Movida Viguesa

The Movida Viguesa (the Vigo movement or Vigo scene) was a period of cultural creation, originating in the years 1977-1978, which took place in the Spanish city of Vigo, Galicia during the first half of the 1980s, and which coincided in time with the Movida Madrileña, shaping what is known as the golden age of Spanish pop. ^[1]

It was fundamentally a musical and aesthetic movement, associated with the nightlife and the bars of the old part of the city, which was a reaction to the conventional music of the time, in a context of strong economic crisis (with high unemployment rates and a strong reconversion of the naval sector) and a certain political skepticism generated by the disenchantment produced by the political transition of the 1970s, after the end of Francisco Franco's dictatorship.

The Movida Viguesa began from concerts in pubs such as Angara or Satchmo ^[2] and the emergence of groups such as Bar, Sociedad Anónima (SA) ^[1], TrenVigo or Mari Cruz Soriano y los que afinan su piano, a band later renamed Siniestro Total. The city lived through a feverish rush of bands forming and dissolving, playing in very varied styles (punk, pop, techno, reggae, ska, funk), and featuring chaotic and irreverent lyrics, influenced by postmodernity.

Some of the key places associated with the movement, many of them currently active, were El Kremlin, El Manco de Lepanto (on the street of the same name) or El Ruralex (today known as Radar).

Among the outstanding groups of this period were Golpes Bajos (a sophisticated group formed around Germán Coppini), Aerolineas Federales, Os Resentidos (led by Antón Reixa), Semen Up or Ultramarinos Troncoso (the only techno group of the time in Vigo).

In September 1986 the movement became entwined with its counterpart in Madrid, with concerts was attended by groups such as Gabinete Caligari, Los Nikis and Alaska y los Pegamoides. However, the second meeting, scheduled in Madrid for the spring of 1987 never took place. ^[3}

References

1. Guizán, Laura (February 11, 2021). «21 music groups that were born in the city of Vigo». El Español (The Lion of El Español Publications). Retrieved February 13, 2021.
2. How the Vigo movement of the 80s was born.
3. «A movida from Vigo, from Trenvigo or Kremlim (in Galician)». Archived from the original on January 3, 2009. Retrieved October 14, 2007.
4. Ocampo, Elena (January 9, 2014). «A lot of movement after" the movement" ». El Faro de Vigo (Iberian Press). Retrieved May 18, 2019.

Text adapted from the Spanish-language Wikipedia