Les Que Faltaband: “This is our brand and we are comfortable with it, it makes us different”

2023-08-07 19:00:53

There are many people who enjoy so many annual festivals, festivals or, in short, concerts as they can during the time ofsummer. The nights with temperatures that call for cool clothes, the huddled people who have nothing else on their minds but to have a good time with their friends o family. Now it’s hard to look back and think that two summers ago this couldn’t be done normally, the pandemic deprived people of this little pleasure. But things also came out of there that seemed to bring back this desire to party with more energy and more rhythm. During that 2020, a project emerged unique in it Catalan musical panoramathis one is The Missing Band. It all started with two girls – Maria and Gero – and a shared idea: to make a group with a different touch, and it ended up being a band of eight members. But that’s not the only thing that makes them unique, it’s about one version group with one repertoire also fully and exclusively feminine.

After stepping on the ground for almost 50 scenariosthis Tuesday night this female project lands at the White Summer, a Palamósto offer a show where they mix the songs of the «dives» best known – from Beyoncé to Rosalía through Gloria Gaynor or Aitana – with choreographies and desire to have a good time. Since they started their tour for Catalonia last February, the eight girls they haven’t missed a single weekend, and their calendar shows that there will be Les Que Faltaband until well into the fall. For this August alone, they have already confirmed two more performances in the province of Girona, with less than a week between them. Next Friday the 11th visit the August festivities bathrooms and on Thursday the 17th they will be a Lloret de Mar.

Delafé and the Blue Flowers, Arde Bogotá, Suu, Ladilla Rusa and Figa Flawas will perform at White Summer

“The name of the group came from a brainstorm, we thought we’d make one play on words with the fact that we are all girls, that there are no female groups and that we are a band, it was perfect”, says Addaia, guitarist from Empordà in the Barcelona band. He assures that both with the name and his presence on the stage, they want claim the lack of women in them posters and show that “aunties can also have good parties”. “If it is true that the musical paradigm is beginning to changewe are lucky that our proposal is working, but we need more month women in this industry“, he wanted to add. Les Que Faltaband were pioneers, if not the first, of the first bands that wanted and were able to 100% feminize a group of versions. According to its members, the opening to songs that are not by women is not on the table, “this is our brand and we are comfortable with it, it makes us different”.

Multitalented references

Even assuming one breath of fresh air in the programming of dozens of major parties and festivals, the eight girls did not expect their popularity to grow as quickly as it has. “We have many concerts and the feedback is usually good…”, points out Addaia, who adds that “it is gratifying, because we have worked on it and it is a job done with love». At the end of the day, it’s not just about the music, about being recognized and liked, but about the importance that the representation feminine happening in front of an expectant audience. “We want to be one referentwe have already seen mothers, girls our age and little girls who come up to us after a performance and tell us that they feel inspired, they feel they can too“, add.

In Les Que Faltaband we find wind instruments like the sax or the tubaof string like the bass, guitar or keyboardof percussion com drums and vocals, as well the dance and the show. It is a multi-talented group that started from nothing and has become “a machine that works very well together and that we prioritize, despite having other projects on the side». It points out the guitarist that they are, and for a long time will continue to be, Maria, Gero, Minerva, Marina, Noelia, Helena, Núria Martínez and Nuria Gascón“without leaving aside ours equipwe wouldn’t be able to do what we do and wouldn’t have gotten this far if it weren’t for the people who are part of it.”