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Shop - Special offers

2012 Bargain Package.

2012 Bargain Package.

These items are on offer;

20 Years - our best tracks from our last 7 albums

Respublika - our album of trad tracks played in our high energy style.

The Ukrainians - our first ever album

Video + Hungarian Dance - A full gig DVD plus our latest 4 track EP

 

You can get any or all of these.Just click on the button below, and add the items you want in the comments section that appears in PayPal.

If you are ordering outside the UK, please click on the overseas postage button

 

Overseas Postage

Price: £3

Please add this if your package needs to be sent outside the UK.

FOUR Items - 2012 Offer

Price: £25

Choose any four items from those above.

THREE Items - 2012 Offer

Price: £20

Choose any three items from those above.

TWO items - 2012 Offer

Price: £15

Choose any two items from the four above.

Samohonka T-Shirt

Samohonka T-Shirt

Price: £8.75

Our new T-shirt ia available at the gigs of the '20 Years of Independence' Tour this may. We will sell them friom this site on a 'first come' basis after 8th May.

The writing translates as 'Do you have any home made Vodka?'

Avalable in white or ash grey, XL, or L.

Polo Shirt

Polo Shirt

Price: £12.75

Special Anniversary Polo Shirt. The text translates as '20 Years since the birth of'. This is a limited edition shirt. It will be for sale at the gigs of the May 2011 Tour. If any are unsold, the shirts will will be sold from this site on a 'first come' basis.

Availabe in XL and L

'Video' - Our new DVD!!

'Video' - Our new DVD!!

Price: £6.75

The new DVD has 15 tracks from two of our best festivals - FMM Sines, and Cheremcha.

 It is playable in all regions and comes in a cardboard sleeve. Two of the tracks included are the videos we made for 'Diaspora' and 'Hungarian Dance', and you can see them here in high quality.

The DVDs are now available.

Navy Diaspora T-shirt

Navy Diaspora T-shirt

Price: £8.75

Available to buy at gigs or online

~This features the 'Diaspora' logo in metalic gold with other logos in white. The back print has the band logo and album title in Ukrainian with the lyrics of the first verse of the albums title track 'Diaspora' To see a better quality image (pdf) click here

Navy Shirt with metallic gold logo, other images white. NO Backprint 

Available in XL Only

Hungarian Dance - Single

Hungarian Dance - Single

Price: £2.50

The new 4 track single from 'The Ukrainians' featuring our version of  'Hungarian Dance No 5' by Brahms.

Shop - Releases

Live in Czeremcha

Live in Czeremcha - 2007

Zirka Records 037CD13
Koka Records 037CD13

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Price: £8.99

Recorded at the Spotkanie Folkowe Festival, Czeremcha, Poland, this album captures The Ukrainians in raw, punky, Respublika mode! Full-on zizzy guitars are to the fore in many songs, yet there are many moments of heart-rending delicacy. The packaging, too is remarkable - a gatefold, recycled card sleeve with a traditional-style embroidery on the front cover. Wow!

  • "...in especially fine form. The set is imbued with a verve and immediacy that energises this near-essential collection..." **** ROCK'N'REEL
  • "...a rousing live document, featuring two heroic cover versions. Excellent fun..." ***UNCUT
Istoriya

Istoriya - 2004

Zirka Records ZRKCD4
Omnium OMM2035

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SOLD OUT!

Istoriya collects together 20 of the band’s best tracks over 70 minutes, but, as is typically perverse for The Ukrainians, they start off their ‘Best Of’ collection with a stunning, previously unreleased track, ‘Telstar’ originally a hit on both sides of the Atlantic for The Tornados in 1962!

The enhanced part of the CD features lyrics in Ukrainian, plus translations and transliterations of all the lyrics as well as the group’s fascinating and insightful diary and photos from their 2003 tour of Poland. The booklet contains a history of the band, information about the songs and previously unseen photos. 

