‘Gypsy’ probably isn’t the right word. It’s just that it slips off the tongue better than ‘Eastern European’. Whatever you want to call it, there does seems to be an emerging trend for all things gypsy/eastern european. Apparently, “Gypsy Holidays” are the hip new short-holiday experience. There’s even a major US television series currently airing following the lives of a family of travellers called The Riches.

However, it’s music where it’s really having a big impact. There’s the “Gypsy Punk” of Gogol Bordello that’s been around for a while, but it’s the newer eastern-european folk influenced artists that are ticking all the boxes for me. Check out the slavic radiohead stylings of Beruit, or other eastern-bloc tinged artists like DeVotchKa, A Hawk & A Hacksaw or Matt Elliot.

Quick! Buy yourself a battered caravan, before everybody wants in on the trend!