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\u00a9 <\/em>Hugo Lima, Optimus Primavera Sound<\/em><\/p>\n Oh, festivals on weekdays. Such a pleasure for people who can\u2019t take days off work. Thank god not everyone on the team has such problems. Still not over the fact I haven\u2019t seen The War on Drugs, for example. Please read on\u2026<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yo La Tengo \u00a9 <\/em>Hugo Lima, Optimus Primavera Sound<\/em><\/p>\n It\u2019s just\u2026 disarming. When one of the greatest bands alive plays just an hour long concert and still they use those 60 minutes in its full plenitude. When all the scenery involved is just three guys, rotating functions with lots of instruments, and then when they get some help, the thing just gets unreal (the chorus of whistles in \u201cMy Little Corner of the World\u201d brought by the roadies of the band? Jesus. Not to mention the little help of Flaming Lips\u2019 drummer in the congas, with Wayne Coyne\u2019s approval backstage). When Ira Kaplan just fucking destroys the guitar in \u201cPass the Hatchet\u201d, \u201cI Think I\u2019m Goodkind\u201d and suddenly we don\u2019t miss Sonic Youth anymore (or even miss much more, can\u2019t tell which). When your friends have plans of watching Tennis or The War on Drugs and when this trio of geeks called Yo La Tengo<\/strong> just gets you glued to the ground and you can only say \u201cFuck no, I\u2019ll stay \u2018til the end\u201d (which I did, but please don\u2019t beat me up for the absence of a War on Drugs review, I went running like a fool for their concert afterwards, Rui Reininho can confirm this). And while it wasn\u2019t for sure their best concert, the joy that overcame me really made me left the Primavera stage running for my life, with the sunset about to come, fueled by this injection of alt rock happiness, about to check other awesome band. And this is what a music festival should be like. Perfection. – BSC<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The War on Drugs \u00a9 <\/em>Filipa Oliveira<\/a>, Palco Principal<\/a> Hey, me again. The fool who ran for The War on Drugs<\/strong>, and guess what: made it in time for his favorite song of theirs, \u201cCome to the City\u201d. Now you get that last section of fussiness. Moving ahead, War on Drugs\u2019 great advantage point in their music is its ambient: dreamy-pop synth, standard country guitars, all tied together with an enduring drum section. And here\u2019s the problem: those four guys in the Club Stage didn\u2019t manage quite well to capture this part, I think I\u2019d like a more heavy, profound sound. Put that aside and the rest was cool, great songs, Dylanesque voice and playing style. Mission accomplished. Don\u2019t forget the weed home next time. – BSC<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Rufus Wainwright<\/em> \u00a9 <\/em>Hugo Lima, Optimus Primavera Sound<\/em><\/p>\n After running to see the last songs of War on Drugs\u2019 concert when Yo La Tengo finished their amazing show, it was great sit on the grass in the top of the little hill and listen to Rufus Wainwright<\/strong> playing at Optimus stage. Rufus is a lady on the stage and he conquered the audience with the vast roll of songs he played in Porto. It was funnyto hear from him some compliments about the Portuguese surfers that he saw in our beaches during the afternoon, but the concert had some serious<\/em> parts as well, like when he sang \u201cMontauk\u201d, a song dedicated to his daughter. At some part of the concert, he reminded us about his origins: a folk <\/em>family, as their parents are both folk singers, and he played \u201cOne Man Guy\u201d (\u201cfolk off\u201d, said Rufus to the crowd before playing that one song). He said goodbye to Primavera Sound with \u201cHallelujah\u201d, which was an almost sacred moment that preceded the big party that was about to start in Primavera stage with Flaming Lips. – RBC<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The Flaming Lips<\/em> \u00a9 <\/em>Hugo Lima, Optimus Primavera Sound<\/em><\/p>\n One\u2026 two\u2026 three\u2026 four\u2026 Flaming Lips<\/strong>. What can I say, it\u2019s a show within a show: all the confetti, balloons, bizarre costumes, pretty girls on stage (a friend assures us they\u2019re fozeiras<\/em>, girls born by the river Douro\u2019s mouth), it\u2019s a riot. As for what matters – the music<\/em> – you\u2019d imagine these guys betting on the wrong choice of songs, and this here was actually true in some parts – the new track \u201cIs David Bowie Dying??\u201d or the Pink Floyd \u201cdrugification\u201d of \u201cOn the Run\u201d; come on, you won\u2019t be paying attention to these reveries if Wayne Coyne keeps constantly shooting confetti or rolling in a big bubble -, but as for the rest? If there were doubts this concert wouldn\u2019t be a blast by the time \u201cYoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 1\u201d was making the crowd sing, then the encores assured to make everybody regretless of choosing this one instead of Codeine and Black Lips. I couldn\u2019t see a soul not jumping to the first bits of the melody of \u201cRace for the Prize\u201d, and as for the second encore\u2026 I think it\u2019s better for you to watch.