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Petition: “El Canto Del Loco To Play The UK!”

Petition: “El Canto Del Loco To Play The UK!”

Please sign our petition to ask the band and Sony BMG to organise an El Canto Del Loco concert in the UK…
Add your name and spread the word!

"We, who sign this petition below, want to request that El Canto Del Loco come to the UK to play a concert. We believe that there are many fans here who would love the opportunity to see them live, and ask the group and Sony BMG to make this possible."

This petition is organised by elcantodelloco.co.uk and the Facebook UK Fans of El Canto Del Loco Group, and we would ask any British fans, or Spanish fans who happen to live or stay in the UK to join us in asking for what we believe would be a popular gig.

So, please sign the petition, and feel free to leave a comment too!
Forward the link to as many fans and friends as you can. :-)

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PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK IN THE EMAIL TO DO THIS, THEN YOUR NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE PETITION.

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Gareth Bouch,

Sam Morgan,
Please play in London!

Janet Wood,
It would be great if you played a gig here in the United Kingdom. Surely not even a huge venue. There are many different size places the band could play in London or other big cities.

Rick M,

Rupert Judd,

Neil Horner,
Good Luck!

Sally Roydhouse,

Sarah Oliver,

chrissa,

Karolina Wilk,

Ian Merry,
UK tour please. And put some clothes on for god's sake.

Dan K,

Rob Jenkinson,

Graeme Davison,
Any size gig please :)

Steve Drewry,

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Sandra Mangan,

Bethan Kelland,
heard alot about you, would be nice to see whether your gigs are as good as someone keeps telling me :)

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Michaela Genz,
Made the trip down to Madrid last year so would definitely go to see them in the UK!!!

Gisela Genz,

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aoife brauders,

Doug Bolton,

Laura Gerrard,

Adam Sanchez,
I would love to see ECDL play in the UK.

Tom H,

Nick Wood,

Dèmi,
Come to england por favor!! :)

Mia T,
Hi! I am a huge Fan of ECDL. I have seen them in Spain various times.. I would love to see them here in LONDON! That would be so cool! I would love if they did a Meet and greet, too! :)

Mirjam,

Nikita Doll,
I love their songs and it would be amazing to see them perform here!

anastasia,
waiting for you guys!

Matt Jones,
I love love LOVE THIS BAND <3

Laura,

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The UK needs ECDL <3

Peter Burrell,
Saw ZAPATILLAS tour in spain and loved ever since

Ronalee,
This atrcile keeps it real, no doubt.

John,
c'mon boys !!!!

Alfonso Roca,
Vivo en Londres desde hace siete años y he estado en conciertos de los más grandes, esta sin duda es una de las capitales mundiales y con más historia de la música. Últimamente cada vez más grupos están haciendo disfrutar a la gran comunidad latina que vive en Londres. Desde Fito a Hombres G, he estado en casi todos y creo que sería fantástico contar con el canto del Loco para una fantástico concierto en Londres.

Vamos!

Review: ECDL In Concert, Palacio de los Deportes, Madrid, 30_10_09

Review: ECDL In Concert, Palacio de los Deportes, Madrid, 30_10_09

A personal review by Gareth, site admin/owner I’m in the very happy position today of being able to actually post my own live review up here on the site (although I hope others of you with “live” experiences and other stories and news will continue to write in!) – having lost my ECDL_Live virginity at [...]

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elcantodelloco-concert-madrid-30_10_09-aA personal review by Gareth, site admin/owner


I’m in the very happy position today of being able to actually post my own live review up here on the site (although I hope others of you with “live” experiences and other stories and news will continue to write in!) – having lost my ECDL_Live virginity at the band’s show on October 30th at the Palacio de los Deportes, Madrid at the end of their “Hasta Luego” tour.

Although the innovative and imaginative lighting/projection rig is a stripped down version of the one used on the “Personas” tour, it’s nonetheless mighty impressive and with 5 minutes to go until showtime sends the enormous stadium into deafening cheers as it turns into a countdown clock. The Palacio de los Deportes is a huge venue for about 18,000 or so and it’s packed out – think Earls Court but bigger and wider – and when the clock hits zero the noise is immense. The projections change to very computer-graphic style roads and tracings and a bleepy synth interlude soon gives way to the opening chords of La Suerte de Mi Vida, as the front of the rig rises, revealing the band.

