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• (*)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
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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
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