King Crimson and Underworld, at the Doctor Music Festival | Culture

Doctor Music Festival, the reissue of the legendary festival of the Pyrenees that was held for the first time in 1996, has announced a first advance of the poster of the event, that will take place in the same place, Escalarre (Lleida), next July: King Crimson Y Underworld. Both bands join The Smashing Pumpkins, the first ones confirmed, and They arrive "in a big way" at the festival, where they will offer three concerts each, the promoter said in a statement.

It is "a pioneering idea" that consists of "a small number of artists offering three concerts on different days in the festival, instead of one as usual", details Doctor Music, who stresses that "this will allow the public have more opportunities to see the shows they like and, in addition, the very fans they will be able to see their favorite artist more than once. "Tomorrow, Wednesday the 19th, the festival, popularly known as La Vaca for its image of a ruminant with its ears covered by bottle corks, will reveal a new advance of the poster.

Neo Sala, festival director, explained a few days ago in an interview in Mondo Sonoro: "That of going to a festival and having to go running ... Our festival will not be an accumulation of concerts, a collection of stickers ... I do not want people to have the feeling that they will miss something if they do not run ... The famous FOMO effect (fear of missing ouI'm afraid of missing something) that you get caught up in these big events will be greatly reduced at the Doctor Music Festival. "

Robert Fripp, leader of King Crimson, has been enthusiastic about the idea: "The power of music to unite people is a reason for hope." King Crimson is privileged to perform three times at the Doctor Music Festival. setlist It will be different, but until the morning of Show, we will not know how it will be. "