It’s impossible for me to really take you through the gig step by step as I was having too much fun to take notes (also bouncing around which probably wouldn’t help either…) but it was, of course, a fantastic experience.
The playlist is a pretty much faultless trawl through the band’s strongest tracks – and certainly tracks that come over really well in a live environment. And also ECDL aren’t afraid to play with the arrangements for concerts, with Ya Nada Volvera a Ser Como Antes and Son Sueños getting distinctly hard-edged, chunky new styles… this isn’t merely them playing out live but a deliberately different approach to styling them, and it works very very well. Contigo too, gets a much harder edge – and sounds brilliant for it, especially with some extra digital-delay/echo treatments on Dani’s vocals at key points in the song. In the same vein of taking risks with reappraising popular “standards”, Volvera is given a much more laid back treatment – sung by the band perched on a park bench centre-stage; another stylistic shift that works surprisingly well for such an originally “rocking” track.

Dani and David play the most central part of engaging the audience; though that’s not to say Chema isn’t doing his bit – he just seems to love bouncing around on his own most of the time, though he has no trouble making sure he gets in front of the crowd too. David is a major natural focus given how central his riffs are to many of the songs, and of course Dani plays to the crowd enormously. He’s a great showman – and this is shown to great effect in songs like Zapatillas where, below frantic stopframe animations of Converse All-Stars (Zapatillas, basically…) lacing and unlacing themselves on huge projections, Dani pulls the crowd into a huge game of cheering and going silent, cheering, going silent… you get the picture. And it doesn’t get old. And you get the impression he could keep doing that for hours and the crowd would hang on every word and movement.

It’s difficult to pick highlights from such a universally great performance, but a stadium full of people waving their glowing mobile phones as if they were lighters, pogo-ing to the max in Canciones, Besos and Zapatillas, David gamely overcoming weird technical problems with his guitars in El Pescao, cackling at Dani and David’s special English language chat during one of the several encores (kudos for so many encores, seriously!) and a mass singalong to the final, final, final – no, really final encore – Peter Pan.

Things I’ve learned…
1 – they’re loud. Stood very near the front just to the side of the stage the air was actually moving with the sound from the speakers.
2 – you can still get an excellent spot even if you arrive not long before the show.
3 – they absolutely MUST be seen live.
4 – they really should come to London. They’d go down so well.
5 – they attract an amazingly good-natured and well-behaved crowd, whilst not losing any atmosphere, fun or liveliness.
6 – they are surely one of the most impressive *live* bands in the world today (which makes it all the more shocking that they aren’t more known or appreciated globally).

Anyway, they’re supposed to be taking time off after the “Hasta Luego” tour – Er, hence the name! – so let’s hope they release a full show on DVD to tide us over till they’re next out and about.
I’ll certainly be itching to go see them live again, and I hope they’ll consider extending their shows to include some kind of UK event. In the meantime I have a stack of fantastic memories and iPhone photos to remind me of a superb concert.

Fanzone Concert Review: Hanna On ECDL In Torrevieja

Fanzone Concert Review: Hanna On ECDL In Torrevieja

Many thanks to one of our readers, Hanna, for getting in touch. It’s always really nice to hear from you – and in this case – to also hear about live experiences. I’m an ECDL “live” virgin with my first gig ahead of me in Madrid at the end of October, so it’s dead exciting [...]

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ecdl3Many thanks to one of our readers, Hanna, for getting in touch.
It’s always really nice to hear from you – and in this case – to also hear about live experiences. I’m an ECDL “live” virgin with my first gig ahead of me in Madrid at the end of October, so it’s dead exciting to hear all of this from Hanna on what to expect at the show (plus some very cool compliments about this site in general too!)…

“I stumbled across your blog, a while back, and you deserve a huuuugggee pat on the back for educating the world about decent music. Well. That and I think it’s cool you have been providing a resource for fans non-spanish.
By your narrative, I think it is safe to say, I can be officially classed as a ‘hardcore fan’ – I’ve been a hugeee ECDL fanfor absolute yonks, after discovering when I was back home in Andorra in the early 00′s. Would have loved to go see them in st julia de loria when they were there while back but sadly didn’t get to go.

