Mondo Bizarre Magazine Concert Reviews, Concerts

Sean Nicholas Savage, Lovers & Lollypops, Porto, 18.05.2026.

© Mondo Bizarre Magazine/António Carvalho

words: António Carvalho (edited by Raquel Pinheiro)
photos: António Carvalho

Attending a concert by Canadian singer-songwriter Sean Nicholas Savage is like discovering a hidden gem. The modest stage of Lovers & Lollypops seemed too small for everything he delivered in just over an hour.

His exuberant presence, his larger-than-life poetry, his attention towards the audience, his virtuoso and expressive voice are just parts of a larger whole that is difficult to describe. His electronic pop, heavily indebted to the eighties, reveals itself as confessional, honest and with a dose of apparent naivety, where joy and melancholy, loss and gain, mystery and revelation, pleasure and pain coexist, sometimes within the same song.

Whether in ballads or upbeat music, the classic themes of love – the euphoria of passion, the discovery of the other, the broken hearts – are dominant and served in catchy and well-crafted melodies, like many of the pop classics. Sean’s excellent technical mastery of his voice, including a delightful falsetto, doesn’t take away any of the moment’s authenticity, as if he were pouring his heart out and offering it to the audience.It was almost impossible to take your eyes off this magnetic, barefoot figure.

Besides the privileged ones in the audience, Clara Phends on synthesizers and Max-Elie Laroche on electronic drums joined him in this brief, intimate journey. Sean covered a representative sample of his prolific discography, with some emphasis on his latest album The Knowing, a record he is very proud of, so he told me after the concert.

He even granted a request from the audience, performing half of Chin Chin, and finished with one of his favourites, the single It’s Happening. Thank you, beautiful freak!

There’s a photo gallery of the concert on our Instagram

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Mondo Bizarre Magazine Concert Reviews, Concerts

Tame Impala | RIP Magic, Super Bock Arena, Porto, 04.04.2026.

Tame Impala © Mondo Bizarre Magazine/Ricardo Silva

words: Marcos Leal (edited by Raquel Pinheiro)
photos: Ricardo Silva

The opening act was Rip Magic who, despite showing real quality in their dance punk approach, deserved better sound conditions.

RIP Magic © Mondo Bizarre Magazine/Ricardo Silva

It was at the Super Bock Arena, in Porto that Tame Impala, aka Kevin Parker, kicked off their European tour presenting the new album Deadbeat. Live,

It couldn’t have started in a better way.
Both for the audience, who got to experience the concert in a smaller arena compared to other dates on the tour, and for Kevin Parker himself, who expressed how delighted he was with the warm and enthusiastic reception from the crowd.

On a Saturday night after a day that smelled like summer, the energy was already palpable upon arriving at the venue. Expectations were high, especially considering Tame Impala’s new album leans into a more electronic sound compared to previous releases.

As Kevin Parker stepped onto the stage and the first notes of Apocalypse Dream echoed through the arena, the crowd was swept into a psychedelic whirlwind of light and color. The rawer, more electronic new sound blended seamlessly with the classics everyone was eager to sing along to, and once again the stage design and lighting were nothing short of impressive. Elephant continues to prove itself an unshakable live anthem.

Tame Impala © Mondo Bizarre Magazine/Ricardo Silva

Kevin – who famously takes a quick bathroom break at every show – used that moment to reappear on a small circular stage in the center of the arena, decorated like an improvised living room.

There, he lay down surrounded by synthesizers and keyboards to perform the more electronic tracks from the new album, while the audience watched intently, bodies swaying.

Between songs, Parker didn’t hide his affection for the city. He said several times that he loved Porto and didn’t wanted to leave, perhaps the lingering effect of a sunset at Virtudes. The crowd’s reaction made it clear the feeling was mutual.

The final stretch was pure catharsis: Let It Happen turned the venue into a sea of lights and confetti, and The Less I Know the Better had the entire arena singing as if it were a generational anthem.

The farewell came with the first track unveiled from Deadbeat, End of Summer, perfectly delivering that sense of early nostalgia for a short but memorable summer, one that Tame Impala brought along for a visit to Porto.

Tame Impala © Mondo Bizarre Magazine/Ricardo Silva

Setlist:

  1. Apocalypse Dreams
  2. The Moment
  3. Borderline
  4. Loser
  5. Breathe Deeper
  6. Gossip
  7. Elephant
  8. Afterthought
  9. Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
  10. Dracula
    B-Stage
  11. No Reply
  12. Ethereal Connection
  13. Not My World
    Main Stage
  14. Let It Happen
  15. Nangs
  16. List of People (To Try and Forget About) [live debut]
  17. Alter Ego
  18. Piece of Heaven
  19. Eventually
  20. New Person, Same Old Mistakes

Encore:

  1. My Old Ways
  2. The Less I Know the Better
  3. End of Summer

Photo galleries on our Instagram