Declarations to Los40 de Manolo García in 2016: “Back would be a small sacrilege. Back would not be the same, nothing is the same. With all my respects the artists who do it. In the case of Quimi and in mine, it was very good, there it remains and there will never be return, and it is never serious”. Well, hairs at sea. Here are Manolo García (Barcelona, 69 years old) and Quimi Portet (Barcelona, 67 years old), at a press conference this Tuesday at the Casa de Vacas in Madrid informing that the sacrilege will occur. They separated on January 13, 1998 by “artistic hygiene” and it can be understood that, 28 years later, dirt has already disappeared and everything looks immaculate. After launching in December 2023 Pyramidal disruption, His meeting album, where 24 themes of the repertoire of El Lasto in the row, now arrives, which will not be until the spring of 2026 y “Only in nine cities”: Fuengirola (April 25), Barcelona (May 3), Roquetas de Mar (May 16), Madrid (May 23), Bilbao (May 30), A Coruña (June 13), Avilés (June 20), Seville (June 27) and Valencia (July 4). Tickets are available on Thursday, May 29 from 10:00 a.m. at Ticketmaster.
They appeared with their usual pint of antiestrellas of rock. In jeans, Portet with a jacket and Garcia with a shirt under a unbuttoned shirt. The important thing about the press conference: that only those nine dates will be, that the tickets (“we have endeavored to it”) will be between 65 and 90 euros, “popular prices”, and that will release some new song that they have almost ready. The repertoire? Portet replied: “We are going to play the songs that we like more, which coincide with those that people like. And we will also recover some of the times of donkeys and rapids.”
Garcia staged what these concerts want to be: “We are going to make a paella, and it seems that enough friends will come. A paella, some beers, and we will have a great time.” They talked about nostalgia, but this time from a positive side: “Nostalgia is not a disastrous exercise, it can also be sweet.” And they ruled out that the songs were going to have a special treatment, as they did in Pyramidal disruption: “We are going to try to recover the point of the live of the last one in the row, to sound as we did on the tours of El Last. That is, a incendiary, raw sound.” Making a game with the title of your most popular song (Insurrection) And the return to the stages asked if “they believed more in insurrection or resurrection.” Garcia replied: “One is insurrectioning as he can, but the resurrection, badly, is more difficult”
García and Portet confessed that the idea of the tour was taking shape while recording in 2023 Pyramidal disruption. “There was talk in meals and meetings. And the album liked, so we said: why not do it, why not do something that gives people joy.” He insisted the duo on the importance of music for his generation: “Now popular culture is more diluted: video games, social networks, screens … We only had music, and that’s why it was so important.”
The repertoire of El Last in Row has remained alive during these almost three decades of absence basically for two reasons: the classic resounding category of Insurrection, Honor that allows him to appear in compilations, Spotify song lists, be part of every party orchestra worth its salt, in addition to sounding at weddings, communions, baptisms and even some funeral; And because Manolo García has included group songs in his massive concerts during all these years. On the last tour, the 2024, interpreted up to seven: Passion crying, Pencil and ink, Far from the laws of man, silver airplanes, sometimes turns on, Like a donkey tied to the door of a dance And, of course, Insurrection, with which most of the recitals opened.
Quimi Portet has had a popular profile much further from land. He has edited during these almost three decades a dozen records, all in Catalan, and has acted in small premises, compared to the pavilions that Garcia fills.
This Tuesday, at the press conference, they were at the same level. In 2026 they will add efforts to summon thousands of people.