24/7 Valencia Magazine by Tim Birch

ISSUE95/96 DEC08/JAN09

‘Mercado de

Fuencarral’ will be the next hot spot in Valencia, a twenty minute walk down the riverbed (direction BIOPARC) from the centre of town featuring a large alternative mall and movie theatres with films in their original language. Of course, it will include restaurants, lounge areas and bars, since it’ll be open until 04.00h on weekends. Groovelives wants to be part of this excellent plan and will inaugurate its new ‘tapas, copas, cocktails and show club’ La Pepita on 10 December. Excellent

food from midday to midnight in an avantgarde and chic venue that will transform into a relaxed club after dinner. Special programming, flamenco, cabaret, karaoke, and funk will draw you to La Pepita every night for fun, unique events. Pretty sure you don’t want to miss this! And, of course, December means fiesta! It’s the perfect excuse for going out in your best clothes on New Year’s. Groovelives has prepared a Noche Vieja for everyone, even those that normally despise it, promise! Super cheap entrance for all you can drink at The Mill with three rooms and all sorts of music; a special members party at Latex; live rock n’ roll acts for your first

Where did you come from? I was teaching English for two years in Seoul, South Korea until March of this year when I decided that it was time for a new adventure. So I went home, bought a motorbike and have been travelling round Europe on my way here. I started out from my home in Aberdeen, Scotland in June, went to Amsterdam by ferry, then through Holland and Germany to Berlin before turning south and heading for Prague in the Czech Republic. After that I went through Austria and the Alps, then Italy and the Dolomites. Mountains are great fun on a motorbike! Sam Slesser is 26 and recently moved to Valencia after travelling around Europe on his way back from teaching in Korea. He plans to stay here for the immediate future. How long have you been in Valencia? I’ve been here for 5 months. I came over here to meet up with a friend from Korea and to go to the FIB festival in Benicassim and have stayed here ever since. When I arrived, I liked the look of the city and decided to stay and I’m currently teaching English classes.

What are you doing here? Spain has always been a place where I wanted to come and live. The quality of life here is fantastic with the perfect weather, the nice food and easygoing people. My main aim in my time here is to learn the language so that I can take full advantage of the Spanish lifestyle. What did you learn about local cultures on your travels? I guess the main thing was that immersing yourself completely in the culture and speaking the language is the only way

concert of the year at Magazine; freestyle and clubbing at La Pepita for free, with entry to all venues at the Mercado de Fuencarral; special dinners at Pepita Pulgarcita and Espita Gorgorita; electro pop with international guests at Piccadilly; and the best dancing for the early nighters at 47 Social Club. Get ready to roll! Oh, and Happy New Year! Avenida Tirso de Molina, 16 (esquina calle Castellfabib). Zona Campanar, frente a los campos de deporte. Metro L1 Turia Bus 17, 29, 90, 95, N10

to go. Without that, you can’t really learn anything about how people from around the world live their lives. Finding a good place to live and work and having the right environment in which to learn the local language have been paramount to an enjoyable stay in whichever country I’ve lived in. How do the classes here differ from your other experiences? I suppose the main difference at this academy has been the quality of teaching and the fact that I actually feel like I’m getting somewhere. Learning Korean was extremely difficult and, although Spanish is by no means easy, I’m already using it on a daily basis. That gives me the confidence to express myself naturally and to try and meet more Spanish friends.

24/7 Valencia 28,000 readers 100 distribution points 24/7 Valencia 28.000 lectores 100 puntos de distribución LA PEPITA / LENGUAS VIVAS 4 EDITORIAL 5 VIDAS DE VALENCIA 6 ART IN VALENCIA 7 PILOTA VALENCIANA 8 VALENCIA WINTER 10 FOOD 12 RESTAURANT OF THE MONTH 13 BOOK/DVD REVIEWS 16 DEC 08 / JAN 09 LISTINGS ARTS, THEATRE, OPERA, FILM 17 LIVE MUSIC - CLUBS 18 CHILL OUT 20 GAY - LESBIAN 22 RESTAURANTS 23 SHOPPING 28 CLASSIFIEDS 29/32 (Airlines, Hostels, Markets…) GIG GUIDE 33 MIRADAS DEL MERCADO 34 A NIGHT IN RUZAFA 35 VALENCIA FOOTBALL 36 24/7 VALENCIA PARTY PEOPLE 38 CLUBLAND 39 MERCADO CENTRAL 40 USEFUL NUMBERS/BIKES 42 WOMAN 43 CAFE TEATRO 44 MAP 45 DEC 08 / JAN 09 AGENDA 46 CLUBS AND LIVE MUSIC ORIENT XPRESS / 48 TAVERNA TRASTEVERE

EDITORIAL DEC 08 / JAN 09

‘Eat, drink, and be merry!’

That’s right. The festive season means different things to different people. In Valencia, however, it’s just another great excuse to flirt & people watch in the cafes, savour some traditional or exotic restaurants in groups and party on the dancefloor in clubland like there’s no tomorrow. Having survived a dark November, everyone is looking forward to ‘living it up’ once again! Talking of clubs, renowned DJ Jordan is back with an excellent overview of what’s hot on the club scene in the coming months. Party people can enjoy a feast of exclusive photos of fresh Valencian clubbers and cult rock ’n’ rollers. Gig goers are in for a treat with our world musician Man Jack informing you of who to check on the live scene. Our packed agenda of live music and club nightlife covers both December 08 and January 09! We have exclusive black & white photos of the people and architecture of ‘Mercado Central’ as well as a colourful collection entitled ‘Valencia Winter’ for your eyes only. Sports lovers can enjoy Mark Hulton’s legendary ‘Valencia football’ article (recommended by Super Deporte) as well as a fascinating piece on ‘Pilota Valenciana’ by David Rhead and José Marín.

Professional chef Erica is back with fish to fry and we have a great review of the highly enjoyable and tasty Afro-Cuban restaurant Babalu, set in the heart of the old town. Our experienced reviewers lived in Soho in London, have wined & dined in New York but have chosen Valencia as their permanent home! Now in its 8th year, if you’re visiting Valencia, you ought to know that ‘24/7 Valencia’ remains the guide to Valencia that is followed on a street level by expats, visitors and locals. It is also the only magazine in Valencia recommended across the board by all of the established international guides, newspapers and websites including The Times, Rough Guide, El País, Time Out, Guardian Unlimited, Let’s Go, Lonely Planet, Footprints, CNN.com, Business Traveller Magazine, Thomas Cook, Easyjet and many more... We welcome you all to the ‘24/7 Valencia Christmas’ party’ on 16th of December 2008 at Radio City, C/ Santa Teresa, 19. There is excellent live flamenco with an authentic ‘Fiesta flamenca’ at 23.00h and the partying goes on until 3.30h. You get a free glass of Rioja if you come with this magazine... Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! See you in Feb 09.

24/7 Valencia team

ISSUE 95/96 DEC08/JAN 09

editor: Will McCarthy. contributors: Altogringo, Anita Darling, Heino, John Murphy, Gooru, Manu Fernandez, Mark Hulton, Owl, Manu San Martín, Orange Bikes, Tim Birch, David Rhead, José Marín, Rachel Dunworth, Man Jack. layout & design: www.dsignes.net printed by: signografíco. distributed by: groovy cat Ltd.

VIDAS DE VALENCIA

The light

Roja

Hunch

To store

Observe

Day trippers

Cells

Warning…

Helmet

Sorted!

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Time

All photos Manu San Martín © 24/7Valencia 08/09

ART IN VALENCIA

Mundos tribales: Una visión etnoarqueológica

Francisco Sanz y otras figuras del Circo

Hasta 22 marzo 2009

Desde 18 diciembre 2008 hasta 1 febrero 2009

MUSEO DE PREHISTORIA DE VALENCIA C/ Corona, 36 Tel: 96 388 36 14 www.museuprehistoriavalencia.es

MUVIM C/ Guillem de Castro, 8 Tel: 96 388 37 47 www.muvim.es

ONE WAY, ONE TICKET

An angle of 180 degrees is a straight line or half a circle Aldo Giannotti

Hasta 15 febrero 2009

IVAM C/ Guillem de Castro, 118 Tel: 96 386 30 00 www.ivam.es

Hasta 10 enero 2009

GALERÍA ROSA SANTOS C/ Bolseria, 21 Tel 96 392 64 17 www.rosasantos.net

PILOTA VALENCIANA Pilota valenciana is one of a handful of variations of the ancient sport of pelota or handball scattered around Europe. Like pelota vasca or Eton fives it’s basically tennis without racquets, but to some it’s also as much a clear expression of Valencia and Valencianism as paella, fireworks and always turning up late yet refusing to apologise. The Valencian style of the sport is only played within the region and is especially popular in the small towns and villages. Wherever you go in the Valencia community you will find a trinquet (a purpose-built pilota court) or pilotaris (pilota players) who play in the street.

Borgia, the Centelles and the Vilarraguts started to establish closed areas where the game could be played which were called trinquets. From the Tenth until the Eighteenth century, when the English school system started to churn out new sports and federations by the year, pilota (and its variations) was the most popular sport in Europe that didn’t involve something or somebody getting killed.

