Spanish firemen boo and insult Catalan firemen during WPFG 2011

The World Police and Fire Games 2011 contest celebrated in New York has turned to be the scenario of a  scuffle broken up between the Spanish and Catalan police and firemen. During an exhibition, the Catalan team performed a human tower that was crowned at the top by a member waving a Catalan independentist flag which led the Spanish team to start insulting and mocking the former. Teams from other countries also performed their corresponding presentation without being mocked nor insulted. During soccer matches in Spain, Catalan and Spanish hooligans often insult one each other, but this may be considered "normal", as happens in other countries and sports. However, watching the Spanish police and firemen shouting "fuera!" (get out!) and "hijos de puta!" (sons of bitch!) in a foreign country and during a world-wide event has been really shameful.

The video below shows the moment the Catalan flag is raised while the Spanish team booes and insults the Catalan team.

Catalan music: Beth

This may be an outdated post, but this blog was born more ore less a year later than Beth's last album was released in 2010. This album is titled "Segueix-me el fil", which may be literally translated as "Follow my thread" (got the love message?). I must admit that Beth has never got my attention in a musical sense, although I've always thought she's got a nice voice. However there are a couple of songs from this new album that have really caught my soul, due to their lyrics, music and, of course, Beth's voice.
Beth's fame started after the Spanish TV show "Operación Triunfo" (aka OT) , some sort of reality show consisting on a music academy where unknown people were instructed to become a pop star or something like that. I really hated that show: it was stupid, childish and there was everything but good music there. However there were people having good voices, and among them, there was Beth.


You can access to my favourite songs from "Segueix-me el fil" below.

Song #1: "Tots els botons" (All buttons)

Song #2: "Terra trencada" (Broken land)

Hope you enjoy them!!!

P.S.: if you want a translation of either songs into English, please tell me and I will post it.