Oh history, sweet history...what would become of us without you ?!?

People ask us for some more "serious" info about us. We usually just stare blankly at them, wondering what they truly mean, because we are very formal indivuduals ourselves, but we thought that if we posted this blog with some our most oustanding achievements, then perhaps those souls would find their peace.

So here goes (this is the official bio our label usually sends out):

We Are Balboa have just finished recording a few songs off of their new material which will follow up their international debut album "Space Between Bodies"  produced by Jon Gray (The Zutons, The Subways,etc.)

"Space Between Bodies" did beautifully well in Spain, where it was distributed by PIAS, and was excellently received by both press and fans.

We Are Balboa started in 2003 when Carlos and Lua started to write songs together and began to look at music in a different way to that of other bands and music industry people in Spain. Whilst kids his age were listening to Europe, Carlos was devouring anything decent that fell into his hands from AC/DC to The Buzzcocks, from Johnny Cash to the Ventures, from Neil Young to The Jam or Blondie, imbibing every chord or melody that came out of his beloved vinyl player. When he met Lua, of British descent, they found in each other the soul mates they had always been searching for.
That same year they released an album with an independent Spanish label, when they were still called Balboa, which received all kinds of praises in their home country, and opened for various platinum selling bands in sold out venues, playing for 20,000 people, and played on many national tv and radio programmes.

Since then they met up with Jose and David, in the summer of 2005 and created We Are Balboa, setting out to rock the world with their luscious melodies and vigorous sound. They began their new sonic adventure by winning an important award in 2005 in Spain, which took them to London, where some friends of Jon Gray saw them performing at the Astoria and gave them his number. They soon got in touch and decided that making an album together was the greatest thing that could come out of this newly found friendship.
At the beginning of 2007, ITV chose their song, Space Between Bodies, from amongst 40 other British bands to play it on the Granada Soccer Tonight show.
In April, We Are Balboa landed in the UK ready for a tour which took them to venues such as Manchester's Academy 3 and Liverpool's Barfly, where they found the warmth of the English people and started to create a buzz.
During the summer, We Are Balboa played all the important festivals in Spain, and saw how the Spanish editions of Vogue and Elle recommended their album. All music radio stations played their music, as did the music tv channels with their video. .
November 2007 saw WRB fly back over to London, to play live concerts in famous venues such as the Dublin Castle and Bull and Gate, amongst many other places. We Are Balboa loves London and London seems to love We Are Balboa!

2008 sure seems to be We Are Balboa's year. It began with them flying to Holland to play at the famous Eurosonic festival, where bands such as Franz Ferdinand and Magic Numbers have played before. This concert has helped them get slots in festivals in Germany, Holland, England and Canada (NXNE)!

2009 also looks good as they have been asked to play CMW in Toronto in March!

We Are Balboa have supported many great bands such as The Sounds, Mudhoney and The Charlatans.

These guys will leave you totally hooked to their sweet melodies and powerful guitars, and will have you wondering why you haven't already tattooed their name on some part of your body! 


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Would you rather we synthesize it all into a neat list?

-Having their song Space Between Bodies chosen to be played on UK's ITV Granada Soccer Tonight programme.
-Opening for cool bands such as The Charlatans, The Sounds, Mudhoney, and other platinum selling artist which allowed them to play to 20,000 people audiences etc...
-Playing at the London Astoria.
-Playing at awesome venues throughout the UK! (such as Manchester's Academy 3, Liverpool's Barfly, Birmingham's Club Academy, London's Bull and Gate, Dublin Castle and Goonite Club, etc... which are the venues that saw then-small sized bands such as Blur, Oasis, begin their successful careers!)
-Having the amazing Jon Gray (The Subways, Radio 4, Editors, etc...) produce their album "Space Between Bodies".
-Getting this same album mastered by Kevin Metcalf (The Kinks, Supergrass, Oasis...)
-Being played on all the national radio and tv programmes worth being played on.
-Playing all the national radio and tv programmes worth playing.
-Being recommended by all music-oriented magazines in Spain.
-Playing at a ton of cool festivals, such as the Eurosonic Festival 2008 in Holland, and other great summer festivals at great slots, on just before bands such as The Charlatans, Primal Scream, etc...
-Being recommended by Vogue and Elle in Spain.

There are a few other things such as touring their asses off and other such beauties of being in a band, but what they most like is for you to listen to their music! So listen away!

About the album:

We Are Balboa have just finished recording what will be their international debut album "Space Between Bodies" with producer Jon Gray (who has also worked with The Zutons, The Subways, The Coral, etc...).

Twelve infectious rocking tunes which mix harsh sounding guitar riffs with a crunchy rhythm section and honey drenched female vocals which will make you want to drop it all and sing along to their songs at the top of your voice. Songs about love and aliens, uplifting tunes about erratic marriage proposals, and soaring melodies which depict places we've never been to before.

And here is what some press people said about our previous album:

NOVEDADES MAGAZINE Said: This band is one to keep a close eye on. They manage the perfect equilibrium (not always all that easy to find) between the mainstream melodies and their rockin guitar sound

EL PAIS "TENTACIONES" Said: Harsh guitars mixed with an angel-like voice could be the perfect combination that We Are Balboa seems to master

MONDO SONORO Said: One of the freshest and inspiring sounds we have heard coming from Madrid. We Are Balboa deliver a vigorous sounding Pop which remind us of the best McDonald brothers (Redd Kross) albums.

POPULAR 1
In the current times of musical shortage We Are Balboa save the day
The outcome is direct, fresh and contagious. The song which gives title to the album is a wise combination of melodies (with Lua's angelical voice) and original guitar riffs (by hand of Carlos del Amo) which excellently define what We Are Balboa are, but we're not talking about a one-song band, the end result is lavishly solid and we can enjoy tracks such as "Wink," the explosive "Down" or the intense "Some Places". We have at long last found a band that can climb the hit lists!
7.5 stars

EP3/EL PAIS (Nº1 National newspaper)
The changes in name and band members really do suit We Are Balboa, who have automatically evolved from being a band to "keep a look out for" to a real band. They have completely found their sound and the way to enhance the melodies with her spectacular voice and his amazing pounding guitars.

METROPOLI/EL MUNDO (2nd most important National newspaper)
We Are Balboa, the most international band !!!
With a change of name (Balboa was already taken by a Philadelphia Hardcore band) Carlos del Amo and Lua Rios' band have released their album filled with the classic (and still inmensly magical) formula of srtong guitars plus melody. Powerful and shameless, these guys drink both from Fountains of Wayne's power pop (even their label's name is taken from one of their songs) and Ash's nineties rock. They are one of the most "exportable" bands in this country. Keep a close eye out for them.

ROCKZONE
Good music, that's what We Are Balboa do !!!
I don't think I'd be at all mistaken if I were to say that We Are Balboa is one of the most interesting national newcomers. What's more, I would be lying if I were to say that I didn't fall totally in love with them from the very first time I listened to Space Between Bodies. My weakness towards them is a result of twelve fantastic tracks which radiate freshness and naturalness from every note and which plead to be sung along with. A formula which seems to be an absolute success with Carlos' excellent song-writing and guitars and Lua's admirable voice, which collects the strength and sweatness necessary to provide the band with an overflowing personality and a compact rhythmic section, by the hands of Jose and David, who recorded the tracks at the same time and in one go, which underlines the spontineity and imediacy of their sound. Rock and pop in complete equilibrium, guided by Jon Gray's production and mastered at Soundmasters Studios by Kevin Metcalf. Songs, like the one which gives title to their album, or the adictive "Some Places" or "Wink", prove that these guys have nothing to envy of international bands. They have achieved the difficult task of crossing the channel and begin to conquer the English audience, having played at the London Astoria. There are many factors which influence the rise of a band and that they may reach their aims, but the most evident one is to make good music. Which is just what We Are Balboa do.

