Read a portion of the bio from the Rodrigo y Gabriela website and then watch the video.
Their first port of call was Dublin, Ireland. “It was the most unknown place to us”, explains Gabriela, the talkative one. “Also, a Mexican girl offered us her house there.” They landed in Dublin at night, spoke no English, and had $1,000 between them. They found a note on the door saying actually, sorry, but they couldn’t stay there after all, so the taxi driver drove them round hostels and hotels all night. Eventually they rented a place – and soon the money disappeared: “So – we had to busk”. That was 1999: “We were very exotic specimens!” They built a reputation and landed gigs in people’s homes, at wedding parties and gallery openings, playing covers and their own compositions, “We still wanted to be metal composers, but everything came out as Latin!”
Origin of this video: Roger Quail at Rubyworks in Ireland reports that “the clip of Gab telling the story of arriving in Ireland was shot at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin in 2005. Most of the other footage comes from the bonus DVD which came with initial copies of the ‘Rodrigo y Gabriela’ album when it was released in 2006.”
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