{"id":85,"date":"2019-06-13T16:26:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T16:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/testes\/?p=85"},"modified":"2020-04-05T21:57:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T20:57:38","slug":"nos-primavera-sound-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"NOS Primavera Sound 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"1365\" data-orig-width=\"2048\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/cd0128f2835e20b7e17703e148439e29\/tumblr_inline_pt1pnpI2TF1qdmxm3_540.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" data-orig-height=\"1365\" data-orig-width=\"2048\" \/><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Hugo Lima \/ NOS Primavera Sound<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s starting to be too common: no matter how warm and sunny it is in the week leading up to the festival, <b>NOS Primavera Sound<\/b> (NPS) is doomed to be ruined by at least one day of rain. The first day did not look promising after the announcement of the passage of depression Miguel (no, not the rnb star who performed there a couple of years ago) through the north of Portugal. Flights were cancelled, <b>Ama Lou<\/b> and <b>Peggy Gou<\/b> could not reach Porto in time to perform, strong winds and rain showers threatened to turn Parque da Cidade into a muddy mess, the gates were opened almost an hour later than it was scheduled.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><!-- more --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"1365\" data-orig-width=\"2048\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/9db57e45470f999343d69c4045339da0\/tumblr_inline_pt1osoPfQI1qdmxm3_540.png\" data-orig-height=\"1365\" data-orig-width=\"2048\" \/><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><i>JARV IS\u2026. Hugo Lima \/ NOS Primavera Sound<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But then there was music. Under a temporarily clear sky, and in front of probably the smallest crowd ever in the 8pm slot at the main NOS stage, <b>Built to Spill<\/b> performed what was one of the longest shows in NPS history. In over an hour and a half, they have not only revisited <i>Keep It Like a Secret<\/i> in full, but have also played selections from their 25+ years long career, from the marvellous \u201cI Would Hurt A Fly\u201d off their 1997 masterpiece <i>Perfect from Now On<\/i> to <i>Untethered Moon<\/i>\u2019s \u201cLiving Zoo\u201d. At times, the stage looked too big for a quartet of introverts playing for other introverts, but their set was engaging enough for us to have to miss a few songs off Jarvis Cocker\u2019s first solo show in the country in nine years. <b>JARV IS<\/b>\u2026 a six-piece band complete with guitars, a harp, sax, keys, and, of course, a rolling-all-over Jarvis, agile and charming as ever. A couple of new songs were the highlights among songs off <i>Further Complications<\/i> (\u201cHomewrecker!\u201d, \u201cFurther Complications.\u201d). There was also time for a single incursion into Pulp material (\u201cHis \u2018n\u2019 Hers\u201d) that left everyone nostalgic for one of the best Portuguese festival shows in recent history: Pulp\u2019s takeover of the Paredes de Coura festival back in 2011.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"1365\" data-orig-width=\"2048\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/271f55bd44578d196fa72206ab21e480\/tumblr_inline_pt1ou2N5Nn1qdmxm3_540.png\" data-orig-height=\"1365\" data-orig-width=\"2048\" \/><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Allen Halloween. Hugo Lima \/ NOS Primavera Sound<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the green, lush Pull &amp; Bear stage that once was sponsored and programmed by ATP, and after another surprise rain shower, local hip hop hero <b>Allen Halloween<\/b> was on. Although he has struggled to gather a big crowd as headliner Danny Brown prepared to take over the NOS stage, and his Portuguese lyrics clash into a language barrier that drove most foreign visitors somewhere else, his devotees seemed to be delighted after his short set (we know we were). In \u201cgreatest hits\u201d mode, he and his two fellow Kriminal crew MCs dropped hit after hit, starting with the catchy \u201cDrunfos\u201d, a song off <i>A \u00c1rvore Kriminal <\/i>about prescription painkillers that miraculously solve back pain. The most recent album <i>H\u00edbrido<\/i> got plenty of love throughout the show, too, as Allen strolled through \u201cBandido Velho\u201d, \u201cYouth\u201d, and \u201cMr. Bullying\u201d, the best revenge song of the 2010s. But the highlight of the show had to be set closer \u201cFly Nigga\u201d, off 2006\u2019s <i>Projecto Mary Witch<\/i>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"1125\" data-orig-width=\"2000\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/955246662d783eb97e8f951c4a02b3ba\/tumblr_inline_pt1oxs691K1qdmxm3_540.png\" data-orig-height=\"1125\" data-orig-width=\"2000\" \/><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Stereolab. Rita