The excessive Primavera Sound 2016

Mudhoney promotional image courtesy of Primavera Sound

Primavera Sound is already here and say this is like announcing the arrival of a musical tsunami that will sweep the city of Barcelona. If during May, the biggest festival in Barcelona, ​​and one of the largest in the world, has begun to reveal their presence with daily concerts in bars across the city and Thursdays, with concerts in civic centers, now begins the 'party' seriously.

Monday 30th will begin Primavera als Clubs for ticket holders. Apolo Club will present shows every day all the week except Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Concerts by artists of the festival style, in general, difficult to see in the city of Barcelona: Psychic TV, Noga Erez, Deradoorian, White Fence, Mueran Humanos and The Avalanches among others.

This does not mean the bands should be unknown, James Murphy's LCD Soundsystem will play on Tuesday May 31 in the near venue Barts at 22.00 hours prior to his concert at the Primavera Sound.

The next day, June 1, Daniel Gon, Empress Of and Jessy Lanza will act in the same venue. The rest of the week other kind of bands will play at Barts venue such Tamara and Los Panchos, Critika y Saik or Sweet California with their new singer.

Primavera al Raval, the CCCB is the epicenter of free admission concerts

One of the most important news of Primavera Sound 2016 is the free admission festival to be hold at the CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona). There will be three scenarios -Plaza Joan Coromines, Pati de les Dones and CCCB Theatre- for 70 artists and bands, some of them well-known such as Mudhoney, one of the best known grunge bands from the nineties, Robert Forster -ex-The Go-Betweens-, Bradford Cox solo -Deerhunter, Atlas Sound...-, The Black Lips, Cass McCombs... From Friday 3th to Sunday 5th June. Yes, the concerts begin at vermouth time, guess who is the promoter...

Schedule Friday June 3th in Primavera Sound in the Raval 2016:

BAYWAVES - MARTINI - 12:00 h

BIG SUMMER - ROOM THEATER 12:30 PM

SHINKIRO - CCCB THEATRE - 13:30 h

CALA VENTO - MARTINI - 13:00 h

JULIEN BAKER - MARTINI - 14:00 h

CASS MCCOMBS - CCCB THEATRE - 14:30 h

C + C = MAXIGROSS - MARTINI - 15:00 h

ANDY SHAUF - CCCB THEATRE - 15:30 h

Schedule Saturday June 4th at Primavera Sound in the Raval 2016:

INVISIBLE HARVEY - CCCB THEATRE - 12:30 h

MY EXPANSIVE AWARENESS - MARTINI - 12:00 h

DIE KATAPULT - MARTINI - 13:00 h

PUMUKY - CCCB THEATRE - 13:30 h

A.R. KANE - MARTINI - 14:00 h

ALEX G - CCCB THEATRE - 14:30 h

ROBERT FORSTER - MARTINI - 15:00 h

OLD KING COLE YOUNG - CCCB THEATRE - 15:30 h

Schedule Sunday June 5th at Primavera Sound in the Raval 2016:

REDTHREAT - CCCB THEATRE - 13:00 h

TWIN DRAMA - MARTINI - 13:45 h

RAN RAN RAN - CCCB THEATRE - 14:30 h

POWER BURKAS - MARTINI - 15:15 h

DOWNTOWN BOYS - MARTINI - 16:40 h

PACOSAN - CCCB THEATRE - 16:00 h

ESPERIT! - CCCB THEATRE - 17:20 h

BRADFORD COX - MARTINI - 18:00

MUDHONEY - MARTINI - 19:30

HANDCLAPPERS - CCCB THEATRE - 19:00

BEAROID - CCCB THEATRE - 20:30

BLACK LIPS - MARTINI - 21:00

Free admission concerts at Parc del Fòrum: Suede, Goat...

On Wednesday, June 1th, the festival opens with a free admission day of concerts with artists sucha as Suede, the Swedish Goat-a tribal show that sounded at Primavera Sound some years ago- and the bands Sr. Chinarro, El Último Vecino and Doble Pletina.

DOBLE PLETINA - 17:00 h

EL ÚLTIMO VECINO - 18:00

SR. CHINARRO - 19:00

GOAT - 20:30

SUEDE - 22:00

And yes, still need to talk about performing bands like Radiohead, Brian Wilson, Sigur Rós, PJ Harvey, Venom or Los Chichos among others ... But better to leave it here and not push more with this elephantine festival.

Here are the schedules of the festival, look carefully the groups that you like and do not fool if you can not see everything, it's sure impossible and most important of all is that you enjoy it. If you have no ticket, you do not need to go to paydays, all tickets and passes are sold out.