Il Volo at Roxy Bar, May 3rd 2018. With Red Ronnie, live (and still visible) on Red Ronnie’s facebook page. Since it’s extremely long, I’m translating it divided into pieces (for all parts here)
Part 4/? More fans, the boys singing Spanish, Le Cirque, Ignazio’s hair… and other things
GG: “I see there’s a friend of mine who’s calling”
GG: “She lives in Argentina”
PB: “Can’t you just send her a private message?!”
GG (in Spanish): “Hi, can you hear me?”
GG (in Italian): “I don’t see you.”
RR (in Spanish): “I don’t see you”
PB (in Spanish): “If you don’t open the video we can’t see you”
PB losing patience: “It’s being good talking with you. Bye” and ended the call. Then to GG “call her by yourself” and pass the computer back to Alice.
GG, pouting “I wanted to say hi”
RR: “we can call her again. Now, some questions (in Spanish) When are you coming in Argentina?”
RR (in italian): When are you going to Argentina?
GG: “surely… In Italian or in Spanish?”
RR: “Well the question was-”
PB: “When the next tour will start. We still don’t know when the next tour will start.”
GG (in Spanish): And when the new single will be out we are going to be there for promotion.”
RR read some greetings from other Latinas
PB, sounding surprised like he never thought about it: “Ah, because they are awake at this hour!”
PB, watching Alice and RR: “ah… smart move.”
GG, amused: “It didn’t take a genius”
IB shaking his head in a “I have no words” meaning
RR, amused, to PB: “I would have guessed something like this from Ignazio, not you”
Piero laughs and gives the five to Ronnie, who then gives the five to Gianluca too. Piero turn to Gian and gives the five to him too.
IB starts playing the guitar and sings “vita spericolata” by Vasco Rossi, that says “we will meet at Roxy Bar”, because that’s the name of the program. Gianluca and Piero start to sing with him too. When no one of them can remember the words they go on singing “nannan na nan naaanna”, Gian even gesturing to Ignà like saying “yes, these are the words”
RR read some comment in Spanish, from Mexico Perù ecc.
RR: “Guys in America you are really famous! If I was you I would try to do an album of Latin music, If I was you”
GG, laugh. Ignazio and Alice follow him.
PB, like just out of his world: “If you were us…?”
RR: “If I was you I would try to do an album of Latin music. Because with your voices, mixed with the warm of Latin music-”
PB smirking: “with just the music?” [in the sense he would like to mix with Latin girls too…at least is what I read on his face]
GG, smiling but ignoring him: “As we were saying, in our album we sing in Spanish too. Famous songs, but also our songs.”
GG: “Do you remember ‘El reloj’? Or also…-”
PB start singing ‘Historia de un amor’
PB: and then we did an homage to this prince of Mexican music, José José”
GG thinks how to explain it and then says: “He’s like our Celentano, let’s put it this way. But for a problem with his vocal cords, he lost his voice. So, it was a loss because, without voice, he couldn’t gift people with other emotions. But he’s still alive and we had the honor to sing one of his most famous songs at Latin Billboard.”
RR: “And what’s this song name? How is it? And, you did win a billboard, didn’t you?”
GG: “Yes, we won a billboard and we got a Grammy nomination in 2011… no, 2012”
PB: “What we did, this tribute for José José was the year before, and the next year we got a nomination for best group or duo, and we won that.”
RR, reading fans comments, this one in English “Even if I don’t understand what you are saying I’m loving every word.”
GG: “This is the Italian accents, the Italian charm.”
Ronnie read some other comments among which one from Mexico that says that she went to 2 concert and never hear “El Reloj”, so Ronnie asks again to sing the song, and Piero start. Gian follows him. Then Ignazio.
GG: “now must enter some people with the sombrero”
Ignazio mimicking some Mexican instruments
RR, to the camera: “But you haven’t see the scene from here. [The camera was on Piero when he starts singing] Piero started singing, Gianluca followed him, and Ignazio was doing his things like always. So, Piero, like I suppose he always does, brought him back, like ‘you are one of the three’ and so he started singing” [I didn’t get the impression he was so behind so I suppose Ronnie just wanted to mess with him]
Ignazio plays two notes on the guitar staying silent.
Ignazio does those notes again
Piero and Gianluca watch each other, singing those note and smiling, as if they remember them.
Ignazio touch the cord again
Gianluca does again those two notes
IB perplex and amused: “stay still and do it again he says”
GG: “It came on my mind too but..” saying that he can’t put his finger on it.
