The Cure in concert in Barcelona

The cult group of gothic rock and afterpunk arrives at the Palau Sant Jordi with a marathon concert of almost three hours

The Cure in concert in Barcelona

They have been building their own universe for decades, a parallel personal seal difficult to categorize and sustained in their hypnotic music and a reinvented aesthetic of punk and post-punk. The Cure has known, as few groups, to wander the rope between lights and shadows with majesty and authority. The British band led by Robert Smith has for many years championed the genre of gothic rock, with lyrics introspective and existential, but without giving up an opening of sights that has also led them to court with electronics or new wave. After almost 40 years on the stage, the training, which has been reinvented many times, continues to defend the songs of their thirteen studio albums on a new international tour that comes after years of silence and has reserved three stops for the public Spanish: Bilbao, Madrid and Barcelona.

Robert O’Donnell and Reeves Gabrels have created a recital in the capital (November 20) and in Bilbao (November 24), a concert that walks through different states of mind, thanks to his four decades of immortal songs that navigate between the melancholy or the electric blackness of much darker compositions. The followers of the band that go to the Palau Sant Jordi can enjoy a concert that will approach the three hours of duration, with a narrative structure divided into three large blocks that accommodate more than thirty songs.

Three hours and more than 30 themes

Catharsis and celebration of one of the most imposing legacies of rock clothed by a sober rather simple scenery supported only by sober projections. And is that the band does not need the support of the latest technological gadgets that are so fashionable have been placed today in large manufactured recitals. The fireworkbises,lullaby, are for his chords and the vocal majesty, perhaps more contained, of a Smith who, at age 57, only the gray hairs that have dyed his imposing gray hair betray the passage of years. Her dress and laconic and timid attitude remains the same.

The public that attends this Saturday at the Palau Sant Jordi is therefore warned. Get ready for a marathon session with intensity as a flag, and that will predictably have up to three bises. There will be no shortage of classics like Lullaby, Friday I’m in Love, Just Like Heaven, Close to Me, End, The Walk, Open, High, Boys Do not Cry, The Forest or One Hundred Years, Of his latest studio album, 4:13 Dream, as The Hungry Ghost. Everything ready for the fog to take over the Barcelona stage for the staging of a group that, despite its dark aesthetic, knows how to create festive atmospheres thanks to a good live and celebrated by its transgenerational public.

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Barcelona capital of luxury

Barcelona stands as capital of luxury, a business that leaves almost 2,000 million

Barcelona capital of luxury

Barcelona continues as the ‘favorite’ luxury consumers, with 32% of sales, reported today at a press conference the president of the Spanish Association of Luxury, Cristina Martin.

The luxury sector in Spain reached in 2015 a turnover of 6,000 million euros, up 15% compared to 2014.

Bilbao has welcomed this morning in the presentation Bilbaína Society Association in a ceremony which was attended by the president of honor, Princess Béatrice d’Orléans, and in which also he participated the designer and member of the institution Teresa Busto .

The breakdown among the cities with the largest presence in this sector has not changed much over the previous year.

So Barcelona continues as ‘favorite’ city of the most affluent consumers, with 32% percent of sales, about 1,920 million if the calculation of the total, followed by Marbella, which accounts for 27% percent of the business is done . Madrid (16%), Ibiza (8.5%), Mallorca (6%), Bilbao (2.8%) and San Sebastian (1.5%) are the following preferred areas to buy.

Spain ranks fifth in the luxury market within the European Union, behind France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland.

“While most sectors have experienced declines in their levels of production and sales in the luxury sector remain and increase thanks to exports and tourists who visit us,”.

Products ‘gourmet’ and beauty offer the greatest sales volume in Spain, with 55% of the total business, and its turnover has increased by 4.8% over the previous year, stressed Martin.

Also, fashion and accessories, such as jewelry and leather goods, are two sectors that “increasingly become more weight in the luxury ‘made in Spain’ sector,” he stated.

With this call, which brought together eighteen of the sixty companies that make up the entity created in 2010, it has sought to publicize the association and the latest developments in the luxury sector.

The designer has opined that luxury is “excellence, to do the best, with love and effort, either bread or a bag”.

