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Originally Posted by Woolly  Well here's my offering - if you've never heard of the Leningrad Cowboys (from Finland(?!)) - check them out . . . can't be many bands who have the Russian Red Army on backing vocals !! |
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Originally Posted by ir-ops thanks for sharing woolly, they are indeed finnish, and connected to director aki kaurismäki...
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The concert that this CD is based of took place 12th June 1993 at the Senate Square in Helsinki. Something like 70,000 people attended which is a huge crowd for Finland. Leningrad Cowboys is not a real band...they are an act..they are a combnation of artists belonging to various Finnish rock bands that were connected to Finnish film director Kaurismaki. The CD was a huge success in Finland because it combined popular American rock music with the old Russian enimies of Finns.
"This was written by my Finnish wife who thought that a Brit and a Greek knew this band was neat." Though the last time we were in Rhodes the greek bar tender was married to a Finn. Small world!
Attached is the CD cover and insert.