Festival Season

You don´t need to be a big music fan to realize that music festivals are happening. Every year, every Summer, music festivals are around and with many brands becoming part of the events they are getting more air time and publicity, so you don´t need to check music news or specialized websites to know where, when and who is playing on that festival near you (or not so much). I remember reading that around Europe (not knowing exactly the boundaries of the thing) there are around 400 music festivals. All genres included I´d guess.

I gotta say I´m a festivals virgin. I´ve been to a few different festivals but never did the camping bit festivals are associated with. Shameful, I know. The special thing about festivals is that, unlike that single concert you´re going to watch in the afternoon/evening which is already enough to make such day a special day, is basically a few days of music experience surround by thousands of others hoping for a good day of talented being displayed not only in one stage but in two, three, four.....or to the point I want to make with this post..... this .

I´m not posting that one particularly for the line up or the festival in itself. But...look at it. Here, like I mentioned, we´re used to 3 stages at a festival. Maybe even four or five with those stages being a bit different (at the entrance of the festival or even in some place near the festival but not exactly on the grounds of it). But there you can´t even know exactly how many they are because after those two main arenas they just put a bunch of names and say "appearing across all music arenas".
Then you go down the line up just to see theatre, dance, film, comedy, spoken word, literary arenas! When you go to a (normal?...) festival you know beforehand that you will have to compromise this or that band or even a good place in the crowd because you wanna see that other band playing on the stage on the other side of the place. Now imagine going to one like this. Imagine one of your friends wants you to watch a cool movie on the film tent...or a really good comedian on the comedy tent...or he wants you to go check that dj on the electronic tent because he plays that one cool song (gotta say that is a good tent to go spend some time late at night on a festival, at least I like it...maybe because I don´t listen or go out for that kind of music)... Conclusion: you have to be prepared for some busy 3/4 days and take a couple more afterwards to sleep because sleep must be vastly overrated at Latitude festival and the likes of it.
Let´s not even talk Glastonbury...I don´t know much apart from videos on Youtube, photos and some news articles but it looks like a league of its own. On the line-up it says "acts & attraction across over 100 stages"...on a festival for more than 175.000 people... I´ve been to a day in one festival with almost 100.000 and it had a couple of stages and a few attractions...I thought it was awesome...

Review - Mumford & Sons - Coliseu de Lisboa

I come very late for this review. Mainly because there won´t be any review. I know my reviews are biased based on I only go to concerts which artists I enjoy listening. But when it comes to this one it´s hard to do one while I´ve been singing and jumping all concert. Massive show. Go watch them if you can is a valid cliché to apply in this case.

Kudos to Jesse Quin (member of Keane) and Deap Vally for the opening acts (and later participation on M&S songs). Well chosen.

Review - Bon Iver - Coliseu do Porto

In the music business, specifically in the touring part of it, there´s often an interesting [read intriguing] fact that is artists known and acclaimed in a country do not include that country in their tour dates. Not that Justin Vernon topped the charts here but even that is not enough (hint: she´s pregnant now).

Bon Iver is one of those cases. His tours always seemed to miss this little European corner but once he noticed us we thought it would be nice to sold out the venues with a few weeks in advance.

I didn´t resist and had to take a look to what kind of setlists he was doing. I liked what I saw. Also didn´t resist and took a look to the latest one in Lisbon the day before...a few changes. I thought I wouldn´t be surprised though. But with Bon Iver you never know...

And I was. Not in the beginning. Despite having started with "Woods" in Lisbon, Justin went back to the "Perth" and "Minnesota, WI" beginning, just like his second album opens. And if he spent a lot of time thinking what sequence of songs would be perfect for that album he can consider that time very well spent. We continued on that album with the wonderful single "Towers" followed by "Michicant". Here´s one thing if you have a band...if you double the element of an already cool thing you will end up having the double of fun. And that´s what happens with Bon Iver. Having a double percussion with two sets of drums sure has its impact! And what a brilliant impact that is. It owns the room. And the same goes for the double violins and double wind instruments even if at a first thought such instruments wouldn´t take over such a concert. Conclusion? Two guitars is just too mainstream...

