One in a thousand

“Yes! We’ll be back on stage, and Elvis will be with us” – posted Italian rock band Baustelle on social media. Chianti, Central Italy, is where Francesco Bianconi and Claudio Brasini, barely twenty years of age, practiced their guitars and fed on Sonic Youth and Smashing Pumpkins while keeping an eye on the Sixties for both music and looks. By 1997, Rachele Bastreghi joined them and catalysed the band’s potential. Baustelle is, wouldn’t you know, German for construction site, and the band did build a lot over the last thirty years: unmistakable music, baroque lyrics, and linear, fantastic music the public loved, masses and critics both. They played at the largest rock events and in random small-town clubs.

On May 8, Baustelle will perform at Malibran Theatre. Intimo Sexy! Elvis a teatro is their way to present their latest album, Elvis, and to take us on a rollercoaster ride on the notes of Brassens, Battiato, and the King himself. Baustelle have been, and still are, able to mix ingredients that are only apparently at odds, and to make us savour unique flavours, something that once tasted, will have you hooked for life.