LA PEGATINA
Catalonia - Spain
The explosive rumba urbana from Barcelona
00H15 - Chapiteau
With its mixed fusion open to the open winds, La Pegatina is in the great tradition of Barcelona explosive bands. Since 2003, these Catalan bouncers have been agitating the international stage with a contagious energy that do assert their partners in crime Manu Chao and Che Sudaka. Transforming each of their gigs into an inferno, they reinvent the rumba urbana a musical genre typical of Barcelona imported by gypsies returning from Cuba. Boosting it with ska, punk, rock, Caribbean rhythms and Latino brass, La Pegatina makes the compass panic and crossbreeds world music with pop-rock. Beware, incandescent gig ahead…