It’s a weird thing about Los Silos. Venture there during the day and you’ll find a sleepy, picturesque village with an Art Nouveau bandstand, a church that looks like it’s constructed out of icing sugar and egg whites; and beautifully restored traditional architecture. But go there for one of its fiestas and you’ll find yourself [...]
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From Tie-dye to Black Leather – Saturday Night in Tenerife
Posted in Party, People, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, fiestas, music, tagged ant-Christ, Art Nouveau, bikes, black leather, Boreal festival, dreadlocks, Eco festival, ecology, Garachico, Goth, harem pants, hippies, Isla Baja, juggling, Kings of Leon, leather, live, Los Silos, mixing desk, motorcycles, music, neo hippies, patchouli oil, sound engineers, stilt walking, stilts, Tree of Moses, turtles, uni-cycle, whale sculpture, Zuni Poi Swings on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Santa Blues 2009 – line up
Posted in Tenerife, Travel, fiestas, music, tagged Blues Festival, Guinness, Laskina, Michele McCain, Rory Gallagher, Santa Blues 2009, Santa Cruz, Santana, The Campbell Brothers, The Deans, The Santa Blues Band, The Vargas Blues Band on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well the nights are sultry, the stage is set beneath the ‘flame of the forest’ trees at the foot of the iconic tower of the Church of La Concepción and JC Murphy’s have stocked up on the Guinness. That all means it must be time for the Santa Blues Festival.
This year, instead of spreading the [...]
Rod Stewart in Tenerife
Posted in Party, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, music, tagged Adeje Golf Club, concert, Rod Stewart, Tenerife on May 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I wonder if, like me, Rod Stewart ever looks in the mirror of a morning and a line from the immortal ‘Maggie May’ pops into his head:
“The morning sun when it’s in your face really shows your age.”?
May 18th 2009 is the date set for that raspy-throated icon of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Rod Stewart to [...]
Alternative Tenerife
Posted in Party, People, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, fiestas, music, tagged Canary Islands, concerts, DJ Carlos Robles, festival, Festival de Músicas Alternativas en Canarias, Festival of Alternative Music in the Canaries, garage, hip-hop, Indie rock, Jim Morrison, Latino, live, Mento, Mods, music, Puerto de la Cruz, punk rock, Quadrophenia, rap, Spain, The Killers, This Drama, White Stripes on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It never ceases to amaze me how effectively the Tinerfeños manage to safeguard their culture and identity.
Despite 500 years of being at the crossroads between Europe and the Americas and 50 years at the heart of mass tourism, very little of northern European or North American culture has left its mark on this society.
But what’s [...]
MUECA 2009
Posted in Life, Party, People, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, fiestas, music, tagged Canary Islands, Spain on April 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Everything about the town felt different.
For one thing it was 10 pm on Saturday night and there wasn’t a space to be found in the vast open-air harbour car park where a thousand cars can comfortably fit. I’d never seen it like this before.
And everywhere I looked there were neo-hippies; handsome bearded men with dreads [...]
Santa Blues 2009
Posted in Spain, Tenerife, Travel, fiestas, music, tagged Blues, Blues Festival, concert, Galway, Gary Moore, Irish Blues band, Jimmy Page, music, Rory Gallagher, Santa Blues, Santa Cruz, Stratocaster, summer 2009, The Deans on April 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve just had a tip-off from a comment on ‘Santa Blues’ that The Deans are going to be playing this year’s festival in June 2009. Three young lads from Galway, brothers Gary and Gavin Dean and friend Martin Sheanon, these guys play like veterans of old school Blues and Rock. Gavin Dean’s Stratocaster was clearly [...]
Carnaval Capers – Wild Things
Posted in Friends, Life, Party, People, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, fiestas, music, tagged Carnaval, dance music, DC Comics, drag queens, ecstasy, men in drag, nuns, pirates, Plaza del Charco, rave, Smurfs on February 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Just arrived back from Plaza del Charco after a brilliant night and still buzzin’. Calle Perdomo, Calle Mequinez and Calle Marina merged into a single dance floor; speakers strung from kiosks at the harbour end of Calle Mequinez blasted out dance music to the thronging masses below. Drag queens danced with DC Comics’ heroes, pirates, [...]
