Last night I had the privilege and high honor to listen to highly awesome Romanian-style, Chicago-fashioned gypsy rock band Pet Peeve at the Double Door in Wicker Park, Chicago. I met lead guitarist and vocals, Lorian Toth, Friday night and Sunday night he was joined on stage by Mark Adkison on violin, guitar, and vocals; Ryan Flanagan on drums; and Elliot Esparza on bass. Like their gypsy rock of the new Western world in the new millennium predecessors, New York’s uber-famous Gogol Bordello (largely out of the Club Mehanata, formerly in Chinatown currently in the Lower East Side), they got the crowd of young’uns largely unacquainted with the gypsy tango a-goin’. Some images from Pet Peeve’s live show:

Members of the band Pet Peeve (clockwise L-R) Elliot Esparza, Ryan Flanagan, Mark Adkison, and Lorian Toth in the green room before a live set at the Double Door in Chicago on June 5, 2011

Members of the band Pet Peeve (clockwise L-R) Ryan Flanagan, Mark Adkison, and Lorian Toth in the green room before a live set at the Double Door in Chicago on June 5, 2011.

Equipment on the stage floor at the Double Door in Chicago on June 5, 2011 before a live set by Pet Peeve.

Pet Peeve violin, guitar and vocalist Mark Adkison enters the stage for a live set at the Double Door in Chicago on June 5, 2011.

(L-R) Pet Peeve band members Mark Adkison and Lorian Toth before a live set at the Double Door in Chicago on June 5, 2011.

(L-R) Lorian Toth, Ryan Flanagan, and Mark Adkison of Pet Peeve during a live set at the Double Door in Chicago on June 5, 2011.

Audience members dance in a circle during a live set by Pet Peeve at the Double Door in Chicago on June 5, 2011.

(L-R) Elliot Esparza, Ryan Flanagan, Lorian Toth and Mark Adkison of Pet Peeve during a live set at the Double Door in Chicago on June 5, 2011.

Audience members dance react enthusiastically after a live set by Pet Peeve at the Double Door in Chicago on June 5, 2011.
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