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When Madonna wasn’t backstage at Live Earth petrifying reporters with her serpentine gaze, she was stealing the show with the help of New York Romani-punk band Gogol Bordello. In the U.K. alone, more than 2.7 million tuned in to Madonna’s Wembley Stadium gig, where she and Gogol Bordello performed a unique rendition of the pop idol’s hit, “La Isla Bonita” mixed with traditional Romani song “Lela Pala Tute.” Even Madonna’s leather jacketed, white sneakered backup dancers couldn’t match the flamboyancy of Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hütz and violinist Sergey Ryabatsev.
YouTube: Madonna and Gogol Bordello: “La Isla Bonita”
Madonna recently worked with Hütz on Filth and Wisdom, a short film marking her directorial debut. The movie allowed for Hütz, who previously co-starred with Elijah Wood in Everything is Illuminated, to add some versatility to his acting repertoire by cross-dressing.
"(Madonna) said, 'How do you feel about dressing up as a woman?'" Hütz told Billboard. "I said, 'Well, as long as it's a woman with a moustache, I'm there."
Gogol Bordello's new album Super Taranta! hit stores today, friends. On August 1 the band drops by David Letterman before playing festival dates later in the month. Visit the group's homepage below for more details.
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Last summer, Gogol Bordello played a New York benefit concert to raise awareness of anti-Roma police brutality in the Ukraine. Tomorrow, members of the “gypsy punk” rock group are back to cause-oriented performing – this time supporting Madonna during her Wembley Stadium Live Earth show.
According to Billboard.com, Madonna invited Gogol Bordello band leader Eugene Hutz and violinist Sergey Ryabtsev to join her due to an “unrelated project” Hutz and Madonna are working on. Hmm! Regardless, the Live Earth plans must have been last-minute, as Gogol Bordello just canceled its Scotland T in the Park Festival appearance.
The whole affair could give the New York City group’s new album, Super Taranta!, a significant sales boost when it debuts July 10 on Side One Dummy Records.
Update: Gogol Bordello and Madonna continue collaboration
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Gypsy-punk rockers Gogol Bordello will play a benefit concert June 9 in New York at Irving Plaza to raise awareness about the Romani Jag Organization.
Located in the Carpathian Mountains in west Ukraine, Romani Jag is a small organization that helps educate young gypsies and monitors anti-Roma police brutality in Ukraine.
The concert will attempt to raise awareness and open a discussion about what is happening to Roma Gypsies in Ukraine.
“Roma is in a vicious circle of poverty and prejudice and have been turned into public scapegoats for failures of government,” says Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz. “By supporting Romani Jag, we want to help with cultural rehabilitation and more importantly on breaking stereotypes of gypsies.”
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