Primavera Sound
Primavera Sound (commonly referred to as simply Primavera) is an annual music festival held at the Parc del Fòrum in Barcelona, Spain, during late May and early June. It was founded in 2001 by Pablo Soler as "a showcase for Spanish noise bands", originally held at the Poble Espanyol before moving to the Parc del Fòrum, a much larger site on the seafront, in 2005.[4] It is one of the largest and most-attended music festivals in Europe and the biggest in the Mediterranean.[5]
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Primavera Sound in 2019 | |
| Genre | Indie rock[1][2] |
| Dates | Late May-early June |
| Location(s) | Parc del Fòrum, Barcelona (2005–2019, 2022–present)
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| Coordinates | 41°24′38″N 2°13′35″E / 41.410667°N 2.226333°E 41.410666, 2.226342 |
| Years active | 2001–2019; 2022–present |
| Founded by | Pablo Soler |
| Attendance | 220,000 |
| Capacity | 95,000[3] |
| Website | primaverasound |
The festival's image was originally oriented around indie rock, but in recent years has seen a larger presence of genres such as hip hop, electronic dance music and pop.[6][7] In contrast to most other European festivals, traditionally the first bands go on at 4:00 pm, the headliners begin at midnight, and the latest acts play until 6:00 a.m.[8][9]
Originally a one-day event, a second day was added beginning in 2002, and the 2004 edition became the first to feature a three-day lineup. In 2008, the festival began hosting free shows for ticketholders in local venues across Barcelona, beginning a tradition now known as Primavera a la Ciutat.[10] No festival was held in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It returned in 2022 with a two-week format for the first time, combining most bookings from the missed years, before reverting to a one-week event in 2023.
The success of the festival led to an international expansion to Porto in 2012 at the Parque da Cidade, which takes place a week after the main edition.[11] In 2022, the festival hosted its first editions in Los Angeles, Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires and São Paulo.[12][13][14][15] Primavera Sound continued to expand to Asunción and Bogotá in 2023.[16] The festival held a 2023 edition in Madrid a week later featuring a nearly identical lineup, an experiment which only lasted one year.[17][18] A much smaller version of the festival, Primavera Weekender, has been taking place in Benidorm each November since 2019.[19]
The artists who have headlined the main Primavera Sound edition in Barcelona multiple times are Pulp, Sonic Youth, Mogwai, Wilco, Spiritualized, Yo La Tengo, Pixies, PJ Harvey, the Flaming Lips, Belle and Sebastian, My Bloody Valentine, Aphex Twin, the National, Patti Smith, Interpol, the xx, Arcade Fire, Björk, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Pavement, Tame Impala, the Strokes, Lorde, Phoenix, Blur, New Order, Kendrick Lamar and Rosalía.
Each Primavera Sound between 2009 and 2022 set new attendance records, growing from its small origins of just 7,700 tickets sold in 2001. The 2022 festival was visited by 460,500 people, the fourth-most attended music festival in the world that year, while generating €349 million in revenue for the city of Barcelona.[20]
History edit
2001–2004: Beginnings at Poble Espanyol edit
The name "Primavera Sound" was first used for a series of concerts held at the Sala KGB venue in Barcelona in 1994.[21] It continued to promote local noise shows in Spain throughout the 1990s, but founder Pablo Soler was able to take the name back for a festival that he began planning in 2000. The first edition was held on 28 April 2001 at the Poble Espanyol, an open-air architectural museum on top of the Montjuïc hill.[22] It featured four stages and 19 acts including Armand van Helden, Carl Craig, Los Planetas, Unkle and Yasuharu Konishi, the former frontman of Japanese band Pizzicato 5.[23] Soler said he wanted to start the festival "as a showcase for Spanish noise bands." The festival differed from most of its other European counterparts like Glastonbury by being held within a city rather than in a large camping site.[4]
Primavera Sound expanded to a second day in 2002, which took place on 17 and 18 May. The headliners were Pulp, Tindersticks and Spiritualized. Other prominent performers included Aphex Twin, Camera Obscura, Cat Power, Echo & the Bunnymen, J Mascis and The Moldy Peaches, whose set was their only concert in Spain for the next 21 years.[23]
In 2003, attendance improved to 24,200, and the number of acts also increased to more than 90 groups and DJs, both local and international. Five areas were arranged at the Poble Espanyol site for the night shows (Nitsa-Apolo, Rockdelux by Lois, CD Drome, Nasti and Psicolabis). An extra site was added to the festival: Mercat de les Flors, for the day time activities: the Primavera Soundtrack Film Festival and the Record label Fair, which included two stages (acoustic and electric) where the label's bands showcased their works. The headliners were Belle and Sebastian, Mogwai, Sonic Youth and Television; the lineup also featured Arab Strap, El-P, The Folk Implosion, The Go-Betweens, Julian Cope, Teenage Fanclub, The White Stripes and Yo La Tengo, among others.
