La Fuga (band)

Formation and beginnings

The group started to play in 1997. In the month of September, the band, formed then by Edu (drums), Rulo (voice and guitar), Fito (guitarra and voice) and Iñaki (bass), started to give their first concerts in Reinosa and other places of Cantabria and Palencia.

First disc: Mira

After the great results of their model, they started giving more and more concerts in more cities out of their locality, reaching even to play in Madrid. More and more people started going to their concerts, and they asked for their own songs. Because of this they decided to record their first disc called Mira, which was launched in 1998.

To raise funds for the recording, they went to the city hall of Reinosa to request for some help, and they were hired to give there two concerts getting like this the necessary quantity of money to record in Navarra, in the Sonido XXI studies, with San Martín brothers. The half of the cost of the disc was paid by the members, whereas the other half it was put by an independent seal of Santander, FAK Records.

As collaboration, José Romero, guitar tech of the band, recorded a solo in «sueños».

For family economic reasons, Fito had to abandon the band. It was there when Nando got into as a guitar, participating on the record. Tanks to this, La Fuga realized their first tour, with more than 80 concerts, in different Spanish provinces.

Un juguete por navidad

In the year 1998 Fito participated with the group as a guest in a benefit concert organized by the band, which managed to fill the Teatro Municipal of Reinosa. The quartet interpreted their own songs and different versions of other rock bands, such as Platero y tú, Maná or Los Suaves. The actuation was recorded in the disc Un juguete por Navidad, launched as a special edition numerated and signed, with just 1000 copies.

After the concert, the member of the group asked Fito to return, and he accepted. In this way the structure of the band changed, staying Nando as the guitar, Edu as the drums, Rulo in the voice, Fito as the guitar and voice and Iñaki as the bass, but the last one abandoned the group, it manteined like this still 2009 when Rulo decided to leave the group followed by Fito. Shortly before launching the album, Rulo took his role as bass, in addition to singing and playing the harmonica.

A golpes... de rock and roll

They were still looking for a record when in the year 2000 they decided to ask for a credit to auto produce their second disc of studio, A golpes de Rock and Roll. In the months of March and April they started recording also in Sonido XXI, launching the disc in June, they started a tour with good results.

During the tour, San Martín brothers (proprietaries of the studies) asked to La Fuga to sign up a contract to log in their new study, EDG Music, and record with them two discs. The group signed the contract because this would open the doors for their music and because the amity they maintained with the brothers.

A las doce

In 2001, and after some months composing new songs and recording models, the band went again to Navarra to record the new disc, A las doce. They recorded the disc in just two weeks, with better means tan in other occasions, thanks to the new record.

Besides, the tour was bigger than other years, with 60 concerts more or less, going to national important festivals, such as ViñaRock and Derrame Rock, where they won new fans.

Also participated with them Aurora Beltrán in «Balada del despertador», and the first videos were recorded: «Pa volar» y «Conversación, habitación».

Calles de papel

They still had not any contract with EDG to record a new disc, when they started to receive calls of other important record companies. This company, encouraging the group to continue with their plans, did not put any problem to avoid the signing of the band with a multinational company Dro-Atlantic.

Calles de papel, launched in May 2003, included a video with images of the tour of 2002. The work was highlighted by the maturity of the quartet. They also recorded a video to «En vela» in Madrid. The disc got very high sales, getting in the list of AFYVE (now Promusicae) in their first week.

In this occasion, the invited artists were Fito Cabrales, whose voice appear in «Sueños de papel», and Kutxi Romero, whose voice appears in «Los lunes de octubre».

The tour was bigger than the ones before, with the name of Calles de Papel Tour they gave 82 concerts all over the national territory, finishing in Las Ventas, with Fito & Fitipaldis, with a great reception between the public.

In the same year they participated on a tribute to Barricada, called Un camino de piedras: un homenaje a Barricada, aporting their versión of «Pasión por el ruido». In 2004 they appeared in other tribute, in this time to Radio Futura, recording a version of «37 grados».

Negociando gasolina

In April 2005 they launched Negociando gasolina, and they became more famous with the first single «Buscando en la Basura».

In this occasion, between the contributors are El Drogas, of Barricada, in «Baja por diversión», and Laura, from a group of Cantabria, who does the chorus on «Amor de contenedor».

The tour started a month later than the output of the disc, and they arrived to all the places of Spain.

La Fuga en directo

After the tour of Negociando Gasolina, the quartet decided to record alive in the auditorium Aqualung. In two concerts, the days 9th and 10 December 2005, they recorded audio and video for the DVD La Fuga en directo, which went on sale in 2006, starting with it a new tour.

Nubes y claros

The band decided to make an experiment with their old songs, making an acoustic disc called Nubes y Claros, which went on sale in 2006. They included new instruments: violins, flutes, accordions... Nando, in the reportage La Fuga: diez años defined the disc as something strange. They also did different versions of their old songs and a version of «Donde habita el olvido», of Joaquín Sabina.

The announced an acoustic mini-tour, using all the new instruments they had used in their new disc, with a special staging due to the different auditoriums in where they played.

The disc included a special DVD with videos and reportages.

For the first time in their career, they realized a tour out of Spain. In May and September 2007, they visited Argentina, Uruguay and Chile, countries in where they had a great reception and they played with the Uruguayan band La Chancha and the Argentineans Bulldog.

Asuntos pendientes

After 3 years without a completely new disc, La Fuga announced the output of Asuntos Pendientes, their new disc. This time the production was bigger than anyone before, they even were title page in an important magazine: HeavyRock.

The disc was on a part conditioned by the tour all over South America: some songs were written during the tour, and it is seen in the lyrics the surprise of the group when they realized about the lifestyle of some of the people of the zone.

The first single, «No sólo respirar», changes a lot the rhythm comparing to their other songs, is the fastest. The video was recorded in the same place that «Polvo en los ojos», of Soziedad Alkohólika.

In the tour they went again to ViñaRock. They also played in the Mediatic Festival.

Changes

The 27th of October of 2009, la Fuga announced that Rulo, bass and voice, was leaving the band. But the group continued doing music as always.

Later, in June 2010 Fito also abandoned the band La Fuga to play with Rulo.

The separation of the band created two bands:

Raíces

After their rupture they launched a new disc with the new artists of the band: Pedro, Nando, Edu and Raúl.

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