As long as we came here only for 4 days we needed some time to spend it for travelling around and sightseeing. The 2nd day of Sonorama perfectly fit for this intention because all the important bands were gathered in what I called 'the main unit' giving us half a day free of duties. So we travelled to Valladolid and spent a couple of hours walking the streets of the town, and on the way back we made another one hour-long stop in Penafiel town, a home to such famous bodegas as Protos and Arzuaga, amongst others.
Valladolid
Penafiel
The day 2 schedule was as follows:
Plaza del Trigo: Banda de Turistas, Tuya, Jack Knife.
Red Bull: Dune, Sick Devils, Sharon Bates, The Panteras.
Carson Camping: El Capitan Elefante, Plank, Wolrus.
FutureStars: Mummuc, The Chinese Birdwatchers, Alis, Dehra Dun, Pantones, Egon Soda, The Tea Servants, Pumuky, Perro, Capsula.
Castilla y Leon: Tokio Sex Destruction, Leon Benavente, The Corner, Delafe y las Flores Azules, Miss Caffeina.
Ribera del Duero: Cyan, Jero Romero, Travis, Lori Meyers, Dorian.
The marathon should start for us from the show of Cyan, then Leon Benavente, then back to Ribera stage for Jero Romero, then short timeout, then Travis, then Delafe y las Flores Azules, then another run to FutureStars for my personal favourites Pumuky, while the successive shows of Miss Caffeina and Dorian long after midnight should celebrate the end of our day. That was an intention.
So the marafon had started from mercadillo. As long as I'm not the mp3-pirate anymore I'm always in the state of the rage searching for new CDs (and thank you God for not making me a vinyl die-hard) so I couldn't just walk through and then away. 70 Euros ago we came to Cyan show with 3 CDs and 3 t-shirts more.
"Delapso", the 3rd album of Cyan, made some kind of a splash in Spanish rock community this year, taking the band from relative obscurity into relative recognition. While Cyan is on the same plate with Sin Rumbo in terms of musical progress, the presence on the much bigger venue (possibly due to the contract with BMG) did not spoiled their show. The band looked potent and viable though the audience they played for was not so large. We missed the start of the show but when we came we easily approached the security bars before the scene and then were standing, jumping and dancing in front of the bandleaders Javi Fernandez and Gorka Dresbaj carrying out their performance duties.
Cyan
The next point of interest for us was the show of the new sensational supergroup Leon Benavente gathered around the person of Abraham Boba, renowned multi-instrumentalist of the Nacho Vegas supporting band's fame. The band recorded and issued an album in 2013 but one might face some hardships in trying to listen to the recorded material still the album is not on sale and only the single "Animo, Valiente" is available as of now (UPDATE: the album is up for free download from Marxophone label site - you should only subscribe for newsletter).
As far as the music of Leon Benavente is strict and cohesive in studio (as we might know from the only possible source - aforementioned "Animo, Valiente") so it is absolutely outrageous onstage. The show was fully centered at Abraham Boba whether he was sitting with his 'Farfisa' on the very right side of the stage or standing with the guitar in front of the crowd. His behaviour could be described as explosive - with occasional tribal jumps, gutar smashes, chair kicks and finally something that seemed like having sex with 'teclados' - all accompamnied with the loud thunder-like but tight music. And I could not imagine the members of Tachenko and Nacho Vegas' band could produce the music that would be absolutely out of their previous bands' system of coordinates! This was the shock, and it definitely was the positive shock.
Leon Benavente
The next show we have watched from afar as long as Jero Romero had already started performing when we came from Castilla y Leon stage to Ribera del Duero.
Jero Romero is the ex-vocalist of The Sunday Drivers, the band from Toledo who gained some internetional attention in the middle of 2000s with their brit-oriented indie rock sung in English. Now he is accompanied with the string of musicians including, for instance, Charlie Bautista, ex-member of Havalina who also have worked with Tulsa, Christina Rosenvinge, Nino y Pistola amongst others during last few years. Jero Romero's music is now far from the britpop euro-rock and based on the folk rock including the touches of blues and other related genres. And while the music itself was not our kind of pie, they played it so soulfully that we stuck in there for some time.
The crowd for Jero Romero