Carmo \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/blitz.pt\">BLITZ<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Back at the SEAT stage, a blast from the past as <b>Stereolab<\/b> performed for the first time in ten years. The long, jammy, jaw dropping \u201cMetronomic Underground\u201d was the highlight in the first half of the show that had to be cut short so we could witness the full extent of <b>Tommy Cash<\/b>\u2019s odd world. The Estonian rapper\/producer combines the funniest visuals of the whole festival with nonsensical lyrics in a seemingly faux-Eastern European heavy accent, but it\u2019s when the Russian hardbass-influenced tracks drop that the Super Bock stage crowd properly erupts. But the greatest moment of the night was still to come, as <b>Solange<\/b> took the NOS stage by storm. Not in a bombastic way, as we know her sister would do, but through a meticulously prepared, aesthetically spotless show. The finesse of the performance, focused on her latest record <i>When I Get Home<\/i>, was only interrupted in the semi-ecstatic, early-career banger \u201cLosing You\u201d, before an epic, copious rain shower sent half of the audience home halfway through the encore. We wanted to see <b>Yaeji<\/b> later on, but perhaps she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_3T8KznhThQ\">shouldn\u2019t have ordered all that rain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"1365\" data-orig-width=\"2048\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/7644181aec1fab555ad594cce23859e1\/tumblr_inline_pt1okfUzfg1qdmxm3_540.png\" data-orig-height=\"1365\" data-orig-width=\"2048\" \/><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Courtney Barnett. Hugo Lima \/ NOS Primavera Sound<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Friday started with yet another major headache for the organisers: a radar problem in the airport has led to major delays and flight cancellations, and Mura Masa\u2019s show was also cancelled, but the rest of the festival ended up going on as planned. Major headache for us, then: a somewhat tedious <b>Aldous Harding<\/b> show didn\u2019t let us see what was one of the highlights of the festival for everyone who saw them (<b>Jambinai<\/b>); on the other hand, the triumphant return of the Basque rock powerhouse <b>Lisab\u00f6<\/b> (two drummers, plenty of guitars, beautiful, beautiful noise) made up for our choice of dropping our favorite <b>Nil\u00fcfer Yanya<\/b>, who we have seen earlier in May. We haven\u2019t seen <b>Courtney Barnett<\/b> ever since she released her latest record <i>Tell Me How You Really Feel,<\/i>\u00a0and we feel like we made the right call on this one, even though that means snubbing another marvellous <b>Sons of Kemet<\/b> show. Unlike Built to Spill the day before in the same exact time slot and stage, the Australian singer-songwriter\u2019s trio knew exactly how to fill up a big stage. And how can something go wrong if you start off with the addictive\u00a0\u201cAvant Gardener\u201d, the song that made us quit the Slowdive reunion show ten minutes into the concert so we could see her perform for an half-empty Pitchfork tent back in 2014? With a setlist that drew equally from both her LPs, plus a couple of oldies (good to know \u201cHistory Eraser\u201d is still part of the show) and non-album tracks (\u201cSmall Talk\u201d and the very recent RSD single \u201cEverybody Here Hates You\u201d), Courtney Barnett\u2019s band is a well-oiled machine destined to make new fans in every single festival show this season.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"1365\" data-orig-width=\"2048\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/1fd508ec065540456b76a29ec26b7fce\/tumblr_inline_pt1om0UMzq1qdmxm3_540.png\" data-orig-height=\"1365\" data-orig-width=\"2048\" \/><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><i>J Balvin. Hugo Lima \/ NOS Primavera Sound<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speaking of well-oiled machines, do we really need to review <b>Shellac<\/b>\u2019s show yet another year and tell you it was the best hour we spent in the festival? This time around we got a few funny lads in the pit, including one dressed like Mickey Mouse (the true MVPs), and Steve Albini dropping some Ed Sheeran diss lines during \u201cThe End of Radio\u201d. Wash your bedsheets you pig. And then the little, sad, grey world of\u00a0\u201cunderground\u201d indie purists that can only dance to\u00a0\u201cBlue Monday\u201d fell apart as reggaeton giant <b>J Balvin<\/b> took the stage; the word\u00a0\u201cReggaeton\u201d filling up the screen as he performs the song with the same name. It looked like a foreign power taking by force a territory that will be their colony for the next hour and a half, sticking a pole and hoisting their flag as high as they can. But, this time around, it\u2019s not a bossy bunch of Europeans landing in a tropical island; it\u2019s the\u00a0\u201ctropical island\u201d folks biting back, as the sound of Latin <i>barrios<\/i>\u00a0becomes, at least temporarily, the lingua franca at the NOS stage. The show itself could have used more tracks off the excellent <i>Vibras<\/i>, released last year, and both\u00a0\u201cMachika\u201d and\u00a0\u201cAmbiente\u201d, two standout tracks off that record, could have gotten the full treatment instead of being only partially played; some songs in which Balvin features are perfectly discardable. But the apotheotic finale with his biggest hit to date \u201cMi Gente\u201d, featuring a colorful bunch of cartoons, both on stage and on screen, has to be the highlight of the day and possibly of the whole festival. Dios bendiga el reggaeton.