Pilota valenciana is played under five different disciplines, each with its own set of rules and all of which involve the hitting of a small ball with the hand in order to score points. There are varying numbers of players, sizes of courts and the use or not of a net or returning wall. The origins of the sport can be traced back to a game played by the Romans and ancient Greeks. Alexander the Great was a regular player as were various Roman emperors, and it was the Romans who laid down the first official rules and created the first federations. The sport survived the fall of the Roman Empire and became one of the favourite pastimes of the upper classes during the period of Gothic rule in Valencia, second only to hitting each other over the head with a mace. Although pilota almost died out during Moorish rule, it became popular again after the reconquest. The Aragon crown were great promoters of the game and letters dating back to 1305 (which are exhibited in the San Miguel de los Reyes library in Valencia) show how King Jaime II’s doctor, Arnau de Vilanova, recommended that the king play the game twice a week “to preserve his health and fine figure”. In Valencia, the great aristocratic families such as the

It was the spread of these new English games and the French Revolution (the playing of pilota was banned throughout France after it) which virtually killed off the sport in most of Europe. However just like that village under the magnifying glass in Asterix books, there were a few pockets of the old continent which held out against the all-conquering invasion of, principally, football and tennis. Amongst them was Valencia along with the Basque country, parts of Belgium and Holland, and northern Italy, each one with their own variation on the sport. The rules of modern pilota valenciana and the definition of its different disciplines were established in the nineteenth century. The famous Trinquet de Pelayo, the only trinquet remaining in the centre of Valencia (at C/ Pelayo, 6), was completed

in 1868. Known as the Cathedral of Pilota, championship finals and international matches are played here in front of a fanatical and knowledgeable crowd of up to 1,000 spectators. You can see top class professional matches across the different styles at the Pelayo Trinquet every Saturday afternoon and amateur and junior matches every Thursday. The Federación de Pelota Valenciana was set up in 1940 after the Civil War. The appointment of José Marín Marín, a founder member and ex-player of the Valencia football club (rather than an ex-pilotari), and a man favourable to the new Francoist regime was not an immediately popular choice as the federation’s first president. Under his 25-year-presidency, however, he managed to preserve and even enhance all the essentially Valencian elements of the game (such as keeping the score in valenciano) and the sport’s position as a symbol of Valencia regional identity. This was at a time when other such symbols like Las Fallas, regional flags and the Corpus Christi parades were being suppressed or diluted by the dictatorship. His love of being photographed at every opportunity with any popular player or at any important event has also left us with an extensive photographic history of players and trinquets throughout the Valencia region. Believe it or not, he was the grandfather of ‘24/7 Valencia’ writer José Marín! In the modern era the game remains as popular as ever in the towns and villages. Although most pelotaris are amateurs; including everything from farm workers to shopkeepers, there is a professional league and the game has produced its superstars. The greatest of them all was Paco Cabanes, “El Genovés”, from the village near Xativa of the same name. Between 1975 and 1996, El Genovés won every major tournament in every discipline of pilota at every level along with every possible international trophy. In exhibition matches he routinely played on his own against, and beat, a team of

9 three other international players. He once famously won an exhibition match while carrying a chair in his non-playing hand. Other famous players have been Sarasol, from the same village as El Genovés, and El Zurdo, Melero and El Nene. The number of professional players is growing by the year and the local government has pushed for the sport to be taught in state schools. The Polytechnic has new modern training facilities and a new trinquet was recently built in

Benidorm, the reigning league champions. Pilota has also gone international with a hybrid five-nation tournament between Belgium, Holland, Italy, the Basque country and Valencia which El Genovés, of course, won twice. In 2010 the World Cup will take place in Valencia with the expected participation of 11 countries. So the future of Pilota Valenciana is ensured, well perhaps not. El Genovés has recently gone public with his concerns and disappointment that the sport has not

received the support and sponsorship it deserves from local government and businesses. Most Valencians will tell you that Pilota must be kept alive and will show their unconditional support for the regional sport but very few, especially in the city, actually bother to attend any matches…especially if there’s football on the telly.

David Rhead and José Marín

Main photo Manu San Martín, Article ©08/09 24/7Valencia

VALENCIA WINTER

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FOOD

Fish Fry

Put a small pan over medium heat with a little coconut oil, olive oil or ghee (clarified butter). Once hot, add a generous tablespoon of your favourite Thai curry paste, I use Panang which is nice with fish, I think. Add the garlic and ginger and fry them altogether until the Thai paste has “slackened” and it is all loose, about a minute. Take off the heat, set aside and leave to cool slightly.

Thai Fish Cakes

Hola! It’s been a while since I’ve written and I hope everyone is still thoroughly enjoying Valencia, my favourite city in the world. I’ve been away and have really missed her. To return to the Christmas lights in the streets and the cosy atmosphere that wraps this city in wintertime delight was such a treat. Upon landing I headed straight to Plaza de la Reina with my friends for a cup of chocolate, a good catch up and a tad too much vino, but, esta es la vida!

• 1 kg fish, cooked

I’ve been really busy whilst away and therefore my kitchen turns into a small machine of production and consumption. My fridge is full of meals I’ve had time to prepare and those leftovers that become the next meal without much thought.

• Zest of 2 limes

I love these fish cakes, I’ve not made them in a long time because essentially for me, I would only make fish cakes from leftover fish and I rarely have leftover fish. A friend brought me a rather large snapper recently and while we had the most superb supper that night, the leftover meat inspired a fish cake feast the next night. Perhaps because the fish was so fresh, it tasted amazing. Over the Christmas season, food such as these fish cakes will make nice little reprises during the festive feasting. With the inclination they make a wonderful canapé for Christmas parties, or an easy meal when you’re tired and want to slouch on the sofa after a big weekend. You will find everything you need in the Mercado Central with a quick trip out to the Asian supermarket on C/ Manuel Candela if need be. And if you’re visiting Valencia this month, a tour through the Mercado Central will be a highlight as good as any other on your list - it truly is Valencia’s beating heart.

(salmon or white reef fish is good)

• Thai curry paste

• 1 bunch spring onions • 1 handful basil leaves • 1 bunch chives

• Sea Salt and Pepper • 2 cloves garlic

• 1 inch piece of ginger

• 4 medium size potatoes • 2 eggs

This is essentially a “leftovers” dish, in the sense that it seems lengthy and time consuming to make these from scratch. I would probably not bake a whole fish just to make fish cakes, but I would definitely use my leftover fish for fish cakes. Choose a nice big snapper or other white flesh reef fish, salmon will also be good. Bake this whole in the oven wrapped in parchment paper filled with loads of fresh herbs and sliced lemon and lying on a bed of sliced onions. Serve with rice or mashed potato and your choice of seasonal green veggies. First, wash and peel the potatoes, cut them into rough dice and put them onto boil To make the fishcakes, first wash and peel. You will need about 1 kg or so of cooked fish, flake this into a large mixing bowl. Finely chop the chives, basil and spring onions and add this to the bowl. Zest the two limes and add this to the bowl as well. Now, finely chop the garlic and the ginger.

When the potatoes are done, mash them well with a little butter and milk, and season with salt and pepper. Leave to cool slightly. Once cooled, add the mash and the Thai flavours to the bowl with the fish and stir well to combine, beat the eggs and stir into mixture. Season with a little more sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, if desired. Shape the mixture into balls and flatten slightly to make like a hamburger patty. You can do loads of smaller cakes for canapés, or larger ones for a meal, the choice is yours. Put a large frying pan over medium to high heat and add a generous amount of coconut oil, ghee or vegetable oil. Do not use olive oil here as it not great at higher temperatures so I have been using coconut oil as my cooking medium in Asian food for a while now. Not only does it withstand higher temperatures for stir frying, but its flavour blends in with Asian flavours more eloquently than the robust flavours of some olive oils. You will find it in the Asian supermarket on C/ Filipinas and C/ Centelles near the British School of Valencia. Once the oil is hot (not smoking), gently slide in as many of the fish cakes as will fit without squashing them and leave you some room to turn them over. Fry them on each side until golden brown. Don’t keep flipping them, only turn them once, so leave them for a good 4-5 minutes on each side until they have turned a nice deep golden brown. Serve with your favourite chili sauce and slices of lime and perhaps a nice big salad or some steamed Asian vegetables. Buen Provecho y Feliz Navidad! Erica Choate © 24/7Valencia 08/09

RESTAURANT OF THE MONTH not bad at all. We started with an enormous platter of Tapas Caribeños which included (yes, included) guacamole, quesadillas, fajitas, acras de pescado (battered and fried fish), tostones (twice fried plantains), plátanos maduros (fried sweet plantains), yuca (cassava) with mojo sauce and tropical salads. We were quite sure we would never eat it all, but given enough time we did, and enjoyed it all! Next, as if we really needed more, came El Burrito, stuffed with meat and cheese and, new to us, scrambled egg. A really nice combination. Our other main dish (yes, I know, enough already!) was Carnes puntaso. What came was another huge platter of lamb, beef, ground beef and chicken with a salsa verde and a sundried tomato coulis. By this time the dining room was nicely full, there were people at the bar, too, and the atmosphere was very mellow.

We Love Babalu

Years and years ago, when I was working in the airline industry and you could often persuade another airline to give you either free or extremely inexpensive tickets, I took my wife on a weekend jolly to New York. I managed to get a nice Manhattan hotel to give me a fat discount, too, and off we went. We met up with an old friend one evening and went to the Waldorf Astoria’s basement restaurant, Trader Vic’s, a Polynesian restaurant that was famous not only for its cuisine but also its cocktails. It was so exotic (and expensive!) and what stands out in my mind, apart from my first taste of a Mai Tai cocktail, is that there were things on the menu we had never tasted or even seen. We love to eat new food and when we do, we love to share the food, something that our friends we went with to the Trader’s certainly did not! We just had to watch them tuck into something exotic and be on our best behaviour, not even a taste! (I have more sense nowadays and would insist on a taste!)