CALLE 20
Space Between Bodies: powerful guitars in an amazingly rounded song which gives title to their album.
This album is turning point of a new era for this band, with Carlos' stong chords and vigorous choruses and Lua's voice, which she can use in any way she pretty much wants to. To chose any one of these songs as a favourite is complicated, but perhaps one could fish out Flavour, Its All Been Done, Don't Make me Waste my Time and Some Places (which should clearly be the next single) as front-runners.

NXNE!!! We Are Balboa Loves Toronto!!! Photos,etc...

Our week in Toronto has been, without a shadow of doubt, the best we have lived as We Are Balboa. The concerts we played, the marvellous people we met, the incredible and welcoming city of Toronto and the amazing experience of being part of the NXNE Festival, all made it an unforgettable week. It was an inmense pleasure to play there!

Bueno, la semana que hemos estado tocando en Toronto, ha sido de lejos uno de los mejores viajes que hemos hecho con We Are Balboa sin duda. Por los conciertos que dimos, la maravillosa gente que hemos conocido, la increíble y acogedora ciudad que es Toronto y por lo genial que ha sido el NXNE Festival! Ha sido un todo un lujo tocar allí!

We hope you'll enjoy looking through our pictures and reading about the stupid things we got up to, and perhaps get an idea of how it all went for us in the wonderful country that we have found Canada is!!Many kisses and all our love,
WE ARE BALBOA

Esperamos que disfrutéis viendo las fotos y leyendo nuestras chorradas y os hagáis una idea de como nos fue todo por Canadá! Besos!
WRB




The flight from Madrid to London went smoothly, and very comfortable thanks to our previous on-line check in ;-) and so, after a while in Terminal 4 at Barajas airport, our debate about the dollar fluctutations which had us in stiches for hours, seemed at every passing minute a little more ridiculous. You see, some of us had changed the money the week before and the exchange rate was far better when we got to the airport, but that made us spend quite some time calculating our loss and throwing figures back and forth as if we were millionaires talking about the price of gasoline!


El viaje Madrid-Londres y luego Londres-Toronto fue como la seda, comodísimo (gracias a una labor anticipada on-line, todo hay que decirlo jeje...) y bueno, después de un rato en la T4 de Barajas discutiendo sobre las fluctuaciones del dólar canadiense respecto al euro que fueron cachondísimas, pues la semana antes de volar, en el banco nos cambiaron el dinero a dólar canadiense a una cifra, que luego en el aeropuerto era muucho mejor al cambio, es decir que por un par de días, nos hubiéramos ahorrado unos eurazos al cambio!! O eso creíamos, porque después de un buen rato divagando sobre economía nos dimos cuenta, que al final todo era una gilipollez y que no era pa tanto lo que nos ahorrábamos!!! jeje..

David and Jose in the airplane on our way to Canada...Jose was doing the piticli (those who watch Muchachada Nui on youtube will know what we are talking about...) and David was frantically trying to fight against his complete fear of flying (you've got to feel sorry for the poor dude, 13 hours with a panic stricken heart is not easy!), and on this flight he managed to subdue his taquicardia to a minimum level...well done!!

David y Jose en el avión de camino a Canadá... Jose haciendo el Piticli y David luchando con su miolastán!!! David está echo un champion superando su miedo a volar... si señor!




And this is Carlos and I, acting all professional! A hat is always a great thing to use a "please don't bother me miss/mr flight attendant" sign. ;-)

Y en esta estamos Lúa y yo, en plan profesionales del vuelo! El sombrero viene bien para taparte el cabezo si quieres dormir sin que te molesten! ;-)




This is a cool pub, where we took refuge from the brutal thunderstorm on the night we arrived. It was great cause it was pouring with rain and with tons of lightning going off every other minute, but it was really warm, so you could sit on the terrace, under the awning but not feel cold at all! We were really tired from the trip over, but it was such a great, refreshing moment, and we were greeted by a great and very pretty waitress, so all in all, it was an amazing welcome to this incredible city!!!

Está foto está hecha a la mañana siguiente de llegar, en este pub molón de Toronto fue el primer sitio donde nos metimos a cenar la 1a noche cuando llegamos, estaba cayendo una tormenta eléctrica increíble y nos sentamos en la terraza del sitio pero a cubierto, y como veníamos un poco cansados del viaje fue una experiencia genial y nos atendieron muy bien!!! Vaya bienvenida a la ciudad... todo empezaba muy bien...




And what can we say about the amazing Chris and his incredible band White Cowbell Oklahoma...We've made a friend for life with him and he was soooooooo outstandingly generous and helpful to us right from when we first found out we were playing at the NXNE! Thanks so much Chris, you are the best! We hope we'll see you soon!!

Bueno y que decir de Chris y su increíble grupo White Cowbell Oklahoma... que tío mas de puta madre! Estuvimos hablando con él un par de meses antes de ir para Canadá y nos ayudo muchísimo!!! Gracias Chris! A ver si nos vemos pronto amigo!




The Horseshoe Tavern Logo, the venue where we played the first night, invited by renowned DJ Dave Bookman. The Police played here for the first time and apparently there were a total number of 20 people! We had a few more come to ours, and it was a really special concert for us, because it was our first concert in Toronto and because we finally got to meet some of the people we had been talking to via e-mail for the last couple of weeks, as was the case with Chris from WCO and Akira from Modernboys Moderngirls, who had come over to give us their support and warmth. Playing in such a legendary place was also pretty exciting. But unfortunately we have no pics of that night because we all left our camera's at the hotel...duh!!!

Aquí veis el logo del Horseshoe Tavern donde tocamos la primera noche, gracias a que el DJ de la radio Dave Bookman nos metió en una de sus noches allí, en este local debutó Police en su primera gira canadiense delante de 20 personas... con nosotros hubo mas... jajaja... fue un concierto muy especial, pues estuvieron Chris de WCO animándonos y fue nuestro calentamiento pre NXNE, y una gozada tocar en un sitio TAN mítico de Toronto. Lamentablemente no tenemos fotos de este bolo, pues nos dejamos nuestras camaritas en el hotel... que bien eh? (de los otros 3 conciertos SI tenemos fotos!!!)




This is the store where we rented some of our equipment, expect Carlos' amp which we got from the another great place called Mostly Music Backline. As you all know, Carlos plays with vintage amps only, and preferably Vox AC30s.

En esta tienda alquilamos parte de nuestro equipo, excepto mi ampli ya que yo quería un VOX AC30 antiguo y aquí no tenían, pero al final lo encontramos en otra tienda!!! Yujuu! Está en una de las calles más molonas de Toronto, Queen Street, la cuál no la conocemos ya de pe a pa!!! :D




That same afternoon, before our soundcheck at the Horseshoe, one of the most important radio DJs in Canadian radio, Dave Bookman invited us for an interview on his programme, seeing as the concert we were playing that night was part of the shows he organises on Tuesdays called "Nu Music Night". It was a real honour to play on that night and we shared the stage with the likes of Sebastian Granger from Death from Above 1979. And going to his radio show was marvellous!

Esa misma tarde, antes de la prueba de sonido en el Horseshoe, el mítico DJ y presentador de la radio canadiense Dave Bookman nos había a invitado a su programa para hacernos una entrevista, ya que el concierto del Horseshoe estaba organizado por él, sus fiestas se llaman Dave Bookman's Nu Music Night y son geniales para tocar en ellas... fue un lujo entrar y de paso ir a verle a su programa de radio!!!

