Concert review: Piero Pelu 'between Litfiba, Assoli and civil commitment (info and tickets)

Hello to all
It seems that we like … the otors have visited me and they imposed me forced rest: my duel with the fucking tinnitus continues but you know that I have the leather and the head lasts and I never give up.
I thank Friends and Partners, all the clubs, the legendary Bandidos, the staff on tour and of course all of you who have already bought tickets for the love you transmit to me every time.
The party in clubs is only postponed to April/May '25 and get ready that it will be more powerful than ever!

I love you
See you soon

With this message last October Piero Pelù announced that he had to take a break for the regaining of his hearing problems. Everything was postponed by a few months and the dates reprogrammed.

Today that period of forced rest has finished and Piero has returned to the stage and, apparently, the energy accumulated in the months of inactivity has now found its “grounding”, a way to discharge, to allow Tuscan rocker to return to tread the stage with force and an invidable vitality and physical form in the face of the 63 years (turned last February) in a very “physical” concert, both in muscle and muscle terms, performance.

For his return to the stage, Pelù has chosen small clubs, he used to filling the buildings with the former band and by soloist the larger concert halls, the return to such a dimension so contained is a sort of jump over time, finding himself, with what follows, in a long -time context abandoned. Yet a location like the Milanese one (about 1000 people obviously sold out) has made it possible to give the public a show where even every breath, expression, note, movement was available to everyone. Even the size of the stage were certainly not an obstacle and Pelù was able to move skipped, dancing freely in a physical closeness with the public. He also recovered that theatrical, physical expression that has always accompanied him.

This short tour of eight dates (to which three more are added to it in October) was an opportunity to put together a series of celebrations: 40 years of “Desaparecido” (1985) the LP in the debut studio of the Litfiba, 35 years of “El Diablo” (1990), 30 of “Spirito” (1995) and finally 25 years of “vouchers nor bad”, his first solo album (2000). An opportunity, therefore, to retrace the times and also get to “touch” the latest post Litfiba albums, as well as the beginning of the historic band (which closed its path in 2022).

Headphones on the head (instead of the spies and the Ear Mours) Pelù starts immediately to the great and straight for straight, it carries on the whole concert (exactly 2 hours at the lightning) with a lower head, in the name of the most visceral and powerful rock.

To accompany him the Fedeli Bandidos (Amudi Safa on guitar, Luca Martelli “Mitraglia” on drums and Max Gelsi “Sigel” on bass) that support him great, engine of this rock machine. The guitarist's work takes place between Riff and Assoli, the incessant hammer battery and the low powerful pump (Max has experiences among others with Pezzali, Vasco Rossi and above all with Elisa). In the end, having the tinnitus will be the public itself. In addition, Antonio Aiazzi, the historic keyboardist of the band (from 80 to 90 and then in bands also in the subsequent reunion), was added to the Litfiba songs.

Once again, however, he will be the star of the evening is him, Piero, who as always confirms an incredible beast of the stage, who even when he does not sing captures attention and all with a voice that does not hear sagging.

The repertoire of both the Litfiba and the soloist is “brutalized”, even more enhanced, in an incessant and enthralling rock orgy, to the point that under the stage a ferocious pogo is unleashed on several occasions.

The salient moments are on “Spirit” and “Lacio Drom” that stretches with such improvisation (also allowed by the fact to be in a club where the “production” counts and weighs zero), “boomerang bomb” and the ending with the “bull loco” couple attacked seamlessly to “el diablo”. But the whole concert is a concentrate of energy, perhaps amplified by the fact and euphoria that Milan was the first date of the tour.

But Piero as usual goes beyond the only musical aspect and often tells its world vision from the stage that often contrasts with the factual reality. Here then remember the drama of the Kurdi and that of Palestine (with the exhibition of flags of the two countries), Piero dreams of a world without prevaricators, without dictators, without duties, lashes out against the prohibitions, against the right and is all in favor of rights. In short, he does not, he has never done so, mystery of his way of thinking that, to see the reactions, he is always shared by his audience.

From the debut of 6 December 1980 in Florence, the first Litfiba concert, Piero Pelù has always ground rock, he has done so with the band and alone, sometimes deviating from the more powerful sounds and crossing the pop on his path, but it has certainly always been coherent and intellectually honest. This clean, direct, wild show shows how rock can still have his hero and paladin today.

Score 8.00

Review by Luca Trambusti for Musicedalpalco.com (click to read the entire article)

The ladder

The show (Litfiba)
Heroes in the wind (Litfiba)
The prey (Litfiba)
Novichok
I will be there
Cursed heart
The flight (Litfiba)
Istanbul (Litfiba)
No borders (Litfiba)
Spirit (Litfiba)
Lacio Drom (good trip) (Litfiba)
Singing
Boomerang bomb
Giant
Bull
El Diablo (Litfiba)

Encore
Lulù and Marlene (Litfiba)
Forbidden (Litfiba)
Gioconda (Litfiba)
Tziganata (Litfiba)

Dates

April 23, 2025 Padua Hall Sold Out
April 29, 2025 Rome Largo Venue Sold Out
02 May 2025 Naples Music House
04 May 2025 Modugno (BA) Demode 'Club
08 May 2025 Turin Hiroshima Mon Amour Sold Out
11 May 2025 Bologna Estragon Club
May 16, 2025 Florence Viper Theater Sold Out

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