In 2004 the festival kept growing in length (three days in the Poble Espanyol), artists and attendance. Attendance increased to up to 40,000 people. Headliners included Pixies (playing their first European show in 12 years), PJ Harvey, Primal Scream and Wilco. The size of the simultaneous record label and industry fair also increased, with 30 stands representing the leading independent Spanish record labels, as well as specialized press and associated companies.[10]
2005–2009: Expansion edit
In 2005 the festival relocated from the Poble Espanyol to the Fòrum site. This new site was built explicitly for the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures. It is a 14-hectare multipurpose public park meters away from the Mediterranean Sea. It is best known for its public art, the Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona and its underground auditorium, its seaview and solar panels, with the last one becoming one of the emblems of the site. Other points in favour was the proximity to commercial and residential areas of Sant Adrià and Poblenou, which has been described as the "hipster" part of the city, and its great connection with public transport through the Metro Line 4 and the Trambesòs.
2005 saw the first use of the Auditorium building where some of the main performances of that weekend took place, such as Antony & The Johnsons, Vic Chesnutt and Tortoise. Headliners included New Order, Iggy Pop’s Stooges live comeback, Sonic Youth and Steve Earle, with Gang of Four, Mercury Rev, The Human League, Arcade Fire and Tortoise directly underneath.
2006 saw only minor changes in the layout of the stages and some improvements in the infrastructure. The headliners included Motörhead and Yo La Tengo on Thursday, The Flaming Lips, Dinosaur Jr. and Yeah Yeah Yeahs on Friday, and Lou Reed, Violent Femmes and Stereolab on Saturday. Other performers included Animal Collective, Babyshambles, Big Star, Deerhoof, Drive-By Truckers, Killing Joke, Richard Hawley, Shellac, Sleater-Kinney and The Drones.
2007 saw the audience increase to over 60,000 attendees. With thirty per cent of the audience coming from other countries, there were now over 150 acts, headlined by The Smashing Pumpkins, The White Stripes, Wilco, Sonic Youth performing Daydream Nation in full, Patti Smith, Slint performing Spiderland in full and The Fall. Other prominent acts included The Good, the Bad & the Queen, Maxïmo Park, Los Planetas, Spiritualized, Modest Mouse, Buzzcocks, The Durutti Column, Jonathan Richman, Built to Spill, Billy Bragg, Melvins performing Houdini, Low, Blonde Redhead and Isis.[24][25]
The 2008 edition was headlined by Portishead, MGMT, Public Enemy performing It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Rufus Wainwright, Cat Power and Bon Iver. Other performers included Tindersticks, The Sonics, Sebadoh, De La Soul, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Young Marble Giants, Mission of Burma, Throbbing Gristle, Model 500, Nick Lowe and Vampire Weekend. It marked the first time that artists performed in club venues across Barcelona in the days leading up to the festival, beginning a traditional which would become known as Primavera a la Ciutat.[10]
2009 saw a total of 171 performers and over 80,000 spectators, headlined by Neil Young, My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Aphex Twin, Bloc Party, Jarvis Cocker, Yo La Tengo, The Jayhawks and Spiritualized. Parc del Fòrum hosted six stages, while eight additional venues were used across the city of Barcelona. The starting signal was given in various underground stations of the town centre on Saturday 23 May and the usual presentation showcases, organized with the collaboration of different record companies and taking place from Monday the 25th in the Apolo, and Sidecar. The main event took place on the 28th, 29th and 30 May and the second edition of Primavera at the Park (free concerts in the Joan Miró) consolidated itself in 2009 with twelve concerts which prolonged the festival into the Sunday 31 May.
