Last day for Medimex 2024, International Festival & Music Conference promoted by Puglia Sounds, the Puglia Region program for the development of the regional music system implemented with the Teatro Pubblico Pugliese – Regional Consortium for Arts and Culture. From 10am last appointments for Puglia Sounds Musicarium, the school of music professions and at 7 pm at the Fusco Theater (free entry with reservation) the great friendship and seminal collaboration between Lou Reed & David Bowie with Manuel Agnelli And Carlo Chicco – Radio Medimex who will replace Gino Castaldo, not present at Medimex due to an indisposition.
From 8.30pm Rotonda del Lungomare (entry with ticket for info medimex.it) great live music with the Apulian band opening Guatemalawhich has already performed at the Primavera Pro in Barcelona and will be a guest at the Sziget Festival in Budapest in August, and The Jesus and Mary Chainfor the only date in Southern Italy, e Pulpfor the only date in Italy.
For The Jesus and Mary Chain, brothers Jim and William Reid, 2024 is a special year: it is the 40th year since their first single. In March they announced the release of their new album Glasgow Eyes and single Jamcod and the start of a major European tour which started in Manchester on 22 March. Glasgow Eyes was recorded at Mogwai’s Castle of Doom studio in Glasgow, where Jim and William continued the creative process that produced the previous Damage and Joy, in 2017, which became the most successful album in the charts of recent years. twenty years. What has emerged is a record that sees one of the UK’s most influential groups embrace a second productive chapter, their whirlwind of melody, feedback and controlled chaos now made more conscious by their love of Suicide and Kraftwerk and a new appreciation of the less disciplined attitudes found in jazz. Jamcod and Glasgow Eyes not only extend the story of The Jesus and Mary Chain, but at the same time feel like a return to the roots. From the incendiary debut Psychocandy and the classic Just Like Honey onwards, the Reid brothers have steadily become misfits who made, without compromise, the best music ever.
The history of Pulp was born when Jarvis Cocker formed the band in 1978 during an economics lesson at Sheffield school. Their first public appearance took place at the Rotherham Arts Center on 5 July 1980. The band’s ‘classic’ line-up (Nick Banks, Jarvis Cocker, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey, Russell Senior) was formed in 1988 when Jarvis moved to London to study direction at St Martin’s School of Art. Mark Webber (who had worked as the band’s tour manager) joined PULP during the recording of the album Different Class in 1995. PULP’s final album We Love Life was produced by Scott Walker in 2001.
