At that moment, all the multitude, or the 55,000 present in the Promenade of Algés, ie a maximum of viewers possible, that is also the first day In Alive, Thursday, recorded sellout as sold out were the following two tickets; at that time, we said, all seem to converge on the main stage. Across the room, the Heineken stage, the Soulwax Belgian had finished their concert. Onstage In Clubbing, the Canadian Junior Boys gave closed their time of synthpop and electropop, all song made beat for the dance floor. At that moment it is one in the morning, those concerts seem to have been preparation for what follows.
All go so in the same direction. A mass of people in search of it. Comes one made of neon dancer on the screen, you hear the sampled voice ( “ hey boy, hey girl “), the pace is released ( “ here we go “) and is seeing a number of people jumping, absurdly happy, genuinely euphoric with the arrival of the Chemical Brothers. The band who edited last year very well received Burn in the Echoes ended with a crash the main stage. No need to tear. Only the care taken in the production of screen videos, the most photographed in smartphone that the bands over there had passed earlier, and “only” the unerring sprinkle the incessant beat with classic justifying the party: the minimal Do it again , still early, the tremulous Galvanize or always inspiring Block rocking beats , even at the end. Efficient as always, the concert of the English duo. It was not the end of the party: the Soulwax still assume his other life as dual 2 Many Djs, the Heineken stage, and the Throes + The Shine would lead to his inspired pan-African music rock energy inflated, toward the three morning, the stage In Clubbing. It was not the end of the party, but it was the timing of the bulk of the public gather the house. Or the hotel at the hostel, the temporary rental accommodation or wherever they are staying overnight to the tens of thousands who traveled from abroad to attend the Alive In. Already led some stories to tell. The more a concert of Pixies. Or the return to Portugal of an inspired and inspiring Robert Plant.
The first, with the bassist Paz Lechantin definitely integrated as a substitute for Kim Deal and the still fresh announcement of a new album (is entitled Head Carrier and will be published on 30 September) gave a competent concert but no flame. Kicked off with Bone Machine , did not take long to reach Monkey’s Gone to Heaven and showed the new punk nerve A laga Chagga (nerve punk, fast and neurotic, which proved also in the other, few, new developments that have gone through the concert)
of the three black front. – Frank Black, Joey Santiago and Peace Lechantin. Less monochrome drummer David Lovering, back there. And the feeling that the Pixies live at a crossroads. There is new life and also new music to show that history is not saved back there, but it is precisely this life, recorded between 1987 and 1993, that touches the audience sees and singing Debaser Where is my mind or Here comes your man as their property (and of course) and follows with enthusiasm the electric stream, complimentary Joey Santiago, Come on! . What to do? For these Pixies, play the songs all of alignment with professional commitment and leave the answer to these questions to the public. Who answered unequivocally: it is very good that your heroes want to continue to make music, but in fact, what matters is the reunion with the classics. That, that (or thankfully so, depending on your perspective), which made the band Surfer Rosa . The surprise had happened before.
During the afternoon, we found where they walked the 31,000 from abroad for In Alive. They were all there, on the promenade of Algés, to convey the unprecedented feeling of being in a Portuguese festival, we are in the minority among the public that attended the pop very 80s, very solar, The 1975, or among those who walked in the street with cobblestone imitation and facades replicating pombalinos buildings where they heard the fate of Marco Rodrigues and Raquel Tavares or, as the evening a concert by Dead Combo.
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