After being dragged along to see them in a club on the reperbahn, Hamburg by a german girlfriend in 90/91(I'm really bad with dates)I had a brillant time dancing around drunk on good beer and snapps. I now realise that they sound like a cross between the Darkness and the Blues Brothers alternately playing mad Eastern European folk music and American classic rock covers, the band flirted with mainstream exposure on the release of their strictly cult movie Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989) which has very dry, slow, funny Finnish humour.Frustrated with the limited sound a mere 11 members could produce, the band subsequently decided to recruit the 160-strong Red Army Ensemble for two open-air concerts for upwards of 120,000 people in Helsinki and Berlin. Perhaps the latter gig was a poignant representation of East and West reunified in both politics and song. Or perhaps it was some possibly inebriated hairy Finns in disguise playing the most overblown pub gig in history. I meen, look at this, give it 30 seconds to get going;