Thousands of videos and chronicles shared on social media and in the news have explained in detail the show that Rosalía premiered in Lyon on March 16. There has been an avalanche of aesthetic, scenic, musical, and even psychological interpretations of this show that has the album Lux as its backbone. With all these fragmentary impacts, it is possible to form an opinion about the concert, marvel at, and admire the proposal of the artist from Sant Esteve Sesrovires. However, experiencing the show live is something much more impactful, as she demonstrated in the first of the four concerts at the Palau Sant Jordi, all of them with sold-out tickets.

"It seems like everyone is going to a communion," observed Laia gracefully, from the queue for Rosalía's concert in Barcelona. It could also be an Ibiza party. White, long skirts, rosaries, and pearls prevail in the queues to enter the Palau Sant Jordi. The first concert being on a Monday makes everything calmer. There have been no camped fans, nor much stress: here the youngest are university students. The first in line is Ingrid, 28, who arrived at 7 in the morning from Zaragoza with three friends and in no way expected to have the number 1 painted with a marker in her hand. "Everything Rosalía does is art. She puts a lot of passion into it. She's my favorite artist. It's just that, even if you don't like her style, the music is really worth it," she defends.

The same night he filled the Palau Sant Jordi, Joan Dausà set himself the challenge of filling a similar venue in Madrid or San Sebastián singing in Catalan. In the end it was in Madrid. The Basque group ETS (En Tol Sarmiento) took note of the challenge Dausà set for himself. "That's where the move came from," admits singer Iñigo Etxezarreta from Álava. The idea was to fill the Palau Sant Jordi and the Madrid Movistar Arena singing in Euskera. They perform in Barcelona this Saturday, April 11th, and in Madrid on May 25th. "There are people who believe that language can be a barrier, but what we do shows that it is not so. I believe that singing in Euskera brings its own sensibility, and it is also a cultural differentiation in such a globalized world," says Etxezarreta. Last year it was Fermin Muguruza who mobilized thousands of people to listen to music in Euskera at the Palau Sant Jordi, and now it's the turn of ETS, a band born under the umbrella of Basque punk-rock that gradually incorporated other musical sensibilities, some more pop, others more Latin, like bachata. "The concert will be a Basque cultural festival centered around Euskera, tradition, and oral transmission, but also a show with space for encounters with other cultures," explains the Basque musician.

The same night that he filled the Palau Sant Jordi, Joan Dausà set himself the challenge of filling a similar venue in Madrid or San Sebastián singing in Catalan. It finally happened in Madrid. The Basque group ETS (En Tol Sarmiento) took note of the challenge that Dausà set for himself. "That's where the move came from," admits the Alavese singer Iñigo Etxezarreta. The idea was to fill the Palau Sant Jordi and the Madrid Movistar Arena singing in Basque. They perform in Barcelona this Saturday, April 11, and in Madrid on May 25. "Some people believe that language can be a barrier, but what we do shows that it isn't. I think singing in Basque brings its own sensibility, and it's also a cultural differentiation in such a globalized world," says Etxezarreta. Last year it was Fermin Muguruza who mobilized thousands of people to listen to music in Basque at the Palau Sant Jordi, and now it's the turn of ETS, a band born under the umbrella of Basque punk-rock that gradually incorporated other musical sensibilities, some more pop, others more Latin, like bachata. "The concert will be a Basque cultural festival around the Basque language, tradition, and oral transmission, but also a show with space for encounters with other cultures," explains the Basque musician.

Surprisingly, Australian Kevin Parker turned Tame Impala into a headliner at many festivals. With expansive psychedelia and a talent for immersive melodies, he conquered prime-time slots and built a remarkable discography. To avoid getting stuck in the mire of comfort and repetition, Parker has been opening windows to other sounds, evident in the album Deadbeat (2025) which he is presenting on the tour that passed through Palau Sant Jordi yesterday, with tickets practically sold out. Incidentally, it was the first time he had given a concert in Barcelona outside of Primavera Sound, where he has performed five times. And as on previous visits to the city, he made a stop at the bar La Plata in the Gothic Quarter.

The art of enjoying oneself and enjoying oneself with nonchalance is Bad Gyal's great specialty. The voice and stage presence of the artist from Maresme convey an indolent hedonism, like a narcotic that brings a smile between lulls of drowsiness and sexual nostalgia. She seems like someone who does things without enthusiasm, yet with unwavering conviction. Because behind Bad Gyal, behind the creation of Alba Farelo, lies a determination that has made her an alternative star within the league of superdivas. And above all, there is an immense amount of work, years and countless hours of dedication to building an artistic project that will likely reach its culmination in the tour that began on Friday with the first of three concerts at the Palau Sant Jordi, all three sold out (at 45, 50, or 80 euros), and with a stage design reminiscent of a hotel suite. minimalist chic to celebrate late-night parties. It will arrive right after a record, More expensive (2026), which does not improve on the milestone of The jewel (2024), but it provides some good moments, like the bombastic guaracha Smokes and the successful sexual reggaeton-bachata of Give meAnd two songs that take off looking in the rearview mirror: the reggaeton of aroma vintage I will give you and R&B too vintage ofA choir and that's it :), pure flow 2000.