It is rare nowadays to go to a restaurant where there is something on offer that you can honestly say is new to you. Babalu is a Cubano/Caribbean restaurant and bar that offers flavours from around the world and bills itself as an original gastronomic and cultural adventure. You know you are about to have a nice evening as soon as you walk in. The atmosphere is warm and friendly and the decor and ambience are great. Largescale paintings on wood panels of famous Havana scenes and American cars deck the walls, a long bar spans half of the back wall and our waiter was mixing a cocktail as we arrived. Latin music was playing at the perfect volume as we were shown to our table to begin a very pleasurable evening and meal. The cocktail list is inventive and extensive and includes mojitos and caipirinhas - good value at 19€ a jug. We let the charming Cuban owner Lazaro choose our meal for us, and we tried the 52 Sexenni wine from Morella, which is the house red at 12€, and was

Lazaro then insisted we have a dessert, we demurred, then changed our minds and told him we would wait a while and finish our wine first before having a (quite unnecessary) Creme brulée each. (There was chocolate cake, guava, and fresh fruit salad on offer too). We sat for a while longer chatting and listening to the music and walked home briskly to try and burn off some of the calories we had far too pleasantly consumed. Babalu offers a Menú del día at 13€ each weekday and a Menú degustación at 18€. That huge tapas platter we had was only 12€ and main dishes range from 8-15€. Great value. On New Year’s Eve, they are having a fiesta with a buffet libre including cava, grapes and coffee and, as they put it, MUCHA FIESTA!! for only 55€ a head. They speak Spanish, French and English! Tim Birch Babalu C/ Manyans, 17 (next to Plaza Redonda) Tel: 96 315 50 40, 666 298 842 www.myspace.com/restaurantebabalu Open everyday 12:00 pm - 2:00 am Closed Sat afternoon - Sun evening. © 24/7Valencia 08/09

Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year from all of us ! GOORU’S BOOKSHELF

Christmas already? Again?

Must be time for the Gooru Christmas book, CD and DVD list, don’t you think? Comedy DVDs first, Armstrong and Miller, these two are great - short sharp sketches that are consistently funny. The Gooru family have adopted some of the catch phrases, I’m afraid. Loved Ben Miller as the nasty producer in Moving Wallpaper, the spoof documentary depicting life in the production studios of a new ITV soap opera, Echo Beach. The DVD features both the documentary and the soap starring Jason Donovan and Martine McCutcheon, which is a great watch itself. Incidently, Moving Wallpaper returns to TV next year but this time producing a new show as Echo Beach is scrapped due to ‘poor ratings’! Alexander Armstrong, the other half of Armstrong and Miller was Mutual Friends and made the series for me – that’s also out on DVD. On to drama, get someone to give you the excellent Waking the Dead, Series 6 - this series gets better and better. Music now, I can’t recommend The Word magazine enough - get someone to buy you a subscription - I constantly discover new music from their excellent cover CD mounted in an environmentally friendly cardboard cover. It is regularly a great listen and has led me to buy more tracks or the entire CD of music I have heard on it. The magazine is a well written and informative guide to music, film, books and more. Their website is www. wordmagazine.co.uk/ and features more music and a weekly podcast. We are currently listening a lot to music by ladies, Martha Wainwright’s I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings, Too (great title) for one and also to Ingrid Michaelson. The title track of Be OK is fun and uplifting and her version of ‘Over the Rainbow’ is almost as good as John Martyn’s! Another lady we are listening to is Amanda Palmer, -and we Love some of Who Killed Amanda Palmer and some of it we don’t. Finally, The Script are a great band from Dublin by way of L.A. - we really like this album.

And so on to books. If you read this column on a regular basis, you know what I think of Dan Brown. Earlier this year a friend gave me The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne - on the cover it said something like ‘Watch out, Dan Brown, you have a challenger’. I almost didn’t read the book but Bourne can write, I couldn’t put it down. So, I look forward to his latest, The Final Reckoning , apparently another well-written thriller. A debut novel by young author Danny Scheinmann, Random Acts of Heroic Love, works and it doesn’t. I loved the story of Moritz Daniecki, 16 years old and the son of a cobbler, who falls in love with Lotte Steinberg, the daughter of a wealthy fur-trader, and following a chaste kiss, decide one day to marry. This is the year 1896 and Moritz is soon sent to the front to fight in the war, the story follows the hardships and suffering of his long walk home which takes years, it is a great story. Running parallel is the modern day story of Moritz’s grandson - much less successful and actually quite boring. It is a shame because otherwise it could have been one of my books of the year. I was talking to an American friend living in Perpignan about books. Like me, she and her husband devour books faster than they can lay their hands on them and she was asking me for recommendations and vice versa. I told her to read Henning Mankell (and to watch the series on BBC starting 30 November - she has satellite which works better there than here). “He is Swedish, isn’t he?” she asked. “I have just read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, who is also Swedish, and it’s a thriller!” Turns out that the last time she was at Gatwick she had three minutes to spare before the gate closed on her flight, so she just grabbed 3 books in the 3-for-2 offer at Waterstones and this

was one of them. She was unable to put it down and now can’t wait for the other two books in the trilogy. I have yet to read it but rest assured, I will let you know. Finally and as a way of wishing you a Merry Christmas, free and legal ways of listening to music on the web - just about any song on any album - from www.we7. com and www.spotify.com. How do they do it? With short adverts prior to the track. Spotify is beta and you will need an invitation, but they are both great news for music fans everywhere! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Gooru Article ©08/09 24/7Valencia

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GIG GUIDE DECEMBER / JANUARY Feel like going out and catching a band? What kind of music grabs your fancy this month? Pop, jazz or flamenco? Let’s start with pop. El Loco has a groovy array of acts ready to entertain us. On 3 December, the 3rd heat of the local band competition brings us another 3 great bands, and if the previous gigs are anything to go by, it’ll be a packed house. The grand final is on 20 December. Not to be missed!

Eli Paperboy Reed from Massachusetts brings his ‘60s soul sound to El Loco on 11 December. The following night, none other than Lydia Lunch, icon of political incorrectness, graces the same stage.

On 12 December at Heineken Greenspace, Asian Dub Foundation will be rocking the house with their reggae ragga punk dub sound. If you feel like checking out Spanish rock stars, Loquillo will be performing at Mirror the same night, and so will Enrique Bunbury at Pabellón Fuente de San Luis in Av. Hermanos Maristas.

And the very next night at the Pabellón, 13 December sees one of Spain’s most popular bands, Amaral, return to Valencia. Back at El Loco - on 19 December, Josele Santiago takes the stage. Once upon a time he was leader of Los Enemigos, a much esteemed group in Spanish rock history. My pick of venue for the following week is Wah-Wah. On 26 Dec Electric Cabin will play quality versions of Van Morrison, Elvis, The Band and Sam Cooke. On the same night in El Loco, Kuami Mensah

and Afasa will be playing a joyful set of Afro-Latin-Reggae. The next night, popular young local band Polock will bring their Strokes sound to play to a probably full house in Wah-Wah.

organised a New Year’s Eve party with a whole bunch of different DJs. Should be wild. Watch out for the live flamenco show at the ‘24/7 Valencia Xmas party’, at Radio City on December 16th!

Enjoy the sounds.

That’s about it for my pick of pop. Let’s have a look at what’s happening in the jazz scene. On 2 December, trumpeter extraordinaire Voro Garcia plays his new CD ‘Vorocity’ at Jimmy Glass. On 4 December, brilliant saxophonist Vicente Macían will be thrilling jazz heads at Pub Pop Art on Av. Blasco Ibañez in Massanassa just outside Valencia. Catharina Wiborgh is a renowned sax player in her home town of Stockholm. She will be performing with piano and bass at Café Mercedes Jazz, also on 4 December. Back at Jimmy Glass on 16 December, the Irene Aranda Quintet will present their new CD, ‘Interfrequency 23 7’. The New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble is an all-star collaboration from Brooklyn, and they will be playing their new CD ‘Step Forward’ at El Loco on 29 December. Of course there’s always the weekly Monday night blues-rock-jazz Tonky Jam at Black Note to look forward to. On Wednesday nights, Café Mercedes Jazz hosts its own weekly jazz jam, the same night that El Loco has its ‘Super Jams’. For all January jam sessions, check their websites in the listings. For flamenco, Café del Duende is the place to go on Thursday and Friday nights. All the clapping and stomping you could hope for. Every Tuesday night, Radio City always offers up an interesting flamenco act to entertain the Carmen crowd. Both venues have live flamenco in December 2008 & January 2009, too! There you have it – a variety of music to keep you bopping through the festive period. Which reminds me – El Loco has

Man Jack

‘MIRADAS DEL MERCADO CENTRAL’

Valencia’s ‘Mercado Central’ is said to be one of Europe’s largest covered markets. It’s a feast of sights, smells, sounds and faces!

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RUZAFA The Ruzafa neighbourhood can be found to the south of the train station and in easy walking distance of the Plaza del Ayuntamiento. Ruzafa (which actually translates as ‘orchard’ in Arabic) is a real melting-pot. You can find many different nationalities all living and working side by side in this multi-cultural barrio. Whilst this perhaps accounted for its slightly ‘rough’ reputation in the past, it certainly makes for an interesting blend of cultures! Halal butchers stand next to Cuban bars and Chinese supermarkets. Anyone care for a mojito with their doner?!

Ruzafa is a really up-and-coming area which over the last few years has seen investment in properties and numerous new bars and restaurants springing up left, right and centre. It is fast becoming one of the hotspots in Valencia and a great area to go on a night out.