2010–2019: Reaffirmation and internationalization edit
2010, the tenth edition, saw over 100,000 spectators attend the festival for the first time, and featured the first edition of PrimaveraPro, a gathering more than 400 music industry professionals from different countries and different areas within the sector such as labels, booking agencies, promoters or festival programmers.[10] The headliners were Pixies, Pavement (in their first tour since 1999), Pet Shop Boys, Wilco and Orbital. They were joined by The Charlatans performing Some Friendly, The Fall, Sunny Day Real Estate, Superchunk, Grizzly Bear, Panda Bear, The xx, Broken Social Scene, Tortoise, Wire, Built to Spill, Gary Numan, Marc Almond, Health, Van Dyke Parks, Florence and the Machine, The New Pornographers, Fuck Buttons, No Age and Atlas Sound among other bands.[26]
In 2011, attendance grew to over 120,000 people. The headliners were Pulp, PJ Harvey, Grinderman, The Flaming Lips, Animal Collective, Belle & Sebastian, Interpol, The National, Fleet Foxes, Sufjan Stevens, Mogwai, John Cale performing Paris 1919, Mercury Rev performing Deserter's Songs, M. Ward and Low.
The 2012 edition of the festival was headlined by Franz Ferdinand, Wilco, Refused (on their Reunion Tour's first performances since 1998), The xx, Death Cab for Cutie, The Cure, Rufus Wainwright, Björk, Justice and The Weeknd. Attendance was around 117,000 people. In June 2012, the first edition of NOS Primavera Sound took place at the Parque da Cidade in Porto, Portugal. Alberto Guijarro, the festival's director, stated that “after years in Barcelona we organised a first edition in Porto to take advantage of musicians on tour, but it is a different type of event; what we do in Portugal is a Primavera boutique, more well-kept, smaller and with its own personality".[27]
2013's headliners were The Postal Service, Phoenix, Blur, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and My Bloody Valentine. The lineup also featured Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Tame Impala, The Knife, James Blake, Band of Horses, Wu-Tang Clan and Los Planetas, among 260 acts. There was a new record attendance of 170,000 counting the four days in the Parc del Fòrum and the activities in the framework of Primavera a la Ciutat. The festival was also set to host Fiona Apple's only scheduled performance of the year, but she canceled in April.[28]
2014 was headlined by Arcade Fire, Queens of the Stone Age, The National, Pixies, Slowdive, Nine Inch Nails and Kendrick Lamar. Slowdive announced their reunion after 19 years of disbandment to play the festival.[29] The main stages were also played by Real Estate, Disclosure, Midlake, Warpaint, X, Haim, !!!, Spoon, Television, Volcano Choir and Foals.
In 2015, the festival was headlined by The Black Keys, Antony and the Johnsons, Alt-J, Patti Smith performing Horses, The Strokes, Ride, Interpol and Underworld performing Dubnobasswithmyheadman. Other performers on the main stages included James Blake, Julian Casablancas & The Voidz, Damien Rice, the reunited Sleater-Kinney, Mac DeMarco and Foxygen.[30] Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark headlined a free Wednesday show.[31]
The 2016 festival was headlined by Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem (who had recently reunited), PJ Harvey and Sigur Rós. Tame Impala, Explosions in the Sky, Air, Beach House, The Last Shadow Puppets, Beirut, Moderat, Deerhunter, Wild Nothing and Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds also played on the main stages. Suede headlined the year's free lead-up Wednesday show.[32][33] It saw the reunion of The Avalanches, who had not performed live since 2007 or DJ'd since 2011.[34] A new beach stage opened across a bridge at the Sant Adrià de Besòs port focusing on electronic music sets from artists including Sophie and Todd Terje. Consequence of Sound named it the festival of the year.[8]
The 2017 headliners were originally Bon Iver, Aphex Twin, Frank Ocean, The xx, Arcade Fire and Van Morrison. However, Ocean canceled his headlining gig four days before his performance due to "production delays beyond his control", replaced by a Jamie xx DJ set.[35] Arcade Fire, Mogwai and Haim performed secret sets, while Slayer, Miguel, Grace Jones, Run the Jewels and Solange also played on the main stage.[36][37] More than 200,000 people attended.[38]
