Benka Boradovsky - Vocals, Accordion, Clarinet and Licentious Flirtations Senka Senyaglaze (Blue Eyes) - Bass Guitar and Jaunty Hats Philka Cherbyakov (The Worm) - Lead Guitar and Devilish Grins Yelyena Yareiach (The Moon) - Percussion and Feminine Wiles Raquel Feuervogel (The Phoenix) - Violin and Knowing Glances
Previous: Yvette Dauphine (The Dolphin), Mauritz Pappillon (The Butterfly), Anna Rehkitz (The Deer), Kapitan Shakirov (Captain Shock), Blackbird Harris, Irina Schipuchina (Bubbles), Antonio Katichka (The Cat).
Influences
Vodka, Whiskey, Dancing, Chaos, The Good times, The Bad Times, The Best Of Times, The Worst Of Times, The Moon, The Sun, Passion, War, Conflict, Sex, Heat, Cold, The Macabre, The Apocalypse and The Surreal.
Sounds Like
Tom Waits, Shane MacGowan and Franz Kafka drank too much vodka and thought they were in 1950's Yugoslavia...
Album Polkapocalypse out now! get it at www.monkeyrecords.com
"With a sound based around accordion, clarinet, electric guitar, and lashings of laughs (they do a beautifully inebriated cover of the Dead Kennedy’s Too Drunk To F***), Polkapocalypse is theatrical, rebellious and fun party music."
--NZ Herald
New video for 'Polkapocalyptic' to be released in December.
Hailing from the slums and ghettos of New Zealand (the Prague of the South), The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band play a unique brand of highly theatrical East-European Apocalyptic Debauchery... Expect spontaneous combustion in the audience, clothes thrown off in frivolous rampage, macabre stories, legs turning into snakes, much musical and physical inebriation and dancing, dancing, dancing... When Balkan, Punk, Cabaret and Swing combine, nuclear meltdowns of worlds begin...
The album, Polkapocalypse, is done, World Domination is just around the corner... The brothels shall be the parliament, the Graveyards the Houses of Commons.... A new era is upon us...
After first emerging from an alleyway behind Auckland's Wine Cellar sometime in the May of the 2006, the band has gone from enigma to sensation. In April 2008, the band released their first ep, Danse Macabre - the ep was in the Independent NZ top 40 for several months upon release and the riotous energetic video for the single, The Dance of Death, has been in the top five most watched videos on Amplifier.co.nz for over a year. In this time the band has completed two highly successful nationwide tours, played at most of the country's biggest summer festivals, performed at AK09, the country's biggest arts festival of 2009, played in "The Famous Spiegeltent", and opened for American band Beirut... After 6 months in Western Europe, the band is back in a burning New Zealand summer. Thery are doing no laurel-resting, however, but are preparing the machine for an
international onslaught, delving deeper, further past the apocalypse, into unlit and illimitable corridors of eldritch fantasy...
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Hello!!! We've had a fantastic time on tour in Germany this year and we're now recording our new album in Berlin (scheduled for release in March). But for now here's a big (and silly) Fröhliche Weihnachten! from us (and from some hippos too) :
Some bold new artistic direction? Nah, Just us being silly!!! We did this track for our label's "Black Snow - the completely different Xmas compilation".
Wishing you a very silly Silly Season and we'll see you again in 2010 before we head back to Australia!
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