VulgarGrad hit NSW and QLD!

King Of Crooks is out now through Unstable Ape.

VulgarGrad at The Tote tomorrow night

Vulgargrad & Clinkerfield
…the russian criminals attempt to smash the drunken pirate convicts, and vice versa…

Saturday 16 May, The Tote Hotel
Corner Johnston & Wellington St, Collingwood VIC, Ph 03 9419 5320
Doors 8:30 pm, $15 entry.

Finally, after more than a year of evil-eyeing each other from across the way, with many snide remarks and rude retorts tossed provocatively at each other from across the bar-room, the Russian criminals and the drunken pirate convicts assemble for a showdown on the same stage. Vulgargrad was heard to say, “That’s not a pirate ship – it’s a bathtub, you half-baked bunch of babies!” to which Clinkerfield shot back, “You’re nothing but an overstocked shop-window full of striped candies”. The knives are out and they’re smashing bottles over each others heads at the Tote, Saturday 16th May, when Clinkerfield and Vulgargrad rush headlong at each other, with support from Pete & The Tar Gang.

This be Vulgargrad’s first show back after packing the Old Bar to the roof on Anzac Day when they danced with Clinkerfield’s alter-ego The Miserable Little Bastards, and last before touring nationally to pervert minds across the country with their new CD King of Crooks. It’s also Clinkerfield’s final local show for two months before their riotous ringleader Jimmy Stewart vanishes to the USA for a solo musical misadventure. So it’s just gonna be extra special and crazee emotionally charged with the possibility for brawling and blood.

www.myspace.com/vulgargrad
www.clinkerfield.com
http://www.myspace.com/peteandthetargang

VulgarGrad's King Of Crooks is out now through Unstable Ape.

VulgarGrad launch King Of Crooks in Hobart and Melbourne this weekend

VulgarGrad, that mysterious band of Russian criminals, launch their long-awaited new CD, ‘King of Crooks.’

You might have sampled their fantastic live performance from their past appearance on Spicks and Specks:



Fronted by Polish-born gravelly-voiced strongman and rough diamond of stage and screen, Jacek Koman, VulgarGrad are the only band in the country that play music by, for, and about Russian thieves: raucous drinking songs, melancholy waltzes, manic oompah and hot Soviet-era swing. Be prepared for a night of gun-slinging, vodka-swilling, foul-mouthed disorder, and watch out for the biggest, most triangular instrument around, the kontrabas balalaika. Wear a stripy top, learn to swear in Russian, and you will dance or the trumpeter will shoot you.

Fri 3 Apr – Tasmania, The Brisbane Hotel

Sat 4 Apr – Melbourne, Corner Hotel
Doors open 8.30pm
Barons of Tang 9.30pm
VulgarGrad on 10.30pm and 11.30pm

VulgarGrad ‘King of Crooks’ out now through Unstable Ape Records

http://www.vulgargrad.com/
http://www.myspace.com/vulgargrad

VulgarGrad Vs The Band That Knew Too Much

It’s the cold war all over again, except this time it’s HOT! It’s Russia vs. Australia this Friday, February 20 at the Spot in Melbourne.

In the red corner (with a hammer and sickle scribbled out) is VulgarGrad. Playing songs from their upcoming album King Of Crooks, VulgarGrad have won many a brawl in the gulags of Siberia and the mean-streets of Moscow. Fronted by Australia’s most formidable stage and screen actors, Jacek Koman (Children of Men, Moulin Rouge, Romulus My Father), if you turn your back on them, their vodka-drenched songs of felony and misdemeanor will knock you straight to the ground.

In the blue corner (with a few stars and some red and white stripes) is The Band Who Knew Too Much, veterans of sweaty pub fights all over this brown land. Their Aussie songs of beer-drinking and rent-spending hit as hard as woodchopper’s axe.

Officiating the fight is DJ Russian Disco, who makes no attempt to hide his allegiances – he knows the Aussies don’t need any help on their home turf.

Doors open at 9pm, tickets are $12 on the door.

Advance copies of VulgarGrad's brand new CD King Of Crooks will be available at the gig with the official CD launch happening on April 4 at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne.

VulgarGrad on Spicks and Specks