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There comes a time as an early adolescent that music begins to vent the emotional turmoil of your life. In America, punk has served this purpose for several decades now, giving its listeners an expression for anger and the feeling of being constrained, while developing communities based around a shared passion for rock ‘n’ roll. The band members of Gogol Bordello—and in particular wild-eyed vocalist and frontman Eugene Hurtz—discovered the spirit of punk rock while living in Eastern Europe, where the nascent punk scene was carried on in a much, much different way than in America. Growing up in Ukraine, Hurtz didn’t have easy access to the kind of record shops that existed in America, but still managed to get bootleg copies of albums from noisy art-punk bands like the Birthday Party. At the same time, he was being exposed to more traditional sounds of the region, and especially gypsy music. Hurtz was evacuated to western Ukraine after Chernobyl, and bounced around Eastern Europe for a while, eventually moving to New York in the early ‘90s. He linked up with guitarist Vlad Solofar, squeeze-box player Sasha Kazatchkoff, drummer Eliot Fergueson and fiddler Sergey Rjabtzev, forming a band that played traditional gypsy tunes, which they largely performed at weddings. In time, they cultivated a zany blend of lightning-quick gypsy tunes and blazing punk rock would earn them a unique reputation. To round things out, Rjabtzev was also a former theater director, and would help them stage elaborate shows with bizarre costumes to complement their sonic assault with a visual one. Elements of everything from punk to reggae has been mixed on their albums since then. The band released their first, Multi Kontra Culti Vs. Irony, in 2002. Since then, Gogol Bordello tickets have become coveted for the amazing energy of their shows, which often features Hurtz leaping off the stage or surfing across the crowd on top of a drum. You don’t need to be familiar with punk or gypsy music to enjoy this show. You just need to speak the language of music and have a need to rock out. This article was written by Andrew Good and sponsored by StubHub. StubHub sells Gogol Bordello tickets as well as sports tickets, concert tickets, theater tickets and more to just about any event in the world.
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