Sings of surprises appeared. "Beach Baby", not often played was a treat. A few moments later the sequence that caught my eyes on the indiscretion through setlists that I did the day before: "Holocene", "Blood Bank", "Skinny Love", "Re: Stacks", "Creature Fear". Words should never fail to a reviewer but I can only think of the Perfect Justin (or someone for him) wrote on a photo of the concert posted on Facebook.

I´ve read that the day before in Lisbon there were some people in the audience showing their love in a very audible way during moments where they should - and also, more importantly, let the others - enjoy the show. I´m glad I read that after the Porto concert either way I would be fearing way too much on how and when someone would eventually ruin a nice moment. What can I say is that I´m still impressed for the respect showed. Sure there was a couple whistles and love you(s) but immediately followed by many intimidating ssshhh. Just like in tennis when a player is waiting for silence to serve.

"Lisbon, OH" (not played in Lisbon...don´t be mad mates...after all it´s the city in Ohio, not yours!) and "Beth/Rest" beautifully lead the way the Encore. It´s amazing to see the how a 9-members band delivers such brilliance. And here´s my kudos to them. Bon Iver is those 9 talented guys playing with a creator called Justin Vernon. And what a great band Bon Iver is!

Coming back to surprises...Björk and an illness might have been the reason why I didn´t went to a festival she was headlining and later on had to cancel her performance but karma was nice to me. "Who Is It?" not often played was right there being amazingly transformed (it even got the beatbox...and not by some machine!). I was sold. Now there was just "The Wolves (Act I and II)" to sing along until screaming the last words of the song. Literally.

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P.S. If you don´t like perv people may you know leave this blog thinking you read a really good *cof* review.

Still here? Ok...

To the two girls behind me: First, sorry for being tall. [eh, not really]. Second, where´s that English accent from? Third, pretty sure angels look like the one with the white [angelic] dress.

To the lonely girl beside me: Hey, this is lonely boy. I´ve noticed you had a lot of fun. As much as I did. Singing and dancing. Well, in my case, some weird movements that I call dance but it´s probably just awkward stuff. Or an hipster dance no one ever saw before and I´m doing it before it´s cool. Moving on...since I´m a fool I didn´t talk to you, even if it was just "hello, meet you in another awesome concert?" but I´m hopeless at this. You were beautiful. Oh, in case there was more cases (weirdos like me) like this...we were about 10 meters away from stage [~10th row]. See you next time, hopefully!

P.S.1 Sam Amidon did the opening for Bon Iver. Jumping from guitar, to violin and banjo I´m sure even himself can´t quite describe his style. But it´s a cool (original) one. One of his guitar solos almost stole the night from the headliner. Almost. And what´s interesting is that the same thing I said above applies here; If you have something cool and you had a little something to it you can end up with the double of fun. I think that´s what the crowd thought when a couple of Bon Iver band members - trumpet and violin - came to play with Sam. Justin Vernon mentioned later Sam has quite an unique style and personality and you can easily see that while he´s performing.

Review - Feist - Coliseu do Porto

If you take some time to read the reviews of Feist latest album - Metals - you will notice that in basically all of them she is known as the girl of the song "1234". Not in a redundant way but since it was part of a big campaign of a tech company which symbol is a piece of fruit, it was the song that made more people listen to her music. But when that same girl with such a trademark song doesn´t need to include it on her setlists and still make a perfect setlist you know you are in for a memorable night.

After a not-so-captivating opening by Fionn Reagan (which despite that has great songs and a beautiful voice) Feist got on stage a little after 10pm. Starts with a song of the album she is presenting on this tour, and if you excuse my easy input, Metals is a very solid album. Proof of that is how on the very first song Leslie Feist made us all scream "A COMMOTION" and the crowd knew we were in for a special show.

