Beach Boys - Island Connections
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Beach Boys - Island Connections
From previous page • (*)Médicos del Mundo: Tel: 922248936 / 649 899 252 - (By appointment only) Email:[email protected] Calle Juan Pablo II No.12, bajo. Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Also in El Fraile, Arona) • (*)Remar: Tel: 922613296 http://www.remar.org/ prorehabilitacion1.html C/ Paris No.2, Taco, La Laguna • (*)Asociación Déjate Ayudar: Tel: 922 757 006 (Wed & Fri 6-8 pm) or 669 086 076 Cultural Centre, Room 11, Los Cristianos, Arona • (*)Asociación Vivir: Tel: 922736723 Calle San Carlos Borromeo No.9, Arona • Proyecto Hombre: Tel: 922 661 020 / 902 885 555 http://proyectohombre.es Email: secretaria.tfe@ proyectohombrecanarias.es Calle Pedro Doblado Claverie, Ofra – Delicias, Santa Cruz Municipal Soup Kitchens Comedor Social La Milagrosa, C/ La Noria, Santa Cruz. Comedor Social Tamarco, C/ Valle Inclán s/n, Santa Cruz. Tel: 922213032 Comedor Social de las Hermanas de San Vicente Paúl, C/ San Pío, Santa Cruz Comedor Social Padre Laraña, C/ Dácil Vilar Borges, Locales 35-36, Ofra. Tel: 922646406 Comedor Social de San Juan, Parroquia San Juan, C/ Pablo Iglesias, La Laguna British organisations with representation in Tenerife: • Age Concern Tel: 902 003 838 or 606 522 915 - http://www. acespana.org/ • Royal British Legion Tel: 922739486 - http:// www.spainsouth.legionbranches.net/ English speaking charities which may offer support: • Grassroots : Living Room – Tel: 922719534 – Christian charity near Veronicas http://www.grassroots. org.uk/home/projects/theliving-room-tenerife • SHE Europe Helpline: Tel: 690964145 Christian women’s Helpline • Friends of Tenerife: Tel: 922388486 http://www.friendsoftenerife.com/ • Tenerife Sur Lions: Tel: 629487090 http://www.tenerifesurlions.org/index.html • Lions Club International: http://lionsclub.losgigantes.com/index.htm (*) Some English spoken Please note that although some staff speak basic English and can offer initial assistance in English, it may be in your interest to take an interpreter when dealing with the above local authorities or organisations. This list is provided by the British Consulate in Tenerife for the convenience of enquirers, but neither HMG nor any official of the Consulate take any responsibility for the competency of any company on the list, nor the staff employed by any listed institution. British Consulate Tenerife, 2010 By Karl McLaughlin T he Beach Boys may be getting on a bit but, unlike other legendar y bands and singers still touring worldwide, they showed in Tenerife that they still have what it takes to entertain fans, rather than sur vive on the sympathy vote. The crowd that turned out for their concert at the Santiago Martin Stadium in La Laguna on July 7 may have been on the small side (the 5,000-seater venue was only about half full) but Mike Love and his fellow ‘Surfers’ did not seem to mind in the least and offered up a feast of memory music which had fans dancing in the aisles and in their seats for almost two hours. Organisers LM Producciones showed Spain’s World Cup semi-final on big screens before the concert which was followed by the warm-up band, a local rockabilly outfit which goes under the bizarre name of Pornosurf, whose three members were obviously delighted to be fronting their maestros. “We can die happy now”, one of them shouted to the crowd as they left the stage. At 10.40pm the seven ‘Beach Boys’ (original members Mike Love and Bruce Johnston, with their backing band of five) entered the fray wearing their trademark baseball caps and appeared to have laid a bet with each other as to how long it would take to get the crowd to move from their seats in the different tiers of the stadium down to the front of the house for a night of dancing rather than applause from above. Annoying as it may have been to those who paid for the most expensive seats at ground level (this is a common issue at the venue), the ‘cheapies’ were down within minutes and the area around the stage took on a more ‘concerty’ air, even before Love and Co. had finished the opening medley, which included Catch a Wave, Two Girls for Every Boy, Let’s Go Surfin’ Now and Good vibrations Beach Boys live up to billing Surfer Girl. Mind you, the band had already endeared itself to the crowd with opening words acknowledging Spain’s massive win over Germany and within a few minutes the occasional hat was being tossed out for a lucky fan to keep as a souvenir. The impressive opening salvo was followed immediately by an even more impressive medley of When I Grow Up To Be A Man, Do You Wanna Dance, Don’t Worry Baby, Little Deuce Coupe and, getting the biggest cheer of the night so far, I Get Around, which just about sums the Beach Boys up at present. They arrived in Tenerife from Sweden, spent a few days relaxing in a hotel in the south of the island, played in La Laguna, headed off to the Costa Brava immediately for another gig and then back to the US for a mammoth nationwide tour. Although they may not get around the actual stage very much when performing (due to age, perhaps, theirs is not a concert laden with flashy histrionics but a smoothly orchestrated and well-oiled machine that slips effortlessly from one number into another), they certainly come up with the goods, safe in the knowledge that the first chords of smash hits such as Good Vibrations, Wouldn’t It Be Nice, Help Me Rhonda and, above all, Barbara Ann – were enough to send the crowd into raptures. Add to this (all in the same sequence) the wonderful rendering of Sloop John B, which brought a change in lyrics from the crowd, who bellowed ‘We don’t wanna go home’ throughout, and the closing Surfin’ USA, and you had the perfect cocktail for the multinational Tenerife audience, which contained an astounding proportion of young people, many of whom could not have ever seen the band originally or heard the songs when they first came out. Mike Love was unsurprised at the audience mix of young and old. In an Credit:Gary Hill 7Islands ISLAND CONNECTIONS :: EDITION 621 :: 16/07/2010 - 30/07/2010 interview with a local paper on concert day, he predicted such a rare blend: “we always see very young fans at our gigs. We know, for example, that many of our best-known songs are among the most popular downloads for Ipods etc, so that tells you a lot. It is proof that 60s music transcends generations”. One group of 20-something year-olds emerged from the Stadium absolutely wowed by the night’s entertainment, while Island Connections competition winners, sisters Eileen McGuire and Denise Seddon, who travelled up from Buzanada in good time to take in the football also, thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Winners Eileen McGuire and Denise Seddon Productos disponibles en/products available at: Supermercados SPAR, Supermercados Vivo, Supermercados Dinosol, Carrefour, Alcampo, El Corte Inglés, Supermercados Tránsito, Supermercados COVIRÁN y en tiendas independientes de las principales zonas turísticas/ and independent shops in the main tourist areas. Find your discount vouchers in our editions of 30/7 and 13/8. Encontrará sus cupones de descuento la semana del 30/7 y 13/8. 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