NEW CONFIRMATIONS :: LINE-UP CLOSED

We close the FIB Heineken 2007 line-up with one of the most innovative of the American punk-pioneer generation at the end of the 70s: Devo. They are to pop what Suicide is to electronic music, what The New York Dolls or Television are to rock. They got together in Akron, Ohio back in 1972 and released four absolutely essential albums between 1978 and 1981: “Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!” (1978), “Duty Now for the Future” (1979), “Freedom of Choice” (1980) and “New Traditionalists” (1981). Robotic movements, mongoloid dances, Playmobil settings, workmen’s overalls, straight-to-the-point and cutting guitar riffs, and voices blaring from fairground megaphones are the basic elements with which Devo have moulded their own world and expressed it to us all in hard-hitting pop explosions – veritable hymns for students of Artificial Intelligence. FIB Heineken once again transports them from their American base to the Escenario Verde (Green Stage) on July 20 so Mark Mothersbaugh and his band can blow us all away with their interplanetary harangues and spasmodic guitar solos.

All the same, FIB Heineken is stronger than ever in 2007 in its daily programming. Each day is full of infinite possibilities, of hundreds of incredible songs to be heard in the Festival’s venue, of outfits that have made history such as those belonging to Devo and the unparalleled B-52’s, or outfits that are about to become history, like those of The Horrors – somewhere midway between Sigue Sigue Sputnik and The Cramps.

We have prepared an overview organised by the different days and songs that can be heard on each of them. Don’t think twice about checking it out here.

TIMES

Now you can consult our Web site to find the hours and dates that each on of the artists representing the line-up at the thirteenth annual FIB Heineken.

 
MUSAC IN BENICÀSSIM

For the second year in a row, MUSAC (The Castilla y León Museum of Contemporary Art) and FIB Heineken join forces in Benicàssim. As part of FIB-Art’07, a selection of video-creations from the museum’s collection will travel to the Festival’s venue where, during the days of the big event, the moving art of artists – both up-and-coming and world-acclaimed – like Fikret Atay, Patty Chang, Jesper Just, Cristina Lucas, Bjørn Melhus, Fernando Renes and Martín Sastre will be seen by thousands of young people. Once again, the Festival’s screens will become exhibition space for video-creation works of great quality.

And of the entire selection made for this year, one stands out as the matron of honour of what could be called the celebration of the first anniversary of relations between FIB Heineken and MUSAC: Pipilotti Rist, the queen of visual narration, will arrive with her work Homo Sapiens sapiens, a spectacular video-installation that represented the artist at the 2005 Biennale of Venice and which was later reinterpreted for the space at MUSAC in 2006, finally becoming part of the museum’s permanent collection.

 
LODGING IN BENICÀSSIM
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