'Arrecife en Vivo' premieres fire show in a third marked by its bands

Alizzz, 'Los Estanques' and Anni, Baldosa, Grande Amore, the local band 'Ya No Te Quiero' and the DJ 'Yera Flavor', starred in the penultimate route of the capital's festival

October 10 2023 (09:32 WEST)
Updated in October 10 2023 (21:50 WEST)
One of the 'Arrecife en Vivo' concerts
One of the 'Arrecife en Vivo' concerts

Despite the high temperatures, last Friday, October 6, the Lanzarote band 'Ya No Te Quiero' gathered a loyal audience at Islote de Fermina, sheltered with hats and sunglasses, who attended the vibrant live performance of four well-known musicians from the conejera scene: Fernando Robayna (vocals, guitar), Mame Hernández (bass), Jose María Pérez Machín (drums) and Javier Santiago (keyboards).

"A luxury stage" for a band that was born to share beautiful moments. "Enjoyment is the ultimate goal" of the conejero group, whose first work 'Latinoamérica' (Malpaís Records) proposes to get on a pop ship, in which stories starring emotions and social relationships are narrated.

The theater group 'Lekittoko Deabruak' (The Demons of Lekeitio) marked a before and after in the parades of 'Arrecife en Vivo'. For the first time, a fire show was held in the streets of Arrecife, a traditional spectacle linked to the deep-rooted culture of fire that is preserved in the Balearic Islands and Catalonia, and which the Lekeitio Street Theater Festival recovered for the Basque Country.

Firecrackers and flares illuminated the streets of the city on the routes between concert and concert. And they did so to the rhythm of the drums of 'Psycho Clown', the theatrical alter ego of the percussion group 'Kolpez Blai', who dressed up as devilish clowns to make every pedestrian who offered to dance and run. The artistic troupe entered several shops on Calle Real, spreading their festive spirit.

"In 2024 they will accompany us again in the parades," says Semi Gil, co-director of the festival. "We have a very good understanding with the production company 'Zozongo' (Rockalean, Kolpez Blai). We love how they work and they love the festival, they have a lot to contribute."

At 7:00 p.m. the 'Baldosa' concert began at the Charco de San Ginés, a stage that always offers surprising discoveries. This time, we enjoyed the impressive live performance of a very young Canarian band.

Garri (bass), Miguel (drums) and Paula (vocals, guitar) have a short but meteoric career. They formed 'Baldosa' in 2020 and debuted at the Riviera hall in Madrid in a solidarity concert for the eruption of the La Palma volcano. They have also performed on the stages of Womad, both in its Canarian and English editions. To the latter they took a message that went viral: "It's great that you come to visit us, but please treat our nature with respect."

They say they sound like "90s British rock", others claim to see in their entrails a delicious pop storyteller with whom we easily identify. Be that as it may, they won over the 'Arrecife en Vivo' audience and many of the people who saw them are eagerly awaiting their next EP, which will be released in early 2024.

The fire show took the Charco towards the marina, leaving brilliant images of the bridges illuminated with flares, demons playing and clowns giving scares with fake saws.

The show offered by Los Estanques and Anni B Sweet at Marina Lanzarote was one of the most special and intense of all those experienced in these ten years of the festival. The singer-songwriter and the band form the most original and fruitful alliance that has been seen on the Spanish music scene. From their union was born Burbuja cómoda y Elefante Inesperado, a self-edited and award-winning album with lyrics that are true mental notes to better carry out existence.

Anni's powerful voice and the complicity with the band, which deployed a rock opera, filled the warm Arrecife night with psychedelic and harmonious chords. A brave, brilliant and complex music that the spectators appreciated with an ovation.

The 2023 tour of Alizzz, pop idol and one of the most influential producers of the moment, closed at the Cruise Ship Dock. Hours before the concert, a spectator warned: "Alizzz doesn't make songs, he makes anthems." That's right: the artist from Castelldefels displays an extremely intelligent universal pop, so much so that he is capable of connecting with what happened to us, is happening to us and will happen to us.

He does it with his lyrics and with his rhythmic structures. This is how he was unraveling themes from his two works, Tiene que haber algo más and Boicot, which were sung by the spectators.

After Alizzz, the Dock vibrated with another completely different but also highly emotional live performance: at midnight 'Grande Amore', the artistic name of the Galician Nuno Pico, took the stage, accompanied on electronics and guitar by María Grep and Clara Redondo.

The artist, who was already touring in the AEV On Tour, in the Alboroto hall in Las Palmas and the Aguere Cultural in La Laguna, won over the public, with a thunderous, appellative and honest live performance, which mixes punk, electronics, rock and roll and lyrics that represent existential anguish.

Nuno came down to the foot of the track to make room and invite the "collision." This is how he interpreted one of his hits: Esta pena que a veces teño. Grande Amore released themes from his two albums, Grande Amore and II, in a wild and rough live performance that the public received with open arms.

The early morning ended with the DJ from Toscal, Yeraflavor, who presented an absolutely varied set, with themes that fluctuated between funk, disco, soul, hip hop, groove, RnB, house and salsa.

Activities for this Friday

On Friday, October 13, Arrecife en Vivo will present its last concert route of this year, with 'The Walking Matt' in the parade, 'Freewomen' (Islote Fermina, at 6:00 p.m.), 'Doctor Explosión' (at 7:30 p.m. in the Charco de San Ginés), 'Niña Polaca' (at 9:00 p.m., Marina Lanzarote), 'La Plazuela' (at 10:30 p.m. at the Cruise Ship Dock), 'Ácido Pantera' (at 00:00 hours at the Cruise Ship Dock) and 'Cheese and Bacon' Djs. Admission will be free, except at the Cruise Ship Dock where admission is restricted to people over 18 years of age.

From the Arrecife City Council, the festival is being supported, which is in line with the municipal plans for the revitalization of the capital of Lanzarote. Eli Merino, Councilor for Tourism, Commerce and Sports, supervises and coordinates all activities for the revitalization of Arrecife.

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