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The Madrid band Cycle<\/strong> turned the national scene upside down in 2005 with an energetic proposal of rock and electronic music that turned every live concert into a massive experience. Undoubtedly, the perfect equation for dancing, with a calibrated dose of electro and rock, which will be present at the tenth anniversary of Phe Festival<\/strong>, in Puerto de la Cruz. Cycle returns to Phe Festival next Friday, September 5<\/strong> with the 20th anniversary tour of their debut album, Weak on the Rocks, which contained hits from their repertoire such as Mechanical<\/em>, Apple Tree<\/em>, Perfect pervert<\/em> or Confusion!!!<\/em><\/p>\n This is the second time Cycle has performed at Phe Festival, following their appearance at the first edition held in 2016, on a single day and on a debut lineup for the Puerto de Santa Mar\u00eda festival which also featured Belako<\/em>, Of faith<\/em>, Kostrok<\/em> and 33<\/em>. This time, Cycle is one of the featured acts on the main stage of Phe Festival for its tenth anniversary, performing on opening day alongside Nada Surf, Dorian, Ale Acosta, San Tosielo, and Los Blody.<\/p>\n The project led by David Kano, along with guitarist Juanjo Reig and China Patino, has a new singer: Carlos Ortega from Lanzarote (Zurych, Monkey Faces). He is the fourth male vocalist the project has had. Cycle<\/strong> From its inception, first with Luke Donovan, followed by Ziclope and Matthias Freund, the lead singer of the German band Codec & Flexo. The band is in enviable shape, and their concerts continue to captivate audiences just as they did in their early days, as has been evident on this tour. This is confirmed by singer Carlos Ortega, who previews the band's concert at Phe Festival: \u201cWe play almost the entire Weak on the Rocks album, but we also play other songs that we have to play, like \u201dSaturday Girl' or 'Wicked,' which are on other albums and are singles.\". And how did Carlos Ortega get involved with Cycle in this new phase of the band? \u201cIt was a sum of coincidences, really. We crossed paths at Arrecife en Vivo, when they won the award for medium-format festival and played a concert at El Reducto, before the pandemic. I went with Monkey Faces, which was just starting out, and Cycle was on the bill, before the last lineup change, with Cynthia Lund and Mathias.\u201d.<\/p>\n Carlos Ortega remembers that \u201cDavid Kano liked the concert, he wrote down the license plate, and that was that. But a couple of summers ago, when David decided to reactivate the band and announced on social media that they were looking for a new singer, a mutual friend from Lanzarote reminded David about it. I spoke with him, he sent me the audio of some songs to add the vocals to: Apple Three, Confusion!!! and Saturday Girl, and he liked it. The next thing was to go to Madrid, rehearse, and announce that Cycle had a new singer.\u201d.<\/p>\n Of all the good things that have come from Cycle's return, for Carlos Ortega, one of the very special dates in 2025 is their performance at Phe Festival. He was at the 2023 edition leading the Lanzarote band Zurych, and now he returns as the frontman of Cycle. \u201cIt will be a special concert, and we're going to play a new song that won't be on the next album, Cycle's sixth, which we're already preparing. An album that deviates a bit from the line that has been usual in their recent work, although it has very marked traces of Cycle but in a much more elegant and mature style,\u201d he assures.<\/p>\n The new album, Cycle's sixth, \u201cis almost finished.\u201d<\/strong>, with a first single on the horizon, to be released at the end of the year, once the tour concludes 20th anniversary<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" La banda madrile\u00f1a y su particular fusi\u00f3n de rock y electr\u00f3nica llega a Phe Festival el viernes 5 de septiembre con la gira del 20\u00ba aniversario del \u00e1lbum de debut \u2018Weak on the rocks\u2019 y un repertorio de hits para encender la pista de baile como \u2018Mechanical\u2019, \u2018Apple Tree\u2019 o \u2018Confussion!!!\u2019 #PHE2025 || #Generaci\u00f3nPhe || […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[306],"tags":[95,29,138,314,45,23,307,112,35],"class_list":["post-21998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-306","tag-artistas","tag-concierto","tag-conciertos","tag-cycle","tag-entradas-en","tag-festival","tag-phe-2025","tag-phe-festival","tag-puerto-de-la-cruz"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nWith five albums released, as well as remixes and singles, Weak on the rocks<\/em> (2005), Sleepwalkers<\/em> (2009), Stripped<\/em> (2011), Dance All Over<\/em> (2015) and Electric<\/em> (2018) and after nearly five years of silence, in late 2024 the band announced its return to the stage with the 20th-anniversary tour for *Weak on the Rocks*. The tour has taken the band to festivals such as Metr\u00f3poli Gij\u00f3n, Sonorama Ribera (Burgos), and No Sin M\u00fasica (C\u00e1diz), as well as the upcoming Phe Festival (Tenerife), and venues in Madrid, Azpeitia (Gipuzkoa), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Tarragona, Barcelona, and Valencia, among others.
\nOn the occasion of the anniversary of Weak on the Rocks, last May Cycle began releasing remixes of the debut album. A series of installments that DJ Nano inaugurated with his take on the classic. Confusion!!!<\/em><\/strong> This hit was followed last June by the track \"Ray of Ease,\" remixed by Spaniard Siliodisco and Colombian Mao Fonegra; and in July, the also classic from his \"flammable\" repertoire, \"Apple Tree,\" in a reinterpretation by Parissior and Size M.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cCycle is something else,\u201d points out Carlos Ortega when asked how the experience of being the voice of Cycle is going. \u201cThe 20th anniversary tour is going very well. When I signed up for this story, I knew there would be movement,\u201d emphasizes the singer. And as he rightly emphasizes, \u201cthe band had a very good peak in the early 2000s; at that time, there were no bands doing this type of music, with male-female singers, and with a very powerful formula.\u201d.<\/p>\nEssay and touring<\/h2>\n