He punk from Spain It has many variants, but never has something as energetic and fun as the so-called Arcade Punk that three Catalans have exhibited around the world, including Mexico.
After his first visit at the beginning of this year; A few months were enough to see the triad again, this time at the Indie Rocks and some new songs.
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The night warmed up with Oveja and Shifters, local talent who, although unknown to some, others are undoubtedly fans and accompanied the bands in the choruses during their turn.
But the highlight was Sistema de Entretenimiento, who from the beginning came out with the energy of a child excited to talk about his tastes in television or video games, and with Empire of the Rising Sun, which swears revenge for the nuclear bomb on the United States, the night was set alight.
Soon, the spirals drawn by the famous mangaka, Junji Ito in his most popular work, Uzumaki, took shape in the indie Rocks with the manga’s eponymous theme.
The time to breathe between each song was limited and suddenly the Virtual thread, followed by the erotic and horrifying Urotsukidoji, made all the attendees sing, jump and even throw beer.
Sistema de Entretenimiento’s songs are characterized by being short but concise and, further into their extensive catalogue, some more recent songs sounded, but no less popular for that reason, such as Ciudad de Neón, Mis Amigos Ahora me Verán and of course the strange declaration of love that is Fear.
Everyone who knows what it’s like to face a final boss in an arcade undoubtedly relived those times with Bad Final, which of course speaks of the emotions of going through virtual worlds and their difficulties.
Since the band’s most recent EP, which was only published on their bandcamp, it sounded Garbage Spatially and curiously it turned out to be very sung, which shows that lhe fans of this trio are not only mice on music streaming platforms.
Some other references to popular culture coming from the country of the Rising Sun continued with Ranma, which talks about that anime that was televised in Mexico in the early 2000s, called Ranma 1/2.
Likewise the savior of the dystopian future in Terminator, Sarah Connor has a song like her name that played tonight.
Of course The Superchampions and Oliver Atom are a world reference and on the eve of the World Cup that will take place in Mexico, the United States and Canada, Number 10 sounded, reminiscent of the also called Captain Tsubasa.
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The energy was already at its peak and after twenty songs reminiscent of the 8-bit sound, the trio went back in their steps as musicians to perform a couple of songs by Leonor SS, a band that they themselves forged several years ago and that no longer plays today.
However, the end was bitter for some, because They decided to close a magical night with Sin Panties songswhich although they share similarities with Sistema de Entretenimiento, their atmosphere is not definitively the same