The B-Parade - All you need is love! (Dada-dadada…)
January 25th, 2007The “B-Parade” is a kind of Spanish, or better, “Barcelonian” Love Parade! 
I went to the parade a couple of years ago..and it was amazing! The parade started at the Maria Cristina Square (in the Northwest of the city), and finished with a big party just at the bottom of the Montjuic fountains on Plaza Espanya!!
It’s actually inspired by the Love Parade, the popular festival and parade which originated in 1989 in Berlin.
Many people travel for miles to get to Barcelona city and to take part in the Parade. Everyone is dressed up in weird and wonderful costumes, invented in their wildest of imaginative and creative moments!!!
The music played at the event is predominantly electronic dance music. Attempts to introduce other music styles, such as hip hop, have failed. Hardcore and Gabber music were part of the parade in early years, but were later removed!
You can join-in with the exhibitionists, you can watch them sitting and dancing on the street lamps, in the trees and climbing up signposts and telephone booths! It´s ”the greatest amateur circus on earth” I think!!!
At the end of the parade the fun is far from over! The whole city is practically turned into an all-singing, all-dancing club!!!
Other Love Parades have occurred in the past in Tel Aviv, Mexico City, Acapulco, Vienna, Cape Town, San Francisco, Sydney and Santiago.
I’d like to repeat this experience!!! Does anybody know if this year (in 2007) the parade will take place again in Barcelona? I read in an article on the internet that they are discussing the organization, the route and everything else related to it…but it doesn’t appear to be a sure thing yet….What do you think?
/Laura
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January 29th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Barcelona has such a ‘buzz’ about it that I’m not surprised it has joined other modern cities like San Francisco and Sydney in hosting a love parade. Barcelona always feels like somewhere where ‘things happen’. I remember when I was last there in 2003 (too long ago!) and the streets were full of anti-war protesters. It was a real carnival atmosphere, despite the serious message.