"Ramoncin y wc?
Year: 1978
Country: Spain
City: Madrid
Label: Universal
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 12
Time: 44 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Punk Hard Rock
1978 was a fruitful year for punk-rock. Despite the association with the UK, punk also made an impression in Spain. Most of the groups insisted they weren't punks, as did English groups, even The Clash. It is the problem of putting labels on things. Whatever you call it, things happened at the end of the 70s. In the Aliança festival I organised, all the groups played their own music, which was simppe and direct rock, but faster. Yet for the society they were punks. There was no interest in instrumental prowess, but rather the need to play hard, to connect with people, criticise society and establishment a complicity in existing on the margins. At the end of 1977 and through 1978 there were a series of punk festivals in Madrid and Barcelona. On December 4 1977 was the "Festival Punk Rock at the Aliança of Poble Nou", organised by Cuc Sonat, with La Banda Trapera del Río, Marxa, Mortimer, Peligro and Ramoncín & WC?. It was the first punk festival in Spain and the 1,500 tickets sold out. That was followed on January 15 1978 by the "Festival Punk Rock at the Pavelló Municipal d'Esports" in Girona, also organised by Cuc Sonat. Ramoncin had a huge impact due to his appariton in a TV show, but in his next albums he evolued to more hard rock or classic rock oriented albums until 1990 (by Xavi Cot).