02:00 The evening comes to an end

and we slide / stumble (delete where applicable) off home. Goodbyes are exchanged and plans made for the next route but for the time being, beds are calling!

at Sinpy Jo’s

20:30 Next stop

Fifty Two, C/ Sueca, 52 Having sufficiently lined our stomachs, we move on to the next stop on the route. Drinks are supped whilst our guide and host for the evening, Adrià, shares with us his immense wealth of Valencia culture. A true exchange of culture and languages!

NIGHT OUT IN RUZAFA The night is young and spirits high as we meet up eager to get started on the Ruzafa crawl.

22:00 Sinpy Jo’s C/ Cadiz, 43.

19:00 Meeting point

Tasca Russafa, C/ Cadiz, 48 Pre-dinner drinks followed by a selection of tapas. Russian salad, chorizo, calamares, and bravas all swilled down by jugs of beer. Went down a treat! And as each table comes with beer on tap you don’t need to go far to get a fill-up. Nice touch!

Next stop Sinpy’s, a compulsory part of any Ruzafa pub crawl! Jason and Mark welcome us in and the crowd get progressively more animated. Much mirth abounds as we (somewhat overambitiously!) attempt to work our way through the vast selection of beers.

00:00 Radio Tránsito C/ Literato Azorín, 6

We’re in the mood for dancing ... well, trying to dance – a feat in itself by this point of the evening! Inhibitions fly out the front door as we muddle along to the groove in our well-oiled state.

All photos Cultouralia, except (*) Christophe Polin © 08/09 Manu San Martín 24/7Valencia

Rachel Dunworth

VALENCIA FOOTBALL from Manuel Fernandes, a ‘golazo’ from Joaquín and one from the ever-crocked Vicente saw Valencia come out easy 0-3 victors. Everything seemed to be back on track that week as next opponents Portugalete were brushed aside by what can only be described as the Valencia B team, again chalking up another 3-0 win, thanks to Angulo, Michel (youth team promise) and Pablo (Marty Feldman) Hernández. The weekend game was to be at home against strugglers Sporting Gijón, what could be easier? There hangs the crux of Valencia’s weakness, yet again we were to witness the team’s lack of application, concentration and quite bluntly ‘huevos’ when it comes to the ‘lesser’ teams. Every single time in the recent history of the club when the players have started a game ‘sobrados’, they have finished with egg on their face. There was a lack of intensity and desire and a distinct impression that the Chés believed that they had won the game before they had even kicked off. Sporting were determined and resolute and finished 2-3 winners despite two late goals from fellow Asturians Villa and Mata. More importantly, the Valencia defence was a complete shambles, Moretti and Albiol being the two chief guilty parties.

Quina manera de patir! No one could ever claim that supporting Valencia is an easy task, the team is nothing if not erratic. Even during the Benítez years, sandwiched between the two championship winning campaigns, we were obliged to suffer a season of ups-and-downs when the club finished fifth in the league and missed out on Champions League football. Under Unai Emery the emotional roller coaster that is Valencia Club de Fútbol continues to deliver moments of joy, sorrow and sometimes disbelief. October started poorly with the disappointing loss at home to Racing Santander followed by a worrying draw

against FC Copenhagen in the first game of the team’s UEFA campaign. Morientes’ second-half goal was cancelled out by a late equaliser from the Danes, in a game in which Valencia got what they deserved. Three days later the Chés travelled to the Spanish capital to face their nemesis Getafe in the Coliseo Alfonso Perez, a stadium where Valencia had struggled in the past. Thankfully, Valencia-born forward Roberto Soldado got himself sent off by showing too much of his forehead to Carlos Marchena’s nose and was duly shown the red card. Only then did Valencia begin to play football and goals

So there we were brought firmly back down to earth, the bubble burst by two home defeats against teams that in all honesty Valencia should have had no trouble in dealing with. Those lost six points would now see Valencia in first place in the league ahead of Barcelona, whom everyone thinks are untouchable this season. Worryingly for Valencia, the next fixture was away to Sevilla and not even the most fervent Ché supporter would have been looking forward to the team’s visit to the Sánchez Pizjuán, especially after the latest shaky displays. Yet again Valencia deceived its followers by putting on a brave performance, serious at the back, allowing very few opportunities to the likes of Luis Fabiano, Kanouté and “Mad Eyes” Navas. In fact, if Mata had taken a couple of first half chances then the Chés could even have stolen the three points. Meanwhile back in the UEFA cup, Valencia were obliged to get a result © 24/7 Valencia 08/09

37 from their next opponents, Rosenborg of Trondheim, Norway in November in freezing conditions (no one seemed to mention that it was just as cold in Valencia at the time). The same Rosenborg that had spelled the end for Quique Flores as Valencia manager one year previously after disastrous back-to-back defeats to the Norwegians signalled the end of Valencia’s Champions League season. The ‘Blanc i negres’ probably played their best game of the season, solid in defence, ever present in midfield and lethal up front. Mata, Pablo (golazo), Joaquín and Baraja all netted to bring home the three points and the 4-0 victory all but classified Valencia for the next round of the second tier European competition. As the team left the cold climes of Norway to return to the cold climes of Valencia, their next opponents were Joaquín’s old club, Real Betis. After thirty minutes of the Betis game, Valencia were 2-0 up and playing great football. Edu was injured yet again and the team somehow lost momentum and were quite happy to hear the half time whistle. After the break there was an extraordinary turnabout to the tie. Betis came out fired up, Valencia asleep and the referee must have received orders to “Get Valencia”. The Andalusians pushed right up onto Valencia who, thanks to Emery’s new system of 4-3-3/4-5-1, had no way of playing the ball out of their own half. Emery failed to react and change said system by putting two men up front, thus offering his team more options to clear their lines. The Betis team’s pressure paid off due to a mistake from Miguel and a woeful weak wrist from Renan, who is just not good enough for this club. Now with ‘miedo en el cuerpo’, the Chés defended deeper and deeper until yet another defensive error from Albiol led to a penalty for the opposition and a straight red card for club captain Carlos Marchena. The penalty was converted and Valencia were down to ten men and had their backs firmly against the wall. Just when it seemed that all hope was lost, up popped Baraja to glance in a Fernandes cross and the crowd went wild. Valencia hung on for the last fifteen minutes and we were all on the edge of our seats, hearts firmly in our mouths especially when Brazilian goalkeeper Renan decided to

dribble the ball past a few Betis players before making his clearance. A win against next rivals Barcelona would see the team close the gap to two points whilst a loss would make it eight and seemingly a bridge too far even at this early stage of the season. However, first the team needs to consolidate their position in the top four as the Champions League places for next season are up for grabs between five teams, the two giants Barça and Real Madrid, Villareal, Sevilla and VCF. On recent form, the team most likely to lose out would seem to be the Merengues ‘quina lastima’.

Ah, December, the month of puentes, fiestas and resacas and away games against Barcelona and Real Madrid. What a priceless Christmas present six points would make for Valencia and its supporters. Bon Nadal, Merry Xmas one and all and Peace on Earth. Mark Hulton - See football calendar for Dec / Jan fixtures Cristiano Ronaldo v local rivals Villareal

The club are not idle in the transfer market, having signed Brazilian left back Thiago Carleto from Santos for 600 000 euros, a snip in today’s market if he turns out to be any good. The 19 year old is tipped to be the new Roberto Carlos, and my South American spy network, which consists of YouTube and Tim Vickery articles, reckon that the boy could do well. Meanwhile German outcast Timo Hildebrand seems sure to leave in the January window on a free, a strange decision for a player who is very highly rated in his own country. I personally prefer Hildebrand to the player that has taken his place, Renan Brito, who has done absolutely nothing in his time at the club to warrant such preferential treatment over the unlucky Timo. Rumours abound of a move into the German market to capture the signature of Hispano-German player Gonzalo Castro from Bayer Leverkusen who can play at right back or midfield. They could even look to Schalke 04 and try to sign Germany’s best goalkeeping prospect Manuel Neuer, or even Castro’s teammate René Adler because defence starts with the keeper and Renan hasn’t got what it takes. This week saw Manuel Fernandes’ appearance in a Valencia court, charged with assaulting an off-duty policeman by throwing a glass at him, an incident that saw the young Portuguese player loaned out to Everton last year. We’ll just have to wait and see if he’s guilty as charged or not, m’lud.

Mixed emotions Swift

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Bancaja have refused to grant the club a 100 million euro overdraft, which has caused quite a few worries within VCF but cannot be too surprising taking into account the current financial situation. All football photos ©08/09 HEINO 24/7Valencia

The Wedding Present

Framed

Northern Lights

Empire

Chance

Rubia

¡Te lo juro!