<\/p>\n So, do you<\/em>? In short, one of the great moments this Primavera 2012, if not the best. Not for me unfortunately (or not), due to this<\/a>. We\u2019ll talk about it later. – BSC<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Codeine<\/em> \u00a9 <\/em>Hugo Lima, Optimus Primavera Sound<\/em><\/p>\n Flaming Lips on one the main stages. Black Lips on the Club stage. There, you found out where 85% of the festival-goers were by the time Codeine<\/strong> took the ATP stage, and now you can picture what most of the remaining 15% of the crowd look like: old or just forever alone (okay, not forever<\/em> – just for an hour) bearded guys. Seriously, you would be lucky to find a happy couple down here. Were you seeing any of the other bands? Is this sounding too depressing? You can try and listen to Frigid Stars<\/em>, Codeine\u2019s masterpiece from over 20 years ago as you read this. Buried beneath the sea of negativity evoked by the music itself there\u2019s now another kind of sadness wandering the corners of your mind: the one you feel when you realize you missed the most beautifully delivered concert of a festival you were attending the whole time. The original lineup of Chris Brokaw, Stephen Immerwahr and John Engle had just reformed almost two decades after calling it quits (damn, I was six<\/em> at the time) and you missed it.<\/p>\n Well, I\u2019ll give you a break since the only way you could\u2019ve missed such a concert was due to the fact that you don\u2019t know them that well. On festivals with more than a couple of stages it\u2019s hard to see an audience composed entirely of fans of said band and this was one of those extremely rare cases. Now I\u2019ll speak to the fans: \u201cD\u201d, \u201cCigarette Machine\u201d, \u201cPickup Song\u201d, \u201cLoss Leader\u201d. Have you ever imagined listening to those songs live after all these years? Did you let go a smile when you heard the first chord of \u201cCave-In\u201d right after having your mood ruined by the noise coming from other stages? Oh, and dear Wayne Coyne, thanks for ending your gig before they went into the last song, \u201cPea\u201d, with Brokaw on bass and Immerwahr exclusively devoted to delivering the spine-chilling moment of the festival through his vocal folds. And, in a music scene dominated by big reunion tours driven by money, seeing the three of them hugging each other on stage after their gig like they wouldn\u2019t even imagined they\u2019d manage to come back as strong as they were back in the early 90s made me as happy<\/em> as everyone else who was on the other two stages seeing happier<\/em> bands playing happier<\/em> music. – DSS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Wilco <\/em>\u00a9 <\/em>Hugo Lima, Optimus Primavera Sound<\/em><\/p>\n How come I never saw Wilco<\/strong> live before? To punish me for that, the OPS12 organization made me do the toughest choice in a festival ever: one of my favorite bands and probably the one I\u2019ve been listening to more often in the last couple of months or <\/strong>my favorite live band? I chose Wilco. \u201cLet\u2019s hope they forget about their latest two albums\u201d, I heard someone say before the gig. While they didn\u2019t play anything from Wilco (The Album)<\/em>, the setlist was obviously heavy on The Whole Love<\/em> songs, like the couple of ones in the beginning, \u201cArt Of Almost\u201d and \u201cI Might\u201d. Those, along with \u201cAt Least That\u2019s What You Said\u201d, \u201cSpiders\u201d and \u201cImpossible Germany\u201d (the first time the crowd roared was when those first chords were played) made up some sort of mini-set from a different band than Wilco, which I\u2019m going to refer as \u201cThe Stupendous Glenn Kotche and Nels Cline Seemingly-Non-Alt-Country Band\u201d. Maybe this is why a lot of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot<\/em>-era Wilco fans don\u2019t really like their latest phase: \u201cguitar solos and too-good-to-be-true drumming in a band that was practically untouchable in the indie scene of the beginning of the 00s? They\u2019re too virtuoso<\/em> now! Where\u2019s the feeling<\/em>? Hey look.. they\u2019re playing “Radio Cure\u201d! Forget about that rambling, let me get that tissue like it\u2019s 2002 again\u2026\u201c.