LES NEGRESSES VERTES | Rockwave Nights: 19/07, Thessaloniki
You are all invited!
Rockwave is the country’s flagship music institution. This year, it unfolds. It opens. Creates parallel events in the center of Athens. Rockwave goes down to the city center and sets up a frantic party in Technopolis, the Rockwave Nights.
Cities are waking up, coming to light. They look at the sky with optimism. The days come to life. The nights are lit up, the music echoes in the streets, the songs unfold, everyone needs the celebration! Everyone wants to go out, fall in love, dance, whisper, shout, hug and hug.
The party will start in Thessaloniki on July 19 at the Earth Theater and will be transferred to Athens on July 20 at the Technopolis with the fiery and immobile Les Negresses Vertes, the fierce and at the same time so tender music band from the working-class neighborhoods of Paris, which for thirty years . for almost years they arouse the public with their liveliness and inexhaustible power.
Les Negresses Vertes along with Mano Negra (Manu Chao) are notorious for being the first to play alternative punk rock in their native language. They demonstrate their French, Mediterranean temperament in every moment. Nothing less!
Les Negresses Vertes is a special musical case. It is a colorful and welcoming world. Their music is a mixture of alternative punk rock with ethnic rhythmic elements, fusion-rock, rai, flamenco, latin, polka, reggae and ska influences, combines accordion and guitar, while their inclusive style overflows with energy and dynamism! “Imagine Edith Piaf jamming with the Pogues playing some kind of Latin music, without taking themselves too seriously but having a lot of fun, these are Les Negresses Vertes,” said the BBC radio host and EBU member and director. . of Euroradio Eurosonic, Laurent Marceau.
Les Negresses Vertes was formed in September 1987. Their singer and lyricist Noel “Helno” Rota and his twin brother ThierryRota were members of the alternative rock band Bérurier Noir. Algerian guitarist Stefane Mellino repaired nets to live and played with various punk bands while accordionist Matthias Canavese was an acrobat in the iconic Zingaro circus. Their other members Mathias, Paulo and Gaby were previously members of the punk band Les Maîtres.
They all met together in the working-class neighborhoods of the French metropolis, in Paris and specifically on the Rue de l ‘Ourcq, as well as frequented the same bars and nightclubs. It was then that they decided to form Les Negresses Vertes. And to do that they decided to learn to play music. Guitars, piano, bass, trumpet, trombone, accordion, drums. And Les Negresses Vertes was born. The name of the band has its own mythology, it emerged after a quarrel that occurred at an event in which they were. As they had dyed their hair green and danced in a way that some attendees found offensive, the security of the place took them away by shouting “Get out of here, Green Negroes!”. However, the members of the band, instead of being offended, found this insult very funny and even adopted it as the name of their band.
Today, the new generation has the opportunity to find the magical world of Les Negresses Vertes, on Tuesday 19 July at the Earth Theater in Thessaloniki and on Wednesday 20 July at the Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens. To dive into their intoxicating music. This eccentric, Parisian alternative rock-punk troupe will set up a frantic music festival for all their friends, full of their classic hits.
TICKET INFORMATION
Ticket pre-sale has started
Ticket Prices
Phase A (until 31/5): 18 euro
Phase B (from 1/6): 22 euro
Cash desk: 25 euro
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EARTH THEATER
Triandria, Thessaloniki
TECHNOPOLI Municipality of Athens
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