The significance of Catalonia-Palestine match next TuesdayDestined to become a cry against the genocide in Gaza, it also has a historical thread that links it to the People's Olympiad of 1936The spirit of those anti-fascist games, thwarted by the outbreak of the Civil War, will resonate in the very arena where the competition was to be held: the Montjuïc Olympic Stadium. And the parallel between the two initiatives will also take shape off the field: one of the popular culture groups participating in the pre-match festivities, the Joves Xiquets de Valls, will symbolically complete the performance that bombs stopped almost ninety years ago. Moreover, they will do so with a Palestinian casteller (human tower builder).

It's official: Oques Grasses will make Catalan music history by bringing together 220,000 people for four concerts on October 5, 7, 9, and 10, 2026, at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys. Tickets for the two concerts added to the lineup on Friday sold out in just one hour this Monday. The first announced concert, which will be the final one after ten years together, was a huge success. sold out The first show took 21 minutes. The second, 19 minutes.

The global mobilization campaign ACT x Palestine drew attention this Sunday to the fact that tickets for the Catalonia-Palestine match, scheduled for November 18, have not yet gone on sale, and that institutions are not promoting it. "Just compare it to the Basque Country-Palestine match," which will be played three days earlier at San Mamés, the stadium owned by Athletic Club, "for which 35,000 tickets were sold on the first day they went on sale," Luca Gervasoni, spokesperson for ACT x Palestine, told ARA. "There, the administrations and institutions work together to ensure the match is a success. In contrast, in Catalonia, there is a network of entities that are hindering the match from taking place at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, and we don't want to point the finger at any one in particular because we don't know who is responsible," he added. Gervasoni's fears about the obstacles to holding the match at Montjuïc appear to be well-founded. Official sources from the Catalan Football Federation (FCF) have confirmed to this newspaper that they are looking for other stadiums to host the game. "Our priority is that it takes place. At this point, the main requirement we've been given for playing at Montjuïc is that it requires an investment of more than 600,000 euros, an unaffordable figure. Other options are being explored. Sabadell and Tarragona are two possibilities," say the Federation sources. It's worth remembering that the Estadi Olímpic can hold around 50,000 spectators and is owned by the city, and that the stadiums in Sabadell and Tarragona have a much smaller capacity, less than 15,000 spectators. "The FCF's priority is to organize it, and that's what we're working on," they assure.

In May, after the end of the league season, Barcelona Municipal Services (BSM) workers had to prepare the Olympic Stadium for the summer concerts. What they didn't know was whether Barça would return or not. Given the uncertainty, they decided to make minimal changes, except for the pitch, which the club decided to take the nurseryAt the end of July, BSM learned that Barça and the City Council had agreed to a phased reopening of Camp Nou. At that point, everyone assumed Barça's stay there was over. But delays in the construction work halted their return to the Les Corts neighborhood, so Barça had no choice but to return to using Montjuïc. In just one week, the club spent €1.2 million to get everything ready for football. Now, Barça has the First Occupancy License (LPO) for Camp Nou for phase 1a and will wait for phase 1b to return to the stadium, when its capacity will be 45,000 spectators. The club had hoped to receive it by early November and reopen Camp Nou for Athletic Club's visit on November 22nd. But, once again, delays—some of the fire safety equipment still hasn't arrived—cast doubt on that. At the club They are pessimistic and they see it as unlikely they will be able to return before December. In fact, from the area of ticketing There are voices speculating that the return won't be until after Christmas. Meanwhile, they'll have to stay at Montjuïc, with all the economic disadvantages that entails.

Reusable cups have been appearing at festivals and major celebrations in our area for some time now. The model has been expanding with systems such as requiring the consumer to pay a deposit to return the cup at the end of the event or with tokens that you must strive to remember to lose during an unpredictable night of partying in order to get your euro back. Even so, These formulas are often accused of falling into environmental whitewashing. (greenwashing, in English), since it is very common for the organizer itself not to have adequate logistics to make it easy and the customer gives up due to the long lines.

Lamine Yamal's appeal to the Barça fans during a match is common. He usually does so after his individual plays, which get the crowd on their feet. Eric Garcia's doing so, with a suffering face, when the opposing team is putting pressure on Barça is even rarer. This latter situation It happened on Wednesday when Paris Saint-Germain was around 1-2 that finally ended up arriving.

It looked like the Piromusical of La Mercè, but it was the end of Post Malone's concert at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys: fireworks shot into the sky of Montjuïc while the American singer extended Congratulations and received a wave of enthusiasm from the audience. Satisfaction, then, after an hour and three-quarters of performance in which Austin Richard Post, 30, confirmed the influence of country in his proposal, especially in light of the album F-1 Trillion (2024), although it has always been more or less present in some songs. "I get rap and metal from my father, and country from my mother," explained this artist born in the state of New York, raised in Dallas and resident in Utah a few years ago.

The show hasn't even started yet, but the audience has been singing along for a while, blasting through the sound system. They follow along, wielding a large, pink and black plastic hammer that lights up when he moves it—one of the gadgets of the most successful merchandising of the night - while images of Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé and Lisa, the members of Blackpink, the Korean band of the moment that performed this Saturday, August 9 at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona, are projected on the screen.

[The photographs in this report were provided by the promoter Live Nation. They are from a concert on the Kendrick Lamar and SZA tour, but not from the Barcelona concert because the artists did not credit photojournalists.]

He is considered one of the best rappers of his generation, and this will be evident on Wednesday, July 30th at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys. Some even consider him the best of all time. This is explained by the quality and artistic consistency of his albums, which go beyond the conventions of hip hop. His lyrics, musical experimentation, and social criticism have made Californian Kendrick Lamar (Compton, 1987) a figure capable of generating social and cultural impact. This is validated by a long list of accolades, including twenty Grammy Awards and the Pulitzer for the record DAMN in 2018 (he is the only hip-hop artist to have achieved this recognition). David Bowie, who was inspired by one of his albums, Pimp a Butterfly tone, to record his latest album, Blackstar (2016). He has also been cited by Madonna, Bruce Springsteen and Prince, with whom he joined on stage at a concert;

It's twenty minutes past eight in the evening, and a sound coming from deep within shakes the stadium. On the dance floor, it's all lit-up phone screens and a shouting match to sing at the top of your lungs. February 6, the opening track of Aitana's latest album, which the singer chose to kick off her concert at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys. The audience, 50,000 strong, becomes an energetic beast that won't stop until forced to. The pop diva debuts with sold-out crowds dressed in blue and white, the same colors she's chosen to illustrate her new era, that of her fourth studio album: Blue room (2025, Universal Music).

Lady Gaga sold out all the tickets for the three concerts she will perform in Barcelona in October this Thursday in less than four hours, the only details of her tour. The Mayhem Ball In Spain, the 54,000 tickets available for the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona were sold out from 12 noon to 4 p.m., according to promoter Live Nation. The album Mayhem, since its release, has been an automatic success with critics and the public, and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.

"Between €15m and €20m". This will be the cost for Barça of playing in Montjuic for the 2023/24 season. This Tuesday, the club's president, Joan Laporta, and Barcelona deputy mayor Jaume Collboni have presented an agreement for Barça to move "temporarily" to the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys while it carries out the remodelling work on Camp Nou.