This is us getting to the radio station, which is right on street level. It was an unforgettable experience and it gave the boys a chance to show of their much polished English!!! ;-)

Aquí llegando a la emisora 102.1 de Toronto. Es genial porque como veréis en la foto, está situada a pie de calle en pleno centro de la ciudad, es como si la SER estuviera en la calle Fuencarral, ¿os imagináis? El programa de Dave Bookman es uno de los mas oídos de Toronto y fue una experiencia genial la entrevista, Lúa con su perfecto inglés y el resto chapurreando!!!




And here we are with Dave behind us, getting ready for our interview, just before our first concert at the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern.

Y en esta foto están Jose, Lúa y David con Dave detrás de ellos, preparando la entrevista que nos iba a hacer justo una hora antes de la prueba de sonido en el Horseshoe Tavern.




This is Carlos at the radio station, waiting to be interviewed by Dave Bookman. Funnily enough, bothe Jose and David took the picture at the same time, so here are both angles of the same moment!!!

Aquí estoy en la entrevista que nos hacían en la radio, lo gracioso es que me hicieron en ese momento dos fotos a la vez, David por un lado y Jose por otro... es curioso ver mi careto desde 2 ángulos diferentes a la vez...

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The next morning we headed over to the Holiday Inn, where the NXNE had set up its headquarters for the duration of the festival. All 500 bands had to come out there to pick up our priority passes and thus have a chance to chat to the people at the organisation and see how it was all set up. It was amazing to see how well organised it was and how un-stressed people were. Its the same story every time we leave Spain, the people working at the festivals seem to have it all under control and don't have to get all overexcited and stressed-out! There were no lines, and there were a load of stands set up to sell screen print posters and other such magnificent art forms!

Al día siguiente, fuimos al hotel Holyday Inn donde estaban los headquarters del Festi para recoger nuestros Priority Passes y ver un poco como estaba todo montado, y fue genial!!! Que manera mas ordenada y nada estresante de organizar la acreditación de 500 BANDAS!!! (otra vez, a ver si tomamos nota en los festis de aquí, que nos estresamos con 20 grupitos de nada) sin colas, la gente sonriendo, se vendían posters de grupos (Serigrafías chulísimas) en fin.. todo lujo, como de costumbre!

And here are two beautiful volunteers at NXNE, both of them super sweet (which as you may have noticed is a common trait of the people of Toronto!) but we mainly talked to Erika, the one on the right, whom we bumped into at more than one party...hhahahaha...

Aquí tenemos a dos chicas de la organización del Festival, majísimas las dos (tónica habitual) aunque con la que hicimos mas migas fue Erika, la de la derecha, coincidimos con ella en alguna que otra fiesta..jeje... en fin...




Here we are just after an interview for a music TV channel in Toronto! We imagine the video must be up on internet somewhere!!

Aquí estamos justo después de dar una entrevista para la TV en Toronto. Un programa de música bastante cañerete todo hay que decirlo... nos echamos unas risas con el presentador... por cierto, el vídeo tendrá que estar por internet seguro!




This is Carlos and me with the incredible miss Gillian, who helped us a lot at the NXNE festival. We had a couple of drinks here and there with her at a couple of parties and she was a load of fun to hang out with...

Aquí estamos con Gillian, una de las organizadoras del NXNE, que nos ayudó mucho con la logística las semanas antes de ir, y luego una vez allí nos corrimos alguna que otra fiestecilla con ella... muy maja también!!! Un placer!




That afternoon we went to walk around the city and do a little shopping (and when we say that we went shopping, we mean that DAVID, who had flown over with every intention of buying out the entire town of Toronto, almsot clean-wiped every store. Paris Hilton is a sissy compared to David, he'd win the match anytime with closed eyes...bring it on Paris...hahaha).
And look what we found rummaging for rare vinyls (which is a sport the boys always take to whenever we leave Spain)! It reads: "Bravo! The boys from Spain". We couldn't believe it!!!

Ya por la tarde... de compras y de paseo (cuando digo compras digo DAVID!!!, su propósito fue vaciar las tiendas de Toronto y casi lo consiguió, me río yo de Paris Hilton... una moña a su lado vamos..jeje)
Y aquí estamos mirando vinilos como siempre que salimos de casita... al loro con el disco que encontramos y cogió Jose para la foto... pone "BRAVO! Los chavales de España" jaja no veas que risas nos echamos allí... on the street!!!









And that night, Carlos and I went to The Mod Club, which is an incomparable venue where some of the most amazing bands have played, to watch The Stills live...we were really looking forward to it and may we say...what an amazing show! Absolutely superb sound, great songs and excellent performers!
By the way, we got into all the shows for free showing our cool NXNE pass!!!

Y por la noche Lúa y yo nos fuimos a ver a The Stills!!! Que ganas les teníamos...
El Mod Club, pedazo de sala... allí han tocado todos los grupos mas molones! Ese día fuimos a ver a The Stills... vaya CONCIERTAZO! por cierto, por la patilla enseñando nuestro pase de artista... todos los conciertos gratis durante los 4 días...




The Stills in action. They were one of the best shows we went to watch together with Redd Kross, Fox Jaws (what an increadible band!), Modernboys Moderngirls, Two Hours Traffic and White Cowbell Oklahoma. We missed out on a whole load of concerts we know we would have loved, but there was no way we could divide ourselves into so many pieces!!!
The Still had the best misenscene by far, great lights, amazing sound and a great show all in all!

The Stills, que concierto mas bueno dieron, ellos con Redd Kross, Fox Jaws (grupazo!), Modernboys Moderngirls y White Cowbell Oklahoma, de lo mejorcito que vimos en el NXNE.
Los Stills estuvieron increíbles, vaya puesta en escena, iluminación y sonido sacaron, que gustazo de bolo!!!









And after The Stills' concert we took a taxi to the Palais Royale, to the North By Northeast 2008 opening party. What an amazing party. We were invited to it by the great Mary Zondanos, and it was a lot of fun...It was by the Lake Ontario shore, where we could see Toronto's skyline reflected on the water, great music, pretty gals, free food and drinks, what more can you ask for?!?

Y después del bolazo de The Stills, nos fuimos con las mismas a la fiesta de inauguración del North By Northeast Festival 2008, donde por supuesto nos esperaban...
Y bueno, vaya pedazo de fiesta de inauguración de Festival, a la que nos invitaron los del NXNE... era en un palacio a las orillas del lago Ontario, de noche, con el Skyline de Toronto reflejándose en el lago, música genial de fondo, chicas guapísimas y comida y bebida gratis para todos los músicos...en fin...














At the NXNE opening party...Oleeee

Lúa en la fiesta de apertura del NXNE en el lago Ontario!!! Viva la gracia española! jaja
Vaya nochecita mas chula!!!




Next morning we went out for a walk and grabbed a copy of the NOW Toronto newspaper, to check out our ad, advertising our 4 concerts in Toronto. That ad was there for two weeks and it was great to see it in the pages of such a cool newspaper (its the equivalent to the Village voice in NY or the Time Out in London).
But to our sweet surprise we had been included in the list of the recommeded bands to watch out for at the festival! Yoohooo!!

A la mañana siguiente salimos a dar un paseito y pillamos el diario NOW Toronto, y vimos que nos tenían recomendados como un grupo a ver fijo! (entre 500 bandas, no estaba mal pensamos..)
También vimos el anuncio que salió publicado en el NOW Toronto, con nuestros cuatro conciertos dentro del NXNE Festival, es una revista de las más leídas en Toronto, y sacaron el anuncio durante dos semanas.




