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
Hailing from the slums and ghettos of New Zealand (the Prague of the South), The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band bring their unique brand of highly theatrically East-European Apocalyptic Debauchery to Europe... 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, under the guise of Kapitan Shakirov's Krazy Klezmerim; there has been a vague aroma in the air... a sprinkle of klezmer and a lingering hint of the Eastern Europeanesque with an exhalation of the Romani, well disguised behind the scent of whiskey and sweat. After a succesful year's touring of their debut ep "danse macabre", including playing festivals such as Splore, Parihaka, Jambalaya and Prana, opening for Beirut at the King's Arms, and their single "The Dance Of Death" spending four weeks on the Kiwi fm top ten, and it's video lingering for 6 months on the amplifier top ten, the band is about to delve deeper, further past the apocalypse, into unlit and illimitable corridors of eldritch fantasy...
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Outsider punk 3-piece mr sterile Assembly hit the road.
A 3 date rapid tour of the bigger cities. March Thursday 19 WGTN: Hole in the Wall: w/with Big Flip the Massive, Ladieswear Landscapi, & Punchbowl March 20 Friday Lyttelton - The Wunderbar: - with As At March 21 Saturday Auckland - The Whammy Bar: - with Malenky Robot and Damsels Beautiful artwork for the poster by the legendary Francis Tunnicliff, once upon-a-time member of the Brothers Gorgonzola!!
heya, just a little note to say we got this debut album thing released on monday! we'll be out playing in March/April, hope to catch you then... x a. s. z. a
May I suggest the lot of you climb into a tea cup and sail North Easterly to the west coast of America. Upon your arrival you will be greeted by all manner of Natives... strange at first, but upon closer examination you will find them quite friendly and agreeable! Thanks for the add, love the music..... Cheers- The Kitchen Brawlers
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