Unimaginable, both in terms of the number of people involved and the magnitude of the emotions displayed: solidarity, generosity, and dignity, as well as indignation and anger. This was the Manifesto Concert for Palestine, which brought together 12,000 people (all seated) at the Palau Sant Jordi this Thursday, and featured musicians such as Amaia, Bad Gyal, Luis Llach, Lina Mankoul, Alguer Miquel, Morad, Fermín Muguruza, Muskaa, Oques Tijoux, and Tinariwen, among others. "Thank you so much, Barcelona, ​​Catalonia," said the lead singer of the Palestinian group Sol Band, which opened the event at 7:30. It was a gesture of gratitude for the mobilization achieved by the Act x Palestine campaign, "a collective appeal that, through music, words, art, and image, reclaims culture as a space of resistance and awareness, linking the reality of Palestine with the great struggles of our time," as stated in its founding manifesto. Therefore, all proceeds from the concert will go to support various Palestinian cultural spaces. The concert, incidentally, took place the same week that the Israeli army acknowledged killing [number of Palestinians]. More than 71,000 people in Gaza since October 2023Gazan activist Kayed Hammad, in conversation with actor Eduard Fernández, explained what life is like in Gaza, the land he had to leave a few months ago. "There are no houses, there are tents that offer no protection from the cold or the heat, or from drones. There isn't a single square meter of safety in Gaza, and when the sun sets, people are left among the rubble with their families," said Hammad, sitting with Fernández on a stage designed like a Mediterranean square, with musicians.

There are many reasons to go to a concert. Surely, one of the reasons that moved more than 17,000 people to fill the Palau Sant Jordi on Friday was to be able to explain what they experienced with the song. Little sailor soldierIt was during the final stretch of the first of Fito & Fitipaldis' two concerts in Barcelona. Fito Cabrales had said yes, that they were experts, that they would sing it together. And the audience took him up on it and sang it from beginning to end, with particular intensity the saddest verse in history, the one that confirms that after a bad winter will come an equally bad spring. Little sailor soldierThe album, a chronicle of a man's resignation as he ages alone after two cruel disappointments—women don't fare well in some of the Basque musician's songs—was released in 2003 and resonates today beyond its generational impact. One of the most surprising aspects of the concert was the remarkable presence of a very young audience, deeply connected to a sound rooted in clean, polished rock 'n' roll, with Javi Alzola's saxophone alternating the spotlight with Carlos Raya's guitar, a devotee of the barricades of... riff and the rhythms of JJ Cale and Dire Straits. An audience, by the way, both male and female, with many young and not-so-young couples intensely experiencing the concert.

Catalonia will host its major concert in solidarity with the Palestinian people as part of the international Act for Palestine campaign, following similar events in London, Paris, and Los Angeles. On January 29th, at the Palau Sant Jordi, some of the most popular names in Catalan, Spanish, and Palestinian music will perform, including Oques Grasses, Morad, Guillem Gisbert, Bad Gyal, Mushkaa, Amaya, Fermin Muguruza, Xavi Sarrià, La Zowi, Yerai Cortés, and Lluís Llaz. Organizers have announced that some additional acts will be revealed soon. Tickets will go on sale soon. for sale This Friday, December 19th at 10:00 AM, with prices between €25 and €45. The concert can be viewed online and on 3Cat. The expected capacity is between 12,000 and 15,000 people.

It's hard to imagine a more spectacular concert ending than that of the song FireworkEndorphin-fueled populism capable of lifting the spirits on even the gloomiest election night. Because, as Katy Perry sang fifteen years ago, "after a hurricane comes the rainbow." It's worth mentioning that what happened before Firework The American singer's concert at the Palau Sant Jordi wasn't a whirlwind, but rather a scenically extravagant and kitschy show, a dramatic absurdity structured like a galactic adventure video game, a disco opera in which the aesthetics often had nothing to do with either the themes or the hilarious and other scenes that were difficult to describe without chemical stimulants. On the other hand, musically it was very uneven, hampered by the album's lack of substance. 143 (2024). Except for the disco-house anthem LifetimasThis latest work doesn't have much fuel to take off. Perhaps because he's aware of this, Perry tries to balance the repertoire dedicated to this album by giving a lot of prominence to the songs from Teenage dream (2010), undoubtedly the artist's best work, and glossing over the rest of his discography.