Carlos infront of a NXNE poster...perhaps we could get Rayban to sponsor him, don't you think?

Delante de uno de los carteles del festival... a ver si Rayban se anima ya y me patrocina no? Copoooón!




We Are Balboa with the cool Akira!!! Akiraaaaaaaaa we love you!!!
This was taken right before our show at Holy Joe's and we were having a drink with Akira who came along to watch us that night!! He was just the greatest! We are looking forward to seeing you again!!

Y aquí estamos We Are Balboa y Akira!!! Que bien nos lo hemos pasado! Akiraaaa
Es justo antes de tocar en el Holy Joe's y muy nerviosos no se nos ve, eh? jeje.. que risas con Akira... ya hay ganas de volverle a ver!!




And this is Carlos with our new and amazing friend Akira again. He's a great guy and the main man behind the excellent band Modernboys Moderngirls! We will certainly keep in touch with him cause we had so much fun with him and he was sooo sweet to us...this picture was taken after our last concert at El Mocambo, at the NXNE's closing party!

Akira y mi menda, un tío cojonudo y con el que seguro seguiremos en contacto!!! Vaya risas que nos echamos con él... esta foto es después del último concierto que dimos, en el Mocambo!




This redheaded, grey-eyed beauty is Allison, who does backing vocals in Akira's band. She was a lot of fun and we had some laughs with her and Akira.

Lúa con Allison, la corista del grupo de Akira,

Modern Boys Modern Girls, que chica más maja y que bien que nos lo pasamos con ella y con Akira.




Akira, our dearest and cool friend in Toronto, invited us to a barbacue at his house, and he made all kinds of efforts, like getting some veggie burgers for Carlos and I. A few of his friends were there and we all had a laugh in the summer sun. Thanks soooooo much Akira! Our visit there was made even better having met you!!
This is me, cutting some tomatoes for the grill! Yummy !!

Akira, nuestro querido colega de Toronto, nos invitó a su casa a comer una barbacoa típica veraniega, y se enrolló muchísimo haciendo hamburguesas vegetarianas para Lúa y para mi, y preocupándose de que todos estuviéramos muy a gusto!!! Gracias Akira!!!
Y vemos a Lúa cortando unas verduritas... cuidadín con los deditos que hay que tocaaar!




After spending some time on Akira's roof-top terrace, we decided we had to do something really turisty and so we walked to the CN Tower!! Its the tallest building in the worls and its 553 meters high (1,815Ft)! So up we went, all 447 meters (which is the highest point visitors can get to)...and we shot up in a lift in 58 seconds. Pretty cool!

Después de la comida en la terrazita de Akira nos fuimos a hacer un poco el guiri!!! A la CN Towerrr!!
La CN Tower es la construcción más alta del mundo con 553 metros (o eso dicen ellos!) Hasta arribita que la subimos...bueno, hasta lo mas alto que te dejan, unos 447m.
Aquí se ve la altura que tiene el mirador de la CN Tower: 447 metros de nada... y allí arriba subimos WRB para echarnos unas risas por todo lo alto...(al loro el nivel de la broma jeje!)









David wondering why, oh why had he come up to the CN tower with us! Hitchcock used him as inspiration for his famous film Vertigo...

David pensando ¿porqué habré subido a la torreeeee? Hitchcock se inspiró en él cuando hizo... Vertigoooo... jarl!




Blowing in the CN Tower wind...

Lúa, Jose y David volándose por el viento que hacía arriba de la torre...




David, still "happily" enjoying his visit to the CN Tower!

David sigue disfrutando de la CN Tower...




The view from the top of the CN Tower...and "surprisingly" enough one can see all of Toronto (and as far as New York State on the other side of the lake) !!!

Las vistas desde la CN Tower, efectivamente y después de oír la bromita durante un mes antes de irnos a Canadá unas 100 veces... si, se ve, Torontoentero...!




The four of us at the very top of the CN Tower...

Los cuatro justo en la circunferencia de la CN Tower, a unos cuantos metros de altura vamos...




Oh, the laugh of the simple-minded...hahaha...we almost peed our pants!!!

Esa sección rítmica siempre a punto...jajaja




We loved Toronto so much that we tried to become Canadians, pretty dumb ones, but we certainly tried to fit in !!! Hahahahaha...What style, huh? Watch out, you might see other bands such as the amazing OK Go guys picking up on our smooth style!!

Nos gustó tanto Toronto, que nos hicimos oficialmente Canadienses... mongolos, pero Canadienses al fin de al cabo.. jeje...al loro con los gorritos estilo mapache! Como nos vean los de OKGO nos copian! jaja




Carlos taking pictures to try out his camera! These are some of the goodies we had in our room in case we didn't get up in time for breakfast downstairs!!

Otra mañana más en Toronto... el hotel estaba bastante cómodo la verdad..
Haciendo el moña con la cámara fotografiando las cosillas de emergencia por si algún día nos daba pereza bajar a desayunar abajo... luego tendríamos que irnos a montar nuestro puesto merchandising en la plaza central de Toronto, donde luego daríamos también nuestro segundo concierto en la ciudad!




Carlos trying out his new camera in our hotel room...the hotel was ace, thanks Rosa!!!
After he took this picture we had to head out to play our second show, an out-door concert set up in one of the biggest squares in Toronto!!!

Todavía en la habitación del hotel curioseando mi nueva cámara... estuvimos muy a gusto en este hotel que nos buscó la increíble Rosa...!




Our artist passes laid upon a Neil Young album. We placed them together in case Mr. Young would hand us over a little of his good vibes, and it worked!! It certainly felt great to have them both!

Nuestros pases de artista, los pusimos encima de este discazo de Neil Young (otro artista de Toronto por cierto) a ver si nos daba buen karma... y lo hizo!




This is our merch stand at Younge and Dundas square, which is a kind of Times Square or a Picadilly in Toronto. The organisation and the sweet Mary Zondanos alloted us a space to set up our goodies and David stands proudly next to the table we put together...;-)

Este es el puesto de merchandising que nos preparó la organización en la plaza más importante de la ciudad, la Yonge & Dundas Square, ellos nos guardaron el sitio y nosotros montamos el chiringuito!!! Ahí veis a David orgulloso del montaje... ;-)




It worked out real well, cause we set up in the morning and got to share with some great bands, amongst which our great friend from Escalade who kindly took over our stand whilst we were up on stage. Thanks so much for your help, ! Plus we sold out our albums!!

Estuvo muy bien porque montamos el puesto por la mañana y luego a primera hora de la tarde tocamos allí mismo al aire libre!!! Vendimos todos los discos...




This is the only pic we have of our concert at the Younge & Dundas square (thanks Zack Vitiello from Chart Attack. And if you want you can click on this link to read a review of our show there: http://www.chartattack.com/DAMN/2008/06/1403.cfm). It was really, really, really hot. Who said Canada was a cold country? Damn them, they were wrong! Their summers are just as hot as the ones in Spain! Plus the warmth of its people would have made up for any hypothetical real cold weather!

Esta es la única foto que tenemos de nuestro concierto en Yonge & Dundas Sq. (gracias a Zack Vitiello de Chart Attack, si queréis leer la crítica del concierto pinchar en este link: http://www.chartattack.com/DAMN/2008/06/1403.cfm ) y hacía un calor impresionante, a nosotros nos dijeron que Canadá era un lugar muy frío, y nos encontramos con una gente súper cálida y majísima y un calor de 2 pares de...




After playing at the Young & Dundas square waiting for a taxi to take us back to our hotel!!!

