Izal says goodbye with a festive tone in Madrid

The Madrid band Izal said goodbye on Saturday and Friday in a big way, with two final concerts at the Wizink Center in Madrid, both events with sold-out tickets that serve to put the finishing touch to the career of the pop band after deciding to put end to its trajectory of more than 10 years. Like the title of one of his most famous songs, Izal went on hiatus this weekend, an “indefinite” break of those that sometimes announce bands that never come back, all the more reason to attract more than 30,000 people between the two nights .

As the closing of a tour that also had the name “Hogar”, the same name as their fifth and last studio album, there was no more appropriate place for the eventual farewell than Madrid, the city where this band was born, and the space that in the past confirmed them as one of the main swords of the indie Spanish, the Wizink Center. And this is how Mikel Izal himself recognized it on Friday at the microphone: “Thank you very much not only for filling this night but also because in this city you have always made us feel like family and home.”

The group Izal during the concert offered on Friday in Madrid

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With the maximum and complete capacity, in both appointments, the five members of the group have carried out a balanced review for each of the five of their careers that will have made the fans who have been with them since their beginnings in 2012 with “Magic and special effects”.

The public vibrated with each song and sang each chorus, in an exciting concert in which the band reviewed the greatest hits of their career. Among the two dozen cuts there was no lack of essentials such as Copacabana, The dancethe cited Pause just before the encores or the final touch with the woman in greenbut neither are others that, seen together in panoramic mode, seem to have been written for this moment: Foreword, Farewell, I’m back or the recent Meiuqèrwhich is nothing but the reverse of Requiem.


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There was not much of an elegy in those four hours of concert (two per night), experienced more like a party since Mikel Izal (vocalist, composer, guitar), Emanuel Pérez “Gato” (bass), Alejandro Jordá (drums and percussion), Alberto Pérez (guitar, Lap Steel) and Iván Mella (piano, keyboards, synthesizers).

Just before, the performance showed in black and white on the screens of the venue its previous huddle and the triumphant walk to the stage, as if underlining the documentary value of a historical occasion.

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A moment from the concert on Friday

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“Everything is ready for the penultimate photo,” Mikel Izal announced Friday night from his position as the trigger for the explosive start with The holea stampede that Jordá’s battery has then kept clean with sensitive mattersin alliance with the spidey progressions to Mella’s synthesizer.

Good start that they underpinned even more with that roadside and neon bar that is Copacabana, the clapping of those gathered acting as drumsticks and their passionate choirs before one of the group’s most emblematic choruses: “It’s a blink, a quick flash, a ray of sun that blinds you”. “It’s the dream farewell for a band to which so many dream things have happened”, said the Basque vocalist then before lowering his pulse with Meiuqer on the ukulele.

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Mikel Izal plays the ukulele during his farewell concert on Saturday

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With “The beings that fill me” they had a funny tribute to the figure of the “companion”, the one “who doesn’t know a single song by Izal” but who comes to the protection of his partner and, in a roundabout way, helps to leave the box office bare; also, just before play Wormholesfor all those who, through crowdfunding, helped pay for the first two albums of a line-up that has remained faithful to record independence ever since.

In strictly musical terms, however, the concert had embarked throughout this central section in a somewhat dense nebula that has begun to dissipate in search of the energy of the start with Scenic panic Y self therapy.

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The band says goodbye to its audience in Madrid

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There were no more resignations in the ten salvos made until the closing, from The incredible story of the man who could fly but didn’t know howgoing by magic and special effects (dedicated to his manager, Manuel Notario) to the festivalgoer The dancewith which even an inflatable T-Rex paraded around the stage.

Only Pause then imposed something of that idem, a momentary rest, overwhelmingly illuminated and with an electric, cathartic and crescendo finale that was among the best of the show, later topped off with a descent to the foot of the track with How good and, finally, with a see you later (or a see you always) to the first great success of his career, the woman in green.

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Izal says goodbye with a festive tone in Madrid