Boats and more boats. Boats out of sight. Those who already sail the Coura river that bathes the river beach of Taboão, and that are loaded to be released to water. Were it not for these rubber boats and we were not we in the idyllic setting of Vodafone Paredes de Coura, and we would say that would be sufficient for the Armada was truly invincible and had not taken the beating it took in the sixteenth century.
We are on Wednesday afternoon, day of the official start of Paredes de Coura that, in fact, has already begun at the end-of-week. That’s who do not know a lot that we get, tents and rucksacks on their backs, so planning the comfortable place that, imagine, will certainly find in the area camping protected by the cool shade of the forest. You see them later, hand scratching their heads when faced with tents and more tents and more tents.
Marta May Almada, 21, is the waterfront guard a lot of backpacks. Not hers, the friends who do not know what awaits them in finding a place. Marta is in Paredes de Coura since Monday. First came last year, repeated presence this year, “and come every year,” he adds. Often goes by other festivals throughout the year, but choose them depending on the poster. “In Paredes de Coura do not need to know the poster. . I know there will be bands that want to see, but come the environment and sharing “There are many bands that want to see this year -” Tame Impala, Merchandise, Ceremony, Gala Drop, Marine Band “- but listen to the music in this” refuge “as defines the festival, which attracts over here
It is really true:.’re on the first day, one in which only the main stage, Vodafone, will be in operation to receive TV On The Radio, Slowdive, Blood Red Shoes, Ceremony and Gala Drop, which is responsible for the festival’s opening of honor, and Paredes de Coura is full as ever.
In the grassed area on the banks of the river Coura, tired bodies in the activity of previous days recovering energy for the marathon that follows, indifferent to the bustle around them. In one corner, bake up a pasta pan in Campingaz. Between two trees, someone held a tightrope walker rope some and some try to cross with the possible expertise (rope to a floor underground, which does not come to the festival to go through tragic accidents).
Laying in the grass someone reads the On the Road Kerouac. Sitting in the shadow of camping, others advertise the season Circus Victor Hugo Cardinali in Viana do Castelo, brought a poster who knows where. The Vodafone stage, the Ceremony do the sound test, and when they finish a song, burst applause of his back, as if for a concert it were – the camping public seems to approve what has just heard
<. p> And the hot sun, sitting on the banks of one of the adjacent bars to the camps, John Amaral, 23, and Rodrigo Pinho, 21, coming from Sever do Vouga, explain the flood by combining “strong sign” that although “alternative, attracts a lot of people” with “the history and the spirit of the festival.”
They talk about the comfort of afternoons spent in the grove by the river, speak of the experience of welcoming village, speak of Tame Impala (everybody seems to speak of Tame Impala, headliners Thursday), Slowdive, TV On The Radio and Legendary Tigerman they want to see in the coming days.
On the other bank of the river, one of the swings installed there to the delight of the public, two stage technicians with many Paredes de Coura to back (and 13 festivals already recorded this year), speak longingly of the days when the Foo Fighters or Queens of The Stone Age have undergone Coura.
They twist the nose Tame Impala and highlight Charles Bradley, “the new James Brown” as a must-see concert. Then Nuno Mota and Ricardo Pereira point for groups sloshing in the river. “Paredes de Coura? Paredes de Coura’s it. “Yes, it is. All this. And the music has not even begun.
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