And the second day of Primavera Sound In the highlight was the public who flocked to the biggest flood ever festival. There are no official numbers, but certainly that will be state within about 30 thousand people. The City Park behaves more naturally, but the way the room is set up, and comfort priority, perhaps not many more. That is, it may be said that this Friday was sold out.
is glimpsed here and there queues for food and drink or trips to the bathroom, but nothing that had changed the face of the festival. The massive presence of spectators felt mainly when Antony took the stage, around 24, with the assistance the divide between those who wanted to fully enjoy the experience of a show that requires almost silence – at that time the other three stages not were working, as required by the artist, and the sound volume that stage skirt was short, it is assumed, by choice – and those who were not there to face and talk to each other.
The result: a show with too much background noise. In a room where the stimuli around are many already knew it would be very difficult to keep everyone’s attention, but it is the taste of frustration because clearly got the idea would have been a special event if the silence had reigned from start to finish.
On the one hand, the place itself. How launched the stage Howe Gelb of Giant Sand in the afternoon, “this place is beautiful, the trees, the green of the valleys and the breeze from the sea.” And then the very audiovisual staging – with strangely beautiful images of Japanese Noh theater – and the orchestra of about 50 musicians from Porto flanking a conductor and Antony himself. That is, in a unique experience. By beautiful place. And the show itself.
So did shine, but sometimes lost to more subtle tilt of the piano and especially of Antony’s voice. In happier times felt like we were in a sacred ritual in the open, in the worst at the corner cafe with Antony to sing on TV in the corner.
Wearing a long white robe, he pleaded with the usual vulnerability what was present, coating songs like Ghost , You are my sister or Cripple and the Starfish new orchestral arrangements, simultaneously assigning greater solemnity, sweetness and lightness to their songs. Interestingly, the most celebrated moment was eventually arise when was presented a version of Blind (2008 song Hercules & amp; Love Affaiar sung by Antony), in what turned out to be the most unique concert evening.
The Patti Smith Festival
Before the end of the day, at 19h, as Patti Smith I had creased it was your festival . If on Thursday his concert was clothed in commotion squeegees on Friday gave intensely a live rock history lesson. Lesson included the presentation in full of their first album, Horses , 1975, perhaps his longest-lasting of the 11 original iconic that recorded in 40 years of journey .
Once the first issue, the transgenerational Gloria , won naturally the crowd in an empathic relationship that has continued to the end, although without same closeness affectionate Eve. Birdland all his arguments as performer and agitator came to a head, with his voice intact to go from almost whisper to scream, while his excellent band of three musicians proposed a hypnotic rock mantra further enhancing the vocal dynamism.
Free rock both pointed out that this had been an album released in a precise context of the history of popular culture – the punk break – attacking the song with force and electricity. In between times returned by the Gloria and at the end theme, Elegie , created to think of Jimi Hendrix, she stressed that now “was dedicated to all those of you have lost loved ones. “And in the tender interpretation has not forgotten to appoint loved ones of deceased rock, like Lou Reed, Joey Ramone and Joe Strummer.
In the end, already after Horses out, there was room for two Redemption songs that had been played the night before, and never fail ( Because the Night and People have the power ). In her shake consciences really believe that the rock has the power to change the world and make believe everyone around him. In the context of a festival like this, where the exhaust valves are numerous, Patti Smith emerged as the figure repositioned ourselves with the essential individual and collective changes. And he did it with a truth and nobility that we do not see much there. And that’s huge.
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