Music

Mike Scott, Steve Wickham and Steve Earle delivered a glorious, unruly celebration of Fisherman’s Blues in Valencia. There are concerts where you listen to a band. And then there are concerts where, for a couple of hours, you somehow find yourself transported somewhere else. On Thursday night, The Waterboys turned Valencia’s Roig Arena into a […]

Few figures in modern music embody restless creativity quite like Mike Scott. As the driving force behind The Waterboys, Scott has spent decades reshaping the boundaries of rock, folk, and poetic expression, guided less by trends than by instinct and imagination. His work is marked by a rare intensity—songs that feel lived-in, searching, and often […]

The Spanish-Swiss band defines solar psych with ‘What if I Tried?’, the first single from their new album. The quintet, formed in Geneva in 2024 and led by Valencian musician Mario Peiró Espí, captures and distorts light, shaping a warm and nostalgic psychedelic pop that evolves between vaporous atmospheres and ever-sinuous melodic lines. Their new […]

The second single from their upcoming EP arrives on August 28 with an intimate concert in Valencia.Valencia, August 2026.  Overthinking—that spiral of thoughts that takes over and refuses to let go—has a new name on the Valencian music scene: “Rumiar”. The band Kiego y la Onlyfunk will release this single on August 28 in a […]

Emilio Baldoví Menéndez was born in Xàtiva on 14 June 1940, barely a year after the end of the Spanish Civil War. Fifty years later, on 17 August 1990, he died on the road near Valencia, still heading towards another concert. Between those two dates he managed to become something that, when he started out, […]

The VISOR FEST 2026 programme continues to grow with two top-tier additions that reinforce the international, historical, and emotional character of the lineup. After announcing RIDE, Ocean Colour Scene (30th Anniversary of Moseley Shoals), New Model Army, The Wannadies, Gene (exclusive Spain date), and Hoodoo Gurus, the festival now adds Manic Street Preachers and The […]

Britpop legends ‘Ocean Colour Scene’ are set to bring a wave of nostalgia to ‘Visorfest’ in Valencia this September 2026, as they celebrate 30 years of their seminal album ‘Moseley Shoals’—the record that defined an era with anthems like “The Riverboat Song” and “The Day We Caught the Train.”  Ahead of their highly anticipated Valencia […]

Forty years after that Metrópolis broadcast on TVE La 2, I finally get to see him live! There are artists who don’t just accompany an era – they define it. Joe Jackson (Portsmouth, 1954) is one of them. Trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he has released more than twenty albums, written […]