Oques Grasses makes history with 20,000 people at the new Arena in Figueres.

Fig treesHistoric concert ofFat Geese to the Acoustics of FigueresOn Saturday night, the Alto Empordà festival, which bids farewell to the summer holidays with dozens of open-air performances, opened a new venue on the outskirts of the city designed to host major events. And it did so in the best possible way: bringing together the most powerful and followed group on the Catalan music scene, which sold out up to 20,000 tickets. The concert was, without a doubt, one of the most crowded—if not the most—ever held in the Girona region. Absolutely crazy. 20,000 people is equivalent to almost half the entire population of Figueres. And it's more than just the Palau Sant Jordi.

The audience, quite young and family-oriented, was mostly local or from Girona, but also came specifically from Barcelona, ​​​​and even from Tarragona or Lleida. The occasion was worth it, because the one in Figueres was the penultimate concert of the Oques Grasses tour of 2025, which will culminate on November 1 in Montmeló, within the Cabró Rock festival, also with a massive concert and tickets already sold out for some time. And for fans, each of these dates holds a very special meaning, as the suspicion of a more or less prolonged farewell from the Osona band looms. In fact, the name of the tour, Coda, in musical terminology, already refers to the final passage of the last movement of a piece, perhaps a veiled allusion to that possibility of farewell.

A polygon converted into a major festival venue

Moving so many people isn't easy, but the organization's formula was quite effective in avoiding critical overcrowding and congestion. The new Acústica venue (named Arena) is located on a large vacant lot on the outskirts of Figueres, behind the train station, surrounded by industrial estates and close to the main road. The location is close enough for Figueres residents to get around on foot, but at the same time far enough away to prevent the queue of cars from coming from outside from paralyzing the center. As expected, the designated parking lots quickly filled up, and all the streets in the estate were jammed with cars parked on the sidewalks and verges of warehouses, with express permission from the municipal police. Of course, traffic jams at the roundabouts were inevitable: those who didn't arrive early missed the start of the concert, and on the way out, when everyone got in their cars at the same time, the traffic jams made more than one spectator nervous.

Light, fire and emotion

In Catalonia, only Oques Grasses has such a powerful following. The group has been performing on stage for fifteen years and has consolidated a unique and original approach that intelligently blends cheerful rhythms, fun lyrics, and well-thought-out melodies. In their latest albums, especially in Fruit of delirium (2024), without losing the essence of the guitalele and the high-pitched voice of Josep Montero, the group has added more thrash, blessed electronic and urban sounds, as well as an even more ironic tone in the rhymes. Songs like Retire, how's the patio? and Up They made the audience of the Acústica vibrate, very excited, contagious and dedicated, and they also played quite a few more or less recent songs like Petarlo, John Brown either I'm me again, apart from the mythical ones Ass either Important steps. All of this is enhanced by a powerful live performance that combines lighting, screens, live videos, fireworks, pyrotechnics, masks, and choreography. And finally, of course, The people I love, the band's most sincere declaration of love to the public that has accompanied them for so many years.