Piero tries again, but Gianluca stop him end gesturing to Ronnie says “Ok, but now we can’t..” [spend the time like this, I suppose]
Ronnie pass them the computer again, presenting them another fan. They talk to her, guessing her region. She says they have seen her in Taormina [honey they see so many fans!]. Ignazio guess it right, Calabria, and then start making fun of her accent, practically invisible accent, saying the name of all the Calabrese dishes. Gianluca and Piero start laughing and Ignazio stops them ‘cause the girl start speaking again.
Gian is laughing so hard that he leans on Piero
Fan: “In Taormina I give to Gianluca a Toy Story T-shirt!”
Piero and Ignazio hit him, saying that he should remember her. [he actually remember most fans, he can’t remember them all!]
GG: “Toy Story t-shirt! Because you know Woody is my favorite!”
Fan: “Do you remember it?”
PB: “Ignazio too is a big fan of Woody… Woody Allen”
Gianluca and Piero laugh.
GG to IB: “can we say it?”
PB: “come on Ignà, is not-“
IB: “no! You’ll make me look ignorant!”
PB to IB: “Why? Is a funny thing” [the original word is ‘simpatica’ which is more like delightful than ridiculous, so I’m not sure with the translation… basically the meaning was that he doesn’t have to be ashamed]
GG to Ronnie: “he was little.”
IB: “no, and here we have [say the fan name…the wrong one] waiting” she correct him.
Piero start telling it anyways
PB: “He passed an evening in New York, in this famous restaurant Le Cirque-”
PB: “No, ok, stop because if he’s offended he ruins the whole evening”
IB: “Le cirque, there were jugglers and nothing”
GG: “But Ignà, you were little so it was justifiable-”
RR: “You didn’t recognize him?”
IB: “Is not like” gesturing for saying that we don’t have to speak about that.
IB to RR: “Do you still want the jukebox?”
RR: “you already broke it!”
IB: “well I…” gesturing like saying he can do worst.
PB to fan: “Here it, When was your last Il Volo concert?”
She answers and the boys remember it was very windy that evening. Ignazio make fan of her accent again.
GG suddenly: “But who’s there? Your mum? Who is it? I see an arm.”
Fan: “oh well… It’s my brother who’s filming me” gesturing for saying ‘ignore it’
GG: “well it doesn’t happen everyday to-”
PB indicating Ignazio: “to speak with a fellow countryman”
GG to fan: “can I ask you something?”
GG: “Did you see that Ignazio changed his hairstyle? Do you like these curls?”
Fan: “I like them very much”
Fan: “Now he looks like Lorenzo Fragola”
Piero laughs so much that he leans on Gianluca, hugs him and pats him on the shoulder.
IB: “No, no! a scissors! A scissors!”
GG: “what no? don’t say that. We greet Lorenzo, we say hi! He’s a friend and we were at Sanremo together in 2015”
RR: “No, you know what? You looks like one of those maritime pines” [a tall plant with hemispherical foliage just on the top]
IB: “You are provoking me on purpose this evening?!” but he’s smiling [was ‘ce l’hai con me’ literally ‘you have it with me’, but that’s meaning of it]
RR actually laugh all amused and happy with himself
PB: “come on, stop bringing Ignazio on”
RR: “Oh, yes, you are right, now stop”
Fan: “Are you coming to Calabria Again?”
GG: “Maybe on next tour-”
PB: “Ignazio goes in Sicily ‘via Reggio’ so surely” [joke about the mistake Ignazio did with the fan from Viareggio, understanding it like ‘via Reggio’ so ‘passing from Reggio’. To note he just said to leave Ignazio alone LOL]
RR laugh, Gianluca ignore them reassuring the fan about their presence in Calabria on next tour. She says she would love them to be in Cosenza, her city, and Ignazio says he guessed from her accent that she was from there [obviously joking]
Sorry for the surely numerous mistakes, English is not my language
Sorry also for the time it took to post this, I had some problem on the computer, where translation and video are.
End of part 4…. to be continued. For all parts here: https://ilvolofandom.tumblr.com/search/ilvoloroxybartranslation
PS: I think we can guess the tale about Ignazio and if I’m right it was indeed, like Gian said, justifiable: Le Cirque is a restaurant, but every kid, at least here, know the cirque du soleil as the Cirque… he probably thought it was that kind of Cirque. A circus. Also, if I’m not mistaken they already shared this story in some old interview but I can’t remember exactly at this moment.
[Gian, we know you have no shame about what you did when little…it’s al in the book]
Next time: how the boys arrived on the program ‘Ti lascio una canzone’