  • "Genuine cultural cavaliers, the Ukrainians' mandolin and accordion-driven stomp has been reinventing Western rock's icons and traditions from the Steppes for almost 15 years. Highlights are all here. Worth it just to hear the Pistols' Anarchy in the UK in Ukrainian. Wonderful and life-enhancing." - fROOTS
Respublika

Respublika - 2002

Zirka Records ZRKCD3
Omnium OMM 2028

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Price: £8.75

Features many traditional songs that have influenced Ukrainians down the centuries. Also contains Ukrainianised versions of two Sex Pistols' songs!

Drink To My Horse

Drink To My Horse - 2001

Zirka Records ZRKCD1

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Price: £8.75

A collection of twenty live recordings ranging from the band's earliest performances in 1989 with The Wedding Present to the Kultura album tours of 1994.

Between 1989 and 1997 The Ukrainians played almost 400 concerts in the UK, Europe and North America. This album is a collection of the best desk tapes, professionally mastered. The tracks progress from the band's earliest performances - with The Wedding Present - to festival appearances in 1994. There are traditional Ukrainian songs and the group's own Ukrainian-language compositions plus live versions of songs from the universally acclaimed Pisni iz The Smiths EP. The latter was a chart success in twelve European countries - the record featuring the Ukrainians' unique and unforgettable vodka-fuelled renditions of songs, as you might have guessed, by The Smiths! The album also features a moving version of The Velvet Underground's "Venus In Furs".

Kultura

Kultura - 1994

Cooking Vinyl Records COOK CD 070

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Inspired by the group's 1993 tour of Ukraine as guests of the Ministry of Culture. Deals with the effect of Western cultural imperialism on Ukraine and its young people.

  • "Blending East and West - not only is this a foot-stomping dance of Westernified Ukrainian folk music, it's also a thought-provoking analysis of recent political events. "UkrainAmerica" brings Chumbawamba-style vocals into battle with frenzied mandolins just as commercialism clashes with capitalism. Musically, unlike the reality, the result is the perfect combination." - VOX
  • "Combine punk energy, Eastern European folk and you get The Ukrainians -- arch-exponents of stomping, rollicking, controlled mayhem. In turns plaintive and shit-kickingly boisterous, Kultura is as intoxicating as ice-cold vodka knocked back in one" - MOJO
Live In Germany

Live In Germany - 1993

Blue Records Shade 006
No longer available, 10-inch vinyl only.

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A limited issue (1000 numbered copies) 10-inch vinyl German-only release, with profits going to 'Shelter' for the homeless.

Vorony

Vorony - 1993

Cooking Vinyl Records COOK CD 054

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Price: £8.75

An album of many styles, and the group's first to feature their versions of Western pop songs.

  • "A cultural crossover, Vorony mixes Eastern exotica with grungy guitars and takes Morrissey to the Urals. Hooray!" - VOX
  • "Their traditional side leads to stomps like Vorony itself and De Ye Moya Myla but there are also versions of The Smiths' "The Queen is Dead" and The Velvet Underground's "Venus In Furs." Listening to The Ukrainians is like attending the mother of all parties." - Q Magazine
The Ukrainians

The Ukrainians - 1991

Cooking Vinyl Records COOK CD 044
Omnium OMM 2002

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Price: £9.75

The group's eponymous debut album. Released the year Ukraine won its independence from the Soviet Union.

  • "A new musical form might just have been born -- Cossack Thrash!" - FRoots

  • "This is the sort of music you see people dancing to in restaurants totally pissed out of their brains and contemplating brutal but caring sex with waiters with massive moustaches and furry boots. I ended up taking it to bed with me and now I'm going to have its children" - NME
Diaspora

Diaspora - 23rd Feb 2009

Zirka Records

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Price: £10.75

The latest album with our best new tracks.

20 Years of Independence

20 Years of Independence - April 14th

Zirka

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Price: £10.75

Our new release with the very best of our music from the last two decades. Twenty tracks for twenty years is a celebration our achievements and that of the country from which we take our name. We've both now had an unprecedented twenty years of independence and are looking forward to the next twenty! Budmo!!