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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:

Gigs for Vinyl for Gigs

(Aug 31, 2010) Ok so the idea here is to throw a party. And with the money from that party, record a 7 inch vinyl featuring the bands that playe...
File Under: Places
City: Barcelona

My top 3 Spanish fashion photographers

(Aug 27, 2010) Sorry, but no. No money to spend on clothes at the moment and no inclination to go into the town center due to the annual epidemi...
File Under: Fashion
City: Barcelona

Datpiff.com for online mixtapes

(Aug 26, 2010) If you have a day to waste and the patience of a seventh day adventist, or if you’re really into hip-hop then Datpiff.com i...
File Under: Music
City: Barcelona

Queen of the club scene

(Aug 25, 2010) The one man publishing empire behind the specialist fashion magazines Fanzine 137, EY! and Candy, has branched out into clubnight...
File Under: Places
City: Barcelona

DJ Nate on the traaack

(Aug 24, 2010) Repeatedly going back to SALEM at 1 in the morning over the past 6 months, has got me into the Juke and Footwork sound coming ou...
File Under: Music
City: Barcelona

Jace Hall, you make no sense

(Aug 16, 2010) Are you familiar with Jason “Jace” Hall?. He’s a monster. A weird mixture of nerd, steroid freak, Hollywood exe...
File Under: T.V.
City: Barcelona

I don’t like Christopher Nolan, but I’ve seen his films

(Aug 13, 2010) I remember watching Memento and thinking how fucking tacky it looked, how stupid Guy Pearce was, and how ridiculous and Bond was ...
File Under: Movies
City: Barcelona

Waka Waka (This is a sterotype of Africa)

(Jul 30, 2010) I guess you can’t avoid certain cultural stereotypes, but you can criticise them. I hope there’s some distinction bet...
File Under: Fashion
City: Barcelona

Is it a Bird? Is it a Game?

(Jul 26, 2010) Gilles Marchand’s new film is called Black Heaven, and looks like a slightly teenagerish thriller set half in the South of ...
File Under: Movies
City: Barcelona

I am the reincarnation of Ian Curtis

(Jul 22, 2010) Last Friday, for no reason I wanted to listen to She’s lost control. This was the start of a three day long Joy Division ...
File Under: Music
City: Barcelona

The World Today In Satire

(Jul 16, 2010) My favourite website these days is El Mundo Today. It’s nice to see a nod to Chris Morris in Spain, and even people who ar...
File Under: Web
City: Barcelona

Protected: A great example of cross branding

(Jul 01, 2010) Q: What good and bad examples have you seen of brands using social networking sites/applications/services? A: Good: Vice’s V...
File Under: Socializing
City: Barcelona

Protected: An iTunes like phenomenon

(Jul 01, 2010) Q: What do you expect to be the ‘next big thing’ or ‘next big trend’ in social networking? A: Social networking sites tha...
File Under: Socializing
City: Barcelona

Protected: Tumblr, the newest fascination

(Jun 25, 2010) Q: What new social networking sites/applications/services have you heard of recently? What do you think of them? How do you fee...
File Under: Socializing
City: Barcelona

There are worse looks in Europe than the Burka

(Jun 21, 2010) So, in France they’re going to ban use of the Burka… I was in Paris recently and curiously nobody I spoke to cared on...
File Under: Fashion
City: Barcelona

Protected: Facebook fatigue?

(Jun 19, 2010) Q: What’s your current perspective on Facebook? Are you and your friends still using it, if so what for and how has this change...
File Under: Socializing
City: Barcelona

Tasty portuguese cakes and coffee.

(Jun 18, 2010) It’s a running joke that the best thing about living in Spain is how close it is to Portugal. Every time I go, I’m st...
File Under: Places
City: Barcelona

Protected: Tumblr, the newest thing

(Jun 18, 2010) Q: What new social networking sites/applications/services have you heard of recently? What do you think of them? How do you feel ...
File Under: Socializing
City: Barcelona

Surprise! Hollywood still sucks

(Jun 15, 2010) Well Iron Man 2 was a fucking disappointment. Hot Tub Time Machine was funny in the bits with Crispin Glover in them (I’m n...
File Under: Movies
City: Barcelona

Sick of The Thick Of It

(Jun 15, 2010) I’m not actually that convinced about The Thick of it. I used to really like Armando Iannucci, around the time of the Frida...
File Under: T.V.
City: Barcelona

Just a glimpse

(Jun 13, 2010) Q: How do you feel about social networking sites/applications/services? Why do you feel this way? How does it affect how you use ...
File Under: Socializing
City: Barcelona

My friends’ profiles have changed

(Jun 08, 2010) Q: How do you tend to socialize with your friends? How has this changed over the past year? How do you expect this to change ove...
File Under: Socializing

Same old locations, same old fashion photography

(Apr 15, 2010) It seems that in BCN every photographer shoots either on the beach (boring and dirty) or in the turn of the century flats you fin...
File Under: Fashion
City: Barcelona

People that you’ve never heard of…

(Apr 13, 2010) I recently set up an interview with Javier Aguirresarobe. You don’t know him either? Javier was the DP in the adaptation o...
File Under: Movies
City: Barcelona

Photography on the web

(Apr 05, 2010) For the last six months I have been going back and forth to nofound.tumblr.com, it is run from Paris by Emeric Glayse. I us...
File Under: Web
City: Barcelona, Paris

This looks like the best Music festival ever

(Mar 23, 2010) There are worse places to spend a torrential downpour than under the covers in a friends house cyberstalking a guy who neither o...
File Under: Places
City: Barcelona

Joanna Newsome and These New Puritains are Switching It Up

(Mar 23, 2010) My relationship with folky folk music is roughly the following: Some Nick Drake, The Incredible String Band, the two first Bridge...
File Under: Music
City: Barcelona

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