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Name: Paul G.
City: Barcelona, Spain

Paul is a freelance writer – mostly writing on alternative culture for titles such as Glamour, El Pais, Amelias Magazine, Plan B, fanzine 137, Electric Youth! magazine, Apartamento, playgroundmag.net & VICE.


Paul has been heavily immersed in the music scene, putting on gigs and has made weird little fanzines since 2003 in Leeds and Madrid. In 2008, he co-produced and designed the much hyped Ateneo Abierto project in Madrid (12 bands, six months, old city center spaces).


Paul has also played in numerous bands which to his dismay never quite managed to storm the charts


posts by this scout:

Local Bars not Megadisco clubadromes

(Feb 27, 2010) The poster above says it better than I can. Clubs are a waste of life. Drinks are expensive, they’re full of kids who sho...
File Under: Places
City: Barcelona

Leave it in the Playground(mag.net)

(Feb 26, 2010) I’m not a fan of music websites (pitchfork bores me) but playgroundmag.net is a madrid based, spanish language page that ha...
File Under: Web
City: Barcelona

I promise this is the last one

(Feb 22, 2010) I know I’ve been banging on about Spanish cinema a lot recently, but I do live here, and you (probably) don’t. I al...
File Under: Movies
City: Barcelona

3 highlights from Barcelona Fashion Week

(Feb 17, 2010) This week I decided to go up to fashion, air kiss it and pretend to be it’s friend, even though actually I’m a bit ...
File Under: Fashion
City: Barcelona

Four new Spanish punk bands

(Jan 29, 2010) Them up above there are Venereans, a newish punk group from Valencia who play punk rock and roll. At their best they sound like t...
File Under: Music
City: Barcelona

I think it’s called Lo-Fi?

(Jan 22, 2010) This year i listened to the Crystal Stilts record a ton (i’m listening to it now) and also Kurt Vile, who i discovered arou...
File Under: Music
City: Barcelona

Half decent music player anyone?

(Jan 22, 2010) Obviously i don’t use Myspace to keep in touch with anyone anymore. But i barely ever use it to listen to music. The proble...
File Under: Web
City: Barcelona

Decent tv journalism in the unlikeliest of places.

(Jan 21, 2010) One of Spain’s most popular TV shows is Benafuente. A kind of Catalan version of Letterman, that has been responsible for p...
File Under: T.V.
City: Barcelona

I was 9 but On The Hour is still funny

(Jan 19, 2010) It’s way too late for me to start talking about 30 rock now so I’m going to go off at a tangent. Recently I’ve ...
File Under: T.V.
City: Barcelona

I’m OK with looking Ridiculous.

(Jan 19, 2010) Maybe it’s the mediterranean, but right now i don’t know anybody (male) without a moustache or a beard. Seriously, it...
File Under: Fashion
City: Barcelona

“Well I Guess, But I Just don’t know.”

(Jan 16, 2010) Sorry to go on about it, but since I last posted on the Cine Quinqui of the 80’s I’ve been really getting into it. I...
File Under: Movies
City: Barcelona

Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn…

(Jan 15, 2010) I hate hippies. Sorry, i’m going to be specific. I specifically hate Spanish left wing hippies. I specifically hate them fo...
File Under: Places
City: Barcelona

Not Almodovar

(Dec 20, 2009) Earlier this year Barcelonas MACBA ran a retrospective on a forgotten chapter of Spain’s cinematic history. It was called Q...
File Under: Movies
City: Barcelona

Do the Bird

(Dec 13, 2009) I’m serious. Even though everyone associates bow ties with Timmy Mallet and Carlton from the Fresh Prince, the best look ...
File Under: Fashion
City: Barcelona

Language mangling gives good Youtube.

(Dec 05, 2009) The upside of facebook’s uberdominance of cyberspace, aside for making it much easier to stalk ex- lovers, is that it’...
File Under: Web
City: Barcelona

Youtube doesn’t make me laugh anymore

(Nov 10, 2009) You know those late nights when you’re on a friend’s sofa, huddled round a laptop and someone tells you to find somet...
File Under: Web
City: Barcelona

Marketing movies to hipsters doesn’t work.

(Nov 09, 2009) In aniticipation, perhaps, of Halloween, I saw a girl the other night dressed as Max from Where the Wild Things Are. The suit wa...
File Under: Movies
City: Barcelona

Come as you were… for the early 90’s revival.

(Nov 06, 2009) I’ve recently got back from New York, and was pleasantly surprised to see the amount of good press Barcelona band Delorean ...
File Under: Music
City: Barcelona

Thrift Store chic looks cheap

(Nov 06, 2009) Even though i am still very into people who can actually cut and sew (like the nice lady who fixed up my grandad’s suit for ...
File Under: Fashion
City: Barcelona

Old and New make great, if un-easy, viewing

(Oct 24, 2009) I’m looking forward to the Gaspar Noe film Enter The Void. Despite not having seen Irreversible, it seems great that a film...
File Under: Movies
City: Barcelona

Simple Ideas and Second-hand Records Make First-rate Blogs

(Oct 23, 2009) There’s a blog run by a friend – hangthedjrecords.wordpress.com. It’s a great, simple idea where he reviews th...
File Under: Web
City: Barcelona

Good Days and Nights with the Living Dead

(Oct 22, 2009) A group of boys who ran one of the only two parties that were worth going to this summer have just opened a bar/diner down the ro...
File Under: Places
City: Barcelona

Rare Invention in Spanish TV makes Good Viewing

(Oct 15, 2009) Spanish TV is aimed squarely at the mainstream, and there’s little room for invention. The exceptions that spring to mind a...
File Under: T.V.
City: Barcelona

Less is More: Production wont make a bad song good

(Oct 14, 2009) Everything is either lo-fi or garage rock at the moment. And yes, it is starting to get boring. That said, I have been listening ...
File Under: Music
City: Barcelona

Summer is over. But what’s next?

(Oct 13, 2009) After rolling the sleeves of my t-shirts up all summer, I’ve decided that that ‘Mechanic from Grease’ look is n...
File Under: Fashion
City: Barcelona