In 2018, the headliners were Björk, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The National, Arctic Monkeys, Lorde and A$AP Rocky.[39] Migos were planned to headline but cancelled hours before the performance because they missed their flight, replaced by Skepta and Los Planetas.[40] Artists from 33 countries were booked for the event.[41] Chvrches, The War on Drugs, Alex G, Father John Misty, Tyler, the Creator, Lykke Li and Car Seat Headrest were among the names that also played the main stages. The area for the electronic music beach stages were renamed "Primavera Bits" and advertised as a "festival within a festival", featuring sets from artists such as Four Tet, Floating Points, Oneohtrix Point Never, Jon Hopkins, Panda Bear and Madlib.[42][43]
With the 2019 lineup, the festival's organizers committed to begin a gender-balanced lineup which Primavera advertised as "The New Normal."[44][45] Female-fronted acts made up over half of the total performers, up from 35% in 2018.[46] The largely female headliners were Erykah Badu, Future, Interpol, Tame Impala, Cardi B, Janelle Monáe, Solange, J Balvin and Rosalía.[47] Cardi B cancelled her appearance due to scheduling conflicts and was replaced by Miley Cyrus, who fully premiered her brand new EP She Is Coming.[48][49] The festival noted how it featured a "variety of genres that goes from extreme metal to reggaeton."[44] Big Thief, Courtney Barnett, Carly Rae Jepsen, Robyn and Kali Uchis also played the main stages, this year sponsored by SEAT and Pull&Bear. It was attended by over 220,000 people.[50]
2020–present: Pandemic issues and expansion to the Americas edit
In November 2019, a smaller edition of the festival named Primavera Weekender began at Magic Robin Hood Camp in Benidorm, attended by over 3,500 people.[51]
The 2020 edition originally featured Massive Attack, Pavement (in their first performance since their 2010 hiatus), The National, The Strokes, Lana del Rey, Tyler, the Creator, Bad Bunny and Disclosure as headliners.[52] In March 2020, the festival was moved to August 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and ultimately cancelled in May.[53][54] Later that month, the 2021 lineup was announced, featuring similar lineups to the cancelled 2020 edition.[55] However, in March 2021, the festival was cancelled again.[56]
Primavera Sound returned in 2022 from 1 June to 12 June, featuring a two-weekend model for the first time with a lineup that combined most bookings from the cancelled 2020 and 2021 editions with new names. The first weekend was headlined by Pavement, Tame Impala, Beck, The National, Gorillaz, Jorja Smith, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Tyler, the Creator, while the second weekend was headlined by Dua Lipa, Gorillaz, Interpol, Tyler, the Creator, Lorde, The Strokes, Jorja Smith, Megan Thee Stallion, Tame Impala, Phoenix and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.[57]
Scheduled headliner Massive Attack cancelled three months prior to their performance due to a member's health complications.[58] Ride, Wet Leg, and Magdalena Bay were added to the lineup after the initial announcement.[59][60] Dreamcatcher became the first K-pop artist to play in the festival's history.[61] King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard performed five sets without repeating a single song in a setlist.[62]
As the 20th anniversary of the festival, it was considered an Event of Exceptional Public Interest by the Government's Ministry of Culture and Sports, the first international music festival in Spain to earn the distinction.[63] It was attended by 460,500 people, including 65% foreigners, and the average attendee spent €1,423 in Barcelona during the festival, generating €349 million ($367 million) to the city.[64][65] The festival also hosted its first editions in Los Angeles, São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Santiago that year.[66][67]
The 2023 festival reverted to the one-week structure in Barcelona but was the first to feature a nearly identical edition in Madrid's Arganda del Rey neighborhood a week later. Presented under the slogan "I'll be your mirror", the headliners first announced in November 2022 were Blur, Halsey, Kendrick Lamar, Depeche Mode, Rosalía and Calvin Harris, followed by New Order in March.[68][69] Other prominent performers included Darkside, Ghost, Turnstile, Baby Keem, Four Tet, Fred Again, Skrillex, Caroline Polachek, Måneskin and St. Vincent.[70] DEM MOB became the first Aboriginal Australian act to perform at the festival.[71] Pet Shop Boys headlined the free Wednesday show in Parc del Fòrum for Barcelona and Cívitas Metropolitano in Madrid.[72] On Friday, Skrillex's set was disrupted because the stage caught fire as he performed.[73] The festival featured a total of 317 performances and recorded 253,000 attendees on smaller grounds than usual.[74] Barcelona experienced a decrease in foreign attendees from 70% to 52%, mainly among British visitors, which was attributed to the impact of Brexit and increased costs.[74][75]
