet.
However, dear old dad will probably be sending me some money for christmas/my birthday so if you can book my tickets for Oxford and London I'm on.
Good enough for ya?

[alison]

*salutes*

Consider the London ticket purchased, and the Oxford one too as soon as I find out where the HELL it is.

Yay! Best news ever!
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[Laura Claudia]

Amazing. We'll work out what date I'll come over exactly when I get money from The Dad, yeah?

[Little Spy]

I think that you have to buy separate tickets online for the gig and the film but you can get combined tickets as well. There were two separate purchase buttons on the ICA page.

[alison]

... balls. Okay, so I fucked that up. I've bought tickets for the gig AND the screening, but they come to £22 each altogether, instead of £20. I'm sorry. Never trust me with ANYTHING.
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[Little Spy]

s'okay, it's only two quid difference. No biggie.

[neuseelen]

oh man. i keep waiting and waiting to see pied piper but it remains elusive. but perhaps this is a good omen of things to come.

[Anna]

Hopefully some day cool things will start to happen here to. Kolpakov trio is really, really good.

[alison]

Well, at least it's a good sign. if they're launching the film in *somewhere*, it means it'll be out for everyone else sooner, rather than later. Right?
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[neuseelen]

yeah. it just needs to stop taking it's time and get someplace where i can see it!

[alison]

I've found out from the people running the whole thing that the screenings will take place at the Microplex Cube Cinema in Bristol, and the Komedia in Brighton. No word on the Oxford one yet. I'll keep y'all posted, in case anyone else is thinking of going to this....
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[Joe Stubbs]

Lame, no dates near me and right in the middle of my exams

[alison]

Okay, this might not make any sense because I'm post-work Christmas party, and... yeah. Bleh.

But I just received the official press release for the event, and it has some great links, pictures and info for you all:

2007 kicks off with a Russian Roma bang!

The Vladivar Foundation presents a Roots & Shoots special:
THE KOLPAKOV TRIO & EUGENE HÜTZ (Gogol Bordello)
Live at the ICA followed by Gypsy inspired clubnight featuring Eugene Hütz’s
turntable madness, DJ Scratchy, Nick Luscombe (Roots&Shoots) & Nova (CostaUrbana)

On the occasion of the launch of the documentary road movie
EUGENE HÜTZ: THE PIED PIPER OF HÜTZOVINA
Dir Pavla Fleisher (65') followed by Q&A with director and protagonist.

Documentary film ‘The Pied Piper of Hützovina’ follows Eugene Hütz, lead singer of Gypsy Punk band Gogol Bordello, as he travels across Eastern Europe to Siberia, to meet his musical idol and major inspiration, Russian Roma legend Sasha Kolpakov. Tonight we feature their UK premiere encounter on stage, as the ‘Ukrainian Iggy Pop’ joins the seven string guitar maestro Sasha and this ensemble live in a vibrant fusion of tradition and modernity. It is a rare and intimate performance in the very same venue, where Gogol Bordello had their first sell out gig in the UK on their way to becoming one of the summer’s favourite festival bands.

About the Kolpakov Trio
The Kolpakov Trio, from Moscow, is the first Russian Roma ensemble to tour North America in the post-socialist period. The striking style of the group reflects the training of its members at Moscow's Romen Gypsy Theatre, which arranges traditional music and dance for polished stage performance every night during the theatre season. Founded in the 1930s, the Romen Theatre is the only Roma theatre in existence in the world and represents the best of the Russian Roma performance tradition. Sasha Kolpakov, the group's director, was born in 1943 in the district of Orienburg in Eastern Russia. He was raised with music among the Servo group of Roma and began playing the seven-string guitar as a boy. In the 1960s he moved to Moscow and has since worked with a number of groups, including the Romen Theatre. He is a composer as well as a singer and instrumentalist. His nephew Vadim Kolpakov mastered the seven-string guitar, the vocal style and dance tradition of Russian Roma Gypsy music at an early age and is from the Saratov region of Russia. In 1992 he moved to Moscow to train with his uncle. He has toured internationally and recorded with the Kolpakov Trio, and in addition sings, dances and plays the guitar in his own group Via Romen, which he founded in the United States. Luda Kolpakov, Sasha’s daughter, is a member of the Romen Theater in Moscow and is in high demand both as a singer and dancer.

