Every year, from May to September, Adriano Borrás and his team of shearers travel through the countryside of northern Spain and Portugal, shearing sheep. This crucial activity, vital for the sheep's health yet increasingly rare in Spain, is performed to the rhythm of punk music, which they claim soothes the animals. Their nomadic lifestyle embodies the philosophy of these 'punk shearers,' who believe that 'everything in the cities will collapse'.
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00:00They realized that with the music they could be more calm, more dispersed, more
00:29happy.
00:30You start listening to the music, not with those nerves, then with the years they know
00:34that the day of the music is the day of the rap and they are already happy.
00:38The sector, as long as there are sheep, you have to rap them and that is like the hairdresser,
00:52there is always work.
00:53If you know how to work, there is work, if not, it is in one place, it is in another.
00:59If you leave us in Galicia, we will go to Portugal.