The festival that by the year 2017 marks the 25 years announced the first confirmations for next year’s edition at the river beach of Taboão, between 16 and 19 August
Benjamin Clementine, Car Seat Headrest, Foals and Ty Segall are the first confirmations of the poster of Paredes de Coura. The four names represent also the announcement of four returns to the artists who passed through Portugal during this year: Benjamin Clementine was coliseums of Porto and Lisbon, Car Seat Headrest, and Ty Segall at Primavera Sound, Porto, and Foals in the Alive, in Lisbon.
The first four confirmations for the Vodafone Paredes de Coura, which will be held in the river beach of Taboão between 16 and 19 August 2017, the year that celebrates the 25th anniversary have been revealed through an announcement made in a video direct to fans on Facebook.
The organization of the festival, recalled in a statement that all the artists that have released albums between last year and this, and it is envisaged that the edition by Ty Segall new disc in January.
The package for fans includes the ticket for the event and a t-shirt, for the price of 75 euros.
The platform of “streaming” has since this Wednesday available the possibility of transferring some of its titles for mobile phones and tablets.
subscribers of Netflix around the world, Portugal included, have now the possibility to “download” some of the titles from the catalog of the streaming platform for its mobile devices. The new functionality you want to assist in the viewing of films and series “where the Internet is expensive or limited,” explains the press release.
The possibility of downloading movies and series, without additional costs, “just need to press the button ‘transfer’ on the page of the details of a movie or series for later viewing in offline mode. This feature is included in all plans, and available for phones and tablets Android and iOS,” explains the same note, adding that it will still be necessary to have installed the latest version of the application.
Hits such as “Orange is The New Black”, “Narcos” and “The Crown” are among the titles that can be viewed “offline”, a list that is to grow.
The actor Keo Woolford, who in the remake of the tv series "Hawai Special Force" has emerged as the detective James Chang, died in a hospital in Hawaii this Monday, three days after having suffered a STROKE.
Natural Honolulu, the second largest city of Hawaii, the actor of 49 years, was received in 2013 the special jury prize of the Festival of Asian Cinema and of the Pacific Los Angeles for best first film for "The Haumana," an independent work, which out writer, director and producer, which refers to the culture of polynesia.
Woolford ended recently the argument in the film that would give continuity to history and to the which is supposed to start hearings in January.
As a film actor he has participated in several films with minor parts, notably in "Godzilla" and "Happy, Texas". He also participated in the "5th Passenger", which will only debut in 2017.
The Primavera Sound Barcelona released this Tuesday in the poster full edition 2017. Among the headliners are the canadians Arcade Fire, who have passed this year by the US Alive, on the Promenade of Oeiras, Bon Iver, Frank Ocean, The XX, the thrash metal band Slayer, and Van Morrison.
This year, the festival poster Catalan, which took place between 1 and 5 June included names like PJ Harvey (who served in the US Primavera Sound in Porto and, more recently, in the Coliseu dos Recreios in Lisbon), the return of LCD Soundsystem (who have gone through Paredes de Coura), and Sigur Rós.
Since the Spanish festival made the first edition in Porto, in 2012, some of the names of both the posters are repeated. That already think of the possibilities for concerts in the City Park next year.
The tickets for Primavera Sound, which takes place this year between 31 may and 4 June at the Parc del Fòrum in Barcelona, are already on sale and can be purchased through the site of the event. the passes for all four days of the festival cost175 euros.
The new season of the prosecutor Luis Montez has the support of Unicer and you want to give a voice to new artists, mainly from the Portuguese. Issues since yesterday in the morning in the frequency of radio Nostalgia, which has been discontinued
was Born yesterday in the studios in Lisbon, and in the frequency – of the now discontinued radio Nostalgia. Is called SBSR.fm and its mission is well defined: to disseminate new music. Portuguese. “The new artists here have a house to orders. The music that we’re going to devote is the new music, and we will give special emphasis to that which is made in our country,” said Luis Montez about the station that you created and that he was born of a “dream” of “long time ago”. “We did, but for this we had to give up the format of the Nostalgia, which was already have a lot of competition – not only the M80 as the internet,” added Montez.
new Music, and speakers – nearly a dozen – that will have here an “important role”. “With the technological evolution and with the emergence of the internet and multiple platforms of dissemination of music, the radio, and especially, the recommendation of its animators – has an important role”, he / she Montez. “THE SBSR.fm is not a playlist. It’s a radio station with animators in there, who are crazy about music. They are the ones who want to publicize new songs that are emerging,” continued the administrator of the Global Media Group, recalling that “the music that was in the Nostalgia does not want talkers”. “Because when we hear the Rolling Stones or Pink Floyd there is no need to tell us anything. The opposite is true with the new music, you need someone to explain by whom it is made.” Want to say that those old names do not have space? “We’re not going to drop the references. Smit h and The Cure, to give examples, will pass in the SBSR.fm, but in a minimum quantity,” replies.
as its name indicates, the SBSR.fm whose target audience is between the ages of 18 and 35 years – is associated with the summer festival Super Bock Super Rock, organized by Music in the Heart and sponsored by Unicer. Rui Lopes Ferreira, CEO of this brewery, says that the station is “born of the will and the boldness of the longstanding partnership” between the two companies. “It will be a radio made for passionate by music, is made for connoisseurs and experts, but also for the more critical, to the most demanding, that are listeners,” she says. “As the festival, will continue to bet on Portuguese values,” says still Rui Lopes Ferreira.
A radio that also is a stage
THE SBSR.fm will be available in the frequencies 90.4 (in Lisbon) and 91.0 (at the Port). “And around the world via the internet. I’m sure that is one of the best radio stations in the world. Here we have the best professionals and we have all the technical means”, further emphasised Luís Montez, that for the first day of emissions has prepared a series of performances that took place in the studio and at the entrance of the facilities of the station. Alek Rein gave the kick-off, and this was followed by Filipe Sambado, Madrepaz, Tomás Wallenstein (Capitão Fausto), Lur Lur, Samuel Úria, Boa constrictor, Lie & The Brook Trout, or even Jasmine, among others.
in fact, to turn this radio on a stage that will reach to the four corners of the world, but always without removing the magic of sound – “because the radio is the theater of the mind”, explains Luis Montez, is also one of the missions of the entrepreneur. “We don’t want to send in the radio as well as Lisbon and Porto because nowadays, with the spread of the internet, we can be heard around the world. But we’re going to make a big bet on the digital transmission of concerts that will be held in our facilities, where we will mount a stage,” he says. “Of course, the magic of radio is the sound, and our will is so that we can touch the hearts of people who do not see, that we don’t know who they are, but they listen to us,” ends Luis Montez.
The Time of Blonde (with Lara Marques Pereira), the Science of Rhythm Advanced (Keso), Blue Glass (Ricardo Mariano), The Enchanted Forest (Ana Flour and Tiago Castro), Trance (Ricardo Mariano), Vanishing Point (Manuela Paraíso) the Point P Have (James Castro), Blitz Radio (Nelson Ferreira), To Round of the Night (Lara Marques Pereira), and Foam (Paul Lazarus) are some of the programs that will be part of the grid of the new SBSR.fm.
Ozil and Di Maria want to return to Madrid – Mesut Ozil, who represented Real Madrid between 2010 and 2013, and Ángel Di María, who moved from Benfica in 2010 and came out in 2014, they want to return to the club of Madrid.
According to the news today the BRAND, Ozil is a time-consuming process of renewal with Arsenal, his current club, where he was transferred in exchange for 45 million euros.
José Mourinho and Manchester United are attentive to the situation of the German, who will be willing to offer 15 million euros per season. But, according to the same publication, the player has already informed the responsible of Real Madrid of his desire.
Di María, who was the highest sale ever (75 million euros to Manchester United) of the blancos, also want to return to the house where he was happiest. The argentine has not adapted to the English league and went out in a season for PSG, where he also does not have the state at other times.
