Music News

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 ¿QUÉ PASA? ...on the music front

The 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.

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.

On this page’s deadline hour ADELE announced 30 would lift-off on the 19th – on the same day TAYLOR SWIFT lands the re-recorded Red (Taylor’s Version) which includes ED SHEERAN on both Everything Has Changed and a new song Run.

ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS

are back together again for Raise The Roof and STING has The Bridge, also UK indie rock favourites ELBOW drop Flying Dream 1 plus JAMES BLUNT and The Stars Beneath My Feet (2004 - 2021), featuring four-new songs – these may now change their release date so they don’t clash with the big noise.

On the 26th, there’s new DAVID BOWIE material in the box set Brilliant Adventure (1992–2001) which includes 2001’s unreleased album Toy, which leaked on to the net in 2011.

Also on the 26th, Black Friday Record Store Day has limited edition specials from FLEETWOOD MAC, LANA DEL REY and U2 among others. For a full list of releases: recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases

With no new U2 recordings on the horizon, in-house quips suggest that BONO wants to do a solo album. Talk implies the singer is green with envy after 22-year-old son, ELI, and his band INHALER topped the album charts both sides of the Irish Sea with their debut It Won’t Always Be Like This in July and are currently on a successful UK/USA tour.

Humorous comments going round Barcelona after SHAKIRA had her handbag ‘snatched’ by two-wild boar recently reckons they were sent by the Hacienda due to her tax fraud evasion problems.

TINA TURNER continued the latest trend by selling her back catalogue for a reported $306 million to music giants BMG – who’s next to sell up?

The debut single of JESY NELSON (ex LITTLE MIX), Boyz, finally dropped last month after label bosses had delayed its release thanks to comments made in September by collaborator NICKI MINAJ who became a worldwide laughing stock after tweeting: “My cousin in Trinidad won’t get the vaccine because his friend got it and became impotent. His testicles became swollen”. To which one US late night show host said in his monologue: “This is why I got my shot in the shoulder”. Of course, jokes went global with punch lines saying she was ‘talking b*llocks’. e

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