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Vetusta Morla, band of the moment in Spain
Their debut album One Day In The World ('Un día en el mundo', 2008) turned them into one of the leading bands on the Spanish music scene. Most locals confess to either loving or hating the six-piece, who formed in high school in Madrid. Interview
festival, music, madrid, culture calendar, indie rock, languages, festivals
Concert hype review: Amy Winehouse in Belgrade vs Die Antwoord in La Coruna
As the weekend drew to a close we’ve been hearing polar concert success stories. Between one Grammy-award winning British former drug addict’s Balkan comeback and more outrageous non-European sounds in Spain, is it off the continent where we need to be experiencing the best music live?
festival, music, serbia, culture calendar, amy winehouse, spain, concerts
Shlomo: ‘I used to think beatboxing was a way of impressing people’
Simon Shlomo Kahn, 25, preaches his vocal talents to the mainstream and children. The British human beatbox artist, who has Israeli, Iraqi and German origins, talks self-important VIPs, the death of record companies and working with Bjork
festival, music, björk, olympics, athens, beatboxing, brunch
The 'state of cinema' as declared in a bay by Loch Ness
‘A pilgrimage’ was the name chosen by actress Tilda Swinton and documentary maker Mark Cousins for their new festival, a unique travelling celebration of cinema. In August, masterpieces of the seventh art were shown across Scotland. Memories of a week spent somewhere between poetry and politics, dream and reality
festival, culture, scotland, tilda swinton, european culture, movie, film
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