Figuras

Yes

50’s vibe

Matthew Herbert Big Band

Nick Lowe

Windows to the soul

CLUBLAND It’s been a while since I last wrote this article for 24/7 and I’ve been commissioned one of the most exciting times of the year. So, if you want to get the picture of what Valencia is going to look like on the party front this December / January, including Christmas and New Year’ Eve, pull your wool socks on and don’t stop reading just yet. Right, let’s begin with the end of the month, the following lines are about how you can enjoy the night of 31 December. For early clubbing on New Year’s Eve in El Carmen visit 47 Club on C/ Quart, 47. Miss Yuls is spinning some excellent new electronica mixed with old classics all night long. Free entrance. The Mill Club (Av. del Puerto con C/ Padre Porta, 2) is having a brutal allnighter as well. With one entrance, you can enjoy three clubs in one. Some of Valencia’s main DJs of techno, drum & bass, funk, ragga and more shall give us pumping beats to stay up till early morning hours. If you hit Mercado Fuencarral (see more info below) this year, plenty of things are going on in this new reference for shopping in Valencia. The Sofa Club, Laydown and La Pepita shall stay open that night and therefore you can enjoy plenty of entertainment on the same floor. All for free!! Just off the Plaza del Ayuntamiento on C/ Embajador Vich, 7, Piccadilly is offering a night of glamour and elegance with DJs Slash PD & Cinnamon amongst others. If you want a live band experience to enter the new year, perhaps Magazine (C/ Perez Escrich 19, www.myspace.com/ magazineclub is your space; Wau y los Arrrghs!, C.S.C and Negative Waves are the ﬁrst bands of 2009 to perform on the stage of this club. Two drinks are included with ticket on that night. El Loco Club give you a free drink for 20€ with DJs Dwomo, Gu Hai (China) and Paco Plaza, as well as special visuals from ERRORvideo and Tanaka. Doo Bop at El Loco (C/ Erudite Orellana 12, www.myspace.com/ doobopclub) is the only proper funk club in Valencia, committed to the © 24/7 Valencia 08/09

breaks of Mr James Brown as well as other grooves such as jazz, Latin and hip-hop. Funk selectors José Mardigras, Javi Funkeluya and Jordan (myself) spin the best of old and new beats related to black music. Every Friday and Saturday from 00.30h till 3.30h with a free entrance! This month there are also some excellent gigs in El Loco. An absolute must is to go and see Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed & the True Loves on 11 December. Two days after his sell-out gig at Brixton Academy with Duffy, this new reference for the ‘60s soul and rhythm & blues revival is coming to town. If you feel like some late night clubbing without leaving El Carmen, hit Disco City on C/ Pintor Zariñena,14,. also run by the Radio City team. A slight change in the weekly DJ line up is to be announced with resident DJ Aleix taking over Thursdays and Fridays and Saturday nights by Javi Funkeluya, Salvation, myself and other luxury invites. Open till 7:00am! For fans of reggae and dub, an essential stop is Juanita Club on C/ Lepanto, 8. DJ residents DJ Quick-e, Bad Foundation Soundsystem & friends cover most nights, however some dates are with special invites. Free entrance. Some exquisite electronica is on the scene this month and in January at The Mill. Shinedoe are coming straight in from Amsterdam on 26 December and on 5 January, Âme from Germany take over the main ﬂoor in this venue. A new shopping mall is opening up in Valencia. If you’ve been to Madrid, perhaps you’ve heard of Mercado Fuencarral as a reference for fashion and coolness. Well, they are expanding business into the capital of the Turia River and open up a huge centre near the Nou Campanar area (C/ Tirso de Molina, 16) by the old riverbed. And what’s this got to do with music? Very simple, DJs shall be spinning their music all day long at the Sofa Club, an open and free entry space where you can enjoy drinks, food and the music of some of the leading DJ and music collectives of the city. Also, Laydown Rest Club inaugurates their Valencia business division, famous in

Madrid for serving food whilst you’re lying down as the name of the place indicates. Live music and DJs all night are part of the ingredient. (More info at www.mdf.es) Another club opened its doors at the end of November. Wandu Palace is aimed at the posher crowd in Valencia. Situated just off C/ San Vicente, 162, on C/ Mascota, this is a building with three ﬂoors, two club spaces, a VIP room and a luxury restaurant at the top. Definitely worth a visit as the decoration is truly unique. For more new spaces, check bar Funky Brown on Plaza Olof Palme near the university area, open till 3.30h with free entrance for funk and breaks mainly by the Funk You! DJ collective. Well worth a visit as well is the Pink Club on C/ Doctor García Brustenga, 8, Benimaclet, also in the University district just off Av. Primado Reig. You’ll ﬁnd every night is different with electro, house and minimal in the mix. Jordan [3mv disc-unit] Jordan is one of Valencia’s most well known DJs and co-runs the record store, distributor and music production company 3mv disc-unit. You can check his shop at C/ Dr. Gil y Morte, 16 go to http://www.discunit.com to surf their huge online catalog with everything from hip-hop to electronica or become friends at http://www.myspace.com/3mv. For more info drop him a line to jordan@ disc-unit.com.

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WHICH BIKE DO I NEED? (PART 2) Last month we talked about city and trekking bikes, and this time we’re going to talk about road or racing bikes and mainly about mountain bikes. If you are going to cycle on asphalt roads, there’s no discussion: you need a road bike, lightweight, with big thin wheels and a good number of gears. Now they are built with the lightest aluminium alloys or carbon fibre, with unbelievable total weights. For example, the top-of-the-line Ghost model stops the weight at… 6.5 kgs!, with a carbon frame and Shimano Dura-Ace 20-gear transmission. These bicycles are expensive, with the most basic models starting around 600 euros, and the expensive ones could go above 6000 euros. But more popular and accessible (in price) are the mountain bikes. It was the most recent type of bicycle to appear in the market, because the first mass production models came out in the eighties. It was both the most developed of all the bicycle types and the one with the most advanced design. Now it’s almost impossible to find one without a front fork suspension. Basically, we’ve got two types of mountain bikes, hardtail or ‘fully’ ( Full suspension ). The hardtail models are equipped with just the front fork suspension. They’re the lightest and the best type when you’re thinking of cycling in flat terrain or when you have to climb a lot in the mountains. The basic models don’t have regulation or blockage of the front fork suspension, something really important because if you try to climb any terrain with no blockage in the front fork, the greatest part of your effort will be wasted. Something similar will happen in flat terrain with a good surface, where it is really important to block the front fork if you want to speed up your cycling.

The ‘fully’ models came with front and rear suspension. Here the blockage is even more important, because if you have full suspension and you cannot block both suspensions, the experience will be really crap if you want to cycle properly in a flat or hilly terrain. Full suspension bikes are mainly for going downhill. In flat terrain, just when the surface is very rocky or bumpy, the comfort will be better in comparison with a hardtail. The hardtail is always better for climbing up, because, even if you can properly block the rear shock, the lightweight hardtail has the advantage. These are the differences in the two types of mountain bikes. Now, let’s talk about the common components. The usual wheel measure is 26 inches, and the tyres are thick, usually from 1.95 to 2.50 inches, and the rims has to be strong enough to cycle in bad terrain (good ones came with double wall rims). More specifications: at least 18 gears, and typically coming with 21, 24 or 27 gears, strong aluminium frame (sometimes carbon fibre in top-of-the-line models), flat or double height handlebars and good braking system, the conventional (since the late ´90s) V-brake or now, disc brakes. As you can see, the development of these bikes has been really fast in comparison with other types of bikes. For example, disc brakes were introduced in the mountain bikes first, circa 1992, and are now a must in the mid-high end models. You can get a mountain bike for around 200 euros, and you can spend up to 5000 euros in a state-of-the-art model if you want. You can find the right bike in Orange Bikes, come visit us and let’s talk about which bike you need!

WOMAN

It’s probably very clichéd to say so, but I truly cannot believe that it’s nearly Christmas! As excited as I am, what with it being not only the season to be jolly, but my favourite holiday of all time, I still haven’t really got around to unpacking my winter wardrobe and hiding away all my summer frocks, yet suddenly Santa’s about to drop down my chimney. The fact I do not have a chimney, living in a flat and all that jazz, is far beside the point, because regular readers will know I am quite a bit of a party girl and well, what better way to get me into the swing of things but a seasonal soirée or five? Last December there was not a single night when either Lolita or I were planless with everybody throwing celebrations left, right and centre. I think we hit four on the 23rd alone. To get a true feel of winter, i.e., freezing ourselves silly, we grabbed hold of our dear friend Allie by both hands and dragged her, not unwillingly, mind, up to Madrid, the ice capital of the universe (okay, there are, obviously, colder places in the World. The North Pole springs to mind, for one, but having been here so long my blood is now Spanish, alright?! And I am a naturally freezing person. My winters are permanent chilblains and goose pimples. And I do like to exaggerate, too.). It was my last week of holidays for 2008 and we decided to do something completely spontaneous. We found some crazily cheap flights on the Internet (it took Lolita a fair while to click on to just why Spanair flights might be so cheap at the moment, poor love, cue

panic at the airport before boarding) and flew to the big City to crash at our good friend G’s loft for a few days and be nerdy tourists. Lolita and I are huge Madrid lovers, we could stroll up and down the Gran Vía and up to Chueca all our lives. Lolita also has a new love IN Madrid, so she was more than eager to get up there to see him. We arrived on a Tuesday morning, found our way to our G’s just fine, and sat on a bench while we waited for him to get home. Which was when we realised just how different the temperatures were, how mild it is here, and so proceeded to scramble about in our suitcases for woolly berets, fur hats, scarves and gloves right in the middle of the street. Once decked out, we looked like we were about to trek up Everest, and got the complete giggles just looking at each other. We were already a little hysterical, having been completely ridiculous on the flight, surrounded by Tuesday-morning-meeting businessmen wishing for a quiet journey to the City. Well, we made sure that didn’t happen! Allie is an out-of-work actress, desperate for a chance to vent her pent-up energy and imagination, and spent the entire flight announcing loudly to everybody that she was late for her reading with Almodovar, asking me how shooting in Africa went with the Jolie-Pitts and making sure Lolita had her schedule worked out for the next month, what with all the press conferences, signings and film launches coming up. After we arrived in Madrid it was time for hitting the shops! Blanco Stock, Lefties (Inditex outlet) and H&M accessories were the first stops for us three tightwads on our pressie shopping spree, but I can assure all my nearest and dearest who are reading this and thinking, “Oh dear God, she’s bought us some cheap old crap”, that I shall be Mother Christmas this year, as I have come home laden with fantastic goodies all round. Could not help treating myself either, naturally, namely some awesome sunglasses- yes, still shades-obsessed, even after Summer - and some beautiful silver earrings in the shape of swallows. Simultaneously, my dearest mother, who also lives in VLC, was in good ol’ Blighty visiting la familia Darling, but also squeezing in some good old retail therapy. She has the best taste in clothes, and has never bought me an

