Primavera Sound Madrid | Kendrick Lamar and Depeche Mode capped off a day of varied tracks

Finally this friday we can live a normal day in The first edition of the Primavera Sound Madrid FestivalAfter concerts were suspended the first day due to rain and its star Blur moved to La Riviera. It was a normal day, or so. the Access problemsTraffic jams and queues delayed many attendees. To reach the place where the festival takes place – no trace of mud or puddles -, the city of rock in Arganda del Rey, about 40 km from the capital, several paths can be chosen. After entering too. The concerts on Friday were divided into two tracks, invisible and imaginary, symbolized in two main ways, Didish Mode and Kendrick Lamar, who also took charge almost from stage to stage, both of which were put together in the main area of ​​the venue.

since Beth Orton He took to the Plenity stage at 6pm to present a concert very similar to the one we witnessed in Barcelona just a few days before (I will be your mirror – I’ll be your mirror – was the slogan of an ambitious release from Primavera Sound that repeats almost the same thing in DC Lined up In both cities (borrowing the phrase from that beautiful song by The Velvet Underground), an invisible thread that was uniting a series of proposals that culminated in a concert for the most veteran of the day began to unravel.

intercept mode, Just like they did in Barcelona, ​​they took turns The best songs With some songs from his most recent record work, souvenir Mori, Published ten months after the death of the group’s third leg, they say one of its engines, Andy Fletcher. word in my eyes It sounded that Friday in his memory, at a concert that had been postponed half an hour specifically to give time for attendees stuck in the venue’s access funnel to enter. Kony is mine And Shake the tongue, two tracks from the new album, marked the start of a gig that sounded like a thoroughly oiled machine, the one that’s been working for four decades, seasoned with the posture, energy and hip movements of the group’s leader, Dave Geham. , who constantly demanded more emotion from the audience.

Big successes followed for the group as Don’t say you love me also everything matters, that the assistants, many of them in shirts and combing their gray hair, groaned with enthusiasm. An hour and a half of party which ended, in an encore, with some of its essentials: enjoy the silenceAnd I just can’t get enoughAnd never let me down Again And Issa personally.

After more than 40 years of activity, the Dave Gaham-led band remains fresh and innovative, and has been who summoned most of the audience Friday Primavera Voice madrid, But it is inevitable that cloud Nostalgia for the past Fly over the festival sky. And it was this cloud that accompanied the thread of the flight path that the British led, a path that includes groups that can be considered roughly Classics at Primavera Sound in which she has formed her trademark and in which she has performed at other events, along with others who drink from the same sounds or were born and raised parallel to the festival.

The sound of the ’90s

In this itinerary we also find Delgados, who had to wait three minutes for Beth Orton’s final song, on stage right in front of them, to start their concert. The Scots, who formed the band in the mid-1990s and split up in 2005, are tired of receiving good reviews but little support from the public, and are drawn back to remembering those songs from the late ’90s that started from indie British fashion of the time but with orchestral arrangements. In Madrid, they were accompanied by a string trio (violin, viola and cello) as well as transverse oboes, revising some of their songs for an hour.

moldy peach, Another reunited set after 20 years that actually went through Primavera Sound in 2002, follows the same itinerary and was one of those shows on a Friday where you had to be in constant motion from stage to stage, as is usually the case on these dates, to get On a map of what’s going on in the venue, with almost no time to see groups finish. The Americans, with their powerful sound halfway between Weezer and The Beastie Boys, showed up in Madrid in their usual home fashion, making the audience dance a tribute to their midlife Tina Turner. nothing came out, Where they permeated several sentences from private dancer And We don’t need another hero.

I followed that thread that marked the course of the ’90s Japanese breakfastwas one of the fresh and funny shows of the afternoon, the director and author ensemble as well as Korean-American music Michel Zauner. Zunner and his infectious dance delighted spectators who were already closing in, waiting for the big names of the night, with their songs also inspired by the 90s.

Canadians alvayswho despite their youth pursue this sound that has characterized groups such as Belle, Sebastian and language nation, Another young group with sound from 30 years ago, they’re another set from a more nostalgic, or more classic, itinerary than Primavera Sound.

King of rap

The meeting between the two lines of flight took place two nights about half past eleven on Friday, when he was on last note Issa personallyby Depeche Mode, followed by the first heart 5 and then N95 respirator mask, to Kendrick Lamar In his first performance in Madrid in his career. The most valuable concert at Primavera Sound in Barcelona (where he previously performed in 2014) was also one of the highlights of Friday in Madrid. On the Estrella Damm stage, to the left of Santander where Depeche Mode had performed, the smaller audience They pushed and chanted Lamar anthems Who appeared alone on stage and did not stop rapping without losing flow Nor the words he sang in the hour and a half that his concert lasted.

Fronting Jaham’s theatrics, Lamar, the latest Pulitzer winner in the Musical Work category, is a performing rapper sober on stage, Without any kind of decoration, but also without musicians. He will be joined by some visual effects and a small dance band during the concert which included some of his most famous songs from his acclaimed latest album, Mr. Morale and Big Steppers And from previous works, such as hostile cityAnd DNAAnd modestAnd money trees Especially family tiesWhere he showed his cousin’s voice Baby Kimwho had just performed at the festival before Depeche Mode.

And while the guys were touring with Lamar, the punk rock band of another pioneering ’90s group, Bad religionThey did the same thing with the older audience at another crossroads.

Lamar’s itinerary, which is off-brand Primavera Sound propositions, kicked off at 6 p.m. with a New York salsa combo. axor. At the same time as Beth Orton, Los Hacheros was dancing salsa, Cuban jen, guawanco, and a few beats to the hundreds or so people who were already around the stage where Lamar would be crowned hours later.

some Mars Volta Lively and thunderous – so much so that the sound slid into the concert Gabriel, On a nearby stage, while trying to create an atmosphere of soul and Rhythm and Blues that asked for little more privacy than the wide and true width of a Texas squad.

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However, the itinerary that kicked off Friday with salsa, passed through progressive rock with Latin influences and the most personal of the March Volta and culminated in hip hops Baby Kim and Kendrick Lamar, closed the night delivered to electronic music. Emotional show and dance at the same time unique again.. First, he’s accompanied on stage with his videos of fake singers who compliment his performance a lot, and skrillexwith Fred again.. they cycle around with him, and after that, they complete the alternate flight path.

After suffering a fire that caused him to have to take a half-hour stop at his concert at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, ​​Skrillex delivered a session halfway between the darkest rap and electronica with flames on stage, but this time it was nothing more than an intended coup. There was even a nod to flamenco in this brooch, with the splash included I fly by Kiko Veneno who immortalized the Camarón de la Isla in his fame The legend of time.