Five years is a number that may seem inadequate at first glance when it comes to finding excuses and reasons to celebrate. However, considering where we’ve come from since the health crisis that shook the world in the already distant and fateful 2020, it’s understandable that the team behind the Warm Up decided to take the opportunity to celebrate the fifth anniversary in style. to celebrate the festival. After all, it is about underlining the power of reunion and the shock of familiarity that one feels when one begins to walk through the La Fica building, identify familiar faces, approach the first rows, calculate the time remaining to measure the distances bridge between the stages. and especially looking for that spark of emotion that only inhabits the coordinates of the live music ceremony. And so we arrived until the afternoon of a Friday called Welcome V Anniversary that strictly fulfilled its condition of receiving open arms, throwing nostalgic claps, causing the first spring dances on the asphalt and a warm paragraph of melodic transition between sunset and the most impetuous night. Casa Caffeine After some warming up at the Valencian Wisemen Project, who took advantage of their short time on stage to showcase a firmament of electronic music as vibrant as it is fun, the members of Miss Cafeína faced the daunting challenge of taking the festival from the mainstage. A responsibility that the band from Madrid accepted without any problems, fears or insecurities. They know their cards, they’ve been playing them for almost two decades for a reason, and they know the moves each game requires. For this reason, no one is surprised that at all times his concerto moved within that pop which, whether evoked by the stainless synthesizer philosophy or by more guitar-like finishes, can now be considered his trademark. From the opening with the recent ‘Para toda la vida’ and ‘Oh Long Johnson’ to the closing with the addictive ‘Look how I fly’ and ‘Dancetería (No one knows your name here)’, through the effective ‘We come’ , ‘Las Vegas’, ‘Por si’ or the sincere ‘Reina’, the group led by Alberto Jiménez contributed a good dose of color, vitality and choruses like fireworks to this first event of the festival, which can be enjoyed through its simplicity of their infectious buzz. Loud applause. A performance that continued during the subsequent session of Innmir from Alicante, a joyous parenthesis that even ended before the arrival of Kasabian, the first highlight of this fifth edition. Standard Related News Yes Welcome to the Warm Up ‘the chill’ Natalia Benito Everything prepared for a punctual day that started when the clocks struck 8 with Wisemen Project The power of the classics The concert of the British group left us with good news and bad news . Let’s start with the latter and get rid of the sour taste of memory as quickly as possible. Indeed, the controversial departure of vocalist Tom Meighan has caused a significant drop in charisma and energy in a band that was pure flame, something that shouldn’t surprise us considering that we’re talking about a frontman who was able to make even the most atheist believes in the word rock and whose absence was already noticeable in ‘The alchemist’s euphoria’, the first discreet album released last year with guitarist Sergio Pizzorno debuting as the new leader. And just in case there was any doubt, no, the new songs don’t come to life in their coming-out performance on stage either, resulting in the most unimportant and boring part of the show starkly different from the rest. After pointing to the empty side of the glass, let’s toast to a joy that rhymes directly with other evidence: the classics of the Kasabian repertoire continue to perform with pinpoint precision, timeless power, especially when it comes to drumming an abundance of Ian Matthews , and change-resistant strength. As is the case with almost his entire discography, as full of unmistakable whiplashes as forgettable fillers on albums like his self-titled debut, ‘Empire’, ’48:13′ or ‘West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum’, the most complete and inspired by them all , the Leicestershire band’s highly anticipated concert at Warm Up 2023 was fully justified with the enactment of tracks as brutal as ‘LSF’ and ‘Fire’, an unbeatable double for the farewell, ‘Ill Ray (The King)’, the radiant “You’re in love with a psycho,” the wild roar of “Underdog,” “Empire,” another highlight moment, or a “Club Foot” that sparked the first emotional fire of many planned for these days in La Fica. They’re playing without their big star and it shows, okay, but when they play such fiery and irresistibly pompous singles, it’s impossible not to fall for Kasabian. The most successful moments of a day that went from hurricane rock to Ojete Calor’s burst of laughter, disbelief and surrealism. The victory of laughter and nonsense Trying to understand the causes that led the duo composed of Aníbal Gómez and Carlos Areces, two huge comedians, to become a musical phenomenon capable of turning any venue in our country upside down and tickets in the WiZink Center in Madrid itself would be an effort that would most likely leave us with more questions than answers. So let’s just enjoy the triumph of the fireworks and the impossible, of constant delirium, of transient madness, of the absurd as the excuse of choice and without this piece the whole castle would fall, with laughter and melody as final arrows . Objectivity and prejudice rightly jumped out the window and the pleasure accelerator kicked in hard. More than that, Ojete Calor doesn’t ask you to join his party, a subnopop liberation space whose soundtrack included rancheras, an anthological medley in which references to the likes of Bertín Osborne, Loquillo, Chanquete and Álex Ubago coincided almost nothing, and real hits like ‘Mocatriz’, ‘Opino de que’, ‘Morreo’ or the hilarious ‘Cuidado con el cyborg (Corre, Sarah Connor)’ they all sang to the hoarseness of La Fica. What a joy to see the victory of laughter and nonsense between choruses in a fervent welcome to the warm-up that convinced and left you wanting more. Fortunately, Saturday is already here to quench your thirst.
Source: La Verdad
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