The big festivals also be measured with a counter-intuitive: when it’s difficult to choose. This year, the US Alive back to hell. These are our highlights.
pass the milestone of 10 years, the US Alive continues to score points in the list of the best festivals in Europe and the poster of this year, A more , places Portugal well within the circuit of major international artists – this is only one of the last references in the foreign press. The reason is explained in one word: the poster
It is the sign that justifies the 55,000 people who will fill the room on 8 and 9, sold out long ago.. The first day, Thursday, there walks, are already very few tickets for sale.
In day festival, the Paseo Marítimo de Algés is not known by environmental framework or the view (which is, strictly speaking, virtually non-existent) or the excellence of usable space, almost always tight and dusty. The count on it, the organization decided to offer a birthday present, illustrated in this message.
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in addition, as already here said this year the US Alive will have a “zone of tents” washed face, now reclassified in ” street EDP “with Pombalina inspiration and, amazingly enough is a stage dedicated to fado, that after midnight it will become a track slows . Imagination is the limit
The urban festival Algés every year includes the word in the motto, with its own merit, which touts with pomp and circumstance:. “The best poster (a) forever. ” And this year is no exception, the alignment of the NOS Alive is a hell
About then our highlights. – The full poster can (and should) be consulted here . Moreover, we recommend using public transport, install the official application ( Android and iOS ) to organize and go prepared for the day of heat and cold that comes from the sea, in the early evening.
the Americans Pixies (22h45) are repeaters in these parts, are now to mark 30 years of career and so it is expected an alignment in way of “best of”. For many, Black Francis has lost the ride but when the boss is the guitar, memory wakes up and the public is rendered, it is always a safe bet. We spoke this week with drummer David Loveridge continues to believe that the separation of the band for more than ten years has been the best thing that happened to them.
Before a Master called Robert Plant , the old and legendary voice of Led Zeppelin walking now on the road with a new band called the Sensational Space Shifters . the classics are expected from the (old) English band and we’ll see how it is that voice that was once considered one of the best of all time.
close the night (1:00 a.m.), the pair the Chemical Brothers is present even last Born in the Echos (2015), an album that received critical many stars and that keeps Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons as a reference of electronic music of Manchester.
On the main stage the day begins with the pop / rock of British the 1975 (18h), which come to show the second studio album, a fun drive to the name (get ready) : I like it When you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
“background tent” (the Stage Heineken. ) is where to go, traditionally the most alternative bands or artists or those who have not yet gathered enough critical mass to fill the Stage NOS. It was not one or two times the Alive made a mistake in choosing and it is expected that this year happens the same.
John Grant the former lead singer of American Czars, picks up hitchhiking the setting of the sun (20:45) to display the third album, Grey Tickles, Black Pressure (2015). It is a complex times a production record, but if it works live may well be a snap.
The Soulwax (23h45) are provided for almost 20 years, (if not the) most important band of electro Belgian rock scene. This year they put on disc soundtrack of the movie “Belgium” of Felix Van Groeningen, but is expected to traverse what is behind, including (if not especially) the remixes.
it is hard not to separate this activity from that closes the Heineken Stage three hours later. This is because two of the members of Soulwax, the brothers Stephen and David Dewaele, form a pair of absolutely preposterous DJs. The 2manydjs (2:30 a.m.) arrive and are left to keep alive any audience, because in addition to the technical skills have the ability and aesthetic sense to mix everything and anything, the more best unlikely. This surprising effect is deeply contagious, so it is hoped a final night in full. Who is working on Friday, please, hang up.
At Stage IN Clubbing (the “stage means” more devoted to electronic) receives this first day two key names in Portuguese electronics: Xinobi (18:05) and Branko (21h), the now former member of Buraka Som Sistema already stamped (and well) the soil carries with album / project Atlas (2015).
At midnight, the Junior Boys have been playing the fifth album, Big Black Coat (2016), but is expected to provide the public Portuguese a pinch of previous records (are all good), including one or the other subject of the first Last Exit (2004), perhaps the most outstanding of the five. Come what may, it will be strong.
The Luso-Angolan Throes + The Shine enclose the night (2:40 a.m. ) and will compete for audience with 2manydjs. Nobody said life was easy, but we believe that they have more than arguments to gather around a crowd, because when you turn on the kuduro to power this also spreads more energy.
A name: Radiohead (22h45). It was the English band that made this exhausting day at a glance and who will gather on the Stage IN the vast majority of 55,000 people. Are giants who do what they want in the music industry (marketing strategies that have carried out in recent years are proof of this), bring the luggage a feat repertoire of brilliant moments and head to the new the Moon Shaped Pool (2016), ninth studio album.
