Only band playing in the two editions of the Itinerant Festival Celebra Bom Time, presents explanations for revival and reinforces not living from the past
Not even in the peak period of the emo/melodic Hardcore movement, in the 2000s, there was a event with a stadium size fully focused on this type of sound in Brazil. Previously late than ever: the I WANNA BE TOURa festival -shaped tour, reaches its second edition in 2025, with a date at the Paulo Leminski Quarry in Curitiba, held last weekend, and another at Allianz Parque, in Sao Paulo, scheduled for Saturday, 30th. And only one band played in the two years: Fresnoperhaps the most representative name of this segment nationwide. Almost a synonym for “emo”, a word that has long ceased to sound pejorative.
The group formed by Lucas Silveira (voice and guitar), Gustavo Mantovani (guitar) and Thiago Guerra (battery) recognizes being poorly used to “showzões”. In Curitiba, they played for about 20,000 people in a favored Lineup position, more at night, unlike 2024, when they opened the program. THE Rolling Stone BrazilLucas reflects:
“In Curitiba I was able to feel the difference of what a 7-10,000 audience is – which is already crazy, deafening – to an audience of 20 thousand. There, it seemed that the number of people had no end, not just watching but participating. […] And what we are going to live this Saturday [em São Paulo, para um público estimado entre 40 mil e 50 mil pessoas]we never live. ”
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In the quarry, Fresno played just over 10 songs in one hour set, before only the main attractions fall out Boy, Good Charlotte and Yellowcard. Hits of other moments like “Break the chains” and “Since when you are gone” marked presence, but more recent songs such as “Hashered house” and “I never left” -Title track of the latest album, 2024-were also played. In Lucas’s view, it was necessary to balance past and present in the assembly of the repertoire – which can change to the show at Allianz:
“We think of the size of I Wanna Be Tour’s audience and expecting these people. Many there haven’t been going to Fresno shows in the last 10 years and expect something nostalgic. Still, we also bring current things that dialogue with it. We have the particularity of our fans really listening to our recent works. I never left must be close to 20 million streams. ”
Excited by the “hunger” of the Fresno audience for news beyond nostalgia, Vavo adds:
“I don’t see this in another band: Fresno fans want the band to launch new albums and play all the songs on the new album on the release tour.

For the trio, it should be noted, it is interesting to observe how the other attractions of the lineup also did not stop in time. Most bands climbing for I Wanna Be Tour 2025 continued to work even in the past decade, when emo movement “cooled” in terms of popularity. Silveira comments, quoting the great headliner of the tour:
“Fall out boy, for example, never stopped and kept releasing records when people were no longer talking about Emo or Fall Out Boy. Playing songs from this period serves to toast the fans who kept themselves all this time.”
Emo in great stages: only nostalgia?
Why, in the end, an initiative like I Wanna Be Tour existed in the height of the emo movement? Is it just the result of nostalgic public behavior? There is no right answer to this question, but Fresno, with knowledge of cause, presents its theories.
Lucas Silveira acknowledges that “emo was seen with some disbelief” in the period of its greatest popularity. He points out:
“There was an avalanche of bands that came up with the default of great record labels. None of them were born in a great label: they had all burst in the underground and became something very large by their own work. But at the time, because it was the first generation of bands that came to those who were not accompanied, it was’ out of now Favorable. With the dollar at $ 1.70 in 2011, we would have fifty international bands there and not ten. [Risos]”
On the other hand, the nostalgic wave now occurs because, also according to the singer and guitarist, “Emo has aged very well and proved long -lived.” Exploits how to occupy a stadium of the size of Allianz Parque even occurred with individual shows outside the context of festival, such as Nx zero (two dates in 2023) and Forfun (in 2024 – Group also scheduled for I Wanna Be Tour).
“It’s not a very successful thing in 2004 that will fill Allianz. There is something very strong there. We see this otherwise because we cross all the time when this revival was not happening. We cross the whole phase of the ‘hangover’ of exposure and successes.
At the same time, Fresno does not want to rest only in nostalgia – because he knows that one hour this is over. In a little while another revival can take the spotlight. Lucas digs that “one hour people will get tired of just celebrating album anniversary.” Here comes an observation of Thiago Guerra: “It was very cool the revival happens when Fresno is”coming from albums praised as Your joy was canceled (2019) and I will have to turn around (2021). Silveira elaborates:
“A friend said: When these moments of exposure that are not caused by you occur, but that make people look at you… The only thing to control is to make you well the moment people look at you. At this point in the revival, a person at home research: ‘What end did that band have been throwing album for 8 years, it has bad photos, etc. Wow. We have our audience, but we know that sometimes we are brought to more people.

The strength of emo br
The emo movement was a global fever, but few countries embraced both subgenre and Brazil. No wonder, there was and there is still a huge offer of artists and bands practicing or influenced by the style here. Both at this year’s I Wanna Be Tour and the previous one, “The gringos even scared” When they saw the national groups and the adhesion of the local public to them, according to Thiago Guerra.
The explanation for such strength in the national territory, according to Lucas Silveira, is in something that may seem trivial, but it is not: letters in Portuguese. He says:
“The Brazilian emo sings in Portuguese. The few metal or hard rock bands that dared to sing in Portuguese were very executed because of a thought of the time. If you take the generation immediately before Fresno, which is the hateen of the ‘Old Testament’, Dance of Days, among other bands, was in English. ‘I am part of a worldwide band scene.’ available and there were kind of similar bands in Portuguese, such as the CPM 22. There was nowhere to look. For us it was very obvious. ”
The vocalist and guitarist admits that he even did a curious research: what was the scene of other countries during the “boom” of the emo movement in the United States, the world’s leading phonographic market? The answer found meets his reflection.
“When you speak the language of people, there is an even deeper identification. When Emo burst in Brazil, in other countries such as Mexico, Portugal and Argentina the bands still sang in English. There was little of this local identification. Just singing in Portuguese, opens a very large, even sound.”
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