The following moment comes with an intriguing intro that revealed a brand new version of a single of the album "The Reminder". "My Moon My Man" sounding like you never heard it in any former performance. So, at the second song one of my favourite details of the show was revealed: brand new clothes for old songs. All of them sounding different of what you were used on the album and on many live videos on Youtube. To add to "My Moon..." the other oldies that were played included the hauntingly beautiful "So Sorry", "Mushaboom" (with special dance taught by Feist!) "Feel It All", and the classic "Limit To Your Love". Yes, that one that James Blake has a nice rendition of...borrowed from Feist. Other oldies were played on the...3 encores, but we will get there later.

Meanwhile Feist was presenting the wonderful songs of the new album. There were plenty of them from the singles "How Come You Never Go There" (that even with no brass live section sounds great) to the second single "The Bad In Each Other". But an album is not only made of singles and the crowd knows it because they seemed to know all the gems played. Including "Caught A Long Wind" that also with no string (violins) section on this tour, sounds flawless.

After we conclude that in the packed room there was people from every corner of the world (Feist talented drummer comes from New Zealand) "The Circle Married The Line" was played. A song about the ocean from someone who lives in a landlock as Feist told us.

On stage, helping Leslie on this tour, there´s a trio of girls called "Mountain Man", that had her own moment before the first encore showing why they were chosen for the back vocals...perfect harmony between the three [beautiful] ladies. To add to the already mentioned drummer there is also a man-who-plays-everything and a pianist that when you think he is very good on the piano and keys he comes to surprise you, not on the piano, but on drums with a killer(!) version of When I Was a Young Girl . She rocked so much that a little wood table she had near her didn´t resist and broke letting Feist throw the missing pieces as a rocker would do.

I said I would come back to the old songs because the encores were composed by them. And that way Feist nailed probably the better accomplished set of encores I´ve seen. "Secret Heart" - a fan favourite - showed once again Leslie skills on her beloved guitars to the delight of the fans. Despite the non-inclusion of "Inside & Out" on the official setlist the song made an appearance...with the public singing it on their own with a little help from Feist along the way.

To finish the night, "Intuition" and the astonishingly beautiful "Let It Die". Never such a sad song ended a concert so well.

One to remember.

Setlist:

Note: "The Water" was not played. Replaced by "Secret Heart"...which I was dying to listen live.

Not all Mondays are bad

This Monday I will use one of this magic tickets

Hint: It´s a girl!

Review - Anna Calvi - Hard Club (Porto)

Doesn´t look like but Anna Calvi is almost 30 years old. She´s another musician showing there is no age restrictions when it comes to release your debut album. The reason, as she says, she never came up as the front girl of a band is...shyness.

Well, she now is the front girl of her own project and there´s no shyness at all when she´s holding her Fender Telecaster.

Compared by many, in barely every music magazine, to Brian Eno, Nick Cave, Jimi Hendrix and PJ Harvey she claims her influences come from all of those plus Nina Simone and David Bowie. She has, indeed, something playing on her behalf: she is unique. You won´t find anyone this days doing the music she does and if you find, please, do tell. She is a mix of all the ones mentioned already in a cocktail served shaken, not stirred.

After album promotion, a few concerts, tv appearances and a presence in many Summer festivals she is now on her first proper tour that will basically be all around Europe and also US and Canada. Not bad for a first album. A Mercury Prize Nominee album. Not bad indeed.

It´s easy to describe the audience that will receive her during this tour. They are all on their 30s - minus 10 plus 10 doesn´t make a big difference - which could all be close friends of her and who know exactly who she is and what to expect from her.

You can easily prove that knowledge when one of the singles is played as one of the first songs - which the very first is "Rider To The Sea" - which is "Blackout". Ovations echoed through the room as the first chords are beautifully played and a powerful voice fills the place. Although much, that probably never listen to her besides singing, won´t hide a certain surprise when a sweet-fragile "Thank You" comes out of her mouth at the end of every song as if it was not the same person that just sang her lungs in a flawless, effortless way.

