After some quiet months in the blog, Stereo Giraffe got tickets to attend La pegatina gig the past Monday 30th April at Electric Brixton on a typical London cloudy day.
La pegatina came to perform in London as part of their new album release world tour «Ahora o nunca«.
They ignited the audience with their rumba rhythms, with a libertine ska, mixed with versions like «Quizás, quizás» by Amparanoia, or «What you know» of Two Door Cinema Club. Not only were the versions heavily celebrated, the group managed to get all audience to sing at the top of their lungs with his most famous songs such as «Lloveré y yo veré«. The audience was so excited that dropped their beers while energetically dancing, leaving a dangerous and slippery dancing floor. There was some moment of calm, to recover breath while Rubén asked the public to take out the mobiles «like the lighters from before» to illuminate the room to the sound of «Y se fue«, from his fifth album «Revulsiu».
In between songs, Adriá, the lead singer, managed to convey some messages related to the imprisonment in Spain of a rap singer for his lyrics against the crown, or against the devastating news where five men have been cleared of a teenager’s gang rape (It’s not abuse, it’s rape!).
La Pegatina offered a proper Spanish concert for expatriates. The ‘pogos’, the dances and the jumps were the constant that marked the almost two hours of concert of the Catalans. There was no truce, no respite. The soaked T-shirts were attached to the bodies and the heat emanated from the stage. Among the public there were all kinds of persons: students, old couples, thirty-somethings who grew with the band, posh, the occasional punk, hippies and people who do not usually go to concerts.
To close the gig, and after shouts quasi of thirsty hooligans, la pegatina finished playing «Mari Carmen«. What started like a moody cloudy day finished lifting our spirits thanks to La Pegatina’s attitude: some (healthy) lack of control that left us all sweating while dancing on the dance floor at the same time as feeling a little closer to everything that is far away.
Stereo Giraffe 