Although the britpop war with Oasis has condemned Damon Albarn to always be the-singer-of-Blur in the collective imagination, the fact is that his parallel project, Gorillaz, has much more following, or at least that's what the 40.8 million monthly followers on Spotify suggest, compared to Blur's 14.4 million. The main stage of this Saturday's Primavera Sound made it clear that this experiment of creating a musical collective with a reduced ego and that visually expresses itself through Jamie Hewlett's drawings has been a complete success: the esplanade known as Mordor overflowed with an audience that wanted to join Albarn's particular proposal.

The Cure, Doja Cat, The XX, Gorillaz, Addison Rae and Kneecap are some of the main attractions of the next edition of Primavera Sound, which will be held at the Parc del Fòrum from June 3 to 7, 2026, although the festival has not yet detailed its programming segregated by days and stages. The British group The Cure, which in 2024 published the magnificent album Songs of a lost world, returns to the festival with carte blanche: he will be able to give as long a concert as possible, according to sources at Primavera Sound. That is, just as it happened in the 2012 edition. They then starred in one of the most countercultural moments in the history of Primavera Sound. In the context of a festival where concerts barely reach 90 minutes, the British group led by Robert Smith performed for almost three hours, finishing with the performance of Boys don't cryThis gift for music lovers took place on June 1, 2012, at the Parc del Fòrum. The only previous performance at the Barcelona festival was Neil Young, who had monopolized a two-and-a-half-hour time slot five years earlier. With a 50-year career, it's inevitable that The Cure's concerts evoke nostalgia, as happened. three years ago at the Palau Sant JordiHowever, Robert Smith also understands music as an expression of his present, which is what he did in Songs of a lost world.

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.