item that hasn’t then become a staple in my wardrobe. She is a shopping genius, pulling things off racks that I never would have even taken a second glance at. And this time was no different. A particular star buy in her purchases for yours truly was an incredible navy satin dress with a bandaged corset top covered in silver jewels and a super-short ra-ra skirt. Think Hervé Léger on steroids and LSD. I am already imagining the ways I can dress it up and down throughout the upcoming party season of all seasons: over skinny jeans and a white T-shirt with sparkly flats for dinner dates, with lacy tights (so hot right now) and killer platform-studded sandles (don’t have these yet, but am trawling eBay every day for some bargain Gucci knockoffs) and a cropped tuxedo jacket for a night on the tiles with friends, and with latex leggings, hair in a sloppy bun and hundreds of silver bangles for a cocktail party. Ooh, I think I’m getting in the spirit of things just writing about it.

New Year’s Resolutions Vote me Most Unlikely to Succeed if you must, but here are a few of mine for ‘09:

· Give Up Smoking. Obviously. And even though I love it... · Become More Organised. Need whole new Ikea-type arrangement for my desk and actually whole bedroom - lots of drawers, pretty boxes, labels, filing system, and Personal Assistant to run it all. Bring on Ikea in Sedaví! · Make More of My Own Clothes. This might be the one I keep, actually, as I have already put one cute checkered dress together and then worn it out on the street without it falling apart as I walked. Have dug out marvellous sewing machine and original Liberty print fabrics from my grandmother from a chest full of beautiful samples of textiles, beads, buttons and more. Will have to invest in some new material, though, or I shall spend 2009 looking like a patchwork quilt. You never know, I may just start a new fashion.

CIRCUITO CAFÉ TEATRO SAN MIGUEL VALENCIA (VIII TEMPORADA)

Día: Martes 2 DICIEMBRE Hora: 23:00 h MATISSE C/ CAMPOAMOR, 91 LES 3 QUEIXONES “SENSE PENES NI GLORIES” CA REVOLTA C/ SANTA TERESA, 10 RAFA FORNER “LA VERDAD SEA DICHA” Día: Miércoles 3 DICIEMBRE Hora: 23:00 h En: LA CLACA C/ SAN VICENTE, 3 (Valencia) HARRY EL MAGO URBANO “MAGIA AL ROJO VIVO” En: WOODY- CAFE PARIS C/ MENENDEZ Y PELAYO, 25 (Valencia) PABLO DE LOS REYES “NO SOY FREAKY PERO LO INTENTO” Día: Jueves 4 DICIEMBRE Hora: 23:00 h En: SWAN C/ JUAN GINER, 15 -BENIMACLET (Valencia) RAFA FORNER “LA VERDAD SEA DICHA” En: LO RAT C/ PADRE MÉNDEZ, 43 (Torrente) HARRY EL MAGO URBANO “MAGIA AL ROJO VIVO” Día: Viernes 5 DICIEMBRE Hora: 23:00 h En: PASIÓN POR EL RUIDO AVDA. CONSTITUCIÓN, 313 (Valencia) RAFA FORNER “LA VERDAD SEA DICHA” En: DUB CLUB C/ JESÚS, 91 (Valencia) PABLO DE LOS REYES “NO SOY FREAKY PERO LO INTENTO” Día: Sábado 6 DICIEMBRE Hora: 20:00 h En: LA FLAMA C/ ROTEROS, 14 (Valencia) HARRY EL MAGO URBANO “MAGIA AL ROJO VIVO” En: KRAKEN PLAZA DE HONDURAS, 37 (Valencia) PABLO DE LOS REYES “NO SOY FREAKY PERO LO INTENTO” Día: Domingo 7 DICIEMBRE Hora: 20:00 h En: CAFÉ TOCADO C/ CADIZ, 44 (Valencia) TEATRO INSTANTANEO “IMPROVERSION 2.0” En: 1900 CAFÉ TEATRE C/ MESTRE GUILLEM, 48 (Manises) RAFA FORNER “LA VERDAD SEA DICHA”

Día: Martes 9 DICIEMBRE Hora: 23:00 h En: MATISSE C/ CAMPOAMOR, 91 (Valencia) RAFA FORNER “LA VERDAD SEA DICHA” En: CA REVOLTA C/ SANTA TERESA, 10 (frente a Radio City) (Valencia) HARRY EL MAGO URBANO “MAGIA AL ROJO VIVO” Día: Miércoles 10 DICIEMBRE Hora: 23:00 h En: LA CLACA C/ SAN VICENTE, 3 (Valencia) PABLO DE LOS REYES “NO SOY FREAKY PERO LO INTENTO” En: WOODY- CAFE PARIS C/ MENENDEZ Y PELAYO, 25 (Valencia) LES 3 QUEIXONES “SENSE PENES NI GLORIES” Día: Jueves 11 DICIEMBRE Hora: 23:00 h En: SWAN C/ JUAN GINER, 15 -BENIMACLET (Valencia) PABLO DE LOS REYES “NO SOY FREAKY PERO LO INTENTO” En: LO RAT C/ PADRE MÉNDEZ, 43 (Torrente) RAFA FORNER “LA VERDAD SEA DICHA” Día: Viernes 12 DICIEMBRE Hora: 23:00 h En: PASIÓN POR EL RUIDO AVDA. CONSTITUCIÓN, 313 (Valencia) HARRY EL MAGO URBANO “MAGIA AL ROJO VIVO” En: DUB CLUB C/ JESÚS, 91 (Valencia) LES 3 QUEIXONES “SENSE PENES NI GLORIES” Día: Sábado 13 DICIEMBRE Hora: 20:00 h En: LA FLAMA C/ ROTEROS, 14 (Valencia) PABLO DE LOS REYES “NO SOY FREAKY PERO LO INTENTO” En: KRAKEN PLAZA DE HONDURAS, 37 (Valencia) LES 3 QUEIXONES “SENSE PENES NI GLORIES” Día: Domingo 14 DICIEMBRE Hora: 20:00 h En: CAFÉ TOCADO C/ CADIZ, 44 (Valencia) HARRY EL MAGO URBANO “MAGIA AL ROJO VIVO” En: 1900 CAFÉ TEATRE C/ MESTRE GUILLEM, 48 (Manises) PABLO DE LOS REYES “NO SOY FREAKY PERO LO INTENTO”

Día: Martes 16 DICIEMBRE Hora: 23:00 h En: MATISSE C/ CAMPOAMOR, 91 (Valencia) HARRY EL MAGO URBANO “MAGIA AL ROJO VIVO” En: CA REVOLTA C/ SANTA TERESA, 10 (frente a Radio City) (Valencia) LES 3 QUEIXONES “SENSE PENES NI GLORIES” Día: Miércoles 17 DICIEMBRE Hora: 23:00 h En: LA CLACA C/ SAN VICENTE, 3 (Valencia) RAFA FORNER “LA VERDAD SEA DICHA” En: WOODY- CAFE PARIS C/ MENENDEZ Y PELAYO, 25 (Valencia) HARRY EL MAGO URBANO “MAGIA AL ROJO VIVO” Día: Jueves 18 DICIEMBRE Hora: 23:00 h En: SWAN C/ JUAN GINER, 15 -BENIMACLET (Valencia) HARRY EL MAGO URBANO “MAGIA AL ROJO VIVO” En: LO RAT C/ PADRE MÉNDEZ, 43 (Torrente) PABLO DE LOS REYES “NO SOY FREAKY PERO LO INTENTO” Día: Viernes 19 DICIEMBRE Hora: 23:00 h En: PASIÓN POR EL RUIDO AVDA. CONSTITUCIÓN, 313 (Valencia) TEATRO INSTANTANEO “IMPROVERSION 2.0” En: DUB CLUB C/ JESÚS, 91 (Valencia) RAFA FORNER “LA VERDAD SEA DICHA” Día: Sábado 20 DICIEMBRE Hora: 20:00 h En: LA FLAMA C/ ROTEROS, 14 (Valencia) RAFA FORNER “LA VERDAD SEA DICHA” En: KRAKEN PLAZA DE HONDURAS, 37 (Valencia) HARRY EL MAGO URBANO “MAGIA AL ROJO VIVO” Día: Domingo 21 DICIEMBRE Hora: 20:00 h En: CAFÉ TOCADO C/ CADIZ, 44 (Valencia) RAFA FORNER “LA VERDAD SEA DICHA” En: 1900 CAFÉ TEATRE C/ MESTRE GUILLEM, 48 (Manises) HARRY EL MAGO URBANO “MAGIA AL ROJO VIVO”

