Primavera Sound 2022: Tame Impala, Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Nicki Nicole for the end of the party

The twentieth edition of Primavera Sound was greeted with honors in Barcelona: the last night – this Saturday 11 June – a dream team played, made up of Yes Yes YesDoma Impala, Jorja SmithPhoenix, Megan Thee Stallion and Argentina’s Nicki Nicole. The cliché prevails: an end to the whole orchestra.

The great thing for us is that while the Catalans – and the thousands of visitors from other countries – will have to wait until next June to meet, The Argentines will have our first version of Primavera Sound in Buenos Aires.

The inauguration day will be on 14 October at the Olympic Park, and will continue on Wednesday 9, Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 November at the Children’s Park, also in CABA.

Warmth, football shirts and Spanish artists

Saturday in Barcelona the temperature has exceeded 30 degrees (in Madrid there were at most 40), many of the festival participants spent some time on the beach before – a few meters from the Parque del Fórum, the meeting place – to arrive fresh.

Unlike other shows in Argentina, where it is forbidden to wear football shirts, it is almost a tradition here. Sure, he won Barça, but he was also seen by Espanyol de Barcelona, ​​Málaga, Madrid and English clubs like Liverpool and Manchester City. Yes, searching and searching, those from River and Boca also appeared. Infallible.

From the beginning, the main stages have hosted some Spanish artists, such as Solea Morente -daughter of Enrico Dyingthe Spanish singer considered one of the innovators of flamenco and part of an entire family tradition of musicians.

Soleá has all the imprint of her family, with flamenco in her blood, but she is also a pop artist with all the lyrics, who gets along wonderfully with this type of festival.

The other Spaniards who dominated the Forum were the Antonia Font, a band of Majorcan musicians that made a name for themselves in 2000, broke up in 2013 and are now playing together again. A long set of 21 pop songs served both nostalgia and find them in good shape.

The night of the internationals

The amount of international artists that followed showed the extent of the festival. everyone can be headliner (main artists) of any other mass gathering.

Let’s start with the British Jorja Smith, owner of an elegant rhythm and blues. Since he started in 2017, he hasn’t stopped winning awards like the Brit Awards. He has a very seductive and fresh voice. And she showed up to sing in her evening dress and slippers. Own style.

Soon after came the Yes Yes Yesled by the charismatic Karen O. The cult band, which has become popular in spite of itself, unites in their show i artistic rock, with punk and post punk. Karen is a woman in front charismatic, a gladiator dressed in colorsable to play with giant balls in the shape of eyes or to swallow the microphone with which he sings whole.

If we add to this that it screams and tunes in like the gods at the same time, we can say that we are facing one of the great shows of the night.

But, I insist, the temperature continued to rise to the level of interpretation when the set of tame Impala. An hour and a half of mid-tempo psychedelic songs, with the clear voice of kevin parker.

The Australian band has a long history with Primavera Sound, which they try to come to every year. The first time they wanted to hire them, the money offered was not enough to take them from their country to Barcelona. But the organizers insisted and tripled the cachet – the numbers are under lock and key – so they could be part of it.

This marks two things about Primavera Sound. One, who gets carried away by music. For the organizers, it was important that the band was there they knew they were giving away the pinet even if they were not so famous all over the world. The other that marks is the loyalty of the group to the festival and of the festival to the group.

In fact, last week The shots had to cancel his performance – they did this on Friday 10th – and Tame Impala not only took control of the stop but also dared to cover Last nightthe success of New Yorkers.

Everything ends in the end, everything ends

And after Tame Impala, he arrived Phoenix. the ideal French band for mass shows, because they have everything there is to have: catchy songs, rock attitude, pop joy. An admirable enthusiasm, in a concert that began with classical music while on the screens something similar to an opera house was seen.

La Fenice, overbearing, left the stage and the people in the heat for the presentation – at two in the morning – of Megan you stalliona runaway rapper all over the world, who has put together a huge set and who has combined high-speed beats with dance music.

Winner of the Grammy Award 2021 as Best New Artist, at 26 she can already close a festival like this and on the artists we have already nominated.

Nicki’s pride

Parallel to the Phoenix show, on the Tous stage Nicki Nicole showed her trap. Unlike Cazzu and Khea, who showed up earlier (at 8pm), Rosario was assigned a more important time slot, especially for Saturday night and closing time.

Milestones like being on the Jimmy Fallon show or have been part of the Coachella festival must have intervened when assigning him the seat at Primavera Sound.

what’s coming

Primavera Sound Buenos Aires line-up is now complete. But then, and as if to give it the character it deserves, this is the list of artists who will be repeated in both festivals, that is in Barcelona and in ours.

Charli XCX, Lorde, Interpol, Beach House, Viagra Boys, Beak, Helado Negro, VTSS Harsher, Burrito Kachimba di Derby Motoreta, Soto Asa, Las Ligas Menores, Caroline Polachek, Jessie Ware, Bad Gyal, Shygirl, Amaia, Anz, Carolina Durante, Shellac, Tayhana, Isabella, Sangre Nueva, 107 Faunos, John Talabot, Santiago Motorizado (who was with El Mató in Barcelona), Dillom & Saramalacara.

The production of the Argentine shows is responsible for Primavera Sound Barcelona and DF Entertainment, the same organizers of Lollapalooza and the Coldplay concerts in River.