> Dorado Live Shows @ Santos 2022

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Dorado Live Shows will be back to Santos in Playa den Bossa for its 7th season. No artists have been announced yet but these are the 6 dates:

· 12th of May
· 9th of June
· 7th of July
· 18th of August
· 1st of September
· 15th of September

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Last summer's reviews can be found here.

Tickets available here.
 
In related news...

It’s Santos anniversary!

10 years ago the aventure began, sharing Disco music, Deep Down and Balearic House. That’s why want to thank you after all these years with the Santos opening party, the 23th of April at 14:00pm.

We will have an incredible DJ’s lineup such as Chus (Redolent Music), Alex Kentucky, Rayco Santos, Victor Agüero, Tallyn P y S/A/M. Calle Boogaloo will delight us with a show full of surprises, mixing disco an funk sounds.

As collaborators of the party, we’ll have the support of brands like Tanquery nº Ten and Estrella Damn.

We are waiting for you!

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As usual, the party will continue at Pikes with Rock Nights, Dorado Live Shows' official after party.

 
The Concept Hotel Group team keeps working hard one more year to add exciting events to their cultural agenda, the second edition of the festival Sonorama Ribera goes to Ibiza (7, 8 and 9 of October) being the big one. Talking of exciting events, before the live music started at Santos I went to the Dorado hotel next door to check the exhibition of the Swedish photographer Mats Bäcker. It includes black and white photos of artists like Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Joe Strummer, James Brown, etc. Small in quantity but huge in quality so well-worth a visit if you're around.

After two years with the audience seated, restrictions are out and Dorado Live Shows returned to its former self for its 7th season with probably their best line-up to date. You could see by everyone's faces that the excitement level was over the roof and that people are eager to go to concerts. It was such a joy seeing Santos' pool area so busy again and bumping into many familiar faces, even some famous one like Dandy Piranha from Derby Motoreta's Burrito Cachimba (who blew us away last September). This summer ten percent of the proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to El Descanso del Guerrero, an initiative by the non-governmental organization Proyecto Juntos, that helps families who have children that have to stay in the hospital for prolonged periods of time.

As previously mentioned, 2022 not only marks Santos' 10th anniversary but also their last season as we know it, as they'll move the brand to a different location next year. To celebrate the return to the usual format we love so much, for the opening party they invited three bands to play instead of two. Both Shinova and Arde Bogotá played at Sonorama Ribera goes to Ibiza last October (the most fun I had last summer!), the latter being one my favourites of the whole festival so it was great to see them again. But first it was the turn of Slim & Whylan...



Third time for Alex Slim and Genís Whylan aka Cachorros. Like last year, the Barcelona duo was backed by a drummer. Their set was based once again on covers. Apart from the usual ones by Shirley and Lee, Jake Bugg, Johnny Cash and The Black Keys, this time they also played "Baba O'Riley" by The Who, "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley and "Blue suede shoes" by Carl Perkins. On a curious note, this summer Genís is working for Ailien by Mike & Claire so you might see him riffing away during their shows.

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Arde Bogotá is one of the most followed up-and-coming Spanish bands from the last few years. After the great impression they left on their previous visit, various people I spoke with were there mainly for them and fortunately Antonio García (vocals), Dani Sánchez (guitar), Pepe Esteban (bass) and José Ángel Mercader (drums) lived up to all expectations. With only two releases so far, the EP El tiempo y la actitud (2020) and the album La noche (2021), the young band from Murcia is gaining new fans wherever they go thanks to the singer's personal voice and the likes of "Dangerous", "Cariño", "Big bang" or "Abajo".

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Shinova started as an alternative rock band and debuted in 2009 with Latidos, which was followed two years later by La ceremonia de la confusión (both albums are now out of print and not available on platforms like Spotify). After a little break to rethink the direction of their music, change of members included, their career continued in a more indie pop-oriented direction with the albums Ana y el artista temerario (2014) and Volver (2016), their first one on a major label, which turned Gabriel de la Rosa (vocals), Daniel del Valle (guitar), Erlantz Prieto (guitar), Ander Cabello (bass) and Joshua Froufe (drums) into stars. Another two studio albums, Cartas de navegación (2018) and the top-selling La buena suerte (2021), and a digital-only live album, Lluvia de agosto (directo desde Sonorama Ribera 2019), followed. The atmosphere was electric as soon as the band from Vizcaya hit the stage and the sing-a-longs during "El álbum", the beautiful "Gigantes", "La sonrisa intacta", "Para cambiar el mundo", "Mirlo blanco", "Qué casualidad", "Ídolos (los mejores momentos están por llegar)" or "Te debo una canción", epic.

