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José Antonio García . Padul, Granada, 1961. The singer and the entire group 091 are delighted with the success they are reaping with their new album The Other Life, recorded 23 years after the band's separation. They are in the top of sales.

It is rare for a rock band to record a new album more than two decades after its dissolution. We separated in 96 because every band has a beginning and an end. Twenty years later we got together and toured. That overflowed. And they decided to get together again. Yes, and bring up new issues. It was a success we did not expect. After a Resurrection Maneuver [the name of the 2016 tour] comes The Other Life . The new album is up on the sales list, the critics put it very well ... The other day, in a record firm in Granada, people approached and thanked us for coming back and making them happy. I keep that. It seems that nostalgia triggers a huge summoning power. Yes, it is a bit strange because, after leaving it in 96, there were no reissued records of 091. In these years, people have been passing them by and word of mouth Thus, the legend has increased; But we didn't realize. On the resurrection maneuver tour we were surprised. How are your followers? They are very faithful. When someone knows 091, he is already his band and wants more. We are a group that you have to discover, listen, but when people discover us, they don't go away and get hooked. What stands out about the group? The letters of José Ignacio Lapido? I would highlight the composition and the letters because José Ignacio is a poet. As a group, we have tried not to get carried away, even if it has hurt us. We have always tried to be ourselves, not sell ourselves, not be fashionable. In our time, we were going out of current, but we didn't care. That has made people realize that we are an authentic group, not a passenger and with good songs.Is it difficult to devote ourselves to music and not to get carried away by fashions? All that happened to us at the time because we were a group with a level, but we were never best sellers. The reviews were good, but we didn't jump. That, in the end, was rewarded in 2016. People had a debt with us and have paid it back to us. Then we had an audience with little money, maybe they were students, I don't know, but when it has had purchasing power, it has bought everything: the records of before and now, the shirts ... Yes, because social networks are full of your fans praising your work. Yes, they are very fans. Another thing that surprises me about our audience is that it goes to all the concerts and many repeat and repeat; that's even misleading. What a difference between that and the first concert they gave in Madrid. It was a bit of a disaster, wasn't it? Yes, it was in 1982, in the Rockola room, on December 25. It was an absolute disaster. No one came, but we played for the first time in Madrid! We were super happy. The four in the room were like a full stadium. With those ages! Do they feel comfortable when they are called a cult group? We have worn that label all our lives. I do not care. What matters to me is that people enjoy with us. We have been a group of not believing anything, but of living rock and roll . In the past they didn't have much luck with record labels. They tried to soften your sound and make it less cañero.We were in several record companies that did not realize that they had an authentic group and were trying to sell us as the group that was fashionable at that time; It was a mistake. We were always fighting against that, against the covers, the production, but we could do little because they controlled all that. In the new album, we are so happy because we have controlled everything; This is the first time that we have not had to fight with anyone. The record companies have changed a lot in these years. Yes, they give you more margin, no longer selling records as before. When we signed with Warner we put our conditions because we were not going to start suffering again and fatigue. They have left us to decide the producer, we have recorded in Granada ... And all that good vibes and that positive energy can be heard on the album. A chasm also between the recording of the new album and the first time they were in a studio in Seville. Yes, it was 82, I think. In Granada there were no studios and we came to Seville, to the place where the flamingos recorded. When we arrived with the ampli , and then I began to sing with the music recorded before ... That was not going. The technician asked, but is this your singer? In the band, were you or is he the most punk? I have the punk spirit inside, that pinch doesn't go away. When I discovered it, I saw that I wanted to have a group. At the time, I went to Madrid to see The Clash, hitchhiking from Granada. I freaked out. That trip was an odyssey, but I had a great time. To be admired with The Clash to meet its leader, Joe Strummer, in Granada. That is the most amazing thing that has happened to me in life. I worked at Silbar, a pub where all the groups were going. Tacho [the 091 battery] warned me because there was an uncle who looked like Joe Strummer. It was a guiri who wrote in a notebook in the bar. At the end of the night she declared that she was Joe Strummer, so she was a superstar, but she was very open, very simple and talked to everyone. If you hit him, he sent you to hell, but it was very attractive. You never tired of being with him and that I did not speak English. He was chattering Spanish and we understood each other perfectly. He gave me some fascicles that they gave in the newspaper to learn English. He said that 091 had to be a group of international standard level. Strummer had great projects with 091. We recorded an album with him and he made the lyrics in English of all the songs because the idea was to take it out here and then in England. But there were problems with the company and everything was diluted. Why do they call him the Pitos? A friend told me that he sang so loudly that he looked like a whistle. At that time, if you did not have a nickname you were nobody and on top of that all punks had it. And there was mine.

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