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There are a few things going on this month (see below), and there’s a healthy local scene featuring many national bands which you can find out about at conciertos.club/malaga. Also check your local weekly publications for any last-minute arranged performances. All info on this page was correct at the time of writing. WORDS RIK FOXX
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he 35th Málaga International Jazz Festival takes place at the Teatro Cervantes from November 4 to 11, for the full line up and ticket info: www.teatrocervantes.com Also, the 13th edition of the International Festival of Rockabilly and Music of American Roots: Blues At Moonlight, at the Sunset Beach Hotel, Benalmádena Costa from the 25th -28th features Spanish and British acts playing the Oasis Terrace during the day and the Moonlight Bar at night. For full line up and ticket info: bluesatmoonlight.com On October 29 & 31 a Valencia Community indie rock event was scheduled to be the first mass concert in Spain to demand a Covid-19 certificate for all those attending. The SanSan Festival, at the Benicàssim site, featured Spanish bands and the crowd could move freely with no restrictions but masks were mandatory.
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Of course, the big news this month is the return of both ABBA and ADELE and the latter has a UK TV special, possibly on ITV (TBA), to promote her new album 30. Also, the long-awaited PETER JACKSON documentaries, The Beatles: Get Back, will air from November 25 - 27 on America’s Disney+ featuring three two-hour programmes and will include, in full, their 1969 iconic final performance as a band, on a London Savile Row rooftop. The official trailer is on YouTube. Nothing announced yet but there are bound to be TV tributes to FREDDIE MERCURY who died 30 years ago on November 24, but there is a new ‘official graphic novel’ Freddie Mercury: Lover Of Life, Singer Of Songs launching sometime this month. Had he lived, he would have been 75 on September 5. What a month for album releases:
brave enough to take on ABBA and Voyage on the 5th is the first DIANA ROSS album in 15 years, Thank You (which was due in September), and the 2012 ex-Factor winner, JAMES ARTHUR, with It’ll All Make Sense In The End – will it? On the 12th: ROD STEWART returns with Tears of Hercules featuring nine new songs, plus a selection of covers, and UK indie rock icons IDLES drop Crawler. Re-release/greatest hits collections include LITTLE MIX with Between Us including a dig at former friend/band mate JESY NELSON on the newie Cut You Off; KYLIE revamps last year’s Disco with the Guest List Edition featuring YEARS AND YEARS, DUA LIPA and 1970s disco legend GLORIA GAYNOR. The Super Deluxe 30th anniversary of Nevermind by NIRVANA features 70 unheard tracks and there’s MICHAEL BUBLE with the 10th Anniversary Edition of Christmas.
