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Kiko Poison Figueras, 1952. The veteran musician is not satisfied with being just a legend and living from past successes. Follow the bottom of the canyon: taking out records and giving concerts. This Tuesday he has one in Seville, on October 12 in Madrid and on November 30 in Barcelona.

It has a history of more than four decades. Do we review ... I don't look back. I know what I have done and I am reasonably sure of it. The others do better. You learn things from your mistakes. Even a ruthless criticism? You learn too. Politicians don't like them because they have no heart. Well, musicians only make songs and, if someone doesn't like them, nothing happens. We are not establishing a Constitution that will last 40 years. The dodgy thing in Spain is that people don't learn not to hate. It does not bother me that you quarrel, I can deserve it, but that you do not have a face to quarrel. That may be a headline. The first Kiko Veneno was 'hippie'. Yes. It was a stage of creativity, pop culture ... In the 60s I was hippie and, within that environment, I became a musician. People told me 'that song is fine' and encouraged me. Hippy values ​​were freedom, irony, sarcasm, not believing the lies of power, not respecting the authority of a system that says it's good for people, but it's a dominatrix. Hippies have our own rules, we go barefoot, we practice free love ... it was the first great revolution. Global. To be rockers , you had to have money for your leather jacket; and the Pop needed a Vespa. But the hippie didn't need anything. Another feature of that era is drugs. Yes, they enter there. Above all, the liberating power of the drugs of the time, such as cannabis and LSD, which also help musical creation. Without that, the sixties and the music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones cannot be understood. After this hippie stage he met the Amador brothers. With them he founded Veneno and they recorded an album with which they went ahead of their time. That was a wrong vision. I didn't anticipate anything. Rayford was 17 years old and played the guitar very well. If the context had been different, perhaps it would have been better understood in its time, but when we published it in 1977 it was closing already the opening of the 60s. There is also the Kiko Veneno who was a colleague of Alfonso Guerra at the University of Sevilla.That was before. They were my early hippies . Alfonso Guerra is 10 years older than me and was a professor at the School of Surveyors. I had many intellectual concerns. Were they very friends? A student colleague, we got together every day. It gave me the opportunity to see the first adventures of these clandestine PSOE people, to meet almost all of them and to see the ability they would have after organizing and acting, and what did they perceive? Hence I will not tell you anything. I did learn with Alfonso Guerra that all power corrupts and absolute power corrupts more absolutely still. I learned many more things. When these people go to Madrid to save Spain in quotes because the country calls them, I didn't like it because I saw more possibilities of action in Andalusia. It seemed cowardice to leave Andalusia. Alfonso Guerra and Felipe González betrayed Andalusia? I have not said that. I was disappointed in what they did. The radish by the leaves. He also worked in the Diputación de Sevilla.Yes, as labor personnel, not as an official. With basic cultural issues. I went to the villages to coordinate cultural activities, the construction of cultural houses ... in the morning I had to go to the Treasury to register the groups. It seemed to me that it was necessary to do it and I convinced the kids because in order to be hired by the Provincial Council they had to be registered in the Treasury. He also made reports of the proceedings. It was a job that was fine, an interesting terrain. And it was Frankenstein in the TVE program 'The Crystal Ball'. It was before the Diputación, where I entered in 1986. Lolo Rico noticed me and called me. We recorded four videos in a month. Given the success he had, I thought that was going to provide me with an interesting professional horizon, but it didn't happen. What a smell you had when you told Santiago Auserón that he was going to make his last album in the early nineties. Yes, that's when I recorded Take a little song . I made that record with Joe Dworniak, producer of Radio Futura. I thoroughly prepared ten songs and went to London to record. They liked it a lot, but 50,000 copies were sold. That year Rosario sold a million copies of her album. I was not handsome or had any company that favored me. Another singer who came out at that time was Rosana, who also sold a million copies with her first album. My album had no repercussion because it was not published in Portugal, nor in France, nor in Italy, nor in the Hispanic countries. It didn't give me a chance to expand. The record company did not bet on you. They didn't treat me well, but was that negative for me? I don't know because it allowed me to stay in Seville and not believe that I'm so good. A huge success can make you believe a lot of inconvenient and false things, a lot of nonsense. I am neither grateful nor ungrateful, that is simply what happened. Do musicians have a lot of ego? No, it's not my perception. Get on stage and defend something that you have composed ... That is not ego; It's moral, covert shyness or little shame. The actors are the ones with less ego because notice that they are able to represent any person. Musicians have more ego than actors because we tend to make ourselves, but neither. Those who have ego are those who stand in front of 10,000 people and believe they are Hitler. But I've seen Serrat in front of 10,000 people and he doesn't behave like Hitler. At no time has he