See Hear Podcast episode 54 - Leningrad Cowboys Go America

Films about bands are supposed to follow the arc of forming, start
out awful, get better, create personal or artistic friction,
achieve success, then implode just as the world can't get enough of
them.   Then there's Leningrad Cowboys.   For See Hear
podcast episode 54, Bernie, Tim and Maurice discuss Aki
Kaurismaki's 1989 film Leningrad Cowboys Go America about a band
from Siberia in the era of glasnost attempting to break into
America. They are led through “the promised land” with a clueless
manager and followed by their village idiot (who just may be the
cousin / brother no one wants to talk about). They play to
unreceptive audiences while travelling across America to play at a
Mexican wedding, but is that of any importance to them?   The
crew discuss music as the air we breathe, adapting to one's
environment, the ruling class / working class divide, onions, Elvis
quiffs, carrying a stiff around, and rrrrrrrock & rrrrrrroll.
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