In Porto Primavera has three days. And come Thursday – Daily News – Lisbon

Air, PJ Harvey and Brian Wilson are the headliners of this year’s US Primavera Sound. Among references of past certainties of the present and the future promises will be more than 50 groups and artists who will go through the City Park between Thursday and Saturday.

Port receives the from Thursday another edition of NOS Primavera Sound. Like the older brother, born in Barcelona 15 years ago, also the English version of this festival is today a reference for the fans, coming a little across Europe, which since 2012 transform the city for three days, a real capital alternative music. In all, more than 50 concerts that between 9 and 11 June, the four stages of the festival.

Soon to Thursday is prepared a true luxury alignment and representative of the spirit of this festival, which from the beginning, both in Barcelona and in Porto, crosses several musical styles and periods indie universe, a mixture of established artists with emerging names. One night it works as a kind of heating for the following days and only two of the stages running, will go through the City Park likes of Deerhunter, Julia Holter, Parquet Courts, Wild Nothing and yet ethereal rock of Icelanders Sigur Rós or experimentalism of the American Animal Collective, celebrating this year a decade and career half

for Friday are reserved two of the most anticipated concerts this issue:. the English PJ Harvey, which unlike the latest visits to Portugal is presented in its most rock version, and the American Brian Wilson. The founder of the Beach Boys will play in full historical album Pet Sounds, released 50 years ago and still considered one of the greatest masterpieces in the history of popular music, in what will be the last opportunity to listen to live as though already said the musician. A concert that surely will go down in history of the Primavera Sound, like others such as Caetano Veloso in 2014, or double acting Patti Smith, last year.

Still on Friday highlighting the usual wink of eye to the ’90s, embodied in the performances of three of the most iconic indie rock groups of the decade:. Dinosaur Jr, Tortoise and Mudhoney

for Saturday, the choice will be equally difficult, as the succession concerts, some of them simultaneously, in which stand out names like Titus Andronicus, Explosions in the Sky, Shellac, Ty Segall or the French Air double that at the turn of the century, with albums like Moon Safari or the Virgin Suicides, reinvented concept of electronic music and takes headliner status on the last day.

a gourmet festival

this year, the festival organization back to promote a restaurant area with some of the most charismatic of Porto snacks houses. Institutions such as the Bakery Ribeiro, Casa Guedes and respective sandwiches of ham, the Conga and its spicy pork fillets, the “best French girl in the world” Side B or the famous ham sandwiches of Badalhoca are some of the stalls, year after year have comforted stomach public, surprising, especially those coming from abroad, not used to find this kind of delicacies at music festivals.

to facilitate access to the festival, the NOS Primavera Sound again join the STCP, the Metro do Porto and CP to facilitate access to City Park. In the case of STCP buses, a direct link will be created between the Plaza Salvador City and the Avenida dos Aliados, with intermediate stops along the route, which will operate during the early morning of 10, 11 and 12 June between 00:20 and 7:00. For those who come from out of town, the CP offers various discounts both in Intercity services, Regional and Inter Regional and Urban in the port.