The calendar of the tyre brand Pirelli was presented this Tuesday in Paris and is Emotional – Peter Lindbergh, German photographer chosen for the third time to shoot The Lime (the famous nickname), I wanted this to not to focus only on the perfect bodies but in sensitivity and emotion. "Plundering the very soul of the protagonists,” he explains, they were even more naked than if they were without clothes. “It is another kind of nakedness. More important than parts of the body,” he points out.
The edition of 2017 has, instead of supermodels sculptural, 14 of the most recognized actresses of Hollywood – Kate Winslet, Alicia Vikander, Helen Mirren, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, Julianne Moore, Lupita Nyong’, Rooney Mata, Jessica Chastain, Charlotte Rampling, uma Thurman, Lea Seydoux, Zhang Ziyi and Robin Wright and Anastasia Ignatova, a professor of Political Theory at the Moscow State University (the "extraordinary beauty" of this unknown led Lindbergh to promise you, when you met her, that would call for the iconic calendar).
The black-and-white, with skin in the sight, but dressed, with poses less sexy but more natural. "The aim was to portray women in a different way. I did it with actresses that played an important role in my life and to photograph them, I was me closer to them as much as possible," he explained.
"in A time in which women are represented as ambassadors of beauty and perfection, I thought that it would be important to remember that there is a different beauty, more real and authentic, which is not manipulated by advertising or by nothing," explained Lindbergh in Paris, quoted by the Spanish daily El país.
For Lindbergh, the role of the fashion photographers of today, is "freeing the women, and all, of the terror of perfection and youth", and this edition, with less naked and sexiness that other, which is why a manifesto "against the beauty ideal of today, which is a invention commercial".
Helen Mirren, 71 years, stresses the "simplicity" and the "human" section of this calendar. "We are accustomed to images and locations are spectacular, this is the opposite of that", he affirms. Uma Thurman, another of the protagonists, he adds: "it Is important for children to see their mother grow, to get older and be fine with it."
Peter Lindbergh was responsible for the other two editions of the calendar – in 1996, in the desert of El Mirage in California, and in 2002, in the studios of Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles. In 2014, it was the second photographer of the edition of 50.Anniversary, by Patrick Demarchelier.
This is the 44.Th edition of the calendar, which has 53 years of life but has been suspended more than once due to cuts in financial. In the reverse direction, has had two editions in 1986.
The actor, 79 years, who would marry in December, died last night following a post-operative traumatic stress disorder after a surgery to the cervical spine.
The actor Carlos Santos, who was part of the cast of the series of RTP1 Welcome to Beirais, died yesterday, by 20.00, at the Hospital of Faro.
The news was advanced this afternoon by the agency that represented, the HIT Management, through Facebook. In a statement, the Hit Management is the reason of death: “Post-operative traumatic stress disorder following a surgical intervention in the cervical spine”.
The actor’s body, which according to the agency “lived marriage with actress Amelia Vine and they would marry in December of this year, 2016, will be in the chamber burning in the Basilica of the Star – Chapel of the Cloisters in Lisbon, from 17.00 tomorrow, Tuesday.
The funeral will be held on Wednesday, by 16.00, to the cemetery in the Alto de São João, where it will be cremated.
he made his Debut as a professional in 1963 and since then there are already 53 years of theatre, film and television.
The series Therapy, RTP, was one of his last jobs in tv.
The performance in the film Operation Autumn, about the last days of general Humberto Delgado, thanks to Carlos Santos for the award of best actor of the cinema of the Portuguese Society of Authors and the prize Sophia for best actor, of the Portuguese Academy of Cinema, in 2013.
In the film, Carlos Santos worked with Luís Filipe Rocha, António de Macedo, Joaquim Leitão, José Fonseca e Costa, and Leonel Vieira.
he was Also part of the cast of the last film of Fernando Lopes, “In Slow motion”.
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The actor, 79 years, who would marry in December, died last night following a post-operative traumatic stress disorder after a surgery to the cervical spine.
The actor Carlos Santos, who was part of the cast of the series of RTP1 Welcome to Beirais, died yesterday, by 20.00, at the Hospital of Faro.
The news was advanced this afternoon by the agency that represented, the HIT Management, through Facebook. In a statement, the Hit Management is the reason of death: “Post-operative traumatic stress disorder following a surgical intervention in the cervical spine”.
The actor’s body, which according to the agency “lived marriage with actress Amelia Vine and they would marry in December of this year, 2016, will be in the chamber burning in the Basilica of the Star – Chapel of the Cloisters in Lisbon, from 17.00 tomorrow, Tuesday.
The funeral will be held on Wednesday, by 16.00, to the cemetery in the Alto de São João, where it will be cremated.
he made his Debut as a professional in 1963 and since then there are already 53 years of theatre, film and television.
The series Therapy, RTP, was one of his last jobs in tv.
The performance in the film Operation Autumn, about the last days of general Humberto Delgado, thanks to Carlos Santos for the award of best actor of the cinema of the Portuguese Society of Authors and the prize Sophia for best actor, of the Portuguese Academy of Cinema, in 2013.
In the film, Carlos Santos worked with Luís Filipe Rocha, António de Macedo, Joaquim Leitão, José Fonseca e Costa, and Leonel Vieira.
he was Also part of the cast of the last film of Fernando Lopes, “In Slow motion”.
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brazilian Elza Soares was the protagonist of one of the best moments of the last day of Vodafone Mexefest.
it Was with a doomsday scenario, almost of the final judgment, that Elza Soares has received the outpouring of the public, coming out of the storm out there, on the Avenida da Liberdade, in Lisbon, in search of redemption.
On the stage of Coliseu dos Recreios, the decana of the brazilian popular music, by all expected from the top of his pulpit, which the mother of the holy, immortal, to preach his message to the crowd startled. That is to say that, at the age of 78 or 79 or 80 or 86?), Elza Soares is in the flower of age, such is the strength and presence of his voice.
With a concert centered on the highly acclaimed and latest album the woman at The end of the world, which recently won the Latin Grammy for “best album of brazilian music”, Elzinha, as it is also affectionately known, yesterday was a Elzona.
your samba dirty, insolent and challenging (built by a band of faithful and exemplary acolytes) packed bodies and snuggled souls for more than an hour. “This is just the beginning, because so much more is to come,” announced at the farewell after two encores that they knew little, but will stay forever in the memory and in the hearts of all present, as is always the case in the apparitions of the divine. And in the meantime, outside, the rain had quit.
The second and last night of the Vodafone Mexefest, which according to the organization it took about 15 thousand people plodding through the various stages located in different points of the Avenida da Liberdade, was another high point: the role of the Portuguese Branko, for the first time to present himself to the ground, since the separation of the Buraka Sound System.
Almost motionless on his throne of black, hair purple shining at the top and black dress beaded extended to the mouth of the stage, Elza Soares is alive, vivid in their almost eighty years. Elza Soares, the legend of samba, a legend of brazilian music, woman’s world, woman of the end of the world, landed in the Coliseu dos Recreios, November 26, and eclipsed everything around it. In the vicinity of room lisbon historical were carried out in various other stages many concerts of Vodafone Mexefest. As Friday, on the first day of the festival, as this Saturday, the concerts were in the tens. Good concerts, check-if, either before or after Elza.
The rock ‘n’ roll cloudy and dylanesco Kevin Morby, the soul and R&B of the Gallant voice impressive on the way to stardom, the detail of Mallu Magalhães, the surprise of receiving the Whitney in duo mode almost acoustic, the celebration of funk and hip hop of the track for track digable Planets, the rhythms broken by Branko, with Mayra Andrade, the output of your own concert, as a guest of surprise at the close of the festival. Everything good, everything worthy of distinct praise. But Elza Soares? Elza Soares gave a concert for the Story. Alive, vivid, lived.
