Monday, 22. October 2007
Topic: MUSIK - on October 22, 2007 at 4:11:00 PM CEST
Top 10 live music venues in Madrid
The Spanish capital has grown up and become one of Europe's leading live music destinations, says Anthony Ham.
In the 1980s, with Spain shaking off the shackles of almost four decades of dictatorship, Madrid embraced its freedom with all the undiscerning zeal of an ex-convent schoolgirl. It was wild and chaotic and quickly burned itself out. The Spanish capital has grown up and become sophisticated since then, and Madrid is now one of Europe's leading live music destinations. Jazz is all the rage, joining home-grown flamenco and the pick of the rockeros who survived the 1980s by playing intimate venues with a quintessentially Madrid atmosphere.
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