1. Growing Up
As we are eight musicians in the band, we all come from different universes. Some of us went to a music school, but the original sound of La Pegatina comes from the several musical influences we have.

2. Inspirations
As we can travel a lot by touring, we discover a lot of music. That’s one of the best parts of touring. The culture makes people live and believe! We listen to a lot of music in the van. The driver is the one who puts the music on. It’s a good way to discover music.

3. Your Band
Next year we will celebrate 15 years. Nowadays, we are eight in the band, and 12 on the road (with our technicians and our road manager). We have released five albums, a documentary about the band, a video game, a live album and a DVD of the tour we made last year (13 musicians and a VJ animating a big LED screen). You can also find several funny music videos on our website, lapegatina.com.

4. The Music You Make
We always play and create music to make people have fun at our shows. We really love to see the crowd smile and skip along. And that’s why people come to our concerts: enjoy a two-hour happiness show! Our three first albums were recorded by Mario Patiño. The last two albums were created at Grabacions Silvestres, in co-production with Marc Parrot’s studio. The sound of the band is different on every release. But the energy gets bigger and bigger year after year, with more styles of music to make people dance.

5. Music, Right Here, Right Now
There are more and more people playing and listening to music, that’s the good point. The bad point is that culture isn’t promoted the right way by government. In Spain, the VAT rate on culture is 21 per cent! It is ridiculous. It’s really hard for new music bands to survive that. Culture and education made people live together, dream about societies, and build them – the money didn’t.

[This year is] the very first time we’ll come to Australia. We are really excited to see how people react to our music. And we know we will make them sweat a lot! We also are interested in talking to people and bands about the music scene over there, about culture in Australia. If anyone wants to take us to party in music venues, bars, clubs, we are waiting for you! Just send us a message on the social networks, and we will answer you.

La Pegatina play The Lair @ Metro Theatre on Saturday May 20.

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