WE’LL BE STOPPING BY VENTURA, SAN DIEGO, FT. COLLINS AND AUSTIN TOO! VISIT THE TOUR PAGE FOR FULL INFO.
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ATTENTION BRASIL FAN CLUB!
Party in São Paulo this Friday with DJ Hutz! Click to enlarge the flyers.
SEE GOGOL BORDELLO NON-STOP IN NEW YORK!
Margarita Jimeno’s film Gogol Bordello Non-Stop is playing at the Village Cinema, New York, from 11th September. To get your tickets, go here.
As if you needed another reason to see this film, it’s just won a Musixine award!
“The winner of 2009 International Musixine Film Competition is Gogol Bordello Non-Stop directed by Margarita Jimeno. Energetic, rough and dynamic just like the band the film is portraying.
Margarita Jimeno was able to follow the band from their early years to the beginnings of their international break through. The band is an unlikely mix of people of all ages and different nationalities, who come together to enjoy the freedom of music, with Eugene Hütz at the center drawing in both the audience and the people around him with his contagious energy. Margarita managed to not only portray a band but also the social aspects of being an immigrant and taking the possibility to play with identities.
Also the film is fresh, enjoyable and punk.”
Congratulations to Margarita!
PRE-SALE ENDING SOON
The pre-sale for our forthcoming American tour is still open… but not forever!
Closing tomorrow at 5pm ET:
18th Oct – Anaheim, CA – The Grove of Anaheim
25th Oct – Columbia, MO – The Blue Note
27th Oct – Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
28th Oct – Richmond, VA – The National
Snap up tickets before it shuts, because not only will you be guaranteed the night of your life, you’ll save a few bucks into the bargain!
None of those close to you? There are plenty of other dates up for grabs, so take a look at the current tour schedule. And if we’re not coming to your town this time, we’ll try and make it next tour.
MORE ON SULUKULE
DEAR ALL,
COMPLETE ERADICATION OF ANYTHING AUTHENTIC IS THE DARK THEME OF OUR TIMES.
SOMETIMES IT’S TRANSPARENT, SOMETIMES IT’S BRUTALLY OBVIOUS LIKE THE STRUGGLE OF SULUKULE, THE GYPSY NEIGHBORHOOD OF ISTANBUL. WITH OUR LIVES AND WORK WE TRY TO BRIGHTEN UP THESE DARK MOMENTS. SOMETIMES OUR EFFORTS ARE TRANSPARENT; SOMETIMES IT REALLY WORKS.
A YEAR AGO WE WENT TO SULUKULE TO EXPRESS THE UNITY WITH ITS RESIDENTS. WHAT WE SAW BROUGHT TO LIFE AN ACTIVIST SONG OF DOCUMENTARY NATURE, ‘EDUCATE THY NEIGHBOR’. THE RESPONSE TO THE SONG – IT’S WORTH TO KEEP TRYING AT ALL TIMES. POSITIVE FORCES OF TURKISH PRESS USED IT AS A GREAT SUPPORT FOR SULUKULE. IT SEEMS THAT EDUCATION OF THE BRUTES IS POSSIBLE, AND WE ARE PROUD TO BE OF HELP.
PLEASE TAKE A SECOND TO LOOK INTO THE CASE OF SULUKULE, WHOSE STRUGGLE CONTINUES.
HERE IS THE SONG AS WELL, AS YOU MIGHT OF HEARD IT AT LATEST GB SHOWS.
GB PERFORMS NEW SONG: SULUKULE (EDUCATE THY NEIGHBOR)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLRq3slUioY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO7cwm98vB8
THANK YOU JAPAN!
THANK YOU JAPAN AND SUMMER SONIC FESTIVAL!
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THE ENERGY AND THE GREAT PUMPING VIBES OF THE SHOWS, AFTERPARTYS AND THE EARTHQUAKES TOO!
RESPECTUS MAXIMUS TO JAPANSKY GB FAN CLUB OF OSAKA AND TOKYO!
MORE DATES…
We’ve added more shows in December… see the tour page for details!
Pre-sale is now open for the US dates: http://gogolbordello.tickets.musictoday.com/GogolBordello/calendar.aspx
COS THE GB PARTY DON’T STOP!
US and Canadian tour dates for October now online ! Pre-sale starts on Friday, info to follow…
STILL HOPE FOR SULUKULE!
Last summer, GB visited the oldest Rom settlement in the world: Sulukule in Istanbul, Turkey (you can read more about the visit here ).
Despite a thousand-year heritage, authorities are allowing the destruction of Sulukule to make way for a brand new building development. Check out the more recent photos…
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However, there is still hope!
The pressures by the local and international media and institutions, including the threat of UNESCO about taking Istanbul out of the World Heritage List due to the violations against conventions, raised an interest in the alternative efforts spent by the volunteers of the STOP project.
In June 2009, the president of TOKI invited the volunteers of the STOP project to Ankara in order to present it. Upon this request representatives of the volunteers had a meeting with TOKI in Ankara and explained the main approach of the project. TOKI asked the volunteers to revise the project in one month time according to the current situation of the neighborhood, which was demolished almost entirely by then. After the meeting, a new workshop (Sulukule Studio), initially consisted of Sulukule Platform and Solidarity Atelier but open to any participation and support, has started to work on the alternative project. At the moment, this workshop is in full progress for an alternative plan that aims to regain the housing rights of Sulukule residents and minimize the damage that has been caused so far. The initial decisions were shared with a larger public and the media in two meetings and a huge support was received.
As the volunteers of the alternative project, we would like to make an urgent call to the concerned institutions to give their support at this critical period in order to encourage TOKI to consider the alternative project seriously. We have prepared a sample letter for the institutions to fax the president of TOKI, Erdogan Bayraktar, at (0090) 312 266 77 48.
However, we would like to stress that we would appreciate the institutions prepare their own versions of this letter.
Please forward a copy of the fax to the e-mail provided below.
Thank you very much for your support.
Kind regards,
Sulukule Studio
Contact:
Aysim Türkmen
e-mail: aysimt (at) yahoo.com
You can find a sample letter here at No-Racism.net . Support the people of Sulukule!