About Eugene Hütz
Eugene Hütz is the charismatic frontman of the band Gogol Bordello, and considered to be the founder of a new movement in punk rock; Gypsy Punk. He moved from Ukraine to Vermont with his parents following the Chernobyl disaster, living as a refugee from the age of 14. He later moved to New York, where founded Gogol Bordello, and was spotted by Peter Saraf, the producer of Everything Is Illuminated, starring Elijah Wood, who gave him a role in the movie. His fascination with the Roma culture comes from childhood when, after the Chernobyl disaster, Eugene moved to the Carpathian region of Ukraine to stay with his extended family. He noticed that they had a darker skin tone and were different to his family in Kiev. He also marvelled at the spirit of the weddings and parties he attended there. He thus discovered the Roma part of his family and realized that his connection with his Gypsy grandmother might have a lot to do with his own sense of "otherness". As a teenager, he found himself involved in punk movement, and his early musical experiments were inspired by this genre. A closer exploration of the Ukrainian Gypsy culture made him notice similarities between the two: the sheer exuberance, disrespect for convention, unadulterated emotion, total abandon to the spirit of the music. This is how Gypsy Punk was born and with it Eugene’s band, Gogol Bordello. As a musician, Eugene’s success has risen from cult status as a local band to international stardom. In the UK alone, over the course of the last 12 months, Gogol Bordello headlined at Bestival, featured at Lovebox and the O2 Wireless Festival. His shows sold out Astoria, ICA and the revered Brixton Academy. Eugene has appeared on Jools Holland show, had his story told in a half hour documentary piece on BBC Radio 1 and has featured in articles in varied publications, from newspapers such as The Times and The Guardian to weekly magazines like Grazia, from trend cult magazines like Dazed and Confused, ID and Another Magazine, to specialist music publications, like Rolling Stone.

“As the charismatic front man of Gogol Bordello, Eugene Hütz is a non-stop, glitzy train-wreck from which no eyes can divert.” Julia Dodge, The Golden Gate Express Online

“There’s a kind of courage in Eugene that attracts people to him and there’s something innocent or naïve about it, a kind of disregard for what the norm is” Daily Telegraph

“A charismatic Ukrainian immigrant who connected punk's DIY exuberance to the music of Eastern European Gypsies” Guardian, Dorian Lynskey

“(Hütz) has a lankily mesmerizing star quality, bizarrely enhanced by a thick walrus moustache” Daily Telegraph

About the Pied Piper of Hützovina
Synopsis:
In the summer of 2004, on a car journey in Eastern Europe, Pavla Fleisher met and fell in love with Eugene Hütz, lead singer of the New York-based Gypsy Punk band Gogol Bordello. Captivated by his energy and musical verve, and desperate to get to know him better, she decided to make a film about him. The Pied Piper of Hützovina follows Eugene and Pavla on their subsequent road trip through Eugene’s home country, Ukraine. It is the story of two people travelling together on two very different courses. Her aim is to rediscover a forgotten romance; his is to rediscover his roots. She hopes to find love on the road; he hopes to find musical inspiration from the gypsy culture he is determined to preserve. This is an intimate portrait of a filmmaker with a passion for her subject, and a punk musician with a longing to revisit his past. Theirs is a journey which tests their relationship and challenges their perceptions of the music they both love.
Dir Pavla Fleischer, UK 2006, 65 mins, Subtitles :: www.thepiedpiperofhutzovina.com


=== NOTES FOR PRESS ===

Event (gig & club night):
The Vladivar Foundation presents: Kolpakov Trio & Eugene Hütz (Gogol Bordello)
Event (film, other cinema):
Eugene Hütz: The Pied Piper of Hützovina, Dir Pavla Fleischer, UK 2006, 65 mins, Subtitles

