Ruido fanzine will hold a concert to launch issue seven at Jor and Jor in Los Llanos (beside the millenium cinema) at 10 pm. A measly €3 will get you in to a concert by “Casiano Melian” and “Eremiot y la tripulación”, with a drink and copy of the fanzine thrown in. And the Bar de Anne in El Paso,hosts a concert starting at 9 pm, with “Capitan Cogollo”, “Carlos…
Friday morning went on helping Helen and Theresa with paperwork, which gave us all chance to catch up on the chatting. A friend of mine’s gone to work on another island. Since she was leaving on the Sunday afternoon ferry, she stayed with us on Saturday night and on Sunday we hosted a small leaving party at lunchtime. Helen and Theresa promised to bake a cake, which they did. Shame…
The island has a small, quarterly cultural magazine called Ruido, and issue 6 came out on Friday. As usual, they held a fiesta in a local bar, (Rocke’s Bar on the Calle Real) with live music from local bands. And as usual, the place was packed. The quality of the bands on these gigs is variable, but I like live music anyway.Of course the magazine is on sale. And the…
Last night Helen took all her hard work on the layout of Issue 5 of Ruido to the printers, and I went along to translate. Since this was Helen’s first ever magazine layout, she was pretty nervous. She was more than half expecting that she’d forgotten something and would have to make lots of changes. But the printer’s reaction was, “Oh! Oh that’s good. Fine. I’ll get the proofs done…
Last night I went to the inaugaral party for the island’s new cultural magazine, Ruido. My husband had hoped to go, but we couldn’t get a babysitter so he stayed home. I had a good time. There was the inevitable speech to begin with, about the magazine, its aims and the contents of the first issue. I wasn’t mentioned, so I assumed I’d been bumped into issue two. Fair enough…