"Music is the strongest form of magic"

Marilyn Manson

There's two things I just cannot believe about this beautiful phrase: the first is that I discovered it printed on a Topshop t'shirt I instantaneusly got in love with; and the second is that it belongs to Marilyn Manson! Hard to imagine.

Conciertos, entradas, festivales y mercadillos

Quien algo quiere, algo le cuesta. No hay verdad más grande y que refleje mejor el funcionamiento de esta nuestra sociedad capitalista. Pero en este texto mi ánimo no es enredar en esos vericuetos económicos que jamás lograré comprender del todo. No. Mi intención es contar hasta dónde puede llegar una por conseguir entradas para un concierto, cuando no tiene ni un euro.

Mi objeto del deseo no es otro que las entradas del concierto que Arcade Fire ofrecerá en Bilbao el próximo 13 de julio, en la explanada del museo Guggenheim. Los canadienses, que han recibido recientemente diversos reconocimientos entre los que se encuentra el grammy al mejor álbum del año por The Suburbs, recalarán en Bilbao días antes de su visita al Festival de Benicassim. Estas dos son las dos únicas fechas en que la banda pisará España.

Me planteé ir al FIB Heineken, muy seriamente. No sólo por Arcade Fire, ya que el festival presenta un gran cartel, pero especialmente por ellos y The Strokes (consultar cartel aquí). Pero si pretendía no arruinarme económicamente, la mejor opción era quedarse en Bilbao, con las ganas. Así que este concierto de Arcade Fire representa una nueva oportunidad más económica y cercana de ver a este maravilloso grupo. Eso sí, aquel que pueda hacer un desembolso mayor, que vaya de cabeza al FIB, porque en proporción el concierto de Arcade Fire no es tan barato (unos 40 euros con gastos incluidos).

Mi entrada ya la tengo, gracias a un alma caritativa que me ha hecho un préstamo. Pero retomando el tema del primer párrafo, os voy a contar cómo la voy a pagar -porque cuando digo que no tengo un duro para caprichos ahora mismo, hablo totalmente en serio-. Voy a vender mi ropa en el mercado del Dos de Mayo de Bilbao, que tiene lugar el primer sábado de cada mes. Ya fui hace un par de meses y saqué más de lo que esperaba -no para hacerme rica, pero sí para la entrada, vaya-. Y os recomiendo que vayáis a echar un vistazo porque hay un montón de cosas interesantes que comprar y un gran ambiente y, además, ¡podéis colaborar con la causa! ;)

Os dejo con un video de Arcade Fire, ¡con el coñazo que he dado no podía ser de otra forma!

Source: me, myself & I :)

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Festi Madness

I have just bought the three day ticket for the Bilbao BBK Live! This means I am already attending to one festival this year, even though my inttention is going to three (at least).

So I can say I am seeing Coldplay live!! Because this is one of the bands comming to to Bilbao for its festival, that lasts from the 7th to the 9th of July. Also the Black Crowes have confirmed their attendance. Nothing more we know about the line-up of the festival, except a few rumours: people talk about Green Day, Radiohead, Soundgarden or Linkin Park.

But this is not the only music event in July. In fact, it is a very busy month. After the Bilbao BBK Live, we find probably the most popular festival in Spain, that has already published its great line-up: I am undoubtely talking about the FIB heineken in Benicassim, that will receive wonderful bands such as Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes or Portishead (the whole line-up here). The event will take place from July the 14th to 17th.

If after these two events you are still not tired of music festivals, you have a date in Benidorm in the Lowcost Festival. As its own name says, its tickets are the cheapest you will find because the three days ticket only costs 60 euros! But the acts' quality is not 'low' too. From the 21st to the 23rd of July you will enjoy the best music now, specially focused on the alternative styles. Ok Go, Crystal Castles, Standstill, Lori Meyers, Dorian, Supersubmarina, Maika Makovski, Goose... (complete line-up here).

