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To give you an idea, as you climb the curves of Montjuïc Mountain from the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, it’s difficult to know what to expect on the third night of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard‘s residency at Barcelona’s Poble Espanyol this weekend. If you take the time to watch the two previous
Barcelona’s Christmas lights, a harbinger of things to come, had already been switched on that evening when Vinicio arrived at the sumptuous and magnificent La Paloma, the oldest dance hall in Europe, as Capossela himself would later remind us. What better place, now that it was once again hosting live shows, to celebrate Christmas than
Few bands are as safe a bet for the writer of this article to see live as the British band The Vaccines. We’ve had the pleasure of seeing them live more than a dozen times, and their show has never failed to impress, whether in theatres or at festivals. Their visit to Barcelona to present
Pop music has been dominated in recent decades by ‘queens‘ such as Madonna, Beyonce, Lady Gaga and Rihanna, whose influence on the mainstream was (and still is) remarkable. However, in the aftermath of the pandemic, and especially in recent months, we have seen how women who were closer to the independent scene (no need to
More than a decade after their stunning live performance at Amsterdam’s London Calling festival just weeks after the release of their eponymous debut album, Brighton’s Royal Blood visited Barcelona’s Razzmatazz to perform the album that catapulted them to fame in its entirety. Mike Kerr of Royal Blood, Sala Razzmatazz Barcelona 2024 – Photo by Víctor
Like many of the so-called “grunge-indie” generation, there are bands from the early to mid-90s that have stolen a place in your heart. In the case of the Americans Garbage, for the writer of these lines the arrival of two cassettes, one pink and the other orange, corresponded to the entry of the Institute in
Last Wednesday night, Australians Polaris returned to Barcelona 5 years after their first visit supporting Architects, established themselves now as one of the world’s leading metalcore bands. Jamie Hails from Polaris, Sala Razzmatazz 2 – Photo by Víctor Ramos Santafé for Indieofilo©. The early schedule, incompatible with the working day, made it impossible for us
Barely five months after their last visit to Barcelona as part of the Sónar 2022 line-up, the German trio Moderat returned to Barcelona to show their latest album MORE D4TA (2022), the first to be released after a five-year hiatus in their career. Moderat, Sant Jordi Club 2022 – Photo taken by Víctor Ramos Santafé
With the autumn just released, and as if it were a gift in the form of a OST appropriate to the moment, the Icelandic Sigur Rós performed in Barcelona as the first big concert of an autumn season that looks exciting. Six years after their last visit to the city since the already distant Primavera
In the last five years in which the post punk label seems to be a mass phenomenon thanks to bands that emerged in the UK like Idles or Fontaines D.C., it is good to see that there is still an audience that enjoys the original version of the movement, the one that was closer to
