Without the long queues that formed last year, when despite the covid and antigen tests it was the first major festival to be held in Europe, Canet Rock yesterday held an edition with full normality and all tickets sold, 25,000 people and few masks.
With a poster with some repeating artists compared to 2021, such as Stay Homas, Oques Grasses, Buhos, Doctor Prats, Suu or Miki Núñez (and La Fúmiga, an emergency replacement for the Zoo, who were affected by the covid and could not perform).
Punctual, at 6:00 p.m., the Ginestà go on stage, the scattered crowd gathers in front of the stage and they start with Somni, and when he says that “tots els ocells que hi ha al terrat / somriuen i piquen de mans” is the audience who applauds Mostly young attendees, inclined towards the female, and with many families with children – small and not so much. The public sings the songs of Ginestà, the young group of the brothers Júlia and Pau Serrasolsas, who with their third album enjoy a popularity that should not be surprising knowing that they are capable of hiding in their songs verses by JV Foix (“és quan I sleep that hi veig clar”, in Estimar-te com la Terra) or sing songs like L’Eva i la Jana, and an LGBTI anthem that with its finished performance, playing over the public address system, continued to raise the euphoria of the public at an early party . Epic point pop with eighties aftertaste.
With the Balkan Paradise Orchestra a slight delay began, ten minutes that would be extended little by little in the program. A mostly instrumental female band, with winds and percussion of Balkan airs with local accents like a Da Mas Over that refers to La masovera.
The party continues with Marcel and Júlia, and the two ex-Txarango merge with the public, recalling their strong environmental message, because “the earth is a good place to live”, and “we must make this planet a festival”. They did it.
Josep Maria Mainat returned the festival to its trinquero beginnings with his festive and welcome Passiu-ho bé.
The first main course, when the crowds in the Pla d’en Sala venue were already beginning to be noticed and the light dimmed, was Els Catarres, who unfolded their festival rock. They started their performance Com animals, Perfectes and Invincibles, as their songs say. And his Jennifer, of course, almost at the end of her party.
Miquel del Roig, alone on the side stage, kept the public warm, as the DJs Ernest Codina and Carles Pérez had done before between one group and the other. Night falls and the Stay Homas arrive, displaying their contagious multicultural good vibes born with covid.
At the end of this edition, Suu, Oques Grasses, La Pegatina, Miki Núñez, Buhos, La Fúmiga and Doctor Prats still had to perform. Music until the sun rises.
Catalan version, here
