Sun, sea, and sand…not the setting we’re used to in festival season but Summercase has them all and more to boot.

Slowly creeping into the conscience of the festival going public in its three year existence, the four stages of Summercase, based in Barcelona and Madrid on the same weekend is on the verge of becoming a major player in the festival season and with good reason.
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The Hives are another act from the ’school of 2002′, where on the coat-tails of much bigger bands, loads of bands of skinny guys with guitars starting cropping up. The Hives were active long before 2002, Pelle tonight would have you believe they were the first rock band of all-time; “And you know what came before the Hives ladies n gennlemen??? “NOTHINNNNNNN, ABSOULTELY NOTHHHNNN”.

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A live Morrissey concert is the nearest music can get to a truly religious experience with his fans elevating him to an almost messiah like position as the room physically shakes with anticipation.

The crowd are whipped up to rabid fervour by a series of bad 70s Eurovision videos, 1950s leather clad troubadours interspersed with footage of New York dolls and homo-erotic out-takes of James Dean in East of Eden.

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