The Primavera Sound Pageant has been a Barcelona establishment since 2001, and it’s earned a fame as one of many world’s biggest annual music festivals. Primavera Sound expanded to Porto, Portugal in 2012. Extra not too long ago, there have been Primavera Sound Festivals in Los Angeles, Santiago, Buenos Aires, and São Paulo. This 12 months, the Primavera Sound Pageant held its first-ever version in Madrid. It is not going to return.

This previous Could, the Barcelona and Madrid editions of the Primavera Sound Pageant occurred on the identical weekend and with the similar lineups, a bit like Studying and Leeds. Headliners included Kendrick Lamar, Rosalía, Depeche Mode, and Calvin Harris. In a Stereogum interview, Primavera co-director Alfonso Lanza stated:

We’ve got additionally needed to suggest one thing in Madrid for years. It’s a metropolis we work with all 12 months spherical with excursions, and the place we already did editions of our small autumn competition Primavera Membership. It has not been attainable, for various causes, to make a Primavera Sound related in dimension and ambition to the one in Barcelona till this 12 months. So the double occasion that occurred final 12 months in Barcelona, will now be one weekend in Barcelona and one other in Madrid.

However the inaugural Madrid version of Primavera Sound had issues, and organizers cancelled its first day, affecting headlining units from Blur and Halsey. The organizers blamed “the persistent extreme climate skilled in current weeks which have affected the pre-production of the competition.”

Now, the Primavera Sound organizers have stated, in a press launch, that the competition is not going to return to Madrid subsequent 12 months, making allusions to “annoyances” with town:

Though each town of Madrid and the entire area welcomed us with open arms, with a heat that was mirrored within the establishments, the cultural brokers and naturally the viewers, the exterior difficulties that the competition needed to face within the last stretch of the pre-production gave rise to some of the sophisticated occasions that Primavera Sound has ever needed to face. And right now, within the run-up to 2024, town doesn’t have a website capable of host an occasion of this magnitude and format by way of viewers calls for, manufacturing necessities, and musical present.

“As a consequence, though the analysis of the competition was greater than passable on a musical degree, the expectations we had weren’t fulfilled and the expertise of the festivalgoers on account of a number of logistical elements was not the specified one. Contained in the Ciudad del Rock, we skilled a competition stuffed with nice musical moments, however we aren’t oblivious to the annoyances”, stated Almudena Heredero, director of Primavera Sound Madrid. “And that leads us to know that, now, the circumstances aren’t proper for Madrid to have a Primavera Sound because it deserves in 2024”.

Subsequent 12 months’s Primavera Sound Barcelona is scheduled to go down from 5/30 to six/2. No lineup has been introduced but.