Después de tocar en la plaza Yonge & Dundas, esperando a un taxi para llevar todo el equipo al hotel... Lúa Rock Star!




During the 4 days of the festival, these cool vans drive around the city, and you can hop on to listen to good music on a sofa and they hand out goodies...

Durante los cuatro días que duró el NXNE, furgonetas como ésta recorrían la ciudad de arriba a abajo, y dentro de cada una de estas furgos, hay una minidiscográfica con música dentro, sofá y te regalan camisetas de sus grupos y mas cosillas...




The people of Toronto...what warm hearted people with such rich souls! Lovely, quiet and well-mannered...just great!
Here's a pretty Torontonian girl, placidly sitting on her porch, you can almost touch the relaxing atmosphere!

Después de tocar, a seguir pateando la city, que ciudad mas chula!
Gente de Toronto... que gente mas maja, tranquila y educada... fue un verdadero placer!
Aquí se ve a una torontiana sentada en su terrazita, con mucho estress vamos... ;-)









Tim Burton could have taken this photo! Look at the tree behind Carlos' hair, it seems as though it grows out of his head!! Hahahaha
The street behind this fantastic image is Queen Street which we travelled on many a time throughout the whole week and where the majority of the venues adhered to the festival could be found.

Y aquí mis pelos se confunden con un árbol de detrás y parezco un personaje de Tim Burton!!! jajaja... la calle que veis detrás es una de las calles principales del Festival, Queen Street, y creo que nos la pateámos de arriba a abajo

unas 500 veces durante varios días!!!.




And so Saturday crept up on us unexpectedly, time speeding by as it usually does when you're travelling and the date of our official showcase was here! It was our third show in the city and we were really looking forward to playing at this venue!!
Crossing the street towards the Holy Joe's, where we had an amazing time!

Y bueno, ya llegó el sábado y nuestro showcase oficial y tercer concierto en Toronto...
Cruzando la calle hacia el Holy Joe's... un sitio muy especial donde dimos un concierto bastante molón!




Holy Joe's just before our turn to take the stage! We played after a cool and very sweet band from Toronto which sure know how to make you shake your bones, called Dance Yourself to Death!! The place was packed, which made us sigh with relief having seen some half-empty venues the night before...so we were happy!
Playing that concert was incredible. It was really hot, totally packed and we gave it our everything! Here's a review of that night:
http://www.soundproofmagazine.com/Canada/NXNE_2008/NXNE_2008_We_are_Balboa_Holy_Joes.html

Aquí se ve el ambiente en El Holy Joe's justo antes de empezar nosotros a tocar... la verdad, es que se notaba bastante expectación, y nos dio bastante subidón, pues habíamos estado viendo a otros grupetes n salitas, y en algunas no había mucha gente... grata sorpresa pues!
El concierto fue increíble. No puedo decir mas, hacia mucho calor, estaba petao, vino prensa y nosotros lo dimos todo... aquí tenéis una crítica del concierto en una revista canadiense bastante potente:
http://www.soundproofmagazine.com/Canada/NXNE_2008/NXNE_2008_We_are_Balboa_Holy_Joes.html



















Jose smoking his victory drag after an intense show...keeping an eye on our equipment, though it was practically unnecessary to do so, cos this city is the safest and most honest we've ever been to...

Josito después del concierto, echando el cigarrito de la victoria... mientras vigila el equipo que alquilamos para tocar... aunque seguro que no hacía mucha falta vigilarlo, porque vaya peña mas legal...
Y otra noche mas molona si cabe!




The morning after, and the music must carry on...
At the hotel entrance, goofing around as usual.

A la mañana siguiente seguía el rock!!! ;-)
Aquí estamos en la puerta del hotel haciendo el nota un poco más si cabe...




Interesting, huh?!?

Curioso cartel eh???




And so, our last night arrived (snif snif) but it was going to be an explosive end to a great week and festival!
The NXNE organisation had chosen 3 bands to play at their good-bye party at the legendary club El Mocambo. And they called us!!! ;-)

Y por fin llegó la última noche, (que pena!!!) y por cierto vaya cierre de semana y festival!!!
La organización del NXNE había seleccionado a 3 grupos para su fiesta de despedida oficial, en el mítico club El Mocambo. Y nos llamaron a nosotros!!!

It was a very special party for us cause the majority of the people there were volunteers who had worked their ass off, helping the festival to turn out as well as it did!!! We were pleasantly surprised to see that the organisation has that kind of nice gestures with those who work there just for the fun of being part of an important festival..and we were so happy that we were one of the three bands amongst the 500 who were playing NXNE!
I take this chance to thank Crispin, Mary, Gillian and everyone at the organisation who were so kind and so lovely to us...you guys are ACE! THANKSSSSS !!

Era una fiesta súper especial, porque el público iba a ser en su mayoría los voluntarios del festival, es decir era un evento que organizaba el Festi para sus currantes!!! Os imagináis que detallazo?? Nosotros no parábamos de flipar con estos detalles... y además nos pillaron a We Are Balboa y a otros 2 grupos mas de entre 500 para esa noche tan especial!!! Vaya tela!!! :D

And to top the night off, we would be heading out to the Gibson after party once our show was over!!!

Y bueno, por si fuera poco después del concierto, Gibson Guitars Toronto que me prestan guitarras, nos habían invitado a una fiesta privada en sus oficinas que fue increíble!!!

The four of us atop the El Mocambo stage, where Devo played in 78, Lou Reed in 79, The Rolling Stones in 77, and others such as Blondie, Police or the Ramones, just to mention a few...

Aquí estamos los cuatro sobre el mítico escenario del Mocambo, que también han pisado grupazos como Devo en el 78, Lou Reed en el 79, Rolling Stones en el 77 o Blondie, Police o los Ramones por decir unos cuantos.




Carlos and I playing Loved and Lost, which we always love playing in our concerts. Gives us a moment to breathe a little in the middle of our energetic set!

Lúa y yo tocando "Loved and Lost" siempre un momento especial en los conciertos.




David coming "from THE hell" at El Mocambo, reducing his drum sticks down to smithereens.

Aquí David "directamente from THE hell" dando cerita en el Mocambo!




Jose, with his rented black Fender, the all-around-Interpol-look...! Check out the amazing SVT Ampeg that the festival provided us with for our concert!!

Jose a juego con su bajo Fender negro alquilado, a todo Interpol...! Por cierto pedazo de ampli de bajo que nos puso la organización del Festival, ese Ampeg SVT !!!




Carlos with the sweet Les Paul that Gibson lent us! Thanks Raquel !!! ;-D

Esa Les Paul de moda que me dejaron los de Gibson... Thanks Raquel!!! :D





Más fotillos del bolo...

























Me, with the SG Gibson lent Carlos. I was so happy to play with such a great guitar. Mine is an excellent one too of course. Mine is also SG and if anyone has ever noticed it has mother of pearl moons all along the neck, matching my name! Carlos gave it to me as a present a few years ago! I'm a lucky gal, oh yes!).














This was taken at the entrace of Gibson's after party. We were invited by the lovely Tina and the great Brad from the Gibson office in Toronto and it was a wonderful end to our amazing trip.
Just imagine...us surrounded by tons of guitars hanging from the walls, drinks and food wherever your eyes went, beautiful girls and boys and a band playing some covers! And all this after our show at El Mocambo.
To top it up we met up with the cool and sweet guys from The Vibrants, and talked, drank and danced to the wee hours of the morning with them and Akira. Quite a handy thing too, cause Carlos brought back the guitars he'd been lent instead of having to rush them over the next morning on our way to NY!!