These are the festivals I am hoping to attend to, but if you don't have enough, on my next post I will talk about a lot more taking place in Spain and out that I don't think I am going, (economic reasons, you know xD), but that I undoubtely would like to!
So... to be continued :)

Sources: fiberfib.com/festivallowcost.com/bilbaobbklive.com
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30 Seconds to Mars and Kanye West - Hurricane - Madrid MTV EMA 2010 Mira los nuevos videoclips y vídeos de los programas de MTV en MTV.ES

Yesterday the guys from 30 seconds to Mars came back to Madrid, as they already did in the MTV EMAs last month. They performed live in Vistalegre in  front of 11.000 people. It's been weeks they have bought this tickets, the same as in Barcelona, where they have been sold out. So if you want to see the american group, headed by the also actor Jared Leto, you must resign yourself with the videolink I wrote above of the post, where the band appears in Puerta de Alcala performing their hit 'Hurricane' with the hip-hop artist Kanye West. Enjoy it!

Source: abc.es/mtv.es/me myself and I
picture: usonica.com

The London socialite Tara Browne, heir to the Guinness empire and son of a member of the House of Lords, died on 18th December 1966. On this day, forty four years ago, Browne had a traffic accident at the age of 21. As they say,  Browne drove his Lotus Elan car through London's South Kensington at high speed and  he ignored a red traffic light, colliding with a stationary van when he tried to evade a car coming towards him. 

He was good friend of the Rolling Stones and The Beatles. One of the members of this last band, John Lennon, was inspired by this sad event to write the song 'A Day in the life', which lots considers Beatles' best. The song is specifically written after Lennon read the story about the accident published in the Daily Mail on January 1967, that included the forensic report.  Paul Mccartney finished the composition, adding the central part and the orchestrial details. The last part, on the piano, is played by five people in three different pianos.

John Lennon said about inspiration arrived to him to write the song:  

"I was writing A Day In The Life with the Daily Mail propped in front of me on the piano. I had it open at their News in Brief, or Far and Near, whatever they call it. I noticed two stories. One was about the Guinness heir who killed himself in a car. That was the main headline story. He died in London in a car crash".

 Here you have the lyrics of 'A day in the Life', closing theme of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band":

I read the news today oh boy

About a lucky man who made the grave

And though the news was rather sad

Well I just had to laugh

I saw the photograph

He blew his mind out in a car

He didn't notice that the lights had changed

A crowd of people stood and stared

They'd seen his face before

Nobody was really sure

If he was from the House of Lords.

I saw a film today oh boy

The English Army had just won the war

A crowd of people turned away

but I just had to look

Having read the book

I'd love to turn you on

Woke up, fell out of bed,

Dragged a comb across my head

Found my way downstairs and drank a cup,

And looking up I noticed I was late.

Found my coat and grabbed my hat

Made the bus in second splat

Found my way upstairs and had a smoke,

and Somebody spoke and I went into a dream

I read the news today oh boy

Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire

And though the holes were rather small

They had to count them all

Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.

I'd love to turn you on

Source:  youtube/thebeatlesbible.com/rttnews.com

             picture: the beatles bible

Hundreds of fans dissapointed in Madrid

Yesterday, the outrageous Lady Gaga performed live in Madrid, in the city's Sports Palace. Thousands of fans brought together to be present at this special appointment, attired like their idol with  psychedelic costumes and glasess or Pepsi tins on their wigs.

They were very excited with the concert they were about to attend to -and for which they paid from 90 to 130 euros per ticket-. What they didn't expect was that some of those ticket where null. When they figure out the swindle, people asked for explanations  to the security staff, provoking some avalanches at the  queue,  so the Police brigade had to establish order.

It seems that some of the tickets sold by the non-official online stores where just copies of eight of the original tickets, printed in a very similar paper and with the same serial number. Apparently, the pages that sold this illegal tickets were viagogo, gesticket or seatwave, among others. 

Some of the affected fans, by D.Sinova. - elmundo.es

 Even though yesterday 4000 people were estimated to be affected by this fraud, we know that about 400 or 500 people were really inconvenienced. Now they want to know where can they claim for compensation. CECU Madrid has provided an e-mail for all of them (info@cecumadrid.org), but it is not completely clear to whom can they ask for responsability. The webpages seem to wash their hands of it.

At least this incidents teach us something: we must check more than once what we buy, specially online, even if Lady Gaga's face appears on it.

In the end, I leave a video of Stefani Germanotta, Or, in other words, a very young  Lady Gaga -not yet gaga maybe- very  different from the one we know now. Hope you like it!

Sources: youtube

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Picture: el mundo