Aunque esto es un sitio web sobre literatura hay cosas en la vida que van significadamente unidas y no pueden ser obviadas.

LA CRIPTA

Guitarra solista del grupo La Cripta. Tocaron en casi todos sitios por algo de beber. En salas emblemáticas como EnBruto y con grupos clave de su generación como El Niño Gusano.

CATHOLIC LAPSE – Animal families

Bajista del grupo Catholic Lapse. Tocaron en Barcelona para el concurso nacional de maquetas de Ruta 66. Compartieron escenario con Los Planetas, entre otros muchos grupos del momento. Sacaron el álbum “Animal families” en 1999.

Si queréis leer un poco…

https://akizaragoza.com/2013/musica-10/

http://unaparasoyuz.blogspot.ie/2016/01/catholic-lapse-el-arca-del-fanzinefable.html

https://aragontambientienesed.blogspot.ie/2013/06/catholic-lapse-maqueta-sick-and-tired.html

https://www.aragonmusical.com/2004/02/el-shaman-cierra-sus-puertas/

En 2021, Phil graba las tomas del bajista para un vídeo para la canción “Star” (animal families). El bajista (un servidor) no sabe que Phil no va a grabar a nadie más, el vídeo musical es un homenaje a su bajista… Nunca he merecido estos honores, pero mi ego está a tope:

THE CRAYONZ – Nena

Bajista del grupo The CrayonZ en Dublin. Tocaron en la final del concurso nacional Hot Press/Barcardi. Sacaron el álbum “nena” en 2004.

El aniversario 20 años del album “Nena”:

This is 20 years old, the first and only album we released as the crayonz. Nearly all recorded over a few weekends with Jean-claude in his Ballymun tower studio in Dublin, Cosmic Recordings. Very few overdubs if any. A couple of tracks were bought back from 2fm from a Dave Fanning Session and I think one song on the album was done in loop studios in North Lots lane in Dublin that’s been recently closed off to the public for safety/crime reasons. Recording with Jean-Claude was great fun as was trying to get in and out of the flats in one piece. On one occasion we went by car, when leaving the studio to get to the car we were bombed by fruit and vegetables and a frozen chicken from neighboring flats. Another time had to make a run for it across the fields with our guitars. We would stop recording when we heard the jingle of the Ice cream van. I remember making a joke that it was suspicious and the next time we were back we were told they were caught for distributing more than Ice cream. We had a lot of support from local radio and music journalists at the time and overall a great time. It’s not a big production as it’s what we could afford and I think Jean-Claude did a great job. He was very innovative syncing tape and digital and really pushed the analogue desk to great effect. It’s not a big production as it’s what we could afford and I think Jean-Claude did a great job. This was before social media so we would really just post CDs to radio and magazines, rent venues and put up posters and hope people would listen and turn up. Sergio Vilchez aka “the mexican” on creative bass. At the time, Sergio was always leaving Ireland in 6 months…he’s still there and I left and Anthony D’Arcy aka “One Time” on Drums, vocals and attitude. We met up last year and played through some of the songs and they came back pretty quickly. For the last few albums I’ve done I’d have to learn the songs again as I’ve played very little live and really just wrote and recorded them. But I could easily play most the songs on this album as we rehearsed and played live a lot. Anthony messaged me this morning with a funny lyric he heard on an old rehearsal tape from a song on the album, the final version was “will you always be around like you promised” but the rehearsal tape version was “will you hold my head right back while I vomit”. Equally romantic sentiments but I do regret not sticking with the latter. We made a classic mistake of putting some new tongue in cheek songs at the start of the album but overall as an independent album we are very proud of it. (by Gerard Handrick)