During the opening press conference of Sonorama Ribera, Javier Ajenjo told Patricio’s story. It turned out to be the most interesting of the second day of the festival. The story of a man who has been pilgrimage from Madrid for five years to Aranda de Duero only for Sonorama. An annual five -day walk through the plateau that arose because they left their friends. This is what Patricio himself tells me in the guest zone, in which I meet him by chance. “They told me that in the end they had no place in the car and that they felt a lot, so I took a week of vacation at work.” And he took the road. Patricio tells me about how the nights spend on the road, either on the couch of a good Samaritan or in the bed of a fleeting lover, and about the mystical experience of finally arriving in Aranda between the stunned looks of the people. Imagine. Imagine walking for five days to find you Long live Sweden and Siloé Together on stage.
I am not being fair. It is impossible for so many people to be mistaken with the Murcian group. Wherever they go, Rafa Val and his are always the most anticipated of the poster, to the point that yesterday there were more people taking place for his concert than in the Supergrass bolus itself. Yes I can say that, once seen what they have to offer, you’ve seen everything. You already know. You already know that all his songs are chanted as timeless hymns. ‘Pain and glory’, without going any further, launched in February and is received as if he had always been there. You know there will be confetti for a tube. You know that Val touches the guitar intermittently and that, for some reason, it doesn’t matter. You know they have the longest show of the festival. Something unexpected would be to use those oceans of people who have at their disposal to say something important. To celebrate love, of the class that is, you also have to report hate, of the class that is. Instead, Siloé takes the stage. It’s like seeing Tiktok and YouTube Shorts shaking hands.
From the successful Valladolid group, fans and haters are found equally. T -shirts with the phrase “What if we send everyone to take for ass?” They are impossible to escape. Like the unwanted testosterone dose that causes a show like this. Something that does not get very well with the piece of cross they exhibit on stage. Javier Ferrara already said during the concert of Parksvr: “I’ve been coming to Sonorama for many years and I just found out that there are ultra -traffic groups. How the indie has changed …”. By the time the famous ‘If you need me, call me’ on the set, after a moment of excessive masculinity with ‘Song 2’ in the background and a peety Fito Robles, I am missing a lot from Live Sweden.
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Festive energy continued with Quijano coffeePress conference guests of that same afternoon. “We have been rehearsing for 28 years to make a decent appearance today,” Manuel joked. Lights and shadows. Apart from the visual cutters made by artificial intelligence, especially during ‘Miami 1990’ (from the album released in February of this year), the Quijano still defend themselves thanks to a great band and an attitude that remains intact. Too intact? ‘La Lola’ is the clear star of the concert and the trio of brothers does not seem very happy with the fact that the public is really active with the most famous songs. This, even taking Gabriel from Shinova For ‘it would be better to shut up’. At the press conference, Manuel said he felt excited about playing for people who hadn’t even born when they were already taking records. On the contrary, I don’t think the same has been given. Maybe it has something to do with letters like “Fixed and womanizer I will be until I die”, in ‘From Brazil’. Of course, Manuel Quijano’s energy was not matched by the Sonorama public.
The opposite happened with Supergrassthat they won the public as the set progressed. The same day as the British concert I met the person who had brought them to the festival from Madrid and told me that they were not very talkative. During the show, the same. The Oxford band demonstrated from the beginning that it is to touch and stop flourishing, in addition to making it clear that the sugary melodies of ‘Alright’ are not the ones that most characterize its sound, abrasive and powerful during the majority of the repertoire. The fact of celebrating the 30th anniversary of ‘I Should Coco’ did not prevent them from playing a bit of everything, starting with ‘i’d like to know’ and ‘Caught by the fuzz’ and ending with ‘Moving’ and ‘Pumping on your stereo’. ‘Alright’ will be the best known song, but thanks to a Gaz Coombes that makes at the same time a singer, rhythmic and solo guitar, it is these last two that really raise the energy of the public.
