{"id":86,"date":"2019-05-31T11:31:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/testes\/?p=86"},"modified":"2020-10-14T21:44:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T20:44:12","slug":"nos-primavera-sound-2019-printable-timetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bolachas.org\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"NOS Primavera Sound 2019: printable timetables, our preview and playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It doesn\u2019t matter how conservative or liberal you are: people are naturally resistant to change, especially if the previous form of what\u2019s changing was so dear to them. We get it: \u201cif it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it\u201d. Judging by the tone and content of most comments we can find online about this year\u2019s Primavera lineup, both in Porto and Barcelona, folks ain\u2019t happy about \u201cthe new normal<\/a>\u201d. Yes, some of the biggest pop artists in the planet have claimed most of the spots with the big font in it. Yes, there\u2019s a shortage of loud, extreme music we often found at the long gone ATP stage, and every year there are less and less historical, cult indie rock bands reforming for a Primavera performance. But, other than that – tiny specks on a lineup of over 120 bands in Barcelona and over 60 in Porto – has it really changed that much? Is the Primavera DNA gone? (Was there really a \u201cPrimavera DNA\u201d to begin with?)<\/p>\n

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We don\u2019t think so. In this year\u2019s preview of NOS Primavera Sound<\/a>, we\u2019re looking back on our ten years of going to Primavera festivals (since our debut in Barcelona 2009, we only missed it in 2011). We identify five pillars of what we think makes a typical Primavera lineup – and reflect on what\u2019s new and what\u2019s missing. In the end, we can say we\u2019re actually more excited for this years\u2019 edition than we\u2019ve been in the past three or four years.<\/p>\n

Our preview playlist (which you can find below) features 33 artists, and we tried our best not to include the very obvious ones.<\/p>\n

Download the timetables<\/strong> (always subject to change): Regular PDF<\/a> \/ Mobile PDF<\/a> \/ Customisable Excel file<\/a><\/p>\n

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The historical indie rock bunch (and a couple of reunions) <\/strong><\/p>\n

This lineup has got Built to Spill<\/strong> performing \u201cKeep it Like a Secret\u201d (Thursday, 19:50). It\u2019s automatically good just for that reason, even if it was a late addition after a cancellation. It\u2019s got the first ever Guided by Voices<\/strong> performance in the Iberian Peninsula (Saturday, 20:45) and a rare appearance by cult hero Liz Phair<\/strong> (Friday, 22:00). It\u2019s got Low<\/strong> still fresh out of their most lauded album release of the past fourteen years (Saturday, 23:20). What about reunions? We get it, everyone expects so much of a festival where bands like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive or Pavement have first performed after long periods of retirement. Stereolab<\/strong> (Thursday, 23:20) were one of the most inventive, genre-defining and influential bands of the 90s and return to the stage after a ten year hiatus, and the Basque band Lisab\u00f6<\/strong> (Friday, 19:15), who has released in 2018 their first album in eight years, was once one of the most powerful post-rock\/hardcore bands in Europe. And, you know\u2026 the real reason why we never, ever miss a single NOS Primavera Sound edition is the fact that it\u2019s the most likely place in Europe to be able to witness a rare sighting of the best live band in rock music. Let\u2019s all raise a toast to Shellac<\/strong> (Friday, 21:00). If they weren\u2019t in the lineup, yes, we would think Primavera is gone. But, as long as Albini, Trainer and Weston are with us, can we really say the festival is not what it used to be?<\/p>\n

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Up-and-coming indie singer-songwriters <\/strong><\/p>\n

Some of them we\u2019ve seen and talked extensively before on our NOS Primavera Sound and Vodafone Paredes de Coura previews. Courtney Barnett<\/strong> (Friday, 19:50) played for a half-empty tent before we all hit the jackpot with her debut LP and was one of our biggest highlights of that year. Lucy Dacus<\/strong> (Saturday, 18:50) and Big Thief<\/strong> (Saturday, 19:15) played two of our favorite shows at last year\u2019s Vodafone Paredes de Coura. They\u2019re both competing for our attention this year, along with Tomberlin<\/strong> (Saturday, 19:00), who is also playing in the same time slot and appeals to the same fanbase, which makes us a bit sad to miss the others. Even if we think this was a scheduling mistake, it\u2019s still an indicator of how good this lineup is. And you\u2019ve still got Snail Mail<\/strong> (Saturday, 20:30), hopefully with a full band, when you\u2019re done with the gig of your choice. Just before Barnett on Friday we\u2019ve got two songwriters who released two of the most exciting albums of 2019 so far. We have missed Aldous Harding<\/strong> (Friday, 17:45) every time we had the chance to see her (either due to cancellations or her being placed in tiny venues in festivals) and we\u2019ll try not to fuck it up this time around. We\u2019ll probably skip Nil\u00fcfer Yanya<\/strong> (Friday, 18:50) since we\u2019ve seen her play with her band in a tiny anarchist venue less than a month ago, but you shouldn\u2019t. And, if you don\u2019t care about Jarvis Cocker (sacrilege) don\u2019t miss the only male songwriter in this list: the Canadian songwriter MorMor<\/strong> (Thursday, 21:25) has released a superb EP earlier this month.<\/p>\n

