19 OFFICIAL _N. 4 FREE BCN 201 GUIDE! FREE ISSUE_FEB FREE BcnGuide ENGLISH IN DISCOVER THE CITY’S MOST FASCINATING HIDDEN TREASURES THAT YOU WON’T FIND ON ANY MAPS ENG_TOG_001.indd 1 22/1/14 18:57:59 ENG_TOG_002.indd 2 22/1/14 18:58:13 DOWNLOAD FREE TIME OUT BARCELONA APP! THE BEST OF BARCELONA Contents ON YOUR February 2014 IPHONE! f 08 Secrets of Barcelona The allioli at Can Lluís. MARIA DIAS 08 Feature 22 Around town Barcelona’s best-kept The top Barcelona apps. secrets. 24 Arts 14 Food and drink The MACBA opens our eyes The yummiest croissant to an unseen world. in Spain. 26 Nightlife 20 Shopping A DJ who fell from the stars. 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Saturday 01 Thursday 06 Sunday 09 SONA BACH MIDNIGHT CALL FESTIVAL OF Five musicians Disco and funk from SAINT EULÀLIA present a the ’70s and ’80s The city’s most programme of rule Thursday child-friendly winter pieces by Bach nights. Dance till festival offers for the whole family. you drop! activities for kids of See p.37 See p.47 all ages. See p.42 Wednesday 12 Sunday 16 COLOM NIGHT AT HALF MARATHON THE MNAC It’s time to lace up From 1957 to your trainers, stick 2010, Joan Colom a number on your captured the back, and pound essence of BCN’s those streets. streets. See p.43 See p.45. Friday 21 Saturday 22 Wednesday 00 BRUCKNER AT CABARET BALKAN THE AUDITORI The Filmoteca de The Liceu Symphony Catalunya Orchestra plays dedicates a cycle to Bruckner’s Serbian filmmaker ‘romantic’ Goran Paskaljevic. symphony. See p.47 See p.47 Tuesday 25 Friday 28 BRAHMS BANC SABADELL SONATAS MILLENNIUM Be swept away to FESTIVAL the lyricism of Totó la Momposina Brahms’s sonatas and Joseph for violin and piano. Derteano’s Latin See p.49 Project. See p.49 4 Time Out BCN Guide February 2014 ENG_TOG_004_005.indd 4 22/1/14 18:59:06 Monthly planner Get out your diaries! We present just a handful of the cultural highlights of the month ahead. Sunday 09 Sunday 16 Wednesday 00 Friday 28 4 Time Out BCN Guide February 2014 ENG_TOG_004_005.indd 5 22/1/14 18:59:07 The Hot Seat MARIA DIAS Louise Sansom The lead singer of Anímic believes that unity is strength. By Jordi Bianciotto Your Spanish is so perfect, I I absolutely think it should. The wonder: Are you really English? government is trying to split us up, I am! Well, I’m Anglo-Catalan now. to make us scared of one another. My mum wanted a change of scene, I’ve said for a long time if we don’t so we moved to Valencia and then come together now, things aren’t to Barcelona in the mid-1990s. going to work. Our ‘Love is back’ Before global immigration. concert at Apolo is a case in point. And I came from a multicultural area You mean the benefi t concert for where the soundtrack was hip hop. your back operation? You’re fully When I got here, I was surprised by recovered now, aren’t you? the music people were listening to Totally! That concert wasn’t just for at school: Spanish pop or heavy me, it was something we all needed metal, Alejandro Sanz or – my back was just the excuse. Extremoduro. My aunt in the UK And you’ve got other projects too. sent me music, and that’s how I Yes, like opening our home to discovered things like Elastica, Blur, people who need a place to live. I’m Nick Cave’s duet with PJ Harvey. not trying to be Mother Teresa; I like Have you ever thought Anímic having my own life, but Ferran would get more gigs in the UK? [Palau, band member and partner] Yes, but we’re not over-ambitious, and I are aware that the world is and we like our lives here. It has its changing and we want to be able to ups and downs, but we like fi ghting give something back. our corner. Has the economic crisis meant 34 yrs old. Lead singer of people think more about ‘us’ Anímic. 19 yrs working in BCN. than ‘me’? 