„We started university together, but we never were good students, so instead of just smokin’ and drinkin’, we decided to play music as well.

We’ve always listened to rock­’n’­roll and hip hop music. That’s our biggest influence, and The Strokes were very important to us. Our sound is similar to theirs, but just as it is to bands that were a big influence to them, like Television, The Modern Lovers, Iggy Pop, and anything produced by John Cale. But I think that people like Roy Orbison, Jack Nitzsche, Brian Wilson, The Creation, The Groupies, The Cramps, and The Beastie Boys played a more important part in the music we write.”

Right before I was in the kitchen, which is situated under my room where The Parrots went on loudly, but just the drums and bass could be heard in the kitchen, and I was listening a very good punk band. Anyway like Wildmen, or Black Lips, and so funny

THE PARROTS, from Madrid

7″ + debut album by Heavenly Recordings (UK)

„Also, if you compare Madrid to Barcelona, it’s really different. Barcelona is more European, it’s more similar to London or Paris, whereas Madrid is just really different in its own way!”

Quotes from an interview on Black on the Canvas