Palencia, (EFE).- “We are a passionate group. We like to be liked”, assures in an interview with EFE Marc Ros, the voice of Sidonie, a band that moves between the lyrics of Bob Dylan and the staging of Rolling Stone, which has spent 25 years walking its defiant and elegant image on stage, making several generations dance.
The unmistakable silhouettes of Marc Ros (voice), Jesús Senra (guitar) and Axel Pi (drums) passed through the stage of the Palencia Sonora festival last night to defy the rain and amuse a dedicated audience that was celebrating the 20th anniversary of the festival.
Shortly before, Marc recognized in an interview with EFE the “miracle” that a group like his, which emerged in the 1990s, is still active 25 years later. In fact, the Barcelona band can boast of being one of the few, along with Dorian and Love of Lesbian, that were born at that time and that are still going strong.
“There were hundreds of bands, some very talented, but they have disappeared. I think we have had incredible strength because the three of us understand each other very well, we have a great time in a very hard and complicated world,” says Ros, who finds music infinitely satisfying but also “anxiety and insomnia” that she endures. because all three are together.
Marc Ros defines Sidonie: A passionate group
Because they are together and have a good time, they never get tired of playing the same songs. “We are a passionate group. I never sing ‘Fascinated’ the same way. They are songs that you love,” she explains.
That is why in concerts they seek a balance between new and well-known songs. For them, each concert is unique and “no matter how many times they have played a song, we don’t get tired because each night is different, you are different and the audience is different. And the same song sounds different”, according to Ros.
Perhaps this is one of the keys for Sidonie to be one of the groups that best connects with the public at festivals, singing each song as if it were the first time. The other they like to like. “We turn to the public, we communicate with them and we make songs to please them.” “We like to like each other, I think there’s nothing wrong with that,” Sidonie’s voice confesses.
Dance lyrics that keep company
One of the songs from ‘El Regreso de Abba’ says that “his life is music and that music can save us” and Marc Ros assures that “music keeps company, helps to live, saving may be saying a lot, a license , but there is no doubt that art helps ”.
For this reason, their songs are melodic and danceable, fun, “to make people happy, to keep company”, but they are not exempt from a political perspective, although words like eviction do not appear in their lyrics. “We are political people, the very act of forming a band in Spain is already a political thing, we cannot avoid this,” he reflects, while confessing that he is afraid of “human stupidity” that is “terrifying and is everywhere” .
Between Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones
Marc Ros says that Sidonie has grown up absorbing the best of Bob Dylan and the Stones. “I’m a huge Dylan fan. I bought a book with his lyrics and a world opened up for me. Since then I have tried to humbly apply to my lyrics what I have learned from him, because he dominates the word, the image”.
What’s more, he maintains that Dylan’s shadow is long and that he even touches people who don’t know him. “Including those who do reggeton without them knowing it. Nobody would write songs like they do now if Dylan had not existed, ”meditates the musician.
However, Sidonie is quite far from Dylan on stage, with a very fun staging that turns each concert into “a celebration”.
“On stage we are closer to Rolling Stones than Dylan. We take the best of each one, that is the beauty of the history of pop”, jokes Marc Ros.
In fact, the group is proud to have opened for their favorite band, the Rolling Stones. “They told us we deserved it. Mick Jagger controls everything that happens at a Rolling Stones concert and makes all the decisions and he chose us. So we couldn’t be happier and more content, because we’ve worked hard to be there”.
elegant and challenging
With the Rolling they share that hooligan image that they walk on stage. “We like to be classy and a bit challenging, even if it’s acting. We like theatricality. Being a musician or artist is not just making songs, there is a whole paraphernalia you have to do a performance”, explains Marc Ros.
Sidonie in Palencia Sonora
If there is a group that has been part of the history of Palencia Sonora, that is Sidonie. They have gone through this festival before the pandemic and during the worst moments of the health crisis.
In 2020, when the capacity was very low and concerts were hardly scheduled, they thanked the brave public that continued to bet on music, and they returned the following year sharing the bill with Rodrigo Cuevas. “Many groups decided to stay at home, we decided to go out and the audience was fantastic. I remember it as something beautiful”, says Marc Ros.
Yesterday they set foot in Palencia again, where they confess they feel very comfortable and also “they eat very well”, something they are grateful for in the middle of the tours.
The usual songs sounded on the stage of the Sotillo park, mythical songs like ‘Carreteras Infinitas’, ‘Estáis Aquí’, ‘Fascinados’, ‘El Peor Grupo del Mundo’; and others from his latest album ‘El Regreso de Abba’, among them the song in Catalan ‘Portlligat’.
But in addition, the public was able to enjoy two new songs, which have barely been played in four or five concerts, ‘CD’ and ‘No salgo más’, included on their tenth album, which is going to be titled ‘Marc, Axel y Jes’ and It will come out in October.EFE