Primavera review: Fontaines DC triumphant at first weekend alongside Nick Cave and Charli XCX

The National and Kacey Musgraves also featured on the bill of the famed Barcelona event that showed some rustiness on the organisational front after its two-year layoff

Mon, 06 Jun, 2022 - 20:00

Eoghan O’Sullivan

Primavera Sound returned to Parc del Forum in Barcelona over the weekend (Thursday-Saturday) for its first outing since 2019, with a healthy Irish contingent representing in the crowd.

It's bigger than ever, in all senses of the word, taking about 30 minutes to get from one end of the site to the other and being held over two weekends. But bigger doesn't always mean better and like the headline-grabbing queues at Dublin Airport recently, maybe this summer will be one of growing pains and learning curves as things continue to 'return to normal'.