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FAREWELL
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Published: 18/09/2024 18:56 (UTC+2) Last updated: 18/09/2024 21:19 (UTC+2)
Tickets for the Gernika-based group’s farewell concert will go on sale this Monday, September 23.
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captive says goodbye. The Gernika group led by Alex Sardui will disband after a great concert that it will offer at the BEC on December 13, 2025the year in which they celebrate 25 years of history.
Tickets for the concert will go on sale this Monday, September 23, at 08:00, at the group website.
The three current members of Gatibu, Alex Sardui, Haimar Arejita and Gaizka Salazar, have confirmed their farewell exclusively on the program “Biba Zeek” From ETB1: “In 2025 the group will be 25 years old and we have decided that it is a good year to leave.”
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“We didn’t argue, it was just natural. […] It’s a shame, but at the same time we are happy and looking forward to what remains to be seen,” they added.
Minutes after announcing their farewell on ETB1, the group has made public a statement on their social networks. “We’re not saying goodbye, we’re leaving!”, they said, referring to the lyrics of what was their first big hit, “Musturrek sartunde”.
Gatibu was born in 2000 after the dissolution of another legendary Basque group, Exkixu, and in these 24 years has released 10 albums, creating some of the greatest hymns of Basque music of the last quarter of a century such as the aforementioned “Musturrek sartunde”, “Lorak eskeintzen”, “Zeu, zeu, zeu!”, “Euritan dantzan” and “Gabak zerueri begire”.