Vodafone Mexefest is a festival, it’s a long walk
much has happened. We are already at the end of the encore when you go down the curtain for the last time and, while this happens, while the room applauds – for her, certainly, but also for us, privileged us to have found her and with her, Elza promises that he will return. Says and repeats that this is only the beginning, that the future will still reserve much more for her and her "brothers boys", that is, the group of musicians that accompanies it, led by drummer and composer Guilherme Kastrup. It was he who, in a report to the back of the Woman at The End of the World, his latest album and the one that performed at the Coliseum, told us a few months ago, "every time she sings it is as if you were singing for the first and for the last time". As witnessed the public that saw in the House of Music in Porto; as witnessed who accompanied her on Sounds in Transit, in Aveiro, as we have seen in the Coliseum in the last of his three concerts with Portugues e, Kastrup not lied.
The first time, the beginning and the end of it all, is that voice that imposes itself without any accompaniment, singing the beginning of the poem the Heart of the sea, of Oswald de Andrade, which starts the Woman at The End of the World. It’s that time ultimate, the end and the beginning of everything, the band in silence, his back to the audience and face to Elza almost at the end of the concert, in which she intones the verses of Me – "I Take my mother with me, because it gave me your own being". The first time and the last time, let’s say, is what they sang and how she sang, with the extraordinary band that accompanied her, along the about an hour and a half concert.
Heart pounding in samba, antennas tuned in the vast world, the young people of são paulo have created for the diva carioca music of a hybridity, a glorious and bewildering. Glorious because it calls to us, generous and popular, that we added to it. Disconcerting because it reflects a world convulsive where to live love and violence, noise and placidez, however, often hateful, and hugs fraternal. Putting, swing, samba and neurosis post-punk, electronic-corrosive and tropicalismo lush, the past and the future together until one becomes indistinguishable from the other. Already the feel to listen to the one who is, arguably, one of the albums of the year, but the concert makes it still more evident by the raw sensitivity of the interpretation of the band. And after, or better, before, Elza.
Elza Soares that puts a Colosseum full the sing the key phrase in this extraordinary song combat against domestic violence, Maria da Vila Matilde – "You will regret raising a hand p’ra me." Almost octogenária, tied to the armchair by the physical fragility, that, then, celebrates carnal love with fervor and naturalness – "Nails nailed/ in trance latejo/ clothes thrown on the floor", say the verses; "To fuck", says the chorus, two words stretched and distended until they become ballet phonetic in the throat of the singer.
António Zambujo gives concert surprise on the last day of Vodafone Mexefest
Elza Soares is one that denounces that "the black meat is the cheapest in the market," (song-the manifest withdrawal of the album from their last rebirth, from The Tailbone up to the Neck, edited in 2002); and also that he encourages, "I want noise, I don’t want no one stopped, no one draught"; and compliments with humor, in Portuguese of Portugal, "this is highly cool. She herself, the one that calls to you Ruby, singer, and dancer who, after interpreting together Benedita, and called up themselves to him to whisper, disarming, the lyrics of Rogue – "Powerful!", shout from the audience, and she, smiling, thank you.
Elza Soares, a whole life behind you, and still seek, to risk, to want more. There is still so much to do, right? "Until the end, I’m going to sing/ let Me sing until the end", we hear it – and the concert was only beginning.
outside, in the streets open to the sky, the scenery had changed in relation to Friday. The hustle and bustle of the public in ambulation was the same, but the arrival of rain had made the public more homogeneous. The organization has released waterproof to whom it was caught off guard, and was to see the Rua das Portas de Santo Antão and the Avenida da Liberdade polvilharem people, covered in white plastic in the customary brisk pace.
Mexefest begins with a concert surprise free
Protected from the rain on the route, they saw Kevin Morby, the new fad of american rock, do justice to the condition. In the Rossio Station, packed space to hear the Dylan converted to the power pop of Dorothy or the beautiful Miles, miles, miles, that starts as a ballad spectral Roy Orbinson could have invented, and ends in a journey of self-road with Springsteen in place of hanging. The poignancy of singer-songwriter to the abandonment of jam rock ‘n’ roll is a small step that Morby and band show know give without any difficulty – it was a pleasure to see them doing it.
as we find before him, in the Coliseum, a singer, Gallant, doomed to stardom. The R&B is your language and voice virtue and the energy of the performance are impressive. The author of Ology, edited album this year, has learned the lessons of the seductiveness of Marvin Gaye’s late, you have Prince on the tip of the tongue and Drake or Miguel at gunpoint. It is a modern classic in the construction, thus able to moderate the fall in the occasional to the generic forms that enxameiam the industrial production of the R&B, contemporary.
throughout the night, it was confirmed also that the Whitney are the new favorite band of a lot of people – Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek played in version duo of voice and guitar in Tivoli crowded, they explained that walk through Lisbon to prepare the new album, and the brightness, said those who watched, was not lost with the removal of the presentation.
meanwhile, Mayra Andrade acted in the Capitol, Fuse, the history of MC dos Dealema, was the scene of his serious voice, and beats thick of the night hip hop in the Garage EPAL, and track for track digable Planets made redundant the presence of chairs in the audience of the São Jorge: everything together, all united in the beat of the band the Rebirth of slick (Cool like dat), all to celebrate hip hop as matter is built of particles and jazz groove funk unassailable.
The Vodafone Mexefest good-bye-went with the Brother Makossa the rolling in the attic of the Tivoli and with a Coliseum filled with the rolling also with Branko in charge of operations, and Mayra Andrade, even in the end, as a special guest. After the frenzy of rhythm (afro-house-kuduro-techno, kwaito-funk, all of this and none of it exactly), decreased rotations, and said goodbye to each other with the breeze tempered Reservation for the two.
In 2016, the Vodafone Mexefest was the festival that we know of. Opened a historic area of the city, its habitat since always, music and spectators that came out to hear. During two days, 15 thousand (numbers advanced by the organization) have rediscovered and discovered bands and musicians, re-entered in spaces normally frequented and discovered some new ones, such as the re-opened Capitol or the attic of the Tivoli. But, in 2016, the Vodafone Mexefest leaves a mark in your memory more deeply than all the others. It was in this year that we saw Elza Soares present the Woman at The End of the World. Will sing with her. Up to the end. As if it were the first and last time.
Sitting in an armchair imperial in the middle of the Coliseu dos Recreios in Lisbon, Elza Soares is the diva that large part of the audience of the second, and last day of the festival Vodafone Mexefest want to hear. The hair and the lips purple combine well with the charisma of this survivor. The black dress extends through a kind of roots that cover the stage, remember that this is a woman with almost eight decades of life well-rooted in the history of brazilian music. It is the very one who proclaims: "I want to sing until the end. Let Me sing until the end".
Despite spending all the show sitting in his armchair, Elza Soares manages to get your energy to the audience. There’s plenty of you in strength of spirit that you lack of strength in the legs. "Good night my people is really cool. I want to hear the noise to." ordered the arrival with his husky voice. And the public made him to will.
Are the struggles of his life that give body to this soundtrack. Born in the slums of a Beautiful Woman, in Rio de Janeiro, the daughter of a laundress and a laborer and amateur musician, was forced to marry by her father when she was 12 years old. To the 13 already was a mother. When he sang on Radio Tupi, at age 16, caused strangeness by its thinness and fragility. They asked him what planet is the vineyard, and the girl Elza replied, "The planet of hunger."
Of the seven children that had lost four in tragic circumstances. It was also devastated with the death of one of their ex-husbands, the legendary Garrincha, with whom he was married fifteen years. Elza would be the victim of alcoholism, the footballer and the violence he caused.
The call for more strong that the artist made in the Coliseu dos Recreios directed to all the Portuguese women: "Enough of suffering silently. Have to shout. Moaning only in pleasure. Report", urged before singing Maria da Vila Matilde, a song against domestic violence – the moment of greatest delight among the audience.
Elza Soares came to Portugal to present the disk the Woman at The End of the World, winner of the Latin Grammy for Best Album of Brazilian Popular Music, the first in more than half a century of career only composed of unreleased. In the studio, as on stage, the artist is accompanied by a set of musicians from the São Paulo absolutely outstanding. The group is led by a rio de janeiro, Guilherme Kastrup, the producer of the album.