Aquí estamos nada más llegar a la oficina de Gibson Toronto, donde nos hicieron unas fotos justo al entrar... nos invitaron Tina y Brad (majísimos los dos), puesto que era una fiesta privada, y fue un cierre de festival IMPRESIONANTE... imaginaros, cientos de guitarras colgadas en las paredes, bebida y comida gratis, chicas y chicos guapísm@s y un grupete tocando hasta las mil... y todo esto recién llegados de tocar un pedazo de bolo en El Mocambo... y ya de paso aproveché para devolver las guitarras que me habían prestado para estos conciertos canadienses.





Well, we think it's pretty clear to all the INCREADIBLE time we had in Toronto!
We will always cherish this week of constant fun and all the warmth we received from everyone in that outstanding city!
We made new friends, and we hope we'll be able to meet up with them soon again, and share some more laughs!
We tried to play our best shows and give back some of the love we were gladly obtaining from these wonderful people!!!

Its more than safe to say...WE ARE BALBOA LOOOOOVES TORONTO!!!

Thanks to you all,
All our love,
WRB

En fin chic@s, creo que no hace falta repetir lo increíble que ha sido este viaje para

nosotros,no? hemos conocido a gente majísima, y que seguro que mantendremos amistad con ellos durante mucho tiempo, hemos alucinado con esta ciudad y encima hemos estado tocando lo mejor posible, ya que era lo único que creíamos que como mínimo, les debíamos...


En resumen... We Are Balboa Loves Toronto!!!


Gracias a todos!
Besos!
WRB

Photos: Blanca del Amo

The feeling you get when you're on your way to the UK to play a few shows is one of the most thrilling we've felt yet, and those are the kind of emotions that keep us going.
So, here we are at Terminal 4 in Barajas Airport, ready to spread a little of our rock'n'roll loving in the islands where "almost" everything began !!! We've been praying to the Gods in all deities that the airline people won't make us check our guitars in !!! Oh please, please, please !!!

La sensación de ir camino a UK para dar unos cuantos conciertos, es una de las
cosas que mas nos ponen las pilas y que mas nos motivan para seguir adelante.
Así, que aquí estamos todos llegando a la T4 en Barajas dispuestos a repartir nuestro rock sobre la isla donde "casi" todo empezó. Por favor, que no nos hagan facturar las guitarras...!!! Argh!





This is the train which takes you to the plane, and it's pretty clear where David's nuts have migrated to inside his body at the mere thought of having to get on the plane (he's been worked up about it all week !!! Poor thing !!!)

Y aquí, en el tren que te lleva al avión donde David, nuestro batería, teme subirse desde 1 semana antes... de hecho aquí se ve claramente, donde tiene sus atributos justo antes de subirse al aparato volador.





Blanca, our fantastic and most beloved personal photographer, who also happens to be my lovely sister. Thanks to her you'll be able to look at all these cool pics which illustrate the amazing times we had in the UK. Thanks sis, we are soooo grateful !!! Plus the laughs we had with her are priceless !!! We love you. This was taken on the layover in London on our way to Manchester !!!

Blanca, nuestra fantástica fotógrafa de ruta, y mi maravillosa hermana, gracias a ella, vas a poder ser testigo de todo este resumen fotográfico... gracias hermanica, te lo debemos...! Y que risas nos hemos echado con la Blanqui! Te queremos.
Aquí estamos haciendo escala en Londres, de camino a Manchester.





Here we are with Guy Lovelady, our good friend in Manchester and the Master of ceremonies who organised the whole tour !!! Seeing as we new that what he loves most is his sweet daughter, Ella, music and football, we bought him an official Real Madrid t-shirt signed by all the players in the team !!! He was absolutely gabberflasted, of course !!! ;-)

Aquí estamos con Guy, nuestro amigo en Manchester, y quien organizo el tour,
como lo que mas le gusta en este mundo es, su hija, la música y el fútbol, le llevamos hasta Manchester, una camiseta oficial del Real Madrid, firmada por todos los jugadores del actual equipo...se quedo flipao, of course! ;-)











Yeah !!! We're finally in Manchester !!! And its night time !!! This us goofing around !!! Manchester is amazingly beautiful.

Ya estamos en Machester!!! Y es de noche!!! Yeeeeepa! Aquí estamos haciendo el gamba...








The next morning, and seeing as we had two days off before our first gig in Birmingham, a part of the band decided to visit the ITV Granada tv studios where our song, "Space Between Bodies" has been played on the runner ups of the football league.

Al día siguiente, como tenemos 2 días de descanso antes del primer concierto en Birmingham, una parte del grupo fuimos a visitar las instalaciones de la televisión inglesa, ITV Granada, donde han estado poniendo nuestra canción, para calentar los goles de su fútbol... jaja!





To buy vinyls in Manchester is almost a compulsory thing to do !!!

Comprar vinilos en Manchester, es una obligación moral.





Walking through Manchester's shopping area of town. David is once again "out of this world" as he so often is !!! hahahaha

Paseando por el centro de Manchester, nos hicimos una fotito... así somos.. je je.. David como siempre
"desconectado del mundo".





Drinking a few pints near the river. David is about to receive a "del Amo" pat !!! Band stuff !!!

Tomándonos unas pintas cerca del río. David esta punto de recibir un "del Amo"...en fin.. cosas de grupo..





Day 2: Having breakfast at the all original Koffee Pot, neat our hotel, where many up and coming bands have played acoustic shows. The View have a promo pic taken at this very same spot...the owner has just recognised us. We were going to have played an acoustic set ourselves, but our schedule was too tight, so we're definitely coming back to play it soon !!!

Día 2, desayunando cerca del hotel, es un sitio muy original llamado Koffee Pot, donde muchos grupos hacen acústicos, antes de tocar por la noche en sala. El grupo "The View" valor en alza en UK, se hicieron
en este bar su foto promocional... aquí, nos acaba de reconocer el dueño.





Another picture with Guy, what a top man !!! We adore him !!!

Otra foto con Guy, que buen tipo!





Two Pretty Ladies !!! Spanish flavour's in the air !!!

Las 2 chicas guapas del viaje!!! Que vivan las españolas!





Acting the tourist isn't a bad idea every now and then, plus being one in Manchester is ace, cause its such a beautiful city with so much going on !!! Here we are at the Cathedral.
Our first show is quickly approaching and we just can't wait ... Birmingham here we come !!!

Hacer un poco el turista tampoco viene mal, ademas Manchester es muy chulo. Esta es su catedral.
Se acerca la noche del primer concierto en Birmingham... y ya no podemos esperar mas!!! !!!






On the night of our first show, the Kings of Leon were playing next door, at the Academy (we were playing a the Academy Club), but even so, dear friends, people still came to our show !!! It's amazing how in the UK people go watch bands they don't know, and are so interested in finding new music and bands !!! Its sooooo cool !!!

La noche del 1er concierto, tocan los Kings of Leon en la sala contigua, y aun así, queridos amigos...
hay gente viéndonos!!! Esto es UK...y esto pasa. La gente, va a los conciertos a conocer grupos...les
gusta descubrir grupos nuevos, que raros son, no? ;-) Como molan!





And this is us rocking to the heart beat of Birmingham !!! We had a ball !!!
Y aqui estamos, rockeando en el Club Carling Academy de Birmingham! Recibieron su racion...de rock! jeje





After the show, sweaty t-shirt included, we put our gear outside the venue and waited for our van to come pick us up !!! Unfortunately one of our bags was stolen with 400 euros worth of equipment in it inside the venue that night. But, I guess that just comes along with life on the road !!! We must continue our tour though, so we just try to salvage the loss by having a great time on the rest of the gigs !!!
Next, Manchester Academy 3, a cool venue where the likes of Maximo Park, The Rakes and Spinto Band have played ... here we go !!!