Anna brings two companions to help her. By her left she has an incredibly talented lady who plays [approximately] 101 instruments. I can assure she plays them all, so no show-off-only, but I can almost guarantee you 99% of all the people that will watch her on this tour can correctly name them all. I can give a help and say that one is a triangle. I think.

On the back there´s the drummer. A simple guy...not more than, and I wish I could go for technical terms here, 6 pieces on his drum set. And a microphone for some back vocals. It´s a perfect fit...Anna´s guitar and his drum set.

Drum set in which my personal favourite - "Suzanne and I" - starts with a beautiful beat and goes on with the perfect guitar skills and powerful voice of the lady in charge. As Anna leads us to her album - "First We Kiss"; "Morning Light"; "The Devil" - you get the feeling that, at least live, there´s no weak songs on the recorded version of it. Which is quite right. She takes inspiration from flamenco for her style and also for her music. While to the visuals the connection is quite easy to make when it comes to the music you have to listen a few times to get there. But there´s some of it on a strong contender to "Suzanne and I" for my favourite one which is "I´ll Be Your Man".

Another single, "Desire", and "Love Won´t Be Leaving" (probably the song I would recommend for a first Anna Calvi listen) makes the crowd be sure their money was more than well spent. She comes back for the Encore after being acclaimed by an happy audience and ends the show with an Edith Piaf cover - "Jezebel". A suitable end for a great night where she can for one last time deliver that voice and [superb] guitar skills.

A shy Anna waives goodbye. You walk away commenting on how fantastic her voice is as you listen others say the same. Will always be like this at her concerts I´m afraid. Will be a night well spent.

Review - Katie Melua - Coliseu do Porto

Worth the wait. Katie Melua was due to start her European Tour to promote her new album "The House" last October. Unfortunately an health problem made her postpone not a couple of concerts but all the already scheduled tour. This way my ticket, which was bought right away the announcement of the tour to guarantee a great and not crazy expensive seat, had to wait a few more months.

March arrived and we had the third concert of this tour. The first chords and lyrics were made behind the curtains that when opened resulted in a big reaction of the crowd during "The Closest Thing To Crazy" performed by an alone and intimist Katie on stage.

By the end of the first song I could tell everyone wouldn´t have any regrets of the money and time spent on this show. The official greetings and compliments to the gorgeous city were made right after.

Before the concert I wondered how Katie would build a setlist that at the same time should contain all the (already) classics with the new album which was the purpose of this tour if we can say so. Katie did it well. Probably postponing all the concerts made the new album reach the perfect maturation among all the fans because I could listen people around me humming the lyrics of "I´d Love To Kill You", "Moment of Madness" and "Tiny Alien".

The singles got a great response too. "The Flood" is quite a masterpiece live. "A Happy Place" kept the upbeat.

The mix of the new songs with the ones already well known by the fans made the concert pleasant and without any awkward moments of any unknown song played to pass time. In fact, "No Fear of Heights" - played for the first time live and again in another intimate moment where only Katie and her guitar player were on stage - and "Red Balloons" had the best feedback from the sold out Coliseu.

Back to the curtains they revealed what I think it was a gigantic screen...but after a couple of songs without nothing on it I lost my hopes and thought Katie would only rely the show on her great voice and flawless band. I was actually right in the first place because when Katie left the center of the stage and seated on her piano she told us she had some cool graphics to show us but the computer wasn´t working properly (it end up working though)...this way she also told us she feels like she should compensate that fact singing more songs. Complimenting laughs echoed on the room. That´s Katie. A shy talented Georgian-British young girl - Yes, she´s just 26 - that delivers song after song without saying much in between them. Some like it, others not so much. Some interaction wouldn´t hurt. Although it´s understandable due to the shyness not only of Katie by also from the crowd at her concerts.

Also to note in the middle of all this...a song to Japan. Despite the angelic look and unreal voice Katie is indeed human and made that moment one of the most touching ones of the night. She cares. Not a coincidence that a sponsor of her tour is Opel and she´s the face of their electric car - Ampera.