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Il Divo will perform in Barcelona

Carlos, Urs, David and Sebastian also performed in Madrid, Bilbao and La Coruna during the month of June 2016

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Il Divo tour “Amor & Pasion Tour” stop in Barcelona, ​​Madrid, Bilbao and A Coruña during the month of June 2016, said today the promoter Doctor Music.

Carlos, Urs, David and Sebastian will present live the songs from his new greatest hits album on June 5 at the Auditorium of the Barcelona Forum, June 6 in the Barclaycard Center (The Ring) in Madrid, June 8 BEC Bizkaia Arena in Bilbao and 10 of the same month in the Coliseum of A Coruna.

“Love and Passion” is the title of this tour and the seventh studio album by Il Divo, which includes twelve songs spanning a century of traditional tangos, boleros and classic mambo warm.

The flavors and rhythms of Spain and Cuba, Argentina and Mexico are the basis of this tour, which will perform “A woman I loved” by Julio Iglesias; “If I’m going to lose,” Gloria Estefan; or the Latin version of “Ode to Joy” from Beethoven.

Assembled by Simon Cowell in 2003, Il Divo (Urs Buhler, Sebastien Izambard, Carlos Marin and David Miller) debuted in 2004 and has since sold 30 million copies and won 50 1 and 160 gold and platinum discs in more than 33 countries.

Il Divo has released six albums to date. After their self-titled debut, they followed by “Ancora” (2005), “Always” (2006), “The Promise” (2008), “Wicked Game” (2011) and “A Musical Affair” (2013), with the best classics Broadway and the West End.

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Barcelona and Unesco

The candidacy to enter the Creative Cities Network has achieved international endorsement for editorial capital, the footprint of great writers and Sant Jordi

Barcelona literary city by Unesco

Literary Barcelona City has been declared by UNESCO to be selected its bid to become a member of the Creative Cities Network as a City of Literature, according to Europa Press sources of the City of Barcelona.

The nomination was made official last July, and the project was developed with the complicity of the Promotion Council of the bid, comprising more than 50 organizations and institutions linked to literature in the city. La Vanguardia called for the submission of this application, for editorial relevance of Barcelona and the impact they have had in it great writers like Cervantes or García Márquez.

This project showed the strength and solidity of the publishing capital of the city, the large number of projects around books and reading and will project them internationally. The nomination was supported by the main associations of authors, editors, translators, librarians and Catalan illustrators, along with the National Commission for Unesco and the major cities that currently make up the network, created in 2004.

International Meeting

Among the highlights of this project it is that Barcelona an international meeting place of authors and writers with the other cities of the network, as well as international conferences and meetings on the future of the publishing industry to claim the capital of Barcelona.

It also seeks to promote innovation in projects promoting reading, particularly among young and new formats to bring literature to wider audiences, and promote the exchange of best practices among cities to expand the literary experience in urban spaces, as well as consolidate Barcelona as the global benchmark city in celebration of April 23 as World Book Day Unesco.

Burgos, also selected

The city of Burgos has also been nominated by UNESCO, in this case in the Food category. The two municipalities become part of the selection of 47 cities in 33 countries-including three Spanish: Granada in the literary category, Seville and Bilbao in music in design- who commit to “collaborate and develop partnerships to promote creativity and cultural industries, share best practices, strengthen participation in cultural life and integrate culture in their plans for economic and social development.”

“The Creative Cities Network is a huge potential to emphasize the value of culture as an accelerator of sustainable development,” he said in a statement the Director General of UNESCO Irina Bokova. The sustainable development program for 2030, adopted by the international community in September 2015, highlights the importance of culture and creativity as key drivers of sustainable urban development and in 2015 the tenth anniversary of the Convention on the Protection and celebrates promoting diversity of cultural expressions. The next annual meeting of the Creative Cities Network will be held in September 2016 in Ostersund (Sweden).

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The Tàpies Foundation of Barcelona celebrates 25 years

Antoni Tapies Foundation Barcelona

Tàpies Museum will open its doors free of charge between 18 am and 24 am next Friday, December 11, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its opening, according to the Barcelona institution today.