Depues de tocar, camiseta sudada, y el equipo en la puerta del garito... un clasico!
Esa noche, nos robaron una bolsa con unos 400 euros en equipo y cosas...en fin! A seguir el tour!
Al dia siguiente nos espera el Manchester Academy 3, una sala cojonuda donde han tocado todos los grupos molones de UK y USA, desde Maximo Park y The Rakes a Spinto Band... here we go!!!





The next day at the sound check. Guys, if you ever play in the UK you cannot be late for the sound check, not even 10 minutes, cause they won't let you do it. We were late against our will, but it just works differently than in Spain, so this is the moronic face you're left with when they tell you you're not sound checking !!! You can cut the tension with a knife ... hahahha !!!

Al día siguiente, en la prueba de sonido en el Academy 3. Chicos, si vais a UK a tocar, NO lleguéis ni 10 min. tarde a probar sonido, en esta foto podéis ver la cara de gilipollas que se te queda, cuando te dicen que no vas a probar sonido. Se palpa la tension... jaja! Como son los guiris, se estiran menos que el portero de un futbolín.





But, we had a plan !!! Here, in our backstage area, we decided that if we had all of our stuff (guitars, pedals, drum equipment, etc...) all ready next to the stage 10 mins before our change over time, then we could quickly get our things on stage in

5 mins and at least get a decent line check (which means you make sure it all works) and get the great Manchunians to listen and watch one of our best shows ever !!!

Pero atención, teníamos un plan. Aquí, en el camerino, decidimos, que si teníamos todo lo nuestro, guitarras, pedales, hierros de la batería, en fin, todo preparado justo al lado del escenario 10 minutos antes de que acabara el grupo anterior, y lo subíamos a toda velocidad, solo necesitaríamos 5 min. sobre el escenario para chequear lineas (probar que todo suena) para hacer que estos Manchesterianos, recordaran el sabor de la gloria!





Acting like idiots before going onstage is the best medicine against the butterflies you get in your stomach when not everything has gone as planned and you're not sure if it will all turn out ok !!!

Hacer el idiota justo unos minutos antes de subir al escenario, siempre ayuda...jaja








But what a show we played !!! All our fears vanished in a quarter of a second and we had an amazing time and played our souls out !!! Who needs to sound check when you've got your sound and songs down to the nitty gritty !!! The stage was perfect, we could hear ourselves perfectly, and the people watching us were absolutely incredible !!! We've still got some of the comments they left us after the show on our comments pages telling us how much they loved our show !!! We send them all our love and thanks !!! Even the sound man came over after our set and told us he had loved it. Perhaps next time he'll let us sound check !!! LOL ;-)

Vaya conciertaco que dimos! ¿Quien necesita probar, cuando se viene bien ensayao?! jeje
El escenario era perfecto, nos oímos genial y la gente respondió increíble... todavía debe de haber muchos comentarios en paginas anteriores de nuestro perfil de gente que flipó con el concierto.
Luego, vino el técnico de la sala, a felicitarnos por el concierto. Y a decir, que hacia muucho tiempo que no pasaba un grupo sonando así por ese escenario. En fin... a ver si a la próxima nos deja probar...




















Here we are on a double decker bus on our way back to our hotel after playing in Manchester at the Academy 3 !!! What an amazing feeling when you've played a great show !!! Manchester was all ours that night...look at our beaming faces !!! ;-)

Aquí en el bus de 2 pisos, de vuelta al centro de Manchester después de tocar en el Academy 3. Que sensación mas guapa se te queda después de dar un buen bolo. Manchester fue nuestra esa noche... mira que caritas. ;-)





Next day Lua and got up mega early (after having gone to bed at the wee hours of the morning), and went to get some promo done at ALL FM Manchester Radio. The great Mog interviewed us, which was great in itself, and we played a few songs on acoustic guitars !!! The initial plan was to have gone to Caroline Rennie's Wednesday show, but unfortunately she broke her ankle and so she had to cancel. We send her all our love and we hope she gets better soon !!! Mog was the coolest, though, and we had a real good laugh. All Fm is a great radio station cause they help out in the Manchunian community with all kinds of things as well as playing all kinds of music from all over the world !!!

Al día siguiente, Lúa y yo, fuimos a una entrevista en la radio, era en ALL FM Radio, de Manchester,
nos entrevisto el que fue bajista de Simply Red. Hicimos un acústico muy vacilón en este estudio.
Un tipo encantador en una radio ademas, muy solidaria con muchísimas causas allí en Uk. Buen rollo!








Today...Liverpool !!! On our way to the city which gave birth to the "Fab Four" our whole tour completely made sense to us !!! And driving into the city with a slight drizzle, listening to "Blackbird" makes the experience all the more special. This is the city where it all changed, where music became what it is today. We can still feel the goose bumps !!!

Seguimos de tour, hoy... a Liverpool !!! Camino hacia la ciudad de los "Fab 4" todo cobra sentido, nos entra una sensación de estar yendo hacia una ciudad, donde todo cambio. Yo personalmente, cuando entrábamos en Liverpool, me puse en mi iPod "Blackbird" y oír a los Beatles mientras llovía sobre las calles de esa maravillosa ciudad, me recordó porque estamos aquí. Todavía se me ponen los pelos de punta cuando me acuerdo.





We've finally arrived at the Barfly in Liverpool, another great venue where we have to give it all !!!
Here we are before we got off the van, and guess what...we didn't get to sound check here either...hahahha... and this time it wasn't our fault !!! But I guess we just don't need to anyway !!!

Ya hemos llegado al Barfly de Liverpool, otra sala mítica donde tenemos que darlo todo!
Aquí en la furgo antes de bajar el equipo, otro clásico...
por cierto... tampoco nos dejaron probar sonido (y esta vez llegamos puntuales)... jaja... no hizo falta!








This was our last show of our tour, Liverpool was our last stop. It was a very special night for us, we knew we were heading back home in a few days and we wanted to make the most of this experience while it lasted. There were some real good moments during this show. People seemed to really like it !!! This is Lua belching it out as usual !!!

Este era nuestro ultimo concierto, y aquí en Liverpool acababa el tour.
Fue una noche especial, sabíamos que en un par de días volveríamos a casa y quisimos disfrutar de la experiencia mientras ocurría. Hubo momento muy buenos durante este concierto. A la gente le pareció genial! Lúa, como en el resto de los conciertos dejo bien claro, que muy pocos pueden cantar como ella.
La gente alucinaba escuchando su voz.














Another tourist shot before going back to Spain...

Otra foto de turista antes de volver a Spain...





We continue to act like total idiots in this wonderful island...
Next day we would head out to London to spend our last day in the UK there, shopping and what not !!! It has been an amazing experience and we have lived it so intensely it seemed we had been there for a month instead of a week !!! The Uk is now a part of our battlefield and we will be back in the autumn to play some more shows !!!

We love you UK !!!

Seguimos haciendo el mongol, aquí en la pérfida Albión...
Al día siguiente nos iríamos a Londres a pasar nuestro ultimo día en UK. Ha sido maravilloso, hemos
aprendido en una semana como si lleváramos 1 mes en Inglaterra. Por supuesto que a partir de ahora
Inglaterra forma parte de nuestro campo de batalla. Volveremos mas pronto de lo que pensamos...!!!
WE LOVE UK!

