Primavera Sound launches 'revival' to vindicate Interpol's 'indie rock'

• Primavera Sound music: the festival euphoria returns 1,000 days later

The 2022 edition promised.

So much so that the organization of

put it in writing a year ago.

What if the best poster in history, what if the most eclectic, the most impressive, the most stellar... Never seen before to celebrate the Barcelona festival celebrating its twentieth anniversary.

And not in any way, because for something it has become the first macrofestival that has returned in Spain after two years of pandemic drought.

The half a thousand concerts scheduled throughout the city must hold some kind of record.

So this explains why we are here chronicling the eighth matchday (the eighth!).

Yes, the one that marks the start of the second weekend (the second!) of Primavera Sound.

But the umpteenth turn of the screw to this macro-event that overflows its own limits - whichever way you look at it - does not mean that it gives up living from the classics.

The classics never die, you know.

There is

to prove it.

And in the particular spatio-temporal coordinates of Primavera Sound, Interpol can take credit for being so.

The mythical (there is no classic without a myth) New York band of

took the Pull&Bear stage again in what was a revival of

.

Undisputed headliners, Interpol raised the night curtain on the first day of the extra and

weekend (there are no two-day weekends at Primavera, but four).

The return to the essence of a festival that in recent times (in the pre-pandemic era, of course) had tried to shake off the

label .

Afternoon atmosphere in Primavera Sound, with the giant bear at the entrance.EM

But anything can be expected from a festival that greets its attendees with a giant bear by designer Jack Sachs.

13 meters high to remember -in case someone had forgotten- that the figures that he continues to accumulate are stratospheric.

While waiting to officially certify the number of attendance at this twentieth edition, the first weekend of Primavera Sound was over with 66,000 attendees on Thursday, 74,000 on Friday and 80,500 on Saturday.

The most crowded day in history.

"It was too much, the worst Spring," denounced Quim, a regular who repeated yesterday despite the fact that he predicts that the festival "will die of success."

Amalia gives him a second chance.

In the late afternoon, before the big crowded concerts,

Returning to the classics, Interpol did not disappoint.

That is why he celebrates 20 years of his debut, although a content Banks took the stage with a shy "hello".

Two decades since he released his first album back in 2002, the ever-referring

with which he yesterday -with

kicked off.

The band gained with him the fame of melancholy.

That depressing point that was almost obligatory in the post-9/11 New York scene, and that served Interpol to prop up the revival of

and, incidentally, do it with that particular stamp that this Thursday reaped the yes enthusiast of the faithful (paradox, yes).

It wasn't all dark, but Interpol cast itself (literally) in grayscale.

The counterpoint was put by

with a colorful concert with a futuristic air.

As it should be, we talk about the most famous virtual band for a reason.

Didn't everyone anticipate a future (when we still didn't know it would be post-pandemic) halfway between the virtual and the real?

, incombustible and taking a mass bath, once again demonstrated that the fusion of him with the drawings is his thing.

The former Blur frontman threw up public love for him.

There was no fiction in the message from him with his heart.

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