Primera Persona 2017
Autobiographic live sessions: pop music concerts, stand-up comedy, theatre and narrative
The Primera Persona (First Person) Festival is to be held for the sixth time this year in the CCCB Theatre and will present a new round of stories about life: monologues, readings and an incredible range of shows. The festival will also be held for the second time at La Casa Encendida in Madrid.
Primera Persona 2017. Alison Statton & Spike + Stuart Moxham
Alison Statton & Spike and Stuart Moxham are three Welsh musicians who have changed the rules of pop. Young Marble Giants, the trio which Statton created with the Moxham brothers (Stuart and Philip) in 1978, gave expression to the adjective “minimalist”: post-punk ...
Makoki: Miguel Gallardo and Juan Mediavilla
Primera Persona 2017
If one character from Spanish comics has marked a generation, it isMakoki, the antisocial roughneck who, created by Miguel Gallardoand Juan Mediavilla in 1977, spent five delirious years rampaging through the pages of the main publications in the motherland’s counterculture (Disco Exprés, Star and El Víbora).
Primera Persona 2017. Joe Pernice
The musician Joe Pernice, with two essential bands (Scud Mountain and Pernice Brothers) to his credit, took the stage of Primera Persona to play some of the compositions that have marked his career and speak of his novel It Feels So Good When I Stop, which has recently been published in Spanish by Blackie Books.
Primera Persona 2017. Jon Savage
Jon Savage came on Primera Persona's stage to comment his main works. An expert in matters like British punk, thanks to his unqualified bible on the phenomenon,England’s Dreaming: The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, which was rescued and published ...
Isa Calderón i Lucía Lijtmaer
Primera Persona 2017
Isa Calderón and Lucía Lijtmaer are leading figures in cultural journalism and feminist humour in Spain, as they show in this entertaining performance they gave at the 2017 Primera Persona Festival. Shortly after their show in Barcelona, they created “Deforme Semanal”, ...
Primera Persona 2017. Las Ruinas
The Barcelona heavy-pop trio Las Ruinas—consisting of the Peruvian Eduardo Chirinos, the Venezuelan Jaime Bertrán and the Barcelona-born Toni López—provided a festive ending for Primera Persona 2017. Their lyrics embracing love, urban planning, dystopian science fiction, poverty and (emotional and financial) ruin, are the equivalent of the Barcelona of the previous 2,000 chroniclers, like Gato Pérez for example. Quite a long time ago Las R ...
Kate Bolick and Anna Gabriel
Talk in the Primera Persona 2017 Festival
Kate Bolick, author of the essay Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own (published in Spanish as Solterona. La construcción de una vida propia, Malpaso Ediciones, 2016)—which explores in first person the issues considered in ...
Primera Persona 2017. Ana Curra with Joan Pons
Ana Curra, dubbed the “Spanish queen of punk” and the most radical, complex face of the ill-named “Movida madrileña” (Madrid Scene) of the 1980s, opened the Festival’s second session. An essential part of the musical group Alaska y Los Pegamoides and also of Parálisis Permanente, Curra talked about her career with the music critic Joan Pons, scriptwriter for such television music programmes as Sputnik and Cachitos de hierro y cromo. ...
Primera Persona 2017. Colin Barrett
Colin Barrett, author of Young Skins (Glanbeigh, in the Spanish edition by Sajalín Editores, 2016), a moving, harsh and beautiful collection of stories set in a semi-fictional Irish village, took the Primera Persona stage to speak of the biography of a godforsaken place.
Primera Persona 2017. Julián Hernández (Siniestro Total) + Esteban Hernández + Rafael Tapounet (Los Carradines)
To close saturday's sessions Julián Hernández, founder and leader of Siniestro Total, and one of the wildest, most imaginative minds in the history of Spanish rock and roll, took centre stage with his son Esteban Hernández.
Primera Persona 2017. The Young Ones: Nigel Planer and Alexei Sayle
Two of the actors from the hilarious, subversive BBC comedy series of the 1980s, The Young Ones (Els joves) Nigel Planer “the hippy” and Alexei Sayle, who plays different members of the Balowski family, appeared together for the first time in Catalonia to reminisce about the best bits of the legendary series and analyse its amazing success in this country.
Primera Persona 2017. Bacalao: Jorge Albi, Nando Dixkontrol, Toni Vidal «El Gitano» and Luis Costa
Bacalao presented a route through all the colours and nuances of the cultural explosion represented by the blooming of dance music in Valencia after Franco’s death. This is described by some of its leading figures: Jorge Albi, Nando Dixkontrol and Toni ...
Primera Persona 2017
Festival Lineup
The Primera Persona (First Person) Festival is to be held for the sixth time this year in the CCCB Theatre and will present a new round of stories about life: monologues, readings and an incredible range of shows. The festival will also be held for the second time at La Casa Encendida in ...
Jon Savage, expert in British punk
Primera Persona 2017
Jon Savage, an expert in matters like British punk, thanks to his unqualified bible on the phenomenon, England’s Dreaming: The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, which was rescued and published in Spain by Reservoir Books/Penguin Random House (2016). Savage has also offered an audacious, innovative ...
