1984 Costa Del Sol Classic 1984 Costa Del Sol Classic The 1984 Costa Del Sol Classic was a professional invitational snooker tournament which took place in August 1984. The tournament was held at the Las Palmeras Hotel in Fuengirola, Spain, and featured 12 professional players. The four qualifying matches were played under a best-of-five frames format, as were the quarter-finals and semi-finals, and the final best of nine. Dennis Taylor won the event, beating Mike Hallett 5–2 in the final, which was twenty-five-year old Hallett's first as a professional. Four players participated in qualifying for the quarter-finals, to which Tony Knowles, Taylor, Joe Johnson and
Gastr del Sol Gastr del Sol Gastr del Sol (derived from a combination of the name of a race horse (Gato del Sol) and David Grubbs' previous band Bastro) was an American, Chicago-based band, consisting for most of their career, of David Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke. Between 1993 and 1998 they put out seven albums ranging in genre from post-rock (the scene they were most associated with) to musique concrète. Grubbs, a former member of Squirrel Bait formed the band in Chicago in 1991 from the final line-up of the group Bastro, with Bundy K. Brown and John McEntire on bass guitar and