I actually went to see them [and a *thankfully* no longer blonde [?! why?!] Dani] on
6/08/09 in Torrevieja. A less than brilliant location [parque antonio soria] , but I managed to [with the help of my 6'7 brother] squidge myself to within reaching distance of the front. So close to the speakers, my ears rang for days! Compared to last year [17.08.08 valencia plaza toros] they seemed a little ‘out of it’ but it was fun to see chema rocking out in his own world!
Alcohol consumption was definitely up this year, but then, the average age was absolutely down. The guys stood at the gates were pretty lax, and I managed to get in sin ticket, regardless of having bought one. A few interesting, shouted, conversations with drunk guys about my nationality, three cigarette burns, loss of my voice, being absolutley drenched in sweat and being elbowed in my head were absolutely, positively worth it!

I really can’t say enough about them live! 6 encores seems to be the norm. Which is better than the ‘we have finished, we are off’ mentality most american bands appear to have whenever they are touring. Plus, you see some crazy things, babies in push chairs seem to be pretty common, so odd…
I just wish all English/ International fans could have seen it.
alongside my ever growing list [shinoflow, porta, pereza, mala, ivan ferreiro, pignoise, lucas masciano... it goes on!] ECDL should get their bums out of spain!”

I’d certainly agree that it’d be cool for the band to do more stuff outside of Spain – and I certainly refuse to believe they couldn’t do a kick-ass concert to a packed house in London…

And a final few wise words from Hanna about going to see them live…

“…My only advice, fight your way to the front! [watching out for the cigarettes!!]”

Thanks also to Hanna for this link to a Youtube video taken apparently by someone extremely close to her at the gig.

If you’ve got any comments, news or stories from gigs etc, please do get in touch – it’d be brilliant to share some more fan experiences here!

Cheers,
gb

Nerd Alert: Playa Garraf, The Beach From The “A Contracorriente” Video

Nerd Alert: Playa Garraf, The Beach From The “A Contracorriente” Video

I’ve just come back from a short break on the Costa Dorada – chilling in the extremely hot sun, supping ice cold Mahou and generally taking a nice break from the UK. One day though, I had to go for a meeting in Barcelona, and took the train up along the coast – to my [...]

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garaf430I’ve just come back from a short break on the Costa Dorada – chilling in the extremely hot sun, supping ice cold Mahou and generally taking a nice break from the UK.
One day though, I had to go for a meeting in Barcelona, and took the train up along the coast – to my surprise, a short distance to the east of Sitges I looked out of the window and thought “Bugger me! I know that beach!” – it was the really cute one with all the beach huts and the sweet retro-looking hotel that’s the centrepiece of the promo video for “A Contracorriente”…

It genuinely *does* look fab! I want to holiday there sometime. I do… seriously!
Anyway, I checked it out on Google Earth and it turns out it’s called Garraf – and I’ve uploaded a Google Earth placemark here should you want to go look it out for yourself…
And the video can be seen here…

De Personas A Personas – A Personal Review

I suppose the main question here is if you already own Personas, is it worth buying De Personas A Personas?The answer depends very much on how big a fan you are. Released in early December 2008, De Personas A Personas is a special limited edition “box” that expands on the content and in many ways [...]


I suppose the main question here is if you already own Personas, is it worth buying De Personas A Personas?
The answer depends very much on how big a fan you are. Released in early December 2008, De Personas A Personas is a special limited edition “box” that expands on the content and in many ways references the delivery and history of Personas itself as well as adding bonus material.

For a start, as well as the original 13 tracks on Personas; De Personas A Personas delivers an extra 6, including the bouncy “Quiero Ser”, the punky “H.D.P.”, a 2008 version of “Foto en Blanco y Negro” and – perhaps best of all – David Otero’s terrific “Madrid”.
Then there’s the self-referential stuff on an accompanying DVD; central to which is the 15 minute film De Cerca which follows ECDL through 2008 from the release and promotion of the album, to the concerts and signings, and the departure of Jandro. It has some excellent live footage, showing off the band’s innovative and spectacular lightshow really well. There’s also a short film on the nudey photoshoot by Rubén Martín and another shortie on the band’s friends and families; somewhat poignant following the death of Dani’s sister.
Beyond that you also get a set of three alternative promos for Eres Tonto, the promo for Peter Pan, and a little ‘making of Peter Pan video’ clip too.

