Rocking on: Café Tacuba  plus support

World & Roots - part of La Linea Festival celebrates Latin music with headlining artist Café Tacuba.

With its sizzling mix of rock, hip-hop, ska and traditional Mexican music, Café Tacuba has been one of Latin America's most successful and innovative bands over the last fifteen years. Arthouse enough to be covered by the Kronos Quartet, urban enough to have built a raucous fan-base from the streets of Buenos Aires to the barrios of Mexico City, this will be only the band’s second show ever in the UK.  

Founded in 1989, the band took its name from a coffee shop (el Café de Tacuba) located in downtown Mexico City, which opened in 1912 and had its heyday in the 1940s and 1950's (the café is still in business on Tacuba Street, in Mexico City's historic centre).

Tacuba have contributed their m,ixture of rock, folk and ranchera to movie soundtracks like Amores Perros and Y Tu Mamá También. Their latest CD Sino (2007), prompted the New York Times to comment, ‘they encompass everything from leisurely Beach Boys harmonies to pressured XTC-style new wave’.

‘This is dirty, raucous, greasy, innocently wild, soulful, and raggedly elegant rock & roll that happens to be art because of its originality, energy, and guts. As brave as Zapata's revolution and as much fun as an electrified Latin son band playing the Clash and Chuck Berry at the same time’. All Music Guide see them on Sat 3 May at The Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS. 7.30pm. Adm: £10 - £20. Info: 0845 120 7550 / www.barbican.org.uk