In last month's column we offered you our first event review and thanks to those readers who offered the positive feedback. We hope you're enjoying your newly found Chambao music.

This month we are reviewing Teenage Fanclub, who played recently at the Auditorium in Murcia. How ironic it is that, having reviewed last month Chambao, one of the big names of my new homeland, we should have under the microscope, from the land of my birth, Scotland's own jingly-jangly merchants, Teenage Fanclub, although their name is these days somewhat deceptive as the boys from Bellshill are all pushing forty and have been around for some 20 years.

Their music is redolent of some big names from the 60's, especially The Byrds and The Beach Boys, and I think, albeit to a lesser extent, The Doors given that there is now a stronger keyboard sound to their music. It is interesting to consider that 15 years ago, Oasis front man Liam Gallagher believed that Teenage Fanclub were 'the second best band in the world' and let's remember this is the band whose album Bandwagonesque beat Nirvana's Nevermind and REM's Out of Time to some top awards way back then. I have always felt that the Gallagher brothers were influenced by 'The Fannies' more that they'd like to admit; yet Teenage Fanclub never reached the stadium-filling stardom of these other contemporaries. However, they still have a large and loyal following and in Spain too, around 500 of whom were present, in the main guys in the 30 plus age category.

All the big numbers were covered, Slow Fade, What You Do To Me, The World Will Be OK, as well a few numbers from their most recent album, Man Made. And despite the greying temples and generally stouter demeanours, Teenage Fanclub still have it in abundance. They clearly still enjoy playing together and were very, very tight. A very good night out and with tickets at only 15? some change for a couple of beers.

We wrote back in February about the Jornadas Nacionales del Exaltación del Tambor in the North West of the region in pretty Moratalla, in effect a national drumming competition with tamboristas or drummers from across the country beating their drums very loudly. A note for this time next year; GO THERE! It was huge fun and very, very loud!

After the fiesta laden months of February and March, things are quieter this month, but a couple of concerts catch my eye in my usual scan of gigs around the region. For the avant-gardists amongst us at the Auditorium in Murcia we have Diamanda Galas, described as 'unquestionably one of the greatest singers America has ever produced'. I know little of her work but that description has me intrigued. She plays on the 19th whilst on the 16th classical dance buffs will enjoy the Kremlin Ballet, little sister to the more famous Bolshoi Ballet. Unfortunately for me, my ballet-daft 8 year-old daughter is looking over my shoulder as I write this, so that's me going then!

Look also for the Concerts For Tolerance as part of the Three Cultures Festival In Murcia