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😄 primavera sound 2025 smaller stages
everyone on a tiny stage that's going to be on the main stages
Connor Weir
June 17, 2025
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yes that’s right, news time! a short selection of links to all things going on in the music biz:
more i’ve been listening to
sometimes you just need to write a really good pop song and then call it a day for a bit
this song builds and builds and builds and just when you think it’s truly at it’s height, it grabs you by the googlies, looks you in the eyes and says jump and reader. you jump.
i’m afraid i’m in a bit of a space mentally where i need some really fast electronic music that sounds like it’s from a ghost train you’d go on when you were like 11 and be like bro that was crazy. this song is absolute trash, and i adore it immensely.
more records added!
aadded another batch of records up, and the price on a bunch that have been up have come down, if that makes sense. anyway, tons more stuff up there, have at it you crazy animals
contents
i’m back! and it’s been beautiful being away. i’ve been a busy bee however, at primavera sound 2025 in barcelona. i reckon by now the noise has well and truly died down on it, being 2 weeks since, but that’s okay. this newsletter is all about doing your own thing and that’s what my friends and i spent a lot of time doing. yes, we saw the powerpuff girls etc etc, but the thing about that festival that sticks out to me more than anything, is the fact that you can see some of the most incredible acts tucked away underneath some concrete outcrop with a few hundred people and it feel as important as the main stage. so here it is, 5 artists arranged in a handy listicle format who were tearing it up on the small stages, and should’ve been on the big one.
look, when i say this was the most dudes rock set of the entire weekend, i am not kidding. there were dudes there with beards that would make gandalf get all shy. there were guys there who had never heard radio 6, but if radio 6 played out loud they would sniff the air like a bear in the woods. this band ruled, and the crowd ruled harder. there was jumping and dancing, there were weird graphics, there were solos and head banging and it was all magnificent. my only complaint was that they weren’t so much louder. i don’t know if they got turned down or if there was some restriction, but this was a band deserving of being absolutely cranked.
not only was this the most heartfelt set of the weekend, it was also the funniest in many ways. this band told a story on stage that the reason they got booked was the sound guy at a previous year had their music playing on the between acts playlist, and so many people were singing it that the promoter reached out. and now look at them, on stage and aboslutely killing it. there was a point in their set where one of their bigger tunes just caught the wave of the crowd and they all got so into it, it was beautiful to see.
now look, i get it okay. i get the memes, oh he sounds like lcd, oh lcd should sue, oh he’s a poser in the suit, etc. but let me tell you, this set was absolutely killer. i had soooo much fun at it, and so did the dare. from running around with a cymbal in the air to performatively putting on a tie and getting all ready to play his one slow sad song before singing about drugs and etc. it was camp, it was silly, it was balls to the wall crazy and it was all one skinny dude in one lil suit. memes be damned, this set was killer.
let me set the scene here for you a little bit. it’s 5am. it’s the final day, it’s the final night. in just a few minutes the event you’ve been waiting for and experiencing and building up to for over a year will be over. and onto the tiniest of stages, surrounded by people from places like minnesota, you watch a bunch of scene kids go absolutely feral. it is the best set you’ve seen in ages. the crowd go absolutely crazy. at the end of their set they scream we’re playing until they turn the power off, which they then do. god bless frost children.
i’ve written about them before, i will write about them again, let me put it to you succinctly. go and see confidence man live. preferrably in the middle of the night, in a massive crowd, going completely feral. don’t think about it, don’t worry about it, don’t say to yourself but i don’t know the songs, or the lore? what is going on? just pack your tightiest whities and get your butt down there.
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