The legendary room Jumpthe underground music venue in Barcelona, permanently closes its doors. It has been the venue par excellence for rock, heavy and metal for 33 years.
City Hall will seal it after a neighbor in a neighboring house complained about the noise. “They were unbearableYes, the farm vibrates and the problem is that the limitations are not respected,” he laments. Luis Rojacomplainant and owner of the commercial premises which he transformed into a home, who succeeded in permanently lowering the curtain on this music room.
Oscar Martinez The director of the room laments because “it is the only room with its characteristics” and leaves “20 jobs in the air”, as well as “nearly 80 concerts canceled“. “We had sold 20% of the capacity, but we were hoping to have a ‘sold out’, now we are dealing with the question of refunding the tickets”, complains the guitarist of Terminal Violence, one of the groups affected by this situation.
To this -already- controversial closure, other controversies are added. On the one hand, Lluis Torrents, president of the Association of Concert Halls of Catalonia, affirms that “there is no problem with the noise level“and that the the complaining neighbor does not live in the neighboring house, but it is rather intended for tourist rental.
A fact that the owner categorically denies and defends himself by asserting that they had to leave because They were tired of not being able to sleep. This is why, according to him, they decided to rent it to nine people and categorically denies having transformed the premises into a tourist rental house.
The room Jumpfor its part, decided to retaliate before its imminent closure and filed a complaint against this neighbor because “fails to conform to the destiny that gives him the right to housing” reports Óscar Martínez, director of the legendary venue where groups of the caliber of Red Baron, Howitzer, Desakato, Wizard of Oz, Night Wish and, more recently, hip-hop star Beret. For the moment, and while the sentence is decided, artists and spectators are crowding into what could be the last hours of this legendary room before the definitive blackout.
