My Catalan language skills are non-existent, Spanish weak, and my Russian is limited to ten words. We (Ted Leo + Joan from La Castanya and photographer Alberto Polo) are in the Costa Brava and I can finally start sliding in some French, which, while not fluent, I feel comfortable speaking. A surprise of the last days is how many Russians are here. There’s a lovely zhzhzhzhzzh combined with with the lisp of Catalunya on everyone’s lips.

Two reviews of the Madrid show here and here.