Book The Bonfire

Essay written by Santi Escribano
233 pages
Size A5

Second installment of the "incendiary trilogy" of working-class stories with rock, in its broadest variant, as a soundtrack. From the Bay of Pasaia to the neighbourhood of Vallekas. From the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen to the aerial attack against Franco. From Carabanchel, La Modelo and Herrera de la Mancha to Havana, Santiago de Chile, Jerez or Cuenca. 
The music is played by groups from here and there, from before and now such as Barricada, La Polla Records, Extremoduro, Negu Gorriak, Social Distortion, Los Suaves, Blur, Dixebra, La M.O.D.A., Angelic Upstarts, Body Count, Mano Negra, Piperrak, El Último Ke Zierre, La Gossa Sorda, Mafalda, Agua Bendita, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Bull Brigade, Puagh, Hachazo, L.S.M., Talco, RPG-7 and, although they do reggaeton, Tremenda Jauría.   
But, far from rock, there are also artists of their own such as June Carter, Johnny Cash, Bertolt Brecht, Silvio Rodríguez, Víctor Jara, Diego Armando Maradona or Poli Díaz. Good heroines such as Julia Hermosilla, Neus Catalá and Joan Turner de Jara, or the bad heroine: the one who devastated our neighbourhoods in the 80s. 
Stories of prisons and repression, but also of love and resistance. Well-directed nostalgia to build the future. With the incendiary spirit of the radio program 100Fuegos, after lighting "La Mecha", it is time for "La Hoguera" to burn...