OFFICIAL GUIDE OF BCN ENGLISH EDITION! ENGLISH GET READY FOR YOUR CLOSE-UP. COME FACE-TO-FACE WITH AMAZING ART ON THE CITY’S STREETS... 2 Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & www.visitbarcelona.com Time Out Barcelona in English The Best February 2015 A meditating bull is just one of the fabulous artworks of BCN youoll Ɓnd on Barcelonaos streets p. 20 Features 14. Open-air art The streets of Barcelona are, sadly, not paved with gold, but, as Ricard Mas proves, they are full of 21st-century art... 20. All the city’s a canvas ...and a lot of not-so-recent artwork as well. María José Gómez takes us on a short tour. 22. What Barcelona wears Residents share their wardrobe choices as Hannah Pennell checks out local style. 26. A place to feel at home Cyclists, surfers and Lost fans. In BCN, Ricard Martín tells us, they all have their own bar. 28. Musicals masterclass Juan Carlos Olivares compares and contrasts MORENO IVÁN two of the biggest stage shows now on. Regulars 30. Shopping & Style 34. Things to Do 42. The Arts 54. Food & Drink 62. Clubs 64. LGBT 65. Getaways MORENO IVÁN MARIA DIAS Barcelona is full of fan bars – for aƁcionados of Meet three local designers showing their wares 66. 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CHRISTIAN BERTRAND FRIDAY SATURDAY THURSDAY 06 07 12 Concert Concert Traditions Pixar in concert Josep Carreras Santa Eulàlia Live show of music from The tenor pays homage Celebration to mark popular cartoons. to Catalan music. feast day of city patron. Museum of World Cultures. Barcelona’s newest Barcelona half marathon. Thousands of runners tie up DON’T MISS! museum opens its doors in Carrer Montcada. SAT 7 their trainers to pound the city streets. SUN 15 SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY THURSDAY 14 15 16 19 Tradition Dance Concert Exhibition Carnival procession Dot Katy Perry Odyssey of Soyuz 2 Fun and games in the Colourful dance show for The US pop princess The mysterious fate of a last party before Lent. the whole family. performs her hits. Sputnik cosmonaut. FRIDAY SUNDAY TUESDAY FRIDAY 20 22 24 27 Dance Football Concert Exhibition Semperoper Ballett Barça vs Málaga Scott Bradlee Maria Lassnig German company See the mega-club take Jazz covers of familiar Works by Austrian artist interprets Forsythe. on the Andalusian side. pop and rock hits. who died last year. COSTIN RADU 4 Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & www.visitbarcelona.com Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & www.visitbarcelona.com 5 People of Barcelona Luna Cohen BCN: Singer-songwriter, 38 years old TOP SECRET B. García & M. Sales You weren’t planning to be a musician, but... I’d never sung and was just _Ten indigenous about to start studying at [Barcelona art school] Americans are Massana. One day I was walking buried in an around Ciutat Vella singing quietly to myself, when Manu umarked grave Chao suddenly appeared and in Montjuïc started accompanying me on his guitar. I didn’t know who he was. cemetery; part He later recorded me singing of Buffalo Bill’s and that’s how people got to hear me. But my music is totally travelling show different from his. that visited in the That’s true. So if you’d never crossed paths, perhaps you 1890s, they died wouldn’t be a musician today? after catching Ƃ u. It would never have occurred to me to follow this path. But as a _ Delacrem has result, I signed up to the Taller de the perfect winter Músics [music school]. In Brazil, music is everywhere. And in my ice cream, affogato home city of Belo Horizonte, MARIA DIAS d’amaretto: a scoop there’s a lot of live music. The place where metal group I absorb many sounds, but of amaretto in a Sepultura comes from – it’s got particularly jazz; pop doesn’t do cup of coffee (Enric everything! much for me. Well, I like Litus a And Toninho Horta. There’s a lot – I don’t understand why he Granados, 15). wide range of sounds. isn’t more appreciated. I get a bit Do you like making music that annoyed that the same people _Barcelona’s highlights your origins? always play at festivals. Isn’t underground scene It’s important to me to sing in there anybody else? Portuguese. I started singing A PLACE: THE SANT FELIP You’ve been going to London a thrives at La Virgen English-language hits and I NERI FOUNTAIN lot lately, haven’t you? and 23 Robadors in couldn’t do them proper justice. Symbol of a peaceful space Yes, a lot has happened to me in Having said that, I work with more and, she says, full of interesting a short space of time. They make the Raval, with wild Catalan musicians than Brazilian acoustic characteristics. me feel special and the jam sessions, Ɓ lm ones, creating a fusion sound. audiences are very receptive. You don’t work thinking about It’s more difƁ cult to make a screenings and the local Brazilian audience? living as a musician here. Ƃ amenco. I don’t even know if that exists. In Catalunya, there is a lot of However, I’m currently working talent, but also a fear of the _ The raised with guitarist Jurandir Santana, unknown, and the sector, the gardens of Baluard who is very well-known in Brazil producers, the press are all and lives in Barcelona. He plays conservative. I think it’s a shame de Drassanes, with people like Gilberto Gil PLACE OF BIRTH: BELO that music is championed based closed since 1993, when they perform in Europe. HORIZONTE on language; there is music here We’ve made a digital EP together, Capital of the Minas Gerais state. in other languages and also now open the Ɓ rst which has just come out on She has also spent time living in instrumental works that don’t and third Sunday of iTunes, ahead of a record I’m Bahia and Madrid. get a look in. Catalunya can’t planning to make in the spring. keep going like that. each month. Do you aim to integrate music –Jordi Bianciotto that is popular in Catalunya? 6 Buy tickets & book restaurants at www.timeout.com/barcelona & www.visitbarcelona.com I love BCN La Pedrera Provença, 261-265 After 11 months of cleaning works, What am I Gaudí’s epic building has just revealed its façade once more. doing here? Jan Fleischer Art up and down Living in Barcelona you can take for granted the art that is everywhere. My daily routine alone takes me past the Sagrada Família, the castellers monument (see p. 16), Fontcuberta’s ode to freedom (and kissing) (see p. 18), and the Santa Caterina Market with its wavy and colourful mosaic roof. You might already have these iconic buildings and open-air artworks on your itinerary, but don’t forget when walking around to pull your eyes away from that map or GPS device and take it all in. Here’s a tip for while you’re strolling along: look up. (Another tip is to make sure you’re not in the middle of a path of busy locals rushing to work before you stop to look up.) With your eyes skyward you’ll see buildings from different periods as neighbours, plant and animal shapes in wrought- iron gates, sculpture in architecture. Don’t forget to look down now and again to avoid surprises that are better not stepped in. While your gaze is downward, notice the pavement.