22 Sept - Carmen Burana

A Childrens choir of 40, an adult choir of around 75, 6 percussionists, 2 pianists, 3 opera singers and a conductor (oh and the 2 page turners), put them all together in the Conservatori auditorium in Palma, with its fantastic acoustics all performing Carl Orff's masterpiece Carmen Burana and you have a recipe for success. This performance did not disappoint in any way. After a sold out performance in Pollensa the night before, it goes without saying that the 600 or so of us priviliged to watch this left humming the famous opening (and closing) and wishing we could all go through it again.

This has been an annual event so if you get the chance, get in early for tickets next year as it does not disappoint on any level. A 5 star night out!

16 Sept - Santiago Auseron in concert

Sunday evening saw the second of the Santaigo Auseron concerts at the beautiful refurbished Teatre Principal in Palma. Just seeing this wonderful restoration project complete would be enough but, wow, what a concert. Not really knowing about Spanish pop of the 80's did not affect the enjoyment of what was a top quality performance by a real star of pop along with a fantasic swing and jazz band of 22 musicians. Santiago was the lead singer of the band Radio Futura for those of you who don't know, which is probably most of us, but they were a great influence on early 80's Spanish pop. By the end of the show even us 'extranjeros' (or is it guirris? :-)) were standing and applauding and wanting more. This was a great show as we predicted in the latest issue and I would highly recommend you going out of your way to seeing this guy perform with The Original Jazz Orchestra if you get the chance.

15 Sept - Centro Canino open day

On Saturday morning Centro Canino held an open day with a raffle, bring and buy sale and guard dog exhibition. There was a good turnout by supporters new and old, all taking the opportunity to see this fantastic new facility. There was an impressive show of dog handling with David the alsation doing a particularly good minding job.
Just recently added are the accomodation and shower unit to enable two of the staff to reside there permanently. (This has been neccessary due to some of the mindless action by a few of their less intelligent neighbours.) The main object of the day was to raise funds to update the cattery section, so as to bring it on par with the fantastic dog facilities.
A large sale is planned next month at Pasatiempos in Palma, we will keep you posted, check the digamemallorca.com news page for info.

14 Sept - The Pocketmen

Another rousing performace from the boys at Sart Club, Inca on Friday night. A packed house listened to them bashing out all their favourite tunes and enjoying themselves at the same time. If you've not seen these guys perform you should really try and make the effort. Apart from supporting fellow Brits, they are actually very good. They compare to early Beatles with modern writing, well that's what they think and it's not too far of the mark. Keep an eye on the Digame news page and we'll post up the next time they are performing, although it'll probably be a month or so as Matt has to go back to school in sunny Leeds, somebody has to do it.

New format launched

The September issue saw the launch of our new size digame. We hope that you all have found it easier to read and being bigger, easier to find. The response we have had so far has been fantastic. Well done to Patricia our new designer for her 4 am stint to help get the magazine out as quickly as she did.
A few samples of the comments received so far:-

"Just a quick email to say how good the new version of Digame looks; It's our favourite monthly 'What's on', and in many ways is a better read than the big 'free' magazines." Dan, Costa Den Blanes

"Congratulations on your new format" Andrew, Santa Ponsa.

"Just picked up the new Digame in Cala d'Or and had to say we love the new size" Lynn & John

We love to hear from our readers and appreciate any comments (good or bad), as we are nothing without you!

Hasta pronto Charlie & Melinda

A quick note to say thank you to Charlie for the design work over the last two years and Melinda for the pasta bakes. We hope your new life in Somerset works out well and look forward to seeing you soon.

digame team

Aug 23 - Dancing Queen

What promised to be a cheesy show was just that. Everybody enjoyed it, with the accomplished singers and cute dancers performing a non stop medley of Abba hits and other great numbers from the 70's and 80's. By the end of the evening all of the audience were on their feet asking for more, but only a small encore left us all wanting. A good night, a professional troupe, good sound and accomplished dancing

Aug 25 - Sterlin live

This highly anticipated concert was to a full house in Bellver Castle, Palma de Mallorca. A band that can entertain all ages with their unique rock ballad sound and the fantastic voice of Adela Peraita. They performed songs from their new album Destroy and some older material. The audience loved it. An elderly couple sitting in front of us, who must have been there just to visit the venue were tapping their feet, shaking their heads and shouting for more with the rest of us.

Their new album Destroy has some incredibly catchy tunes. It's an album you just keep playing , especially in the car. When you think I'll just play something else, the next day you get back in the car and without realising, you've put it on again. A good night.