If there is an illustrative photo of how we have turned the page of the pandemic ordeal (unless otherwise indicated) it is the one of the Parc del Fòrum dancing, singing at the top of your lungs and celebrating life, this Saturday, to the beat of rumba and neighborhood rock by the work and grace of Estopa. Without distances, finally, or masks, or greater rigidities in a liberating concert, which the Muñoz had been dragging since 2020, with two postponements on the way, and which multiplied, if possible, the effect of the 20th anniversary (plus two) that surrounds the torpedo tour ‘Fire’.
Vent on and off stage, refreshing the old normal with the most physical repertoire possible, in contrast to the containment of their concerts last summer, few and reduced. Total familiarity with its widest audience of its Barcelona curriculum, 25,000 people, a mixture of fortysomethings and their fiery offspring. The Muñoz’s will be able to wrap their ‘shows’ with a higher definition video screen than C. Tangana’s, but the colloquial tone does not change, as he signed that “what’s up, rock! & rdquor; of welcoming with which David greeted after opening the melon with ‘Tu calorro’ and ‘Vino tinto’.
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The ‘Estopa code’, at full speed, with those sudden accelerations that made their first producers dumb and their rumba soul with racy rock guitars (Anye Bao, band director, on drums, wearing an AC/ DC) in the sweeping ‘Vacaciones’ (“Come on those palms, Catalonia!”) and ‘Partiendo la corduroy’, this one with an ironic jazz preamble and a Slavic dance ending. Concert with constant changes of third (‘The last line’, diván ballad, David’s specialty) and a dedication, after these two years of waiting, “to the people who have left us along the way”. And a thank you “to everyone for not returning the tickets & rdquor ;.
David and Jose did not hide their pride at handling, at this point, the largest call figures. “This big thing has gotten out of hand & rdquor ;, confessed the eldest of the Muñoz. “Neither opening act, nor guests…” Certainly, Estopa did not need more claim than his songbook, with ‘La raja de tu falda’ and ‘El del medio de Los Chichos’ dominating again, and opening the lectern to five songs absent from his 2021 concerts.
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There were the rescues of ‘I saw you I saw’, about the ultramontane visions of his grandmother Juliana, ‘I return to the old ways’ and that apology for beer madness called ‘Paseo’. And in the encore, a rarity, ‘Listen to me princess’, love song from his demo prior to the first album, and the introspective ‘Tan solo’. Themes loved by the ‘hardcore’ core of his followers, dotting a final section whose climax, following the secular script, was put by ‘Como Camarón’, the last notch of the night, literally, the biggest for Estopa in Barcelona.