August 26, 2017
The first edition of a new gathering landed a dancefloor in a medieval town – a gathering based on cooperation, freedom and creative expression. Bestivals pals were there to collect memories and images to share with us. #bestivalscollaborations Photos by Zinha and Joy Zinha @ Waking Life Waking Life by Joy
August 23, 2017
…that have been leading us from ever since. Tonight is the night where machines take over, where life imitates fiction far more than fiction imitates life. Put your glasses on, as for our human eyes have never been ready for this. Since 1969, they demonized whatever we called music and that would never be the same again. Ladies and gentleman, the robots will…
August 16, 2017
Up North, early August, for the past 11 years, there is a place called love protected by the walls of a fort. It’s not safe prosaic uneventful love – either all in or nothing at all. It’s a devious fierce indefensible feeling that keeps you on the move, from main stage to anti stage, to dance throughout night and morning. Love…
August 3, 2017
Festival Músicas do Mundo – All the smiles in world fit in Sines.
August 2, 2017
There is a lot more to name that could fit in what makes this such an unmissable event – the great musicians, the atmosphere, the staff, the locals, the attendees -, but this is indeed what makes this festival so special: Festival Músicas do Mundo in Sines is the place for everyone. The whole world could fit in it. Every single…
July 28, 2017
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
July 23, 2017
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…
July 16, 2017
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…
July 16, 2017
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
July 5, 2017
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…