Quickly following the previous post with
the opening day, here's the quick review of our first "big day", Thursday 28th, at the
Primavera Sound Festival 2015. Quite a bit to highlight!
The Good
The Replacements:
Never been a huge fan, but seeing a band so damn solid at Primavera stage, with Paul Westenberg attacking relentlessly the tunes, having fun with the snippets, including
Joy Division and the Jackson 5. And to hear '
Color Me Impressed', '
Left of the Dial', and the immense '
Alex Chilton' (goosebumps, goosebumps all over, is there a more flammable chorus?) was just memorable.
Eternal songs, eternal band.
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| The Replacements, rock left of the dial. Photo: Bloodbuzzed |
Viet Cong: With a couple of tunes extended to, imo, an unnecessary and pointless length, their show was
flawless, fierce, tense, menacing. Here an explosive
band with an incredible potential.
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| Viet Cong, march of post-punk-rock. Photo: Bloodbuzzed |
The Bad
Black Keys: Awful, extremely flat sound at the Heineken stage for what it (on paper) was one of the biggest headliners of the Festival. I'm not a fan of
their music, but I was hoping for
a fun, playful gig. Regrettably, it wouldn't be the last time the sound issues at that stage appeared.
The Queen
Twerps: Have you ever had the feeling that, despite you are going to see a band for the first time, you already know it will be a great show? When there's no doubt you're are about to enjoy one of "these moments" only music can offer you? That's what happened with
Twerps at Pitchfork. '
Range Anxiety' is one of the records of the year (won't waste any single second on this, IT IS, period), and indiepop gems like '
I Don't Mind', '
Back to You' or '
Shoulders', to name just three, proved. 45 minutes of pure magic, a perennial smile on the face of this humble blogger from start to finish. Once again,
what would we do without Antipodean pop?
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| Twerps, the worst band name for such a wonderful band. Photo: Bloodbuzzed |
Brief of the second "big day" of the PS15, Friday 30th
arriving as quickly as we can!
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