Marcos, whom Prospero met some twelve years ago when the tocaor (guitarist) lived in the La Viña section of Cádiz (the heartland of Flamenco), is one of a very small handful of truly knowledgeable British experts on Flamenco, and a specialist on the revolutionary and mythical Camarón de la Isla. He is also an excellent guitarist who is acknowledged by Spanish Flamenco colleagues as 'muy flamenco', a tribute given to a foreigner that cannot be improved on in that rarefied atmosphere. Marcos, whose day job is with the BBC and who has written a book on Camarón, a copy of which he has promised to send to Pepe at La Tasca, gave us an impromptu concert yesterday on the main square in Jimena. It was a wonderful mini event that was nearly ruined by the insensitivity of people who should know better (a note on Flamenco etiquette is below) but which continued uninterrupted outside La Tasca well into the evening.
