The Azkena Rock Festival unveils the lineup for Trashville, its wildest stage

If the Azkena Rock Festival is a temple of rock & roll, then Trashville is its darkest altar, its hidden dive bar, a den in the underworld. This is no ordinary stage: it is a primitive abyss where rock sounds dirtier, wilder, and rawer than ever. Trashville is the place where the line between stage and audience is erased, and where anything can happen. Here, there are no rules, no limits, no respite. Trashville is a festival within the festival, a black hole of frenzied rhythm where garage, rockabilly, surf, and psychobilly collide with the grimiest punk. A tent that pulses to its own beat, with the atmosphere of a concert venue wide open for the wildest dancing. Here, the fastest riffs reign, the drums run riot, and the basslines roar like engines. It doesn’t matter whether the instrument is a guitar or a piece of scrap metal, or whether it’s played by a caveman or a being from another planet, because what matters is attitude. In Trashville, anything is possible.”

Considered one of the best garage bands in the country, Valencian group Wau y los Arrrghs!!! return following their 2023 reunion to celebrate their 20th anniversary, much to the delight of their fans, offering a select series of exceptional concerts to mark the milestone. In a one-off, exclusive performance, clad in leopard print, The Neanderthals proclaim themselves to be true cavemen. One thing is certain, their garage sound is raw and primitive. Some suspect they share a singer with Los Straijackets, a theory that could be put to the test at the festival if anyone dares to strip this legendary Nashville band of their Mexican wrestler masks when they storm onto the Trashville stage.

From Italy, the rock & roll duo The Devils join the line-up, with a name perfectly suited for officiating any kind of ritual that Trashville may inspire. Elegant and strange, from the deepest underground, Escape-ism arrives with American filmmaker and musician Ian Svenonius as frontman and crooner. The self-styled ‘mercenary band’ from France, Fléau, will bring the battle, clad in helmets and armed with a noisy dose of hardcore. Combining fitness, metal, and pepperoni pizza, each performance by the Italian Gogoponies has a different theme, with one thing in common: boundless fun. Scrap-metal sound, “ninonino,” and gritty guitars come with Las Jennys de Arroyoculebro, the queens of urban punk. Mambo Rambo are two crazy cavemen from the Canary Islands, paying tribute to the Latin sounds of the 60s.

The scarecrows have escaped from the farms of Walton (UK), and with their straw hands, they’ve begun playing primitive rhythm & blues to scare off the crows! They are Thee Scarecrows Aka. Continuing with bizarre creatures, The Sex Organs return to Azkena, two extraterrestrial genitalia with their dirty and primitive ‘sex & roll.’ And if the goal is to dance, the Trashville lineup includes a fitness session with raw punk, psychobilly, and ska rhythms, courtesy of six Belgians in tracksuits, Wallaroos, who will have the whole tent dancing.

In addition, no Trashville experience would be complete without a selection of top-tier DJs to close out the endless nights. Alta Tensión DJs, Bilba Grotbill, DJ Bone, Borja Nihil, El Chico, Malandra, Nat Simons Jukebox, Rock Nights, and DJ Strychnine will bring all their musical expertise to serve this high-level mission.

The Trashville lineup adds to the recent confirmations of the legendary John Fogerty, performing all the classics from his repertoire in a one-off performance in Spain, Manic Street Preachers, also in an exclusive date; The Flaming Lips, performing Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots; the iconic Lucinda Williams; the 30th anniversary of The Hellacopters, Richard Hawley, Margo Price, and many more, all set to gather at the 23rd edition of the Azkena Rock Festival on the 19th, 20th, and 21st of June in Mendizabala, Vitoria-Gasteiz.

The passes are now on sale at azkenarockfestival.com at a promotional price until 7th March. This year, in addition to the Bono Gaztea (€100 + fees, for those under 23), the Bono Cuadrilla is being launched, designed for the inseparable festival friend groups: by buying 5 passes, they’ll receive 6. The option for instalment payments is also available, as well as free entry for children under 14. The festival will offer organised bus trips from nearby cities such as Bilbao, Pamplona, Donostia/San Sebastián, Zarautz, Arrasate, and Alsasua, making it easier to access one of the most anticipated events of the year.