Martín Solana a.k.a. Tuka is another old friend from Tidal's world travellin' days. We met in 2002 when he organized an amazing show for us in Montevideo. In early 2003 Hablan Por La Espalda toured Europe and I joined them on that endeavor. We've stayed in touch but haven't seen each other since then, so this was a perfect opportunity to catch up and dig a bit into his band's history, which actually goes back as far as 1996, when Martín started the band together with his brother Fermín and Valentín, the other guitarist. Today HPLE is well known and popular in Uruguay, but it hasn't been an easy road for them. They famously screwed up a couple of times and for some time even were Uruguay's most hated band. They upset Brazilian cowboys and straight edge kids alike, as well as German PC people. Tuka also talks about the difficulties of getting good music in the pre-internet 90s in a country like Uruguay and skateboarding and going to see Guns'N'Roses live for his 13th birthday as the key events that set off his musical career.
