SEVENTH LEGION

(PT)

It is one of those long-awaited and celebrated returns, which, although not unprecedented – ten years ago they also met on stage to mark the 30-year career –, takes on greater significance for being the first time without keyboardist Ricardo Camacho, who disappeared four years ago. and one of the main responsible for the enormous success of the Seventh Legion. In fact, there are few bands in Portugal that managed (and manage) to be so transversal. “It's an honor to realize that, after so much time, our songs are still touching people”, recognizes vocalist Pedro Oliveira, one of the founding members of the band in 1982, with friends Nuno Cruz (drums) and Rodrigo Leão ( low). Influenced by British alternative music, especially by bands like New Order, Joy Division or Echo & the Bunnymen, they recorded the first single, Glory in 1983, by Fundação Atlântica, which a year later would also release the debut album To an Unknown God. “The Portuguese factory”, as Pedro Oliveira recalls, had been created at the time by Miguel Esteves Cardoso, Pedro Ayres Magalhães and Ricardo Camacho, who shortly afterwards would also join the band. The songs would go down in history forever, like Elsewhere, Seven seas or By Whom I Didn't Forget, which the band will remember at this concert, where they will have the usual line-up, composed by Pedro Oliveira (voice and guitar), Rodrigo Leão (bass and keys), Nuno Cruz (drums, percussion), Gabriel Gomes (accordion), Paulo Marinho (bagpipes, flutes), Paulo Abelho (percussion, samplers) and Francisco Menezes (choirs), Ricardo Camacho being replaced by João Eleutério, musician from Rodrigo Leão's band.