Entry 2'

BACKGROUND RESEARCH (2):

Scope: What we know about "Movida Madrileña" are the most famous groups that have more importance during this period (Alaska y los Pegamoides, Nacha Pop, Radio futura, Gabinete Caligari, La Unión, Ejecutivos Agresivos, Tino Casal, Mecano...) but thanks to our interviewee, we have search for less known groups that really were into this world (Asfalto, Leño, Triana, Tequila, Burning, Topo, Coz, Barón Rojo, El Gran Wyoming y Maestro Reverendo...)

Those are discs through which we have listened to the music of this movement.

Also, we want to show the importance of bars and pubs during this movement, because they were the heart of "Movida": the groups offered concerts in clubs such as Rock-Ola, Carolina, El Pentagrama, La Vía Láctea, Marquee, El Jardín, El Escalón... and also they were the places where the cultural exchange occurred.

A post in Wikipedia, give us a simple view about what this movement was and what it involved, and it also highlights the main elements (music, films, television, photos, paintings...) of those years:

La Movida Madrileña (English: The Madrilenian scene) was a countercultural movement that took place mainly in Madrid during the Spanish transition after Francisco Franco's death in 1975. It represented the resurrection of the economy in Spain and the emergence of a new Spanish identity.

Although this hedonistic cultural wave was born in Madrid, it emerged in parallel in other Spanish urban centers, such as Barcelona,Bilbao and Vigo. It was characterized by freedom of expression, transgression of the taboos imposed by the Franco Regime, use of recreational drugs, the "coming out" of the Madrilenian cheli and the "pasota" dialect and a new spirit of freedom on the streets.

Photo of one of the most excentric groups of the Movida: Almodóvar y Fabio Mcnamara.