Día: Martes 23 DICIEMBRE Hora: 23:00 h En: MATISSE C/ CAMPOAMOR, 91 (Valencia) TEATRO INSTANTANEO “IMPROVERSION 2.0” En: CA REVOLTA C/ SANTA TERESA, 10 (frente a Radio City) (Valencia) PABLO DE LOS REYES “NO SOY FREAKY PERO LO INTENTO” Día: Viernes 26 DICIEMBRE Hora: 23:00 h En: PASIÓN POR EL RUIDO AVDA. CONSTITUCIÓN, 313 (Valencia) PABLO DE LOS REYES “NO SOY FREAKY PERO LO INTENTO” En: DUB CLUB C/ JESÚS, 91 (Valencia) JU-JA “NI JU NI JA” Día: Sábado 27 DICIEMBRE Hora: 20:00 h En: LA FLAMA C/ ROTEROS, 14 (Valencia) NACHO DIAGO “GRITEST JITS” En: KRAKEN PLAZA DE HONDURAS, 37 (Valencia) JU-JA “NI JU NI JA” Día: Domingo 28 DICIEMBRE Hora: 20:00 h En: CAFÉ TOCADO C/ CADIZ, 44 (Valencia) PABLO DE LOS REYES “NO SOY FREAKY PERO LO INTENTO” En: 1900 CAFÉ TEATRE C/ MESTRE GUILLEM, 48 (Manises) TEATRO INSTANTANEO “IMPROVERSION 2.0” Día: Martes 30 DICIEMBRE Hora: 23:00 h En: MATISSE C/ CAMPOAMOR, 91 (Valencia) PABLO DE LOS REYES “NO SOY FREAKY PERO LO INTENTO” En: CA REVOLTA C/ SANTA TERESA, 10 (frente a Radio City) (Valencia) TEATRO INSTANTANEO “IMPROVERSION 2.0”

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24/7 VALENCIA LIVE MUSIC & CLUBS AGENDA DECEMBER / DICIEMBRE 2008 TUESDAY / MARTES 2 BLACK NOTE: Upsessions (ska desde EEUU) 23.30h 10€. JIMMY GLASS: Voro García (jazz) 21.30h 7€ Aforo Limitado. RADIO CITY: Amaro Carmona, Juanma Maya, Esther Garces, José Antonio y Chicho (flamenco) 23.00h 7€ con consumición WEDNESDAY / MIÉRCOLES 3 BLACK NOTE: Breakers Party con Cory Braun + DJ Bliner (hip-hop) 23.30h Gratis. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Jam Session coordinada por Pere Munuera 22.30h Gratis. EL LOCO: III Concurso Maquetas con Monoh + Polock + Cof Cof 22.00h Gratis / Super Jam 23.00h Gratis. THURSDAY / JUEVES 4 BLACK NOTE: Sex & Funk & Soul con 3 Beans & Rice 23.30h Gratis. CAFÉ DEL DUENDE: José Luis de Trini, Laila y Israel, Miguel Pérez y El Puchi (flamenco) 23.30h. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Catharina Wiborgh Trio 22.30h / 24.00h 9€ con consumición. DUB CLUB: DJ session 23.00h. EL LOCO: Festival Emergenza 20.00h 10€. 47 CLUB: Kike Vilar 23.30h. JUANITA: DJ Quick-e + Bad Foundation Soundsystem 23.00h Gratis. PICCADILLY: Miss Yuls + Slash PD. PUB POP ART (Massanassa): Vicente Macían Trio (jazz) 23.00h FRIDAY / VIERNES 5 CAFÉ DEL DUENDE: Pilar Camacho y Javier Zamora (flamenco) 23.30h. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Mike McKoy (jazz-bossa quartet) 23.00 / 00.30h 10€ con consumición. DOO BOP (24.00h at El Loco): DJs. DUB CLUB: Circuito Café Teatro 23.00h. EL LOCO: Festival Emergenza 20.00h 10€. LA EDAD DE ORO: Los Portuarios 23.00h Gratis. LATEX: Latextronic: Miss Yuls + Catalina Isis / Freestyle: Groovekey + Puntito Yeye. MILL CLUB: Teatro: Nacho Anibal / Freestyle Room: S. Pequeño / Factory: Alex Ferrer + New Fakers DJs. PICCADILLY: Jorge Miss X. SATURDAY / SÁBADO 6 CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Mike McKoy (jazz-bossa quartet) 23.00 / 00.30h 10€ con consumición. DOO BOP (24.00h at El Loco): DJs. DUB CLUB: DJ session 23.30h. EL LOCO: Festival Emergenza 20.00h 10€. JUANITA: Bad Foundation Soundsystem 23.00h Gratis. LATEX: H4L 9000 + Dioni Sánchez / Kike Vilar. MAGAZINE CLUB: Ultrazorras (garage punk) + Los Blue Marinos (surf) 23.00h 5€. MILL CLUB: Fernando Luna + Sergio Máñez / Funk you! / Turmix DJs. PICCADILLY: 1 DJ / 1 Hora. WAHWAH: Francisco Nixon (indie) + Gilbertástico (pop ambient) 22.30h 9€.

SUNDAY / DOMINGO 7 BLACK NOTE: Vocal Party con Cristina Blasco (jazz) 20.00h Gratis. DUB CLUB: Jazz Jam 20.00h. MILL CLUB: DJ Murphy (Brazil) + Nacho Anibal + Sergio Máñez / D&B Special con Chola. PICCADILLY: II Concurso DJs Amateurs Piccadilly. MONDAY / LUNES 8 BLACK NOTE: Tonky Jam (Open Jam Session) 23.30h Gratis. TUESDAY / MARTES 9 BLACK NOTE: Sona La Dipu con 20 Minutes Late y Capitan Blues (rock) 23.30h Gratis. RADIO CITY: Toneti, Juanma Maya, Dani de Francisco, Antonio Moreno y Ángel Moreno (flamenco) 23.00h 7€ con consumición. WEDNESDAY / MIÉRCOLES 10 CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Jam Session coordinada por Pere Munuera 22.30h Gratis. DUB CLUB: Cabina abierta 21.00h. EL LOCO: Super Jams 23.00h Gratis. THURSDAY / JUEVES 11 CAFÉ DEL DUENDE: Antonio Cantero, José Manuel González y José de Dora (flamenco) 23.30h. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: 9€ (incl. caña o refresco). CICLO MÚSICA DE CÁMARA: TRÍO PLEIADES. Marija Nemanyte, violín; Adrian Van Dongen, violonchello; Timothy Lissimore, piano. Obras de Mozart, Beethoven, Shostakovich. 9€ (incl. caña o refresco). ALAIN NOUCHY’S QUARTET (jazz vocal). DUB CLUB: DJ session 23.00h. EL LOCO: Eli Paperboy Reed & the True Loves (soul) 22.00h 20€ anticipada / 25€ taquilla. HEINEKEN GREENSPACE: Angels in Harlem Choir (gospel desde EEUU) 22.00h 20€ / 25€. JUANITA: DJ Quick-e + Bad Foundation Soundsystem 23.00h Gratis. PUB POP ART (Massanassa): Pau Viguer Trio (jazz) 23.00h. FRIDAY / VIERNES 12 BLACK NOTE: Jacob Helps (Afro Irish Soul) 23.30h Gratis. CAFÉ DEL DUENDE: Leo Molina y Su Gente (ﬂamenco) 23.30h. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: 23:00 y 00:30h, 10€ (incl. caña o refresco). ALAIN NOUCHY’S QUARTET (jazz vocal). DOO BOP (24.00h at El Loco): DJs. DUB CLUB: Circuito Café Teatro 23.00h. EL LOCO: Lydia Lunch (punk / alternativa) 22.30h 15€ / 18€. 47 CLUB: Paco Paco DJs 23.30h. HEINEKEN GREENSPACE: Asian Dub Foundation (reggae-punk-dub desde UK) 22.00h 18€ / 22€. JUANITA: DJ session 23.00h Gratis. LA EDAD DE ORO: Los Pataconas 23.00h Gratis. MILL CLUB: Nuria Ghia + Alienata. MIRROR: Loquillo (rock) 21.00h. PABELLÓN FUENTE DE SAN LUIS: Bunbury (rock) 22.00h

30€PICCADILLY: Bosque de Tallac. WAHWAH: Cooper (pop) 22.30h 12€ / 15€. SATURDAY / SÁBADO 13 BLACK NOTE: Sixty Minute Man DJ Club (swing / jump / soul) 23.30h Gratis. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: 20:30h, 9€ (incl.caña o refresco). CICLO MÚSICA DE CÁMARA: Roser Alemany, flauta; Laïla Barnat, piano. Música francesa. 23:30h, 10€ (incl. caña o refresco). SHAP (blues, soul, rock). DUB CLUB: DJ Sputnik 23.30h. LATEX: Groovekey + Miss Yuls / Search & Destroy DJs. MAGAZINE CLUB: Stereotypo (indie) + Automatic Sushi 23.00h 5€. PABELLÓN FUENTE DE SAN LUIS: Amaral (pop) 22.00h 24€ PICCADILLY: Rocky Horror Festival con Xharles Boina + Calabera Calabera. SUNDAY / DOMINGO 14 BLACK NOTE: Mike McCoy (ska desde UK) 20.00h Gratis. TUESDAY / MARTES 16 JIMMY GLASS: Irene Aranda Quintet (jazz) 21.30h 7€ Aforo Limitado. EL LOCO: Sonu La Dipu con Tinglao + No Somos Nadie 22.00h Gratis. MAGAZINE CLUB: Al & the Black Cats (rockabilly punk desde EEUU) 20.00h 7€. RADIO CITY: Fiesta Flamenca de Navidad con Amaro Carmona, Juan de Pilar y … (flamenco) 23.00h 7€ con consumición @ 24/7 XMAS party. WEDNESDAY / MIÉRCOLES 17 BLACK NOTE: Breakers Party con Cory Braun + DJ Bliner (hip-hop) 23.30h Gratis. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Jam Session coordinada por Pere Munuera 22.30h Gratis. THURSDAY / JUEVES 18 BLACK NOTE: Sex & Funk & Soul con 3 Beans & Rice 23.30h Gratis. CAFÉ DEL DUENDE: Fiesta Gitana con El Chino, Aroa Maya, Amaro Carmona, Juanma Maya, Tonet, Juan de Pilar, José Serrano y ... (flamenco) 23.30h. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Susana Raya y Antonella Mazza (guitarra-contrabajo) 22.30h / 24.00h 9€ con consumición. DUB CLUB: DJ session 23.00h. 47 CLUB: Kike Vilar 23.30h. JUANITA: DJ Quick-e + Bad Foundation Soundsystem 23.00h Gratis. PUB POP ART (Massanassa): Julian Maeso Trio (jazz) 23.00h. FRIDAY / VIERNES 19 BLACK NOTE: Julio Montalbo Collective (Latin) 23.30h Gratis. CAFÉ DEL DUENDE: Manuel Fernández, Manuel Reyes y Manuel Quintero (flamenco) 23.30h. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Arturo Serra + Miquel Cassany (vibraphoneguitar jazz) 23.00 / 00.30h 10€ con consumición. EL LOCO: Josele Santiago (rock) 22.00h 15€ / 18€. 47 CLUB: BuenaVista connection con

