19 Dec, 2022 @ 10:02
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All I want for Xmas: Tickets for Blur, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Robbie Williams on sale, but Pet Shops Boys perform in Spain for free

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Flea, Josh Klinghoffer and Chad Smith of Red Hot Chilli Peppers performing live at Leeds Festival 2016 at Bramham Park, UK. Picture date: Sunday 28 August, 2016. Photo credit: Katja Ogrin/ EMPICS Entertainment.

THE Three Kings are bringing music lovers a real treat this year.

A string of top-name acts is lined up for appearances in Spain, with fans of Blur being given an early Christmas present as they have finally been named as headliners at the massive Primavera Sound festival.

Meanwhile, the Mad Cool festival promises to heat up with Red Hot Chilli Peppers topping the bill in Madrid in July.

No doubt tickets to two of the hottest music festivals in Spain will be slipped into Santa’s sack or brought by the Three Kings now the news is out.

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Pet Shop Boys. Photo: Publicity shot

While Blur joins a strong lineup at the Madrid and Barcelona Primavera Sounds concerts, which includes Depeche Mode, Kendrick Lamar and Rosalía as headliners, the biggest present is the appearance of the Pet Shop Boys.

They will headline the ‘opening pre-festival concert’ night with a free gig at Barcelona’s Parc del Forum.

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Damon Albarn of Blur. Photo: Cordon Press

They will then head over to Madrid to repeat the free concert at the Civitas Metropolitano stadium, home of Atletico Madrid football team on June 7.

Primavera Sound is taking place on consecutive weekends in Barcelona’s Parc del Forum from June 1 to 3 and then at Madrid’s Ciudad del Rock de Arganda del Rey from June 8 to 10, with the headliners playing both festivals.

A month later Red Hot Chili Peppers will also be in Madrid.

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Flea, Josh Klinghoffer and Chad Smith of Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Photo: Katja Ogrin/ EMPICS Entertainment via Cordon Press

The Californian funk-rock legends are joining a string of British legends from July 6 to 8  including Liam Gallagher, Robbie Williiams, Sam Smith and The Prodigy.

So British music fans will be hoping Santa brings them some tickets for their favourite acts, while Spanish aficionados hope the Los Reyes do the same for them!

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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