"I remember when I was about 15 I went to my father’s bar and I found an old scratched and dirty CD box which contained a CD with the song With or Without You"
Tell us something about yourself, who are you and what do you do for a living?
Hi all. My name is Felix and first I would like to thank you guys for introducing me here and for accompany me in all this journey to get here, specially to Remy and Sergio who had been with me all the time. Also to say that like some of you know that my English is not very good, but I’ll try to do the better I can and hope someone can help me… haha And well, about me I do not have too much to say but this would be an approximate resume: I’m 33 old, I was born and I live in a little town from Navarra (North of Spain) and by now I work as graphic designer (I guess you noticed it haha) for myself since 9 years ago. Most of the time I’m happy, a bit crazy and open minded person who always likes to be doing something. It doesn’t mind what, just doing something, and even better if I can be with someone, preferably my wife or my friends.
How did you become a fan of U2, tell us how it happened?
I remember when I was about 15 I went to my father’s bar and I found an old scratched and dirty CD box which contained a CD with the song With or Without You (I think my first known U2 song, you know, one of our age first ballads. At least where I live, and I “stole” it for me. It was The Best of 1980-1990 and I think today still have it out there. Then, with the curiosity of what more was on that CD I started listening the other songs and they had something I liked. After that, some time later again in my father’s bar, the same thing or very similar happened again, but at this time it was the time for Pop, and if we consider for then U2 had been started to be everyday more present in my life, until today, you can imagine the result.
You are known here as the designer of the Shirts of Innocence, a great collection of shirts for U2 fans to wear. Can you tell us where you got your inspiration from in coming up with these designs?
Really? I’m known as the designer of the t-shirts? Hahaha I was just kidding. But surely you saw me here before, as the designer for some 360 tour bootleg and other CD covers, some DVD covers, some U2 360AFTER34 (360ºTour live from Donostia / San Sebastian Multicam) stuff and things like those. But wait… I´m going from the question… hahaha
Well, this is: one day I noticed there was the intention of make some t-shirt designs for the next upcoming tour in the forum and I thought it could be a good time to try making some different things as graphic designer I can`t do in my everyday so I offered my help to the crew doing what I know to do and by the way, so I could contribute my bit for the site of which I had received too much. Then I thought it would be a great idea trying to capture the essence of the songs in a picture, so I started listening for the songs again and again in repeat mode searching a word, a sound or an emotion which could translate the song on a t-shirt. And that’s it, one thing led to another and we suddenly have a collection of shirts ready to be launched 
Can you tell us which favourite shirt is?
This is a hard one to answer… because I’m happy with the result of the complete collection, including shirts of other mates who have also done a great job. But I had to choose, I’d say California or Yogi’s Raised by wolf. Already U2.com would like to have those shirts hahahaha
Do you have any future plans as for the Shirts of Innocence? Can we expect updates or additions in the future?
Who knows… you continue buying some of them and stay tuned!
What does your U2 collection look like? What kind of stuff do you have and how is it organised?
I have my little corner yes, I guess like many other fans, more or less organised, dedicated to U2 at home. The most I like is obviously the music so there are lots of CDs and DVDs in my shelves, but there are also books, magazines and a few rarities I had the luck of collect. Best if you see
Can you share us your tour plans for the iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE tour?
By now I’m having some problems with mi tickets because the dates, but I think I can meet some of you in Barcelona the days 9 and 10 (somebody who speak Spanish please xD)
How different is U2 compared to other artists that you like?
Wow… another hard one… I don’t know what to say here because every artist or band has their thing. But what I know for sure is that listening to U2 is always something special. Or that or I have a big problem, because I never get tired of listening any of their songs... hahaha
What are your hobbies and interests away from U2, musical or otherwise?
As I said at first, I have always to be doing anything, but apart of U2, music in general and designing some stuff my favourite hobbies are photography, traveling or excursions, Dragon Ball (now not like time ago), The Simpsons and have good times with my people. This one the most one I like
So that’s all folks. That’s me more or less. I hope I haven`t bored you and we can see around here often. Thanks for everything and a big hug for you!
Thanks for this interview FLXone!
Like you, I "stole" it and listened to it many times.
