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Hotel Puente Romano in Marbella presents another great star, Sir Thomas John Woodward, better known by his stage name Tom Jones. Since the mid 1960s, Tom Jones has sung many styles of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, techno, soul and even gospel – and sold over 100 million records. His last album Praise & Blame which came out about a year ago has been a massive success for the welsh singer. Tom Jones has now embarked on a tour to present his 39th studio album. Praise & Blame was made up of largely little known devotional and gospel covers, marking a departure from the pop-orientated style that had dominated Jones’ recent recordings. The concert will take place on Thursday, August 18th 2011 at Marbellas Hotel Puente Romano Tennis Club and start at 10:00pm. Tickets are available through www.ticketmaster.es and start at 90 Euro.

Queen is still one of the greatest rock bands of our time. Who would have thought that Queen together with Freddy Mercury had their last-ever European concert in Marbella? The concert was on the 5th August 1986 to 25,000 people in Marbella’s football stadium. That’s why Marbella will once again rock to the sound of Queen’s greatest hits, exactly 25 years later, on Friday 5th August 2011 with a Queen tribute concert. Responsible for this big show is Dream Ticket Promotions, the team that brought you the sell-out Björn again ABBA show last year, now in partnership with Marbella Town Hall and supported by Hard Rock Café. The show is called “One night of Queen” and is performed by Gary Mullen & The Works.

The concert will take place under the stars at the stunning new beachside Recinto de Conciertos arena at Playa del Pinillo in Marbella near the Marbella Arch, a fantastic space available for a select few concerts this summer. On the night there will be five bars, several food vendors including popcorn, ice cream, burgers & hot dogs and plenty of toilets. There is parking in the local streets around the venue.  Read more »

Creamfields Festival is coming to Andalucia – and what a line up of artists are due to play! This year the festival is being held in Jerez de la Frontera (at Jerez race circuit) between 13-14th August from 8pm to 8am.

Creamfields is a dance music DJ festival which takes place all over the world (Argentina, Ireland, Turkey, Mexico, Russia, Brazil, Portugal and Poland) and is organised by Cream club in Liverpool. This is the second year running for Creamfields Andalucia, and from what we have seen and heard so far, promises to be an amazing couple of days.

It has been known since the festival was planned that The Prodigy are going make an exclusive, one day only appearance in Spain at Creamfields. However, to add even more excitement to the mix, the festival website has now just confirmed the incorporation of the following acts: (as of 8th June)

LAURENT GARNIER, ARMIN VAN BUUREN, PAUL KALKBRENNER, RICHIE HAWTIN, THE BLOODY BEETROOTS DEATH CREW 77, 2MANYDJS, ERIC PRYDZ, FELIX DA HOUSECAT, TIGA, HYBRID SOUNDSYSTEM, GARETH EMERY, MARKUS SCHULZ, JAMES HOLDEN, AGORIA, BLAKE JARRELL, JOHN TALABOT, ALEX UNDER, DELOREAN, UNDO, BRIAN CROSS, HENRY SAIZ, GONÇALO, JAVY UNION, HORACIO CRUZ and JUANMI LINARES, winner of the “Andalucía suena 2010″ competition.  Read more »

This month heralds the return of the Malaga Jazz Festival, which includes a variety of concerts and other activities. The festival kicked off yesterday, 9^th November, and will continue until the 13^th.

The schedule is completely packed, with concerts in the Teatro Cervantes from Chano Dominguez, The Bad Plus and Dayna Kurtz over a period of 3 days (10^th, 12^th and 13^th of November respectively).

Later this week the Teatro Echegaray will play host to the Seamus Blake Quintet on the evening of the 12^th and the Sacri Delfino Trio playing ‘Jairana’ on the 13^th.

The most important public event at the Echegaray will be a Jazz Master class on the 12^th of November, to which admission will be free for a lesson given by the Seamus Blake Quintet. Read more »

Indie-rock band Franz Ferdinand will be setting the stage alight here in Spain in November, with concerts in Barcelona, San Sebastian and Málaga.

The Scottish foursome, best known on the current indie-rock scene, for songs like their classic “Take Me Out” will be playing to an audience of just 1,200 people in Barcelona on November 4th, before moving on to San Sebastian on November 6th and Málaga on November 8^th for what is purported to be a top-secret gig. The exact venues for all three concerts have not yet been disclosed.

For each concert, which is part of the “San Miguel Unique Tour“, there are 600 pairs of tickets that can be obtained via a lottery system sponsored by the famous beer company. And for those of us who are perhaps not lucky enough to win a ticket, the concert will be streamed live on Facebook. But, of course! Read more »