Beware! Achtung! “Pass the message. When we come to the CER, control the huge flika with the chakurros!” Cases... At Amikuze you can't leave it alone either, he said one of the festivals that after passing control he tries to park his car. He has later seen that message that has spread with Telegram to the neck. He had received the notification, but he did not repair the phone. They happen. If he saw it before, he could assume in advance the scare and anguish. However, EHZ collaborators were there, at the regular entrance of Arberatze-Zilh, at that crossroads that also send Google maps, asking them to come in the other side.

However, the message stream has started early in the morning. In fact, the idiosyncrasy of the situation and the changes planned for the weekend leave little room for surprise. Legislative elections were held in France on Sunday, and on Friday morning the organisation issued a communiqué calling on the far right to fight from culture and the Basque country, strengthening and strengthening relations. Titau! as the satirical newspaper says on Friday: “Bardella, Bordeaux or both? Better leave them on the floor of the closet.”

In addition, as June 28 is the first day of the festival, there have been many gestures for Pride Day, such as the flag of the entrance. But those characteristics that seem to be details do not end there: the canvas of the main stage is a great Palestinian flag, and on the scene of the plaza there is another that has sung, loved and danced it. Of course, festivals are political. Every festival is political, even those promoting beer brands. It has to be an extreme, now, to go to Bilbao BBK Live and see that the speculative companies Vueling and Idealista have their respective promotion centers. These kinds of speculators have no place in the RSI and brands, promotions, have no place, except parking and camping tape. So let's go to EHZ. And that's why people come back, because they believe in those values.

Works of adequacy

One of the news this year is that the festival was held for the first time in Arberatze-Zilhe, after five years in Irisarri. So, as you would expect, festival lovers have had a hard time landing. For the EHZ, the southern fetishists, in addition, the new space was further away, and that's been noticed because people have come a little bit later than usual. You have to know corners and tricks in every new house.

Park the cars as possible, capture the installation area, assemble the fabric house as best as possible and then the best starts when you already have everything done, when you open the fresh beer can. Warming that opening moment, in the plaza, the charanga Broken Brothers Brass Band, sweet Malaga. It's been hard to fill the square, people have had a hard time coming, but before you realized it, at 20:30, when Janus Lester is in the enclosure, you've already noticed the heat. Enough people to cover the fresh and fine air. Rain tends to threaten occasionally, but it looks like it's going to resist it. For the time being. The forecasts for tomorrow are bad, especially in the morning; but that will come tomorrow, and if the LER is something, it is to emerge what you feel instantly.

On Friday he has a sleek poster and has gone as expected: strong. For the mere fact that it is the first day, there are many reasons to emerge strong, especially if the musical offer accompanies it. This has been the case in part, although no show has completely destroyed it. Donostiarras Pelax and Bananas have offered a very elegant and powerful concert on the small stage, but this type of group lacks a punch: if many people do not know you, although the concert you offer is so good, you will never explode. For the amateurs, yes, two luxury performances. Pelax has leaped the hips and Bananas all that is above the waist, to the shoulders. With three quarters of an hour, both have succeeded in the formula: to speak little in the singing arts, to give everything about the stage and to convey strength to the amateur who is demanding it. Benizz, for his part, has also been successful in his style, in earlier hours and with the help of electronic music, with the format. Three shows that exploded very well on a small scale.

As mentioned earlier, there have been no major concerts on Friday. The poster was led by Belako, who has acted as a poster head, and at 23:30 the concert started, but the stage has been big. And as a general sensation, this group usually has a lot to play in the great category of the festival. They make music to play at festivals and they're very good, but they extend it longer in smaller halls, as you've seen on the tour of the little halls they've done in recent times. There's something there that's hard to understand. It may be a choice of songs, because the best known ones didn't play them, certainly with their own decision; but there's something that's hard to understand when it comes to a scenario where they don't know how to connect with people.

Each to his

Happy Friday, sad Saturday. The day has become very sad in the day of Arberatze Zilh, perhaps for that, because the night has elongated it. He has received a dose of false joy, but, in the first hour of the morning, who has seen the weather forecasts on his mobile, the forecasts promise to leave at 10:00 hours and give a respite throughout the day. And by chance, soon after 10:00, the doors have been lifted and they have begun to open clearly. Happiness has lasted little. The rain has left some bascos a day, but it has dropped uncontrollably. That is what has marked the mood of the people.

