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These New Puritans

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

DAY: Friday March 12, 2010 • TIME: 21:30 h Venue: Teatro Lloseta, Mallorca • PRICE: 12 euros Venue: Teatro Lloseta, Mallorca • PRICE: 12 euros

These New Puritans are a British quartet of Southend-on-Sea which drew a lot and although the British press attention with his first album, "Beat Pyramid" (2007). A fact reinforced its cash promotional speech, which were cited with equal credit references to hip hop and the occult. After that layer his music was brilliant, holding the building beyond the ‘hype’ with a sharp, angular sound that mixed the guitar, bass and drums accent post-punk with an impressive use of electronic keyboards and the abstract.

The future of Joy Division influences that reach digesting Faith No More. The singles and EPs that preceded his debut and had put on the ramp to launch the latest trends hunters, who finished dazzling when all that began to take shape on stage. In Spain at the festival first moved Faraday 2007, although striking confirmation arrived with his concert next year at IFF: there were the best new tunes and math claustrophobic indie rock in 2008.

The group has spent 2009 working conscientiously on his second album, in studies of their country and also in Prague, where he went to record an orchestra of winds. It is not the only unusual aspect of "Hidden", their new album released in late January 2010. The drums have gained prominence among them will be a huge Japanese drums. In the production duties shared role with Graham Sutton of Bark Psychosis. Lyrics enigmatic, dark and angular sounds: These New Puritans arrive.

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Golf project Son Bosc blocked

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

The Mallorcan Hoteliers Association (ACH) protests against the suspension of Golf Son Bosc (Playa de Muro). The reason for the current construction stop is an eco certificate that all the natural parks of Spain should have, but the region of S’Albufera eyed on the golf course for about 20 years. Last Friday, February, 26, the Government gave the go-ahead to the environmental study. The law prohibits activities which significantly alter the area analyzed, such as the golf course. Then, from document to emerge, ultimately will determine whether or not investors can build on that site.

More information about golf in Mallorca

Read the GOB opinion regarding this issue

This decision by the Government is in the opinion of the ACH, "contrary" to the tourism policy that "should be developed in Baleares" because the hotel project to determine the "power to maintain levels of competitiveness" required by the markets issuers. The hotel reminded that the project of Son Bosc is in processing for 15 years, with all the mandatory reports favorable and meeting the quality requirements: Added value to "sun and beach", extending the tourist season and a solar strip that "currently is a dumping ground", states the hotel association in a note.

Read the current magazine and find an interview with Macia Blazquez, president of environmental protection association GOB.

In this sense, they appeal to the Plan of Management of Tourist Offer (POOT) and the Plan Territorial de Mallorca (PTM) in which, according to hoteliers, "the shortage of golf courses in the East of Mallorca" is stressed. The ACH insists it is a clean bill of which there is associated residential offer and, moreover, is deficient, a fact taken from the beginning by the promoter group (comprising hoteliers in the area) ", but hoped that overtime season forwarded indirect and direct employment for 25 people, says the association.

"The works of the golf course, which represent a significant investment in a very difficult time, and whose dynamic effect was already detectable, had begun last Monday after the collection and payment of licenses, and sticking to a rigorous Protection Plan orchid meadow", he said. The ACH, who criticized the study for the development not been published either in Catalan or Castilian in the Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands, urges the Government to reconsider its agreement if it really believes in seasonal adjustment and a revitalization plan of the tourism economy. (Source: EFE Spain)