Gogol Bordello & Lucky Chops Set Dublin Date

After spending time in three different continents, Gogol Bordello has announced the release of their 7th album, Seekers and Finders for 25 August. The gypsy punk band will also be coming to The Academy in Dublin on 19 December to unleash their newest work.

The band’s time abroad has influenced the sounds of their new album, which use a whole range of instruments — from accordion, to marimba, to rock guitar. Frontman Eugene Hütz explains, “I was still bouncing between Latin America and Eastern Europe when songs were emerging, but finally, as soon as I moved back to New York, it all came into focus… as it always did for me here.”

Gogol Bordello has already released a single from the album, called ‘Saboteur Blues.’ According to Hütz, the single is about “the full commitment to the moment and putting the end to this self-sabotage... and going on a rampage with it. Our lives are royally sabotaged by our thinking being stuck in our past or future. Girls in French mock-flirt the famous crap fuck shot philosophy ‘I think therefore I am’ of Descartes, while the band is clearly offering the alternative ‘I feel, perceive and experience, therefore I motherfucking rock'.”

The nine-piece group will be joined by brassy funk band, Lucky Chops.

See the band rock in person in Dublin. Tickets on sale 26 June at 10am for €30. Pre-orders of Seekers and Finders available here .