Before (21h), the Australian Tame Impala return to ride Algés Maritime and Portugal, which have already submitted the last Currents (2015) last year – no great glow. Now that this rock turning to pop psychedelic has made more road now that spent more time to shape the most stubborn ears, we expect the host is greater. The band led by Kevin Parker deserves all the applause.
The Foals (fellow Radiohead) bring to the US Alive (19:30) the fourth studio album, what When Down (2015), a beautiful indie disco pop / rock but that does not erase the memory more esgalhada, for example, Antidotes (2008). Have much good to show, let’s count to be generous. Do you remember this?
In this second day, it is almost certain that the Stage Heineken will receive some flooding. Courtney Barnett is up (last week was one of the great attractions of the Roskilde festival in Denmark) and will present for the first time in Portugal, the debut album plus one with a name to read slowly: Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (2015). Many will get up, because that’s what calls the rock of the Australian singer and songwriter.
Others will also leave the ground when Carlão the stage (20.30) to present the new EP In Battle (2016) and the album Forty , considered by many one of the best of 2015. the Observer will walk all day behind him, then give news.
The following is Father John Misty (21.40). The US Joshua Tillman is an important name in contemporary folk, is a singer, songwriter and multi-intrumentista and has the curriculum more than a dozen discs (between albums and EPs), and a long history of mountebank (made of, for example, of Fleet Foxes). Has arguments to have all the world’s mania, the last of which is called I Love You, Honeybear (2015).
close the second day of Stage Heineken, British Hot Chip (2:40 a.m.) return to Portugal, this time to present Why Make Sense? (2015), sixth studio album. Has the same brightness of the previous In Our Heads (2012), but will give to dance.
Bodies tinkering is what will not miss the US Clubbing, this Friday, which will be due to the curation DJ Kamala . A stage and a day dedicated to hip Portuguese hop, where will pass NBC, Sir Scratch, Bob Da Rage Sense, MGDRV, HMB, Da Chick, Sam The Kid and DJ Kamala own, to close the festival.
the Canadian Arcade Fire (22h45) have long been a band successful among us, nurtured from the live debut in 2005, when came to present the (super) debut album, Funeral (2004) . Since then they have returned several times and returned to Portugal to elect one of only two performances at summer festivals this year. This show has everything to be special, because the band is currently finishing recording the new album, so we’ll hear songs from the oven.
It is up to Anthony Gonzalez honor of closing the main stage last night (1:00 a.m.). The M83 are among the most popular French bands today, because were able to create over the past 15 years a unique style, the way it shaped the electronics, illustrated in an exemplary manner in Saturdays = Youth (2008). The new album – Junk – came out last April, in addition to not be particularly brilliant had not had time to enter the ear, and it is expected to not let out some successes <. / span>
the Band of Horses (21h) arriving from Seattle to present, also on the main stage, the all-new Why Are You OK , released this June. Before (19:30) play the Spanish Vetusta Morla , a gift to the thousands of Spaniards who will be in the NOS Alive, but also an opportunity to present to the Portuguese public one of the bands alternative rock’s most successful in the neighboring country. Anyone who has seen them live guarantees that give a great show.
On Saturday, our emphasis on the Heineken stage goes straight to three names who work late then. That is to say that the best is (even) to the end.
When midnight on the dot, takes the stage a gentleman named Kieran Hebden, musician and English producer particularly known for remixes you’ve done half a world. Four Tet is a virtuoso, not only in the mechanics of “turntable” but also in the aesthetic component, which crosses several fringes of electronics with jazz and the world music , a mixture not always easy to digest but that leaves no one indifferent.
follows (1h30) to debut in Portugal the Canadian Claire Elise Boucher, known on stage by Grimes . At 28 already has four albums on the agenda, but it was the last Art Angels (2015) that made the leap: it was considered by all part (including us) one of the best albums of 2015. the tent will burst at the seams.
close long will (3H00), we will witness the return to Portugal of double new York Ratatat . Last year there were charming and had main stage honors, this gave them a much smaller but this will not deprive them energy, perhaps only opportunity to offer public a spectacle with all the letters.
in the electronic tent (the Stage Clubbing iN), a special underscore this last day to three Portuguese artists who already know closely. Isaura (19:10) followed by musical partner Francis Dale (20h25), is more than certain that it will call each other, it will be good to see, again . Then (21.40) the Mirror People Rui Maia (X-Wife), which in addition to the album Voyager (2015) already have to present an EP called Telephone Call , released this year. Closing the tent (2:15 a.m.), the German Boys Noize (Alexander Ridha), one of the best DJs in the world, will present the new Mayday , released last May. The spirit of “rave” to say goodbye.
The Observer team will follow in direct the three days of this edition of IN Alive in liveblog and social networks (the official label is #NOSalive). At the end of each day we will bring here a summary of the key moments. There.
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