Leiva returns in concert to Donostia with almost all the capacity sold

2023-05-19 06:50:43

He sings that, when “summer is over”, he travels the ‘San Sebastián-Madrid’ route, but José Miguel Conejo Torres (Madrid, 1980) is still not back. Before facing a summer full of festivals, Leiva will make the outward trip to Donostia to exhibit at the Anoeta Velodrome (Saturday, 9:00 p.m.) her applauded latest album ‘When you bite your lip’.

• Cartel.
  
  Bread.

• Place.
  
  Anoeta Velodrome.

• Day and hour.
  
  This Saturday at 9:00 p.m.

• Appetizer.
  
  44 euros (only in stands)

Since at the end of the century he formed one of the best rock bands in Spanish together with Rubén Pozo, the Madrid musician’s career has not given way in its unstoppable rise. The sad separation from the Pereza gave him wings to fly and build a name for himself with beautifully made albums such as ‘Diciembre’ (2012) and ‘Pólvora’ (2014). Also as a producer, both for the Sidecars group led by his brother Juancho, and for his idolized Joaquín Sabina.

A fetish scene

Not surprisingly, this personal and musical tandem together with that of Úbeda has already earned him his second Goya Award for ‘best original song’ for ‘Sentiendo lo mucho’, the homonymous song from the documentary that both premiered together with Fernando León de Aranoa in the past Zinemaldia. That was, precisely, at the Velodrome where on this occasion he will go up again with his Fender, his wide-brimmed hat and his rock glasses.

A concert that would have taken place in April 2020 and that, due to health circumstances, has had to be postponed until now. His last live appointment with the San Sebastian public was in April 2017, when he filled the Kursaal to sing the repertoire of his album ‘Monstruos’ and in which there was no shortage of old friends of his at Real Sociedad such as ex-soccer player Esteban Granero .

For this fifth studio work, the one from Alameda de Osuna met with fourteen fellow artists who lead the current scene both on this and the other side of the Atlantic. A showcase that the great Latin American venues are already opening wide for him: this fall he will debut at the legendary Luna Park in Buenos Aires. If in ‘Nuclear’ (2019) he was already dropped in those parts, this latest album and his recent publication ‘Jaula de Oro’, together with Knowing Russia (a project by the Argentine musician Mateo Sujatovich) give a good account of how that bet.