Concert of Manolo Kabezabolo

The 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 new work If you still 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 with a new album, what is more, he rendered one of the finest performances of his career and made 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 "La odisea va despacio" he entered into a little period of decay. For instance, in 2006 he suspended his concert at Zaragoza Festivities.

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 feel loose and comfortable to sing freely. He does not have to worry about musical notes hence he acts as a main singer. Thanks to these musicians his old songs sounded better and he onstage behaved like a great artist. 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, the other day the music was really good. Likewise, there were some funny moments as well 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 in the song "Resina, agua y ajo" but Evas did not appear though.

Subsequently, Manolo Kabezabolo took revenge on him and he jumped to the scenery singing along Gatillazo and even touching the derriere of Evaristo, the erstwhile leader of renowned punk band La Polla.

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

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 halts, 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 4 (Johnny, Txus, Lucky man for you and Odio a los partidos) 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 positive as always but who do really triumphed it was Manolo Kabezabolo and his band los que no dan pie con bolo

                          

Manolo Kabezabolo y los que no dan pie con bolo