Evaristo Paramos, the controversial leader of the Basque punk rock group La Polla Records, is in the spotlight for what happened at a concert offered by his group at the Buesa Arena in Vitoria. During a moment of the concert, just when Salve Regina was going to sound, Evaristo took out a banner in which a crossed-out WHO symbol could be seen and in which he warned that a statement was going to be read next ( you can see it in the video that accompanies this news) about covid and vaccines.
In this sense, the famous band, which offers a series of farewell concerts to the stage (Evaristo Paramos even has a new band with which he is going to start touring as well, Tropa do Carallo), gave way to the Bizitza platform. The group brings together a large number of associations in a conglomerate to, according to them, warn of the “lies about vaccines and the attempt to control” by the powers that be through vaccines, PCR, and the covid passport.
In the statement they made an anti-vaccine allegation and above all against the covid passport, which, paradoxically, was necessary to be able to enter the La Polla concert. The platform invited people to join a demonstration that brought together several hundred people in San Sebastian against what they describe as “
The group states that the health passport is “an excuse to control us, submit us, isolate us, humiliate us, confront us and kill us”…
Most of the attendees booed and whistled while the statement was read, although, yes, there were also criticism on social networks that many of them did not wear masks in a closed space. There were also timid applause for the statement, although minority.
La Polla Records has scheduled two more concerts: one at the Anoeta velodromo in San Sebastian on December 29 (we’ll see if they call the group back to participate) and another at the Wizink Center in Madrid for December 30.
They are currently promoting the sale of a double LP on vinyl plus DVD or double CD plus DVD, which is a live recording: Get up and die.
Evaristo, and his time in Andalusia: on the verge of arrest in Jerez
In 2018 Evaristo Paramos was identified for insults against the Civil Guard that Evaristo uttered in one of his dialogues with the public during the Spring Trumpet Festival in Jerez.
The complaint was not for the lyrics of his songs but for some words pronounced during the concert, in which he attacked La Benemerita. There were moments of uncertainty in which it was speculated that he had been arrested because of the content of his lyrics and not because of those insults, the leaders of Podemos and IU arriving at those times to speak out against the leader of La Polla Records.
Pablo Iglesias published a tweet criticizing the facts: “I grew up and learned a lot about what politics means by listening to Evaristo. That they arrest him for his lyrics speaks of the putrefaction of our democracy. Sewers, pen hitmen, corrupt and cowardly paid by the powerful ones”.
The federal coordinator of IU, Alberto Garzon, also referred to these events on Twitter: “Evaristo, the former singer of La Polla Records, was yesterday detained and identified by the Civil Guard for the content of his lyrics. Forty years singing so that this happens in 2018. It is urgent to stop this authoritarian drift. They say shit.”
