Recently we received the following email from our friend Gaspar, organizer of the voluntary Guadalhorce youth culture movement Gestionindi and lead guitarist for the Andalucian punk band Kmorra:

Kmorra en directo, arrasando la estación de Cártama. Este domingo 25, con fieras, domadores, funambulistas y trapecistas a tiempo parcial. Hombres que escupen fuego y dragones que andan de pie. Eso y mucho más en el concierto de Kmorra. A media tarde loco, que el lunes trabajamos.

I understood most of it straightaway. Kmorra, who we met not long ago in rehearsal in Cartama, were playing live on Sunday the 25th May in Cartama Estacion. There were going to be fiends, fire eaters, tightrope walkers, trapeze artists, men who breathed fire and dragons that walked upright. And of course there would be Kmorra.

Sounded good to me. There was one thing though that needed clarifying. I sent an email to Gaspar, thanking him for the information and asking him to explain to me what was actually meant by ‘A media tarde loco, que el lunes trabajamos’. Literally translated it meant ‘in the middle of the afternoon crazy (or perhaps evening as the word tarde means both), because on Monday we work’. If you are Spanish, you are born with an instinctive feel for these things. No one can ever tell you exactly when something is actually due to start, but somehow everybody seems to know. But being English, we required something a bit more specific, even if, living in Spain, we accepted that it would be relatively approximate.

And this was Gaspar’s reply, written in English:

Jajajaajajjaa! Sorry! I really don't mention the hour. I guess we'll be at the bar early, maybe 20:30 or even earlier. The concert should begin at 21:00 . . . you know. Good to hear from you! Greetings!
P.S. I very much enjoyed your interview with Azzy, the bass player who lives near the Valle de Abdalajís, it's amazing how many good musicians live in the Guadalhorce Valley!

Well unfortunately that clashed with something else and we couldn’t make it, but I asked Gaspar if he could arrange to send me a few photos and here they are. Hope you enjoy them!

If you would like more information about Gestionindi, or any future events organized by the group, you can email the association on: gestionindi@yahoo.es

By the way, if you have space available, with an electric input, Gaspar is looking for venues to put on Arts and Crafts and Music Fairs in the Guadalhorce Valley. Contact him.