When time goes like this in a festival, and the day before it has elongated more than it should, it is difficult to find a humor big enough to throw a sucking. Perfidia usually accentuates when a person who has not come with you, but who knows it, asks you with your face, coffee, salt, macaroni and eight cans of beer. For now he has asked you less than the previous year, but you know that if you don't give his head wrong, if you don't blame him anything, tomorrow morning you'll find yourself here, asking for other things. The balance of the camp site and the false but interested friendships is very interesting for social analysis, as there are classes and classes, besides, between the festivals. Some have come without making the camping, with the camping and two spare clothes, and others have spent a year adapting the vans with a lot of pampering and a thousand useful disturbances. But the first one has a high-value face, and the second one doesn't know how to say no. Sociologists, in the tone and measure you want, have the bertso.

It was a subject that could be put on the musicals of Saturday morning. An hour has passed between the rain, singing, stems and coffee. It is not a special atmosphere, and it is a pity, because the atmosphere of the day in the RSI is very nice. Anari has had to put the gondola to reverse the mood of the day. Two V, Vesna Vulovic, and the people jumping. The Azkoitiarra gives no surprises: solemn and emotional are his concerts.

If there is any group that has given surprises this year, that has been the RTZ collective. Young Labour Rappers have given a great show on Saturday night, before many friends, and they have stunned us. Poor in the South? Yes. Then we have been discussing with sadness that this group will never cross the Bidasoa River, except for some specific exception, because there are two reasons why this does not happen: Be from the North, first; and be from the Rap, second. If Odei Barroso has traveled little with Therapy... Let us hope, however, that this is not the case.

But the atmosphere has calmed down. And not precisely because musicians haven't invented it. After the political act, at 22:00, Gorka Urbizu has taken the main stage, and 1) you have not entered and made you sleepy, or 2) you have shed tears. Urbizu makes beautiful music, is a great artist and not only in music, as it has become a phenomenon also in the world of merch, but that melancholy is not heard on a Saturday at 22:00 in a music festival. Go to a room, take a drink and if you want to see it.

It is no accident that His Lord has come to warm up the atmosphere. In just over 40 years on the stage, and they don't lose their strength. They keep doing what they want with the public. Now jumps, muges, hug and soothes the atmosphere. Just artists. Certainly, at midnight, the festival needed a big leap. Nakar has stood the challenge in a small setting, just finishing the test with the Eibarres’ hand. They have been able to do their job, which is what they have to offer: Put people jumping for 45 minutes and give them firewood. That is the end of the night boom, which has fallen significantly since then. Süne has not offered anything special. It's not so hard to put people dancing at 1:30 a.m., and it's got it, with a dancing base, but it's taken the phenomenon of the end of Huntza, Gaztea, EiTB and company have given it an impressive bass drum and it's not even half what was said about it. The one who was hopeful, the pesadron was coming back.

Sustaining fatigue

Well, something, something ... Although musically the atmosphere went down, some have elongated something on Saturday night. And it's easy to guess who's been on the moratoriums: the mud whistles it out. With all that he has done on Saturday, we were all a little bit stained with mud – thanks to the labourers of Iparralde, who bring tons of straw to dry the mud – but who has slept and gone and who has not, has become apparent in Arberatz square this morning. But they haven't stayed behind. During the drink, the attendees were able to go ahead because the atmosphere was next to the bar, away from the stage, where a children's orchestra offered its show.

Boys and girls have gone very well on EHZ Sunday. In the Txoko Infantil there was a special atmosphere, with an animator, and on the face some of them have been painted ikurriñas. I can't imagine that in a Basque Guipuzkoan village, six-year-old boys and girls, on a massive scale, can see the Ikurdists painting on their faces. This is a clear exponent of what drives EHZ: Basque culture, Basque culture, national perspective... and that there is room for everyone, whenever it is to act within values. All of this is also LER.

See here the photo gallery of Dani Blanco, in ARGIA, with free license CC BY SA.