By Fairs they had set fire to the Cup in their last concert of the previous tour, and half a year later, by Sant Joan, they did if not the same, in L’Estartit, in the first concert in Girona of their route of celebration of the tenth anniversary. Oques Grasses is, for now, a safe formula, a guaranteed triumph, and it is because this proposal of party, joy, joy, vindication (yes, sometimes childish, but also emotional) and mix of styles hooks audiences very different. It is past midnight and with the same dedication as the most daring who have sought the front rows, hundreds of creatures, including mine, chain themselves leaving their voices there from John Brown to I am again.
Of novelties, few. They don’t need it either. Oques’s live performance is again extremely powerful and polished (although they are missing for example Lakilove or Goodline, which bring them closer to their more electronic side in this reformulation of what was previously called crossbreeding), but obviously it all sounds what is expected, from older songs like Fullar semper, Plora y riu or Important steps, to Bancals and its war cry to start it “shit everything”, Sta guai, Petar-ho or a few Elephants that turn on the machinery and boil the concert within 30 seconds of starting. The first chords sound and everything is mobile in the air, jumps and joy, in an hour and a half of emotions that closes with The people I love, about three quarters of an hour in the morning. There is neither a second of truce, nor a distraction. Everything is facing a shack, with Josep Montero dominating the stage and doing therapy with his audience. Now that they say that Eufòria has reconciled TV3 with the younger audience, it is not daring to say that Oques Grasses, today, represents one of the most exciting proposals in Catalan music and that it spreads the joy of living (A tope amb la vida ) even to those who are younger. This is an indescribable euphoria.
There will be only a dozen concerts that will culminate in January next year at the Palau Sant Jordi, and they could have been 20, or 30 or 50, because they would have had guaranteed success. Ithaca was the first of two visits to Girona, the other at the end of next month in Roses, and then we can only hope that when they finish the tour the rest will not last long. Its contagious energy is already on the soundtrack of many lives.