This is how the 'heavys' of Gran Vía live confinement
There they are, impassive, stubborn.
Yesterday with rain and today with sun, and even with
Filomena's
snow
.
The
Alcázar twins
are part since 2005 of the lively setting that is the Gran Vía, its
heavys
most famous.
The long-awaited
Madrid Rock
store
fell then, as now historical businesses disappear every day because of the crisis - without going any further, the
Ferpal
cafeteria
-.
The records gave way to
Inditex
clothing
, changing the tone of the great commercial artery of the city.
The place that served as a music supply and meeting point for almost all the urban tribes of the 80s and 90s left a void still to be filled.
As a protest, they decided to camp every afternoon on the same sidewalk of Gran Vía, in the form of a live photograph of that cultural forum that disappeared.
"Are they the same, really?"
Last Monday, the Alcázars couldn't believe they had the letters of Madrid Rock on the wall.
Silvery, shiny, with their inclination ... The same ones they looked at so many times.
"It was exciting," says
DJ Nano
, the new owner of that memory and the
stubborn of the
meeting between
Los Heavys de la Gran Vía
and the iconic poster.
Lover of eighties and nineties memorabilia, capable of filling a room in his house to the brim with models of
Air Jordan
sneakers
or of making Pedro Gómez down jackets back in fashion -as a recent report in this newspaper recalled-, the famous producer musical has long been determined to get the original lyrics from the music store where he bought so many records.
Stubborn search
«It was a benchmark for getting electronic music vinyl.
She used to go a lot, I keep her a very special memory », says the DJ, who pulled the thread until he found the poster.
One of the designers of the clothing store that occupied the premises was attentive to get the letters, when she saw that they were on their way to the garbage can.
He rescued them from the rubble of the construction site and took them to his home in Madrid, where he placed them.
The photo of their friends before them, on each visit, became a must.
Later, when he moved to
Mallorca
, the curious decorative object was left in a garage, with no space in his new home.
The tip reached Nano, who returned to the charge.
"She did not want to give them to just anyone, but to someone who would take care of them or value them as much as I do," explains the DJ, proud of the acquisition that adorns his residence in Las Rozas, converted into a private museum of Madrid's urban and musical culture from the 80s and 90s. Sports cars, collector's cars and motorcycles, arcade machines,
skateboards
... And music, of course, lots of music.
Los Alcázars, after caressing the logo that marked their life and crying every afternoon on Gran Vía, went through the set from where the musician made his Instagram followers dance with daily sessions in full confinement.
"The letters weigh 30 kilos and it took me an engineering job to install them," he confesses.
The twins "freaked out," says Nano, recalling in a pleasant chat with him the crazy years of a Madrid that now, at half gas due to the damn
pandemic
, seem to be a century ago.
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