No, they have not gone to Paris, as they sing in the song Oh la la, one of the hits from their latest album, Un minut stroboscopica, which yesterday could be heard and chanted at the Fira de Girona site. What Antònia Font did last night was to go to the capital of Onyar to close the reunion tour with her audience, which started a year ago at the Palau Sant Jordi and which has been a path of happiness for their countless fans in all the great performances they have given them, between new songs and the great classics of this intergenerational group.
In 2013, they folded, as they had announced in the avalanche of words that is Me sobren pavaros (“D aquí a dos anos me retir”), which yesterday was the second that sounded, after the one that gives its name to the last album But luckily for pop music, nine years later they returned, with more material and with the desire to spread everywhere the joy of the songs sung by Pau Debon and composed by Joan Miquel Oliver.
But you can see that they have found the taste because, although yesterday’s in Girona was the last of the big concerts of this year’s return tour, on Thursday they announced that in 2024 they would do a more intimate tour, with performances in halls and theatres: “Dear friends, the comeback has been short and after these large-format concerts we are eager to continue. Now, however, in a more intimate, small and close way”, they said in a message on the networks.
In any case, yesterday they did it again, inaugurating Temporada Alta, filling the fair grounds to the top and making the audience laugh with all their antics and, with two false endings, giving away as many encores as you want, first eight and then four more
Because they have so many, there’s always something missing, but you could say they played all the big hits: the Franciscan tribute Vos estima tú túto equal, the moment the band goes into trance with Rhyming astronaut, the unclassifiable Islas Baleares, the sensational Alegria, the intimate Clint Eastwood, the explosive Wa yeah… and Calgary 88, clear, which announced the end of the concert, just before saying goodbye with Viure sen tu: “Sweet kiss, it tastes like it’s over.”
As openers, the Majorcans had the groundbreaking proposal of Smoking Bambino, alter ego of Girona’s Esteve Saguer, who, after three albums in English, has just released his first work in Catalan, Llampigots i bufarandes, which also played at the grounds of the Girona Fair.
A magical evening, because, while Antònia Font’s Un minut stroboscopica comeback tour was closing, the Girona autumn festival was opening at the same time, which pays great attention to the theatre, without neglecting the other performing arts and, also , the music, which in this edition programs concerts by Vitalic Live, Sophie Auster, Els Amics de les Arts, Molforts-Ingrid Caven-Albert Serra, GIO Symphonia with Elena Tarrats, Rosario, Albert Pla, _juno (Zahara and Martí Perarnau IV) and Alfonso de Vilallonga’s cabaret. Pau Vallvé will perform the final concert of the tour at Temporada Alta, and Joan Dausà will also celebrate ten years of Jo mai mai there.
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