Only in Spain!

I’m going to tell you guys about a festival here in Sevilla this weekend! During the week I heard that a local event management company is going to arrange a small festival here in Sevilla. The festival, Primavera Open Air, was advertised to be the “Spring Break Festival” with up to 8,000 participants! This was all thrilling: a festival in Spain should be pretty cool. I was going to go to the festival with a German girl I had met earlier. She was going there to take some pictures as a freelance photographer and she wanted some company. And by the way, she is the one to thank for all these pics as well... Thanks!

We decided to walk there. From the map, it didn’t look like the venue is far away… But it took us an hour to walk there! But still, the journey was pretty much fun: at one point, we thought we were close as we started to hear some very loud music… But when we got closer to the source, it turned out that there was just some guy at the parking lot with a car full of audio, playing really loud and about 100 people dancing around! Johnny, la gente esta muy loca, whatta f*ck? :D Back in Finland, police would end something like that immediately. But not in here, not in Spain, it’s so cool!

As we continued, we eventually got to the actual festival site. And this festival, I’ll tell you, was something really weird from the beginning to the end! First of all, in the entrance, the security guys were dressed up in uniforms, as if they were police or something! On the other hand, the guy taking the ticket was just an old guy smoking cigarette with just normal clothes :D And the 8,000 people? More like 800 people... Anyway, we got in and headed out to the stage where there was a band playing. The music was really good, really different from what I had heard! It was really weird but cool mixture of electro, funk, rock and house -music! Really good mixture!

The music was playing really loud, and all of a sudden, about a half of the sound disappeared! I thought: Did I lose part of my hearing? Or am I that drunk? What happened?! Then I saw these guys lifting up a fence that had fallen down (and probably unplugged some wires)… “OK, this doesn’t look good” I thought. But the band continued playing and the crowd didn’t mind… Then, after about ten or fifteen minutes, there was a big bang and all the electricity from the stage went off! I was thinking, “This is not happening, it’s not possible!” :D The band was confused, the organizers were going desperate and the crowd started singing football songs! Now this is Spain!

The show was pretty wild one... intentionally and unintentionally!

Eventually they got the music and lights back on and the show continued! The stage show performed by the band was really crazy, Loca! Lastly after all these happenings during the gig, a guy came on the stage… Dressed up in a full body costume of penis! :D AND he had rollerskates! I just can’t stop laughing when I think of all the things that happened and in the end there’s a huge penis spinning around the stage with rollerskates! Hahaha! Only in Spain can this happen!

I'm working, all week long,
I dream the days away,
I wanna... sing my song
so let the music play
I have to get my fix, and fly tonight
and when the clock strikes 6, on Fri-day Night
I need to blow it all away
 
I Can't wait.. for the weekend to begin...
Michael Gray - The Weekend