Podcast

Clara Lobo explores the secrets behind the stages of ARF

The Azkena Rock Festival Podcast, where we explore 23 years of history of the rock and roll festival par excellence. Discover the best moments, funny anecdotes and exclusive facts with our special guests.

Yahvé de la Cavada, the festival’s leading booker and a key figure in the music scene, inaugurates the ARF podcast. Together with Clara Lobo, they share unpublished and unmissable details about the event in Mendizabala. Join us in this first episode to discover the best-kept secrets of the festival that the most loyal fans won’t want to miss.

#2 WE DIVE INTO THE SECRETS OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY WITH BARNABY HARROD

Barnaby Harrod is the star guest of the second episode of the ARF podcast. The member of the iconic rock band The Pleasure Fuckers and director of the promoter Mercury Wheels reveals the ins and outs of the music industry and his connection with the Azkena Rock Festival with Clara Lobo. Don’t miss this fascinating journey into the world of rock and the music industry!

#3 WE DISCOVER THE INS AND OUTS OF MUSIC JOURNALISM WITH ALFRED CRESPO “COCO”

Co-director of the magazine Ruta 66 and director of the publishing house 66 rpm, among many other facets, Alfred Crespo “Coco” reviews his career and his personal connection with the Azkena Rock Festival in the third episode of the podcast with, once again, our stellar presenter, Clara Lobo.

#4 JOURNALIST IÑAKI LÓPEZ SHOWS US HIS ROCKER SIDE

Presenter at La Sexta and rock fan, that’s Iñaki López, the fourth guest on the ARF podcast. In this episode, the journalist tells us some of his anecdotes linked to the world of music, in which he actively participates through his record label, as well as going to concerts and collecting vinyl.

#5 ARDE BOGOTÁ CLOSES THE FIRST SEASON OF THE ARF PODCAST

The fifth and last episode of the first season of the ARF Podcast is a bonus track by the national rock band that is currently breaking all records, Arde Bogotá. In this special episode, the band that will be performing this June at the Azkena Rock Festival for the first time and who share the bill with one of their favourite bands, Queens Of The Stone Age, reveal some of their most curious anecdotes.

#6 OIHANA LAZPITA AND JONE ORUETA, REVEAL IN THE ARF PODCAST, THE INS AND OUTS OF WORKING AT A FESTIVAL AS TRANSPORTERS

The sixth episode of the first season of the ARF Podcast will feature two luxury guests, Oihana Lazpita and Jone Orueta, from the transport department of the Azkena Rock Festival. In this episode, we will be able to find out some of the secrets hidden behind closed doors that are sure to surprise all the fans of the rock n’ roll festival par excellence.

#7 M-CLAN FRONTMAN CARLOS TARQUE REVEALS HIS ROCK ROOTS AND LINKS TO THE AZKENA ROCK FESTIVAL IN THE ARF PODCAST

In this seventh episode of the first season of the ARF Podcast we have as a special guest Carlos Tarque, one of the icons of the rock genre both nationally and internationally, and founding member and leader of the legendary band M Clan. Thanks to this encounter we will be able to get to know the singer and songwriter a little better, as well as his special bond with the Azkena Rock Festival, where he will be performing this year.

#8 ELOY PÉREZ, A KEY FIGURE IN THE AZKENA FORUM, ON THE ARF PODCAST

In the eighth episode of the first season of the ARF Podcast we have Eloy Pérez, one of the key figures in the now classic Azkena Forum, one of the main digital spaces about rock music on the Iberian peninsula. He has also been writing about music for more than thirty years in different formats such as fanzines, websites and magazines like Ruta 66. In this episode, he will tell us the ins and outs behind the forum, as well as how they will be celebrating 20 years of the forum.

#9 ROCKZONE IN THE NINTH EPISODE OF THE ARF PODCAST

In the ninth episode of the first season of the ARF Podcast we have the Rockzone team as a special guest, and what better way than to visit their offices in Barcelona. Self-described as a means of keeping up to date with all the latest news on alternative music and culture, they have been with us since the festival’s beginnings to keep the spirit of rock and roll alive.