Hi to all,

Hope you are all enjoying your summer vacations, those who live on the nothern hemisphere!!! And those who are in the southern hemisphere we guess you'll be happy the winter came along to rid you of the heat of the summer!!!

Anyway, we just wanted to let you know that a great and lovely Aussie called Maaike has put a street team together for us and is working with a few other amazing people (for example the also cool and pretty Mischa).

Here's the street team's URL:

http://www.myspace.com/wabteam

Very soon (or as soon as our songwriting and song recording duties will allow us!!!) they will be uploading new things, such as an on-line store where you'll be able to get our debut album, t-shirts and other such goodies.

Maaike and her team are also great at finding juicy things out about us so, they have started a forum where you'll be able to meet other lovely people and talk about rock and gossip about us, (yeah, we know what you guys get up to when we're not looking, hahahahaha).

So go and check it all out and have fun with people from other countries !!!
You never know what hotties and interesitng indivuduals of the human species stand in the shadows of the internet...you might even find the love of your life and then we'll have something to talk about in our interviews..."yeah, well these two people met in a forum talking about what a scortching guitar riff we had added to one of our new songs and they then saw they were made for each other and bla bla bla..."
Think about us, we need to sound cool and merely interesting in our interviews...hahahahahaaha

Anyway, go check them out and have fun...

All our love,
WE ARE BALBOA

Hi everyone!

We have just come back from playing some amazing shows and having the time of our lives in Toronto ! You will soon be able to read the tour blogs we put together for the occasion, but we'll tell you right here and now that we had the best time we have had in a looooooooooooong time!

As many of you know, it has been quite some time since we were able to enjoy some time off from all our concerts and travelling, so you might be wondering why we are not playing any shows!

Fear not! We will be uploadig some dates in September, in time for you all to rush off to get some tickets, but for the time being we are going to be...
...laying back on the beach for a few days!!!

...and...after we've had a bit of a cooling off period, we'll get back to work on our new songs! Many of you have heard quite a few of them live, but those songs still need working on to get them up to the maximum level of perfection! Plus, Carlos has tons of new songs we have to put together and get them ready to show everyone at our next shows!

So, we hope you'll be patient with our little hide-out and we will be looking forward to seeing you all after the summer!!!

All our love,
WE ARE BALBOA

Hola a todos y todas!!!

Bueno, acabamos de volver de lo que nosotros denominaríamos como el mejor viaje que nos hemos dado con WE ARE BALBOA en nuestra corta vida como grupo!!! NY y Toronto han sido increibles y los conciertos que hemos dado ahí han sido de lo mejorcito que hemos tocado!
Pronto pondremos unos blogs con fotitos y demás cosas para que podáis compartir con nosotros los buenos tiempos, aunque no hayáis podido estar ahí!!

Como muchos sabréis, hace mucho, mucho tiempo, que no podemos disfrutar de unas vacaciones y mucho menos de tiempo para montar los nuevos temas. Así que hemos decidido hacerlo AHORA !!!

Nos vamos a la playa unos días para descomprimir (y sufrir un montón con la falta de responsabilidades!! jejeje!) y en unas semanas estaremos montando los temas nuevos que Carlos tiene a porrón guardados en su disco duro (el del coco, a la par que el del ordenador!!).
Muchos habéis oido algunos temas nuevos en directo, pero a esos temas nuevos hay que añadir todos los que no hemos tenido tiempo de montar, e intentaremos darles a todos un nuevo toque y mucho AMORRR!

Subiremos las fechas nuevas con tiempo para que podáis hacer planes, no os preocupéis!
Tenemos muchísimas ganas de que escuchéis los temas nuevos!!

Miles de besos a todos,
Y que paséis un muy buen verano,
WE ARE BALBOA

Mientras escuchaba esta única toma grabada en directo, que tocamos ayer Lúa y yo,
en el genial programa "Tresfusion" del genial Santi Alcanda,
(y lo digo de corazón, que gran tipo coño!)
en Radio-3, justo ahora antes de subirla a myspace, me he dado cuenta
que como dice esta canción en su título "I Know Some Things", efectivamente
no se muchas cosas, pero las que si que sé, las tengo muy claras, y una cosa
que sé a ciencia cierta es que no hay nadie que cante como Lua, es increíble,
llevo tocando con ella casi 8 años desde que nos conocemos, y me sigue emocionando...
y otra cosa que también sé, es que sin ella yo no podría seguir componiendo
canciones como ésta, que acabo de subir. Espero que la disfrutéis!

Te quiero Luita!
Carlos

P.D: Santi, se te oye emocionado cuando terminamos de tocar la canción,
y eso, en alguien con tanto callo en la radio como eres tú, es un halago como
hacía años... 1000 gracias tío!

FOTOS DEL CONCIERTO DEL MOBY DICK! MUCHAS GRACIAS A TODOS!!! :D

MOBY DICK CONCERT PICS !!! MAny thanks to everyone !!! :D

Photos: Blanca del Amo.

Hola a tod@s!!!

Después de haber estado avisando de que a lo mejor se acaban las entradas los días antes de nuestro concierto en Madrid, aquí tenéis la prueba de lo que salía en la página de Tick Tack Ticket! Estuvo genial!!! Sois los mejores!!! :D

Hi Everyone !!!
After having sent out bullentins warning those in Madrid that the tickets for our show were quickly being sold, here's proof of that happening! It's Tick Tack Ticket's (an on-line ticket agent) Web a few days before the show where it says that We Are Balboa's show is almost sold out!! And it was amazing!! You guys are all the best!! :D





Aquí salís unos cuantos, a ver si os reconocéis!!! jaja

You might recognise yourself in this pic !!! hehehe





Lúa sintiendo el buen rollito de tocar en "casa" (Blanca, como siempre, menudas fotazas, gracias hermanuca!)

Lua taking in in the good vibes of playing back at "home". (Blanca, as usual your photos are increadible, thanks sis!)





Un poquito de parte acústica siempre mola! Hubo primicias además, temas nunca tocados en directo, fueron tocados ese día, en acústico y en directo!!! ;-)

A little acoustic never hurt anyone! And this set was great! We had a great time playing it. Plus there were some totally fresh out of the oven songs which we played in this acoustic set which we had never played live before! ;-)




Josete, apretando muelas y gozándola también!!! Piticli bonico!

Jose, feeling it to the max!!!




A sus pies señores!!! Con zapatitos blancos... of course!

At your service ladies and gentlemen! But never without my white shoes...of course!





Impresionante foto Blanca!!! Lúa parece un ángel!!!

Amazing picture Blanca! Lua looks like an angel !!




David partiendo leña y tan contento con el corte de pelo de la Lore!!!

David about to set the stage on fire !! And with Loreto's hair cut it all looks much better!




Que bien suena la Taylor!!! Cada vez mola mas tocar partes en acústico!!! Aunque la caña sigue siendo necesaria!!! :D

Dear Lord, My Taylor sounds sooooooo sweet!! Playing the acoustic set just keeps on getting better! Though we do love our serving of roughness and dirt, FEAR NOT!




Y nos despedimos de esta foto de Lúa, que resume lo mágica que fue la noche, en compañía de un público tan de **** madre! Como decía Lúa en el concierto... "no hay nada como tocar en casa" !!!

And we bid you good-bye with a photo of Lua which pretty much sums up how magical the night was, and how AWESOME the audience was. You guys are great! Thanks! Nothing beats playing at home!





Muchas gracias a todos y hasta la próxima!!! De momento...
NOS VAMOS A TORONTO!!! Canadá, here we go!!!

Many thanks to everyone who came and gave us all their love!!! For the time being...we're off to TORONTO !!! Canada, here we come !!!