taught them and made them raise their arms in unison. I don't know if they did me a favor with fucking those people, or not, I cursed them and I screwed up in their teeth a thousand times. I hope life has condemned them. Does it refer to all the record companies or the one on the album Take a song ? In general all because it was the policy that the record companies were doing. Why does culture not interest? Culture is an artistic form of representing life. It has more capacity to penetrate and tell the truth because it can reflect, from the recesses of the soul, the failures and contractions of reality. Therefore, culture is not interested but the gym. The sport does not interest, the bets are more interested, the soccer millonetis . Interested that there is football every day of the week. I'm going to see my Betis on Sunday and with that I have. As a voter for Podemos, do you think Pablo Iglesias was wrong in rejecting the offer made by the PSOE in July from a coalition government, with a vice-presidency and three ministries? They wanted to put them in government, but not to do anything. It is not worth entering the government if you cannot access the key data and sewers, which is where they get the revenue. And if there are elections, they will win the rights. [Pedro] Sánchez does it because he knows that people are going to blame Podemos and Iglesias's chepita will grow a little more. What phase are you in now? In my musical activity I am always calm. I feel very fortunate to be able to make songs with 67 years, although it costs me a lot of work. This last album I have been doing for three years. It is a great effort. Yes, but because of the difficulty of breaking through with a cultural and artistic product; I don't say it because of age, that too, but now I know much more than before. The album is liked by a large minority and I feel very privileged; Anyone can't do it. Young people who start now have it very difficult. More than when you started? It does not seem that way in a globalized world with social networks, 'youtube' ... Yes, now it is more difficult. All there is today is to use and throw away. The two million likes may work now, but in two years they have forgotten and nobody is interested. For groups, when you reach 40 or 50 you become a legend and you have to always do the same. The Rolling, nothing they created after the 50s was valid. I don't know if these things that I do with 67 years will be valid or not. It's hard that with my age they let you do something new; You have to repeat the cliché. He is Catalan and Andalusian. I was born in Catalonia, but after two years I was in Cádiz. Until I was 15 or 16 I visited my family every summer in my mother's village. Is there a way out for the Catalan crisis? The atmosphere is bitter because Catalan and Spanish politicians are interested. People accumulate hate and tension, and do not release creativity and freedom. It is a full-blown culture attack. If people are scared, they are afraid and obey the slogans of power. In the Diada 600,000 people took to the streets. 40 years ago, those who took to the streets were from Comisiones Obreras, the vanguard of the labor movement. Catalonia in many things was the vanguard. And the Catalan workers system was. And now, instead, in Catalonia there is the vanguard of the mamahostias , who want to make an independence movement and have forgotten how important they were to us. How important Lorca was to Dalí and Dalí to Lorca. And now there are the unpresentables that put the flag of Spain. That had to be punished! Take the flag of Spain to the balcony? There is nothing more aggressive or think more bad roll than that. If I put a flag on my balcony I am denouncing that all the others are not patriots. That had to be punished! But if it's the flag of your country, that's incitement to hate! What the hell does my country's flag matter to me? I know that I am Spanish, nobody has to remind me what my flag is. I am not an American leg that needs to have his flag. We are Latinos, Greeks, Phoenicians ... we accept the flag of Spain and we take pride in it, but I don't want to put it in my house, denying patriotism to anyone. It's a way of seeing it ... It's inciting hatred, you He is accusing of lack of patriotism. It is an exaggerated way of saying it, but it is not that you exercise your freedom by placing it but that you are sowing hatred. And the yellow ties? It is the same. Sow hate. I liked it better when CCOO and the Seat of Barcelona were the vanguard of the Spanish labor movement. I want you to put it. That phrase: Are people numb? No, people are cramped, they don't want to put their finger in a place so they don't get stepped on. And now we have to swallow toads like in a Catholic country they put us in the bookmakers. And they do it in slums. Where they used to sell heroin, now they put the bookmakers. That is from the Protestant countries, in Catholics you don't bet. That put it too; I'm interested because it's a meanness of the current system. The Junta de Andalucía, governed by the PSOE for almost four decades, has never rewarded it. Did you suffer the regimen? They have not given me any awards in Andalusia because I have always criticized the lack of generosity, little gallantry and meanness of the Andalusian politicians of curling in their own regime and believing that everything is fine and not listening to anyone. When Carmen Calvo was a Culture advisor, she received me once to tell her about an Alberti project and she talked for an hour! He didn't let me speak two sentences! That day I understood a lot about what was happening. Alberti's project would not be done. No, of course. They occupy the power to waterproof and not listen to anyone, when the obligation of politicians of all parties is to listen to the people.

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