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About Me

............................................................ ............................................................ ........... And so we met. You looked at me. I looked at you. We looked at each other. It was the beginning: there was sound, and sea, and there were waves, and rocks and sky. We shared records, songs, words, some other things... We shared an umbrella, two umbrellas. One laptop, two laptops. One roof, two roofs. One book, so many books... And then we went to Paris on a train. We came back on a train, the very same day. We wrote letters, so many letters. We played songs: your favourite ones, my favourite ones and, finally, our favourite ones; and soon enough we knew them all by heart. It was all too clear: something had to be done. And so we played what we d just written. It was quite a surprise: just what we expected. And then we moved to another city. ............................................................ ............................................................ ............. ............................................................ ............................................................ .......... If you write what we were thinking, I ll play what we have written. Idea, sound, plot or emotion, or 50/50. Automatic writing, neurotical sound, with a pinch of salt. One never wins, or loses: one only lives, and hopes, and sings. Sing your life. Anyone can do it. I know you think there are others, so many others that have done it before us. Better than us. With more detail. More interest. More definition. The thing is: they ll never do it for you. And thus, you know those words would otherwise never be said: you never hear them on the radio, or the telly, perhaps you only hear them while you cue on some supermarket till or other. And fuck!, THAT is your song! And so, wherever you go, those sounds shall go with you. One only needs to think of two words, one rhyme. Two words more, and then the same rhyme. I am listening. You are listening. I am listening. You are listening... ............................................................ ............................................................ ........... ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/6/2008
Band Website: lapelouse.com (soon to follow)
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Influences: Things you hear. Stereo Total. Ojos de Porro. The songbook "69 love songs", by the Magnetic Fields. The one by Garcilaso. Songs that made you cry and songs that saved your life. Schubert. Beat Happening. Piazolla. Carlos Berlanga. Maria Callas. Pascal Comelade... much much more that Yan Tiersen!!! Yan Tiersen too, OK (much less though). Jonathan Richman. Bambino. Moldy Peaches. Astrud. Ladytron. Stereolab. Jaume Sisa. Nick Drake. Vainica Doble. Eric Satie. St Etienne. Alaska y Pegamoides y Dinarama y Fangoria. To Rococo Rot. Bola de Nieve. Le Mans. Concha Piquer. Mouse on Mars. Neu! Los Zombies. Bungalow Records. Albert Pla. Belle and Sebastian. Regina Spector. Alfonso Sansisteban. Nino Bravo. Lo que pincha el NiÃ±o del Raval... Hidrogenesse. Tom Waits. String Theory. Notwist. Raimon. Chicks on Speed. Chavela Vargas. Durruti Column. Daniel Johnston. Momus and Baudelaire. Humour and spleen. ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------Things that happen to you, or someone tells you. That bastard at the bus stop. Some things we like. Some others we don't. Photocopiers, cuttings, magazines, shopwindows, politics and gardening. Cernuda, HÃ¶lderlin, Leopardi, Cocteau's films, and Dreyer's, and Murnau's, and Berlanga's. Bergman and Sunday afternoon tv movies. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- Favourite places... some are closing, some are reopening, most just stay put. La Pelouse, Tate Modern gallery, Keyboard Lounge (Reus), La Casa del Loco (Salou) still in our hearts, La Joya (Tarragona), La PenÃºltima (Bcn), dinning at that eritrean place in Brixton, Bar Coyote (Carretera Reus-Alcolea), HowDoesItFeelToBeLoved nights (London), matinees at the West End, LoungeBar (Brixton), Streatham Common. The kitchen and the garden. The loft and the bedroom.---------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------Things that we read and enjoy. Carmen Martin Gaite. Terenci Moix. A S Byatt. "Society of Spectacle" by Guy Debord. The book of Persiles and Segismunda. Shakespeare. GÃ³ngora. The amazing poetry of RamÃ³n Sanz and Jamie McKendrick. The sound of languages we don't understand.................................................. ............................................................ ......................

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Sounds Like: Pocket-sized symphonies in low fidelity. If the Beach Boys were girls... If My Bloody Valentine were 12 yr olds. If Sly Stone jammed with St Etienne.

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Record Label: La Pelouse
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

4 NEW SONGS.

Hemos acabado de grabar 4 canciones nuevas, bueno, 3 nuevas y otra que guardábamos en el baúl. Las hemos colgado hoy, después de grabar voces el fin de semana pasado. La vida parece meterse por medio ...
Posted by Monica y Carlos on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:20:00 PST

DIVAS @ The Apollo Theatre. 21 Junio 2008

"Divas". Apollo Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1) .. ..¿Un ballet popular? ¿Sobre tres divas? Son técnicas de distracción... porque en vez de preguntar quién va a bailar, preguntamos qui...
Posted by Monica y Carlos on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:39:00 PST

MAGNETIC FIELDS COVER. Donwload it here.

Este pasado invierno grabamos una versión de los Magnetic Fields que tocamos en casa y por ahí. Eric James la ha publicado en un curioso disco tributo que distribuye gratuitamente. Podéis grabaros esa...
Posted by Monica y Carlos on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:03:00 PST

What the Dickens was that? (Comic Theatre),

DICKENS Unplugged. 7th June 2008. Vaudeville is a special kind of art. It takes a frivolous plot (light or saucy or both), partly-acted and partly-sang, and a special kind of sensibility. I wasn't too...
Posted by Monica y Carlos on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:40:00 PST

La tortuga púrpura. Oxford 31th May 2008

According to Morrissey circa 1986, the quality of a rock'n'roll band is measured by the amount of sweat they leave onstage. Well, our show last saturday must have been truly outstanding then, the stuf...
Posted by Monica y Carlos on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:30:00 PST

Harold Pinter Double Bill (Comedy Theatre)

The Lover / The Collection. Comedy Theatre. Hoy hemos ido a ver una obra seria, que ya tocaba, bueno, dos obras! Harold Pinter se hizo famoso en los 60 como autor de la nueva ola, incorporando element...
Posted by Monica y Carlos on Thu, 22 May 2008 05:12:00 PST

London Debut.

Ayer tocamos en The Windmill, South London. Nuestro debut británico. No sabíamos muy bien cómo iba a salir la cosa, porque tocábamos con dos bandas de guitarras de las que tienen nombres que empiezan ...
Posted by Monica y Carlos on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:16:00 PST

Make me a song. New Players Theatre.

MAKE A SONG. 22nd March 2008. Hoy fuimos a ver "Make a song", un musical sobre la vida de un escritor de musicales, William Finn, y sobre las paranoias de un señor que no se hizo famoso, y que por e...
Posted by Monica y Carlos on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:59:00 PST

Va a nevar. Debut Theatre Co. Trafalgar Studios.

SNOWBOUND. Debut Theatre Company. Trafalgar Studios. 15 Marzo, 2008. Dramón. Peazo de drama. Otro día tristón de marzo, y salimos de casa bajo un cielo nublado pensando que podría aclarar o podría emp...
Posted by Monica y Carlos on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:21:00 PST

La luna en un anillo. The Playhouse.

8 de marzo, 2008. A RING AROUND THE MOON. The Playhouse (Embankment). Un teatro pequeño, muy íntimo, con mampostería blanca y terciopelo rojo. Comedia romántica de Jean Anohuille, un autor francés ...
Posted by Monica y Carlos on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:05:00 PST