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Sinéad O’Connor in Amsterdam

Mónica Boixeda Amsterdammer, Only-Be

This April 17 Sinéad O´Connor will be on stage at the Paradiso in Amsterdam and many fans will be surprised when they see the obese and decrepit Irish rock star, especially because in the memories of all she still remains as a fragile on stage figure in sympathy with some noble cause or challenging the powerful. 45 years old Sinéad has re-emerged in the pages of the papers for her scandals and her repeated attempts of suicide, due to her bipolar depression, product of overdosing on pills. In January this year she attempted to commit suicide in Los Angeles after a disastrous marriage in Las Vegas that lasted only 18 days. A few days later she returned to Dublin and repeated the suicide attempt. Probably the violence she lived in her home as a child has been chasing her for many years. She acknowledged that her mother forced her to steal in her adolescence, so she spent time in a reformatory. Today her case is extreme and she has been forced to use Twitter to ask for help in her times of distress. This has been effective so far, because it has saved her twice in her suicide attempts. But it may not be the best way to control the bipolar disorder that leads from a state of euphoria to deep depressions. This mental disorder has risk behaviors in the two stages, as in moments of euphoria she seeks for husbands on Twitter, overflowing with positivism and out of control, to then a totally unpredictable erratic behavior. This has impacted on her unkempt, fat and radical changes in styles.... read more

Baseball, The New York Yankees

Mónica Boixeda New Yorker, Only-Be

On the 13th of April the baseball season will start with a classic game: The New York Yankees vs. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim at the Yankee Stadium in New York. Tickets are on sale now, and their prices rage between $ 77 and $ 91 depending of the selected seat. The expected game is part of the sporting traditions New Yorkers have, which is an interesting activity that could help you to understand the culture behind American sporting events. We must take into account that for New Yorkers, baseball is the most popular sport and its season generates huge expectations. New York is one of the metropolitan areas of the United States that have two baseball teams; others are Los Angeles, Washington and Chicago. The two city teams are the Yankees and the Mets, both of them have a huge rivalry that makes their games something really memorable, because it unleashes a veritable war of opinions and forecasts that generates a highly confrontational environment. The Yankees have won 26 titles and the Mets have done so only twice. Not only the games capture the attention of supporters, there are also cultural activities that create a cheerful environment before the games start; people like eating whatever is on sale while watching the guest artists. The Yankee Stadium in New York is located in a huge area of the Bronx. The name of the New York Yankees dates from 1913, before that the team had had the name of the franchise purchased by Frank Farrell and Bill Devery, the Baltimore Orioles. In 1903 it was renamed as the Highlanders, and... read more

Killing Joke in Barcelona

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

On the 17th of April, the Music Hall concert venue in Barcelona will stage the live gig of the British post-punk band Killing Joke, who will be playing techno rock. The support bands will be The Crying Spell and The Icarus Line, who Killing Joke are touring with as the original members of the band will be playing, in Barcelona, the only concert in Spain. Killing Joke were formed in 1978 in Notting Hill, London, by the guitarist Kevin ´Geordie´ Walter, the keyboardist and singer Jaz Coleman and then they added Martin ´Youth´ Glover and the drummer Paul Ferguson. This band began trying to smash the scene as a reply to the materialist, conservative and tremendously unfair world, using music as their method. Their vision and their capacity to evolve inspired Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails, Godflesh, Soundgarden and various other bands. Their reputation for being an innovative and influential band in the world of music is due to their huge experience that has set a trend for many bands of today who consider them a reference in the industrial music scene, mainly for the sounds of their first two albums. Their tracks have the hypnotic and metal-harmonic sound thanks to the guitars. On a rhythmic level, their tone registers are heavy, as is the background sound, which has a gothic twist to it given by the keyboards. To that, they add the warm voice of Coleman, who manages solos of brutal intensity. In their musical beginnings, they started mixing post-punk and dub-reggae. Then, in the 80s, they moved to a tribal phase with post-punk metal and proto-industrial which... read more