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Any programmer wants to finish a festival in style and Vodafone Paredes de Coura thought that the best way to do it would be by calling the veterans Pixies. The Black Francis gang even seemed to want to counteract all the bad words that pointed out to them the defect of not having more legs to walk in these lives, as they came out strong with “Gouge Away”, “Wave of Mutilation” and “Degradador”. The crowd raved about this show of vitality and sang at the top of their lungs, pumping gas to keep up their energy. “Crackity Jones” was punk in its veins, always weeping, “Isla de Encanta” made the Spanish public delirious and “Gigantic” united the audience in a very unified one that made us believe that we would be facing a show that could become memorable. .
However, from here the house of cards collapsed. It was hard to hide the embarrassment of how, song after song, the Pixies were killing their repertoire. The drums slowed down, the guitar dragged, Francis unable to put his voice in the right place and only Paz Lenchantin, from time to time, tried to retune the concert on a frequency worthy of celebrating his career, of celebrating at the end. from the party.
Effort in vain. Not even “Here Comes Your Man,” which caused many cellphones to be turned on in the air to record the obligatory video for social networks, managed to reconnect the Pixies to today. “This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven” was a pale version of itself, “Hey” broke our hearts to the point where we almost begged them to stop repeating the verses of We’re chained and when it came to “Where is my mind?” obvious at the end of the concert, the souls in the room had already frozen.
They resisted the first lines, fans with love for the shirt like a football fan who, even seeing his team play badly, will never stop supporting it. As much as we respect the Pixies’ holy place in rock, these 90 minutes were too painful to ever want to see them live again. We are left to ask ourselves, does it still make sense to insist on programming bands that are completely disconnected from current affairs just because they occupy a pedestal in music history? With all due respect, we don’t think so.
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Source: Observadora