<\/p>\n “Laminated Cat\u201d (by Tweedy\u2019s spinoff band Loose Fur) and \u201cWar On War\u201d, again from YHF<\/em>, were next and preceded the big moment that mr. BSC<\/em> <\/strong>highlighted some paragraphs ago. I\u2019m glad they\u2019re bringing Summerteeth<\/em> songs to the mix again and \u201cVia Chicago\u201d wasn\u2019t, obviously, left behind, and Kotche was happy to disrupt some of the most quiet parts of the song with some heavy metal drumming (yes, I\u2019m relating it to the song \u201cHeavy Metal Drummer\u201d which was played some 15 minutes later) while Jeff Tweedy kept singing like the madness happening behind him was none of his business. I saw no reason for such a catharsis until that part when he sings \u201cand a cracked door moon that says I haven\u2019t gone too far<\/em>\u201d (around 3:15 here<\/a>) and beyond. They were just in the middle of the concert and had already won the trophy for best concert of the whole festival. If anyone had a single doubt about that, the last three songs helped dissipate that. \u201cA Shot in the Arm\u201d, \u201cJesus, Etc.\u201d and \u201cThe Late Greats\u201d? Having better songs than all the other bands on the lineup should be considered cheating. Isn\u2019t it? – DSS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Meanwhile, Shellac<\/strong> were playing on the ATP stage. I did my best to pretend they weren\u2019t there. This is a paragraph about the best concert of the festival that none of us really saw because we were all seeing Wilco. Sorry, guys. Your concerts on the 2009 and 2010 editions of Primavera Sound in Barcelona were among the best I witnessed on both festivals and I hope you come back next year (and every year after that, of course). I\u2019ll be seeing you no matter what. 3 years without attending a Shellac concert is a really fucking long time. Can you hear me now? – DSS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Beach House <\/em>\u00a9 <\/em>Optimus \u201cIt is happening again, it is happening again\u201d echoed on my mind when I felt myself falling in love again with Beach House<\/strong>, at the beginning of their concert on the Club stage. I don\u2019t think that they are a band that fits on a festival context and also the stage and that tent were too small to receive them and all of their fans. However, I missed Victoria and Alex so much that when they played \u201cNorway\u201d, second song of the concert, I forgot my all complains about the conditions. They brought us Bloom<\/em>, their sweet fourth and new album, which they played almost on its entirety. But it\u2019s still too recent and it was their old songs, as \u201cZebra\u201d and \u201c10 Mile Stereo\u201d that made my heart beat faster. They deserved a better place to play, but hey: we can never say no to Beach House. Especially to hairy-Victoria, one of the cutest girls of the musical scene at the moment. – RBC<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The Walkmen <\/em>\u00a9 <\/em>Hugo Lima, Optimus Primavera Sound<\/em><\/p>\n The paragraph above pretty much sums it all – there was barely enough room to breathe inside that tent, let alone accommodate everyone who was trying to see Beach House. The Walkmen<\/strong> were playing at the same time in one of the bigger stages to half the BH crowd. The last couple of songs, their absolute classic \u201cThe Rat\u201d and \u201cIn the New Year\u201d (taken from their probably<\/em> best effort yet, You & Me<\/em>) made me wonder why the hell I spent half of the duration of their concert trying to get a glimpse of the overcrowded Beach House concert. Competence. – DSS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n M83 <\/em>\u00a9 <\/em>Hugo Lima, Optimus Primavera Sound<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a9 Hugo Lima, Optimus Primavera Sound Oh, festivals on weekdays. 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<\/div>\nHaving seen Thee Oh Sees in the past, I thought I shouldn\u2019t be missing on the opportunity to finally check M83<\/strong> live. I\u2019m not exactly the biggest fan of their later work but my love for Before the Dawn Heals Us<\/em> and Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts<\/em> made me want to be there. Unfortunately, and except for the nostalgia-inducing \u201cTeen Angst\u201d right on the beginning of the concert, all of their set was composed of Hurry Up, We\u2019re Dreaming<\/em> and Saturdays = Youth <\/em>songs. Not that I didn\u2019t expect that. But, on the other side, the concert ended up being pretty entertaining due to anomalous amounts of fun emanated during songs like the oldie \u201cSitting\u201d (from their first album) and the ecstatic \u201cCouleurs\u201d by the end of their set. Needless to say everyone went wild during \u201cMidnight City\u201d. – DSS<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\nThe closure of day 2 was delivered by a Numbers<\/strong> showcase, a young electronic music record label, which was a hell of a fun. Christ, of course it was, for a fact I was pretty drunk, as much as the night before I can almost say. But remixes with some tongue-in-cheek hip-hop songs, like \u201cNiggas in Paris\u201d by The Throne, \u201cTemperature\u201d by Sean Paul or \u201cMumbling-Mumble\u201d by Nicki Minaj shamelessly gave those drunk dancing-fucktards exactly what they were looking for. Sorry for party rocking. See you tomorrow, Parque da Cidade. – BSC<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"