The packaging is pretty much impeccable: all bound up in a thick card booklet of about 30x30cm, with many pages of band and technical notes, artworks based on the photoshoot and further photographic variations and compositions from it too. There’s also a nifty little blank diary inside for the owner to use, though I imagine most of these are destined to remain intact.

All in all a beautiful piece of work, lovingly produced with some great fan goodies in it – and at anywhere between €35 and €40 usually on eBay, very good value indeed.
As far as I’m concerned it’s a definite hit, and in no way a superfluous addition to Personas itself… Excellent.

“De Cerca” on Youtube

The band have posted “De Cerca” on their El Canto Del Loco Youtube Channel.De Cerca is a 15 minute movie that appears on the DVD in the “De Personas A Personas” set, and focuses on the band’s 2008 – from launching the Personas album, pulling together a very very nifty stage show, promos, signings, the [...]


The band have posted “De Cerca” on their El Canto Del Loco Youtube Channel.
De Cerca is a 15 minute movie that appears on the DVD in the “De Personas A Personas” set, and focuses on the band’s 2008 – from launching the Personas album, pulling together a very very nifty stage show, promos, signings, the departure of Jandro, and some excellent live clips.
Highly recommended…
Sadly it’s not possible to share the Youtube video here as they’ve diabled embedding on it, so you’ll have to click here to go and watch it.

Translated Lyrics No1 :: Volvera

For English fans of a Spanish band, it’s often difficult to enjoy the music on every level as the question of translation of lyrics gets in the way. As with English bands, there is always going to be a degree of colloquial wording and grammar, of abstract concepts, and probably some slang too. So a [...]

For English fans of a Spanish band, it’s often difficult to enjoy the music on every level as the question of translation of lyrics gets in the way. As with English bands, there is always going to be a degree of colloquial wording and grammar, of abstract concepts, and probably some slang too. So a straightforward translation is always pretty unlikely.
We’ve tracked down some translations however (thanks to the website Ooltra) which don’t seem bad at all and help convey a lot of meaning, which will hopefully enable you (and us) get more out of the songs.
First up is Volvera from the album Zapatillas. More will be posted over the coming weeks. Enjoy… :-)

Volverá It Will Return
Me acuerdo y pienso en el tiempo
Que llevábamos sin vernos.
Dos niños pequeños
Que lo sentían todo
Y lo sigo sintiendo hoy por ti

Recuerdos que tengo y no entiendo
Que dejáramos de vernos.
Buscando mil besos
Que no son nuestros besos.
Deseo estar contigo hasta morir

Coro:
{
Desesperándome
Te buscaba en mis sueños
Y ahogándome.
Volverá
Seguro que volverá.
Lo sigo sintiendo y te echo de menos
¿Qué acabe mi soledad?

Volverá
Te juro que volverá
Ese amor verdadero
De cuando era pequeño.
Seguro que volverá.
Volverá
}

Te miro en el tiempo y siento
Que tú eres lo que quiero.
Mi niña, mi sueño
Todo eso que no tengo
Y que sigo sintiendo hoy por ti

Incluso en mis sueños
Me invento y me creo que te tengo
Que toco tu cuerpo
Y sé que eso no es cierto
Y que estoy acojonándome sin ti

{Coro} x 2

I remember and I think of the time
That we used to spend without seeing each other.
Two small children
That used to feel everything
And I keep on feeling it for you today

Recollections that I have and do not understand
That used to stop us from seeing each other.
Looking for a thousand kisses
That are not our kisses.
I desire to be with you until death

Chorus:
{
Waking myself up
I was looking for you in my dreams
And suffocating.
It will return
I am sure that it will return.
I keep on feeling it and I miss you
What would end my loneliness?

It will return
I swear to you that it will return
That true love
From when I was small.
I am sure that it will return.
It will return
}

I look at you over time and I feel
That you are what I want.
My girl, my dream
All that which I do not have
And that I keep on feeling for you today

Even in my dreams
I imagine and believe that I have you
That I am touching your body
And I know that that is not certain
And that I am daunted without you

{Chorus} x 2

Lyric translation by Ooltra.net
If you reckon you can offer improvements then do please get in touch.