It is a café, is a grocery store, it’s a restaurant. There are people everywhere, young people both lurk football on television as the practice in football. Behind the counter, it only accesses. “It’s good in camp down there with car and tent?” Asks a newcomer, aiming for the fields that surround it. “Yes, yes” answer you. Wheel on one foot, turn around and shouts: “So we have been back!” Not thirty seconds later, new attack, but already another Festival Goer of “smartphone” in hand. “I put the phone to charge?” Obvious answer, not long “. Yes, yes” “But it’s all full,” he laments, while studying the shots around, almost indistinguishable such is the hassle of untangling and appliances last generation. “Have you seen there behind the TV?”. Wheel on one foot, turn around and there he goes
24 years Joseph Loureiro, 45, see the Paredes de Coura Festival get you through the door -. And he did not open, opens wide to . Grew among the shelves of this coffee-grocery store opened by his grandfather 60 years ago on the outskirts of Taboão River beach, and there did not budge. In the village, not only are the famous bifanas and snails to Loureiro that all year, attracts people (including “off”) to the location. Snacks that do not fail to leave during the festival, when the deal gets another floor and serves full meals – P3 found a frantic whirlwind of little plates of gizzards with rice peas, which some bolder glutton accompanied with a Patanisca for a friendly 3.70 euros
these days, Loureiro Coffee is for many festival-goers a kind of “pit stop” required.; and he, his boxing is not made to beg, before consent. It is a way to “call people” into space, always full at this time. It is therefore clear. At one point, as another kid went behind the counter to rake in such amalgamation yarn: “No problem, young people now have another education,” says, making the comparison with the first editions of “tera festival” those that could still go. Now it does not “. The work was increasing and it became difficult to reconcile the two” music is Gone, was toiling for probable delight of those who, in the final farewell, can no longer climb the parking ramp. “On the last day, there are always cars that do not always come here and take order cables to connect to the battery.” “Yes, yes,” he replies. We did not say it was a “pit stop”?
“Happy Nights”
As José Loureiro there are many others in the village who live the festival inextricably distance . It Coura beyond Coura out of the grounds, the concerts, Taboão River Beach. For many years, Martinha Miquelina lived it behind residential reception that took the name of his surname. The Pension Miquelina closed ten years ago, but its history goes back to the last century. The restaurant continued with another run and the building where once existed historical accommodation today serves as home for the family; the second building, in turn, is rented these days to the festival organization.
“We had no pity to close, it was a hassle, always clinging to the stoves,” Martinha says, dodging passers to open the door of the house. The entry remains the same wooden desk, the photographs, the lamp. There’s still-open again, he says, between hope and some certainty. “My kids are willing to do to renew the residence.” We see it a day later, on the terrace of a cafe, among a small crowd. Talk with the child smiles, notes; the day before, he lamented what is coming. “I love it, to see people, even though the direction [of the festival] never gave it. It’s sad when there are no people. Winter is awful. “
Above, Maria Rosa, daughter of Central Cafe owner, one of the oldest of the village, echoes the octogenarian words without knowing. “I love seeing all these people,” he says, a little break from the hustle and bustle that is these days. “What I like most are the nights of concerts in the village, it is a crash. This time even danced in the middle. “Like the confusion, the hustle and bustle, work to double that comes with the festival. At night, make shots, taught herself the art. Vodka, gin, whiskey, everything. We are in “happy week” as a sign that hangs above the heads “5 fine + 1 = 5 €, 6 fine + 1 = 6 €.” They are “happy nights”, quips Maria Rosa, that evening has the help of the children over the counter. After it’s all over. “Empty It is, half a dozen people, I get motion miss you.”
And, below, at the Feira Shop 2 there is a come-and-out water bottles, alcohol, canned, gums, ice. And inflatables, one of the greatest “hits” of the current Taboão River Beach. José Braga, manager, has 39 years and four commercial spaces; this, the entrance to the Street Director Miguel Dantas, is an essential transit point for many brave campers who dare to face the climb to the village. He remembers well how the festival began almost “a joke”, the performances of Boucabaca the mayor, Victor Paulo Pereira, the “punks” of those times. Also he can not go now, work comes first, but will feed who passes by. Which are increasingly younger: “The audience down, going from 17 to 24 years.”
Blame the “Buereré”
a “no taxis festival is sad.” That’s why Fernando Lourenço, taxi driver in Paredes de Coura since returning from France 14 years ago, spreading their posters throughout the town, promoting trips to “country and abroad.” These days hardly sleep. “I have no time to stand up, not to lie” – in fact, P3 surprises you on the phone, by 14:30, when he had just come to bed. But do not complain. The business, of course, but also the “Village Renaissance”: “It reminds me of the time in Paris. It was always a lot of people. “
It rained, so the queue at the door of the Municipal Pool will already long. It is always so if there is rain, there are more people. For € 1.40 festival-goers can swim a few laps and, especially, take a hot water bath. Some expect, and despair, an hour longed time, which is the case who is at the door at the time P3 therethrough. Last year, there were three thousand people; this year, was not yet known. It is certain that it will cross with Vítor Manuel Calheiros and Viana, operating assistants of the facility, the first in the sports area, the second maintenance. Both work there for over 20 years and always follow from the festival. Know you the changes, not only by those who line up at the door, but they continue to go today to see the concert. Yes, the audience is younger in “reflection poster”, they are all “more calm and polite” and there are increasingly more who will “the environment” and not just for music.
And, behold, Victor says that we are in the presence of a “real Festival Goer” and points to the side to his colleague Manuel, of the Legendary Tigerman t-shirt. Then why? The answer is ready: “I went to all editions, every night of the 24 festivals. Only I was not the one night: on Saturday, 1996. “The visit of the P3 festival was still going on, but” unless something happened “would not fail statistics. We will be in the presence of paragraph 1 fan? And then with rib “rock”.
The best concert you saw in your life? Mr. Bungle in 2000. Also noteworthy was Rollins Band (1998), Lamb (1999) and Stone Temple Pilots (2001). And this year? Thee Oh Sees ( “That was not just a concert with two batteries – was synchronized battery”). more like the previous posters of Paredes de Coura Festival, with sounds more “heavy” (just say you do not miss an edition of Reverence Valada), but continues to go every year, because “there is always something” to view. And the children, who accompanied him early, are now they, too, festival-goers: the boy was at the interview in Coura baths, the girl had just come from Boom. She, in short, two or three years, was a staunch fan of the “Buereré” Ana Malhoa, the popular singer that Saturday 1996 was present at parties of Castanheira parish of the parish and so unknowingly broke statistical father. ” ‘Sacrificed’ tonight to provide the concert of Ana Malhoa to my daughter,” recalls his father, with a smile. If memory does not fail him, and Wikipedia hits, the songs of Shed Seven, Dead Hand, Lovedstone and Kick out the Jams were then exchanged for “Get in A”. Coura is love, not for nothing that it is said.
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