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Optimus Alive 2012 – Bolachas & P3 printable timetable

Post author By bolachas
Post date July 3, 2012

Optimus Alive 2012 – Bolachas & P3 printable timetable

We teamed up with P3 again to give you the nicest looking printable timetables to 2012’s Portuguese summer festivals. Coming up next is Optimus Alive, from July 13 to 15 in Oeiras (right next to Lisbon).

Headliners include Radiohead, Stone Roses and The Cure, with some smaller (well, not small at all!) bands like Mazzy Star, The Antlers, Refused, Tricky, Metronomy, Death in Vegas or Caribou also taking part of the festival. See the full lineup here and click the title of this post to download and print your timetable. See you there!

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Optimus Primavera Sound 2012: day 3

Post author By bolachas
Post date June 26, 2012

Oh, festivals on rainy days. Such a pleasure for absolutely no one. Everyone loves guest appearances in festivals, but would invite such an inconvenient entity? My one and only guess is “students who couldn’t attend the festival due to having to study for exams”. You made little girls cry, are you happy now?

Tags Dirty Three, Erol Alkan, I Break Horses, Kings of Convenience, lee ranaldo, optimus primavera sound, primavera sound, siskiyou, spiritualized, The Afghan Whigs, The XX, Veronica Falls, Washed Out

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Optimus Primavera Sound 2012: day 2

Post author By bolachas
Post date June 19, 2012

Oh, festivals on weekdays. Such a pleasure for people who can’t take days off work. Thank god not everyone on the team has such problems. Still not over the fact I haven’t seen The War on Drugs, for example. Please read on…

Tags beach house, Codeine, M83, optimus primavera sound, primavera sound, Rufus Wainwright, The Flaming Lips, The Walkmen, the war on drugs, wilco, yo la tengo

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Optimus Primavera Sound 2012: day 1

Post author By bolachas
Post date June 14, 2012

Culturally growing since the dawn of the 21st century, the northern Portuguese city of Porto lacked something: a real big urban festival. Luckily for Porto, Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona grew so much the organizers decided it was about time to expand the brand to somewhere else in Europe and Porto, Portugal’s second bigger city and most vibrant cultural hub of the country (exactly what Barcelona is in the Spanish context) was arguably the right choice for the new festival. Not saying that because the city’s nearby the towns where most of the Bolachas team lives. This charming city makes everyone fall in love, from the attenders who came from places like the US, New Zealand or Estonia to artists who traveled the world countless times before coming here – the picture above, posted on Wilco’s Instagram account, is accompanied by a note saying “Let’s all move here!”. (Please do.)

Tags Atlas Sound, Bigott, mercury rev, optimus primavera sound, primavera sound, StopEstra!, Suede, The Drums, The Rapture, Yann Tiersen

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Optimus Primavera Sound 2012: A Preview

Post author By bolachas
Post date June 7, 2012

Today’s the day. Optimus Primavera Sound starts in a matter of hours and we’ll be covering it live via our facebook and twitter accounts. Be sure to follow them – if you don’t use such artifacts, you’ll be able to read our full review here on the website later on. To help you choose what to see in the fest, five of our team members who are going there made their picks and chose 3 bands you shouldn’t miss. Who’s that stranger that goes by the initials CB? Yeah, that’s our special guest Chris Brokaw, Codeine’s legendary drummer.

Also, don’t forget to print our timetable, in case you missed it.