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Monthly Archives : July 2017

Festa aos Milhões!


Our corespondent in Barcelos for this year’s Milhões de Festa – Cláudio Soares – promises: “Forget everything you know about music festivals.Come to Barcelos and meet the cheapest, coolest and heaviest of them all. Meet a tiny little festival that all attenders like to call home.” Photos by Claudio Soares

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SUPER BOCK SUPER HOT


Here at Bestivals, there’s nothing as hot as rock. Don’t get us wrong, we’re very eclectic but when it comes to set ourselves on fire, it’s rock n’ roll who pays the dues. This year’s Super Bock Super Rock edition was marked by the “never to old to rock on” legendary band Red Hot Chili Peppers. F’ckin hell! If they…

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DRAGONS AND UNICORNS ARE ALIVE.


Day 2 and day 3 were somehow mystical. It was not our imagination. We hung out with dragons and danced like we were flying. Backstage, we taught Peaches how to say “This song is about my big, big pussy!” in Portuguese, we learned that you can be the greatest on stage and off it with Imagine Dragons and that old…

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FIRST DAY WE WERE ALIVE.


There is something magical about bringing people together with music. We relate ourselves to the surroundings, to the artists, to the tunes, we relate ourselves to each other. That’s what happens when a festival is so much more about the music, than about anything else. That’s what it means to be ALIVE. Photos: Silvia Lopes @sforshot for BESTIVALS  

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BEING LOVE.


This is a different post. This one is about sharing, about keeping it to yourself while sharing, about silence, about music, about dancing souls, about freedom and above all: about love. I’ve asked my friends who were gathering in our lost paradise of Idanha last weekend for Being. The call was: please share with me your best photo of the festival…

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