Before Madrid's planned opening day on 8 June, the festival canceled all performances on Thursday due to weather concerns. Headliner Blur held a free makeup show at the 2,500-capacity La Riviera club.[76][77] Attendance in Madrid was lower than Barcelona, with 42,000 on Friday and 48,000 on Saturday, despite the festival grounds' capacity of 85,000.[78] On 22 July, Primavera Sound announced that it would not be returning to Madrid in 2024 because "the city does not have a site able to host an event of this magnitude and format in terms of audience demands, production requirements, and musical show."[18] Complaints were raised about the Ciudad del Rock complex's location 40 km away from Madrid's city center, long lines for shuttle buses to and from the venue, and overall poor logistics.[79]
International editions edit
In 2012, Primavera Sound launched a sister festival in Porto, Portugal. Each year, this edition takes place one week after the main Barcelona edition and features a smaller selection of artists that play Barcelona.[80]
Upon the conclusion of the 2019 festival in Barcelona, Primavera Sound announced new editions in Los Angeles Historic Park in the United States, scheduled for September 2020, and London's Drumsheds venue, for June 2020. However, Primavera pulled out of the London plans over time constraints and concerns over permits and licenses. The London edition was scheduled to replace or merge with Field Day.[81]
The first Los Angeles edition occurred from September 16–18, 2022 and was headlined by Lorde, Arctic Monkeys and Nine Inch Nails.[82] The editions in São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Santiago all took place from October to November 2022, and were all headlined by Arctic Monkeys, Björk, Lorde and Travis Scott. It was notably Scott's first festival booking since the Astroworld Festival crowd crush.[67] Other international performers at these editions included Arca, Beach House, Cat Power, Caroline Polachek, Charli XCX, Father John Misty, Japanese Breakfast, José González, Interpol, Mitski, and Phoebe Bridgers.[83]
The expansion into Latin America continued in 2023, with the first edition held in Asunción, Paraguay.[84] However, the Los Angeles edition did not continue because of an oversaturated American market and inconvenient scheduling.[85] A first edition was supposed to be held in Bogotá, Colombia, but on 17 October 2023, the festival was cancelled and rebranded as "Road to Primavera" featuring just five of the original 29 listed artists because of low ticket sales and instability in Colombia.[86][87] The Cure were announced as headliners for all South American editions; other headliners included Grimes, Beck, Pet Shop Boys, Blur, The Killers and The Hives.[88]
Location and festival grounds edit
Primavera Sound takes place in the Parc del Fòrum, located in the southeast part of the Poblenou neighbourhood, between Barcelona and Sant Adrià de Besòs. It is accessible through public transport.
The festival is known for having a large number of stages named after its sponsors. The two main stages, where the headliners and other popular acts perform, are located on the Plataforma Marina, a large flat terrain that was scheduled to hold a marine zoo but that remained to be a fairground and multipurpose venue after the project seemed non-viable due to the Spanish financial crisis.[89] This area is colloquially referred to as Mordor due to its demanding environment and distance from the festival entrance.[90] As of 2023, the two main stages are currently sponsored by and named after Estrella Damm and Santander.[91]
As of 2023, the other primary stages of the festival include an open-air amphitheater currently sponsored by Cupra (formerly Ray-Ban), two outdoor stages near the main entrance of the festival grounds sponsored by Amazon Music and Ron Brugal, a seafront stage with an emphasis on critically acclaimed artists currently sponsored by Plenitude (formerly Pitchfork), another seafront stage with an emphasis on heavy music sponsored by DICE (formerly Ouigo and Adidas), and the Rockdelux Auditori del Fòrum, an indoor 3,000-capacity auditorium under the Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona which hosts artists which require the best acoustic sounds.
