Bilbao (EFE) .
The festival has closed its sixth edition, the second at the Bilbao Arena, with a warm evening in which the American singer-songwriter shone, thus joining the list of legends of the Biscayan festival, as have The Waterboys , with a solid and rock concert.
However, the stellar performance of the day, and of the festival, has been the one given to the thousands of people who have packed the venue by Chris Isaak, who has captivated the attendees with his unmistakable voice and his classics well mixed with the versions of songs by other artists.
The veteran musician has shown skill and enthusiasm on stage and enormous complicity with his band, and has had the detail of naming the Biscayan association against ALS Dale Candela, created by friends of Jaime Lafita, who suffered from this disease who was among the public.
Isaak started with “American boy” and continued with “Somebody’s crying”, one of his classics, before leaving the stage to sing the ballads “Waiting” and “Don’t leave me on my own” among the audience and letting himself photograph and record on video how many mobile phones have come their way.
With the audience already exhausted, he has performed “I want your love”, before the classic and unforgettable “Wicked game”, which once again has turned on the cameras of mobile phones, and “Go walking down there”, a theme with which Chris Isaak has revealed his most rock side.
“Speak of the devil” and “Oh, pretty woman”, by Roy Orbison, have given way to a more intimate moment, with the musicians gathered in front of the stage where songs like “Forever blue”, “Two hearts” and another of Roy Orbison’s classics, “Only the lonely”.
The audience enjoyed the songs, danced, “Dancin’” sounded, couples hugged as Isaak himself requested before performing “Can’t help falling in love”, and everyone chanted “Blue hotel ” with which the last part of the concert began.
The American and his band have chained to finish, “San Francisco days”, “Notice the ring” and “Big wide wonderful world”; and after a change of Isaak’s costume, “Baby did a bad bad thing”, the song in Spanish “La tumba será el final”, and “The way things really are”, with which Isaak has said goodbye to become a legend.
Mike Scott and his Waterboys have been the other outstanding proposal of the day and have not disappointed the public with a remarkable performance in which they have dominated rock sounds from the beginning, when they have performed “Where the action is” and “Glastonbury song” .
After “A girl called Johnny”, which appeared on the album with which they debuted in distant 1983, has given way to a more relaxed moment with Scott and his acoustic guitar and “This is the sea”, after which he has presented to the band members to start the big moment of the performance.
There, The Waterboys have chained “Fisherman’s blues”, one of those hymns that Scott and his band have created in their long musical career, the emblematic and enduring “The whole of the moon” and the brilliant “The pan within”, with the “Because the night” by Patti Smith as an introduction.
Those three songs have made the public rise from the stands of their seats, they have turned on their mobile phones to keep those moments alive in the memory and have raised, even more if possible, the temperature of a pavilion that was trying to cool off with beers and fans .
And finally, Scott and company have given their energetic concert another twist with “Medicine bow” and the song “In my time on earth”, full of intensity that has served to close the passage of The Waterboys by Bilbao BBK Music Legends.