"You're at your best," Leiva sings in the first verse of Under pressureThe song with which he opened the concert at the Palau Sant Jordi on Saturday, for which all 17,000 tickets had been sold out for months. The Madrid-born musician is also at his peak and has been able to... an album like Giant (2025)a kind of Brutal honesty Without the toxic catastrophes of Andrés Calamaro, but certainly with doubts, losses, and emotional and professional insecurities that fuel a multitude of songs. Even so, despite years on the road, he was nervous before his first show at the Palau Sant Jordi. "What a privilege to be here, what a crazy thing to do. It's amazing. I haven't slept, I have diarrhea because of what's going to happen today, and I'm so excited," he said after 25 minutes of the concert.

A year ago, Joan Dausà fulfilled his madness and made his dream come true. He managed to fill the Palau Sant Jordi with more than 16,000 people and the Palacio Vistalegre in Madrid with more than 11,000 spectators. Legends like Joan Manel Serrat and Lluís Llach are among the few soloists to have filled the Sant Jordi with Catalan. This October 28th, a documentary about the Catalan musician born in Sant Feliu de Llobregat premieres on Filmin. It reviews his story and explains what it was like to fill these two great venues.

"It's wonderful to sing with you," Joaquín Sabina repeated several times. That was it, to sing for the last time accompanying the singer-songwriter from Úbeda. "It's wonderful," he insisted, overwhelmed by the response of the audience that filled the Palau Sant Jordi for the first of Sabina's last two concerts in Barcelona (the second is on Saturday). Tickets were sold out and everyone was seated in their seats when the performance began at 9:20 p.m., twenty minutes later than scheduled precisely to allow time for those who suffered circulatory collapse due to The demonstration protesting the Israeli assault on the flotilla that wanted to reach Gaza.

Promises of clandestine anal sex. Memories of volcanic desire. Various amorous heroics. Reproaches from the pit of spite and at the same time youthful romanticism. Longing for life before success. And metaphors, just the right amount, in lyrics that, as it says in How disgusting it all is, come from his chest and are more enunciative than rhetorical, although from time to time they propose quite powerful images, as when in Ocean view proclaims "I'm empty-minded enough for you to move.". With these tools and a melodic reggaeton with lubricating effects, Quevedo triumphed this Monday in the first of the two concerts scheduled at the Palau Sant Jordi.

Dua Lipa knows how to throw a good party, and she's proven it with her thirtieth birthday celebration. Although her birthday is on August 22nd, the British singer of Kosovar Albanian origin has spent ten days in Ibiza surrounded by friends and family, on a stay that has combined dinners, music, yoga, and boat trips. "Resting my bones before I keep dancing until I'm thirty," she wrote on Instagram, where she has 88 million followers, a few days before the date. Since August 12th, the artist has been sharing images of her activities on the island, which she already considers one of her refuges.

[This article is published without any photographs from the concert. The ARA does not agree with the abusive conditions that Santana imposes on photojournalists: the artist only accredits them if they waive, free of charge, all rights to the photographs. Furthermore, he forces the photographers to provide him with copies of the photographs.]

Conclusions about Miguel Bosé's concert at the Palau Sant Jordi this Thursday. First: Miguel Bosé thrives on reminiscences, and the audience accepts and celebrates nostalgia. At 69 years old and without any new albums, fromOwner (2014), compares music to perfume because it fixes "emotions, memories, sensations." "You'll feel younger," he said before making I am air and trusting the night solely in nostalgia, in the songs more than in the interpretation of the songs from the present. The renunciation is absolute, but it sets the conditions of the contract so explicitly that it fools no one.

[The photographs illustrating this report are from Billie Eilish's concert at the Palau Sant Jordi on June 14, and have been provided by the promoter Live Nation with the approval of the American artist, who does not authorize the presence of press photographers or television cameras on this tour]

After announcing their return to the stage at the Primavera Sound 2022, Antònia Font has announced that they will release a new album and will give two concerts next year. The album will be released at the beginning of 2022, then they will perform on the 11th of June at the Primavera Sound (which is already sold out) and they will also give two concerts in stadiums, first in Mallorca (in the Mateu Cañellas sports centre on the 18th of June) and then in the Palau Sant Jordi (on the 15th of October).

Good news for the live music sector. The results of the pilot test at the Love of Lesbian concert at the Palau Sant Jordi conclude that, if carried out with control measures such as those implemented in this event, mass concerts "are a safe activity". This was stated by Dr Josep Maria Llibre, one of the researchers at the Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital who led the experiment. A posteriori, we have diagnosed only six positive cases among the participants of the concerts, of which four were not infected at the concert," explained Llibre. This result is equivalent to a rate of 131 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and is a magnificent result"