At the very head of our programme calendar, Ilha de Plástico was our first concert in 2019: a packed concert hall warmly embracing the first performance of Montanhas Azuis’ new album and launching the trio on a year-long nationwide tour. Some realised that, on that same night, a couple of original tracks had been revealed on stage, so that it wasn’t hard to predict that Norberto Lobo, Marco Franco and Bruno Pernadas would reach the end of 2019 with yet more novelties. In fact, on this return to the place where it all started, they will bring us a sackful of novelties, genuine rewards for all those who have behaved so well throughout the year, listening endlessly to Ilha de Plástico. New arrangements will be offered, new songs will be played, lots of guests and many surprises that will have to be carefully wrapped and kept secret as required by the Christmas protocol. It will be a huge celebratory event, effusively remembered for the next two thousand years.

Tomás Franco de Sousa (You Can't Win Charlie Brown), electronic percussion, Ana Araújo (Dead Combo, Mikado), piano and electric bass, and singers Mariana Dionísio (In Igma, by Pedro Melo Alves) and Leonor Arnaut (Chão Maior, of which Norberto Lobo is also a member) will join the trio in this Christmas House.