A full 4th of July for B'ESTFEST 2009 in Bucharest. The Ting Tings showed just what a band needs to do during an economic crisis, The Charlatans played in Romania for the second time and legendary Carlos Santana brought 20,000 people together at Romexpo. For over two hours' time, Santana performed and talked about compassion, forgiveness, love, fear and George Bush. The same day saw bands like Persona, Gravity CO., Looptroop Rockers and The MOOod on the stage.
The perfect music couple must be The Ting Tings. Katie and Jules showed on the 4th of July that bands with a reduced number of members do very well in economic crisis. Considered to be the revelation of the year, The Ting Tings performed in Bucharest songs from their debut album, We Started Nothing.
We hear their "one request - to dance", Katie and Jules manage to do what otherwise a five-members band would need to do. While Jules takes care of the rhythm with the help of a "drum", Katie plays the guitar, piano, vocal and beats a drum for several dozens of seconds. They put on We Started Nothing, Shut Up And Let Me Go and That's Not My Name. They mentioned Michael Jackson and, stole the audience's soul by photographing it (some tribes believe that the soul is stolen by the camera).
We are ten served musical "swindles", because The Charlatans take the stage. Also British but much more numerous, with a less energetic than Katie front man, Tim Burgess & Co perform You Cross My Path, Tellin' Stories, Oh Vanity, The Only One I Know, Forever, Blackened Blue Eyes.
Their performances impressed Mick Jagger and band: The Rolling Stones featured in the opening of their 2007 concert in Bucharest the band as the opening act. But the Romanians were not easily impressed: even though "It's good to be here for the second time" and despite their great songs, the band were often too
