Gold medal music

Music Con­certs

It’s going to be a record year in terms of live music at Barcelona’s Olympic com­plex on Mon­tjuïc, with nearly 60 con­certs al­ready an­nounced at the Olympic Sta­dium, the Palau Sant Jordi arena and the Sant Jordi Club venue. Dozens more con­certs are ex­pected to be added in the com­ing months.

Two names stand out: British band Cold­play are set to achieve a new record by being the first ever artists to fill the Olympic Sta­dium four times in one week (May 24, 25, 27 & 28), and the Boss him­self, Bruce Spring­steen, who re­turns to Cat­alo­nia for the first time since 2016 (Apr 28 & 30). In the sum­mer, the iconic venue built for the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games will also hostHarry Styles (Jul 12) and The Weeknd (Jul 20).

The Palau Sant Jordi arena also starts the year with lots of dates al­ready con­firmed, such as two con­certs by Rob­bie Williams (Mar 24 & 25) and Elton John (Apr 22 & 23). There will also be a his­toric debut by The Who, play­ing Barcelona for the first time (Jun 14). Prior to that, an­other vet­eran, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Wa­ters, will per­form on March 21, and be­fore that, the in­door arena will host Cata­lan artist, Bad Gyal (Feb 11), while Com­pa­nyia Elèctrica Dharma cel­e­brate 50 years on April 22. Other dates in­clude Ar­gen­tine trap singer Duki (Mar 3 & 4), Ital­ian crooner Eros Ra­maz­zotti (Apr 2), fel­low Ital­ians Måne­skin (Apr 11), US pop rock band Ma­roon 5 (Jun 16), Ale­jan­dro Sanz (Jun 17), Iron Maiden (Jul 18), vet­eran Span­ish singer-song­writer Joaquín Sabina (Sep­tem­ber 27 and 29), Blink-182 (Oct 4) and Louis Tom­lin­son (Oct 6).

As for Palau Sant Jordi’s annex venue, the Sant Jordi Club, it will wel­come Hel­loween (Feb 3), Pix­ies (Mar 9), Quevedo (May 12), Miki Núñez (Jun 30) and ska/Cata­lan Rumba group La Pe­gatina (Nov 4).

Be­yond Barcelona’s Mon­tjuïc venues, much of the year’s live music sched­ule will once again be dom­i­nated by music fes­ti­vals, with dates al­ready an­nounced for the Strenes fes­ti­val in Girona (Joan Dausà and Els Amics de les Arts), Pri­mav­era Sound (Kendrick Lamar and Rosalía), Cruïlla (Placebo and Franz Fer­di­nand), Sónar (Bicep and Fever Ray), all in Barcelona, and the Porta Fer­rada fes­ti­val in Sant Feliu de Guíxols (Ben Harper and Jethro Tull).