John Carvalho, strong festival man rejoices to take the Minho band James Murphy, 23 years after walking pasting posters on first edition of the festival
starts today and ends on 20 Vodafone Paredes de Coura festival. And the pride of John Carvalho, the businessman more connected to minhoto festival promoter northern Rhythms, for good reason: “We have the headliner that any festival would like to have:. LCD Soundsystem is one of the largest confirmations ever in the history of the festival Paredes de Coura. it is the return of James Murphy to full fitness, we talk about the band that was head-to-poster in Coachella, which is one of the largest festivals in the world. the fact that Paredes de Coura be part of the small tour of LCD Soundsystem fills us with joy “
John Carvalho confirms that it was difficult to bring the LCD Soundsystem”. If the band decides to make a few concerts and is to be played strictly by all other festivals I can imagine it was not easy. But we have achieved it and are here on the 18th of August. ” But there are costs. Without wanting to reveal numbers, the entrepreneur Rhythms admits that the LCD were “the most expensive band ever” festival, which already takes more than twenty years. “And in terms of logistics, are the band that has more people and more requires a lot of resources. It is not an easy band to put on stage. But I walked on it for many years. It will be a memorable concert and will be a challenge for us to have a band of this size. “
not surprisingly, John Carvalho confirm that the most popular day tickets are the August 18, to the night led by LCD, although 80% or 90% of the top selling hits are the general passes for the four days of Vodafone Paredes de Coura.
Designed for a maximum of 23,000 tickets per day, João Carvalho believes that “the success of this edition is 100% guaranteed.” For this also helps the public increasingly international festival, come from many countries, especially in Spain, England, France, Germany and Belgium.
Pride Poster
But the schedule of this year’s festival is far from being reduced to LCD Soundsystem. João Carvalho points out, for example, the fact that the only European date of Portugal. The Man [20th in the Main Stage Vodafone] is scheduled to Paredes de Coura – “which shows affection for us” – boasts the premiere national stage of Cigarettes After Fri [day 20 secondary Stage Vodafone FM], and great confidence in the quality of performances of Chvrches and post-punks Sleaford Mods.
“we have a poster that fills us with pride. it is not always easy, because we have a festival that coincides with another five in the other tip of Europe “, concludes João Carvalho that every year has to face big-name events like this year the festivals Reading and Leeds (England), Rock en Seine (France), the Pukkelpop history (in Belgium), or Lowlands (Holland).
for the convenience of the festival Goer
Vodafone Paredes de Coura perfilha the same philosophy of other great indie festival promoted by Rhythms, the Porto NOS Primavera Sound, where the welfare of festival-goers is above the mass. They have been so both events have earned the loyalty of its audience.
Therefore, it is necessary to make some patches every year. This year, “we cut the fat in the amphitheater so that more people have visibility to the stage,” he tells us John Carvalho, who adds that “the festival increased space but do not want to sell even more tickets than last year [when They exhausted the general passes for the first time in the history of the festival]. what we want is to create more convenience to people who visit us. “
And there was a strengthening of infrastructure? “We have a number of showers much higher than last year and better quality” than tripled. They were placed in the bathrooms “mirrors and hair dryers. The mobile charging center is also higher. It also grows the number of bathrooms connected to the sewer. Not that things had gone wrong in previous years but always want to improve it what has been done “, he says.
a affections festival
23 is the number of years separating the Vodafone Paredes de Coura that begins today and the first-ever edition of the festival. Among a festival that has the poster a name like LCD Soundsystem and a local event organized by a group of young people of the earth, of which John Carvalho, who pulled in 1993 with a program dominated by national alternative bands, there are certainly big differences. But John Carvalho is a common link:… “Affection Affection is the same This is a festival of emotions, we do things with the same enthusiasm with which we did for 23 years We have the same rigor in the care of the public, only that with another budget that at the time we had. “
in 1996, the Paredes de Coura Festival gains a more international slant with more big names, such as Shed Seven and Raincoats. But in the following years the festival reinforces irreversibly its international posters that excluding an ephemeral phase dominated by nu-metal in 2001 and 2002, attached to the indie sound that makes you picture today.
Imaginaria João Carvalho in 1993 that the festival grow both in subsequent decades? “Of course not. When we did the first edition, the goal was to spend a good time with our group of friends. In nine days, hired bands, made posters, pasted posters with glue ours. At the time, none of us had a car, we had to borrow to land associations. contratávamos the nu-ma-band phone booth and we announced the event in nine days, at a time when there was no internet or social networks, or weapons of promotion there now. “
Another link over all these years of the festival is the magnificent natural amphitheater of Taboão River Beach, which easily creates a highly warm atmosphere around the bands that act on the main stage. “The festival is part of that natural amphitheater that is our trademark, such as the coherence of the program,” says João Carvalho.
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