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Oques Grasses starts its final Barcelona concerts

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Oques Grasses has begun its final four-concert run in Barcelona. Each night brings 55,000 people to the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, with roughly 220,000 spectators expected across the sold-out series before the band ends its 16-year career.

On Wednesday, 7 October, Oques Grasses opened the first of four sold-out concerts at Barcelona's Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys. The band will perform the same 24-song repertoire on 8, 9 and 10 October before disbanding after 16 years. The first night lasted more than two hours and closed with "La gent que estimo" and "Sort de tu".

Heavy rain forced the concert planned for 5 October to be postponed, shifting the farewell series to 7 through 10 October. The shows reunite the Catalan group with an audience it built through hundreds of major local festivals over the past decade and a half. Oques Grasses blended cheerful melodies with sentiment, setting a light sound against deeper themes. Media coverage has linked its rise as a mass cultural phenomenon to the period after 2012, when the band became one of the leading names in contemporary music in Catalan.

The scale of the farewell is clear from the venue. Each night is expected to draw 55,000 people. All four performances sold out, with more than 200,000 tickets purchased at prices ranging from about €38.50 to €66. Across the series, roughly 220,000 spectators are expected to pass through the stadium.

Barcelona is hosting four identical performances that form one extended goodbye rather than a standard tour stop. La Vanguardia reports that Oques Grasses became the first Catalan-language act to fill a stadium independently, drawing 55,000 people. The concerts put the band on a stage bigger than its own career.

The setlist spans most of the catalogue. Eight songs come from Fruit del Deliri (2024), seven from Fans del Sol (2019), five from A tope amb la vida (2021), three from Un dia no sé com (2012) and one from You Poni (2016). Digue-n'hi com vulguis (2014) is the only album without a song in the Barcelona shows.

The final concert on 10 October was scheduled for a live broadcast by iCat from 20:00 to 23:00, with coverage also planned for 3Cat, La 2 Catalunya and Ràdio 4. The broadcast was intended to carry the farewell beyond the stadium audience.

The performance opens with "Córrer pels camps" and "Petar-ho", then moves through "Sta guai", "Elefants", "Cara de cul", "Bancals", "Cançó de l'aire" and "Com està el pati". The middle section includes "Cavall estable", "John Brown", "Cul", "Passos importants", "Bambi", "Molta tralla", "Pingpong" and "Com el dia i la nit".

The closing section features "Cap amunt", "In the Night", "Bye bye", "Serem ocells", "Torno a ser jo", "La gent que estimo", "De bonesh" and "Sort de tu". The sequence moves between recent releases and earlier material, though some albums get more space than others.

The concerts close a relationship with the public built over years of shared local celebrations. The final Barcelona dates also put frontman Josep Montero's personal decision in focus. La Vanguardia reports that he plans to withdraw from public musical activity after Oques Grasses ends and live in Muntanyola. For him, the shows mark the end of the band and his public stage career.

Richard Reid RUSSPAIN.com
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