{"id":611,"date":"2015-06-09T11:06:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T10:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/testes\/?p=611"},"modified":"2020-09-14T21:52:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T20:52:22","slug":"nos-primavera-sound-2015-the-review-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"NOS Primavera Sound 2015: the review.\u00a0DAY 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Caribou. Photo by Miguel Oliveira [Point and Shoot<\/a>]<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On its fourth year in Porto, NOS Primavera Sound has set a record attendance of 77 thousand people who passed through the Parque da Cidade during the 3 days of the festival, including a sold out Friday session, with the likes of Antony, Patti Smith and Belle and Sebastian headlining. As usual, the quality of the acts built on a crescendo, with Saturday night ending on a bang, making up for a weak first day (please make it a full festival day next year – only the two main stages were opened, along with the Pitchfork stage just for Patti Smith\u2019s acoustic\/spoken word performance that ended up not being an acoustic\/spoken word performance at all) although, to be honest, it went better than last year\u2019s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Traffic jams meant we missed the unmissable Bruno Pernadas<\/b> concert and arrived just in time for the second half of the Cinerama<\/b> gig. David Gedge\u2019s least known act provided not much more than a nice soundtrack for exploring the beautiful, green, and still uncrowded festival grounds: a scenic paradise right in the border between the city and the sea that would be a perfect setting for a festival if not for the chilling climate the ocean provides us with during the night. But we would never trade our warm sweaters for the sight of tarmac or concrete everywhere we looked.<\/p>\n

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Mikal Cronin. Photo by Hugo Lima [NOS Primavera Sound<\/a>]<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Right after Cinerama,\u00a0Mikal Cronin <\/b>made a\u00a0<\/b>nice move, trying to win the audience over by playing songs off the excellent MCII and not his (weaker) latest album MCIII. The live show lacked spark, though: \u201cWeight\u201d, \u201cShout It Out\u201d or \u201cAm I Wrong\u201d are the definition of crowdpleasers, but they not only weren\u2019t improved from the studio versions, they didn\u2019t sound as good as on the record. His pop punk\/garagy tunes may be suited for a late sunny afternoon, but it didn\u2019t work out this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mac DeMarco<\/b>. Well, what can I say. T<\/b>he dinner was nice, as always. NOS Primavera Sound has the best food stands of all music festivals I\u2019ve ever been to, and I\u2019ve been to quite a few. This year there were 0 chain fast food stands available, which lead to people having very few options besides trying traditional Porto dishes and sandwiches prepared by some of the nicest restaurants in town (Conga\u2019s bifanas<\/i>, Lado B\u2019s francesinhas<\/i>\u00a0and, of course, Guedes\u2019 pernil<\/i>). The only festival I\u2019ve been where dinner time needs his own slot on the timetable just like any band.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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FKA Twigs. Photo by Miguel Oliveira [Point and Shoot<\/a>]<\/i><\/p>\n

FKA Twigs.\u00a0<\/b>Such overproduced and carefully crafted songs, regularly accompanied by visual stimuli (check out her music videos) need more visuals when translated to a stage environment; they ask an experience <\/i>instead of a regular concert. Twigs\u2019 voice is stellar live, but her music is clearly unsuited for daytime in a festival – probably unsuited for a stage at all, but we\u2019ll give her the benefit of the doubt.<\/p>\n

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Interpol. [There are more people clapping on that backdrop than when they first left the stage. Poor guys.] Photo by Hugo Lima [NOS Primavera Sound<\/a>]<\/i><\/p>\n

Interpol.\u00a0<\/b>Or the shadow of the amazing band Interpol once was. Paul Banks\u2019 2015 voice is frankly below average, and, even\u00a0with a competent band behind him, he managed to ruin a show with an almost impeccable setlist (maybe better than the first two times I saw them back in 2007). Sure, timeless classics like\u00a0\u201cTake You On A Cruise\u201d, \u201cSlow Hands\u201d, \u201cPDA\u201d were sung by many old fans, \u201cThe New\u201d and\u00a0\u201cPioneer to the Falls\u201d are still two of the best songs of the 00s, but show opener \u201cSay Hello to the Angels\u201d,\u00a0\u201cEvil\u201d or\u00a0\u201cLeif Eriksen\u201d, in the early stages of the concert, were thrashed by Banks\u2019 flameless voice. Once they were done with the weaker El Pintor songs the show got slightly better, but the least asked for encore I\u2019ve ever seen in a festival setting (seriously, it was depressing) was a complete disaster: \u201cUntitled\u201d is probably the weakest song off the first two albums,\u00a0\u201cStella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down\u201d was never interesting live and I had to walk off the concert in the middle of the show closer\u00a0\u201cAll the Rage Back Home\u201d. You simply don\u2019t put a close on your \u201cgreatest hits\u201d concert, made to appeal to people who loved you ten years ago, with a song from your uninteresting last record. Interpol, please go back to room 2005 and throw the key off the balcony. Rest in peace, like my memories of them will.<\/p>\n

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The Juan Maclean. Photo by Hugo Lima [NOS Primavera Sound<\/a>]<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Juan Maclean.\u00a0<\/b>Speaking of the mid-to-late-00s, The Juan Maclean sound like they never quitted that era. Electropop with female vocals? Ok, nothing new to see here. They certainly aren\u2019t the most interesting band on Earth, but at least they seemed to be enjoying themselves on the stage – and so were everyone around us by the middle of the concert, especially those drug-fuelled tourists right next to the drinks stand on the right side of the Superbock stage. All in all, a very fun way to make everyone forget about the disaster witnessed just a few minutes ago.<\/p>\n

But the only truly magical moment of the night came from Caribou<\/b>. For about a hour and a half, Dan Snaith and the rest of the crew took care of us all. Putting his last album Our Love<\/i>\u00a0on center stage, starting with \u201dOur Love\u201d and the fabulous \u201cMars\u201d, the result was an unforgettable aural and visual show – admittingly with some least interesting building-up moments mid-concert that, although technically incredible, felt somewhat out of place on a late night show – that ended on ecstasy with a wonderful sequence that included Swim<\/i>\u2019s \u201cJamelia\u201d,\u00a0\u201cOdessa\u201d, the magnificent closer\u00a0\u201cSun\u201d and last years\u2019s most infectuous tune,\u00a0\u201cCan\u2019t Do Without You\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caribou. Photo by Miguel Oliveira [Point and Shoot] On its fourth year in Porto, NOS Primavera Sound has set a record attendance of 77 thousand people who passed through the Parque da Cidade during the 3 days of the festival, including a sold out Friday session, with the likes of Antony, Patti Smith and Belle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[239,1719,217,174,489,604,203,478,1706,479,137,1718],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live","tag-caribou","tag-cinerama","tag-festival","tag-fka-twigs","tag-interpol","tag-mac-demarco","tag-mikal-cronin","tag-nos-primavera-sound","tag-nos-primavera-sound-15","tag-primavera-sound","tag-review","tag-the-juan-maclean"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}