The report of The Weekly Country ‘Supersubmarine: the untold story’ last March served to break eight years of silence for one of the most successful bands in Spain in the middle of the last decade. In the summer of 2016, Baeza’s group had suffered a traffic accident when they returned from playing at the Medusa Festival in Cullera (Valencia). The crash could have been fatal.
Little was known during the following years about the members of Supersubmarina, one of the most beloved and successful bands of the moment. Until José Marín, Chinese, Juan Carlos Gomez, Juanca, Antonio Cabrera, Pope, and Jaime Gandía appeared again publicly for an interview with EL PAÍS journalist Fernando Navarro, on the eve of the publication of the book Something that serves as light (Aguilar). In its pages, Navarro collected two years of interviews with the members of the group and close people to bring the reader closer to the story of four friends who love their land and tell them how they developed in the Spanish musical scene. In the report they had anticipated how hard and complicated the process that the members of Supersubmarina began to achieve a rapprochement was. The accident had not only put his musical career on hold.
“Fernando Navarro made us reconcile between ourselves and as a band,” Cabrera later said at the book’s presentation in Madrid. In the video that accompanies these lines you can see again the interview in which the group broke its silence.
In the words of the band’s drummer, Juan Carlos Gómez, who spent more than 20 days in an induced coma after the accident: “The accident represented a state of shock great”. Coinciding with the fifth anniversary of that fateful Sunday, the members of the band made an attempt to get together for an interview that, as Navarro relates, could not happen. “Everyone was still paralyzed, damaged and disoriented. I found four people still traumatized,” says the music journalist. “We went from being together every day, rehearsing, playing and traveling, to not seeing each other. It affected us. Our relationship cooled down,” José Marín, the group’s vocalist, told journalist José Marín that on August 14 he suffered a serious head injury and currently lives with neurological damage.
That failed report served to “open forever the Pandora’s box of Supersubmarina” and was the genesis of the one that came years later and of Something that serves as lightthe book that has allowed them to tell their story to others and to tell themselves about the hard struggles that each one has dealt with since the accident and that form their collective trauma.
Supersubmarina is in a very slow recovery process that does not involve pleasing the return expectations of its fans and the industry, but rather caring for that deep friendship that made all the magic possible afterward. Savedthe Gonzo program, dedicates a report to them this Sunday with the idea of surviving to tell it. It is titled Supersubmarine. One hundred ways to return.
