Punk: Manolo Kabezabolo is not dead!!!!

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Presentation of the new album of Spanish punk legend Manolo Kabezabolo brought a nice surprise to lovers of music who were at Teatro de las Esquinas of Zaragoza. Manolo Kabezabolo was launching his work "If you have teeth left it means you were not there" (Si te quedan dientes es que no estuviste ahí). Not only Manolo Kabezabolo was back to musical activity, what is more, he rendered one of the finest performances of his career and make everybody feel joyful because he seemed younger and the concert was spellbinding.First 3 albums of Manolo Kabezabolo were brilliant, fun and original. Lyrics were ironical and humorous. Nevertheless, after his fourth album he fell into a little period of decay. For instance, in 2006 he suspended his concert at Zaragoza Festivities. Manolo Kabezabolo Punk

Manolo Kabezabolo

In 2014 nonetheless, he is having a new lease of life, the new musicians who are with him (los que no dan pie con bolo) let Manolo Kabezabolo to sing freely. He does not have to worry about music hence he acts as a main singer. Thanks to these musicians his old songs sounded better. The comeback of Manolo Kabezabolo could have scarcely been better.

Manolo Kabezabolo

In 1990s I saw Manolo Kabezabolo several times as he had to play the guitar his songs did not sound as good as they do sound now. Similarly, there were some funny moments as well during this concert of Manolo Kabezabolo such as every time he talked to the public and when he brought a young girl to scenery. Thereafter, it seemed singer Evaristo was going to collaborate with him on a song but Evas did not appear though. Subsequently, Manolo Kabezabolo took revenge on him and he appeared on the scenery singing along Gatillazo and even touching the derrière of Evaristo, the erstwhile leader of renowned punk band La Polla. Now you can watch two exclusive videos from this Manolo Kabezabolo and Gatillazo concert.

                   MANOLO KABEZABOLO SINGING WITH GATILLAZO

MANOLO KABEZABOLO ENDS HIS CONCERT

The first band to play on this Manolo Kabezabolo comeback was an unknown formation for me that come from Basque Country called RadioCrimen that were not bad. It is an interesting punk band and we have to pointed out the wonderful look of the main singer. They have good songs.

                             

Manolo Kabezabolo

GATILLAZO

 Evaristo Páramos, singer from Punk band: La Polla  

Evaristo was the biggest attraction that night and I did want to see him. I had not seen Evaristo since 2006 and he proved he is on good form albeit the concert of Gatillazo was not perfect though. There were plenty of stops between songs, it seemed as if Evaristo was going to fetch something from other room as he disappeared several times, besides you could not clearly hear what Evaristo was saying to the public and we missed lots of songs from his first and famous punk formation La Polla Records. They barely played four and a lot of songs of Gatillazo sounded really similar in musical terms. Perhaps he did not want to devalue his current musical formation, perhaps he want to focus on the present but with such a good set list it turned to be crazy to not played more songs from such iconic formation. All in all, Radiocrimen were good, Evaristo´s punk-monger and his stance on society in general was positive as always, yet who do really triumphed rendering the paramount punk performance it was Manolo Kabezabolo and his band los que no dan pie con bolo.

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