music news came in two forms this evening, good and bad.

first the bad, or to be more precise ‘unfortunate’. there is a mexican guitar duo called ‘rodrigo y gabriela‘ (pictured above) that have been playing in ireland for about five years. i first saw them when they supported damien rice about two years ago. they are fantastic, the usual fast spanish style guitar playing mixed in with metal and techno elements (everything done by guitar). live they are mesmerising and hypnotic (when i saw them live, everyone was in amazement at what they were doing), so when i was back home last week they happened to be on an irish telly show called “other voices“. i rushed around to find a blank video and i recorded their performace (i got the last 20min or so). so tonight i went to watch it only to find that it was recorded over by the top 10 british comedies. nooooooooooo!. ah well. rodrigo y gabriela play some gigs in ireland and england soon, so check them out if you can.

the good news. the jos� gonz�lez website has been updated. i checked this evening and saw that a turku/�bo date had been added for april 19th, so we started to plan going there, then i looked at the page again and saw that there was a helsinki date too! for the previous night (sunday april 18th). hurrray!. its done with the swedish music thing ‘accelerator‘. i cant wait!.