Sunset Sessions — Round Two · Booka Shade · Lisboa

The amphitheatre's symmetric stone steps descending toward a teal-lit stage at blue hour

The Night

Stone, shade, and the second time we get this right.

Open-air on a Lisbon hillside as the afternoon light bleeds gold into dusk. A minimal-house, minimal-techno crowd, a granite bowl of a room, and no roof between you and the sky. Round two for the crew — and the only thing that needs saying is: be in the bowl by sunset.

The Room

Anfiteatro de Pedra

Carved into the hillside of Tapada da Ajuda — Lisbon's old royal hunting grounds — a natural bowl of granite and oak. Open sky, ancient trees, the last of the afternoon light. Two stages. No roof.

VenueAnfiteatro Professor Caldeira Cabral

ParkTapada da Ajuda

AddressTapada da Ajuda 1349, 1300 Lisboa, Portugal

StagesAmphitheater · Botânica

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Aerial view of the stone amphitheatre packed with people, set deep inside a forest, stage lit teal — The bowl, from above

Two tall line-array speaker stacks among pine trees at sunset, hands raised in the crowd below — Stacks in the trees

Golden shafts of light cutting through a dense forest at the edge of the park — Golden hour, Tapada

The Plan

How the night runs

Kiosk first, then up the hill together, then the only set time that matters. Stay for the last track.

17:00Pre-drinks

Santo Amaro Kiosk

Quiosque de Santo Amaro, down on the riverside. Meet 5pm sharp — first round before the climb.

Riverside · Lisboa

ThenMove

Up to the Tapada

Head up together to Tapada da Ajuda and the Anfiteatro de Pedra. Gates from 15:00, so we walk straight in.

Tapada da Ajuda

19:30Headliner

Booka Shade The one we came for

The sunset slot at the amphitheatre. The reason the night exists. Be in the bowl before they start.

Amphitheater Stage

~01:00Till close

Stay for the last track

Full closing stretch, both stages running. We came for all of it — no leaving early.

Till the lights come up

The Sound

Booka Shade

Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier started in Frankfurt in the early '90s — synth-pop aliases before the city had a scene. They became Booka Shade in 1995 and quietly wrote the template: minimal grooves, maximum patience, tracks that move people without telling them to. Three decades on, the music still sounds like it arrived a little too early. ↳ Their Lisbon set is — for now — their final live show in the city.

Love Inc01

Nightfalls02

Mandarin GirlThe best one

11 Acts · 2 Stages

The full lineup

Booka Shade

Headliner · Live 19:30 · Amphitheater

Ale De Tuglie

Boundless

NoxFuse Records

Luis M

Djsyper

Carlos Regadas

Jorge Martins

Luca Guichard

Analodjica

Khalil Suleman

Amphitheater Stage Botânica Stage

The occasion: Fuse Records' 15th, at the Anfiteatro de Pedra. We're just there for the sunset.

Sessions.
Back on the stone at dusk.

Anfiteatro de Pedra