(From the correspondent Silvia Mancinelli) As it was for Modena Park is once again thehelicoptertook off for the occasion at 18 from the nearby Fai della Paganella, to catapult Vasco to the Trentino Music Arena where the gang of 120 thousand waits for hours under a hot sun.
When the dark prepares to welcome the 1500 lights, the green expanse nestled between the mountains and the vines is a carpet of people with their mobile phones pointed at the huge stage. To dampen the enthusiasm an announcement received amid boos: the concert will start late, at 9.30 pm, for the people who are still waiting at the gates to enter. About 15 thousand fans remained outside and all that remained was to walk to the concert area.
The music starts slowly, on the screens the peaks of a desert landscape, the desolation of an old abandoned van, the same as the pandemic, the Covid that kept us away. In silence, alone.
And then the huge writing, Vasco XXII.
It’s 2022. We stayed in 2019, in Milan and Cagliari. Then the medical emergency abstinence and quarantines. Today Vasco is back, his fans are back. And here the arena explodes, XXII is halved and becomes XI, the eleventh commandment: forward the next, to the bitter end!
“Welcome, welcome back, welcome back, healthy and clear. Finally, finally all together“he says anticipating” The simplest man. ”
“How I missed you. It was hard, it was a long time ”, Blasco tells his followers.
Lots of space for the 80s with “Love help”, “I’ll cut your throat”, “Muoviti” and “Toffee” with a sax solo.
“I’m very excited, incredible, it’s been a long time but we’re still here. Hurray “he says before launching” A sense “. And then” Stupendo “,” We are alone “(but many, Vasco specifies from the stage),” Rewind “and” Delusa “, the song written for the girls of the historic Mediaset program “It is not Rai” and whose text he replaced Boncompagni for the occasion with “that Berlusconi there“. There was no lack of reference to Covid in the arena which during the pandemic was a large vaccination center: “Oh yeah – he sang – I am vaccinated (with 3 doses)“.
And while in the audience devastated by the waiting and the sun of the day, the 118 health workers are running between fainting and illness, Vasco is talking about the war again, on the final notes of “Close upsets of the third kind”: “Fuck the warall wars are against humanity, civilization, against women, children and the elderly ”.
There is no shortage of “Sally”, “Reckless Life”, “Without Words”, obviously “Song” which, as always, dedicates “to all those who have left before their time and who are always with us” he says before applauding and kiss the sky. Two and a half hours later and the lights go down, the closing is as always entrusted to “Albachiara” and the fireworks light up the finale.
In four days it’s up to San Siro. Blasco is back, the gang’s road is cleared until June 30, when the tour will close at the Olimpico in Turin.
