Pep Blay

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Pep Blay ( Josep Blay Boqué , born September 2, 1966 in Tarragona , Spain ) is a Catalan writer, screenwriter, music journalist and one of the well-known contemporary authors of Catalonia. As a music journalist, he interviewed greats like Lou Reed , The Cure and Nick Cave . He works with Spanish artists such as Enrique Bunbury , Iván Ferreiro , Amparanoia .

Pep Blay
Pep Blay

Life

Blay was born on September 2, 1966 in Tarragona, the youngest of three children. He developed a special affinity for literature and language at an early age. Therefore, from 1984 to 1989 he studied Catalan Philology at the Tarragona Faculty of the University of Barcelona . During his studies he worked as a cultural journalist for the Catalan daily newspaper Catalunya Sud , published poems in the magazine Negre + Roig and founded the collective Andrògina Productions .

After graduation, Blay moved to Barcelona to begin postgraduate studies in theater theory and criticism and to study Japanese. In the same year he began writing about literature for the Catalan daily AVUI and ran the supplement Rock & Classics for four years . He also worked for magazines such as El Temps , Catalònia and Cultura . Between 1990 and 2000, Blay appeared sporadically to recite poetry, a fragment of which can be found on the DVD Poesia en viu a Barcelona (Habitual Video Team / Propost.org, 1991-2003).

Blay began his career as a music editor in 1993 at AVUI . In the same year he also started as the singer of the Tarragon post-mortem underground band Els Patètix , with which he stayed for three years. In 1995 he published a biography of the Catalan musician and songwriter Lluís Llach within the Los Autores Collection (SGAE Barcelona) . Blay's work at the Catalan television broadcaster Televisió de Catalunya began in 1999, where he worked, among other things, as program director of the Bohèmia cabaret , as a screenwriter and art director. He published further biographies about Catalan rock bands in 2002 ( "Sopa de Cabra. Si et quedes amb mi" , Rosa dels Vents) and in 2003 ( " Els Pets . Cara a cara" , Rosa dels Vents). He created the series “Sexe, Blay & rock'n'roll” for the magazine Enderrock , which is closely related to later works.

From an early age, Blay's passion for traveling took him through Europe, the USA, Iceland, Tanzania and Mexico. In September 2003 he went on a world tour for a year to experience the cultures of Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Brazil and Japan. The experience marked a turning point in Blay's life, so that in 2006 he began working as a screenwriter for the travel program Km33 for the Catalan television broadcaster Tv3 , which led to further trips to Morocco, Burkina Faso, Mali and New York. He broadcasts travel reports and other reports on the Catalan radio station iCat fm .

Blay, who has always been a supporter of vampirism and polipoetry, became known through his novel "Vampíria Sound" (Plaza & Janés Editores, SA), a radical, contemporary music thriller, published in 2004 . In 2007 he gave the novel biography "Enrique Bunbury. Lo demás es silencio ” (Plaza & Janés).

In 2009 he published the teenage fantasy novel "Gotholàndia" (Montena) was in Catalan, at the same time came "Erótica Mix" , four short stories about music and sex in both Catalan (Rosa dels Vents) and Spanish (at Plaza & Janés) edition on the market. At the end of the year he created the CD "Més raons de pes." As Art Director together with Spanish stars such as Bunbury, Iván Ferreiro and Amparanoia . El tribut a Umpah-Pah ” .

Blay lived in Barcelona for a long time .

Works

  • Lluís Llach . Col • lecció “Los Autores”, Barcelona, ​​1995, SGAE.
  • Sopa de Cabra. Si et quedes amb mi . Barcelona, ​​2002, Rosa dels Vents. 1ª Edición, 336 pages, Catalan. ISBN 84-01-38607-1 .
  • Els Pets. Cara a cara . Barcelona, ​​2003, Rosa dels Vents. 1ª Edición, 360 pages, Catalan. ISBN 84-01-38630-6 .
  • Vampíria sound . Barcelona, ​​2004, Plaza & Janés Editores SA Colección Narrativa Rosa dels vents. Catalan. ISBN 84-01-38654-3 .
  • Enrique Bunbury. Lo demás es silencio . Barcelona, ​​2007, Plaza & Janés. 448 pages, Spanish. ISBN 978-84-01-30551-1 .
  • Gotholàndia . Barcelona, ​​2009, Montena. 272 pages, Catalan. ISBN 978-84-8441-504-6 .
  • Erotic mix . Barcelona, ​​2009, Rosa dels Vents. 304 pages, Catalan. ISBN 978-84-01-38727-2 .
  • Erotic mix . Barcelona, ​​2009, Plaza & Janés. 296 pages, Spanish. ISBN 978-84-01-33707-9 .
  • Pretòria . Barcelona, ​​2010, Ed. Alisis. Ara Llibres SCCL. 229 pages, Catalan. ISBN 978-84-937628-6-5 .

