Francisco Familiar, vocalist of the pop rock band DLD, says that this group has never left, although the truth is that they were off the American stage for eight years.
“We never left,” Francisco said in an interview he gave from Cancún, the Mexican resort where he lives. “But the pandemic and everything that happened forced us to close the curtain.”
It took some groups little time to recover and others never did. But DLD was tenacious and now returns not only with the album “Ocho”—his eighth musical production—but with the Indie Caravan Tour, which began this week in Oakland, California, and will tour places such as Los Angeles and Santa Ana, California. —this weekend—, Utah, Denver, Houston and New York. In this last venue they will perform on May 24 at the Brooklyn Monarch.
They do this tour in the company of the groups, also Mexican, Los Daniels and Chingadazo de Kung Fu; The first is a rock band and the second is punk rock.
In addition to “Ocho”, DLD brings with it “Transcender”, the album that was released in 2020 but that, due to the health emergency of that year, ironically, did not transcend.
The band, however, never wasted any time. In all these years they have been making music and even during the pandemic they held a virtual concert. Now, after the tour of the United States, he will return to Mexico to offer a show at the Palacio de los Deportes, one of the most coveted venues in Mexico City.
DLD also hopes to see more shows pop up in the United States as well as other countries.
The members, or rather founders of DLD, met at the end of the nineties, but officially began playing in 2003, when they released the album “Dildo”, also the name with which the combo became known. In 2023, when the group turned 20, the aftereffects of the pandemic prevented its members from celebrating the important milestone.
Now it is too late to celebrate and too early to plan the 25th birthday celebration, which would be four years from now. But that does not stop Francisco and his companions from celebrating that the band is still together after so long and after having taken the risk of changing their name even though they were already quite well known with the original.
“We changed it because that sometimes caused the press to ask questions that had nothing to do with the music,” he said. “Also, the intellectual property was taken and in the end we shortened it, but we are still the same.”
In detail
That: DLD concert
When: Friday, May 3- 8 pm
Where: The Paramount (2708 E. Cesar E. Chávez Ave., Los Angeles) and Saturday 8 pm, at La Santa (220 E. 3rd St., Santa Ana)
Reports: paramountla.com and lasantaoc.com