In little more than a decade, Morrissey has gone from playing at Sant Jordi Club, and his visit being a major event, to playing at Poble Espanyol and it having little cultural relevance. Nowadays, everyone knows the reasons why this has happened: this grumpy old man no longer makes particularly good records and, above all, insists, day in and day out, on behaving like a complete idiot, whether by skirting (or directly crossing) red lines with racism or cancelling concerts at will. But the songs, alas, the songs are still there, intact, epic. So when Morrissey, the leader of The Smiths, the great English pop singer of the eighties, blows his own trumpet, he always has a congregation ready to listen to him once more.

The Barcelona venue Barts (Barcelona Arts on Stage), which closed in April 2022, will have a second life as a festival at Poble Espanyol. From June 28 to July 24, the festival will feature concerts by Beat, the band formed by musicians Steve Vai, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, and Danny Carey, which revives the legacy of King Crimson's 1980s era. The international lineup continues with ZZ Top, icons of American rock; the Scottish indie pop band Belle & Sebastian; Biffy Clyro, one of the most influential European alternative rock bands of the last two decades; Elvis Crespo, a leading figure in Latin music; and God Save the Queen, which reinterprets the legacy of Queen.