He Monkey Weekend SON Estrella Galicia announces the first preview of its ninth edition with The New Raemon & McEnroe, Mala Gestión, Teo Lucadamo and Cervatana at the forefront of a program that will once again turn El Puerto de Santa María into one of the most desirable musical refuges of the summer.
There are festivals that need to grow every year to justify their existence. More stages, more names, more noise. And then there is Monkey Weekend SON Estrella Galiciawhich has been proving just the opposite for almost a decade. That size doesn’t matter too much when personality is so defined. That you can still build a festival from closeness, discovery and that feeling of living something small but unrepeatable.
The one known as “Monkey Chico” has already announced the first poster preview for its ninth edition, which will be held in the next few years. June 26 and 27 in El Puerto de Santa María. A new meeting of bands, artists and creatures that are difficult to fit into a single photograph, but that once again share that restless and unprejudiced spirit that defines the Monkey universe.
Among the first confirmed names there are proposals as different as The New Raemon & McEnroe, Urine, Teo Lucadamo, Kiliki, Maria Marin, Cervatana, We build stairs, COURT!, Dear Joanne, Helicopter BOOM, Home, The Dislikes, Bad Management either I Areamong many others.
A lineup that once again moves between twisted guitars, mutant pop, emotional punk, domestic electronics and new voices capable of portraying the present without the need for great artifice. Because if something continues to differentiate Monkey Weekend, it is precisely its ability to detect scenes before they completely explode.
That particular way of experiencing music will also return in corners throughout the city. Scenarios that seem improvised but end up being part of the emotional memory of the festival. From patios and squares to improbable spaces like the Cacao Pico distillery, converted for a weekend into small capsules of noise, sweat and discovery.
While many festivals fight to resemble each other, Monkey Weekend Son Estrella Galicia It continues to function as a happy anomaly within the national circuit. A tiny festival in appearance, but with a cultural radar much larger than many macro events. And perhaps that’s why it remains one of those weekends that no one wants to miss.