"My Aphrodisiac Is You" - yup, you should check the lyrics for this one - came with ice soap bubbles (such awesome thing indeed exists!!) from the ceiling. A fun Melua wonder around the stage kicking them with a large smile on her face.

We demanded an encore. "Nine Million Bicycles" beautifully opened it. "I Cried For You", again in a solo intimist performance, ended the perfect night making some of the presents take the lyrics quite literally. A lonely girl by my side was quite moved. It´s how good this concert was.

P.S. I have no idea what was the health problem that made Katie cancel the tour back in October but I can´t go past saying this. She is one fit girl!

It´s Music To Your Ears - LIVE and kicking

I am going to use one of this tickets today!

Hint: It´s not the fancy one that says "Maio 2010"...but that was good too.

Wish I could go to concerts more often.

See you tonight Katie!!

O 27 de Maio

Vai ser também uma peregrinação...

Destino: Bela Vista, Lisboa

Snow Patrol

+

yes...MUSE

Vou dormir um bocadinho e depois conto o resto.

Review - Joss Stone @ Coliseu do Porto; 14/02/2010

Eis que à quarta foi de vez...a vez do Porto. Joss Stone, a menina bonita da soul britânica, voltou a Portugal para se estrear numa das salas mais emblemáticas do País, o Coliseu da cidade Invicta. Bilhetes esgotados há muito e a data emblemática e amorosa faziam prever um belo concerto e a espectativa tinha niveis elevados já que há cerca de ano e meio a britânica deslumbrou num belo concerto no Rock in Rio Lisboa.

A sala foi-se enchendo e foi curioso ver o quão maduro era o público, o que pode ser explicado pela data sugestiva o que fazia com que o público fosse composto na sua maioria por casais na ansía de partilhar um concerto agradável com a sua cara metade no famoso dia de S. Valentim.

Com o ambiente preparado e aquecido por Miguel Gameiro - ex-vocalista dos Pólo Norte (com uma primeira parte interessante e bem recebida pela audiência...pela qual Miguel Gameiro resolveu passear) eis que a estrela da noite entra em palco.

Com os seus 22 anos, o que podia indiciar alguém em início de carreira, e com os seus pés a descoberto como sempre, Joss não tem medo de lançar hit singles como primeiras faixas do alinhamento - Super Duper Love; Tell Me What We´re Gonna Do Now; Fell In Love With a Boy enquanto se passeia pelo palco e, à sua boa maneira "provoca" o público para que cante com ela e se faça ouvir, mostrando a sua maturidade artística que vem do facto de os 22 anos não mostrarem alguém em início de carreira, mas sim alguém que lançou o primeiro álbum com 16 anos de idade.

Assim, perante alguém com um talento imenso e uma voz impressionante o público soube retribuir tornando o concerto ainda mais agradável.

Na bagagem trazia o seu 4º disco de originais (curiosamente ainda não lançado por cá...) de nome Colour Me Free que viu algumas das suas faixas no alinhamento, a meu ver muito bem escolhidas. De uma Free Me a uma Could Have Been You com um upbeat contagiante passando para uma emocionante performance de Girlfriend On Demand logo após o encore, Joscelyn Eve Stoker mostrou que está em forma no que diz respeito à criação de novas músicas e álbuns.

O concerto foi prosseguindo com todos os álbuns a merecerem destaque, e por entre bastante apreciadas músicas como Less is More, Some Kind Of Wonderful, Put Your Hands On Me Baby, Baby Baby Baby, Jet Lag (gostei de ouvir esta ao vivo), Joss foi confessando o seu amor pela língua portuguesa e pela "Music" esta sim "o seu valentine" nesta noite de 14 de Fevereiro. Isto entre muitas idas ao seu já habitual copo de chá...não fosse ela inglesa.

Como se não bastasse o talento da artista principal o público ainda tem o prazer de presenciar o enorme talento da banda que a suporta que desde o trompetistas às meninas do coro tornam o espectáculo ainda melhor e cada um tem direito a brilhar.

