HIGH HOPES
Support slots with Foos, GN’R, Muse and more. Meet Mexico’s latest rock export…
The Warning know all about ‘pinch me’ moments. Ask the Villarreal Vélez sisters to choose the highlight of their career so far, and the trio who have gone from teenage viral stars to hard-rock darlings will each give you a different answer. Maybe it was last year, when they gigged around South America and Europe with Muse, blasting their red-blooded stomp to stadiums night after night? Or perhaps when Pepsi chose them to front an advertising campaign in their home country of Mexico? If not, it could well be the night they opened for Foo Fighters at Mexico City’s Foro Sol, 65,000 capacity stadium in 2022 and hung out with the band.
“Dave Grohl has a really intense high five!” laughs lead vocalist and guitarist Dany. “We’ve been very ambitious throughout our whole life and set goals that we never thought would be possible,” says drummer Pau. “But as years have gone by we’ve accomplished every single thing that we’ve set our minds to.”
It all started with a YouTube video. Having grown up on a diet of Queen, Pink Floyd and AC/DC, in 2014 the band, aged between nine and 14, posted themselves playing a cover of Metallica’s Enter Sandman. Their obvious, precocious talents quickly made them an internet phenomenon (25 million views and counting). It’s a moment that came full circle in 2021 when they were handpicked by Metallica to record their own take on the song for covers compilation album The Metallica Blacklist, and delivered a brooding, stormy version with vocals from pop singer Alessia Car
