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Calamaro enters while Jorge Drexler lights the aerosols with a cigar in a basement with billiards.
"Indifference to the world is happiness," Pla wrote in
The Gray Notebook
, anticipating the sequence of
Nominao
and
Hong Kong
, the video clips of C. Tangana shot as if at night in Madrid, a year after the pandemic, You will have an
after
to close or a bar loading at dawn.
The
flash
of a world without masks.
Yes in fiction:
The Madrilenian
reopened the mythical Palermo bar
, one of those places where man "is a sensual, non-rational animal", one of the capital's embassies in the territory of stories, with the films of both topics.
"We have been closed for a year
,
"
recalls
Carola Leoz
, daughter of the owners.
He is 28 years old and is dedicated to music.
"I work at a music content agency."
For six years, she has been in charge of Palermo.
The pager came to see the bar
.
I thought it was a small group.
The typical small group, like many others who come to record their songs.
And no: it was C. Tangana.
It was a coincidence.
When I saw him enter, I was amazed, "he explains to this newspaper.
No one from the singer's team knew the history of the joint.
They found the reference on the internet.
Without really knowing where they were, it suited them with what they wanted.
Some bars have that smell permeated.
When I told them, it seemed perfect.
'It has to be here,' they said.
Many artists have passed by
», recalls Carola.
Musical reference in Madrid
"The tribute to Antonio Vega of the WiZink Center", writes El gran Wyoming in a profile of the bar to which this newspaper has had access, "was conceived in El Palermo under the direction of Carlos Vega and produced by Carlos Narea, the producer most important musical in Spain ».
Wyoming, a regular customer, recalls: «Antonio Vega, Coque Malla or Kike González gave concerts in the room, making it a reference within the Madrid musical world.
The Motörhead or Pat Metheny also came to the hall after their concerts
.
Famous people, artists and residents of the neighborhood, from very different generations, got together ", in a place with room" for any performance.
"My parents opened it in 1992. Before they lived in the center of Madrid" and they moved to Canillas.
«The name is the street (Palermo, 21).
"As it was so far away, so that people would know where to go
.
"
The place is an annex to the family home.
They reserved a space to receive friends who "got out of hand."
It was no longer just friends who crossed the big river on the M-30 to get drunk at the Leoz 'house.
"Some painting of my father was destroyed
.
"
From being hosts, they went on to request the license to formalize the relationship with the guests, who began to pay for the drinks.
«The partners that make up the company that owns the business are Rafael Leoz Ayuso and Sandra Mundy Orueta.
Both artists from different fields ”, explains Wyoming.
Leoz is a "painter and architect" and Mundy
"has been linked to the world of images all his life as a leading make-up artist."
Palermo was born at the same time as Carola with a capacity of 120 people and an area of 150 m2 in which there are speakers
"hung from the ceiling so that the sound is good, you can talk and the music does not bother you
.
"
In that environment, floating in rock and roll, «were the musicians.
Nobody bothered them.
And things happened almost unintentionally.
We have never tried to make it fashionable, ”adds Carola.
In addition to artists, journalists from EL MUNDO or
El País
also came to seal the closings
.
«We had a very diverse clientele», of cooks, chefs, comedians or filmmakers like «Pedro Almodóvar, Álex de la Iglesia or David Trueba;
internationally renowned photographers, such as Peter Muller or García-Alix or the publicity staff, agencies, production companies or technicians ».
"They have forgotten about us"
For Wyoming, Palermo has "the desire to enable a scenic space for the development of alternative cultural activities.
Not so much as a convocation of official culture, more typical of an athenaeum"
, in short, that artists, musicians, actors , filmmakers and comedians were going to indulge in going to the trusted bar without having to endure the badge of fans or colleagues.
The pandemic keeps cocktail bars hostage.
"They have forgotten about us," laments Carola, who was living in Ibiza when she received the call from her father: now it's your turn.
"But we are not going to leave it. We have no intention
. It is our property. We do not have to pay rent. Somehow we will get out of it."
They could have reopened by adapting the premises, asking for a new temporary license.
"Yes, we could make a cafeteria. This is what you see in the video clip, you know? There is room for four tables. It is more expensive for you to adapt it. It is what the Administration does not understand, which does not give us facilities or solutions.
Terrace? Yes, to go out to smoke. It doesn't work for us
.
"
I shit on people who crack / long before the night is over
, C. Tangana sings with Calamaro at Palermo.
"That elevator you can see is not ours. They have falsified it. It belongs to the Barley market."
Tell me I don't have to go home
but the night still hasn't started.
"Some say we will be able to reopen in a few weeks. Others tell us in July. Maybe it will be in October."
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