Spring Sound Porto opens door under torrid sun with rows of hundreds

O verdant Porto City Park again received another edition of the Spring Sound festival, composed of four main stages, where more than 56 artists will spend until Sunday, and where it is estimated that 40,000 people will pass per day, according to data from the organization.

Marta Fontarra has just arrived from Penafiel to listen to the Big Thief with her husband Nuno Moreira and tells the agency Lusa that comes to Spring Sound from Porto since the first edition in 2012.

“ We've come to the first edition, and we've had very few fouls since this year. We've only been here a day. There was a year that for health reasons we didn’t really come, but we always came”, recalls Marta Fontarra, stating that the bands that don’t want to lose in this 13th edition are Melt-Banana and the poster heads Gorillaz and Massive Attack.

“Gorillaz did perhaps the best concert I saw at this festival and I hope that this year will fulfill that design. I'm confident. Massive Attack have seen them in other rooms and I'm also confident that they're great and today The XX I'm not a big fan, but we have the Big Thief, the Nation of Language that I've seen them here and they're spectacular. So it will be a good night of absolute certainty”, said the festivaleira.

Nuno Moreira assumes he wants very much to see Idles and Viagra Boys and review The xx, Gorillaz and Massive Attack and Melt-Banana, despite regretting that the 20-year-old can't come, for having to study for college exams.

For Nuno Moreira, the festival’s most special is the magic and freedom that feels as it enters “a different world”. “It’s our amusement park.”.

Chris, a sexagenary from Reading in England, came with his wife to the Spring Sound festival and assumes he bought tickets for the alignment, but also for the good weather and warmth.

“It’s a festival with a very relaxing environment, with a good size,” the British said, saying that ticket prices are very competitive, compared to UK values.

The British say they do not want to lose the bands Nation of Language, Idles, KNEECAP, but reaffirms that the whole poster is extraordinary.

Also the 15-year-old British girl Ezra Stitt who came from Bristol with her father tells her that she is delighted with the room and eager to see one of her favorite artists – Ethel Cain – in Spring Sound.

“ My father is a big fan of Big Thief and I love Ethel Cain, so I am really excited to see them live,” Ezra said.

The teenager is surprised by the “beautifulness and immensity of the festival space”. “It’s beautiful and huge, I imagined it much smaller,” Lusa said, saying that she will stay the four days of the festival and then go for a walk in Porto for a few more days.

Today they will still be taking the stages of Spring Big Thief, The xx, Sensible Soccer, Ethel Cain, KNEECAP, Texas Is the Reason, Gelli Haha, Oklou, Agriculture and Ninajirachi, among others.

In the coming days you will be able to hear slowdive, Gorillaz, Panda Bear, Viagra Boys, Bad Gyal, Annahstasia, Gisela João, Black Country, New Road, Melt-Banana, Mari Froes, Water From Your Eyes, NAPA, Yard Act, JADE, Massive Attack, Mike D, Idles, Criolo, Amaro & Dino, Smerz, Sudan Archive, Peggy Gou, among many others.