C.C.Catch-I Can Lose My Heart Tonight

finally, I would die with this song just for the sake of it--fuck it

C.C.Catch-I Can Lose My Heart Tonight

finally, I would die with this song just for the sake of it--fuck it

Mike Oldfield Platinum live 'musical express' 09th of july 1981 spanish tv

Mike Oldfield - Platinum

One truly impressive performance, had some mysticism I can't quite know by reason

truly good live, back in 1983 Spain

Art, music, creativity, emulation, ... wit

This song demonstrates how art can be achieved when art follows art-- in this case, the incredible power of panero influences beauty

The tragic, the beautiful... life and death-- if you screw up, it's to come back to you sooner or later-.-
This scene summarizes life and death

A UB-40 video because it summarizes all in the end: impossible, Xtine, impossible to love someone else, and I've tried!. Like a stupid fool, I will always love you...

a powerful video, home-made, but equally good, with music by god is an astronaut



summarises the innate will to kill and destroy in human nature, especially when such humans know they have the power and use it mercilessly

she made this masterpiece and she will always be remembered for that

One of the best scenes in the portrayal of the end of an era...



and the music by e. morricone, of course

Homage to The Church!!

A visit to the past, and there you have... Unguarded moments and Almost with you...

The Exploding Boy by Alkaline Trio, a version I like.

Morrissey, 20 years after the Smiths, I know, and he has aged (too much?), I know, but there is still that something in performances like this... At least I feel...

Great performance by Surrounded in Siroco, Madrid, 26th March 2008, despite the few people who unfortunately attended... Spain played Italy on TV, so what? Is Spain gonna ever win anything any way? ...

Once there was a truly close cooperation between Britain's and Spain's musical tones... here is a proof...

AT SWIM TWO BIRDS are coming to perform live in Badajoz, March 5, but I am very unfortunate: I'll miss them because of work!!
Maybe some other time...

Revival of 80s new romantics sounds... or reliving--

Happy new (Chinese) Year!!

it's gonna depend on these millions of guys to either save or really kill the planet for good... there it goes, sulk...

An old video, but worth it...

I am closing this year with a full "decade", decades immaculate...

another good band from the 90s

One video I am posting against the live performance sort of rule I have, but this time it's worth it, as this band was also part of our past

This song version by Siouxie and the banshees is special, I don't know why-- sorry, Iggy

I would never post this kind of thing, but the song live caught on tape by a group of 20 year olds remind me too much of our days... enjoy even if the recording is so bad...

A song by DM in the early 80s, perhaps from one of the best (also least known) albums... The band at its best

Mojave 3 like a soft mid-fall breeze across the rainy skies...

House Of Love | Destroy The Heart - SnubTV

such a powerful band! hard to believe it, after all these years...

7th October, 2007

Any way, here is This Ain't Vegas in Don Benito (for the third time) and we loved them again. Here is their new single to be released November 2007.

Blade Runner- tears in the rain

One More Night - Stars

HER NAME IS CALLA Luminaire,Londres 26/7/07 www.radiorag.net

Another great band from UK (summer 2007)

CORLEONE This is the.. 27/7/2007 www.radiorag.net

2007 tour by Corleone, brought to us by yiye...

The strange death of liberal england July07

Power and might in this new band from the british isles...

North Atlantic Oscillation's Ceiling Poem

promising scottish band... they just released new EP.

Pelican-Primavera Sound

Performance by pelican in Barcelona! I missed them, but here is a sample.

The Ghost is Dancing live

Another great band from Canada!

Miracle Fortress Pop Off II

Miracle fortress just came out with a new album (summer 2007)! some of the songs are pretty good...

Miranda Sex Garden- Play

The Church, Under the milky way

Proving that some particular music from some particular bands stays, no matter what... thus, a sifting process is ever needed... There are bands and bands...

The House of Love - 'Christine'

any further proof...?

Pavement - Debris Slide (Live 1994)

just a reminder of a powerful innovative band... the 1990s were more innovative??

Zykos Live at Walter's Houston, TX

Criteria - Prevent the World

Interpol - PDA Live

the american analog set

Pedro The Lion - Rapture - Live - Jrarrmy.com

Piano Magic live @ Estragon, 19/05/07

Okkervil River - Black (live in London)

I don't usually post music videos on this blog... but I think this one is special... Logh came to play for us live in April of 2005! a band we can't forget...

The Smoke Will Lead You Home

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Stranglers golden brown birmingham

Another snapshot of the past...

Seafood - Easy Path

Another good year (2006) for Seafood...

Death Cab for Cutie at Berkeley

2006. A good year for DCFC.

Stars - One More Night (Austin City Limits)

When will Stars come to Spain...?

Beezewax

Norwegian band who performed live in Don Benito's school of languages, March 2007.

The Wedding Present - Bewitched Live - Leeds 1990

Just a little flashback; it was 1990 and the new decade sounded pretty good... Just relax and let yourself be carried away...

