The Colorao, The Trispi, Kike Babas, Fredi The Punki, Kike Turrón, The Coca… All characters real in the madrid district of Hortaleza. All types that moved on the edges of marginality. All young people looking for a soundtrack to his stage more festive and toxic. And all clung to the songs of Extremoduro, of course. These guys were the first breath in the race of the group of Robe Iniesta. A musician that is formed in the margin gruesome, that was enough sobriety to enhance your talent for making songs, that connected with the street first, and later won the critics refined that in a first moment not swallowed her crude honesty. And right now that Extreme has managed to be the most radical thing that goes in the halls of the spaniards, right now that is the group that claim the politicians on his Twitter when they want to empathize with the people, the group just announced that leaves. This is how it works Robe Iniesta, so is its history.
“I spent four years out there in limbo. But completely authentic. I was with my French bulldog ‘little Angel’ from city to city. Sometimes he slept at the houses of colleagues and others, we were looking for life – ”
Robe Iniesta, in 1996, in an interview with ‘The Country of the Temptations’
in 1989. Robe Iniesta (Plasencia, Cáceres, 57 years old) has a plan: get out of the marginality and triumph with their songs, whose potential is fully realised. Made a home recording with some of his works: Extremaydura, Jesus Garcia, Break, bonfire…Travels to Madrid in order to move the cassette. It is addressed to Hortaleza, in the north of the city, where he lives, his cousin, The Coca.
“Rob was 27 or 28 years old, 10 years older than us. But even it seemed that I had 10 more. It looked that he had lived a lot. Already had two children, said it was a exyonqui… a Lot of life,” recalls one of those kids in the neighborhood, Kike Babas, today with 50 years ago. Iniesta wore to the gala the macarreo, toxicity, and provocation.
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The cassette Extremoduro becomes more flat in the taverns of this working class district of the capital. The music is visceral was the personal secret of these gangs. Iniesta had tested his compositions in a small hall of Plasencia, his city, and the people had responded positively. But to succeed the way it was Madrid. And Stealing, of all things, was desirous to have success with your music.
The first concert of Extremoduro in Madrid was in 1989 in the central room Jácara, within a contest of new bands sponsored by Yamaha. They played three songs before a jury where they were Paul Carbonell, and Bibi Andersen. They were the third party, despite receiving the vote of Carbonell. Won a few jocks imitators of Europe clad in tights. A humiliation for the ego of the musician extremadura. It was harder the second recital. “It was a nightclub in a town in the north of Madrid, I think that Alcobendas. We were only 30 people, the panda Hortaleza: The Trispi, Fredi The Punki, The Coca… Robe was devastated at the end because of the poor attendance. What I remember out of the room, cowering. I said: ‘Uncle, this does not come out. Does not come out,” recalls Kike Babas, that they had struck up a friendship.
Shortly after they got the money to record their first album. Invented crowdfunding: selling ballot papers to colleagues for 1,000 pesetas to change the disk… when it was done. What he recorded, gave the album to his believers, and, from there, everything was on the rise.
why Steal and not another? Possibly for the emotional component of their songs. Their influences were of Wood, Barricade or Soft, but his music showed an original feature. Manuel Ramone, illustrator of three of the discs Extremoduro (Pedrá, 1995; Agila,1996, and the direct expedited title will Go, all to take by ass, 1997) suggests one of the keys: “no one Ever had spoken with that naturalness of love. So blunt, direct, visceral. In reality it is the same language that is spoken in the street, and he gives to poetry.”
Gig of Extremoduro at Palacio de los Deportes in Madrid, in 1999. CLAUDIO ÁLVAREZ
Soon the call stage of the chaos, in the early nineties. Concerts uncontrolled, lyrics forget, dogs on the stage, too much alcohol and substances. Travel with a camel. Extremoduro was the new reincarnation of Attila: they left the landscape charred. Iniesta is pointing to the revelry, but during the hangovers you think that you are playing with fire: his goal remains to transcend as an artist, not just having a good time. By this time you are separated from your partner. “I was four years out there in limbo. But completely authentic. I was with my bulldog Angel from city to city. Sometimes he slept at the houses of colleagues and others, we were looking for life,” he told this journalist in 1996 in an interview to The Country of The Temptations.
In that same interview he said: “I Need the drug in order to compose. I don’t get horse. A lot of people are bent on that I am a fiend, but that is not true. I just put it on… normal.” And he continues: “The drug is not bad. The bad guys are men and their actions. It is as if you hit a shot on someone and you put the blame on the bullet”. In 2007, in an interview in EP3, pointed out: “I Left the heroin well before you start with Extreme… which I happened to the hell and left it alone. I’ve always done everything alone.”
