The professional part(y)... After sharing the stage in various punk bands; 2009 saw four friends with similar dreams come together to write and record some of the most fun, heartdriven and diverse songs in Australian punk rock. Drawing influence from the greater world of music, the band has managed to create a sound which clashes with many a genre; yet always carries the passion of its driving p...unk rock roots.
The World/Inferno Friendship Society is a cabaret punk band from Brooklyn, New York. Its style merges punk, klezmer, and gospel, while its collective membership features horns, piano, guitar, a number of percussionists, as well as a variety of other instruments such as accordion, xylophone and orchestra bells. This musical collective has historically had over 30 members, including former members of Dexy's Midnight Runners.
Who are this renegade clan of topsy-turvy, raggle-taggle suffragettes with such an insuppressible penchant for chaos, colours, caterwalling, cacophony, timphany, tea, dandelion and dancing?! Could it be!? The LONG FINGER BANDITS, who, armed with their artillery of guitar, trumpets, dangerously contagious drums, lovely voices, hats, puppets, face-paints and flags, leak and drip and smear cheeky droplets of gypsy, rock, folk, punk, jazz, bossanova and spit. Everywhere!
The Crooked Fiddle Band are a four-piece from Sydney, Australia who formed in late 2006. acoustic and mainly instrumental, tCFB are influenced by / include Eastern European, Celtic and USA traditional material in their punked up compositions. Instrumentation includes violin, double bass, drum kit, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, charango, hand percussion, cello. Free downloads are available from the Triple J Unearthed site and their Myspace. Links for buying their music are available through their official website: http://www.crookedfiddleband.com.
Bubbling forth like a mossy belch of polka filth from the greasy, jet fuel-contaminated wetlands of the Northwest, comes The Bad Things. With junkyard waltzes and shameless shanties, The Bad Things are hellbent on providing traditional music for the post-apocalyptic era. "Combining elements of Gypsy, folk, Klezmer, Hillbilly ballads, mariachi crooners, and a Vaudeville theatrical aesthetic, the group has a reputation for drunken debauchery and feverish dancing at their live shows.....The group lends their old-fashioned style with a post-modern sense of black humor."
Sometime back in the last century, when punk music was still dangerous, visionary and urban poet Jeff King left his home town of Dublin to travel across Europe, guitar over his shoulder, moving from country to country, busking, drinking and tasting the wines and women before he paused for a rest in Bologna, Italy. He lived there for seven years, playing in various punk bands before moving again, this time to London, with a head full of ideas and a notebook full of drunken ramblings. It was here that the story of the international mongrel gypsy punk rockers ‘Drunken Balordi’ begins.
Combining elements of punk, gypsy music, and Brechtian cabaret, Gogol Bordello tells the story of New York's immigrant diaspora through debauchery, humor, and surreal costumes. Leader and singer Eugene Hütz's taste in music was spun out of black-market tapes of the The Birthday Party and Einstürzende Neubauten in his native Ukraine. After being evacuated to Western Ukraine in 1986 following the Chornobyl disaster, H
Kaizers Orchestra is a Norwegian alternative rock group. Owing to their energetic live concerts and critically praised recordings, they are among the most popular and acclaimed musical acts in their homeland, and have also gained international renown; they are among the first Norwegian artists (outside the genre of black metal) to gain international recognition and popularity while singing in their native language.
