Saludos from Mexico City

Hi everyone!

This is my first post here. I used to stop by here from time to time before the site went down, but now it's back, I decided to finally make an account. Some of you may know me from the various tiki Facebook groups.

I'm originally from SE England; born and raised in the South London/Surrey suburbs, then lived in Brighton for a few years before moving to Mexico City in July 2014, where I've been based ever since. Started a Spanish-language tiki facebook group (La Cultura Tiki) in 2020 which has been steadily growing, and last year that led to me starting a DIY punk-style tiki fanzine (La Cultura Tiki Fanzine... original right?) which is now on its third issue and features contributions from people across Mexico and the wider Spanish-speaking world. My background is in History and I'm particularly focused on digging up and documenting 20th-century Mexican tiki/Polynesian pop, which remains relatively mysterious compared to its counterparts in many other countries.

Looking forward to sharing some stuff with you guys and learning plenty too. ¡Saludos!

fanzine mug

I'm waving from San Miguel de Allende, can you see me? LOL Flying out today after a week here. Welcome back to TC

Thanks! As you can see, this post was from 3 years ago, and I've not posted much on here since then... oops! Life got in the way, I guess! I've since moved from Mexico City to La Paz, Baja California Sur.

I will, however, be at Tiki Oasis (San Diego) in a few weeks giving a seminar on Polynesian Pop establishments in Mexico in the 20th century. If anyone's planning to be there, please say hi! Info and tickets on the Tiki Oasis website.

Anyway, maybe I'll make an effort to post on here a bit more now the notifications from you guys' comments have reminded me!

Hope you had a good time in San Miguel! I don't suppose you found any traces of tiki there?

The Tiga Tiki Bar was listed in Google in the Clandestino Hotel but shows permanently closed. Our guide who has lived there all his life had never heard of the Clandestino Hotel 😒