Disclosure, Chet Faker and Sam Smith filled on Saturday the last day of NOS Alive, the promenade in Algés, Oeiras, confirming the increase in popularity in the festival, which had already acted on smaller stages.
On Saturday the festival were about 52 thousand people, according to the prosecutor Alvaro Covões. During the three days were about 155 thousand people.
It was a festival of many reunions of the Portuguese public with international artists such as Muse, The Prodigy and Sam Smith.
Once you stepped on stage, Sam Smith was received hysteria environment.
“Do not know how this is incredible. Last year I played in the background tent there and now I’m here. I’m speechless,” he said.
With only an edited album, “In The Lonely Hour,” which earned him four Grammy-five million records sold, Sam Smith put everybody to sing songs like “I’m not the only one “” Like I can “,” Latch “(who recorded with Disclosure) and” Stay with Me “.
In between, the musician made versions of Amy Winehouse songs, Marvin Gaye and Elvis Presley, among others.
Who also served in the tent last year and this time moved to the biggest stage was Chet Faker, called for the Alive to replace Stromae.
Despite having given a short concert, Chet Faker held the audience with songs like “Gold”, “Talk is cheap” and the version of “No Diggity” of Blackstreet.
To close the biggest stage was double Disclosure, which in 2013 had acted in Clubbing tent.
The brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence anticipated album ” Caracal “that will edit after the summer.
As the day passed by Alive various bands that existed when many of the ‘festival-goers’ were children, such as Counting Crows, the Mogwai and The Jesus and Mary Chain .
The first achieved success in 1993 with the song “Mr. Jones,” which included the alignment. The concert marked the end of the European tour of the band and ended with “Accidentally in Love” soundtrack music Shrek2 animated film, with effusive response from the public.
The most devoid of artifice and apparatus concert this festival fell to British Sleaford Mods. It only took a microphone and a laptop computer for Jason Williamson and Andrew Frean protagonizarem one of the performances of the last day, in the evening.
The singer Jason Williamson, with a thick accent, did an acidic dedication to prime British Prime Minister and spoke of the hardships of modern times – unemployment, lack of money, bullying and humiliation – over an instrumental base that was triggered burst computer. Andrew Frean, at the computer, almost always hands in pockets on stage to enjoy the performance.
The tent where he debuted the Sleaford Mods filled then to the Dead Combo Portuguese, who were accompanied by percussion. Pedro Gonçalves and Tó Trips revisited discography, with special applause for “Dancing Girl”, “A bunch of boys” and “Round”, among other topics. They closed the performance with a reference to Greece, interpreting the theme “Zorba”, the composer Mikis Theodorakis.
At the same stage of the Dead Combo, British Mogwai celebrated 20-year career and countrymen The Jesus and Mary Chain marked the 30th anniversary of the album “Psychocandy.”
This year, the coverage of the festival was attended by more than 400 accredited journalists, of whom about 70 were foreigners, coming from publications such as El Mundo and ABC ( Spain), Rolling Stone Italy, Les Inrockuptibles (France) and New Musical Express (UK).
The organization has started selling tickets for 2016. The 10th edition will be held 07-09 July.
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