An important milestone is that of the fifteenth birthday, which is anything but taken for granted when undertaking the experience of organizing a music festival. Spring Attitude comes to us through a path during which it has been able to transmute itself without ever distorting itself: taking off as an event fundamentally linked to the electronic scene, over time it has had the foresight to incorporate a series of contaminations that have allowed it to broaden its stylistic range, dramatically broadening its target audience. And it gets there even after having changed location several times, one more beautiful, majestic and prestigious than the other, but what has been the new home of Spring Attitude since 2025 surpasses all the previous ones in terms of emotional load. The cloud of Fuksas, one of the architectural jewels of the EUR District, which on this occasion also marks the return of Spring Attitude to its natural seasonal home, the month of May, after having occupied a weekend in September for a few years. May, spring, Spring, a moment of rebirth, of new flowering.
So it is a Spring Attitude which for the first time comes a few months after the previous edition, which took place just nine months ago. An edition, this number XV, built with great awareness: Spring Attitude is now a certainty in Rome, the public buys tickets even in the dark, and in fact the sale of early birddriven by a decidedly convenient price, lower than practically all European competitors, went very well, a great injection of confidence for Andrea Esu, the Artistic Director, and his proven staff. The poster was developed along two lines, very clearly defined. The afternoon of Spring Attitude 2026 is dedicated to some of the most interesting Italian female projects of the moment. For a few years now, a new generation of truly relevant singer-songwriters has been developing in Italy, each with their own peculiar characteristics. Five of the best are here, and Spring takes the credit of dedicating a reserved space to them, which opens both days (Friday 29 and Saturday 30 May) proposing Birthh, Lamante, Gaia Banfi, Altea and Emma Nolde. Some more energetic (Birthh and Emma Nolde), some more introspective (Gaia Banfi and Altea), some with darker hues (Lamante at times reminded us of Chelsea Wolfe), all with a potential international depth. Five sets without any flaw.
The second direction is that of the late evening and night slots, which follow the generative nature of Spring Attitude, the electro side, towards which it pushes especially on Saturday, with the presence of the colorful show of the Argentine Nathy Peluso (who presented the Club Grasa show), of the DJ set of ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U, fresh from Coachella, and next week he will be at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, therefore one of the most requested dominators of the console in recent months, and of the live performance of the very Italian Mind Enterprises, also on the Coachella stage in April for both weekends of the Californian Festival, in orbit with their sound built with all the references centered on the Eighties. Obviously there was no lack of electronics on Friday either, with Parisi's DJ set (we had seen them last summer at the Cavea of the Auditorium together with Fred Again..) and OKGiorgio's live performance, which after the first quarter of an hour focused on three synths and the straight drum, moved in several directions, with two drums on stage, the guitar outlining the melodic lines and the improvisations on stage which lead to the creation of an unreleased live song, starting from a phrase pronounced by a fan into the microphone, then looped, an operation that OKGiorgio is repeating on every date of the tour, perhaps the final result will be a record of improvised live tracks.
In between the two main directions there is space for Italian artists capable of attracting the general public, either because they are national-popular phenomena (this is the case of the enthralling live shows of Tony Pitony and Nu Genea), or because they are artists who always arouse great attention from the Spring audience (this is the case of Motta, who on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of “The End of the Twenty Years” fills the Spring, exactly like Tony Pitony and Nu Genea). And then there are the most sought after proposals, Fridays with the Dutch Yin Yin, with theirs groove guitar psych-disco-funk inspired by oriental aromas, on Saturday with the French trio Dov'è Liana, authors of a danceable and jaunty electro-lounge-pop. All this happens inside La Nuvola, in the Ploom Stage, a large space indoors with over ten thousand attendances. Outside, on the terrace of the building, there is a second stage, called S/A Block Party, where exclusively DJ sets take place, from 5.30pm to midnight, and this year the protagonists were Bluemarina, Manusol, Marco Passarani, Jason K, Palms Trax and Ben Sterling.
Looking up you cannot escape the aesthetic and instagrammable value of La Nuvola di Fuksas which, after sunset, is tinged with a beautiful blue/pink, acquiring an incredible sight also due to the effect of the large audience crowded in every area. A truly emotional experience, which at the moment of farewell leaves the public with a clear veil of melancholy (“is it over yet?”), in addition to the widespread hope that an event like this can be repeated endlessly, and not end abruptly as unfortunately happened to other Italian excellences (just think of the end of TOdays in Turin, or Siren in Vasto). Precisely to avoid risks of this type, Festivals like Spring Attitude must be followed and supported, not only by those who attend them, but even more so by institutions and all bodies capable of ensuring continuity over time for projects of such complexity. The fifteenth spring ends here, and we close it with the words that sanction the conclusion of the press release at the end of the works:
“Fifteen years after its birth, Spring Attitude continues to stand out for its ability to bring together different worlds: great protagonists of the international scene and new projects, club culture and song, research and participation. An identity which, year after year, contributes to making it one of the most recognizable events of the Roman and national cultural season”.
(Photo by Claudio Lancia)
Day 1 – Friday 29 May
PLOOM STAGE
6.00pm – 6.40pm – Birthh
6.55pm – 7.40pm – Lamante
8.00pm – 9.15pm – Tony Pitony (live full band)
9.35pm – 10.30pm – Yin Yin
10.50pm – 12.20am – Nu Genea
00.40 – 02.25 – OKGiorgio
02.40 – 04.00 – Parisi
S/A BLOCK PARTY
5.30pm – 8.00pm – Bluemarina
8.00pm – 10.00pm – Manusol
10.00pm – 12.30am – Marco Passarani
Day 2 – Saturday 30 May
PLOOM STAGE
5.45pm – 6.25pm – Gaia Banfi
6.35pm – 7.15pm – Altea
7.30pm – 8.25pm – Emma Nolde
8.40pm – 9.40pm – Motta (plays “La fine dei twenty years”)
9.50pm – 11.20pm – Nathy Peluso presents Club Grasa (DJ set)
11.30pm – 12.40am – Where is Liana
00.50 – 02.00 – Mind Enterprises (live)
02.00 – 04.00 – ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U
S/A BLOCK PARTY
5.30pm – 8.30pm – Jason K
8.30pm – 10.30pm – Palms Trax 10.30pm – 12.30am – Ben Sterling
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Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
