Ireland’s ex-pat Mexican acoustic guitar duo, the sensational Rodrigo y Gabriela are returning to Australia in March 2008, after stunning audiences here in 2006 on their first tour.
The tour will include performances at the East Coast Blues & Roots music festival, and the pair will continue to promote their recent self-titled album which features many of the blistering songs played in their live set on Spanish guitars.
‘Rodrigo y Gabriela’ have been one of the great word of mouth success stories of recent times. They’ve been spurred on by steady touring, knock out festival spots, quality press reviews, radio support; and UK TV appearances on ‘Later With Jools Holland’ and more recently, the BBC’s Glastonbury coverage and in the US Letterman, Leno & Craig Ferguson.
To cap it off, the pair have recently been nominated for a “Most Original Artist”, AKA an MTV Leftfield ‘Woodie’ award at the upcoming 2007 MTV Woodies. Nominated alongside Klaxons, CSS and the Knife, the award highlights the best of the genre-busters – artists that come out of left field, and we’re still not sure what section of the record store to find them in.
Ireland long ago embraced the phenomenon that is Rodrigo y Gabriela and in the US they are now a household name.
They sold out five stateside tours in 2006/2007, and their songs ‘Tamacun’and ‘Diablo Rojo’ have been playlisted on numerous influential US radio stations. Their current set includes everything from jazz standards, covers of Metallica’s ‘Orion’ and Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’ plus a host of world music jaw droppers and a few surprises which feature their unique blend of Spanish guitar, Latin rhythms, heavy metal and jazz.
