Madrid has its own open-air summer festival. It is the DCODE Festival which is held in September. It is a perfect month to enjoy the good weather and bid farewell to the summer season, accompanied by eighteen hours of good music from the morning onwards (like in European festivals) and is aimed at families. In 2020, the festival will hold its tenth edition on 11 and 12 September in which artists of the likes of Leiva, Coque Malla, Vetusta Morla and Crystal Fighters head the line-up.
The 2019 edition was attended by 20,000 people who enjoyed performances by groups like Two Door Cinema Club, Amaral, The Cardigans, Kaiser Chiefs and Tom Odell. In 2020, the festival will celebrate its tenth anniversary at the Cantarranas Complex on the Madrid Complutense University Campus (behind the Faculty of Information Sciences) which will host the best on the national and international indie rock scene.
Confirmed artists include Leiva and Vetusta Morla, who will perform a full show in which they will review the greatest hits of their careers. The Vetusta Morla concert will be the group’s stage farewell until further notice.
The chameleonic artist, Coque Malla, will also be present in this tenth edition to give a concert as part of his latest tour to present his album, Revolución?, released at the end of 2019. It is an album that includes one of the best performances of his career in conjunction with Jaime Urrutia, Kase.O and the Bratislava Orchestra.
The English-Spanish indie and electronic band led by Sebastian Pringle, Crystal Fighters, will not miss the event either. The line-up is rounded off with the presence of artists like the psychedelic and alternative pop-rock group from Barcelona, Sidonie, the fusion of Fuel Fandango, the post-punk band, Belako, the Swedish rock group, Mando Diao and the British group, Maxïmo Park.
With such an impressive lineup DCODE festival has established itself as one of the Spanish capital’s most eagerly anticipated summer events, with tickets always in high demand. It is celebrated in one of the greatest and best connected green areas of the city, Complutense University campus and it includes activities for all ages (children aged 10 and younger have free entrance to the festival and a space Dcode Kids with games, storytelling and facepainting), because DCODE is a festival where the day is filled with music (from noon to 6 AM, and you can go in an out of the venue until 5 PM), food, fashion, sports and trends at amazing prices.
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