• Bilbao BBK Live The incredible rhythm machine from LCD Soundsystem

  • Festival A radiant Phoebe Bridgers opens the Bilbao BBK Live festival

"If someone wanted to come and see the concert of their life, this is not going to be"

, says

Jordi Évole

smiling and a little nervous when he goes up to the small stage of the Kiosko El Arenal in Bilbao, between a playground and the estuary.

It is one in the afternoon and there are about 50 people in the square.

"This is our first performance. Yes, we have fooled the BBK", he adds in reference to the Bilbao BBK Live music festival, which is being held from yesterday until Saturday in the Biscayan capital and which, apart from the macro-concerts at its large venue in Kobetamendi, has scheduled some small free performances in the city, among which this unique debut has stood out.

Évole's group is called

Los Niños Jesús

in reference to their drummer, who is called Jesús and is old enough to be the father of the rest (Los Niños de Jesús would have been perhaps more appropriate, although it seems they thought it sounded worse).

"We are just friends who get together on Thursdays to play songs that we like," apologized the popular television presenter and columnist, who during this first performance

humorously insisted that they are nothing more than

music fans who dedicate themselves to play inspired by a very good friend, then Évole explains which one.

Jordi Évole, performing with Los Niños Jesús.PG

"So, thank you very much to these 60,000 people," Évole said sarcastically, "have a good time and enjoy, because life is two days."

Los Niños Jesús sound like an orchestra that plays at village parties, a classic rock band that makes popular versions and encourages

an audience of all ages

to dance, sing and, in essence, have a good time.

And the public of all ages was quickly gathered by Évole and his colleagues, who ended up playing in front of more than 300 people.

With a can of San Miguel beer on a small table, wearing an Athletic shirt and in front of a lectern where he looked at the lyrics out of the corner of his eye, the journalist has made several versions with his pachanguera orchestra of those that are chanted with one arm raised , or both, depending on the time.

De Los Ronaldos played

Por las noche

(and later

I can't live without you

), Évole still a little nervous clinging to the foot of the microphone,

sometimes out of tune like a little dog with a cough

, other times screaming with euphoria: that is, singing like anyone else .

Happiness

was played by La Cabra Mecánica

and Évole was letting go, willful like when you sing the second song in karaoke and you already take off your modesty.

"You are the best audience of the entire tour," he said with a permanent smile in the middle of his beard.

"All these songs are ours, but we gave them to others, because the money does not matter to us"

.

And while they played

Memphis Blues Again

by Kiko Veneno in a metaversion, since this is already an adaptation of Bob Dylan, he kept making the audience laugh: "Those Basque palms!"

He dedicated his version

of Manu Chao 's

Clandestino

to immigrants

, specifically Athletic soccer player Iñaki Williams ("who always remembers his mother and vindicates how he got here").

In addition, he recalled the death of several dozen people in Melilla and criticized the response of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, praising the management of the Moroccan police.

The very heterogeneous and curious audience was already quite engaged when they sang

Me maten

by C. Tangana and

Love, love, love and widen the soul

of Extremoduro.

"Next year we will ask for more money. We are Catalans, of course," Évole said.

"It is that

we are great admirers of the concerts, especially the Basque concert

".

People laughed and danced and then Noni by Lori Meyers came out to sing with the group

Emborracharme

and that was really good.

And so it was time to say goodbye to the first concert of Los Niños Jesús and to explain the reason for all this.

"We would not be here if a person had not crossed our path," explained the journalist.

"A very, very special person who knew how to leave with great dignity and who gave us some advice that changed our lives, the teacher and above all friend

Pau Donés

" (deceased two years ago).

Jarabe de Palo played

Grita

without removing the joy from the body and thus ended, between hugs, the first concert by Jordi Évole and Niños Jesús.

Conforms to The Trust Project criteria

Know more

  • Jordi Evole

  • Morocco

  • C Tangana

  • Pedro Sanchez

  • Melilla

  • bob dylan

  • music

  • Concerts

  • Articles Pablo Gil