La Renga and an epic recital at the End of the World before more than 20,000 people

Under the cold and at times the rain, 3,000 kilometers from Buenos Aires and on the banks of the Beagle Channel, at the End of the World, La Renga gave an epic recital last night, one of those destined to be forever recorded in the memory of the band and its followers, as well as in the history of the Argentine rock.

With a almost three hour show carried out in front of the hangar of the Naval Air Base of the city of Ushuaia, in Tierra del Fuegothe group led by Gustavo “Chizzo” Napoli made a crowd delirious 20,000 people that for more than ten days before had begun to arrive from different parts of the country.

Flags, umbrellas, red smoke and jumps essential to withstand the low temperatures and the south wind reached their climax at 9:56 p.m., when the chords of pure power were heard. “Gut and heart”the first song of the recital that was broadcast live on the streaming platform Star+ for all Latin America.

“It is one thing to say it and another to live it. What a thrill it is to be here today, friends,” he acknowledged. “Chizzo” from the stage embedded above the door of a hangar, whose front served as a screen for the projection of images and lights.

The staging of the show and the sound did not relegate even a thousandth of quality compared to other presentations of the band in the large population centers of the country and the world, despite the enormous logistical task that the transport of the elements entailed by thousands. of kilometers, even crossing the forced passage through Chili and the crossing of Strait of Magellan.

Tierra del Fuego, the only province in the country that La Renga had not touched

With this first recital in Tierra del Fuego, La Renga It also completed the map of the country: it was the only province where they had never touched.

when it rang “Good Pipe”the second song of the show, had barely gotten dark on the banks of the Beagleand the flags of fans of the Buenos Aires suburbs, of Chaco, Santa Fe, Salta, of Neuquen and from many other places distant from each other were mixed into a whole of organized community.

Around 11 p.m., the audience exploded at the hit “Ballad of the devil and death”, and half an hour later with “The revelde.”

At midnight, with almost two uninterrupted hours of recital, another point of collective euphoria occurred with the version of “The end is where I started.”a topic that followed “Dark Diamond” and then “Panic Show”sung as always and without any allusion to the use it had during the presidential campaign by the now elected president Javier Milei.

After “The reason that delays you”, “Chizzo” He made one of the few stops at the concert to once again thank “those who came from all over, by plane, by car or by motorcycle” and those who “dodged the rain,” because if something was missing from the epic of the moment It was the water that began to fall quite intensely at the End of the World.

The voice of La Renga He also remembered the genocide Selk`namthe original town of the province that lost the majority of its inhabitants between the second half of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, with the arrival of the Europeans, and that in the province is remembered on November 25, with A holiday.

And regarding anniversaries, the anniversary of the death of Diego Armando Maradona He was also remembered for a huge flag with the number 10 that flew throughout the night through the center of the crowd.

“The same as always,” as the fans of the band from the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Buenos Aires call themselves. Slaughterhousesthey only left their repertoire of court songs adapted to their idols to allude to their presence in the End of the world and to let the feeling for the Malvinas cause that floods the Fuegian residents.

Perhaps for this reason, the hit “And you see, the one who doesn’t jump is an Englishman,” It was by far the entertainment most used by fans to pass the endless hours before the show.