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With scathing lyrics that ironically described the posh youngsters, Carolina Durante was released in 2018. After her hit Cayetano , the first album would come, two consecutive plays in the La Riviera room (Madrid) or the success in Mad Cool and the BBK.

Now, the Madrid group formed by Diego Ibáñez (voice), Martín Vallhonrat (bass) Mario del Valle (guitar) and Juan Pedrayes (drums) are facing a summer of atypical concerts with their sights set on an uncertain future in which their first show at the WiZink Center. We talk to all four of them, although not all are equally talkative.

QUESTION.- After ' Cayetano ', what is the key to not staying in a group with a single hit?

Martín : Make more hits.

Diego : I agree with Martín. I don't know, we know that we are not going to do another Cayetano . The idea is not that, it is to make songs that we like.

M .: Cayetano has been the one that has sounded the most because of the topic it deals with and it just hit the target but we did not seek to do like Cayetanos all the time.

Q.- Are you not trying to find a balance between what you like and what you may like?

M .: No. In the end, as we have proposed, the project is to make music that amuses us and is fun to listen to. Doing that is how we have come to like people. I think that, first of all, it is a mistake to start doing things thinking about what you are going to like because you have no fucking idea and when you smell that you stop liking it. It's cool that it's genuine.

D .: In fact, there are times when we are making a song and I know perfectly well that this song is going to like it less. That it's less pop, less listenable ... it's less aimed at the general public, so to speak, and it may be a little more niche. But is that if we have all the time to reduce ourselves to "this is going to like people more ..."

M .: Also if you start doing things that you know you liked and you repeat yourself and you copy yourself in the end you are going to get bored and you are going to bore everyone.

Q.- Do you feel pressure? Is there a magnifying glass over your lyrics?

D .: I do. In fact, about the last EP ( From the oven to the mouth ) -in which there has not been too much emphasis and that the tonality has been a little different: the three songs are like more classic , love, nostalgia ..., like you want to see it- it has been said. I mean, I've seen people comment. But it is what I say, as always we are doing the same thing often pain in the ass.

M .: I am becoming more aware of the dynamics of music today, that all the songs you release have to be a single. It is that many times you do not want to make a single. You don't want to make a song and the lyrics are scathing. You can make songs without more. Many times you listen to records and hear song eight and it freaks you out, you put it on a loop and it doesn't talk about anything. I know, is that nowadays especially in pop it is like: "this song is not a single, it is not a hymn". Joe, go fuck yourself, it's a song and that's it.

Q.- Do you usually look back? You have accomplished many things in a short time

D .: I remember the first summer you went out every night you could and more. And now somehow I feel more responsible because if I go out Thursday and Friday and on Saturday I have another gig my aunt Pepa is going to sing. So, well, regarding that I have to cut myself. It is true that I have more responsibility in that regard.

M .: They are fun stages. These too, what comes is super fat. You do two riviera and it's fucking crazy. I believe that the key is to have objectives to be met in the short term.

Q.- But you don't notice a desire to get more and more

D .: It is true that we take it easy, but we have been ambitious. We have never stayed in "well, we have done the Eight and a half and now." With the two EPs we released we did it twice. The next we said: this time, La Riviera. And we are not going to make a date, we are going to do two. And then there is the WiZink, the Bernabéu ...

Q.- In 2019 you were in a Spanish group that played in more festivals, how are you on the road?

D .: It is the worst. That topic of 'road and rock' is rubbish. I hate him to death. I wish we always played 100 kilometers away, that everything was compressed.

Q.- Have you ever felt that everything was going too fast?

D .: Not that it was very fast but that we said yes to things very quickly. Then suddenly we arrived and we planted a weekend that we have to do Almería-Burela-Lugo, and you say, but this does not make any sense, at what point did we say yes? They call us festivals to play within a long period of time and we say yes because at that moment it seems like a good idea and they come four months later and we say host, the next weekend we have to travel 300,000 kilometers in a van. These are things that will be improved.

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Q.- The group was born after Mario and Diego left a concert with the thought of 'I want to live that'. Now that you do, did you have it idealized?

Mario : When you go to play places, most of the time it is to wait. They are moments of nothing. To be there. But in general this seems to me the hell. It is the best thing that has happened in my life. It has come naturally and crazy things have happened, for example, we appeared in a movie.

Diego : That was last summer, wasn't it? Suddenly we were on a yacht making a cameo for a movie. It is like the most absurd thing that has happened to us. Before I saw it from the outside and, as I saw it, obviously you idealize it. Right now I did not change this for anything in the world but it is true that it is not all the time up, far from it. This is a roller coaster of emotions. At least for me, I'm also the craziest.

Martín : When you idealize a future of: "life has to be like that," and then you see yourself in the situation and you see that you are not super happy all the time, the problem is one of idealization

Diego : It's like when people say: "How can footballers be sad?" Well trunk, there will be times when the footballer may be sad despite earning millions and millions of euros and dedicating himself to what he likes.

Martín : That roll is a bit. It's easy to idealize a situation and then when you're in it ... It's just like a job. You have a promotion, a better salary and a position of greater responsibility and, suddenly, it is a new reality in which new problems arise, new paranoia. We are that way.

Q.- What do you value most about your success?

Diego : Beyond the obvious, eat free, drink free ...

Martín : Being in economic comfort. Not being burdened with the rent, I appreciate that you screw up. And then traveling every weekend to lots of places, meeting people you used to admire and still admire, being able to play with them and things like that. I also appreciate that we are four friends who are going to all places together and for now we are holding up quite well.

Q. And what is your plan for the next five years?

M .: Don't think about it. You are just asking us this on the verge of recording our second album in the midst of a global pandemic. What am I going to tell you in five years?

D .: Ask us in one or two. In 2021, normal festivals can be held and a good album can be released. That's the idea.

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