A vibrant, fun, and unashamedly political performance by the Irish trio Kneecap at the Apolo on Sunday, closing the Primavera Sound concert halls in Barcelona. The album's authors Fine art, One of the best albums of 2024 according to ARA, offered an hour of hip-hop (in Irish and English) between the determination of classics like Public Enemy and the spirit rave more incendiary, to celebrate the Irish language and an eminently festive, combative anti-British activism. Because Kneecap, formed by musicians from West Belfast and Derry, is not a group from Northern Ireland, but from the North of Ireland. The nuance is an abyss of meaning, as they themselves explain in the film. Kneecap, he biopic starring themselves and Michael Fassbender, which is available on Filmin.

"We are proud to have produced a historic edition," said Alfonso Lanza, one of the co-directors of Primavera Sound, at the SLS Hotel in Sant Adrià de Besòs. At the traditional press conference, held just as the festival's third day begins at the Parc de Fòrum, he detailed that the total attendance reached 293,000, some 25,000 more than last year. This is a record, if you don't take into account the the 2022 two-weekend edition. These were predictable figures given that five months ago both season tickets and daily tickets were sold out, thanks above all to the choice of headliners such as Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan.

Scheduling a headliner like Sabrina Carpenter at midnight makes the Parc del Fórum and the marine platform a hive of activity in the afternoon and early evening. For example, having an Aperol Spritz (7 euros), eating a burger (12 euros), a kebab (9 euros), or a pizza margherita (11 euros). Withdrawing money from a Revolut ATM. Dinner seated on the terrace of the Estrella Damm restaurant. Lie down on some pillows at Levi's & Bear. Get your hair done courtesy of Schwarzkopf. And pay attention to how many languages are spoken at the Forum (English above all others). Staying in the place until the headliners start and leaving once the desired performance has finished, which is a way of experiencing the festival as if it were a macro concert. And I remove (2025), their first album after five years without any new releases, and the attitude on the Revolut stage was that of three musicians eager to play. It was the Primavera Sound supergirls' way of joining the party. In fact, they came out defiant, stomping their feet and with a gestural ferocity that isn't as evident in their pop-rock. The album, which will be released at the end of June, gives conceptual meaning to the live show. On the screen at the back of the stage appeared slogans of affirmation, or of enough, such as "I've stopped thinking I'm the problem," "I've quit," "I've quit isolation," "I've quit your shit," or "I've quit relationships." This coincided, of course, with the song RelationshipsSatisfied with the positive response from the spectators who filled the marine platform, they repeatedly reiterated their love for Barcelona in front of a largely non-Barcelona and non-Catalan audience. This is a constant at Primavera Sound. However, it's appreciated that the foreign bands are mindful of the local minority.

The artistic narrative of Primavera Sound 2025 has been built around three headliners, one per day: the British Charli XCX and the Americans Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan, all three with the star status that comes with having been invited to the Met Gala. The proposal has received the support of the public, who have sold out tickets and season tickets. That means that around 70,000 people will pass through the Parc del Fòrum venue on each of the three days of the festival.

Primavera Sound 2025 takes place from June 5th to 7th at Parc del Fòrum, and season tickets and day tickets have been sold out for months. Not only capable of generating musical buzz, but also of creating stylistic trends and even social discourse. Supergirls For the three singers, a reference to the children's series in which three heroines – one green, one blue, and one red, three colors that also identify each of the artists – save the world.