It's New Year's Eve, and, as tradition dictates, Bologna's Covo throws a big party: a brand-new twist this time is the afternoon lineup, letting anyone who can't skip the holiday dinner still catch two excellent performances.
The club is half-empty when Milan's Fine Before You Came take the stage, skillfully blending post and emo elements and delivering a performance that wins over the crowd regardless of genre. We'll be hearing more from them!
Right after, the day's headliners take the stage: Giardini di Mirò, who close out a year full of satisfactions in fine style.
They open straight away with one of their best tracks, "Connect the machine to the lips tower*be proud of your cake*", performed with more rage, more physicality: trumpet and violin are missing, but rather than losing anything arrangement-wise, the song almost turns into an electric charge in its first half: Luca's work on keyboards/Rhodes deserves special mention, his parts hitting straight at the heart.
Another moment worth mentioning as a peak of the performance is "Little victories", taken from the gorgeous "Rise and fall of academic drifting", an aching lullaby in which Alessandro Raina doesn't make us miss Paul Anderson of Tram too much.
I wasn't expecting any particular surprises from this live show, given the number of Giardini di Mirò concerts I've already been to, and yet... I was pleasantly struck by the covers the band performed. Besides the now-"classic" "Blood red bird" by Smog, they take on two of the finest rock songs in history: the first is "Heroes" by David Bowie, the second, played as the closer, is - believe it or not - "I wanna be your dog" by the Stooges, the latter delivered in a somewhat "My Bloody Valentine" style, with a dark blanket of feedback burying the melody.
A show to remember for Giardini di Mirò: certainly the best and most "loose" one I've had the chance to see.
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This article is an English translation of the original Italian text by OndaRock Staff, published on OndaRock.it. It was translated with the help of artificial intelligence, under the editorial responsibility of OndaRock's editor-in-chief, Claudio Fabretti.
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