The Time Machine by Love of Lesbian

Summarizing nearly thirty years of music in a two-hour concert is difficult. But not impossible. To awaken an emotion you felt in 2009 while listening to a song from your favorite band fifteen years later is something that Love of Lesbian can achieve. And it seems like a daily gesture, transferring a feeling from here to there effortlessly. This is what happens when poetry transforms into music. It has the power to endure. It makes you unique and unmistakable.

"We are more focused on finding the most intimate self, without artifice"

At 21:00 the dim orange light that faintly illuminates the Paris 15 goes out and the journey begins. They haven't gone too far to start, it's October 2024 and 'Army of Salvation' is playing. From the back of the room, raised arms take the spotlight, moving to the rhythm of the chords. Love of Lesbian has already taken over the room. “The intention is that you leave the concert thinking: The last 20 years of my life have just passed by,” are the first words from the band's lead singer. And they are succeeding because now it's March 2016 and they play 'When You Don't See Me'. Moving from side to side is now inevitable and the walls increasingly resonate, holding the vibration of the drums, the piano, and the guitars.

Claps and strings

It's not enough. Time has not yet given in too much. If they wish to reach their origins, the journey must extend a bit more. They will stop in January 2007. In 'Chinese Tales for Children from Japan'. 'Colors of a Shadow' is heard. No matter the distance separating you from the stage, it's not hard to feel that you're there, inside the album, among chords and percussions that produce an explosion of emotions. 'Reversible Nights' follows, starting only with the audience's clapping and the strings of Julián Saldarriaga's guitar. This year ends with the inevitable attraction of 'The Magnetic Girl'.

A room devoted to Balmes and his group / Samuel Torres

With the anthem of 'Sixty Lost Memories' there is no one left in silence. The harmonies have taken over the audience. The glasses are empty but no one wants to leave the dance floor to get more drinks. The time machine moves forward and backward continuously. '1999' and 'I'm Going to Break the Windows' play, ending this phase with a long piano solo. 'What Will You Know', 'Under the Volcano', and 'The Champions and the World Cup' follow.

An unpredictable band must have unpredictable followers. Cut, a fan dressed as the Poet Halley climbs onto the stage to sing 'I Love Myself'. Santi Balmes can't sing more than two words without bursting into laughter. Everyone on stage dances, the whole room joins in. The song lasts twice as long. No one wants it to end. But the concert is coming to a close. It has been a rollercoaster. Love of Lesbian combines a party, a breakup, and a declaration of intent. 'Snow Fires' starts a cappella but soon an orchestra joins in. "It's the moment to kiss." With Vega, their guest tonight, they sing 'There Where We Used to Scream' and in 'The Brotherhood', the singer comes down to the stage to toast with the audience who, besides sharing the euphoria, drenches him with beer, but it no longer matters. It has been an "adrenaline shot".

The band, on the boards of Paris 15 / Samuel Torres

'John Boy's Fan Club' makes the room jump. "We promise to return to Málaga", the singer announces and after a waltz with the drummer Oriol Bonet, they bow to the audience and say goodbye. The lights come back on. The time machine has stopped. This is where the journey ends.