Bilbao (EFE).- The British band Arctic Monkeys puts the finishing touch to the seventeenth edition of the Bilbao BBK Live festival with a powerful and careful performance in which Alex Turner’s group has squandered talent and made the public enjoy themselves.
The crowd that crowded in front of the stage has received the British band with shouts and an enormous desire to enjoy the music on the last day of the festival for which all the tickets had been sold, with which they have accessed the venue 40,000 people.
The group has not disappointed the high expectations it had raised since it was announced as the headliner and has offered a solid concert that began with “Sculptures of anything goes”, a song included on their latest album, “The car”.
“Brianstorm”, with its frantic beginning, has served to shake an audience that has chanted the song, as it would follow with “Snap out of it” and the intense and distorted guitars of “Don’t sit down ’cause I’ go move your chair”.
The musical party continued on Mount Kobetas, with a dandy-like Turner with a remarkable voice, with the dense “Crying lightning” and its pounding bass, “The view from the afternoon”, another of those songs with an overwhelming opening and guitars torn, and “Four out of five”.
The careful sound has allowed the public to enjoy the band’s songs, including “Why’d you only call me when you’re high”, a powerful “Arabella”, “I ain’t quite where I think I am”, “Pretty visitors” and “Fluorescent adolescent”.
With the groundbreaking “Do I wanna know?”, Arctic Monkeys has entered the final stretch of a concert, with songs like “Mardybum” and the elegant and calm “There’d better be a mirrorball”, the first single from their latest album.
Later, two spotlights have illuminated a disco ball, with the name of the band at the top of the stage, and “505”, one of the most representative songs of the band, and “Body paint”, with which Turner and company have left the stage.
The British group Arctic Monkeys during their performance on the third day of the Bilbao BBK Live festival. EFE/Javier Zorrilla.
The encores remained, some extra time to continue enjoying the delicate “I wanna be yours”, “I bet you look good on the dancefloor”, and with the energy of “RU Mine?”, which closed the Arctic Monkeys performance. .
Love of Lesbian in another scenario.
Also notable on this last day of the festival was the performance of Love of Lesbian, who has returned to Bilbao BBK Live after the concert they offered in 2016 and which was their first appearance at the Biscayne festival, although this time they did so in the second scenery.
The “Epic Journey to Nothing”, the theme that gives the title to their eighth and last studio album, has served the band led by Santi Balmes to open a superb performance before a dedicated audience that, judging by their dances, jumps and shouts, has enjoyed.
The public has shown that they know their songs by heart and have sung songs such as “Nobody on the streets”, “Under the volcano” and, above all, “IMT (Transient moral incapacity)”, “John Boy’s fan club ”, “When you don’t see me” and “There where we used to shout”, which closed the performance.
And also, The Last Dinner Party.
The one who has taken the main stage has been The Last Dinner Party, a female group that emerged from the British underground that has recently debuted with the single “Nothing matters” and that has started 15 minutes late, when it was already playing on the small Cala Vento stage .
Bilbao BBK Live has thus closed its seventeenth edition with three days of music in which more than 100 concerts had been programmed with Florence + The Machine, Pavement and Arctic Monkeys as headliners and performances by Phoenix, The Chemical Brothers and Duki, among other. EFE