ARMENIAN PUNK ROCK IN BUENOS AIRES

It was last May 21th. There was a contest between 120 rock bands in the argentinean mayrakaghak. I dont know if you remember Carlos Bilardo, twice times director of the argentinean soccer team at Mexico 86 and Italy 90. He organized a festival to choose four bands from those one hundred tweenty demos. A band called POLCA got selected. POLCA´s members are Levon Hassassian, drums and choruses; Ernesto Vaneskeheian, bass and choruses and well, me, Juan Abadjian, guitar and vocals. Soooo, yes!!! We got the second place between those 120 bands! We played our punk pop style, but we mixed with some kocharies and some lyrics in armenian ashkharapar and krapar so the argentinean people got crazy about our original way of playing punk pop songs. That´s why i was not logging these weeks (SORRY RAFFI!!!!, i read your maiL!) We are recording a Cd of fourteen songs. We send a demo Cd of three songs, called: IABARÁ, ABDULLAH and My Hashish. Then they called us and we were in. The festival took place in LA TRASTIENDA, a very well known CAFE BAR in the touristic zone of SAN TELMO, three hundred persons were there. Someone of the tv asked for my telephone number...we´ll see...
We did not win the contest but we won other thing...a mix of Gomidas and Green Day is going to conquer the back alleys of Buenos Aires!!! hehehe
Bachikner.