The Venezuelan band Okills will present at the Coordinates Festival 2017 where he will share stage with bands like Interpol, Phoenix, Molotov and many more. It has been a year and a half since the Caracas group signed a contract with Universal Music and moved to Mexico to begin their internationalization process, which they have done very well.
The group formed by Alberto Arcas, Leonardo "El Kmarón" Jaramillo, Kevin Yousef, Carlos Jorge García and Alejandro "Drito" Bautista has had good receptivity in the Mexican population, so much, that with its presentation will become the first band in Participate in this festival that celebrates its fourth edition.
The event will be held on October 20 and 21 in the Parque Trasloma de Guadalajara, and will have the participation of more than 40 international groups such as Paramore, Prophetic Culture, Band Of Horses, Garbage, Jarabe de Palo, Los Auténticos Decadentes , Los Pericos, Caligaris and Lucybell. In addition to Carlos Sadness, Agora, Centavrvs, Miniscule Division, Stellar, Kinky, Planets, Rams, Mon Laferte, Nortec Collective: Bostich + Fussible, Rock in your Symphonic Language, Hidden Faces, The Growlers, Tino The Penguin, Victims of Dr. Brain and many more.
For Venezuelans, going to Mexico represented a new beginning: "First when we did it in Venezuela, in the last five years, and then here in Mexico where they did not know us, and it has been a year and a half process. We think that despite everything, it has been fast because we already played in places like Lunario, Vive Latino and Machaca, among others. Mexico has allowed us to enter the major leagues, because it is a place where the best of the whole continent is presented, "said Arcas.
