The covid continues to be a reason for cancellations at festivals around the world and Primavera Sound has not been spared from the problem. The band The Strokes, which was scheduled to perform this Friday, June 3, on the Fòrum stages, has been forced to cancel when one of its members tested positive for coronavirus. His performance of day 10 stands.
“Due to a positive case of COVID-19 at The Strokes, we must cancel their concert at Primavera Sound on Friday night. The band will return to the stage next week in Stockholm, and will perform on the second weekend of Spring, "the team of the New York garage group indicates in a statement. Last weekend they also had to cancel their concert in Boston .
From Primavera Sound they assure that they have contacted the musicians, who in fact are already in Barcelona with the exception of the one affected by the virus, to see what the festival could do about it. But before the refusal they have proceeded to look for a substitute. At the moment they celebrate that Mogwai has joined the day of the 3rd, on the Cupra stage.
In the meantime, the Barcelona event offers those people with a ticket for the 3rd the possibility of also attending the sessions on June 10, only by presenting their ticket again.
The presence of The Strokes, who had not returned to Barcelona since their performance at the same Primavera Sound in 2015, had aroused special expectation since 2021 marked the 20th anniversary of the publication of Is This it, their first album released in full swing of the hipster movement. But even though the band was American, the fact that they were signed by an English label meant that the so-called New Rock that The Strokes gave birth to was followed by many groups from the United Kingdom.
Considered the "saviors of rock," the band is made up of singer Julian Casablancas, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond, Jr., bassist Nikolai Fraiture, and drummer Fabrizio Moretti.
