MILHÕES STAGE
LIARS need no presentation, do they? They’re back in Portugal for the first time since 2006, when they shared the bill with Comets on Fire, and after cancelling their shows in 2008 to pursue a much more profitable tour supporting Radiohead. Liars will be presenting their latest album, “Sisterworld”, headlining the first day of the festival, playing in the Milhões stage at 2AM.
ÆTHENOR may seem a bit out of place, playing the main stage at 8h15pm. This “superband” composed of Stephen O’Malley (of Sunn O))) fame), Kristoffer “Garm” Rygg and Daniel O’Sullivan (both from Ulver) will be presenting their latest record “En Form for Blå” under some daylight on an open space and Current 93’s David Tibet won’t be there, but I’m sure they’ll handle the situation. They’re trver than all of us, after all.
VICE STAGE
SHIT AND SHINE. Three drumkits, machinery, a wall of amplifiers, chaos! File under: “never listened to an album, this was made to see live”.
VEADOS COM FOME is one of the Portuguese bands coming back for this festival after a 5 year hiatus (they even have a .tk website! Take that, bands that pretend to be vintage). The trio coming from the beautiful town of Santo Tirso will play their frantic guitar+guitar+drums instrumental rock in the Vice stage at 3:30AM. Eish ke fdp de festa.
L&L STAGE
DIRTY BEACHES is the moniker of the Canadian of Taiwanese origin Alex Zhang Hungtai. He will be playing his good-vibed, dirty brand of blues’n’roll on the Lovers and Lollypops stage at 5PM. Get off the pool for a while and come see this guy, please.
POOL STAGE
There’s no such thing as a Milhões de Festa without BLACK BOMBAIM. Taking the place of the Chilean band Föllakzoid, that unfortunately can’t make it to the festival, the local psych/stoner band will most likely be showcasing some music from their forthcoming second LP (which will contain some awesome collabs from the likes of Adolfo Luxúria Canibal (Mão Morta), Noel Harmonson (Comets On Fire) and Isaiah Mitchel (Earthless)).
HILL is a new Portuguese project, born out of two bands who played the festival last year (Miguel Azevedo from Plus Ultra and João Guedes from Sizo, two bands from Porto) and they’re going to open the festivities, playing the Pool stage on the first day of the festival at 2pm. Three simple ingredients: voice, lots of feedback and drums. There are no live videos available yet, but they do have a couple of songs up on their Facebook page.
ALL STAGES, EVERY PART OF TOWN
LSD MOSSEL are afraid of stages, so they’ll be playing where and when they feel like doing it. Everyday.
So yeah, below, you can watch LSD Mossel play their “toycore” near the Eiffel Tower in Paris and in a filthy river in Portugal.
