What motivates you to keep playing when you are Van Morrison and you are already 80 years old? If we are to believe yesterday's concert at the Auditori del Fòrum, it seems that the Lion of Belfast's engine is the blues, which was already one of the fundamental colors of Morrison's music since the days of Them. In his debut at the Barcelona Jazz Festival, the Northern Irish musician's repertoire was tinged with electric Chicago blues and rhythm & blues, in line with his latest album, Somebody tried to sell me a bridge (2026).