{"id":12766,"date":"2023-01-09T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=12766"},"modified":"2023-01-08T12:08:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T17:08:49","slug":"adictox-punk-santa-clara-el-pollo-entrevista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/adictox-punk-santa-clara-el-pollo-entrevista\/","title":{"rendered":"Things in a Lifetime of Adictox"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six years ago, in the corridors of the School of Communication, I learned about the punk movement in Santa Clara thanks to a classmate of mine. <\/span>geek<\/span><\/i> from the classroom. She dreamed of going there, staying overnight at festivals and experiencing it live.<\/span><\/p>\n

That same year, Gabriela (the girl) and Pablito (El Pollo) began to fantasize. <\/span>\u2014<\/span>through social networks, as they were separated by a provincial distance. So the conversations floated, she in Havana and he in the center of the island map, until they met at a rock festival in Pinar del Rio. Some time later, they went together with his band to a music festival in Calgary, Canada. By that time it was already 2017 and Adictox had been on stage for nearly seven years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pablo River\u00f3n, known as El Pollo, was an old acquaintance in Santa Clara. Since he was a child, the guitarist and singer was excited by music to the point of causing slight disturbances in the classrooms. As a teenager, he followed the same music that his older brother consumed. He also drank from the neighborhood, from the downloads with friends and the (scarce) imprint left by his one-year stay at the Vocational School of Art, where he studied trumpet. Music was his definitive route.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"It's that rock and roll is what I'm passionate about. The relationship I have with him is like something sexual,\" reads a reference to Pablo's visit to Estereocentro radio station in Santa Clara.<\/span><\/p>\n

His debut as a musician had happened with Eskoria, a group led by the late William Fabi\u00e1n. William was discouraged, he could not find any instrumentalists and foresaw the disappearance of the band. The panorama changed with the arrival of young Pablo and Karel Fleites to that precursor band of Cuban punk that seduced for years a huge public that followed them all over the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

After the death of founder, vocalist and guitarist William Fabi\u00e1n, Eskoria was dissolved.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"William was a rock star. Without wanting it, he was. For me he is the biggest rock star in Cuba. As a person he was a madman; he did with his life what he wanted,\" Pablo recalls.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He admires and remembers the leader of Eskoria so much that he included his pieces, some time later, in Adictox's repertoire.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Adictox wave arrived in April 2010, a fruit of Santa Clara's geek roots, conceived by two of the former members of Eskoria. The sweet aftermath of not forgetting. The band was founded by Pablo Javier River\u00f3n on vocals and guitar, and Ricardo Javier Triana Mass (El Ricky) on drums.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

El Pollo and El Ricky brought the rhythm of the last formation of Eskoria. Ricardo Espinosa Manzo (El Yoyo) joined the rehearsals on guitar and backing vocals, and a couple of months later Landy Chaviano joined on bass.<\/span><\/p>\n

As they have told it, their first concert dates back to October 19, 2010. That same year, they participated as guest band in the <\/span>Metal City Festival <\/span><\/a>of Santa Clara.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Although Adictox presented itself as a punk band, its director has stated that it is open to multiple tendencies: \"Whatever idea it is, we invent it in rehearsals, and whether it is metal or whatever, we play it if we think it is good for what we want. We just want to feel good\".<\/span><\/p>\n