manu chao in ljubljana? hell yes, please.
i believe we've discussed my minor obsession with slovenia, especially ljubljana, and also the fact that i'm starving for some culture in the form of live music in trieste. these factors combined made this weekend somewhat ideal. add: incredible springtime weather, good friends and the most amazing falafel in the entire world and i was pretty much in heaven.
i was just introduced to the excellence that is manu chao last december during a somewhat lengthy car ride to the dolomiti with friends. and why i had never heard his hot jams before makes me upset with everyone who had and didn't spread the love my way.
when browsing the book "1001 songs you must hear before you die" from our school library last week, i discovered that his 2001 release, "clandestino" was chosen as one of these songs. (by noting some of the other songs that had been selected, i would make this fact less interesting and exciting, so i won't.)
in the book, for each of the songs chosen as all important, the authors tell a bit about the song, its release and the artist. in manu chao's brief bio was the following:
"chao escaped celebrity by returning to travel. "i have what the spanish call 'a worried ass,' he explained. "i literally cannot stay in one place too long."
welp, i guess i now know my malady, i have a "worried ass."
posters advertising the concert all over LJ.
and yes, the concert was excellent. he played a 2.5 hour set, which included an hour's worth of encore songs and oh man, he was just cool. he's off to other really cool places in the balkans for the rest of the month and YOU should go.
x!
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