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This event is part of the 2021 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Is the gulag a laughing matter? Is alcoholism a joke to you? Are songs written by, for, and about Russian criminals anything to chuckle about? Maybe that gravel-voiced rough diamond of stage screen, Jacek Koman, and his band VulgarGrad are guilty of making light of these serious matters? You be the judge! It’s folk-punk-polka-ska-swing – so dance!
Sometimes good men do bad things…
VulgarGrad bring you the old songs of the Russian thieves (called blatnie pesny or blatnyak), along with punk classics of the Perestroika era and a strong dose of contemporary St. Petersburg swearing ska. Their latest album is The Odessa Job (2019).