Today there's going to be a David Bowie Tribute Concert in Porto, Portugal.
A lot of people is going to play, but special attention for a live message from Mike Garson during the show.
The gig will be at Hard Club, at 20:30 in the city's downtown.
Well, I honestly don't know what to expect from it, but wherever it regards Bowie's music it's always a good thing and specially events like this to praise the greatest musician of all time.
See you there!
The mythical Depeche Mode's album Black Celebration was 30 years old two days ago.
The LP was, in my view very very important for the band's career. It was the first record after the compilation "Singles" so, we can say it was like a new starting. A new direction, and the direction was dark. Since their second work, "A Broken Frame" there were some shadows in their way of working but nothing as Black Celebration.
The title, the artwork and the songs are very very intimate and obscure. Gore sings a lot of songs on this album that helps to create a more depressive feeling.
It was like a new step. Let's get mature, let's write personal songs, let's think more about classic and less about big hits.
During the recording process the tensions in the band were very high and that is shown in the music.
Then, there are the big big classics. Stripped, A Question Of Time, A Question Of Lust, Black Celebration, Fly On The Windscreen or Dressed In Black are big example of it.
Actually, in my opinion, Stripped is their best single of the 80's. The lyrics, the keyboards riffs, the video, the live version, everything is really really very good.
The "big b-side" (and an a-side in the USA) that came with this album was also a great great tune, But Not Tonight.
This is a great great album that shown a less "80's" side of Depeche Mode and that started to lead their direction to what it would be their masterpieces, Violator and Songs Of Faith And Devotion.
A great time to remember it and to remember how important this British band is.
"Sem Regras" (portuguese for "Without Rules") is a weekly radio program from a local station that broadcasts a number of unkown bands, most of them independent bands, that are using Bandcamp to spread their music.
I was never, specially lately, a big radio fan (unfortunately). I like to pick what I listen, and mostly of the new music I discover is some kind of related to the music that I'm listening now. But, this programme gave me a lot of fresh air to my musical world.
It was because of it that I discovered the swede band Agent Side Glinder or the germans Bleib Morden or the americans Social Station. Today, I listened to it again and, another great song came up, and now I want to listen more from this french guy: Nice Cold Nation, with a song that is a tribute to Ian Curtis.
The type of songs area little bit equal, all of them are dark and very introspective, which is great, and what I currently need to listen. Some, a bit more heavy or punk are there also.
But really, take a listen to the programme, it's worth it. I'll start to listen to more radio now.
Uma publicação em português para variar um pouco aqui no blog!
Na passada quarta-feira os GNR fizeram um concerto especial de celebração do trigésimo aniversário do clássico "Psicopátria" no Rivoli no Porto. O concerto foi inserido no Porto Best Of, uma série de concertos no Rivoli organizada pelo Miguel Guedes e contou com a primeira parte de Lobo.
O concerto de Lobo foi engraçado, contou com músicas originais deles e ainda uma versão de Little Wonder em homenagem a David Bowie e uma versão do Pós-Modernos (com convidados) dos GNR, tema que a banda tem uma versão gravada em estúdio.
Depois entraram os GNR para o verdadeiro concerto e, como era de esperar, começaram com o Pós-Modernos. Estranho ouvir duas vezes a mesma música seguida no mesmo concerto por artistas diferentes.
O concerto da banda portuense foi do princípio ao fim o Psicopátria, seguindo o alinhamento original.
Algumas velhas músicas, como O Paciente e Coimbra B receberam a sua primeira atuação ao vivo mas também ouve tempo para os grandes clássicos como Efetivamente e Bellevue, melhor momento da música. Uma versão mais alargada da música, que soou espectacularmente bem.
O público animou-se com o mítico "vamos para a piscina" no Dá Fundo e no dançável Nova Gente. Como grande apreciador da música, fiquei um pouco um pouco desiludido com a atuação de Cerimónias, uma das minhas músicas preferidas do álbum, que não soou tão bem ao vivo.
Psicopátria acabou com Choque Frontal (To Miss foi colocada como abertura do concerto, já que a música é praticamente um instrumental psicadélico) onde o público estava todo a aplaudir de pé.
O encore consistiu em apenas no novo tema Cadeira Elétrica. Admito que esperava pelo menos umas 3 /4 canções, mas pronto, o concerto acabou bem.
Uma grande noite, e em low-cost (os bilhetes eram apenas 7,5€) que valeu muito a pena e fiquei cheio de vontade de ver um novo concerto dos GNR, desta vez em formato Best Of, ou então, o ideal era que eles celebrassem para o ano os 25 anos do Rock In Rio Douro, o meu álbum preferido deles!
George Martin, the legendary Beatles producer, that signed the band back in the 60's and that was involved in mostly of the band's discography and their corresponding solo careers has passed away two days ago, aged 90.
Martin was described as a very good man and soul and a real gentleman and nice human being, that was very calm, wise and professional.
A lot of tribute circulated through the internet, being the most sentimental ones by Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, who called him the fifth Beatle and his second father.
Death comes to everyone, and George had, for sure, a happy and a successful life.
He will be deeply missed and sweetly remembered.
"I read the news today, oh boy, about a lucky man who made the grade, and though the news was rather sad"
Bob Dylan will release a new album on the 20th of May.
The album will e called Fallen Angel and, for now, there's no more information about it.
Dylan will tour the USA and Japan during the next months.
This will be his 37th album.
In a time where we see some legend pass, like Lou Reed or Bowie, it is great to see that the living ones are still making music.
