They have been burning stages for 20 years with their powerful direct. The Asturians Desakato They have dedicated their lives to music since they were children. They met at the Llanera Music School and that’s where the legend was born. “We had no other intention than to play at the end of school partyor from the institute,” jokes Pepo, the group’s vocalist.

They came to participate in the legendary children’s talent show of the 90s ‘I See, I See’ and confess that, since then, they were experimenting with fun versions: “They made a combo to get us together to do versions of the Beatles in Asturianu“says Pablo, also the group’s vocalist.

With the band formed, they begin to participate in festivals and stand out in Asturias. To the point that they decide to rent a room and take the leap: their first solo concert. “We were quite scared. I remember that it was like a full house, we went out on stage and we noticed that people were screaming,” says Pablo: “I think that was the moment when we the drug of music entered our bodies and since then we couldn’t get it outr“.

Companions and brothers

His concerts began to be talked about show. Each time they posted the ‘complete’ sign earlier and multiplied their presence in venues and festivals. On stage they exude that camaraderie that is also seen in the short distance of the bar where we chat, where they recognize that the band’s glue has been feel your friendshiplike a blood pact.

“Apart from the fact that he and I are brothers, The members of the group are five brothers“, says Pepo. “We are the friends from high school who did not lose that essence and they still have that adolescent nonsense inside,” Pablo explains. “Like the high school reunion dinner, well that’s every weekend we go out to play,” Pepo jokes.

This is how they have consolidated themselves as a leading band, taking care of themselves as a family and treasuring personal memories that – they assure – weigh more than professional successes. “I finished the rehearsal, prepared the food, we all ate together, we laughed… and you take those moments with you to remember much more than the day we played at Viña Rock and there were 40,000 people.

Its impact has crossed borders: They have toured the United Kingdom, Latin America, the United States and Mexico.. And, now converted into international stars, They have continued to produce themselves their work outside of record companies, as they did since their very creation. “We went to the bank and said: hey, can you leave us money because we have to record an album? And we each got a letter a month and we paid little by little,” says Pepo, laughing. Thanks to this self-management, they say, they have always felt free.

The final concert

These teenagers, who when they got together fantasized about being able to play at national festivals like Viña Rock, conquered the world and at the peak of their career they announced – with this video below these lines – that the group dissolves. “The pandemic sank us emotionally and we believed that DesakatoI deserved to leave it at a good time, not start to see the decline. And once you see that it doesn’t work, quit,” Pablo acknowledges.

They are a few hours away from that great finishing touch to his career: they say goodbye with a concert in front of 12,000 people at the Wizink Center in Madrid with ‘sold out’‘ and they admit to feeling a mix of emotions. “When the concert ends, we will see the last phase if it will be ecstasy and pouring beer over our heads or if it will be melting down and crying,” confesses Pepo.

In fact, they say that in preparing the repertoire for this important date They have not been able to contain the emotion. “We wanted to play a song for the end of the concert and we were searching. There was a moment when we played one and I was there looking out the window to the other side so that he wouldn’t see me cry but I was already listening to the song and I was already crying… Yes, it will be inevitable,” Pablo confesses.

His brother Pepo jokes that he too will take the stage prepared for catharsis: “20 years trying to maintain a tough guy image, which I didn’t achieve and much less am I going to achieve on Saturday, because it seems to me that I’m going to be like a cupcake from minute one,” he admits.

The last gift to your loyal audience

Between the emotion of having to face their dissolution as that group that more than a band is a family, they praise their fans. Their mothers, the same ones who had to rent them vans to tour their first gigs, will be present in the audience at their farewell concert. Also some of the fans who went to their first concert in Asturias: “There aren’t many, imagine, there were few people but it’s exciting that they followed us to the end and we are very grateful to them,” says Pablo excitedly.

The band that turned its teenage dream into one of the star sounds of Spanish punk rock says goodbye, but its forceful lyrics turned into anthems are now history. Pepo anticipates the epitaph with which they face this very complicated end: “The band ends, but the family does not“.