This unmissable show is nothing like I have ever experienced before and had never heard of, until our hostel told us we would be mad to miss it.
La Bomba takes place every Monday night (who cares if there’s work the next day) and is a popular, often sold out, percussion frenzy at Ciudad Cultural Konex, an old open air converted oil factory, and costs the equivalent of about £5.
It is essentially two hours of madness where a group of 17 quick handed musicians take to the stage, and over the course of the two hours their drumming gets louder and faster. As you would imagine, this consequently affects the audience who are taken along for the ride in the form of hypnotic drum beats. It is all improvised, yet conducted through different hand signals, and you cannot help but be mesmerised by the sheer talent and co ordination.
Let me stress, La Bomba is not for the feint hearted. As the drumming gets louder and faster, the crowd reacts a little crazier. If there was ever a more poignant moment for the expression “if you can’t beat them, join them”, this was it. We found ourselves caught up in the excitement, jumping around, all inhibitions lost. By the time it was over, flip flops had been lost, and bodies were sweat drenched; all in the name of drumming! At 10pm the crowds started to disperse and it was off to work the next day. Only in Buenos Aires!

Ciudad Cultural Konex, Sarmiento 3131, Abasto
+54 4864- 3200
labombadetiempo.blogspot.com/

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Check out this explosive drum ensemble from Buenos Aires. Famous for their unique conducting style, Bomba de Tiempo events often turn into spontaneous percussion-driven raves ...

www.earthoria.com/video-la-bomba-de-tiempo-buenos-aires.html

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Similar to Covent Garden, but the best seats cost about £10. Go to any musical for the experience, or just to see the place.

Cerrito 618; email: informaciones@teatrocolon.org.ar;
Tel: 00 54 11 4378 7100; www.teatrocolon.org.ar/

Google map: tinyurl.com/mca2av

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Happy Together by Wong Kar-Wai preceded his award-winning In the Mood for Love and is a haunting, longing tale of two foreigners lost in both Buenos Aires and their pursuit of happiness.

A great portrait of the melancholy side of the city, complete with a soundtrack by Frank Zappa. Decidedly arthouse fare, but a crackingly beautiful film all the same.

Happy Together can surely be purchased online.

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