A melting mix of live music, digital DJ prowess, performance art, east European cinema, poetry, puppetry, poverty, posterity....

.....suppositories, sailors, mutineers, rainy day women, heart throbs, natural gas, latkes, blinis and vodka! phew!

Be prepared because

On Friday 15th the Kultural Kommissarz behind Radio Gagarin will bring you:

the amazing...

Trans-Siberian Marching Band

who have been described as ‘The Sex Pistols of Balkan Brass’ by Time Out.

Expect Balkan ska, klezmer reggae-Russo-Mexican trumpet tunes, Afghan love songs and Ottoman battle marches.

Who will be joined by London’s King’s of surf noir...

Bikini Beach Band

Qventin Tarentinoski's favourite surf guitar degenerates.

Swoon to their Blue Montag, Yodel to their All the Single Svetlanas
'If I it hadn't forecast, I it would never have imagined ' Yoda Marx

and...

Olaf Hund & his Incredible Hund Twinn
Two heartthrobs seperated only by the English channel.... are they really the same person...or are they identical twinns...or are they clones??

Tonight for the first time ever, French Rock star, performance artist and avant garde meister OLAF HUND (all the way from Paris) makes music with the Apple of our eye, DJ, broadcaster, live remixer and musicialisationist NICK (ex-XFM) LUSCOMBE (all the way from Waterloo)

DJ support will be provided by the Radio Gagarin residents

Max Reinhardt [BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction], Penny Metal & Mourkka.

If that's not enough...

Travelling Russian vegetable theatre outfit

Theatre Borscht

will be putting on suitcase productions ofg on their suitcase production of Eugene ONIONegin

- be prepared to weep!