So, only a few days left... After many weeks of looking at the poster I'd say its a pretty good lineup, not that different than the last couple of years. But still, something's missing for me. I guess part of it is false memory (Mandela effect anyone?) and just generally getting older, but there's not enough loud and noisey stuff for me on the line-up, especially when it comes to new stuff. I know, diversity was always a big thing for Primavera and Pop has always been a part of it, it just feels like a little tipping of the scales. The electronic stuff is, well, I guess great, but personally there's one reason why I went to Barcelona for the last decade, and it's not called Sonar.
And I know the four electronic stages don't take anything away, but I feel some irrational jealousy about it. There's so much vital and exciting stuff happening in guitar driven music, sure, it's not on P4k or Spotify, but does that really matter? I don't buy the argument that you need click generating acts for a younger audience. It's not like back then the masses listened to Times New Viking, Pissed Jeans, Harlem or any of the other stuff that got me to Primavera (that would've been Skrillex?).
And it's not a big shift, i'd say I'm missing like 4 or 5 acts (putting The Men, Mattiel, Flat Worms into the „main“ days would already change my perspective). Especially miss the bands at 4 in the morning, those were some of the best shows, but I guess there wasn't enough demand...
I know this moaning is pretty stupid, considering it's a great lineup, and I'd be hard-pressed to find a better one anywhere in the world, and I will again have the time of my life in the forum, I just wished Primavera would've left the old formula of booking stuff that's popular with P4k behind a bit and dived more into the „underground“ stuff. And maybe I'm just fucking old and should take a break...
