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LA CRIPTA

Lead guitarist of the band La Cripta. They played almost everywhere for something to drink. In iconic venues like EnBruto and alongside key bands of their generation, such as El Niño Gusano.

 

 

 

 

 

 

CATHOLIC LAPSE – Animal families

Bassist of the band Catholic Lapse. They played in Barcelona for the national demo contest of Ruta 66. They shared the stage with Los Planetas, among many other bands of the time. They released the album “Animal families” in 1999.

If you want to read a bit more…

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/

 

 

THE CRAYONZ – Nena

Bassist of the band The CrayonZ in Dublin. They played in the final of the national Hot Press/Bacardi competition. They released the album “Nena” in 2004.

20th anniversary of “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)