Barcelona, summer of ‘75, Franco dethroned and the Ramblass sure was cooking!
1975 Barcelona, summer of ‘75, Franco dethroned and the Ramblass sure was cooking! Musicians were playing 24 hour gigs at the Olympia . Theatre and alternative forms of expression, hitherto hidden or in exile, were running rampant in streets, storefronts, cellars, factories - wherever there was space and a willing audience. Flamenco guitarists and cantaors played on through the night, as winds of excitement and change flowed in through the hotel window. I couldn’t sleep – so I just sat looking down at the plaza, savouring it all in. People coming out of alleys and basements, peeking out from behind half open doors, checking to see if the coast was really clear - so many years of Franco repression still in the air. And lot’s of hugging and hot smooching. Ah, it was like Woodstock all over again – the freedom feel. I was on tour with the “Living Theatre”, fresh in from Denmark where we had performed the “ Money Tower ” at Eugenio Barba’s Odin teatret i...