Com um público deliciado e depois de muitos gritos/palmas/pés a bater no chão o encore começou com o tema já referenciado (Girlfriend On Demand) que teve esta bela actuação muito apreciada.

video de Marta Ribeiro

Com isto e depois de já ter recebido a sua flor preferida entregue por um fã era a vez dela ir buscar os seus lírios brancos para entregar ao público, num dos seus muitos hábitos de palco já criados, enquanto terminava a noite não com um single (muitos talvez esperassem um Right To Be Wrong; Spoiled; Don´t Cha Wanna Ride), mas sim com a mensagem de Big Ol´ Game tema inicialmente incluido na versão japonesa de Introducing Joss Stone e com uma nova versão em Colour Me Free mostrando mais uma vez que não vive de singles ou hits e que pode muito bem acabar com a música que bem lhe apetece.

Perguntou se podia voltar e nós dizemos que sim...quando quiser, mas de preferência o mais breve possível!!

Muse - Lisboa - 29/11/2009

Alguém que os tinha visto no dia anterior disse-me que se calhar as 18 músicas, tão criticadas por serem apenas 18, eram se calhar as músicas necessárias para se sair do pavilhão bem satisfeito e cansado. Também me tinham avisado que qualidade > quantidade e acreditem que se alguém quisesse mais músicas era porque queria literalmente sair do pavilhão de rastos.

Foi, deixem-me dizer...épico. Não (só) por no fim termos ouvido que fomos o melhor público da tour, não (só) pelo cenário imponente que cada vez ganha mais importância para os elementos da banda (coisas da digressão com os U2?), não (só) pelos belos e famosos lasers verdes que faziam grandes efeitos em todo o pavilhão, mas porque qualquer um dos que estavam no pavilhão podia olhar para o palco e ver que quem lá estava, estava a adorar lá estar.

Setlist:

Uprising

Resistance 

New Born 

Map of the Problematique 

Supermassive Black Hole 

MK Ultra

Interlude + Hysteria

Nishe + United States of Eurasia 

Feeling Good 

Guiding Light 

Helsinki Jam + Undisclosed Desires 

Starlight 

Plug In Baby

Time Is Running Out 

Unnatural Selection

Exogenesis: Symphony Pt 1: Overture 

Stockholm Syndrome 

Man With The Harmonica + Knights of Cydonia

Uma setlist interessante, em que a parte calma da coisa não agrada a muitos dos fãs (falo na Guiding Light, que eu ainda tentei gostar dela depois de a ouvir ao vivo mas não dá mesmo, Undisclosed Desires, que eu aprecio mas muitos fãs não acham lá muita piada e uma Feeling Good amada por uns e odiada por outros), de resto as novas músicas resultam na perfeição quando tocadas ao vivo. A Uprising abre lindamente o concerto, a United States of Eurasia é fantástica e a Unnatural Selection quando ouvimos o álbum e dizemos "esta ao vivo promete" não nos enganamos.

Impressionante ver também o número de pessoas que sabia as letras das músicas do novo álbum.

Apelidado de "o concerto do ano", foi sem dúvida brilhante e há dias recebemos a notícia que dia 27 de Maio, no Parque da Bela Vista, teremos de novo Muse na edição de 2010 do Rock in Rio desta vez como headliners e não para tocar uns míseros 45 minutos como em 2008.

Cheers!

Marés Vivas 09 - 3º dia

Resumo e fotos do terceiro e último dia do festival Marés Vivas em Gaia.

Era sem dúvida este terceiro dia deste festival o dia que mais me cativava. Não só pelo belo cartaz que tinha como pela relação preço/qualidade e pela BELA localização do recinto. Foram exactamente estas as razões que mencionei numa entrevista à rádio patrocinadora do festival. Também disse que a a Gabriella Cilmi era "jeitosa" mas deixemos isso mais para a frente.

