It has been a recurring conversation and with different responses. What was the last concert you went to? The Live latino of 2020 was the last massive festival that took place in Mexico City before the closure due to the pandemic. Then came the closure and everything changed. Overnight, we’re left with our tickets in hand and hope of going to a concert dashed. The lights on stages around the world temporarily went out and a kind of musical drought began.
Then the concerts began from home, everyone with the same frame, the same expression half stunned and confused by the state of the world. We take refuge in nostalgia in search of a little comfort and we also seek refuge in all the records recorded during lockdown made in the garage of our favorite artists.
The return of Live latinothis March 19 and 20, will be the confirmation that the massive concerts have returned to the city, although of course there have been important presentations such as those of bauhaus, The Kooks and the capital crownto name a few.
In the recent week there has been a feeling that concerts are beginning to return to normal.
Friday March 11 Phobia began his tour to promote his album Phobia MTV Unplugged, released at the end of 2020 and recorded during confinement. In its unplugged version, Fobia reimagines its dream worlds and soundscapes with percussion, toys and is a place for us all to play with its music again. This week they will repeat that special date, then they will return in July to the Metropolitan Theater in Mexico City and will make several stops in different cities of the country.
Tuesday the 15th Foo Fighters back to Sun Forum to offer an epic three-hour show to an audience that sang in ecstasy to the band’s hits regardless of the traffic, rain and chaos of a Tuesday in this monstrous city.
Dave Grohl It showed why he is one of the best vocalists in rock today and that he and his musicians make up one of the best bands to see in an arena. The Foo Fighters they can have some of the hateful clichés of the genre: the vocalist who always wants to be funny and keeps playing with the public to beg them to play more, moments for the members to shine on stage, guitar solos, all those they are on the list.
But Grohl and company are a band that knows how to give us the value of that ticket to enjoy with friends, toast with a beer and sing in unison all those songs that connect us to our own musical nostalgia.
On the international stages, the news has abounded with confirmations of the return of major festivals such as Glastonbury, Coachella, lollapalooza, Louder Than Life, Download, bonnarooand the news of the revival of tours by great artists has also returned.
Musicians have been one of the guilds that was most impacted by the impossibility of performing tours and concerts around the world. But little by little you begin to feel that emotion return. Those nerves you feel hours before the concert you’ve been waiting for for months. You begin to redo those plans that were cut two years ago and we come back out of our lairs and our own confinements.
Return that feeling that occurs when the lights go out and thousands of voices come together in the same cry, waiting for those first chords of your favorite song. You hug your companion, you take a drink of that cold beer that tastes like glory and you prepare to start that concert ritual. The lights go out and we are all ready to go: 1, 2, 3, 4…
Operations coordinator for El Economista online