6 Time Out BCN Guide February 2014 ENG_TOG_006_007.indd 6 22/1/14 18:59:25 MARIA DIAS Louise Sansom The lead singer of Anímic believes that unity is strength. By Jordi Bianciotto I absolutely think it should. The government is trying to split us up, to make us scared of one another. I’ve said for a long time if we don’t come together now, things aren’t going to work. Our ‘Love is back’ concert at Apolo is a case in point. You mean the benefi t concert for your back operation? You’re fully recovered now, aren’t you? Totally! That concert wasn’t just for me, it was something we all needed – my back was just the excuse. And you’ve got other projects too. Yes, like opening our home to people who need a place to live. I’m not trying to be Mother Teresa; I like having my own life, but Ferran [Palau, band member and partner] and I are aware that the world is changing and we want to be able to give something back. 6 Time Out BCN Guide February 2014 ENG_TOG_006_007.indd 7 22/1/14 18:59:26 HILLTOPS: 360º VIEWS Barcelona has seven hills, or turons – Modolell, Monterols, Putxet, Creueta del Coll, Rovira, Peira Carmel and La Muntanya Pelada, the highest and most impressive of them all. From the top of La Muntanya Pelada, ‘the bare mountain’, after you’ve climbed the green, undeveloped slopes, you’ll find a vantage point with uninterrupted 360-degree views of the city: a unique perspective guaranteed to take your breath away. A city is like the human body: you never really get to know it fully, it can let you down – or give you a pleasant surprise, when you think it’s one thing and it turns out to be something completely different. This is our list of 20 places you probably don’t know in Barcelona. By Martí Sales & Maria Junyent Photos Maria Dias PROUST’S MADELEINE, a fantastic bookshop and a great BARCELONA STYLE. range of humorous agitprop T-shirts, Let’s take a moment to give thanks for they’re involved in graphic design Barcelona’s real bread bakeries – the and communication, participate new ones, like Baluard in Barceloneta, directly in issues affecting the or Barcelona-Rekyavik, with loaves neighbourhood, and have published worth their weight in gold; and the old books like Que Pagui Pujol!, the story ones, like Mistral on Ronda Sant of punk in ’80s Barcelona. La Ciutat Antoni, or the Forn Roura in Sant Invisible is a template for citizens’ Gervasi, with probably the best white projects: instead of giving up and loaves in the city: great thick, chewy being trampled on, they favour wide- slices, densely textured and ranging, constructive activism, with flavoursome, as good toasted as fresh. contagious ideas and enthusiasm. A world away from the sliced loaves La Ciutat Invisible you’ll find in the city’s supermarkets, Riego, 15 93 298 99 47 Can Roura’s bread is a delicacy that laciutatinvisible.coop whisks Barcelonans straight back to the suppers of childhood. INSIDE BELLESGUARD Forn Roura At the foot of Tibidabo stands the Calaf, 15 93 209 1769 house Gaudí designed for his personal friend, the merchant Jaume LET’S GET ORGANISED Figueras, a fascinating building that At the heart of the Sants district was closed to the public until only a you’ll find La Ciutat Invisible (The few months ago. For many years it has Invisible City), a self-organising been the home of the Guilera family, cooperative that works to promote who recently decided to share it with political and social change. They have visitors, while remaining permanent 8 Time Out BCN Guide February 2014 February 2014 Time Out BCN Guide 9 ENG_TOG_008_013.indd 8 22/1/14 18:59:41 residents. With views of Barcelona HILLTOPS: 360º VIEWS spread out beneath it, this is a site that Barcelona has seven hills, or has seen human lives come and go. turons – Modolell, Monterols, Long before Gaudí made his designs a Putxet, Creueta del Coll, Rovira, reality, Martí the Humane, the last Peira Carmel and La Muntanya monarch of the House of Aragon, Pelada, the highest and most built his palace here – and later, impressive of them all. From Serrallonga, the legendary Catalan the top of La Muntanya Pelada, bandit, is said to have used the ruins ‘the bare mountain’, after you’ve as a hideout.