The sound of Elza Soares was not crystallized in time. Percussion, keyboards, drums, electric guitar, and it all adds up to a rock mestizo which forces the body to gingar to the sound of the samba muscled.
In the 70′s, he began to work in Europe and in the USA but, in the 80s, he was ready to give up the career. It was Caetano Veloso who convinced her to continue.
The rights of women, the liberation of sexual – "Nails nailed into a trance latejo / clothes thrown on the floor / legs open, I hold my in a kiss / suffocation, the after," in To Fuck – are some of the themes of the music of Elza. Also the rights of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people) and the fight against racial discrimination are their flags. "The meat cheapest of the market is the black meat" shoots in the song The Flesh.
The show counted with the participation of the singer and dancer Ruby in Benedita, which followed one of the most quiet, Rogue.
Before offering to the public Back Up and Feeling in the encore, the lights went down as if the artist were to return to this planet from where it came, and heard-if Me: "I Carry my mother with me / in a way that I don’t know to say / take my mother with me / that he hath given me his own being".
Rehearsing her Portuguese accent, the singer has found the epithet right for the Portuguese: "we highly secure". And, if Elza teaches that, when life goes wrong, there is only one thing to do… "get up, shake off the dust / And make a comeback!", it was with the same optimism that farewell Vodafone Mexefest. "This is only the beginning. There’s a lot of good stuff ahead."
The concert of Elza Soares no Coliseu dos Recreios was a rare historical moment of the consecration of a diva that, in almost 80 years of life, managed to win the timelessness and imposing a hoarse voice, not always musical, which is a mix of pain and determination.
This edition of the Vodafone Mexefest showed that the festival and its spectators, are increasingly set to Liberty Avenue and to the various spaces of concerts. Sometimes, these are the artists that seem to be absolutely settled with the dynamics of the public who enters and exits as the music calendar for each one.
The concerts surprise at the Largo de São Domingos, Jorge Palma on Friday and António Zambujo on Saturday, have been a winning bet for the opening to new audiences. Within doors, the highlight is the debut of the refurbished Cine-Teatro Capitol, in Parque Mayer.
fans of hip-hop and R’n’b watched the great concert of Talib Kweli or Gallant. While fans of independent rock had Jagwar Ma or Kevin Morby. The closure was made by Branko (ex-Buraka Sound System). It was beautiful the party. And not even the rain ruined it.
The bag of the tent does not close but Jose Abreu insists. Next, have blankets, sleeping bags, blankets, plush and packed lunches. "I brought an extra bag with warm clothes that neither was necessary," he says, at the door of the Meo Arena. Woke up at 8am the Friday morning and caught the bus at the Port and came to Lisbon. Is not a fan of Justin Bieber but his daughter Regina married him, if I could.
The 15-year-old arrived two days before the concert to ensure a good spot. "It is my life. I’m starting to get nervous," says Regina with the cheeks marked in black with the initials JB. Neither the rain, nor the cold or the tennis soaked the demoveram. "Last night [Thursday] was a disgrace. I started to cry. But then I thought of him [Justin, of course] and all was well," says the Observer.
three years have Passed since the first time that Bieber took the stage at the same Meo Arena for the first concert in Portugal. Regina was there. Joseph and the wife, bound by her daughter. But on Friday night it would be different. "I’m going there to the mall to take a spin while I wait for her", explains the father-assistant of 47 years. Like Joseph, there are many other relatives backpackers in the immediate vicinity of the theatre. There are even grandparents who "do this for the grandchildren."
Ana Paula, 60 years old, spent the last three days camped to make company to her granddaughter, a Bieber lover. "I know the songs and just not go to the concert because she [the granddaughter] has not bought me the ticket," complains the grandmother of Mem Martins, who made shift to neta go dry your tennis to the heaters of the bathroom of the Shopping Center Vasco da Gama.
Joana Gallego has 14 years old, and there are three years who considers himself a fan of "serious" musician. Justin Bieber is everywhere in your life. "My room is decorated in it. I have covers, comforters, pillows, paintings, photographs, posters", she says: "I would like to thank him for what he has done for me. It helped me to overcome moments very complicated".
little more than two hours of opening the doors of the Meo Arena, the queues are full of young people dressed in regalia, with all the pomp and circumstances for the reunion with her idol. There is no merchandising missing. Hats, bracelets, pins. There are T-shirts XL with the face of the singer that are transformed into crop top. Which flu, which pneumonia. By Bieber, anything goes.
Lap and a half, and listen to the screams of hysteria. There is a person to run that, from far away, it seems Justin. "Mother, Luis Mariz is here," exclaims a young woman on the phone. Other are running smartphone in hand, ready for the selfie and has already connected on instagram, snapchat and straight to the facebook. But after all who is Luis Mariz? "It is a youtuber brasileiro equal to Justin," explains the Observer of youth as it calms the breath. The delusion is so much that we decided to approach the young look-alike of the artist to realize better what is going on. But we are "barred" by two security guards, say, thin with a little more than 14 years, who ask "don’t touch him". The furrowed brow ensures that no-one wants to hurt one of the phenomena of the internet with more than 2 million fans on Instagram and a million on Youtube. "I’m a big fan of him and go to the side", explains Luís, brazilian but living in Oporto.
access to the VIP area the chestnut is another. There is no garbage on the floor, bags or jackets. Everything is impeccably maquilhado, as is the case of Laura. With a professional make-up, a young woman of 16 years has been accompanied by the brother of 21 for the concert "in her life". Paid 1700 euros for the package, "I’ll Show You VIP" to be able to be close to the stage, take a photo with the singer and even get an autograph. "But the Bieber eventually cancel the meet and greet", confides the young woman. It does not hurt. Laura does not care not be reimbursed: "Until you paid the most to be here."
next, we find two mothers in Spanish to accompany their daughters. Montse is from Vigo, and came on purpose with Alba, 16 years old, to the concert. Paid 360 euros for each ticket of the VIP package "Where are you now" there is more than one year, which guarantees more perks than the others. "I’m a fan of his for seven years. I have never seen him live. I had to be here," says Alba.
The clock read 18: 30 when the gates of the Meo Arena opened and the chaos has settled. The days the stars did not take away the forces who had hoped to be able to the best place, more to the front, closer to the idol. The five entries were only empty five minutes before the 20h and the warm-up Mic Lowry and The Knocks that you still picked up on the Portugal flag and took selfies with the public.
as soon As the screens started to show the pictures of Bieber, the 18 thousand that esgotavam the room did what they had to do: they have lost the head. At 20h53 quenched all the lights and the whole audience was standing with the smartphone connected . "The Purpose Tour" was there, and Justin had arrived. An image of Bieber in the shape of a diamond and is the own that comes out of the interior of a cube acrylic. Sweater black shorts to the squares and "Mark my Words" as the first song. More pop was difficult.
Everyone knows the lyrics to color, sing and dance. There are those who wipe the tears without losing the framework of the recording of the video from instagram. Then, it is the turn of "Where are you Now". The laser, the colors, the smoke, and a team of dancers show that this tour is not made for concerts simple, want to give a show, show off. Still, the first two songs have the light taste of the playback. "He never sings seriously when you are dancing," explains a fan of enlightened sitting right there on the side. Since then all is well.
Returns a sort of cage with the "I’ll Show You" and is muffled by the audience. The fourth topic, it is time to change clothes, this time more casual. Some skinny jeans, brown T-shirt and a three numbers above it, with Bieber the red print behind. The first great interaction with the fans gets there: "I Can play some songs on my guitar?", question. The answer is more or less the same that the Beatles received when they gave concerts: it seems to be a "yes" but do not realize very well. To make that relationship more intimate, is placed a sofa bordeaux in the middle of the stage, with a microphone and a guitar. Bieber starts off with "Cold Water" and his voice is drowned by the fans. Nearby there is a girl sitting, water bottle in hand to make micro and that knows how to color the letter. Everything seems to make sense.
