another reason to love hicksville….

(stolen off wiki)

I am off to see Buena Vista Social Club tonight. Technically it’s in Sheffield (1 hour away) but I am still filing this under loveleeds. No, Buena Vista Social Club is not a nightclub. It’s not a brand-new band nor some strange DJ – its a bunch of retro old-skool Cuban musicians.I obviously do not understand a word of Spanish (Yo Quiero Taco Bell!) but I fell in love with the people of Buena Vista Social Club one sultry summer in Fresno when the Spanish flatmate blasted it nonstop. The incomprehensible love for the lazy seductive strains of old Cuban songs had stayed with me ever since…but I could never find their CD in KL after losing mine in the midst of moving from Fresno. Downloads did not work very well, and I could only find a couple of songs to rip off.

I am not being rude, but most of the artistes involved in the filming of Buena Vista Social Club (the documentary) has since started to drop like flies – Compay Segundo of Chan Chan, Ibrahim Ferrer, Pio Leyva ect had all passed away in the last couple of years . I thought I would never see them live – seeing that KL is more prone to promoting Seb Fontaine & The Pussycat Dolls rather than obscure cuban music.

And this is why I love hicksville.It gives me an opportunity to do things that I would otherwise not even have the slightest opportunity to experience. All together now, Yo Quiero Taco Bell!

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