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The Valencian Napoleonic Society

The Valencian Napoleonic Society

In the year 2002 Joaquin Blasco strolled across the battlefield of Waterloo. Unlike Napoleon, he didn’t meet his nemesis, but he did meet a lot of people from different countries…

Rock Music Video with Daze of Dawn in the Teatre Micalet.

Rock Music Video with Daze of Dawn in the Teatre Micalet.

International Valencian rock band DAZE OF DAWN – international because the lead singer/guitarist is from Canada – have just released their first official Music Video for the single FALLING IN LOVE from…

The Red Building

The Red Building

I suppose it’s normal that in the heady days of the Second Republic they should have named a new block of flats The Red Building (La Finca Roja), although I…

Valencia : more gay every day: and why that´s a good thing….

Valencia : more gay every day: and why that´s a good thing….

‘Who´s Your City?’ is a recently published international bestseller by Richard Florida, also the author of ‘The Creative Class’. Florida is known for his concept of what he calls the…

Playing Ska Harmonica (Skarmonica) with The Toasters in Valencia

Playing Ska Harmonica (Skarmonica) with The Toasters in Valencia

Adapting the Blues Harmonica to play Ska music – by a rock musician living in Valencia. About 10 years ago I met a famous ska musician.  It wasn´t my first time meeting…

There Be Dragons on the Streets of Valencia

There Be Dragons on the Streets of Valencia

If, like most people these days, you walk down the street with your attention absorbed by some electronic device or other, you might, should you be walking the streets of…

Daze of Dawn to play in Primavera Sound 2014

Daze of Dawn to play in Primavera Sound 2014

Valencian rock band Daze of Dawn will be playing this year in PRIMAVERA SOUND 2014 in Barcelona Spain.  Primavera Sound is arguably one of Spain´s largest and most popular international…

Angels Don’t Need Wings: Pascal Kleiman

Angels Don’t Need Wings: Pascal Kleiman

One of the winners of Spain’s 2009 Goya awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Oscars, was a film about the French-born, Valencia-based DJ Pascal Kleiman by director Ángel Loza, who…

Sexy Valencian Architecture

Sexy Valencian Architecture

Although it appears to be a church at first sight, or a monastery at least, Valencia’s La Lonja is in fact a civic building, and one of the most curious…

Why Valencia?

Why Valencia?

Because it’s an ancient city, and one with years of expertise, with people who’ve got what it takes to bring development to Ghana, people with Global Vision and that human…