It was the July 8, 1995, 20 years ago so that started the Super Bock Super Rock festival. At that time it was held at the Gare Maritime de Alcântara, in Lisbon, with Jesus & amp; The Mary Chain, The Cure and Faith No More as headliners.
Then, over the years, it has several meeting locations and designs. Since 2010 was the Meco. Appeared to have won there final home despite criticism because of traffic or dust, and behold, this year returns to change, moving to the Park of Nations, not far from the Tagus Park, which took place four times.
Is there that, between this Thursday and Saturday, if you can see and hear Sting, Blur, Florence & amp; The Machine or Benjamin Clementine.
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“The festival is known, precisely, to be chameleonic and have met various formats”, explains Jwana Godinho, the entity organizer, the Sound of Music, arguing that this adaptive capacity is part of the very essence of the event.
Perhaps. But it’s hard not to think that the new location is also a reaction to regular criticism that was the target of Cabeço Estate Flute, at Meco, and on the other hand, an adaptation to the model of urban festivals (Rock In Rio, NOS Alive , IN Primavera Sound) that has vindicated in recent years in Portugal, in a logic that the Sound of Music knows well, by conducting the Vodafone Mexefest. But in winter.
Jwana Godinho states that existed sensitivity to criticisms that were directed to the area of Meco, but essentially a transforming will, in order to provide the new comfort space and transport accessibility.
“We could even have looked for another place country, but these are not necessarily the features of this festival and was thinking about it we tried a place near the Tagus, with transport and to allow movement between spaces. . On the other hand there is a new reality of festivals, more urban and cosmopolitan, the Super Rock had not yet embraced and it seemed to make perfect sense “
This issue has four stages – two interior (Meo Arena and Sala Tejo) and two outdoor (next to Meo Arena and the Pavilion of Portugal.) – an area of 75 thousand square meters fenced, which will receive 20 000 spectators a day
In designing the poster, says Jwana Godinho, she thought up a public that likes music, or to enjoy concerts “cemented with names that everyone knows,” as the “latest discoveries, or emerging names.” Although there are still tickets, the Sabbath day is almost up.
Consecrated
For this farm the highlight is Sting that as has happened at times when has played in Portugal, should provide a concert which will blend the successes the soil and its former group, the Police, a symbiosis of ballads and more dynamic songs. The middle should not be missed The Last Ship (2013), his latest work, inspired by the community memories Shipbuilding Wallsend in the east of England, where he was born.
On the same day attention also turned to the ever controversial Noel Gallagher , the Englishman who marked the pop-rock scene of the 1990s with Oasis. In 2011 it turned out to form the High Flying Birds, which launched this year the album Chasing Yesterday , should be this disc the center of its activity, without being forgotten, of course, his stunning.
Friday kick in the Blur , this year, they released new studio album, The Magic Whip , received with some surprise, because it is not common a group return many years later to the discs and do it with patented quality.
Two years ago, the US festival Primavera Sound Porto, turned his concert at a time of generational bliss for those who grew to listen them in the 1990s is natural that this time, for having new album is different, but certainly no shortage successes and Damon Albarn charismatic as needed. Last week was news to have been dragged off the stage at the Roskilde Festival, for wanting to prolong the Concert Africa Express project that was about three hours, but if it happens something similar in Lisbon, Jwana Godinho guarantees, between laughs, that “no one will drive out.”
The poster has many Portuguese names but the ones who act in Meo Arena, Friday, will be Sérgio Godinho & amp; Jorge Palma , who will exchange experiences, imaginations and career four decades, in the form of songs that everyone knows.
On Saturday, the sumptuousness of English songs Florence + The Machine will be in evidence. Anyone who has seen her live knows what he can do by imposing a heavenly pop through a high-pitched voice and a presence in power stage, which took recent developments in the How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful .
Who also released album were just the Scots Franz Ferdinand in the company of Sparks, through the designation FFS , a joint that, from the outset, dir would be unlikely, but that came to show up fruitful, with pop lore of the latter proving to be accurate mating with the physical balance of the first post-punk. Together they will be in Meo Arena on Saturday.
Emerging
most familiar names, but still with a short career, will perform at EDP stage situated beneath the visor of the Pavilion of Portugal. It will be there that will evolve, this Thursday, the London Aaron Jerome, ie SBTRKT , which last year released the second album Wonder Where We Land , another example of pop music urban dance, or the American Perfume Genius , which in 2014, with Too Bright in confronted with a sound and lyrical universe as bleak as lush, asserting itself as one of the most exciting authors of our time.
The same could be said of the English Benjamin Clementine , which acts Friday, one of the great revelations of this year, with the album At Least For Now . But it live Even more strikingly by magnetizing presence at grand vocal lyricism and the hybrid music with any jazz thing, classical or gospel. We saw it a few weeks ago in Brighton, only with his piano, but in Lisbon will be presented with three more musicians.
On the same day it is worth being aware of English Savages , already well known to the Portuguese public, thanks to the album Silence Yourself (2013), and concerts where his physical post-punk music is consistent with a vibrant presence on stage. English Kindness and its collective is expected to be able to create the party atmosphere that won who saw them in December in Mexefest with reinforced doses of funk and pop.
On Saturday, American Unknown Mortal Orchestra , will try to prove why they are one of the most touted new bands of less formatted rock field. With three albums explore psychedelia of the 1960s, but do it in a unique way, adding new sound elements to each of the songs.
On the same day, but in the arena Meo, the Brazilian will Rodrigo Amarante , a regular in the last year in Portugal, but that is always welcome to show the songs from one of the best albums of last year ( Horse ), a mixture of pop contemporary poetry and abrasileirado melancholic swing ever.
The English The Vaccines and Crystal Fighters, the Belgian dEUS, Americans The Drums, the Swedes Little Dragon, the Luso-Brazilian Sea Band or the Portuguese Marcia are other names to retain.
For more dancing variations, the stage where everything happens is located in Sala Tejo. It will be there that will evolve Toro Y Moi, Xinobi, Mirror People, Creole or Throes + Shine while the stage Antena 3 will try to show a selection of Portuguese as the Drop Gala, PZ, Best Youth, White Haus, Da Chick, We Trust or D ‘Alva.
In the Tagus Park is all set. “It’s a bit like going back to Expo-98″ augurs Jwana Godinho, “with concerts, areas for sitting and eating and people wander from space to space.”
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