With Airbag heading the poster, the Palante Fest returns to the scene to say goodbye to 2025 as it deserves: without shortcuts, without worn-out formulas and betting on culture made from below.
The Skate Cellar of Jerez de la Frontera will host the next Saturday 27 December, a particularly ambitious edition that will start at lunchtime and continue well into the early hours of the morning.
A sound marathon that crosses surf-punk, psychedelia, Jerez indie and electronica, conceived not only as a great end-of-year party, but as the visible culmination of cultural work sustained throughout the year. It is no coincidence that the organization itself considers this day like hell: many hours of music, zero concessions and an intense experience from start to finish. Behind the Palante Fest this The DLF Scenea collective that functions as the true backbone of the project and that keeps cultural activity in Jerez and its surroundings alive 365 days a year, combining concerts, DJ sessions, literary presentations and workshops. The philosophy is clear: claim local talent, activate the community and demonstrate that there is an audience committed to proposals that move outside the main lane.
Heading the poster, Airbagwhich arrive in Jerez with the aroma of a Christmas gift. The people of Malaga will surely appear with some surprise under their arms – they are working on it – for an appointment marked in red on the calendar. At his side, the sharp and urgent art punk of Liquid Loveone of those bands that turn live performances into an exercise in tension, sweat and collective communion.
The rest of the poster works like a perfectly tuned game of invisible friend, where each name contributes a different piece to the whole. Mountain They land in Jerez after a frenetic year on the road and on international stages, putting the finishing touch to a tour that has taken them much further than usual. Leda Three They star in one of the most celebrated returns of the festival: a band that had been silent for some time, but never out of the emotional radar of the scene, now converted into one of the great successes of this edition.
The most stylish and militant face is put on Parameciaproudly defending a way of understanding music that never goes out of style, while Crymmm They arrive backed by their recent recognition in the circuit of emerging bands, demonstrating that theirs is not a promise, but a well-honed reality. And to close the night as it deserves, Space Surimi They are in charge of putting the final point with a session designed to squeeze out the last hours of the year, when there is no choice but to dance.
More than a festival, the Palante is a declaration of intentions. A way of understanding culture as a shared space, as resistance against homogenization and as a celebration of what is close. Here the minority is not a problem, but a virtue; and the local, far from being a limit, is the starting point.
Because closing the year can also be this: getting together, sweating, listening, dancing and showing that the scene exists because someone takes care of it. And in Jerez, that is done as Palante.
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