Xavier Font: "Locomía was the group with the fewest drugs you could throw at your face"

Sant Boi de Llobregat, 1963.

, creator of

has just presented the new incarnation of his project at the Mad Cool festival and is enjoying the success of the documentary about the fan tribe on Movistar +.

When you make a plan, marketing roll, you already have an objective and it is no longer organic or natural.

I never had a plan, so I think that when it works, it works at that level that is more magical.

I was not aware of anything, I simply let myself be guided by my instinct, which almost never fails me.

In the documentary I say: She was a whore, yes, from the heart.

Everything in my life has always been like this, organic, without a plan, without knowing and without expecting anything.

And when things happen you enjoy them more and you say: well, I've done something right.

I was very transgressive and I was ahead of my time, but I had an advantage: in my house I never came out of the closet, but because I was never inside.

They accepted my sexual condition and that I dedicate myself to what I was dedicating myself to.

I have never had a complex or a trauma.

I would leave my house dressed in my own way, which I was creating without realizing it, I would go to 54 or the Different District and for me everything was natural.

And he carried it with tremendous dignity.

Yes, it was daring, because I had friends from my time, who couldn't leave their house the way I was going and had to change on the train from Gavá.

If Franco was still alive and I was already wearing crests and seven earrings.

I have taken a lot of risks with the documentary, by showing myself as I am, because I am perfectly imperfect.

And I'm visceral and I'm natural.

But what I tell, and how I tell it, may reach the millennials, who are my potential audience.

Because deep down I have a child that I don't let the adult kill.

The guilty bastard of my character is the brat that I have inside of me, that I still am.

And I have to tell the truth.

And when you tell the truth, people get it.

For example, I have been married for five years, my partner is 24 and I am going to be 59 in August.

I already have an age, but there is something inside me that does not grow.

What I want to give them is the freedom to express themselves, to be able to develop and have a role model that I didn't have, no matter how much Pet Shop Boys, Boy George or Spandau Ballet were already there.

Mine is something timeless: An aesthetic taken from the past, set in the 80s and recreated in 2022. Now I am changing things a bit to present ourselves at the Benidorm Festival with electronic music, something cool, evolved, which is what I had to have had Locomía at the time I left the group and all the colors were distorted.

Regardless of the fact that they were not the songs that I would have done, I have never defended a song that I have to do in playback.

And one of the reasons why I left the group was that I had been with the fan for many years and that obviously I had been lip-syncing another man for a year who didn't give me a chance.

As Capi [Miguel Ángel Arenas] said, if Locomía were there now he would have more Grammys than the big ones.

Locomía happened when it had to happen.

The world was changing and we changed with the world.

And especially in that gray Spain, which was balls.

Today I don't know if it would be possible, because everything is invented and hackneyed.

Ibiza is no longer what it was, far from it.

It's a mass commercial story.

Before you went to dance and there was the McNamara, that my brother threw into the pool dressed.

And Grace Jones.

And Roman Polanski, day in, day out. Either you saw the King of Spain, or Julio Iglesias in the private room.

Now the 'jet set' have their private mega parties in their mansions and no longer mix.

But Ibiza is today what it is thanks to all the varied fauna that we have passed through all these years.

In the Inquisition they banished witches to Ibiza: well, we come from there.

There is always the Spain thing, that nobody is a prophet in their land, and there is the typical mockery that "you lose more oil than Locomía's van".

And instead of thinking that we are a group that did things for many and above all for that gray Spain.

Locomía is more than a little musical group, it is something that people may not understand but consume.

And now with the documentary, imagine yourself: At the moment we speak, it is the most watched non-fiction series on Movistar +.

I'm visceral, spontaneous, natural and, man, I have no filter.

It's that I can't put on a mask because I didn't put it on when I was 20 or 30 or now at 58. I am who I am.

If you accept me, motherfucker.

If not, nothing happens.

I don't consider myself any better, but I have a good background and that roll saves me, no.

And my people, my tribe, know it.

That's why I'm friends with all my exes.

Everyone talks about 36 years ago as if it were yesterday.

Manolo, for example, says: "I didn't get paid, but I wore Chanel."

But to what I was going: in Spain we are like that, we do not defend what is ours.

In fact, I have to go to Latin America and today they still respect you, they idolize you, they love you.

And I have received affection and affection all my life from the other side.

In 2009 they publicly stoned me: I went on television and they paid me €1,000 per minute, half an hour of stoning.

But the objective was not to catch €30,000.

My plan was to defend my tribe and my brand that if I had sold poppers, which I had, and that they were condemning me at the time - a judge would say so in 2011 - it was my responsibility.

That I am Xavier Font y García, who holds the position of being the representative of a group that is Locomía.

But don't call it Operation Fan because I'm not a fan: I'm a person who has done something that seems to have to be illegal and who will pay in due course.

So Locomía is another story.

They are four gentlemen who have their families.

In the Patiño program they told me that they were going to treat me well and that they were fans.

No. It was very easy for this son of a bitch to convict me when there were seven guys tapping my phone for 15 days, but no "I'll sell you a pill" conversation.

The only thing they took was four grams of ecstasy from my safe.

It was a very careful trap.

In this country we are used to the fact that the artist when he has a good moment is talked about the glory of such, but when he has a bad moment what they do is trample on him and fuck him.

If I kill someone it is clear that they have to condemn me.

But when there are fagots at that level, it is not acceptable that you have to suck a three-year sentence, which I solved in a first degree because either I stayed as a rebel in the yard or I started to play the role of a good boy .

And I opted for this one.

And I left before Pantoja.

Also,

What annoys me the most is that Locomía was the group with the fewest drugs you could throw at your face.

I, at 58, have never tried alcohol in my life, I have never smoked a joint in my life, nor do I know how to smoke.

I am the most anti-drug you can throw at your face, although my appearance and my tattoos say something else: but the image of a person does not make the person.

And it infuriates me because yes: I sold poppers, I already told the judge, I told the Civil Guard and the homophobic prosecutor who accused me.

I used to sell poppers to my friends because it is the only substance that I do not consider a narcotic and that is a drug.

Do you know how many pages there are now that are doing the business that I invented?

One thousand.

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