Julio Ruiz, Felipe Sanz de la Rosa, Paco Perez Bryan Festimad (ca.) 97
Felipe, thanks to the blog we have been able to contact you and we would like to ask you some questions about your time as a collaborator of the "4 to 3."
The first question is obvious, how and when you met Paco and you started to collaborate with?
Paco met when I was doing the Owl ... some friends invited me to the program in 1980 or so ... I remember in this program were The Jam and spoke of a group 66 Brighton mod and I remember some more ... apart from that I was very shy and hardly spoke. Paco then went to the military and was a minnow such as making the program. And I made a second board and create a few laughs inviting girls to the program ...
What does "4 to 3" for you?
During my journalistic career I came to agree with Paco several times much later when reporters came to London. He said he was doing a program in RNE Radio 3 and if I wanted when I was in Madrid Prado del Rey pass by to chat. He had records and talk about this and that. It was the era of Nirvana, Blur and Oasis. For me, 4 to 3 was really fun and really enjoyed it. In the end I ended up "poaching" and I did as London correspondent of Radio 3 and the phone worked many times in this and in the Grande de Julio Ruiz Disco. Apart from the festivals that you've heard ...
has over 20 years living in England, does your work has always been involved with music?
not always the truth. At first like any jovencillo in a foreign country, before Spain was part of the EEC and Erasmus, had to do all most infamous work. Washing dishes, cooking, etc.. But then I looked for a job as a TV channel and it all started to turn on the music again. Then it started to work with the Country of the Temptations, Vogue, Rockdelux Popular 1, New Musical Express, La Repubblica (Rome) and Paco Perez Bryan in "4 to 3."
Then when I took a few years working in London as a correspondent for magazines, daily going to a concert with the involved of seeing all the musicians and "entourage" of artists. Many times there was a English journalist famosillos next to someone or some group instrumentalist and did not realize and I spent the day presenting people. Furthermore, as many of the groups are the majority here had been playing in pubs and small theaters until hcen famous and then come the journalists in Europe to see "who are these so Blur or Oasis those ..." and I had known them a few years ... That was an advantage and is what I remember.
Thanks to those first broadcasts of a major European festival for national radio and we heard direct interviews with major artists as both a fresh and dynamic radio, can you tell us your memories of those broadcasts?
remember all this for me was mostly a hobby and when I saw Paco called me and I approached the microphone and talked ... The thing ended up liking and eventually I started to make the team if I was in Madrid and they (Radio3) in London. Until finally the first Glastonbury festival broadcast live from England with the help of the BBC. That was the first time q had happened in the history of English Radio, the Festival and the BBC and we had great support from the public at the festival and the audience in Spain ... Very satisfying ...
Remember the first collaboration with Paco?
Yes, more or less what I said and a little ... whenever she saw me filming me a comment and that was evolving I went to Madrid more often than not to cooperate and take music from London and back, when Paco came to London sometimes stayed at my house and ended up with friendship .
imagine that behind the hours of radio were many stories to tell .... can you tell us the most interesting?
was a great master of radio, named John Peel of the BBC, and they brought cheese from Spain and was delighted with the fans ... The experience is what most recall, brought a spell queimada q written and every time there were more English people and lots and lots of laughs ... camadaredería The rain, music, relationships ... many things but not an anecdote in particular that was peculiar. I do not come to mind right now. It was magic all the noise and laughter ... That's what I love you more I have of those times .. Meet Joe Strummer of the Clash ... Kurt Cobain, Mick Jones in Big Audio Dynamite and Ritchie Manic Street Preacher ... Talk with Thom York of Radiohead and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones ...
's been almost 15 years since those programs, what you save more dearly?
The English public congratulated me and bring me bottles of liquor or property. The recognition of something you've done that to someone you liked and recognized ... I remember that fondly ....
The queimada became legendary and irreplaceable for those trips, do you really met so many English people following your calling?
Yes, they were a group of Galicia at the beginning and when Paco said on the radio and began to grow and were of all nationalities English ... more and more people, very affectionate ..
In those years the industry began to change gradually and reached the mp3 to large contracts ... Was it better before the music scene now?
Yes, I think so. It took me long to adapt to the CD, haha, seriously. I love vinyl records and albums were great, 30cm and beautiful covers with high resolution and q much room for a 10cm CD. Only when he had several hundreds of CDs I bought a player because the record companies all the promotional material you sent in this format. Then the MP3 makes it more difficult and less beautiful music gift, right? How do you give someone an mp3 for her birthday? as they are easier to copy and distribute the industry is a bit scared. Now we have this history in Spain the SGAE who wants to fleece the people, trying to impose a levy on devices to make more money than a few sites can continue to live in caps ...
momentazo remember one in which Paco said you had bought a disc of Witchcraft with a version of "La Macarena" in Mexico and you answered it with a version of English drawings that made another version .. .. "Everything was prepared and the coincidental time?
No. It was all improvised ... I think the drawings were The Simpsons or South Park singing the Macarena, because both have done ... It was all so spontaneous, I think that was cool and people like ...
Finally we want to thank you for your time and, wherever possible, we recommend some UK band that is gaining attention.
I guess who know Florence and the Machine ... There are many good new groups: The National, The Dead Weather, United Nations Of Sound ... The Drums, Chapel Club, The Avett Brothers .. I do not know is if they are available in Spain ... but today for interent has access to everything.
Thank you for your interest and have fun ...
A big hug.
for your time on behalf of the followers of the blog's "4 to 3."