Stages which focus on electronic music include The Warehouse, which is sponsored by Stone Island (formerly NTS) located in an underground car park, the Boiler Room x Cupra, and the Pull&Bear stage (formerly sponsored by DICE and a part of Primavera Bits). From 2016 to 2022, Primavera Bits was home to up to three stages located on a beach in the nearby Sant Adrià de Besòs municipality, which was accessible via a bridge and a waterfront path. In 2023, the area was removed from festival grounds because the festival was barred from using the bridge that connected the main grounds to the beach.[92][93]
Primavera a la Ciutat venues edit
Beginning in 2008, Primavera Sound hosts shows held at local Barcelona venues in the days surrounding the festival in a tradition known as Primavera a la Ciutat (English: Primavera in the City).[94] These venues include Razzmatazz (Capacity: 2,100 main hall, 940 Razzmatazz 2, 200 Razzmatazz 3), Sala Apolo and Parallel 62 (formerly known as BARTS), among others. The 2022 edition featured 14 separate venues across Barcelona used for Primavera a la Ciutat.[65]
The first Primavera a la Ciutat show on 26 May 2008 was headlined at La [2] de Apolo by Scarlet's Well, the project of The Monochrome Set lead singer Bid. That year also featured Ciutat sets from Matt Elliott, The Clientele and The Radio Dept.[95] The practice continued in 2009 with sets from David Gedge of The Wedding Present and Dälek.[96] Prior to their headlining performance in 2016, LCD Soundsystem played a secret show at BARTS, a club with a capacity of 900 people.[97]
Stage gallery edit
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Main stage by day
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Main Stage at night
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"Created in Barcelona" sign at Main Stage
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Primavera Stage
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Primavera Stage
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Pitchfork Stage
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Auditorium Stage
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Adidas Stage
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Seat Village Stage
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Your/Hidden Stage
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Lotus Stage
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Desperados Cube
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Sala Apolo during Primavera a la Ciutat
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Interior tents
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Resting Area
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Resting Musical Area
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Bar Area
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Bathing Area
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VIP Area
Festival summary by year edit
| Edition | Year | Dates | Headliners | Attendance or sales[98] | Avg. daily attendance/sales |
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| 1st | 2001 | April 28 | No headliners | 7,700 | 7,700 |
| 2nd | 2002 | May 17–18 | Pulp · Tindersticks · Spiritualized | 17,800 | 8,900 |
| 3rd | 2003 | May 23–24 | Belle and Sebastian · Mogwai · Sonic Youth · Television | 24,200 | 11,000 |
| 4th | 2004 | May 27–29 | Pixies · PJ Harvey · Primal Scream · Wilco | 41,431 | 17,000 |
| 5th | 2005 | May 26–28 | New Order · Stooges · Sonic Youth · Steve Earle | 46,935 | 19,000 |
| 6th | 2006 | June 1–5 | Motörhead · Yo La Tengo · Dinosaur Jr. · The Flaming Lips · Lou Reed · Stereolab · Violent Femmes | 48,563 | 21,000 |
| 7th | 2007 | May 31–June 2 | The Smashing Pumpkins · Sonic Youth · The White Stripes · Wilco · Patti Smith · Slint · The Fall | 61,782 | 20,000 |
| 8th | 2008 | May 29–31 | Portishead · MGMT · Public Enemy · Vampire Weekend · Cat Power · Bon Iver | 59,129 | 26,000 |
| 9th | 2009 | May 28–30 | Neil Young · My Bloody Valentine · Sonic Youth · Aphex Twin · Bloc Party · Jarvis Cocker · Yo La Tengo · The Jayhawks · Spiritualized | 76,080 | 25,000 |
| 10th | 2010 | May 27–29 | Pixies · Pavement · Pet Shop Boys · Wilco · Orbital | 101,200 | 30,000 |
| 11th | 2011 | May 26–28 | Pulp · PJ Harvey · Grinderman · The Flaming Lips · Animal Collective · Belle and Sebastian · Interpol · The National · Fleet Foxes · Sufjan Stevens · Mogwai · John Cale · Mercury Rev · M. Ward · Low | 123,300 | 36.000 |
| 12th | 2012 | May 31–June 2 | Franz Ferdinand · Wilco · Refused · The xx · Death Cab for Cutie · The Cure · Rufus Wainwright · Björk · Justice · The Weeknd | 147,000 | 35,000 |
| 13th | 2013 | May 23–25 | Phoenix · The Postal Service · Blur · The Jesus and Mary Chain · Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds · My Bloody Valentine | 170,000 | 55,000 |