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Unique, experimental-ish contemporary artists<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s always space on a Primavera lineup for some of the best performers we\u2019ve been seeing in the past few years that don\u2019t really fit in any big boxes. Synth-heavy Let\u2019s Eat Grandma<\/strong> (Thursday, 23:45) is not only the best band name in the lineup, it\u2019s one of the most exciting new acts coming out of England in the past few years. Spoken word queen Kate Tempest<\/strong> (Saturday, 22:30) is debuting her new album ahead of its release later in June and shall compete for your attention with Tirzah<\/strong> (Saturday, 22:00) and Rosal\u00eda<\/strong> (Saturday, 22:10), the hottest artist out of Spain in God knows how long. Later on, Swedish singer-songwriter Neneh Cherry<\/strong> (Saturday, 23:30) presents her much lauded recent LP Broken Politics<\/em>. Experimental rock outfit Jambinai **(Friday, 18:00) are known for using traditional folk Korean instruments to produce some of the sharpest sounding post-rock these days, while Shabaka Hutchings brings four drummers to his <\/strong>Sons of Kemet XL** (Friday, 20:20) jazztravaganza.<\/p>\n

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Nobody\u2019s taking your guitars away<\/strong><\/p>\n

Playing a bit softer or harder, we\u2019ve already listed tons of guitar music above. Yes, there\u2019s less heavy music than a few years ago, but was that really ever a defining quality of a Primavera lineup? Still, besides all the indie rock bands we mentioned before there are a few more options for guitar-heavy partying, from returning experimental-ish hardcore behemoths Fucked Up<\/strong> (Friday, 22:15) to upcoming Aussie punk rockers Amyl and the Sniffers<\/strong> (Saturday, 21:00). Although very different from each other, Hop Along<\/strong> (Saturday, 17:45) and Viagra Boys<\/strong> (Saturday, 18:00) will compete for your attention in the beginning of the last day of the festival.<\/p>\n

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The indie\/alternative big guns<\/strong><\/p>\n

You wouldn\u2019t set up a 30,000 capacity festival where the headliners are six indie singer-songwriters with two records under their belt since 2016, right? We know we wouldn\u2019t even though that\u2019s basically half of what we listen to. Pulp\u2019s Jarvis Cocker is back with his new project JARV IS<\/strong> (Thursday, 21:00), which is apparently \u201cprimarily a live experience\u201d, mostly limited to festivals. We don\u2019t know what to expect and we don\u2019t want to read about it beforehand. Can we still be surprised sometimes, is that too much to ask? It\u2019s been over a decade since we last were excited about anything related to Interpol **(Friday, 23:45), but reports from Barcelona and All Points East tell us at least 2\/3 of the setlist is composed of Antics and Turn On the Bright Lights songs, so there\u2019s that. Later that night, **James Blake<\/strong> (Friday, 01:00) is back with a new album that we didn\u2019t care to listen to, but we thought his past two concerts we saw in festivals were way more interesting than his records, so we\u2019ll probably give him a shot. On Saturday we witness a rare European show by Jorge Ben Jor<\/strong> (Saturday 19:50), the MPB giant who rarely performs outside Brazil, before the neo soul queen Erykah Badu<\/strong> (Saturday, 00:30) takes the stage as the closing big act of the festival.<\/p>\n

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The new normal<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, something changed at NOS Primavera Sound over the past couple of years. But did it change for worse? This was a festival that, despite running until the early hours of the morning, lacked an electronic dance music programme that was as consistent as its daylight and prime-time programme. This has changed last year with the introduction of new stage Bits, and has considerably improved this years when it comes to DJs. Yaeji<\/strong> (Thursday, 03:00) has released some of the most non-obvious house hits since 2017. Together with Peggy Gou **(Thursday, 01:30), **Helena Hauff<\/strong> (Friday, 04:30), SOPHIE<\/strong> (Friday, 02:30) and JASSS<\/strong> (Friday, 00:00), the Korean-American producer and DJ is the flagbearer of an experimental, female-fronted, fresh sounding clubbing scene that not so long ago was pretty much nonexistent in Primavera. Producer Yves Tumor<\/strong> (Saturday, 01:00) brings another side of the same scene with his full band; Modeselektor<\/strong> (Saturday, 23:45) are hardly newcomers and have performed in countless editions of Primavera, both as Modeselektor and Moderat.<\/p>\n

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But maybe that\u2019s not the addition of a good clubbing programme with a stage dedicated to clubbers that\u2019s really bothering a seemingly substantial part of Primavera\u2019s typical festival goers. Maybe it\u2019s the fact that most of the big slots in the lineup – even though those represent only 10% of the festival\u2019s lineup – are occupied by big, guitarless, not-really-indie acts. But can we really rule them out and say they\u2019re not \u201cPrimavera artists\u201d based on their (lack of) artistic merit? Of course not. It\u2019s been seven years since Solange<\/strong> (Thursday, 00:30) has released \u201cLosing You\u201d and stopped being referred to as simply \u201cBeyonc\u00e9\u2019s younger sister\u201d; we are yet to find a bad review for her latest two albums. Hip-hop ends up being underrepresented this year, compared to past editions, with the likes of Danny Brown<\/strong> (22:20), Tommy Cash<\/strong> (23:25) and Allen Halloween<\/strong> (22:15) all competing for your attention Thursday night, and newcomer ProfJam<\/strong> (Friday, 17:00) getting an extra early slot the next day. But what\u2019s really grinding people\u2019s gears is the presence of one of the most important artists in the world today. Colombian J Balvin<\/strong> (Friday, 22:15) is one of the most important regaet\u00f3n singers today, and, through his many collaborations with English-speaking artists, played an instrumental role as the genre definitely took over Western audiences and became the most popular genre of pop music worldwide, toppling the long dominance of hip hop, R&B and EDM. Literally every song on his setlist is a major hit. All killer, no filler. Can you really say the same about any other artist in the lineup (except Shellac, of course)? Name one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Our playlist this year has 66 songs by 33 artists. We couldn\u2019t make it shorter, it\u2019s still impossible to see all those artists, and we could definitely add some more. Do you still think this is a subpar lineup? It\u2019s not.<\/p>\n\n\n

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