“Next stop - Bulgaria!”

A couple of weeks before their first ever visit to Bulgaria for a show at Tangra Mega Rock’s second birthday party on April 11, 2008, the voice of the leader of Mexico City’s Latino rock outfit Molotov, Tito Fuentes, boomed in the speakers of the Sofia-based online rock radio station…

Vassil Varbanov: Hey Tito, good morning, how are you?

Tito Fuentes: Good morning, how are you? I’m still alive and kicking.

V. V.: Obviously this time the reason we are having you with us is this first ever Molotov concert in Sofia, Bulgaria, that is going to happen on April 11, 2008. So, please, tell us more about it.

T.  F.: Well, we are definitely surprised, because the record industry is getting like in a weird way, less promotional stuff… So we are really surprised to have the invitation to go all the way there. We are very happy to.

V. V.: What do you actually expect from this show?

T.  F.:  I don’t know what to expect. You know, when you go to a new place, you try to give your best, like playing songs from all the albums and everything.

V. V.:  It means that on this show in Sofia you are going to play all the famous tracks of your band including the ones from the first record, “¿Dónde Jugarán los Niños?”, right?

T. F.: Yeah, absolutely. When we go to see bands that we like, we want to see their first songs, all the stuff you can hear from a band, you know, so we’re going to play for sure all of them.

V. V.: What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear me pronouncing the word Bulgaria?

T. F.: We know it’s pretty close to Romania. After high school I was in Bucharest to see the Dracula monastery.

V. V.: Really?

T. F.: Yeah, and that’s around the corner.

V. V.: So when you hear me pronouncing Bulgaria, you think of Dracula again?

T. F.: No, no, it’s just that I think of its global location. Actually it’s as close as when we went to Russia and other places where English or Spanish are not the main languages. We were curious to see how people would react to us singing in Spanish and English, but music is like a language and people danced to it. So we can’t wait to come to Bulgaria. We are happy to go there.

V. V.: What do people do at your shows? Do they dance? Do they headbang? Or both?

T. F.:  They do both definitely - they dance and headbang. And some of them just try to see, ha-ha-ha! We have good communication with our fans when we are on stage and we are down on the floor. It’s like a trace of energy.

V. V.: Well, you had this big tour in Latin America last year and then you did a tour in the USA for a while, and now you are actually touring Latin America again. How is it going?

T. F.: It’s pretty good. Actually in Latin America and in the States we are getting younger crowds. People that went to see us on the first shows are bringing their children now. So we are like a generation up now. It’s our opportunity to see younger crowds now.

V. V.: You are from Mexico City - the biggest fucking city in the world! When you go to different places and especially smaller urban areas, do you feel better or it feels badly small and insignificant?

T. F.: Oh, we feel like we can breathe, ha-ha-ha!

V. V.: Your latest album came out in the end of 2007, but before that there were rumors that you had split.В  What was the real situation and what is the reason for you to keep going?

T. F.: There was something like a plan. We decided to make 4 short EPs with 4 songs each. So each one produced, wrote and even performed their own album and then we had to get together for this last one. So it was like a creative project. Each of us released 4 songs by Molotov, you know, that was it. We never meant splitting for real.

V. V.: What are your four songs on “Enternamiente”?

T. F.: My four songs are “Yofo”, “DDT”… One called “Por”… What’s the fourth one? Ah, yes, “Yase”.

V. V.:  We have a massive airplay of “Yofo”. We thought that you may get tons of money if you sell this like kind of an advertising song for a telecom company. It already sounds in a way like a ringtone.

T. F.: He-he-he, well, I don’t have any offers yet, but you can tell them.

V. V.: Is this whistling kind of a love signal in your district?

T. F.: It sounds like it could be… Yeah, it could be used for that… It’s not, but it could be that kind of whistle.

V. V.: You have always been famous for being rebels. What is the rebellion against these days?

T. F.: Let’s put it that way - the actual government… I don’t like the traffic in Mexico, the pollution, the corruption and the police. There’s a lot of corruption on every level here in Mexico. It still affects our lives.

V. V.: So when you come to Bulgaria, we can easily meet you at the airport with the words “Welcome home”, because it’s the same fucking situation here. Corruption, bad traffic and everything…

T. F.: It’s all over the planet…

V. V.: Yeah. What is specific for your live shows?

T. F.: Oh, I think we really love playing live, especially the new album. We have the best communication. Hopefully people will enjoy the energy.

V. V.: Obviously you have a lot of good albums - 5, as long as I remember - and so many good songs, but which one of the famous Molotov hits do you personally love the most?

T. F.: Oh, I don’t know, they are all like my crazy children for me, ha-ha-ha-ha! I enjoy very much playing “Matate Tete”… I don’t know, they are so many.

V. V.: Something you would like to add?

T. F.: No, it’s fucking amazing that we are going there… We are really eager to come… In today’s papers, in one of the newspapers here in Mexico, there’s like a large front page with us on a plane on a cartoon thing, saying: “Next stop - Bulgaria!”

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