Exclusive interview with John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) of Pil and The Sex Pistols John Lydon needs little introduction. He is one of the most important figures in popular culture of the last 40 years. As Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols, with his ready sneer & dyed hair and searing wit and dangerous songs close […]
1.Tell us something about your musical background and upbringing… Hi, ‘24/7 Valencia’. First off, a big thanks for taking the time and interest to help keep the music scene alive in Valencia and Spain in general, nice one! This first one is quite a biggy. I was born in East London in Stepney Green. Yeah, […]
THE VALENCIANO SINGER-SONGWRITER ‘CIFU’ PRESENTS HIS MOST ‘ROCKERO’ PROJECT: “I CHOSE A BAD DAY TO LEAVE YOU” “I Chose a Bad Day to Leave You” is the third studio album by the singer-songwriter Sergio Cifuentes “Cifu” (València, 1979). After his two previous works “De Fiera en Fiera” (2013) and “The Other Side of the […]
If someone asked you if you would like to spend a weekend living in abject squalor and inescapable heat whilst being surrounded on all sides by drunken strangers, there are few of us out there who would jump at the opportunity. However, this year around 150,000 people opted to gleefully immerse themselves in […]
Summer’s here. It’s hot inside and there’s nothing new on Netflix. So it’d be better to get outside, there’s plenty to do, especially given that it is festival season! If you’re already keen as mustard to get into it but you’re still going to be stuck in the city for a while, don’t worry! You […]
Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll Rolling Stone Keith Richards has certainly led a full life when it comes to sex, drugs and rock’n’roll. It is to his credit that he has defied the critics and remembered many of his adventures, in all their colourful glory, via his best-selling autobiography ‘Life’. Back in 1967, Mick […]
SOUNDTRACK COMPOSER Emmy-Award nominated Hollywood Film Sound Mixer & Sound Editor Robert Gravenor describes Will McCarthy’s instrumental music as “virtuoso and versatile…there is real poetry in his playing.” Robert Gravenor coordinated Will McCarthy’s first solo album entitled “This is Music for Films”. Robert Gravenor’s praise of Will McCarthy’s music is qualified as being a sound […]
Rapper Tesa has released her first solo album ‘Al-Tesa’, which defends the Valencian language & culture and criticizes gender inequality… This is the first solo album of MC Tesa of the Valencian group ‘El Delito’. TESA brings us a fresh rap album, rather different and totally influenced by Valencian culture. It shows us a different […]
JOHN ALEXANDER MARTINEZ OF Le Garçon Rêvé “I guess you could say I’m a delicate man I gave my heart to fried calamari & crap TV It’s not the apathy in me It’s not the clumsiness in me My rusty self unavailable, irreclaimable on this Spanish beach Eloquence & style won’t save me in this […]
MIKE MCKOY 1. Tell us something about your background and experiences… My perspective has changed over the years, and I’ve mellowed quite a bit. I enjoy wry humour, which might tempt me to frame my background as something out of an Edvard Munch painting. But that would be nonsense, and perhaps pernicious – because not […]