Band of Horses | The Funeral (live)

One of the best bands from US this year

"Heirs" of Sonic Youth-bred sounds, Ex-lion Tamer came to play in Don Benito and conquered the "beasts". A marvel live directly reached our hearts and souls.


See www.radiorag.net for more on this and other bands...!

Performing at the low quality Primavera Sound 2007-

Primavera Sound 2007

Day 2. Friday 1st June. Place: Forum, Barcelona. There are many bands, and in the end, as though due to the strong incoming sea wind, reduced sounds... Maybe Spanish news have already taken care of that report, so I am not going any much further... I am focusing on the organization thing...

I think I saw it coming when I looked at the arrangement and schedules... It might be chaotic, and then, it was both chaotic and low quality. So much for the human crowds, coming and going; in addition, we had to put up with simultaneous performances as well as lack of space for some big bands... while others had all the unneccessary space they possibly needed and wanted. Any way, Modest Mouse almost playing at the same time as Girls agaisnt Boys…. The first one in a small stage, and the other one in a bigger one that could have easily adjusted both... And then Planetas as the leader band in a place that made Jota's voice even more inaudible...

Then, we were punished more by the mike in Band of horses's superb performance, paused by such vibrating inconveniences. Our hair could stand with all those electricity-charged chastisements. Little by little, the festival descended to low degrees, which were not so in past years. By 4 am, the singer from Built to spill could not stand it any more and stopped their enthusiasm. I guess they also noticed how unfair the whole arrangement had been.

The Portuguese X-wife could at least do justice to our eagerness for innovative and talented sounds. We did enjoy their humble generosity there. Girls agaisnt Boys produced a positive experience too; I only wish I could have enjoyed them more without having to move fast. And Portastatic were also a nice surprise. About the leader bands, no comment, although The Fall did not fail to interest me, at least as an anthropological study.

I only hope that this festival is not becoming too commericalized, or maybe it is already too late (many shops popping up like mushroom...). That wasn't the (only) reason for the festival before.

The gigs that some bands get involved in are sometimes too intense for us...! Please let me be free of great performances accompanied by beautiful gestures and choirs towards mankind... These are usually seeking the green thing alone... The masquerade then comes in the form of charity gestures, etc. How boring (yawn!!) Any way, here is a different type of gig... where I don't think money had anything to do with it (the singer killed himself a few months later...)-

Joy Division - Shes Lost control

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the fall

Here is the latest (to date) performance by The Fall, where we were part of the audience...

People of Santiago - Broadcast

Kick ass performance by santiago inhabitants...

THIS AINT VEGAS Don Benito

Anthem for early years of RPS!!

The Enablers

March 2006. Tremendous performance in RPS. We were struck with lightning from San Francisco...

Video by early pink floyd, the start of my interests in music, art, literatures, the science of orchestrations...

40 years have passed now... An instant, a nothingness in the reality of inner sensations...
Our minds are young...
Long live Syd...

Emily, a five-word name, the start of it all...



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And then came this, of course,...

joy division shadowplay



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And the 80s, then, with renewed insight...

Depeche Mode - Stripped - 1986



Disintegration - The Cure



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See, we had to get rid of dishonesty, hypocrisy, narrow-mindedness, ugliness, and ignorance...

then we took the liberty to take ordinary things and make them into extraordinary wills... (Morrissey dixit...)





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Peluze, a great Spanish band from Fuenlabrada, came to Don Benito's favorite pub, the Rincón Pío Sound, managed by super Yiye!!
Any way, this band demonstrates that there is some hope in Spanish music scene... Together with ASC, and Enablers, my favorite performance in RPS!!

here is a sample of one concert (one magic night in DB with Madee...!)

10 / 26 / 2006

A few months ago we could enjoy the superb performance by Appleseed Cast in COOC. What a band! These free concerts are like a gift in the spanish waste land. It's like bringing a little bit of fresh creativity and magic to a land peopled by barren thought and empty music. The misfortune of living in a place where copying is the most common task.
But Appleseed were able to suppress all that misfortune. People like Yiye García, Justo Cortés, or Fernando Sánchez are doing a lot for culture and openness in this little part of Spain.

LOGH (APRIL 2005):

This Sweedish band kicked arse in Don Benito last year. Sweet. The place, COOC pub, has been perfect for it. The sounds were smooth, fine, delicate...
The tones were coolly northern, but blended really well in the atmosphere of Don Benito.
We truly enjoyed the evening. The sweds form a group that gratefully saves all Don Benito nights once again...!! for the enjoyment of all.

The sounds of Don Benito night gigs!

From an attendant's point of view, some of the highlights in the Spanish town of Don Benito's night gigs. With bands like This Ain't Vegas, Starmarket, Logh, Engine Down, Lukestar, Ipanema, Enablers, Don't Look Back, ASC, Peluze, etc etc etc .
Here in this blog: The reviews and comments by someone just being guilty of enjoying freshly inspired concerts, gigs by international and national bands. Someone just happening to come by, go to his childhood town, and be part of events one might never imagine in this part of the world... The material to be posted ... Thank god for internet! And to you band-lovers from everywhere, welcome to this butthole place!!!