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"1365\" data-orig-width=\"2048\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/54a10e2812a626ea4ac18246a85be0c1\/tumblr_inline_pt1omzzW4Z1qdmxm3_540.png\" data-orig-height=\"1365\" data-orig-width=\"2048\" \/><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><i>JPEGMAFIA. Hugo Lima \/ NOS Primavera Sound<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elsewhere, <b>Interpol<\/b> has recovered from what was possibly the worst trainwreck we have witnessed in NOS Primavera Sound history (not sure if the 20 minutes long Neil Michael Hagerty show a couple years back was as terrible or the best thing we\u2019ve ever seen, so there\u2019s that) by performing a pretty solid show, anchored in what they know are the most vital records they\u2019ve released: <i>Turn On the Bright Lights<\/i>\u00a0and <i>Antics<\/i>, going fifteen and seventeen years back in time to bring us some of the most iconic guitar-driven of that decade (\u201cC\u2019mere\u201d,\u00a0\u201cTake You On A Cruise\u201d,\u00a0\u201cLeif Erikson\u201d,\u00a0\u201cObstacle 1\u2033,\u00a0\u201cRoland\u201d\u2026). If you know when to avoid any recent tracks &#8211; although we have to say new single\u00a0\u201cFine Mess\u201d did not sound as bad as anything else they have released in the past decade &#8211; it\u2019s a fine moment to see Interpol for old times sake, as Paul Banks apparently learned how to sing. With his sunglasses on at midnight, of course. Our night ended at the Pull &amp; Bear stage with <b>JPEGMAFIA<\/b>\u00a0wishing Morrissey was dead, rapping, jumping and crawling around the stage as a one-man-show should, and with a late night <b>SOPHIE<\/b>\u00a0live act. If the more atmospheric, less interesting first half of the show threatened to send us all home with the feeling we could have went home earlier instead of freezing to death, the\u00a0\u201cWhole New World\u201d\/\u201cPonyboy\u201d\/\u201cFaceshopping\u201d combo was enough to bring us back to life.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"1365\" data-orig-width=\"2048\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/e0de6a359ad1b74238a0c1a31d90cc37\/tumblr_inline_pt1o7zqA6o1qdmxm3_540.png\" data-orig-height=\"1365\" data-orig-width=\"2048\" \/><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Shellac of North America. Hugo Lima \/ NOS Primavera Sound<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Saturday was the most guitar-driven day of the bunch, and our decision to have lunch in a nearby restaurant paid off when we learned <b>Shellac<\/b> was playing an extra 4pm show at the entrance of the festival for a handful of lucky people, including Low\u2019s Alan Sparhawk, who sat at the floor as happy as any of us. <b>Hop Along<\/b>\u00a0had the tough task to open the big stage as a dozen of Rosal\u00eda fans were already lining up for her much later show on the same stage. The Saddle Creek-signed indie rock quartet spearheaded by songwriter Frances Quinlan is always great live, as we have recently seen as they opened for the Decemberists on a recent European tour, but we soon had to hop to the SEAT stage to check out post-punkers\u00a0<b>Viagra Boys<\/b>. You wouldn\u2019t tell from their looks (frontman Sebastian Murphy is up on stage half-naked, showing a full-tattooed torso) that this funny group of Swedes loves taking the piss of macho men (and, apparently, everything else), but that\u2019s just what they do.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"1365\" data-orig-width=\"2048\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/43b61722c865a815bf569b70635ddcab\/tumblr_inline_pt1od76xL71qdmxm3_540.png\" data-orig-height=\"1365\" data-orig-width=\"2048\" \/><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Viagra Boys. Hugo Lima \/ NOS Primavera Sound<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Coming up next was <b>Big Thief<\/b>, our favorite new band of the past couple of years. This meant we had to miss both <b>Lucy Dacus<\/b> and <b>Tomberlin<\/b>, who we would be obviously excited about, if only we had three sets of eyes and ears (and another couple of brains to process it all). We seem to get plenty of <i>Masterpiece<\/i> songs every time they perform in Portugal, and we\u2019re not complaining. From \u201cPaul\u201d to\u00a0\u201cReal Love\u201d, with the sad but hopeful \u201cParallels\u201d thrown in the middle, there was plenty