| 14th | 2014 | May 29–31 | Arcade Fire · Queens of the Stone Age · The National · Pixies · Slowdive · Nine Inch Nails · Kendrick Lamar | 190,000 | 55,000 |
| 15th | 2015 | May 28–30 | The Black Keys · Anthony and the Johnsons · The Replacements · Alt-J · Patti Smith · The Strokes · Ride · Interpol · Underworld | 195,000 | 55,000 |
| 16th | 2016 | June 1–4 | Radiohead · LCD Soundsystem · Sigur Ros · PJ Harvey | 207,435 | 56,000 |
| 17th | 2017 | May 31–June 3 | Bon Iver · Aphex Twin · Frank Ocean (cancelled) · The xx · Arcade Fire · Van Morrison | 208,400 | 57,000 |
| 18th | 2018 | May 30–June 3 | Björk · Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds · The National · Migos (cancelled) · Arctic Monkeys · Lorde · A$AP Rocky | 217,000 | 60,000 |
| 19th | 2019 | May 30–June 1 | Erykah Badu · Future · Interpol · Tame Impala · Miley Cyrus (replacing Cardi B) · Janelle Monáe · Solange · J Balvin · Rosalía | 220,000 | 63,000 |
| 20th | 2022 | June 2–12 | Massive Attack (cancelled) · Pavement · Tame Impala · Beck · The National · The Strokes · Gorillaz · Jorja Smith · Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds · Tyler, the Creator · Dua Lipa · Interpol · Lorde · Megan Thee Stallion · Phoenix · Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 460,500 | 76,600 |
| 21st | 2023 | June 1–3 | Blur · Halsey · New Order · Kendrick Lamar · Depeche Mode · Rosalía · Calvin Harris | 253,000 | 84,000 |
| 22nd | 2024 | May 30–June 1 | Pulp · Vampire Weekend · Justice · Lana Del Rey · The National · Disclosure · SZA · PJ Harvey · Mitski · FKA Twigs · Charli XCX |
Porto edit
| Edition | Year | Dates | Headliners |
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| 1st | 2012 | June 8–10 | Björk · The Flaming Lips · Wilco · The xx |
| 2nd | 2013 | May 30–June 1 | Blur · Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds · James Blake · My Bloody Valentine |
| 3rd | 2014 | June 5–7 | The National · Pixies · Kendrick Lamar · Caetano Veloso · Neutral Milk Hotel |
| 4th | 2015 | June 4–6 | Interpol · Antony and the Johnsons · Ride · Underworld |
| 5th | 2016 | June 9–11 | Sigur Rós · PJ Harvey · Air |
| 6th | 2017 | June 8–10 | Bon Iver · Aphex Twin · Justice |
| 7th | 2018 | June 7–9 | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds · Lorde · A$AP Rocky |
| 8th | 2019 | June 6–8 | Solange · Stereolab · J Balvin · Interpol · Erykah Badu · Rosalía |
| 9th | 2022 | June 9–11 | Tame Impala · Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds · Pavement · Beck · Gorillaz |
| 10th | 2023 | June 7–10 | Kendrick Lamar · Rosalía · Pet Shop Boys · Blur · Halsey |
| 11th | 2024 | June 6–8 |
São Paulo edit
| Edition | Year | Dates | Headliners |
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| 1st | 2022 | October 31–November 6 | Arctic Monkeys · Björk · Lorde · Travis Scott |
| 2nd | 2023 | December 2–3 | Beck · The Cure · The Killers · Pet Shop Boys |
Buenos Aires edit
| Edition | Year | Dates | Headliners |
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| 1st | 2022 | October 14, November 7–13 | Arctic Monkeys · Björk · Charli XCX · Jack White · Lorde · Mitski · Pixies · Travis Scott |
| 2nd | 2023 | November 25–26 | Beck · Blur · The Cure · Pet Shop Boys |
Asunción edit
| Edition | Year | Dates | Headliners |
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| 1st | 2023 | December 7 | The Cure · Grimes |
Defunct editions edit
Los Angeles edit
| Year | Dates | Headliners |
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| 2022 | September 16–18 | Arctic Monkeys · Lorde · Nine Inch Nails |
Santiago de Chile edit
| Year | Dates | Headliners |
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| 2022 | November 7–13 | Arctic Monkeys · Björk · Jack White · Lorde · Pixies · Travis Scott |
Madrid edit
| Year | Dates | Headliners |
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| 2023 | June 9–10[a] | Blur (cancelled) · Halsey (cancelled) · New Order (cancelled) · Kendrick Lamar · Depeche Mode · Rosalía · Calvin Harris |
Prizes and awards edit
- Prizes of the Independent Music 2011 (organized by UFI): Better festival
- Altaveu 2011 Award
- Greener Festival Award 2012: in the category "Highly Commended"
- European Festival Awards: Artists' Favourite Festival in 2014
- Reward Waves of the Music 2014: Better musical spectacle
- Premi Continuarà-Vespre to La2 of Culture 2015
Notes edit
- ^ The inaugural edition of Primavera Sound Madrid was scheduled to begin on June 8. However, due to heavy rain, the venue booked in Arganda del Rey flooded, cancelling the first day of the festival, headlined by Blur, Halsey, and New Order.
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External links edit
- Official website