The rapper Duki, Tinariwen and Róisín Murphy have made the attendees vibrate
pavement, one of the most important indie rock groups of the nineties, has starred in the second day of the Bilbao BBK Live festival, which for a few moments has returned to those years with the classics of the Californian band. The concert, the only one this year in Spain by the band led by Stephen Malkmus, has been liked by their followers, despite having lasted just over an hour, during which time the Californians have linked all those songs that led to becoming a cult band.
However, hits like ‘Grounded’, ‘In the mouth a desert’, ‘Trigger cut’ or ‘Silence kid’, which played at the beginning of the performance, They have not served to retain the public oblivious to the history of the band that has been leaving the field located in front of the main stage in search of more attractive places. The performance, dominated by distorted guitars and the unmistakable voice of Stephen Malkmus, has continued with more classics -‘Harness your hopes’, ‘Kennel district’ or ‘Shady Lane’-, without the interest of the attendees, beyond the followers of the group, has increased.
With ‘Cut your hair’, one of the highlights of the night, ‘Father to a sister of thought’, an energetic ‘Unfair’ and ‘Gold soundz’, which have played in a row, Malkmus and company have achieved the best moment of the performance, before performing ‘The Hexx’ and ‘Stereo’. In the final part, ‘Spit on a stranger’, ‘Tape slowly’ and ‘Range life’ have been played, another of the band’s classics with which Malkmus and company have said goodbye, without encores, to the spectators who were still in front of them to stage.
This second day of the festival has been characterized by the variety of proposals and musical styles that have been heard, as well as by the disparate origin of the artists who have taken to the stages that are scattered around the Mount Kobetas site.
The main stage has received the Argentine rapper duki, who has arrived with his third and recent album, ‘Antes de Ameri’, the same day that tickets for the concert that he will offer at the Santiago Bernabéu in a year, on June 8, 2024, went on sale. The Argentine musician, a trap star with a huge following on social networks and platforms, has offered a concert that has been musically the opposite of what Pavement was going to show a couple of hours later on that same stage. Duki has combined energy and rage during a performance that began with the song ‘Rockstar’, with flares included, and in which he has reviewed some of his best-known songs such as ‘If you feel alone’, ‘Before you lose yourself’ or ‘ She don’t give a FO’ and ‘Givenchy’, who have closed the concert.
The not so young and those who can’t stand the trap have found a good refuge in the bars distributed throughout the venue and the food stalls, and they have also been able to see and listen, at the same time on the small stage, to tinariwen, Tuareg musical band originally from Algeria. The mix of rock and folk that Tinariwen has offered to an enthusiastic and very large audience has contrasted with the electronic music for dancing that has been heard later on the second stage, by the Irish Roisin Murphyand with urban rap and pop coming from Colombia with Basic Nampa.
Murphy has deployed all his musical and visual resources, with costume changes, wigs and hats, to fill the atmosphere of disco sounds with a funky touch thanks to songs like ‘Overpowered’, ‘The Universe’, ‘Something more’, ‘Incapable ‘ or the more recent ‘CooCool’.
This Saturday, the festival lives its third and last day with the outstanding presence of the British band Arctic Monkeysheadliner who will review their successes and present their new songs, and the performances of The Idles, Love of Lesbian and The Last Dinner Partyamong other.