Live music in Barcelona
Event
- Title:
- Portishead
- When:
- 22 Jun 2012 - 22 Jun 2012
- Where:
- Poble Espanyol - Barcelona
- Category:
- Live music
Description
Portishead is a musical group from Bristol, England. The group formed in 1991 and they released their first studio album ´Dummy´ in 1994. The band is named after a town nearby Bristol. The group exists of three people; Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons, and Adrian Utley. The genre of their music is; trip hop, experimental, electronic, downtempo and lo-fi.
Venue
- Venue:
- Poble Espanyol - Website
- Street:
- Avinguda Marquès de Comilla 13
- ZIP:
- 08038
- City:
- Barcelona
- State:
- Catalunya
- Country:
-
Description
Poble Espanyol is a open air architectual museum located in Montjuic in the city of Barcelona.
It was constructed in 1929 and occupies a total area of 42.000 m.T
he aim was to give an idea of what might be an "ideal model" of a Spanish village, containing the main characteristics of all towns and villages in the peninsula. For this reason, 117 buildings, streets and squares were reproduced to scale. Pieces were selected taking into account aesthetic fit to help create a harmonious overall composition in accordance with the "village" design that had been conceived.
