Last Saturday on the 22nd of November my pal Cat and I made the trek up to Vancouver to see El Guincho. Cat could have stayed in Seattle and watched El Guincho at the Nectar Lounge because she is 21, but thank goodness she drove my poor little 20 year old self to Vancouver, BC to see the concert. We were exhausted that day because the night before we had a dance party at our house and most people didn’t leave until 3am or go to bed until 4 or 5am..
After touring around Granville Island, visiting the brewery and the market, we stood in line at the Red Room to see El Guincho and No Gold. After getting in, we actually met a group of kids from Seattle who were also under 21 who came to see El Guincho, it was awesome. No Gold played first and man they were really awesome. They are from Vancouver and are your usual indie- rock type band- except they had this tropical sound to them which made their music really unique and dance-y.
No Gold played a really short show, so soon El Guincho was setting up for his show. And then this guy (who was soo gorgeous) who was standing behind Cat and I during the entire No Gold show hopped up on stage to help El Guincho, who I then realized was playing with El Guincho, and then whom I later realized was also in this band called Albaialeix which I have listened to a bunch of times on myspace. I totally didn’t even recognize him!!! Bummmmmmer, I totally thought he was just another Vancouverian. After El Guincho finished setting up, he was kinda just walking around the Red Room ( I am not sure if anyone else really knew what he looked like) so I waved at him and he totally smiled and waved back at me! (Don’t call me star-struck.)
El Guincho’s show was amazing, his music made the crowd really uplifted and everyone was dancing crazily. El Guincho played a lot of songs from his other band too- Coconut, who I really, really enjoy as well. He also normally performs alone, but for this tour his friend Aleix (the guy who was standing behind us) helped him out with back up vocals and with percussion on the drum pad. Aleix is also in a band called Extraperlo and Albayaliex which are also very cool. Pablo/ El Guincho would also talk a little about his songs before each one, and he had the most adorable Spanish accent! At the end of the show I was able to take a photo with Pablo and talk to him a bit- it was nothing to deep of course, I was too star- struck/ in love with him to allow anything somewhat interesting to come out of my mouth.
Overall the show was great and well worth the trip to Vancouver. It made me soo bummed that I could not see him again at the Nectar Lounge on Monday. He did have an in- studio show at KEXP, which was soo good, and which you should also listen to if you get the chance. “Buenos Matrimonios Ahi Fuera” was the best.
Beautiful Vancouver.
This place was very cute.
I love his sweater! Listen to El Guincho and Coconot
My camera doesn’t take photos in focus when I don’t use flash 
. Go to myspace.com/extraperlo and myspace.com/albaaleix to hear Aleix’s bands.
Mi amor!
