The Backpackers Hostel Blog

Wed 28 May

10pm at Espacio Movistar. Portal del Coneixement (C/Pascual i Vila s/n)   28€   Buy tickets SOLD OUT

Alejandro Sanz was born in Madrid, Spain. He began playing guitar at the age of seven and composing his first songs three years later. His official debut, called “Viviendo Deprisa”, came in 1991 after signing up with Warner Music. “Si Tú Me Miras” followed in 1993, featuring contributions from Nacho Mañó, Chris Cameron and Paco de Lucía. His third album, aptly titled 3, was recorded in Venice, Italy, and produced by Miguel Angel Arenas and Emanuele Ruffinengo.

1997′s Más and 2000′s “El Alma al Aire”, the Spanish singer/songwriter achieved international top-selling status.

He also appeared in the film clip for The Corrs’ English translation of their duet, “Una Noche” (“One Night”) as Andrea’s love interest. The video is included in The Corrs’ DVD version of Best of The Corrs. In return, The Corrs sang “The Hardest Day” with him and “Una noche” for the spanish and latinamerican edition from the 2001 Corrs’gratest hits album.

In 2001, he became the first Spanish artist to record an Unplugged for MTV. In 2003, he recorded the album “No Es lo Mismo”, which won five 2004 Latin Grammy Awards. It won Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Best Engineered Album with Mick Guzauski, Pepo Sherman, and Rafa Sardina as engineers.

Alejandro Sanz has won a total of 17 Grammys Awards (2 Regular Grammy Award and 15 Latin Grammy Awards) and has sold more than 25 million albums worldwide.

Tue 27 May

9pm at Palau de la Musica Catalana, Sala de Concerts (C/ Palau de la Música, 4-6)  15 – 68€   Buy tickets

Ernst Ottensamer, clarinet

MOZART: Quintet en La major, KV 581
MENDELSSOHN: Peça de concert per a 2 clarinets, op. 114
BRAHMS: Quintet en Si menor, op. 115

Fri 30 May

1:30am at Razzmatazz (SALA 1 (C/Almogàvers, 122) 15€ Buy tickets

The Enemy is an English rock band formed in Coventry in 2006, signed to Warner Music Group (UK). In June 2007, The Enemy played twice at Glastonbury Festival, played the ‘Guardian lounge’ on Saturday and the much larger ‘Other Stage’ on Sunday. They also headlined on the Saturday night of T In The Park in the ‘Futures’ tent on 7 July 2007.

On July 16, 2007 the band’s debut album: We’ll Live and Die in These Towns went straight to Number 1 in the UK Albums chart on release.

(Taken from www.roots-and-branches.com and www.wikipedia.org)

Wed 28 May

9:30pm at Razzmatazz, SALA 3 (C/ Pamplona, 88) 20€ Buy tickets

King Creosote is the name used for current solo releases of the musician Kenny Anderson, born in Scotland.

He is a prolific songwriter, having released (at last count) 38 albums, most of these being CD-R releases on his own Fence Records label.

King Creosote maintains that the song is more important than the style, and that the performance outweighs recording quality. If a part can’t be recorded in one take, scrap it for something simpler. No sample should be longer than four seconds, and although samples should be in tune or in time, not necessarily both.

(Taken from www.wikipedia.com and www.liverpool.com)

Sun 8 Jun

10am Bikes at C/ Aragón (between C/ Balmes and paseo de Gràcia)

10am Skates at paseo de Gràcia, (between C/ Aragón and C/ Valencia)

All the activities are free, with exception of the bike’s renting (call Biciclot 93 307 74 75 between 2 – 6 June, from 9:30am to 2pm)

This is the 28th edition of the Bike & Skate Festival. This is not a competition, it is just a festivity so family and friends can have fun and make a trip of few kilometers around the city of Barcelona.

Last year there were 15 thousand participants and the organizers expect that this year will be more. After the trip, there is going to be a big party at Montjuic mountain with activities such as spectacular exhibitions of the 11 times champion of the world of Bike Trial, Cesar Cañas; workshops and kids games; kids circuits; the traditional Fair, and many more.

This festival will be also a supportive festival. And the fact is that by second consecutive year the Bike & Skate Festival will participate with the NGO Active Africa collaborating in the recollection of material and spare parts for bicycles.

Route

More info at Bike & Skate Festival (just Spanish and Catalan)