Ågenskalns market morning, about which the band once sang Aeolian, has already passed. The time when the outstanding Latvian theater and cinema actor Uldis Pūcītis sold warm pies here is, of course, even further away. At the entrance, two bald men in leather jackets meet and embrace, and I thought: a Latvian’s desire for songs that cause romantic shivers cannot be hidden and is inherited from generation to generation – regardless of how he tries to present himself to others.
Or a duet? Chips and Dullais see you at noon. Mārtiņš Ābols and Ćirts Strumpmanis, the two members of the new wave hit duo (a wording I honestly admit), are already waiting for me upstairs, built a couple of years ago, to talk at the dinner table. I eagerly started to discuss with Mārtiņas the bearded and cozy man with the sly sideburns seen below, who would be a great asset to any meat processing company, but nothing – he is devoted to selling cheese. I have eaten more than one pint of salt together with Mārtiņas since then Colonel and the first Latvian private rock festival Trincstock times. That’s when I saw him for the first time on stage – singing with a group from high school Hide and seek and stirring in one repertory pot The Smashing Pumpkins and the songs of Imantas Kalniņas, now its instrumentalists are known as Bus in the sky participants. Girts, on the other hand, sang in his pop rock group SILS and also in heavier rock associations Soundarcade in the original composition, where
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