Everything changed with the edition of Agila, in 1996. Iñaki Antón Uoho was already part of the group and is in charge of the production. The guitarist of Platero y Tú puts order in the dispersion of Iniesta, harness their genius and clean your sound crappy. It was not easy. “That was a madhouse. I had to organize all this anarchy: one disappeared in the study, the other played very position, and was going too fast. But it was also fun,” he said Uhoho this reporter to the book 201 disks to hook in the pop/rock Spanish (editorial Fundación Autor).
“The reason you don’t want to grant interviews is because of the insecurity that has not make the grade,” says a person who has worked with him
Steal just to buy a caravan. “I said to myself: ‘Iñaki, how am I going to pay the caravan’. And I said: ‘do Not worry: you will be able to pay”. Uhoho guessed right: Agila was a sales success, and even some songs sounded in The Top 40. Shortly before the singer had met Ramone. Engaged in friendship, not in the bars. “It was a very good. Extremoduro was in the process of professionalisation. Kept that point thug, but at the same time not descontrolaban much. Out much of night, to lend us a few songs. Robe he wore siempre a small tape player, cassette. And when it occurred to him an idea of lyrics or of music the recorded. He had a great sense of humor. A kind of lucid and rebellious,” says Ramone.
it Was 1997 and the stage of the chaos to touch your order: the pavilions filled with demanding a direct competent and were in a company with resources. David Bonilla worked with them for a few years. Continues today at Warner: “a Lot of people as suspicious to Steal, but I don’t think it’s a bad virtue, quite the opposite. Working has always been very professional, perfectionist, and every thing I did is I meditated a lot.”
Iniesta orders his life: let the vices severe, and returns to live with her partner and their two children, first in Granada and then in the Basque Country. Starts to read, especially poetry. His palette ranges from the authors underground that found in the bars (Sor Kampana, Chinato…) to the classic references (Machado, Neruda, Miguel Hernández…). According to increase your success decreasing its bias by the media. “The reason you don’t want to grant interviews is because of the insecurity that has not make the grade,” says a person who has worked with him that he prefers to maintain the anonymity. Iniesta wins popularity in the silence and creates mystery with its inscrutability.
“The drug is not bad. The bad guys are men and their actions. It is as if you hit a shot on someone and you put the blame on the bullet”
Robe Iniesta
respondents highlight its entrepreneurial flair. Pulls out albums every three or four years, followed almost always touring. In-between is erased. When he announces his return, his audience, anxious, you get paid. A strategy unheard-of in the rock and only compared in the pop with Manolo García.
With the wind blowing in favor, in 2003, there is a fade to black. Or better said, a blank sheet of paper. The faucet of the inspiration to make songs is short. It is when the musician decides to put up the biggest artistic challenge of her life: to write a novel. Before it was pointed out in a course of the UNED (National University of Distance Education) of grammar and spelling. He was 40 years old. “I was totally frustrated. The first night spent poorly, but if you add nights and get up to six years, it’s like a well”, told of his inability to make music to this journalist in 2008 in an interview for THE COUNTRY.
The prose, however, it flows, albeit slowly. The novel was published in 2009: The personal journey of madness (Author-Editor), a highly original story of individual liberation. The musician begins to accumulate reading on your nightstand: “I Am a reader of late and it has its good side, because I can catch all the territories. Now I read every night. I feel good. And vary: if I read a novel of action, then pick up a biography, and later to Cicero”. He is also studying Latin. “I enjoy doing translations”, I said in that interview, and then leave a sentence worthy of study: “it Is false that the knowledge does not occupy place. If you strip four hours of study, you occupy a place and time.”
Now, Extremoduro closes the gate with a farewell tour in 2020. They say they are going because “no rapport” between the components. Another of his misdeeds: Extremoduro is Robe Iniesta. Perhaps the reality is that it surely is aware that his music, especially the one of the first discs, it’s too conditional for being the soundtrack of the nights of youth. After this trance you run the risk of expiring. Both are aware of it that has already two solo albums quite a bit more sophisticated, and are received very positively by those followers that have already grown. Today, acts in theaters, angry with those who try to record with the mobile phone and in some campuses do not allow alcohol is consumed in the armchairs.
Iniesta is today 57 years, two sons already thirties, a life comfortable and easy with your partner always and you have been granted, in 2014, the Medal of Extremadura. Even went to the solemn act. He, who always was in the political demon. “I thought about not coming, but that day I had nothing better to do”, is justified.
Someone was eating with him a couple of weeks ago says that basically consumed water: “we Were a large group and only on the toast lay on a glass of homemade three droplets of wine.” The food was in Madrid. Arrived by car with his partner, had lunch with friends and went off, also in your vehicle, your home in the north. No longer likes to sleep away from home…
