This was a gig I found after searching all the gigs in Bilbao and Santander for our holiday period. I got two of the last two pairs of tikets available - sitting on the last but one back row. The venue was a cultural centre in Getxo a town on the Bilbao metro line and it was a brilliant venue holding about a thousand I guess with good vision and sound for all.
Ismael was a well known lefty singer songwriter who came on with a keyboards player and sang a couple of songs playing acoustic guitar. We didn't understand the lyrics but the songs were melodic and emotional and his voice was expressive in the way that Mediterranean singers often are. Probably after three songs or so there was a call from an audience member which the person behind translated for us as 'she is asking him if he can sing a happy song'. When he eventually called her up on stage and she was given a mic then it became clear this was a set up and that was confirmed when she turned out to have a great voice herself, joining in on the backing vocals at first. In reality we were witnessing a sort of play and the songs were punctuated in between by chats between the two of them. Of course we didn't get the detail but it was about a relationship developing and she (Julie Pasquall?) got to do more singing including lead vocals.
Towards the end he did some of his most popular songs which provoked an audience response and we got an encore of course. What amazed me was that the show was about two and a half hours in total and it flew by. Always the sign of a good gig.
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