"Actor: Leningrad Cowboys"

• Leningrad Cowboys - Total Balalaika Show | DVD | (30/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Pop history in the making as those nutty popsters the Leningrad Cowboys bash out a fistful of hits in front of 70,000 people in Helsinki's main square. Accompaniment is by 100 singers from the Red Army Chorus. Glasnost comes to town in this concert movie, which records the momentous evening on July 12, 1993 in Helsinki's Senate Square when the Leningrad Cowboys were united on stage with Russia's Red Army Chorus in front of 70,000 people. The realities of post-communism are pushed firmly to one side (the backdrop includes a bust of Lenin behind the wheel of a convertible) and the two groups come together to celebrate the unifying power of music. A varied repertoire includes `Delilah', `Knockin' On Heaven's Door' and `The Volga Boatmen', and it's impressive to see the Chorus retain their dignity while the Cowboys jump around round them.