With more than one and a half hour concert, it is time to descend to a second stage with an elastic bed which is proof that Bieber has a knack for physical activities. The acrobatics of the dancers show the concern with the details. The singer throws to the middle of the trampoline, leading, once more, to the delight of the audience. Because in a concert of Justin Bieber everything has more style, on the stage and not only.
Forget the posters. Here there are giant balloons with the initials of the artist, arches with ears babe flashing and neons to brighten up the night. The interval of the concert comes ten minutes from the 22h and allows you to solve problems fast, from the bathroom to the hot dog, passing by the strap Bieber, for about 35 euros.
The 22h03 hear the first arrangements, for those who say they will start all over again, the music and the wild race. "As Long as You Love Me", ” Children", "Let Me Love You" or "Life is Worth Living". Everything is going well. But note-if the tiredness of Justin, who wanders from one side to the other, without much interaction. "It is not with the breath of him," accuses Peter of 22 years who sees him live for the first time. Ride to the contrary, the girlfriend, Frances, says that "everything is awesome". Before the farewell, it is time for a dedication: "This stage is my home and there is no better than being at home," he says into the microphone.
But got to the time of the look-alike Bieber, one youtuber brazilian that we met out there, try a hug to the singer at the end of "Sorry". Luis Mariz takes the stage and runs toward the artist. Is barred immediately by two security guards. Bieber was stopped, watching the scene. "Life is made of choices. If you don’t try, you’ll never know if you can or not. I feel that this hug a day will exit!", said Mariz to report the episode in the profile on the instagram.
Almost hit the 23h, Justin Bieber said goodbye. "I thought it was tired but it was worth it. I really like him," says Anaís, 18 years of age, which follows the singer six years ago. The friend Vera also came out satisfied. It was the first time he saw him. "It was perfect", describes the young woman in the Port of 20 years old who arrived two days before and camped at the door of the old venue. "The entry of it was any thing," he adds.
Sara and Iolanda 19 years are happy. "It was brutal, it was like I imagined," says one of them. They confess that they have felt the idol tired during the performance. "This is the last tour. He was very still," says Sara. Edward and Bernardo were able to get two tickets at the last minute and decided to come. "I like more this last album is more hip hop and I wanted to see his work up close," says Bernardo.
outside, it was returning the image of fathers, mothers, uncles, and other sponsors and backpackers. Lurdes and António strolled through the Park of the Nations, while they waited for the daughter and the friend. Came from Braga, and took holidays to fulfill the dream of the daughter. "A year ago, that she does not speak of another thing. It seems the god of it. We had to come," says the mother. "Now there are only some 400 miles to get home."
Musician presented its Purpose World Tour for more than 18 thousand people in the MEO Arena
the hands of The clock still not pointed to the nine hours of the night when Justin Bieber comes from the heavens inside a cage of glass. Imprisoned as he was singing Mark My Words, under the watchful eye of more than 18 thousand people that sold out over a year ago, the concert that marked the return of singer to the MEO Arena, in Lisbon, three years after his debut in the Portuguese stages.
“Mark my words, that”s all that I have”, he sang Bieber, a theme that is clearly of redemption, and in fact the whole posture of the musician in the stage corroborates this need that has come to show since in 2015 he returned to music, after a pause the media if it happened on a sea of controversial developments that have made the delights of the press in the most lurid.
The few moments in which he interacted with the audience will meet this cry for redemption, which had its heyday before the first encore, with Purpose, the song that gives title to the album that you edited there is roughly a year and that turned into a pop star that goes far beyond the phenomenon purely juvenile.
however, the public that admires with devotion does not seem to feel any need to redeem Bieber. Just his physical presence, for everything to be won. The own has that awareness, or not worry minimally in many moments of pretending even that he sang over the top of your voice pre-recorded, more concerned to keep his troupe of dancers and the walk across the stage in the middle of a show great.
Bieber seems to live in a deadlock between the artist who probably wants to be and the image that the fans that come with the there is already six years you impose, even unconsciously. However, in many times it was clear that the voice that was heard was already written, by another, when he wanted to showed that it was without distractions or apparatuses. For example, after taking the party to the sound of Boyfriend (the album Believe, 2012), there was a sofa in the center of the stage and armed with only a guitar, Bieber sang in versions stripped of effects, the themes Cold Water (original, Major Lazer, with their participation) and Love Yourself (one of the singles the most celebrated of Purpose). The same happened on the straight end of the concert, with the ballad Life is Worth Living, where it has proven that if he did not sing always throughout the show, this is not based on a lack of vocal abilities.
The production that brought to Lisbon is truly grand. It is sufficient to note that only for the concert of Portugal, Bieber came up with a team of 200 people, 27 trucks TIR and 11 bus tour. Not missing the play of light imposing, a work intricate around the screens and videos scattered around the stage, lasers, platforms that are lifted up, fireworks and even a stage drop-down, which was not more of a stepping stone giant in which Bieber could not give rise at their stunts during the song Company, of the last disk.
Moreover, Purpose has been interpreted almost in its entirety, not missing even The Feeling, In the Sense and No Pressure, whose guests original, Halsey, Travi$ Scott and Big Sean appeared on the big screens.
Yet sometimes convey some emotional distance, this was interrupted at times as Children, during which she danced with a group of children and fans of his music and with whom he shared moments of affection which in the general framework serve, obviously, to highlight an emotion that was not always highlighted.
however, the audience that filled the MEO Arena was conquered at the outset, and it would be very difficult not to get out of the room fully conquered. The enthusiasm was such that a fan, even at the end of the show, still managed to climb to the stage, but was quickly caught by security guards present.
The farewell was made to the sound of Sorry, a party epic, and that reinforced the potential of the star pop that Justin Bieber has. Just want to be.
in A moment that speaks so much of the film festivals as a "problem" that affects the market of distribution and exhibition, it is refreshing to look at an event that wants to be part of the solution. The sign in the third edition of Porto/Post/Doc, which kicks off Saturday (26) at the Rivoli and Steps Manuel and extends until December 3, wants to be more than just a showcase of "cinema(s) of the real": want to be a moment of "cultural turmoil", "mark continued" in the words of the director Dario Oliveira. "A festival with a programming of excellence" which "must fulfill an obligation very difficult", as he says: "make people come in, have pleasure, and want to come back. With the emptying of the cities, al so the audience of the cinemas disappeared and in particular in the Port. And to make it come back just the same with a festival. She lost the habit of living together, of being in a group to see movies. But it does not discourages."
Proof of that "stubbornness" is the association responsible for the competition – and that is also called the Porto/Post/Doc – maintains, since 2014, a weekly program at Passos Manuel, under the generic There are Movies in Low! "It’s a hard job", says the responsible, "but in addition to our members, which has surpassed the hundred, and they always come, every time we have a public university that I rediscovered the pleasure of the conversations around the film and is left at the end of the sessions. To exhaust a room is a cause of joy."
The goal continues to be to grow the audience of the festival – which this year has an ambitious programme with a hundred movies, with three titles in the Portuguese between the 13 scaled to the competition – Eldorado XXI of Salomé Lamas, Ama-san Cláudia Varejão and Tarrafal by Pedro Neves. But this growth of the public may not be made of “any way”, in the words of Dario Oliveira: “we don’t want the movie-flyer, nor the “hard line” of the documentary compromised. And also do not want to replicate the Festival, which for us is the best and most representative event of its kind; we walked side-by-side, this is not a competition. Our approach is another, showing films that explore a different approach of the real, a language very close to that of documentary films that sometimes are not accompanied by a reflection on what is most urgent to show you."
A reflection that becomes, in the words of Oliveira, by such "marks continuous on where is the real, the spirit, the science, the reason, the senses": "The cinema is not dead, and it is secondary if it is done on film or with cameras Go Pro: they are mere tools for the creation of new languages within a form of artistic expression very important in popular culture. The rules of the game have changed, and it is a little difficult to define what we will do in the next few years. But we walk depending on what is going on."