Day & Date: Thursday, January 25, 2007
Venue: Institute of Contemporary Arts – cinema, theatre and bar
Live: Kolpakov Trio & Eugene Hütz (Gogol Bordello)
DJs: Eugene Hütz, DJ Scratchy, Nick Luscombe (Roots&Shoots), Nova (CostaUrbana)

Details:
Film starts at 6.45pm, Q&A to follow - £8, £6 concs & membs
Gig starts at 8.30pm, doors open 7pm - £14, 12.50 concs & membs
Club night at the ICA bar until late, open to all gig and film ticket holders
Limited combo (film+gig) tickets available at £20, £17.50 concs & membs
ICA Box office 020 7930 3647 and online ica.org.uk - Gig only from ticketweb.com

Address: The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
Tube: Charing Cross
Info: 020 7930 3647
Web: www.ica.org.uk



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UK MINI TOUR:

Tuesday, January 23, 2007
KOMEDIA (Brighton)
44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton BN1 1UK
T: 01273 647100 W: komedia.co.uk
Doors: 6.45pm
Film: 7pm
Gig: 9pm
£12 / £10 concs

Wednesday, January 24, 2007
The Cube Microplex (Bristol)
Dove Street South, Bristol BS2 8JB
T: 0117 907 4190 W: microplex.cubecinema.com
Doors: 6.45pm
Film: 7pm
Gig: 9pm
£12 / £10 adv

Hopefully that's everything we need to know now. There are some pictures with the PR, but I can't cope with code right now. [/img]
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[khakiprincess]

I really, really want to come!

I've looked into it and these are the things which are preventing me / pssible solutions:

1) only one day of annual leave left! / If I work an extra hour every day between now and January 11th I can make up a flex day which I may be able to take in January

2) I can't book the flex day til I've made up the hours (or at least til I've cleared the 4 hours debit that I have at the mo!).

3) by the time I know if I can take the leave they might have sold out / It's a chance worth taking.

I was happily drifting along with normal life before this happened!

[mattfromoz]

Anybody going to the Brighton show?

[alison]

Just London for me.
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[alison]

Ok, here's the latest:

- Oxford is *not* happening. Boo.
- The film is currently in production for a DVD release, although there isn't a date set yet.
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[Laura Claudia]

[Laura Claudia]

Oh wait...were we even going to the Oxford one?
Or was that Brighton?
I'm called Laura?
Sorry I'm hungover.

[alison]

I believe we were considering it... But we could just go to Popstarz instead?
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[neuseelen]

mmmm. dvd.

[khakiprincess]

AAAAAARGHHH!

(anger)

I'd just worked out that I could probably manage the Oxford one - grrrrrrr.

You know what - surely somebody in my lovin family can get me a train ticket as a birthday present?

I wanna come to London.

[alison]

Then COME! C'monnnn....
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[khakiprincess]

I don't want to get too excited about this yet - but I've worked stuff out and if there are still tickets by next week I think I can come!!

(as long as I can get the time off work - but I think I know how I can do that!)

I really really hope this works out!!!!

[johnny]

[gypsy_Keef]

Any tickets left for this? I cant seem to find any after I forgot all about it till I read the paper today and thought FUCK

[alison]

It looks like it's sold out now.
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[alison]

Despite being inept and unable to book himself a ticket, Keef did point me this way to a small article about the night:

http://www.thelondonpaper.com/cs/Satellite/london/lcsearch/article/1157144285788?packedargs=suffix%3DArticleController
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[fatsacks]

Man,why do people always label him the Iggy Pop of Ukraine?He's his own guy.

[Little Spy]

because it's the only lame analogy that pops up when they put him in to the search engine.

[Joe Stubbs]

I have an article from Plan B magiazine where he discusses the Iggy Pop analogy, I've been intending to put the article on here, and the livejournal before this exited, for ages. I will do it eventually i promise. Its the August issue if anyone is interested.

[johnny]

So, who's going to the ICA on Thursday? Any suggestions for pre-event drinking venue?
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