Yeah, lots of Red Hot Chili Peppers at Vive Latino, and we don’t blame them. But yesterday Blondie gave a concert that, to be fair, those who had to decide would also have wanted to see between being hypnotized with “Atomic” at the Pepsi Center or chanting “Under the Bridge” with thousands at the Foro Sol. They missed it.
“Hello?, Mexico… it’s me, Blondie”
Ten minutes before 9:00 p.m., Debbie Harry and company came on stage and so for the first few minutes, it looked like it was going to be a run-of-the-mill presentation. Like others that Blondie has had in Mexico. It’s not a complaint, really.
Debbie Harry came out very cute, her and, perhaps with some of the indifference that those who know they are charming have,… but something happened after the first verses of the opener “One Way or Another”. Something that made everything rumble in the Insurgentes compound. Pure electricity. Pure energy.
What indifference? Dressed in pink, Harry overflowed magic. “Hello? Mexico… it’s me, Blondie”, he said after hearing the ringing of a telephone. Signal that the next one on the list would be “Hanging on the Telephone” and, in order not to drop the moodthrew the phone combo with “Call Me”.
With that he finished confirming the total connection with the moment and the public. It was barely the third song of the night and Blondie already had the audience in her pocket. also of Parallel Lines the New York band played “Fade Away and Radiate”.
Shifty with which Debbie Harry gave the stage to the guitarist to show off. Just a while (but what a while), because the one that followed in the setlist was “The Tide is High” and there again the eyes focused on Debbie Harry and his charmingly rabid way of singing.
Blondie as a scene from ‘Trainspotting’
To go announcing that the night was going to be short, very quickly the resounding initial notes of “Atomic” sounded. as scene of trainspottingwhile some danced frantically, others lost their gaze in the green lights that saturated the moment in the Pepsi Center.
Lost glances that met not in “Dianne Coulston”, but in an equally seductive woman: Debbie Harry, smiling, sinister, singing “Oh tonight, Atomic, Atomic, Oh!!!!” An auditory spell that was only broken by the intense auctions on the drums by Clem Burke.
“Atomic” is one of those songs that should never end. And the ex-Pistols, Glen Matlock, tried to avoid the end with the bass… it was him, wasn’t it? Or whoever he was: the tasty bass stretched out as long as he could, until the song broke off, not into the classic outro, but into a intense punk. And, after this one, back to the initial booming notes. great moment “Let them repeat it,” they said among the public.
But not. to lower it a bit followed by “Fragments” and the no less hypnotic “Rapture” and “Sugar on the Side”, flirtation that Blondie had eight years ago with Latin rhythms. weird, fun Then, to warn that “this” was about to end, “Long Time”, a song that Many confused it with “Heart of Glass”… and, so that there would be no more confusion, then the one with the glass heart did follow.
Blondie’s farewell in a night of pure energy
Fleeting as great moments tend to be, with the hit of 78, Blondie said goodbye and they only returned to play the highly sought after “Maria” and the sweet “Dreaming”. And everything ended.
Just around an hour and a half of show. Perhaps what they would have played if they had performed at Vive Latino. Well they could have, sure. And surely they would have blown up the event. But not. Yesterday it was at the Pepsi Center and we had to decide between seeing the legendary band or going to the festival.
Those who chose the legendary NY band know they were not wrong (Ask the people from Café Tacuba or Laura García, who were around). Blondie, fronted by Debbie Harry, was electrifying, intense. Those who went to Vive Latino – who surely had a great time – have something to envy.
Blondie Setlist at the Pepsi Center
Spear’s Last Setlist Blondie at the Pepsi Center 03/19/23:
One Way or Another
Hanging on the Telephone
call me
Fade Away and Radiate
The Tide Is High
atomic
snippets
kidnap
sugar on the side
long time
Heart of Glass
encore:
fun
Maria
Dreaming
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Electrifying: Blondie blew our minds at the Pepsi Center