of songs off their debut to enjoy until the whole crew joins the band for one last performance of the title track to finish off the European leg of their tour. There was even time for guitar player Buck Meek &#8211; finally back with the band &#8211; to shine and play one of his solo songs, and for a couple of unreleased songs. Please release a studio version of \u201cNot\u201d ASAP, guys. Thanks. Still on the SEAT stage, <b>Guided by Voices<\/b> tried their best to stuff 36 songs in one and a half hours &#8211; and although we did not count them, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.setlist.fm\/setlist\/guided-by-voices\/2019\/parque-da-cidade-oporto-portugal-2b91845a.html\">someone else did<\/a>. I cannot seem to memorize half of my passwords, and yet Robert Pollard can go through lyrics of three dozens of songs from eleven different albums (with a focus on the most recent albums &#8211; both released this year &#8211;\u00a0<i>Zeppelin Over China <\/i>and\u00a0<i>Warp and\u00a0Woof<\/i>), including semi-hits\u00a0\u201cGame of Pricks\u201d, the highly celebrated \u201cTractor Rape Chain\u201d, and set closer\u00a0\u201cGlad Girls\u201d. A lesson of what we now call \u201cindie rock\u201d for newcomers to learn from.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"1024\" data-orig-width=\"681\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/d9c005cf1c727e18ef49d02b4f5cb9e6\/tumblr_inline_pt1p1sMqbq1qdmxm3_540.png\" data-orig-height=\"1024\" data-orig-width=\"681\" \/><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Kate Tempest. Lu\u00eds Sousa \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicaemdx.pt\">M\u00fasica em DX<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 10pm slot of the festival was one of the busiest. We\u2019re sad to know Tirzah was playing for less than a hundred of people at the Pull &amp; Bear stage and decided to check out <b>Rosal\u00eda<\/b>, way closer in the NOS stage. It was the busiest we saw the main stage during this edition of the festival, and the Spanish singer seemed to have full control of the big stage as she, accompanied by half a dozen of dancers dressed in white, performed her duet with James Blake, \u201cBarefoot in the Park\u201d, a new flamenco-inspired song (\u201cDe Madrug\u00e1\u201d), and \u201cCatalina\u201d, a highlight from her debut album <i>Los \u00c1ngeles<\/i>. Too bad we cannot be near <b>Kate Tempest<\/b> and not go see her, even though we were at one of her\u00a0\u2018trial\u2019 shows for the upcoming new album tour less than a month ago, and we had to go back to the SEAT stage, where Tempest was already performing\u00a0\u201cEurope Is Lost\u201d, one of the standout tracks off 2016\u2032s <i>Let Them Eat Chaos<\/i>. She\u2019s on stage with only her keyboard player and a very simple setting: some sort of circular canvas where her figure is sometimes projected as she delivers the heaviest, the most hopeless, but also the most hopeful lines you\u2019d hear all festival. Especially on the second half of the show, as she focuses on her yet unreleased new album, <i>The Book of Traps and Lessons<\/i>, from which she draws tracks like the \u201csingles\u201d (if we can call it that)\u00a0\u201cFiresmoke\u201d and\u00a0\u201cHoly Elixir\u201d, plus \u201cHold Your Own\u201d, one of the most beautiful moments of the whole weekend. We do not deserve Kate Tempest, one of the best artists of our generation.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"1378\" data-orig-width=\"1034\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/d2968adee20e6ec740a5a7b9fcfa9427\/tumblr_inline_pt1p8gt1lu1qdmxm3_540.png\" data-orig-height=\"1378\" data-orig-width=\"1034\" \/><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Low.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Along with the fantastic Shellac\/J Balvin sequence, the last three shows of the festival ended up being the best we\u2019ve seen. There were legitimate concerns that <b>Low<\/b>\u2019s music was too quiet and solemn to be played simultaneously with the likes of Modeselektor and Neneh Cherry in nearby stages, but although some of the sound from other stages made its way into the surroundings of the Super Bock stage as the Duluth band played their set, we wonder if people in the other stages were not equally affected by the whirlwind of sound Low has managed to produce during a breathtaking and extra loud \u201cDo You Know How To Waltz?\u201d, the majestic, noisy long track off 1996\u2032s\u00a0<i>The Curtain Hits the Cast<\/i>, complete with a maelstrom of strobes and visuals that were absent from the arguably quieter European 2018 fall tour. Although the setlist was more focused on their recent <i>Double Negative<\/i>, an album with a radically distinct production but that sounds exactly like classic Low when translated to a stage, there were a couple of trips to older records (\u201cLazy\u201d, from debut <i>I Could Live in Hope<\/i>) and some of the most interesting tracks off their albums from the 2010s (<i>Ones and Sixes\u2019<\/i> \u201cNo Comprende\u201d and <i>C\u2019mon<\/i>\u2019s\u00a0\u201cEspecially Me\u201d). If we knew the show would be as good as it was, we would have hugged Alan Sparhawk as much as he was hugging Bob Weston halfway through during that extra Shellac show.