The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band
Phony Island Cabaret
Saturday 12th September
Weiserstr. 24, 12049 Neukolln, Belrin

Hailing from the slums and ghettos of Auckland (the Prague of the South), The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band bring their unique brand of highly theatrically East-European Apocalyptic Debauchery to those in need, wherever they may be. 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 band is currently lurking in Berlin, and will be destroying minds and lifting knees and skirts across Europe for the next six months, until late November. Upon their return, they plan to bring a whole new Bacchanalia to New Zealand in another of their famed summer tours, as well as festivals across the country.

After first emerging from an alleyway behind Auckland’s Wine Cellar sometime in May of 2006, the band has gone from enigma to sensation. In April 2008, the band released their first ep, Danse Macabre which lingered in the Independent NZ top 40 for several months and the riotous energetic video for the single, The Dance of Death, has been in the top five most watched videos on Amplifier for over a year. In this time the band has completed three highly successful nationwide tours, brought the bordello to some of the country’s biggest summer festivals (including Prana, Jambalaya, Parihaka, Cross St Carnival, Fleetwaters and Splore), performed at AK09, Auckland’s biggest bi-annual arts festival, played in “The Famous Spiegeltent”, and opened for American band Beirut. Now, with the release of their album, Polkapocalypse, the band has relocated to Europe, and is ready to delve deeper, further past the apocalypse, into unlit and illimitable corridors of eldritch fantasy.