Pop, urban rhythms, vestiges of miscegenation and, yes, also a bit of rock took this Saturday, one more year (and there are nine in the new life of the festival), the historic place of the Pla d’en Sala filling it with a huge girl (they expected about 25,000 people, the usual figure). But beyond the musical genres, Canet Rock is a state of mind Josep Maria Mainatthe ideologue, synthesized in the motto that he had printed on the shirt: “that the bowler hat to all folds”.
slogan with political echoes which he turned into the “Canet Rock anthem”, singing it over the chords of ‘Life is life’ (Opus’ infamous beach turra), and which was followed by an assault on ‘Viva la vida’, by Coldplay, with rhymes about the “politics empastifats & rdquor; and the “nació nova” which is figuratively yet to come. Mainat’s pass, a festival classic, tuned in with another traditional number, that of the troubadour Miquel del Roigwho sang some garrotines for us and a ‘My bonnie’ that once again delved into the consistorial wound: “Collboni, Colau and Sirera have fet molt mal to the country& rdquor ;, accused one of the stanzas.
Between Sergio Dalma and Oques Grasses
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More structured was Joan Dausa, who celebrated the 10th anniversary of ‘Jo mai mai’ by opening the ‘set’ in its acoustic version with it (and quoting it again, full band, to close it). The one from Sant Feliu de Llobregat knows how to create sequences and climates, and placing himself somewhere “between Sergio Dalma and Oques Grasses& rdquor;, he joked, unhurriedly alternating the Latin plot of his recent single ‘Queda’t així’ and the pop between grandiose and melancholic of ‘Truca’m’ or ‘La gran eufòria’. Including dares like the nod to john denver from his adaptation of ‘Take me home, country roads’.
Shaking the evening fall, 31 FAM and his urban and reggaeton gymnastics table, with dancers, explosions of carbonic fog and confetti. And entering the night (on the way to early-morning attractions such as Els Amics de les Arts and The Tyets), the Barcelona trio stay homas, further and further away from its role as a confined pet, marking style with the repertoire of his recent ‘HOMAS’. Healthy merriment in the place, with the usual ‘estelades’ coexisting this time with the rainbow flags in affinity with the manifesto ‘Aturem el feixisme’ who made the festival public and conclusive motto of “esteem with vulguis & rdquor;.