The bag of the tent does not close but Jose Abreu insists. Next, have blankets, sleeping bags, blankets, plush and packed lunches. "I brought an extra bag with warm clothes that neither was necessary," he says, at the door of the Meo Arena. Woke up at 8am the Friday morning and caught the bus at the Port and came to Lisbon. Is not a fan of Justin Bieber but his daughter Regina married him, if I could.
The 15-year-old arrived two days before the concert to ensure a good spot. "It is my life. I’m starting to get nervous," says Regina with the cheeks marked in black with the initials JB. Neither the rain, nor the cold or the tennis soaked the demoveram. "Last night [Thursday] was a disgrace. I started to cry. But then I thought of him [Justin, of course] and all was well," says the Observer.
three years have Passed since the first time that Bieber took the stage at the same Meo Arena for the first concert in Portugal. Regina was there. Joseph and the wife, bound by her daughter. But on Friday night it would be different. "I’m going there to the mall to take a spin while I wait for her", explains the father-assistant of 47 years. Like Joseph, there are many other relatives backpackers in the immediate vicinity of the theatre. There are even grandparents who "do this for the grandchildren."
Ana Paula, 60 years old, spent the last three days camped to make company to her granddaughter, a Bieber lover. "I know the songs and just not go to the concert because she [the granddaughter] has not bought me the ticket," complains the grandmother of Mem Martins, who made shift to neta go dry your tennis to the heaters of the bathroom of the Shopping Center Vasco da Gama.
Joana Gallego has 14 years old, and there are three years who considers himself a fan of "serious" musician. Justin Bieber is everywhere in your life. "My room is decorated in it. I have covers, comforters, pillows, paintings, photographs, posters", she says: "I would like to thank him for what he has done for me. It helped me to overcome moments very complicated".
little more than two hours of opening the doors of the Meo Arena, the queues are full of young people dressed in regalia, with all the pomp and circumstances for the reunion with her idol. There is no merchandising missing. Hats, bracelets, pins. There are T-shirts XL with the face of the singer that are transformed into crop top. Which flu, which pneumonia. By Bieber, anything goes.
Lap and a half, and listen to the screams of hysteria. There is a person to run that, from far away, it seems Justin. "Mother, Luis Mariz is here," exclaims a young woman on the phone. Other are running smartphone in hand, ready for the selfie and has already connected on instagram, snapchat and straight to the facebook. But after all who is Luis Mariz? "It is a youtuber brasileiro equal to Justin," explains the Observer of youth as it calms the breath. The delusion is so much that we decided to approach the young look-alike of the artist to realize better what is going on. But we are "barred" by two security guards, say, thin with a little more than 14 years, who ask "don’t touch him". The furrowed brow ensures that no-one wants to hurt one of the phenomena of the internet with more than 2 million fans on Instagram and a million on Youtube. "I’m a big fan of him and go to the side", explains Luís, brazilian but living in Oporto.
access to the VIP area the chestnut is another. There is no garbage on the floor, bags or jackets. Everything is impeccably maquilhado, as is the case of Laura. With a professional make-up, a young woman of 16 years has been accompanied by the brother of 21 for the concert "in her life". Paid 1700 euros for the package, "I’ll Show You VIP" to be able to be close to the stage, take a photo with the singer and even get an autograph. "But the Bieber eventually cancel the meet and greet", confides the young woman. It does not hurt. Laura does not care not be reimbursed: "Until you paid the most to be here."
next, we find two mothers in Spanish to accompany their daughters. Montse is from Vigo, and came on purpose with Alba, 16 years old, to the concert. Paid 360 euros for each ticket of the VIP package "Where are you now" there is more than one year, which guarantees more perks than the others. "I’m a fan of his for seven years. I have never seen him live. I had to be here," says Alba.
The clock read 18: 30 when the gates of the Meo Arena opened and the chaos has settled. The days the stars did not take away the forces who had hoped to be able to the best place, more to the front, closer to the idol. The five entries were only empty five minutes before the 20h and the warm-up Mic Lowry and The Knocks that you still picked up on the Portugal flag and took selfies with the public.
as soon As the screens started to show the pictures of Bieber, the 18 thousand that esgotavam the room did what they had to do: they have lost the head. At 20h53 quenched all the lights and the whole audience was standing with the smartphone connected . "The Purpose Tour" was there, and Justin had arrived. An image of Bieber in the shape of a diamond and is the own that comes out of the interior of a cube acrylic. Sweater black shorts to the squares and "Mark my Words" as the first song. More pop was difficult.
Everyone knows the lyrics to color, sing and dance. There are those who wipe the tears without losing the framework of the recording of the video from instagram. Then, it is the turn of "Where are you Now". The laser, the colors, the smoke, and a team of dancers show that this tour is not made for concerts simple, want to give a show, show off. Still, the first two songs have the light taste of the playback. "He never sings seriously when you are dancing," explains a fan of enlightened sitting right there on the side. Since then all is well.
Returns a sort of cage with the "I’ll Show You" and is muffled by the audience. The fourth topic, it is time to change clothes, this time more casual. Some skinny jeans, brown T-shirt and a three numbers above it, with Bieber the red print behind. The first great interaction with the fans gets there: "I Can play some songs on my guitar?", question. The answer is more or less the same that the Beatles received when they gave concerts: it seems to be a "yes" but do not realize very well. To make that relationship more intimate, is placed a sofa bordeaux in the middle of the stage, with a microphone and a guitar. Bieber starts off with "Cold Water" and his voice is drowned by the fans. Nearby there is a girl sitting, water bottle in hand to make micro and that knows how to color the letter. Everything seems to make sense.
With more than one and a half hour concert, it is time to descend to a second stage with an elastic bed which is proof that Bieber has a knack for physical activities. The acrobatics of the dancers show the concern with the details. The singer throws to the middle of the trampoline, leading, once more, to the delight of the audience. Because in a concert of Justin Bieber everything has more style, on the stage and not only.
Forget the posters. Here there are giant balloons with the initials of the artist, arches with ears babe flashing and neons to brighten up the night. The interval of the concert comes ten minutes from the 22h and allows you to solve problems fast, from the bathroom to the hot dog, passing by the strap Bieber, for about 35 euros.
The 22h03 hear the first arrangements, for those who say they will start all over again, the music and the wild race. "As Long as You Love Me", ” Children", "Let Me Love You" or "Life is Worth Living". Everything is going well. But note-if the tiredness of Justin, who wanders from one side to the other, without much interaction. "It is not with the breath of him," accuses Peter of 22 years who sees him live for the first time. Ride to the contrary, the girlfriend, Frances, says that "everything is awesome". Before the farewell, it is time for a dedication: "This stage is my home and there is no better than being at home," he says into the microphone.
But got to the time of the look-alike Bieber, one youtuber brazilian that we met out there, try a hug to the singer at the end of "Sorry". Luis Mariz takes the stage and runs toward the artist. Is barred immediately by two security guards. Bieber was stopped, watching the scene. "Life is made of choices. If you don’t try, you’ll never know if you can or not. I feel that this hug a day will exit!", said Mariz to report the episode in the profile on the instagram.
Almost hit the 23h, Justin Bieber said goodbye. "I thought it was tired but it was worth it. I really like him," says Anaís, 18 years of age, which follows the singer six years ago. The friend Vera also came out satisfied. It was the first time he saw him. "It was perfect", describes the young woman in the Port of 20 years old who arrived two days before and camped at the door of the old venue. "The entry of it was any thing," he adds.
Sara and Iolanda 19 years are happy. "It was brutal, it was like I imagined," says one of them. They confess that they have felt the idol tired during the performance. "This is the last tour. He was very still," says Sara. Edward and Bernardo were able to get two tickets at the last minute and decided to come. "I like more this last album is more hip hop and I wanted to see his work up close," says Bernardo.
outside, it was returning the image of fathers, mothers, uncles, and other sponsors and backpackers. Lurdes and António strolled through the Park of the Nations, while they waited for the daughter and the friend. Came from Braga, and took holidays to fulfill the dream of the daughter. "A year ago, that she does not speak of another thing. It seems the god of it. We had to come," says the mother. "Now there are only some 400 miles to get home."
