This mini-free festival with 4 bands was supposed to take
place in a beautiful park in Santarém, Portugal but due to the fierce stormy
weather with a lots of rain on this day, it was moved inside to a really nice
place that was sort of indoors and outdoors but covered. Very nice place for a
show and a big PA and not bad sound.
We all went and had a great meal at Restaurante al
Grelha about 600m from the venue. We missed the start of the young 5 piece
band, Conjunto!Evite. The keyboard player was the leader and sang
the vocals (all in Portuguese). They had two guitars, bass and drums as well.
It was a sort of proggy pop thing with some good musical ideas but not that
many solos and it was not really my kind of music.
They started 20mins late and have a strict curfew at
midnight so all was a bit rushed. They
had nice liquid light projections from behind the stage onto a transparent
screen. IT looked quite cool but they were not really that strong and the white
lights that the young light guy used a lot during the first two bands, made
them barely visible most of the time. Anyway, Talea Jacta, did their thing and it was great. They have a
fantastic drummer (João) and Pedro from 10,000 Russos gets to loop and space out on
the guitar. I really dig what they do. My wife does not like them at all. They
played about 45mins. 3 tracks, I think. They will have a double LP out next
month, sort of like the Black Bombain’s
last record where they have different guests on each album side.
10,000
Russos, I had not seen since the Copenhagen Psych Fest 4-5
years ago now. Super nice guys and they started off playing some new songs off
their album that will be out on Fuzz Club very soon now. Their music is very hypnotic, like Neu with
totally spaced out guitar on the top. The drummer does some vocals and uses
some effects on some tracks. He played nearly the same simple drum line for the
entire concert. Not sure how he does that while the bass and drums just
compliment. Trippy stuff at times. People liked it.
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| Lulu |
Electric
Moon was the headliner and this was their last of 3 shows
here in Portugal. I had not seen them play for years and they had another new
drummer this time. I have known Dave for 20 years and it was great to see him
and Lulu again. Super nice people. They really like the Portuguese people a
lot. Things were running behind and they seemed tired and were not in a hurry
to play, smoking a pre-show joint with the Talea Jacta guys before staring.
Anyway, they did 3 jams and only played like 40mins. It was not very inspired
this night. The opening jam was the best and I am sure I had heard the great guitar line
Dave played before. The drummer, Bernhard did not lead at all or try to push the jams, Dave played with his back
to the audience most of the time and Lulu just followed the drums and was not
leading the way either so it was all on Dave’s shoulders. He played some cool
stuff but Pedro was way better on this day. He broke a string and then a 2nd
string so they stopped playing. Audience really wanted more and was screaming
but they did not play more. Pedro offered his guitar but Dave did not want to
play it. Pity.. only 40mins as the headliner. I felt they should have made more effort to
play more but that was the way it was.. It was still fun and great to see them.
Crowd enjoyed it.
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