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"1340\" data-orig-width=\"1440\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/e5ce058c4cd5d68a39cd7912564e4e80\/tumblr_inline_pt1phjKGQf1qdmxm3_540.png\" data-orig-height=\"1340\" data-orig-width=\"1440\" \/><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Yves Tumor. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hugosousa.eu\">Hugo Sousa Photography<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But the real surprise of the night (and of the whole festival) came on our final show: as Erykah Badu was already more than half an hour late at the main stage, <b>Yves Tumor<\/b>\u00a0took the opportunity to steal the show with one of the most energetic concerts of the festival. The androgynous performer, some kind of 22nd century glam-rock inspired Prince, completely dominated the stage from the moment he sets foot on stage and starts giving out signed tour posters (\u201cnobody buys them anyway, just have them for free\u201d). And off-stage too,\u00a0as he was carried in the arms of an army of fans trying to avoiding being hit by his large heels. He performed only four (<i>very<\/i> celebrated) songs off his latest record,\u00a0<i>Safe in the Hands of Love<\/i>, including the sing-along masterpiece \u201cLifetime\u201d. Instead of being safe in the hands of his familiar old tracks, Tumor chose to\u00a0focus on unreleased songs instead, completely suiting his band (guitar, bass, drums, and electronics) that sounds like has been playing together for ages. No video can truly capture what it was to be there, but <a class=\"hoverZoomLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X3LQe9xMMUY\">here you go<\/a>\u00a0(Thanks <a href=\"https:\/\/campainhaelectrica.blogspot.com\/2019\/06\/shellac-o-terno-hop-along-lucy-dacus.html\">Campainha El\u00e9ctrica<\/a> for doing the Lord\u2019s work).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"1504\" data-orig-width=\"2016\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/811ae1717393eda989c6bd4fee831f6e\/tumblr_inline_pt1pjqRIIv1qdmxm3_540.png\" data-orig-height=\"1504\" data-orig-width=\"2016\" \/><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><i>NOS Primavera Sound<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in all, we left Parque da Cidade with the feeling we have witnessed what was, against all odds (weather included), the best NOS Primavera Sound edition of all time. It was the only time since we first visited the Barcelona festival, back in 2009, that we could not find half an hour to sit down, relax and have a long chat with our peers because there was nothing interesting going on (and, in that regard, we have to thank the recent decision to open all stages during the first day of the festival). Sure, some overlaps of artists that appeal to the same groups of fans (Allen Halloween vs Danny Brown, Big Thief vs Lucy Dacus vs Tomberlin, Hop Along vs Viagra Boys, Amyl and the Sniffers vs Guided by Voices, Tirzah vs Rosal\u00eda vs Kate Tempest) look like they could have been avoided. This could have attracted more people to the festival, especially those who feel the organisation have somehow\u00a0\u201cbetrayed\u201d them by focusing less on indie rock and guitar music on the festival\u2019s prime time slots. That being said &#8211; all the bands we could not see could have easily filled another full day of the festival.\u00a0And, at the same time, we feel the smaller amount of festival attendees has ultimately benefited and rewarded whoever still decided to go to the festival, as less people also means less queues, better views of the stages, a friendlier environment, less people chatting over the artists &#8211; we have never experience such a quiet festival in Portugal, with no one to argue with. Except those four girls who couldn\u2019t turn the volume down during Kate Tempest\u2019s quiet songs &#8211; you know who you are, and, well, your loss! Maybe we have hit the ideal spot, and entrances could and should be capped to 2019\u2032s levels. See you at Porto\u2019s Parque da Cidade in <b>June 11-13 2020<\/b>, where <b>Pavement<\/b> is scheduled to perform one of the only two shows of the second coming of their long awaited reunion. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nosprimaverasound.com\/en\/articles\/full-festival-tickets-2\/\">Tickets are available next June 17 for a short period of time, only for 2019 ticket holders, and from July 4 (for a period of 48 hours) for everyone else<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Lima \/ NOS Primavera Sound It\u2019s starting to be too common: no matter how warm and sunny it is in the week leading up to the festival, NOS Primavera Sound (NPS) is doomed to be ruined by at least one day of rain. 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