The public visiting the 11th during those hours at the headquarters of the Foundation can be visited at different exposure routes commented “Tàpies. Collection of the artist” and discover other areas of the center as the file or to attend the concert of Saxon Wolf.

Also, the 25-year catalog of publications of the Foundation, led by Clara Plasencia and Enric Farrés, and the book “Conversation with Manuel Borja-Villel,” by Manuel Borja-Villel, Marcelo Expósito and Jorge Ribalta will be presented.

On December 16, on the other hand, the books “Les arts de l’espace. Écrits interventions et sur l’architecture” will be presented by Joana Masó and David Bestué, and “unfinished Philosophy” by Marina Garces and Xavier Antich.

For the 17th is scheduled the presentation of “The procés llarg. Culture and politics to Catalunya contemporania  (1937-2014)”, with Jordi Amat and Jorge Luis Marzo, and “Bilbao Old Moon” with Joseba Zulaika and Carles Guerra .

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The best music documentary at the In-Edit in BCN

The festival Beefeater In-Edit 2015 arrived in Barcelona from 29th October to 8th November, with almost fifty films ready to be devoured by lovers of musical theater | This year, the documentary on cult figures such as electronic duo Daft Punk, punk jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius and Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen

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The festival Beefeater In-Edit 2015 arrived in Barcelona from 29th October to 8th November with nearly fifty music documentaries. This year include films about cult figures such as electronic duo Daft Punk, punk jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius and Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. Other artists who star in the documentaries this year are The Jam, John Cage, Wilko Johnson, Nina Simone, James Brown, Kurt Cobain and Sparks, plus REM, Backstreet Boys, Bunbury, Dusminguet and Elliott Murphy.

The program also includes films dedicated to labels like Dischord Records and Disc BCore and other issues such as the electronic scene of Berlin during the Cold War, the metal festival Wacken Open Air and the origins of punk in Washington during the eighties.

The director honored this year is Britain’s Tony Palmer. In the festival will screen some of his most outstanding music documentaries (on The Beatles, Leonard Cohen and Maria Callas). In addition, Palmer will give a master class at the Palau de la Música.

7Although the festival has a core Barcelona, ​​also screened films Bilbao from 28 to 31 October; Madrid, from 6 to 8 November, and Valencia, from 13 to 15 November. In addition, 80% of the programming will be available online.

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Barcelona will have its residential skyscrapers in Poblenou

The City Council has given the green light to building 100 meters high and 26 floors located on the Diagonal, between Bilbao and streets Pere IV

Recreation residential skyscraper on Avenida Diagonal, 131

The City Council has given the final green light to residential skyscraper 100 meters high and 26 floors located at Avenida Diagonal 131, corner of the streets Pere IV and Bilbao, which required a building permit last to complete the project.

The property, with 125 homes already sold, is owned by Altamira Santander Bank -the real estate, is being developed by the Catalan promoter Corp, and involves a total investment of over 70 million euros.

This is one of the real estate projects that stood in Barcelona during the housing crisis -the work was interrupted in 2008 by the problems of the developer initially and then was conceived as a 20-story building plus a large overhang.

After it adjudicase Altamira, the design changed to a 26-story project without overhang, but CiU led by the City Council was reluctant to this change, requiring a new license for six additional plants, which include a swimming pool with solarium on deck. Meanwhile Corp has been working on the existing structure of the skyscraper, and has achieved new building permit with the Consistory led by Ada Colau. The promoter is also pending license this year to get a promotion price of 130 homes concerted Can Batllo, of which 82 have already sold.

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Vueling reinforces the business passenger routes from Barcelona

The airline increased by 14% the number of seats to national and international destinations

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Vueling has strengthened during the past two years its business routes between Barcelona and other domestic and international destinations with new frequencies, which meant an increase of 14% in the supply of seats.

Business routes that make up the top ten are linking Barcelona with Madrid, Bilbao, Palma de Mallorca, Seville, Malaga, Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, London and Milan, the airline reported Monday in a statement.

The addition to the fleet of five Airbus A321s, with 40 more seats than the A320, has also increased the number of places available in these routes increased demand, especially during the winter season.

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