Primavera Sound, A Stately Festival
Festivals have not been the exclusive domain of young people for a long time. Those who claim to have seen the Jesus & Mary Chain at the end of the 90s in Benicassim today they tell you about it during a concert by Sticky M.A. while they show you videos of their teenage sons doing parkour.
There are several generations of adults who do not lose the desire to pilgrimage to one of those that populate our geography , wanting to relive their youth watching reformed bands from the past or discovering emerging talent that keep alive the same aesthetic and sound values as the bands of yesteryear.
And such an audience, which represents a high percentage of the attendance at these macro celebrations and whose concerns about musical freshness have not been tarnished over the years, have developed tastes for other stately amenities unusual in the rite of the festis such as sleeping under clean sheets, eating like a notary, drinking from crystal-stemmed glasses and going to a bathroom where they can sit on porcelain.
There comes an age when one can be bad despite driving a minivan with a baby seat, but inevitably bougie (gentrified), as says the Migos hit.
Food Porn
Of all the great festivals that are celebrated each year, there is no doubt that the most adult-friendly is the Spring Sound , whose campus is surrounded by four to five star hotels and has a restaurant like The Fishermen twenty minutes walking calmly.
and with the sign The New Normal of this year, perhaps it will be the most parent-friendly of the world. In no other year have I heard so many colleagues with happy children because their little ones beg them to go to Primavera Sound for the first time to see Carly Rae Jepsen, Miley Cyrus or Rosalía.
The modern class continues to grow thanks to the Barcelona festival and perhaps for the first time in the country's history, the same primary school teachers who play in an indie band on weekends are going to hear their very young students commenting on how great the Lizzo's performance or what coolest shoes those who acted in the show wore stage El Punto, programmed by Yung Beef.
Are you hungry?
No matter how modern one is, there comes an age when enjoying a concert is unfeasible without the option of Eat well before or after.
Following the initiative to bring haute cuisine closer to Forum Park last year (when chefs Douglas McMasters of Silo Eduardo Lalo Garcia of Maximum Bistrot and Diego Guerrero of stage offered tasting menus at the festival), this year they have created a gourmet area in which Rafa Peña del Gresca and Toni Romero from Bar Succulent will offer a four-hand tasting menu from a bar assembled by Josper charcoal ovens , which can be found in haute cuisine houses such as Noma, DiverXO or Tickets.
For those who have a disturbed appetite from so much dancing, they will have the option of snacking on something light à la carte.
Here it is about enjoying at all hours
There will also be an area enabled by the soho-house in what was the Coffee of the Sea , so that the international community of members that descends on the city to attend the festival have a place to get their feet wet and lie in the sun to stabilize the dizziness of the night before with antioxidant juices and House Martinis (not to mention access to bathrooms scented with those house brand cosmetic products).
Insider tip: on Sunday there will be a closing party for members in the El Garraf beach where the private club has its Little Beach House.
Location of your future beach house
For those who have simpler customs and tolerance with the street food more combative, the festival will feature regular food trucks and stops operated by some of the most established restaurants in the city.
And although this year the festival has broken with much of its past to start a new normality, the already famous hot dogs of Nick's will continue to be scattered around those strategic points near scenarios for that attack of night munchies that needs to be settled with a good snort.
Primavera Sound food trucks
And if there is a Spanish tradition that unites many generations and families, modern and conservative, it is that of eat a good rice by the sea.
This year will repeat the kauai team with its chiringuito next to the beach of Sant Adria del Besos where is the area Spring Bit , dedicated mainly to the most oriented djs and artists to dancing than to sound experimentalism, which tends to focus on what festival-goers refer to as The old helmet.
Those who bring very young children will have the alt-chiquipark to leave them well attended by artists like Alondra Bentley, Honey or Todd himself Trailer for Shellac - which will give a percussion workshop for children - in the usual Minimúsica setting, while they escape to have a glass of natural wine before the start of the Charlie XCX show.