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Archive for April, 2006

MTV Music Day Madrid

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

Madrid’s Plaza de Toros de las Ventas bullring is the venue for MTV Day on 21 June - a whole day of international bands and artists broadcast live and direct on MTV España. There will also be some of the best bands in Spanish rock and pop such as La Oreja de Van Gogh, Alex […]

Sonar Music Festival Barcelona

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

The 13th Sonar electronic music festival hits Barcelona from June 15th-17th featuring a distinctly hip-hop theme. The bands will mainly play in two spaces divided into night and day - the Macba and CCCB during the day and the and the Gran Via 2 complex by night. The organisers have chosen to focus on black […]

Pamplona’s Running of the Bulls

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

Probably one of the most famous festivals in Spain, the Fiesta de San Fermin features the The Running of The Bulls (Encierro) from July 6th-14th. Every morning, hundreds of crazed locals and visitors risk their lives to outrun the bulls as they thrash along a 1000 metre stretch of the town’s streets towards the bullring. […]

Pamplona’s Running of the Nakeds

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

If you see gangs of people running around naked in Pamplona, don’t be alarmed. The Running of the Nakeds is a protest against the renowned Running of the Bulls festival in Pamplona staged two days before the main event around July 6th. The strange practice was started in 2002 and organised by Casa de […]