There’s a band called Hamfatter, best known for stomping onto Dragon’s Den and wrangling £75k out of the dragons by playing their song Sziget as a marketing pitch. Sziget is a song about getting wrecked at the Hungarian uber-festival, and I bloody love it, because of the lyric… I’m at the front, right in the middle and they start to play / Gogol Bordello, gypsy punk / we’re blown away … which told me that it mattered not a sausage whether or not Hamfatter made any difference to my aural satisfaction; I love Gogol Bordello, and they love Gogol Bordello, and therefore we’ll all be friends for ever and ever. Gogol Bordello, a steamroller of wanton creativity lead by beautiful loon Eugene Hutz, are set to play the Olympia in Dublin on Monday 22nd of November (and Belfast’s Mandela Hall the night before).