Depois da espera por alguma da companhia para a noite entrou-se finalmente no recinto facilmente, já que a demora da espera deu para escoar a fila dos mais apressados e dos que estavam em busca do melhor lugar. Como sempre...rolhas das garrafas para o lixo...mas entra-se no recinto...a zona junto ao palco é composta por terra e pedras bem grandes...algo a rever nas próximas edições. Isso e a entrega de publicidade em formato de papel que vai parar toda ao chão quando existe mesmo ali ao lado, e quando digo ao lado é literalmente AO LADO o Rio Douro.

O palco secundário não interessava, por isso, e depois de uma visita ao recinto e suas belas casas de banho, onde a privacidade masculina era pouca e a zona das mesas onde se podia comer alguma coisa era mesmo ao lado, o que dava um belo aroma à zona (mais um ponto a rever) lá fomos para o palco principal e sem correria alguma lá ficámos num bom lugar para o início dos concertos a partir das 20:30.

Gabriella Cilmi: BEEEM!!...ela é GIRA e ela melhor que ninguém sabe isso! Como se isso não bastasse a miúda (17 anos) tem um vozeirão impressionante! Era o concerto que me despertava mais curiosidade. E no pôr-do-sol nortenho ela saiu-se muito bem! Ao vozeirão e ao look ousado ainda teve a ousadia de tirar alguma coisa ao pouco que o vestido tinha, usar pinturas tribais, sentar-se no palco a apreciar a vista e resolve ainda lançar os dois singles nos primeiros 15 minutos de concerto, "Sanctuary" e o muito aplaudido e cantado "Sweet About Me". Se esta ousadia da australiana não bastasse ainda tivemos direito a nova música (muito bem recebida!) e a covers de...Janis Joplin e para acabar o concerto nada mais nada menos que...Led Zeppelin!

O público aplaudiu e gostou e confesso que nem eu esperava tão boa reacção de quem lá estava.

Volta Gabi!

Colbie Caillat: A bela e tímida Colbie encantou e nem o "medo dos palcos" a impediu de deliciar a público com uma mistura de temas novos do álbum, que está quase a sair, com os hits de Coco, que a maioria sabia de cor, com covers como "Killing Me Softly" e a fabulosa versão de "You Found Me" dos The Fray, que confesso ter cantado baixinho durante a madrugada.

Para a ajudar conta com um guitarrista que sente a música de forma impressionante o que torna o espectáculo ainda melhor! Com um concerto simples conquistou o público e vai andar nas bocas do Mundo por muito mais tempo.

Jason Mraz: Arrisco dizer que a noite era para ele. A idade, o género, e os chapéus de muitas pessoas que se passeavam pelo recinto assim o faziam parecer, logo não era necessário conquistar o público porque...ele já estava conquistado só com o nome de Jason no bilhete. Público com letras decoradas e com vontade de dançar fez com este concerto fosse muito apreciado por todos. A interacção foi perfeita e "I´m Yours", juntamente com belas covers e, claro não esquecendo, o muito aguardado dueto com Colbie em "Lucky" fez as delícias de quem estava presente. A música cativante, a juntar ao charme e à bela banda que o acompanha faz com que Jason Mraz seja justamente um dos artistas mais falados do momento e tudo indica que continuará assim nos próximos tempos.

Keane: Se Cilmi despertava curiosidade, Keane era quem me entusiasmava. E as expectativas não foram só cumpridas como foram superadas. Não faltou nada. Desde baladas a músicas que convidavam a alguns saltos os britânicos estiveram lindamente. O português foi arranhado por diversas vezes e o "pouvo do Norte" ajoelhou-se perante tanto entusiasmo demonstrado pela banda em tocar mais uma vez em Portugal. E como se não bastasse um encore, e como ainda não tínhamos ouvido nenhuma cover neste concerto eis que o segundo encore é composto por..."Under Pressure" dos Queen & David Bowie. Tom Chaplin e os seus colegas não desiludiram e levaram a plateia ao rubro com esta cover para um final de um concerto que os presentes não vão esquecer facilmente.

P.S.: Assim que isto estiver mais rápido talvez ponha as fotografias dos restantes artistas...e arranje o tipo e tamanho de letra que me estão a irritar e não ficam como eu quero mas não tou com paciência para resolver isto agora