The young spaniard who was assaulted by Justin Bieber, and that she was bleeding from the lip gave an interview where he declares that ceased to be a fan of the singer. “It was a terrible” account.
The young man assaulted by Justin Bieber before the concert of the singer in Barcelona, on Tuesday, declared that already is not a fan of the singer of 22 years. In an interview with Spanish radio Happy Fm, Kevin, when asked if one continues to admire the artist, confessed: “Honestly, no. First I am.”
The young man defended himself, claiming that “only wanted to play in [his] idol.” Kevin further revealed that touched lightly at the singer canadian, who followed the car, with the glass open. Bieber turned out to repel him with a sudden punch, which left him to bleed in the lip. “It’s been awful,” confided the young man, who ended up not watching the concert.
Justin Bieber has been in Spain for two concerts in Madrid and Barcelona, framed in the tourworldwide presentation of his latest album, “Purpose”. The musician closes the european tour in London, but before that he gave a concert at the MEO Arena, in Lisbon, this Friday.
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Sounds and bands to suit all tastes and novelties that pass through new spaces and other arts, for in addition to the music, in the edition 2016 at the festival Vodafone Mexefest.
To add to the extensive Portuguese armada, the highlight for the Sky and Elza Soares, two brazilian recently winning Latin Grammy awards and other names british, americans and even australians, as a Gallant, Not, Jagwar Ma, Whitney or track for track digable Planets.
The Vodafone Mexefest will occupy rooms already popular as the Coliseu dos Recreios, the “Cinema São Jorge”, the Palácio Foz, the Station (Vodafone), CP, ca, the Garage EPAL, the Society of Geography of Lisbon and the Casa do Alentejo, but this year adds the attic of the Teatro Tivoli BBVA and the Capitol building, which will reopen precisely at the time of the festival and will add three more stages to Vodafone Mexefest.
In the poster, apart from the names more indie/alternative, edition 2016 includes others such as the cape verdean Mayra Andrade or the veteran brazilian Elza Soares.
But there is more news. In this edition the premiere Vodafone Cuckoo – performances in the balcony of the Coliseum, with Moullinex and the Chick on the first day and Capitão Fausto in the second.
Voices writing with Carlão, Of Chick, Mike el Nite, and Fuse to make poetry, lyrics of songs, chronicles, and other texts from a variety of authors to celebrate the word in Mexefest. Festival that still maintains the Vodafone Bus to go up and down the Avenue with the Fugly, on the 25th day, and the 800-Gondomar on the 26th.
And there will be still a tape in the Boulevard, the walk, the party is guaranteed of the Kumpania much Noise.
The Portuguese representation will even go by names such as the Fandango of Luís Varatojo and Gabriel Gomes, Lula Pena or the show “Dynamite”, a tribute to Dina, with names such as Ana Bacalhau, B the front, Best Youth, Of the Chick, D”Alva, Marcia, Mitó and Torch Pestana on the first day, but also the fate of Fábia Rebordão, electronics Branko, Sara Tavares, or the Misses Mitó Mendes and Sandra Baptista, on the second day of the festival.
Of the international, featured for No, Gallant, Withney or the track for track digable Planets.
Are promised still two concerts open to the city of Lisbon, the first of which was announced this morning. Jorge Palma operates at 20h45, in Rossio, Largo de São Domingos, next to the National Theatre D. Maria II.
Sounds and bands to suit all tastes and novelties that pass through new spaces and other arts, for in addition to the music, in the edition 2016 at the festival Vodafone Mexefest.
To add to the extensive Portuguese armada, the highlight for the Sky and Elza Soares, two brazilian recently winning Latin Grammy awards and other names british, americans and even australians, as a Gallant, Not, Jagwar Ma, Whitney or track for track digable Planets.
The Vodafone Mexefest will occupy rooms already popular as the Coliseu dos Recreios, the “Cinema São Jorge”, the Palácio Foz, the Station (Vodafone), CP, ca, the Garage EPAL, the Society of Geography of Lisbon and the Casa do Alentejo, but this year adds the attic of the Teatro Tivoli BBVA and the Capitol building, which will reopen precisely at the time of the festival and will add three more stages to Vodafone Mexefest.
In the poster, apart from the names more indie/alternative, edition 2016 includes others such as the cape verdean Mayra Andrade or the veteran brazilian Elza Soares.
But there is more news. In this edition the premiere Vodafone Cuckoo – performances in the balcony of the Coliseum, with Moullinex and the Chick on the first day and Capitão Fausto in the second.
Voices writing with Carlão, Of Chick, Mike el Nite, and Fuse to make poetry, lyrics of songs, chronicles, and other texts from a variety of authors to celebrate the word in Mexefest. Festival that still maintains the Vodafone Bus to go up and down the Avenue with the Fugly, on the 25th day, and the 800-Gondomar on the 26th.
And there will be still a tape in the Boulevard, the walk, the party is guaranteed of the Kumpania much Noise.
The Portuguese representation will even go by names such as the Fandango of Luís Varatojo and Gabriel Gomes, Lula Pena or the show “Dynamite”, a tribute to Dina, with names such as Ana Bacalhau, B the front, Best Youth, Of the Chick, D”Alva, Marcia, Mitó and Torch Pestana on the first day, but also the fate of Fábia Rebordão, electronics Branko, Sara Tavares, or the Misses Mitó Mendes and Sandra Baptista, on the second day of the festival.
Of the international, featured for No, Gallant, Withney or the track for track digable Planets.
Are promised still two concerts open to the city of Lisbon, the first of which was announced this morning. Jorge Palma operates at 20h45, in Rossio, Largo de São Domingos, next to the National Theatre D. Maria II.
18.500 people are not going to miss the passage of the canadian 22-year-old by our country, in a show integrated in the series of european “Purpose”World Tour.
The musical history of Justin Bieber started very early and at age 13 he met a radical shift.
Impressed with some videos of the young canadian YouTube, the executive of So So Def Recordings, Scooter Braun, convinced the mother of Bieber to take the aspiring singer from Ontario, Canada, where Justin lived, to Atlanta, Georgia, u.s., to record some demo tapes with him who is still its manager.
After the themes recorded, and Bieber was soon disputed by singers Justin Timberlake and Usher, the last of which won in the struggle to hold on to the young talent and get him to sign for his publishing company, the RMGB.
Of the early singles with the voice of the teenager to the more recent work, the album The Purpose, edited by this time last year, it took half a dozen years that elevated Justin Bieber to the top of the pop-singers.
Four albums, four compilations, one ep, 29 singles with various collaborations and 17 promotional singles in his own name, have made this canadian a star in the numbers, but also a focus of attention and controversies.
in the United States Alone sold more than 45 million records, between albums and singles.
the world will running out of rooms and tours, but also feeding the media with scandals that led already to be arrested for assault, dangerous driving, or without a license to do so, fined for vandalism, both in your Ontario Christmas as in Rio de Janeiro, accumulating various charges, and episodes of violence, such as punch that there is a fan still this Tuesday, in Barcelona, when I arrived by car to the location of the show in the Spanish city.
With more or less scandals, the truth is that Bieber has an incredible number of followers around the world and chat records of sales figures and followers on social networks.
Closed the account of Instagram with more than 77 million followers, after a lively controversy with the fans because of a picture published with his girlfriend Sofia Richie – daughter of Lionel Richie.
On Facebook, their page has nearly 78 million likes and in Twitter there are almost 90 million who follow Justin tweet.
The Beliebers and boyliebers – fans of Bieber – sold out also, in the MEO Arena in Lisbon. Are around 18,500 people who purchased tickets between 42,5 euros and 125 euros or VIP packages that exceed 300 euros.
Bieber brings an entourage of 200 people in 11 buses on tour, and 27 trucks of material.
Kanye West is going to continue in the hospital until at least the weekend.
in Spite of news that went by an evolution in the state of health, the TMZ explains that Kanye West “is not well mentally”. The family wanted to have around on the Day of Thanksgiving – this Thursday, if celebrated in the us – but to stay in the hospital is far from the end.
