Le groupe de thrash mexicain où ils sévissaient s'appelait apparament :
Par contre j'ai rien réussi à trouver de ce groupe... donc impossible de savoir ce qu'ils donnaient en metal...
Citation:
Rodrigo and Gabriela met as teenagers, at the Casa de Cultura (Culture House), in Mexico City, where Rodrigo's brother was Director. Rodrigo was playing drums in his band Castlow - a code word he never revealed to Gabriela, and changed to Tierra Acida (Acid Earth) when she joined them on guitar. The couple drifted together through music; teenaged metal fanatics who both failed entrance to the Conservatory and moved into rock. Before joining Tierra Acida, Gabriela ran three girls' bands, Las Brujas (The Witches), Subterraneo and Las Formigas (The Ants) at once: Terra Acida had a disciplined work ethic: 'It was mental!' she recalls, 'we rehearsed five hours a day, every day, with very short breaks, and not much talking!'
Tierra Acida played in Mexico City's roughest clubs and lived off day-jobs (Gabriela taught Metallica riffs to local kids; Rodrigo at a TV station, doing music for programmes). They recorded an album but wouldn't sign the record contract, planning instead to concentrate on learning more guitar styles. In fact, they just hung out with friends and survived by playing bossa novas in the hotel bars. 'Then we decided to travel to Europe.'
Their first port of call was Dublin, Ireland. 'It was the most unknown place to us,' explains Gabriela, the talkative one. 'Also, a Mexican girl offered us her house there.' They landed in Dublin at night, spoke no English, and had $1,000 between them. They found a note on the door saying actually, sorry, but they couldn't stay there after all, so the taxi driver drove them round hostels and hotels all night. Eventually they rented a place - and soon the money disappeared: 'So - we had to busk.' That was 1999: 'We were very exotic specimens!' They built a reputation and landed gigs in people's homes, at wedding parties and gallery openings, playing covers and their own compositions, 'We still wanted to be metal composers, but everything came out as Latin!'