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After the concerts the fun continued at Pikes with Rock Nights, the official Dorado Live Shows after party, which this year celebrates their 17th anniversary. As Pikes shuts at 4am, there was an after party not too far away but that's a different story and this text is about Dorado Live Shows, not about the after party of the after party...
 
Shinova:
Lo que sucede en los Dorado Live Shows de @santos_ibiza no se queda allí, nos lo llevamos en forma de experiencia inolvidable. Gracias, de corazón, por hacernos sentir como en casa.

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Dorian:
Hola, IBIZA! Qué maravilla estar de nuevo aquí. El jueves os veremos en Dorado Ibiza Hemos preparado un concierto muy especial para la ocasión. Emocionados y con muchas ganas de juntarnos con todos vosotros. ❤️

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Our date with live music by the sea was back last thursday for the return of one of the most renowned artists in the Spanish music scene, festival favourites and hymn makers Dorian. When I was outside queueing to get in I could feel it was going to be mega busy. Shortly after I finally made it inside I was told both Dorado Live Shows and its aftershow Rock Nights were sold out many hours before. Along with Lori Mayers and probably some other I can't remember now, one of the busiest events I've been to at Santos. A night that had it all to be one to remember, including a marriage proposal...



Cintia Lund is a Spanish/Swedish singer based in Madrid. In 2017 she published her synth pop-styled debut album New York anthem on Subterfuge Records. She was accompanied only by Yanara Espinoza from the band Papaya on guitar (who also dj'd at Santos while on the island), the rest of the sounds were pre-recorded. We heard songs from her first album, like the title song, and also some of the singles she released afterwards, like "Sangre en el museo de cera", "El río", "Aquí en Madrid" or "Guíame". Funny moment arrived with a little snippet of Raffaella Carrà's "Rumore".

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There's just a handful of bands that repeat at Dorado Live Shows and Dorian are the only one that has been invited to play three times (apart from local heroes Uncle Sal). Since their last visit they've released a new album called Ritual (2022), their sixth and most danceable, where they continue with their poetic and politically charged lyrics. The band from Barcelona came to Ibiza without their drummer to do a special set, hybrid between acoustic and electric. Marc Gili, Belly Hernández, Bart Sanz and Lisandro Montes played many of their new songs, like "Dual" or "Techos de cristal", along with the obvious classics from their almost-two-decades career, like "Los amigos que perdí", their biggest hit "Cualquier otra parte" or "La tormenta de arena". The surprise of the evening came when after a few songs Marc invited Genís Whylan (who played in that same stage one month ago), who then proceeded to invite his girlfriend Anabel and asked her to marry him (she said yes!). They actually met at Dorado Live Shows four years ago so it just made perfect sense.

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Every concert in the Dorado Live Shows series is a must-do, bringing the best in Spanish independent music to the island, but for me this one was the big date of the season: the great Quique González at Santos followed by Rock Nights' 17th anniversary at Pikes...



A Tenerife native based in Barcelona, Julia Nar (who was supposed to be the opening act for Depedro in September) opened this time instead of Uncle Sal as originally announced. We got to hear the mellow chill pop contained in her first EP Dérive (2022) and more, with "Rosa" as the highlight of her set.

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Enrique González Morales, better known as Quique González, is one of the most important Spanish singer-songwriters and he already played in Ibiza at the Sueños de Libertad festival in 2016 with his band. This time the veteran Madrid artist, accompanied only by Toni Burnet, presented in an intimate acoustic format his thirteenth album Sur en el valle (2021) from which he played the title song and "Alguien debería pararlo" among others, mixed with older material like "Salitre" (one of his biggest songs, which wasn't on the setlist but he had to play by popular demand), "Dallas-Memphis", "Y los conserjes de noche" or "Vidas cruzadas". Even "Aunque tú no lo sepas", that he wrote for the late Enrique Urquijo. Beautiful stuff.

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