West was hospitalized in Los Angeles on Monday due to “exhaustion” caused by “sleep deprivation”. Various were the star to ask for support and affection for Kanye West.
The most recent, Lady Gaga, on Twitter and left a call for followers to “not enjoy” with the state of health. “Enjoy with the possible mental illness of someone has no joke, it is a subject that is very sensitive for some”, he wrote.
“while I do not agree with everything that he does, I hope that the public show compassion and love for Kanye West and for each other,” he added. However, Kanye West is “a great artist” to Lady Gaga.
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Elza Soares will give a concert history in the Coliseu dos Recreios, on Saturday, 26
1. Talib Kweli One of the most acclaimed names of today in the universe hip-hop, the rapper from Brooklyn is one of the great headliners of this year’s edition, where it operates in the renovated Cine-teatro Capitol, in Parque Mayer. The son of teachers, he soon began writing poems and short stories, but it was through rap that revealed his talent with words. In the late ‘ 90s with Mos Def and Hi-Tek, formed the trio Black Star, who left the story with a brilliant title of the same name, but it was the soil (and in the collaborations with names such as Kanye West, Common or Kendrick Lamar) Talib Kweli has earned a place in the history of music of the XXI century. the Cine-teatro Capitol > 25 nov, fri 21: 45 hrs
2. Dynamite At the beginning of the year, when he celebrated his 40-year career, Dina was honored by some of the artists of the new generation of national music, as Ana Bacalhau (Deolinda), Mitó (Naifa), Megan, Chick, Samuel Úria, B-Front, D’alva, Tochapestana or Best Youth, that reinterpretaram the repertoire of the author of Love Water Fesca. The concert, which marked also the return of the cantautora to the stage after years of absence, revisitaram in full the first album of Dinah, the Dynamite (1982), in addition to the other 14 songs were made between 1980 and 2000, in a unique spectacle, which is now recovered, once more, to the Mexefest. the Tivoli Theatre > 25 nov, fri 22h40
3. Howe Gelb Country, blues or folk-rock are some of the styles that have crossed in the already long career, with more than 30 years, this songwriter, performer and instrumentalist from Arizona. Among the several projects created by you, include the Giant Sand, where, since the 80s have been invited musicians such as Neko Case, Juliana Hatfield, PJ Harvey, Vic Chesnutt, M. Ward, or Isobel Campbell. This concert is presented in format of trio, at the piano, with Thøger Lund on bass, and Andrew Collberg in the battery, to show for the first time to the Portuguese public the new disk Future Standards, a work composed by a set of ballads melody jazzy, that will surprise fans. the Casa Alentejo > 25 nov, fri, 23
4. Science Rhythmic Advanced After the success in last year’s edition, the journalist Rui Miguel Abreu back to being responsible for curating, Science, Rhythmic, Advanced, which brings up to the festival, a programme dedicated exclusively to the Portuguese hip-hop. The alignment joins musicians veterans such as Fuse, Dealema, or groups such as the Olive Trio, here in the company of the rapper Keso, with the new rap creole-Landim or promises as Beware Jack and Blasph. the Garage of EPAL > 26 nov, sat 20: 30-24h
5. Mallu Magalhães’s for more than a year living in london with her husband and also a musician Marcelo Camelo, it is the case to say that the brazilian artist will be playing at home in the Mexefest. This concert marks the return of the Mallu to the stage in his own name after the extensive tour with the Band of the Sea, with a show more intimate, in addition to recover some themes are older, will also serve to introduce you to some of the songs to include in the new disk the soil, with editing scheduled for the spring of next year. the Tivoli Theatre > 26 nov, sat 20h55
6. Celina da Piedade there are more than 50 disks in that this accordionist, singer, and songwriter participated, collaborating with diverse names such as Rodrigo Leão, Mayra Andrade, Uxia, Ludovico Einaudi, Gaiteiros de Lisboa, António Chainho, or Samuel Úria. Always having as north the Portuguese popular music, Celina da Piedade has extended the boundaries of the tradition, both geographic as a conceptual, to territories never before seen, as again happened with the Sun, the third album in his own name, published this month, which will serve as the starting point for this spectacle. the Palácio Foz > 26 nov, sat 21h10
7. Elza Soares Call him a living legend and it is little, because this sounds like the past and, at the age of 78 years, Elza Soares remains as current as ever. Even last year released the acclaimed the Woman at The End of the World, the first album composed of new themes, purposely written for you, in which the "singer of the millennium", as it is also known, deals with themes such as racism, violence, transgender, or drugs. A work of consecration, which has just received the Latin Grammy award for Best Album of Brazilian Popular Music, where the samba mixed with jazz or rock or hip-hop, that "the diva of bossa negra" now in Portugal, in a true concert history. the Coliseu dos Recreios > 26 nov, sat 22h10
Young Beja “camped” in front at the Meo Arena in three days
Ines de Almeida is there are three days to the door of the pavillion Meo Arena, Lisbon, waiting for the concert of Justin Bieber on Friday, and not complain of the cold, preferring to speak of the new friends of the “family Bieber”.
“Oh, the staff, no one saw a bag of Bieber’s white?”, question to the “general” a fan of the singer canadian, which operates in Lisbon on Friday, and the “general” are some hundreds of people, mostly young and female, which are on the back of the pavilion, some since Monday.
Agnes is Known but he arrived in Lisbon on Sunday and not only was the logo for the Park of Nations, where stood the pavilion of the concert, because it was raining. “Monday at nine in the morning, was already here sitting. On the first night there was a security guard who let us open a tent but then it was forbidden. I have slept with a sleeping bag and a blanket,” says South, admitting that you have even so the past very cold but that, “in the end, it will compensate”.
Sleeping in the open and spend there the days, waiting for a concert a few hours, on a Friday night, however, it is more than that. Inês speaks of people who have arrived in England, many who came from Spain, of the Portuguese around the side, of “friends who do not give to count by the fingers”, as if they already knew each other “for years”.
Because they are all one family, says Eduarda, from Viseu to Lisbon on Wednesday, and to share with young people his age, the same taste, the desire to get to the front of the stage, as near as possible to listen to songs such as “Sorry”, “What do you mean?” or “I love yourself”.
The same desire to Miguel Rodrigues, who arrived in Guimarães a day before, and complained of the cold, even Justin Bieber deserves that effort, and “much more”. “Already the follow since my 13 years, I’m 19. I do not regret anything, I would repeat, if I could but still came sooner,” says the Portuguese youngster, who went on to join the clearances in the work to be there.
less than 24 hours of the concert are hundreds of young people surrounding the pavilion, sleeping bags on the floor, air mattresses and sleeping mats, blankets, jackets, backpacks and pillows, a few umbrellas, bags with food that comes from home or the logistic support of family members.
The area stays clean, the police officers ensure the safety and the cold joins them in circles, talking, singing songs, “Bieber”, while you play cards. Throughout the day you arrange the queue, you will be writing a list of the finishing order and, in the hands, the number of the entry. On the east side, the Ines has the number one, on the west side, the Neglected, the number three.
Diogo Malta has the number four but the tickets are more expensive, those who will give close to the stage. Arrived on Monday, but as he lives in Lisbon, has gone home to bathe and seek food. But sleeping there in a sleeping bag and is there almost always. “I’m past this cold for it.”
As it was the first to arrive, organizes the list of fans for that, on Friday, “there is confusion”, and prepares for the last night in the open, which, at first, even the left to assemble a tent .
No matter the Diogo. “Tastes are tastes, maybe four nights a lot of people will think that can be crazy. But who knows if he comes back? And I know that I will love this concert, and I’m here and I know that I’m going to regret this.”
Diogo already know the alignment, regrets that it does not include “One time” but, as Miguel, is looking forward to hearing “Purpose” or “Love yourself”.
Inês has no preference, loves all music and is a fan since 2009. As they are all there, a family where “no one sleeps, but no one get tired of” waiting for the Bieber.
