Torrevieja warms up as a city of urban summer culture

Torrevieja revs up to become the city of urban culture. A little over a week before the first edition of the Crazy Urban Festival starts, with August 13 and 14 as the main days, the organization finalizes all the details in the Eras de la Sal venue with a large team of personnel and technological measures for its celebration with maximum security and with a schedule adapted to current Covid restrictions.

The Crazy Urban Festival, which was announced two months ago by the promoter Shiroten, will focus a large part of its programming on live music with top-level artists in the Spanish music scene of the trap, rap, reggaeton, hip hop and dancehall genre. , such as Bad Gyal and Recycled J, Prok and Locoplaya. It does so with high expectations and 90% of the tickets sold since they went on sale last July on the festival's official website https://www.crazyfestival.es/

More specifically, on Friday the Canarian rap group Loco Playa, known for its particular and own fresh and fun aesthetic, will present and review their successes, which will begin at 9:00 p.m., giving way to the performance of rapper Prok, at 10:30 p.m. The young singer is known for the vindictive tone in his lyrics, in which he fuses the philosophy of the classics and Greek mythology along with personal experiences and his social roots.

On Saturday it will be Recycled J's turn, at 9:00 p.m. The Spanish rapper ^, who draws on reggaeton , R&B and trap as well as electronics ^, has performed at festivals such as Arenal Sound, Festival Cultura Inquieta or Viña Rock. The musical day will be closed by the producer, DJ and composer Bad Gyal, at 10:30 p.m. The Catalan has performed in large venues and festivals and has even signed with record companies that have among their ranks artists such as Lady Gaga or Selena Gomez .

The four concerts will take place outdoors in the Eras de la Sal venue, set up by the Torrevieja City Council for concerts. The opening of the venue will be at 8:00 p.m. and as a culmination to prepare the atmosphere, DJs Alex Selas will perform on Friday, and Juanjo Ilegal, who will open the musical session with a DJ party, on Saturday, with Javi Rei also joining that day.

EXHIBITIONS OF GRAFFITI, SKATE, COMPETITIONS AND AQUATIC ACTIVITIES

While working on the security plan in the layout of the stage and the sale of tickets by the technological platform specialized in the control of safe accesses, Safety Global, the organization outlines all the details of the programming, which goes beyond what purely musical with activities of different artistic and sports disciplines.

The festival includes exhibitions of skating, skateboarding, jet skis, a live graffiti contest, and organized water activities beginning Thursday, August 12. In addition, the most avant-garde gastronomy and theater will also have their space at the hands of Carros de Foc, the innovative company that makes giant mobile sculpture works come to life in outdoor spaces with choreography, tightrope walking, fabric and hoop acrobatics or Rhythmic choreographies with fire fans and music.

On this occasion, on the days of the concerts, the company will land with its latest creation, the “Mutant Cars-Mad Food Experience”, an experience set in a post-apocalyptic world. Mutant vehicles, food trucks and constant animation will become a thematic and adventure show for its attendees in the Mad Max style, which will be both on the performance venue and around the concert venue.

In this way, this first edition aims to mobilize young people and fans of urban art from different parts of the national and regional geography and especially the city and the province, in addition to turning Torrevieja into the capital of urban culture. All with a sophisticated deployment of human and technical personnel by the organization. However, the majority of ticket purchases come from the province of Alicante, followed by Murcia, Madrid, Valencia, Ciudad Real, the Basque Country, Albacete and Almería.