After doing an interview for Sateli-3, a national radio program which broadcasts for all the country, Coltello took a plane from Berlin to Barcelona.

Harry’s flight was delayed, and when he arrived to the Barcelona Airport he took a bus which was supposed to be taking him to Sants Railway Station. The thing is that he found himself in the middle of Plaza Catalunya. “No problem”, the day was really sunny and nice (well, it wasn’t too difficult to beat Berlin’s cold weather!) and decided to take a walk to the station.

Susana and I picked him up there and we took the first train to Calafell (Tarragona).
Calafell is a town on the coast with 4.000 inhabitants during the year, but the population grows up to 120.000 (!) in summer. The streets were desert, the beach was empty and nearly everything was closed.

Bought some bottles of Penedés wine and headed home. At night, after improvising a Spanish supper and welcoming Iñaki, we listened to “Flor de Pasión” (Juan de Pablos’ radio show on National Radio) and Harry was really pleased to find out that he was supporting the micro-tour daily. He airplayed a Tipos de Interés song, (“Calle de la esperanza”) and also a song by Coltello (“280 S metallic grün”). Perfekt!

That was a great evening. The wine bottles, supposed to last for 2 days, were drunk that same night…

The problems start. A phone call awakes me of a big hangover. It’s Eduardo (lead singer of Tipos de Interés) telling me that he’s feeling really sick and that he’s not sure whether he’ll make it to Calafell that night or not. (Edu and I were to be supporting Harry on Thursday and Friday). The situation was critical, because Edu and Toni (our van driver) were the ones who had to bring all the equipment for the show. I tell him to phone me in 3 hours if he’s feeling better.

His second call confirms all my fears: he’s not coming. I talk to Toni on the phone and he says that it’s ok, that he’ll make it to Calafell on his own. I kiss his feet through the phone.

Harry takes a walk on the beach and we shoot some photographs. We eat at the only open restaurant in town and head back to the supermarket for more wine.
Toni, the angel, the saviour, the Michael Landon of the 90’s arrives without problems and we do the sound-check.

The gig was to start at 23:30, and at 21:00 I decide not to cancel the Tipos de Interés gig. I take Harry into a room and show him 4 TDI tunes. Moreover he shows me 3 songs, (“Hey baby would you please wait I’m coming”, “Back on the way” and “All you dead boys”).

We have supper at the venue, Angelitos Negros, and the truth is that we were not surprised to discover that there wasn’t a single soul there.

The show started at 23:45, and aside of Iñaki, Susana and the owners of the club there were about 5 people. My legs were shaking because it was the first time for me to perform as a solo artist, but Harry and I did a really good job and the show was great.

When I finished my set there were about 15 more people in the venue.
Harry started his show at maximum, roaring volume. Rock! It was also my first time to see him performing live, and it was absolutely brilliant. 20 minutes after there were about 40 people in the venue (a great success for a January Thursday in Calafell), and we just couldn’t stop looking at the audience’s faces. They just couldn’t believe it. They were freaking out!

He played basically instrumentals from “Low Rally” and 3 or 4 new incredible new songs. Get ready for his next album, it’s gonna be pure TNT!

After 2 encores he called me to perform a great ending for a great show: “All you dead boys”.
The gig was super. He had to sign some autographs and sold a couple of CD’s. Alles klar!

Back on the road. “Back on the way”!. Another splendid day and a peaceful trip to Barcelona in Toni’s “Fanty” van. We love her!

It took us about 35 minutes to get to Barcelona and 1 hour from there to the town center!.

Once in Eduardo’s to leave the equipment we heard about his dreadful story about the night he spent at the Emergency Room of the Hospital. He was seriously affected by a bad medicine or something like that, and they had to shoot him 4 times with cortisone!
We asked him if he could do the gig that night and he said yes.

The gig at the B-O-2 Bar was at 21:30, and Harry discovered how tough it is to work with Tipos de Interés. We had to take 3 amplifiers, 3 guitars, mics, wires, stands etc., walking to the venue because there was no car access. At the same time Harry discovered that Tipos de Interés are “the best roadies in the world”, because we have nearly always played coping with infra-human conditions. Give us some adhesive tape and rope and we’ll take whatever anywhere!

The bar fit really good with tour. Micro-tour = Micro-bar. We had to play close to the walls so customers could walk.

I think we had an audience of 40 people (which means sold out at the B-O-2, even when all the gigs were free) and Harry had to play first due to volume problems. The gig wasn’t as energetic as the Angelitos Negros’ one, because the venue and the audience were really different (and I don’t mean worst!). Everything was more relaxed and cool.

We had Los Fresones Rebeldes people in the audience (a cool pop group from Barcelona) and after Harry’s set Edu and I played some songs, completely improvised due to Edu’s sickness. The vocal sound was awful, but we did the best we knew.

Then back home to leave the equipment. If you want to have Arnold Schwarzenegger’s muscles, come tour with Tipos de Interés!

At night some more wine and cool chat (with more wine, of course) with me mum’s.

I wake up in the morning, take a look at the mirror and… AAAARGH!. No, I wasn’t MORE ugly than usual. Dozens of little red points decorated my face. Stress.

That night we played home. The gig was at the Pub Mediterráneo, a really great club where we have played tons of times, with a great sound and a cool ambient. The sound-check was longer than expected, as usual.

Harry started his show in front of 70 people. Again the show was completely different from before. He included more vocal tunes (I think the greatest was “German revolution part II”), taking profit of the venue’s brilliant PA System.

The audience freaked out again because of Coltello’s original style. More autographs and sold CD’s after the show.

Tipos de Interés played with the full band this time, and after a couple of tunes we introduced a guest musician, Nacho. He is an incredible percussionist who plays with Traditional Tourist, a popular band from Barcelona. We did a single rehearsal with him and the collaboration came out super.  We can’t include him as a full time musician because he’s very solicited, but we’ll have him back for some shows and next recordings.

The mini gig came out pretty cool and the sound was unbeatable. We presented our new song, “Hoy es uno de esos días”, which is 6 minutes long (unusual for us!), and it was the most clapped.
Another succesful song was our Tequila cover, “Dime que me quieres”.

This was the end of the HARRY COLTELLO + TIPOS DE INTERÉS Micro-Tour. A really stressing and marvelous experience.

We may be doing a real tour with Harry this summer. As always, news to appear here as soon as they happen!