47 Falomir 23.30h. JUANITA: DJ session 23.00h Gratis. LATEX: Dioni Sánchez + H4L 9000 / Sinamon. PICCADILLY: Pesadilla Antes De Navidad (Nightmare Before Christmas). SATURDAY / SÁBADO 20 CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Susana Raya y Antonella Mazza (guitarra-contrabajo) 23.00 / 00.30h 9€ con consumición. DOO BOP (24.00h at El Loco): DJs. DUB CLUB: Boris Larramendi (concierto acústico) 22.00h + DJ session. EL LOCO: Final Concurso Maquetas 22.00h Gratis. 47 CLUB: Supermarkt (Alemania) + Catalina Isis 23.30h. LATEX: Manu Fernández + Cristian G Marti. MILL CLUB: Sergio Máñez / Frank Kitty / Supermarkt (Alemania). WAH-WAH: Marah (rock) 23.00h 15€ /·18€. SUNDAY / DOMINGO 21 BLACK NOTE: Mejunje (flamenco) 20.00h Gratis. EL LOCO: Tema 7 + Sin Rumbo 22.00h 8€ /10€. MONDAY / LUNES 22 BLACK NOTE: Tonky Jam (Open Jam Session) 23.30h Gratis. TUESDAY / MARTES 23 RADIO CITY: Tomas Gonzalez, Maria Linzana, Juan de Pilar y Victor (flamenco) 23.00h 7€ con consumición. WEDNESDAY / MIÉRCOLES 24 BLACK NOTE: Noche Buena fiesta 00.30h 10€. DUB CLUB: Noche Buena con Funk You! party 24.00h. EL LOCO: Superjams 23.00h. 47 CLUB: Miss Yuls + Isis + Groovekey 23.30h. JUANITA: Noche Buena con Pop Top 24.00h Gratis. LA EDAD DE ORO: Noche Buena 00.30h Gratis. LATEX: Noche Buena con Miss Yuls + Dioni Sánchez / Groovekey + Kike Vilar. MAGAZINE CLUB: Nochegood Party con Isidro Arrrgh!!!. MILL CLUB: Noche Buena con Sergio Mañez + Nacho Anibal / DJ Gabb + MC Rakkafukka / Rocksteadybeatz. PICCADILLY: Noche Buena con Paco Paco DJs. THURSDAY / JUEVES 25 CAFÉ DEL DUENDE: Isabel Julve, Manuel Reyes y Manuel Quintero (flamenco) 23.30h. JIMMY GLASS: Perico Sambeat Quartet (jazz) 21.30h 7€ Aforo Limitado JUANITA: DJ Quick-e + Bad Foundation Soundsystem 23.00h Gratis. FRIDAY / VIERNES 26 CAFÉ DEL DUENDE: Charo Sanjuán y José Manuel Arenas (flamenco desde Sevilla) 23.30h. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Cristina Blasco y Oscar Briz (jazz) 23.00 / 00.30h 10€ con consumición. DOO BOP (24.00h at El Loco): DJs. DUB CLUB: Circuito Café Teatro +Fiesta

Coffy 23.00h. EL LOCO: Kuami Mensah (Afroreggae-Latin) 22.30h 10€ (concert solidario para llevar materiales musicales a Africa). 47 CLUB: Komanzzy + Sergio Máñez 23.30h. LATEX: Miss Yuls + H4L 9000 / Xharles Boina. MAGAZINE CLUB: Los Ratolines + Moonﬂower + Vendella Du Bop 23.00h 5€. MILL CLUB: Shinedoe (Holanda) / Lezpaziale + Dez - P-lu / Catalina Isis + Miss Yuls. PICCADILLY: YonosoyesaDJ. WAH-WAH: Electric Cabin (versiones) 23.00h 5€.

JANUARY / ENERO 2009

SATURDAY / SÁBADO 27 BLACK NOTE: The Four Dots (rock & roll) 20.00h Gratis. CAFÉ MERCEDES JAZZ: Cristina Blasco y Oscar Briz (jazz) 23.00 / 00.30h 9€ con consumición. DUB CLUB: DJ session 23.30h. JUANITA: Rocksteadybeatz 23.00h Gratis. MILL CLUB: DJ Grass / Thug Ladies. WAH-WAH: Polock 23.00h 5€

SATURDAY / SÁBADO 3 DOO BOP (24.00h at El Loco): DJs. DUB CLUB: DJ session 23.00h. MILL CLUB: Fernando Luna + Alberto Vidal / Drum & Bass special / Puntito Yeye + Groovekey.

SUNDAY / DOMINGO 28 BLACK NOTE: Forro Du Bom (Brazilian) 22.30h Gratis.

MONDAY / LUNES 5 DUB CLUB: Rocksteadybeatz 23.30h. MILL CLUB: Âme (Alemania) + Dioni Sánchez + Sergio Máñez / Josep Bru + Nacho Anibal / Putita DJ.

MONDAY / LUNES 29 EL LOCO: New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble 22.30h 12€ / 15€. TUESDAY / MARTES 30 DUB CLUB: DJ session 23.00h. RADIO CITY: Toneti, Leo Molina, José Antonio y Chicho (flamenco) 23.00h 7€ con consumición. WEDNESDAY / MIÉRCOLES 31 BLACK NOTE: Noche Vieja Party 00.30h Gratis. DUB CLUB: Noche Vieja con Rocksteadybeatz 24.00h. EL LOCO: Noche Vieja con Dwomo + Gu Hai (China) + Paco Plaza + Calpurnia / Kruchenko 23.00h 20€ + consumición. 47 CLUB: Miss Yuls 23.30h. JUANITA: Noche Vieja fiesta 24.00h Gratis. LA EDAD DE ORO: 24.00h 10€ con consumición. LATEX: Noche Vieja con Catalina Isis + Cristian G Marti + Falomir! / Miss Yuls + Groovekey + Paco Paco DJs + Siyavoy! 15€ socios / 25€ no socios. Aforo limitado. MILL CLUB: Fabel & Jesus Ctg + Komanzzy & Sergio Mañez + Damaso & Nacho Anibal / Cham + Ledesma + Furry + Rakkafukka / Marciano + Maravillas + Kike Villar. MAGAZINE CLUB: Noche Vieja con Wau y los Arrrghs!!! + C.S.C. + Negative Waves 23.00h 25€ con 2 copas. PICCADILLY: Depradats New Year con Slash PD + Cinnamon + Chaqueta + Gomezkemp + DJ Akira (Italy). WAH-WAH: Noche Vieja fiesta 01.00h Gratis.

THURSDAY / JUEVES 1 JUANITA: DJ Quick-e + Bad Foundation Soundsystem 23.00h Gratis. FRIDAY / VIERNES 2 DOO BOP (24.00h at El Loco): DJs. MILL CLUB: Noche Del Club / Entrada Gratis con Sergio Mañez + Nacho Anibal / Furry + Ledesma / Catalina Isis + Maravillas.

SUNDAY / DOMINGO 4 DUB CLUB: Jazz Jam 20.00h.

FRIDAY / VIERNES 9 EL LOCO: Cherry Boppers 22.00h. SATURDAY / SÁBADO 10 EL LOCO: Kruchenko + Piano Bomba (rock) 22.00h. TUESDAY / MARTES 13 JIMMY GLASS: Pete Robbins Quartet (jazz) 21.30h 7€ Aforo Limitado. FRIDAY / VIERNES 16 EL LOCO: Tachenko (indie) 22.00h. SATURDAY / SÁBADO 17 EL LOCO: Legend (Bob Marley Tribute) 22.00h. TUESDAY / MARTES 20 JIMMY GLASS: Marc Ayza Quartet (jazz) 21.30h 7€ Aforo Limitado. TUESDAY / MARTES 27 JIMMY GLASS: Audun Waage Quartet (jazz) 21.30h 7€ Aforo Limitado. FRIDAY / VIERNES 30 EL LOCO: The X 22.00h. SATURDAY / SÁBADO 31 EL LOCO: Abbey Road (Beatles tribute) 22.00h.