confessed Andres Calamaro on the stage of the La Axerquía theater in Córdoba that the ‘Agenda 1999’ tour celebrates «sottovoce» the quarter of a century of one of their best LPs. A confession under a blue cap and behind the squidgy sunglasses that came when several of the songs from an immense, compulsive, beautiful and, above all, double album had already been played. full of heartbreak. brutal honesty (1999) is considered the Argentine’s masterpiece. In that album, Calamaro also maintained, the “strange coincidences” of the prestige and successalthough it was already preceded by High dirt (1997) after the closing of the shutters of Los Rodríguez, and which would have an even more excessive continuation in The salmon (2000), which in the end have been the albums that have made up the setlist in Córdoba (and presumably on the entire tour), although with brutal honesty as the absolute protagonist even in the predominant red of the lights on the stage.
A concert that opened with It doesn’t go any further, a blues that is a declaration of intentions of what awaits the public, a nostalgic review but far from all sadness, because “you have to be a man and do it.” Time has done his job and helps put all the emotions in their place, and it is at the moment of When I met you, fourth on the list, when the respectable person began to sing, get up from the chairs (oh the chairs) and record with their cell phones.
Andres CalamaroSamira Ouf Calero
The singles of yesteryear – there were some 25 years ago – are the celebrated hits of now, and another high point would come with world women’s day slower but wildly rocking in this version from 2024. Very close to its original Brazilian air, it sounded The airplanes just before a medley between Not so Buenos Aires and Clonazepan and circus. A leap forward in time was made by the Argentine with All you need is pop, to return again to the path of the album commemorated with essential pieces as I love you the same, when you’re not there, and above all Pigeon, one of those songs that the audience sings more than the author himself and that marked the closing before the only encore that the concert had.
Although it had already appeared Skinny In the final stretch, the encore would be for High dirt. Is Perfect crimes, curiously, the Calamaro song that best defines the spirit of an album that would arrive later, two years later. And in all probability one of the Argentine’s best and rawest compositions. High dirtthe song, would close a concert in which the protagonist himself wondered aloud if there was so little audience (just over a third of the capacity, about 1,200 people) due to his current and confessed ideological position, far from political correctness.
Andres CalamaroSamira Ouf Calero
But Calamaro perhaps did not know that This weekend had been a bit unusual. in terms of performances and that a Sunday, after the white and flamenco night, was not the best date even for him, a man who filled La Axerquía, yes, with rock without tricks, screens or ambiguities. With the same honesty, or more, than the one that commemorated 25 years on the road.