description

  • Lluís Llach (Col • lecció “Los Autores”, SGAE, Barcelona, ​​1995) is a biography of the Catalan musician and songwriter Llach, which includes a chronology, a collection of photos, an anthology of songs and a discography.
  • Sopa de Cabra. Si et quedes amb mi (Rosa dels Vents, 2002) is the biography about a Catalan rock band that had a great influence in Catalonia from 1986 to 2002.
  • Els Pets . Cara a cara (Rosa dels Vents, 2003) is the biography about another Catalan rock band.
  • Vampíria Sound (Plaza & Janés Editores SA, 2004) is a musical novel with elements of thriller and vampirism set after a concert by Lou Reed in Barcelona.
  • Enrique Bunbury . Lo demás es silencio (Plaza & Janés, 2007) is a biography of a novel about the Spanish singer Enrique Bunbury.
  • Gotholàndia (Montena, 2009) is a fantasy novel for older children and young people. A teenager is a fan of video games and suddenly finds himself in one of them. In this novel, he prints the verbatim speech of one of the novel's heroes in mirror writing, making reading itself a kind of game.
  • Eròtica Mix (Catalan, Rosa dels Vents, 2009) / Erótica Mix (Spanish, Plaza & Janés, 2009) are four short stories in which music and sex are connected: 1.) Tuyyosomossexo.com (German: Duundichsindsex.com) - A Music fan comes into contact with a singer on the Internet. There is pure sex between the two of them, but this crazy tendency turns into torture. 2.) Cartas de amor a la mujer burbuja (German: love letters to the bubble woman) - mails, text messages and love letters from two lovers who are made for each other, yes everyone lives in their own world, their own "bubble" that threatens to burst at any moment. 3.) 7 - A girl dies during mass in a church. À la Agatha Christie there are 7 suspects who all have a sexual relationship in some way with the loved one of the dead and in turn have a connection to the 7 deadly sins. And when the girl died, "Seven" was played by David Bowie . 4.) Erótica Mix - When Mario lived alone after a long relationship, he found himself on the internet looking for sex. There he meets three women who fall in love with him. And Mario decides to take the next step: out of the virtual world, into reality.
  • Pretòria (Catalan, Ara Llibres, 2010) - Catalonia is in danger. To achieve his goals, the President assigns the best agent in the country, Rosa Blanca, who is a music fanatic and tied to the iPod, on a delicate mission. Unexpectedly, Rosa leads to Pretoria, where the mayor, the urban planning officer, the ex-Vice-President of the Generalitat, a senior political and financial officer and an ex-MP who has been expelled from his party are involved in a complex intrigue.

Web links

  1. Interview with Pep Blay: PAGÈS, Rosa: Pep Blay: defugint el localisme . Revistes catalanes, Revista del Center de Lectura de Reus, year 1990, no.23 February. http://www.raco.cat/index.php/RevistaCLR/article/viewFile/87693/153846
  2. Interview with Pep Blay: GARRANCHO, Juan: Entrevista a Pep Blay . Olvidados Magazine. January 31, 2008. http://olvidadosmagazine.blogspot.com/2008/01/entrevista-pep-blay.html
  3. Video about the festival of polipoesia in Barcelona : 17 festival de polipoesia de barcelona pep blay fragmentos del festival realizado en torre llobeta 2009 octubre docuMentalidades http://www.archive.org/details/17FestivalDePolipoesiaDeBarcelona_620 http://www.dalealplay.com/ informaciondecontenido.php? con = 203603
  4. Book review: MAIGÍ, Raül: Pep Blay satiritza la corrupció urbanística en la novel·la «Pretòria» . Elpunt.cat. April 13, 2010. http://www.elpunt.cat/noticia/article/5-cultura/19-cultura/157386-pep-blay-satiritza-la-corrupcio-urbanistica-en-la-novelmla-lpretoriar.html
personal data
SURNAME Blay, pep
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blay Boqué, Josep (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan writer, screenwriter, music journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarragona , Spain