Festivals in Barcelona

Hooooooooooola,

Today, I’m coming back with an article on the main festivals of Barcelona. The 4^th most touristic city in Europe, Barcelona doesn’t have to prove anymore its notoriety. I have had the opportunity to go there in August 2014: I fell in love. The Sagrada Familia, Park Guell, Nou Camp, Barceloneta, La Boqueria, so many places to visit in this city. However, Barcelone is also the capital of parties and festivals in Europe. Boosted by the success of Sonar and Primavera Sound, it is a real festival-goer culture which emerges since a few years in Barcelona. Thus, I have concocted a program of the best festivals in the Catalan capital.

MUTEK

Mutek from Barcelona is a version exported of the original Mutek born in 1999 in Montreal. Organized just before spring, its 7^th Spanish edition had an awesome line-up as: Vilod (Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer), The Orb, Valentin Stip, Reagenz, Shigeto, Rrose, Deadbeat, Atom & Tobias, Pole & MFO, Vaghe Stelle, Kara-Lis Coverdale…

Multidisciplinary, Mutek dedicates the other part of its line-up to the new media and digial creation. More than a simple festival of music, this event is real “festival of the digital creation”.

Practical Information:

Dates: March 2017
Places: Apolo/Nitsa Club, Fabrica Estrella Damm, French Institute, Teatre Barts
Prices: From free to 30€ by soirée

LiveSoundtracks Festival

Among monsters, LiveSoundtracks has chosen to have an artistic guiding line pronounced: recreate, with the help of some “genius”, a soundtrack in order to accompany a smash hit.

LiveSoundtracks explores the meeting place between cinema and experimental music.

Practical Information:

Dates: Spring 2016
Place: Sala Hiroshima
Price: 10€ by soirée

Sónar

 

Veteran festinal, Sonar is a real institution in Barcelone, to the extent that residents of Barcelona are familiar to this one. In june, the city begins literally moving at the rhythm of Sonar festival, whom the number of events make it difficult to describe in some lines. Sonar has been crowned by many as the best electronic celebration in Europe.

I let you glance at its 2016 line-up: New Order, Four Tet, Laurent Garnier, Richie Hawtin, DVS1 & Rodhad, James Blake, Oneohtrix Point Never, Bicep, Ben Klock, Ben UFO B2B Helena Hauff, Skepta, Jamie Woon, Matias Aguayo, Red Axes.

Practical Information:

Dates: 16.17.18 June 2016
Places:

·         Sonar by Day: Fira Montjuic

·         Sonar by Night: Fira Gran Via L’Hospitalet

Prices: 180€ Pass Days + Nights

Brunch/Piknic Electronik

Open-air organized every Sunday of summer, The Piknic Electronik is THE the Sunday meeting of the residents of Barcelona. The concept is simple, a Sunday brunch for all the family with good electronic music. Numerous activities are organized all day long.

This 2016 summer will go see Agoria, Kink, Erol Alkan, Fatima Yamaha, Fairmont, Carl Craig, John Talabot, Daniel Avery B2B Andrew Weatherall B2B Ivan Smagghe.

Practical Information:

Dates:

·         Piknic Electronic: June to September

·         Brunch Electronik: Spring to Autumn

Places: Gardens Joan Brossa, Montjuic / Poble Espanyol
Prices: 15€

Primavera Sound

More known than Beatles, more popular than Jesus Christ, we don’t present any more The Primavera festival and its amazing line-up. Each edition presents more than 10 headline acts. The line-up of 2016 edition put on a great spread with: Radiohead, Air, LCD Soundsystem, Tame Impala, The Last Shadow Puppets, Animal Collective, Moderat, PJ Harvey and Sigur Ros. In brief, I can’t describe this subhuman billing without spend the night.

Practical Information:

Dates: 02.03.04 June 2016

Place: Parc Del Forum
Prices: 80€ by day / 175€ Pass 3 days