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Rating: - The Live of Telespalla No.9 - Saturday, April 25, 37th Matchday of the Serie B Championship.
The match initially scheduled for the night before, Friday the 24th, is Parma-Salernitana at the Ennio Tardini Stadium. This was until the tragic earthquake of April 6th that hit L'Aquila, for which it was decided to postpone the 35th matchday, later rescheduled for Tuesday the 21st. Due to this rescheduling, the match on the 24th turned into a post-match and will therefore be played on Monday the 27th, still in the evening.
With all this, what do I want to say? Simple: I shouldn't have gone to this concert. Without the rescheduling of Serie B, decided out of respect for the national mourning, I would have spent this Friday evening in the stands of the Parma stadium cheering for Salernitana, cursing between chants for a missed cross by Fatic or a missed goal by Fava or, worse, for Cardinale's "marking" on Paloschi. But no...
Friday evening spent in Brescia at Liò Bar watching Offlaga Disco Pax with great pleasure since I consider the band from Reggio Emilia one of the best realities of Italian music in recent years; also taking into account that the connection with Brescia and its province is very strong (Offlaga is a small town of about 1000 souls in the lower countryside), it is always a pleasant occasion for Max Collini and his companions to visit under the Cidneo.
The Liò Bar generally remains the same; two new details caught me by surprise: the assembly of a strange structure next to the stage (widened, I'm glad for those playing there) where a daring DJ was placed and the cosmic inability of the waitress to tap a beer. Upon my request for a Medium Red, I found myself with half a liter of foam that I looked at with a bewildered expression which then turned into a mix of disgust and a desire to scream at the bartender in front of her method for tapping beers. I noticed she was doing EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE of what she should be doing. Practically 5 Euros wasted, lucky that the ticket isn't paid for otherwise someone would rightly complain, and, be clear, would have all my support.
Let's get to the concert, which started after 23:15, and at the opening, we find "Ventrale", the first single from "Bachelite", the second album by the Reggio group. The second track from "Bachelite" and, in immediate contrast, the second from "Socialismo Tascabile" which is "Enver". After this nice appetizer dominated by the Number 2, we move on to the real beginning presenting a general definition of Bakelite and "Superchiome" as the immediate forerunner. Popular wisdom teaches that two without three doesn't exist, and after seeing the number two in the opening, the three presents itself in a peculiarity that characterized the central part of the concert: 3 songs from "Bachelite" and just as many from "Socialismo Tascabile" all in rapid succession.
To close "Onomastica", presented with the vision for the Brescia audience of a telephone directory of Reggio Emilia and here, striking while the iron's hot, since the videoclip has just been released and the 12' released very recently. A concert where Offlaga manages to bring out beautiful things: always delirious bases, Moog sweeps, and snippets on guitar and bass; they prove to be on the ball and decidedly lively with the music. Max Collini instead is always suffering, almost estranged from the world that surrounds him and captures him: a few glances directed who-knows-where and then a compulsive and amusing movement of the facial muscles almost wanting to pull faces as usually done with children.
The audience appreciates, breaks into laughter, and shouts the symbolic phrases of the songs.The encore is very short but of absolute quality. First, a very suggestive version of "Robespierre" (from which the photo is taken), decidedly distant from the studio track and then a song which, according to Collini, is an absolute Live premiere: the track is titled "Bachelite" and tells a little romantic adventure that Max experienced right in Brescia. A story in Offlaga Disco Pax style: amusing, with that somewhat sad and surreal background that makes it all almost humorous. The outcome is positive and all in all, I was satisfied, also because it's a concert I enjoyed in peace and at my own pace without particular attention or need of any kind.
Hoping that Monday evening I can return to Brescia with the same sensations of this evening. In the meantime... "Thank you Reagan, Bombardaci Parma!"
Setlist:
- Ventrale
- Enver
- Superchiome
- Dove Ho Messo la Golf?
- Sensibile
- Piccola Pietroburgo
- Cinnamon
- Kappler
- Onomastica
- Robespierre
- Bachelite
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