Club Reviews - One Weeks Ibiza Diary

Last Updated 17.09.07

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One Weeks Ibiza Diary

Date: Tuesday 28th August - Tuesday 4th September
Location: Ibiza, Spain

Midnight, Tuesday 28th August: Touchdown at Ibiza airport, the bags were quickly dumped in Rob’s car and it was off to Space for Carl Cox!

There was a slight queue, a severe no when asked if cameras were allowed, then it was straight in to the main room to see Francois K.

WOW! Blown away, floored, and excited! That’s what I felt immediately in there. It’s the first time for ages that I felt genuinely excited at entering a club. The room was packed, the sound was incredible and the people were just going mad! Exactly how a club should be. Even a kick drum sounded the business in there.

Francois K played a top set, really banging out the techno for 3 hours, before Carl Cox came on. He is so good, as good a DJ as you’ll see anywhere. However, severe tiredness had now kicked and I still hadn’t seen my hotel so it was Adios to Space for now.

It was also nice to see that the Ibizan organisation and attitude hadn’t changed much, as I was told my hotel was fully booked despite having documentary evidence to the contrary! Oh well, never mind, they sent me to one by Kanya and the sea, so can’t complain.

Thursday 30th August: What does Thursday mean? Amnesia and Cream! Here we go! Get those ice-cannons warmed up Amigo! You can still get the free bus to Amnesia from Kanya or Bar M after purchasing a ticket for 45 euros, but don’t annoy the man on the door at Bar M or he won’t let you on the bus, and he will shout at you! We got to Amnesia at about 2 am and already it was really busy. Marco V, Adam Sheridan and Eddie Halliwell were playing the main room and Seb Leger and D Ramirez in the terrace. Normally I spend all my time in the main room, but I thought I’d try the terrace tonight as I now love the dirty electro stuff. The terrace is probably bigger than the main room and therefore you can actually move in it! They have a cool green laser like the main room and also an ice-canon. The air conditioning in Amnesia is superb and I had a top night in the terrace. Leger was brilliant, playing just what you’d expect, and again the whole experience was just in a different league from back home.

The main room was mucho busy and Halliwell managed to climb on to the decks way above the crowd and pretended to jump as the breakdown to Lethal Industry kicked in! Nutter. What a moment though as everyone sung Do Do Do Roo Roo etc.

Friday 31st August: So we tried Manumission at Amnesia and failed! The queue was right around the building and after 2 hours we were told no more people. They actually had Made in Italy AND Manumission on in the same club on the same night! No wonder it was silly busy. Manumission are given the Terrace, compare that with the whole of Privilege previously!

We went back to San An, and into Eden, lets not talk about that though.

Saturday 1st September: We lay on the not so nice San An beach in front of the Orange Corner as a Mr Rob Loco was playing a 4 hour set that soon became a 5 hour set then a 6 hour set! He eventually did stop though as I think he may have ran out of CDs! We had such a nice time and there were some hardcore afternoon partiers in there loving it.

Night time arrives and guess where we went? Yup, Amnesia! I’d heard good things about People from Ibiza. It’s all local DJs, such as Mar-T, and we had free passes if you got in before 2am.

This free pass thing is very common in Ibiza this year. For nights at Eden and Es Paradis you can get in free almost every night except Judgement Sunday as they are giving out wristbands or flyers just to fill the clubs. Others are giving out wristbands for quality nights such as Carl Cox or Mauro Picotto’s Meganite if you hang around the beaches the day before.

Ok, People From Ibiza is well worth a visit. It is very good fun and was very busy again. The music was tech, tribal and electro house, and its great to mix with Italian, Spanish and people from everywhere!

Man, they go mad with the ice-cannons on this night. Not just now and again but all the time. Crazy. There was some cool stuff going on, with a massive Buddha statue in the main room and a guy in a wicked blue space outfit on stilts wading through the crowd and firing his dry-ice guns at people! It was a very strange experience as nobody was facing the DJ booth for once. They were all looking up towards the ice-cannons and the outrageously hot dancers, when 2 guys came on to play bongos. They were crazy too! I’ve decided that if I ever come back in a future life then I want to be a dancer at Amnesia!

Sunday 2nd September: A brilliant day. We went to Salinas beach and to the famous Sa Trinxa area where they have a beautiful restaurant and cool music playing. It is a very long beach with perfect sand and lovely sea. You can just relax and listen to a great mix of tunes even though the famous Jon Sa Trinxa is no longer there, but the new DJ is excellent, going from chilled acoustic numbers to electro without you even noticing.

Oh, and people are not afraid to take ALL their clothes off!

We went to a beach called Benirras on the north west of Ibiza for sunset. This was cool, very cool. It has two huge cliffs flanking the beach and a large rock in the middle of the sea, almost as if it was meant to be there; staggering scenery and quite spiritual. The beach area had a large crowd gathered around a small group of people playing bongos, drums, percussion and dancers. We thought they’d play ‘til sunset; boy were we wrong! They were wicked, and had a variety of beats and rhythms going for a very long time! The bass drum was unbelievable! You could hear it miles away and it was just a guy banging it with his hand! We left after 11pm and they were still going strong.

Monday 3rd September: This was mad, very mad. We decided that DC10 in the daytime would be a good idea. We arrived at about 3pm (it starts at 8am), and didn’t have to queue. The doorman was very friendly, which makes a change! DC10 has 2 rooms of music, one really really dark room and one really really light room. Be warned though, this is a club for proper clubbers. You won’t find any of the San An West Bank crew in there. These guys and girls had been “on it” for days it seemed! I have to mention the guy with the “I Love Ketamine” hat, which had a straw leading to a strange looking liquid! Hmm….He had apparently driven there with his mates and I was informed that they were all over the road, cutting up cars and hanging out of the windows! Then they all fell out of the car on arrival and crawled to the front door AND still got in! Quality.

A Cristiano Ronaldo look-a-like had been out for 3 days solid and was going about with an empty plastic coke bottle attached to his forehead! Not sure if it was the real Ronaldo, we were going to push him to see if he fell over but didn’t. BUT the highlight had to be the “Let’s Go Dancing Machine” banner! How funny is that? Some crazy foreigner with crazy foreign English who got into the DJ booth with it! I think my point is that the club was full of characters!

The music! The light room was tribal and tech until resident Tanya Vulcano came on and it was much more minimal. She is excellento and there was a superb atmosphere in there, with every kick drum getting a cheer. The dark room was more techno or tech house and it is really dark in there! You can also go out and sit in the sun or even go home and come back later if you like.

Tuesday 4th September: Our last night. Just not fair. We headed back to Space for Carl Cox and Fatboy Slim. Arriving at 11pm the queue was getting huge, and the wristbands get you in for a bargain 15 euros before midnight. We managed to catch Cox in the inside terrace, as he plays there till 12 and is then back on in the main room at 3am. The club was already rammed well before midnight and Cox comes on the mic now and again to announce who is playing where, which is a unique thing for a superstar DJ to do!

If there’s a better club than Space then I’ve not been there, and at midnight Mr Norman Cook began his 3 hour set. We weren’t that impressed for the first 45 minutes or so. He was playing tunes like Jump Around and a lot of his own stuff that we’d heard a million times before. However, the next 70 minutes was possibly the best I’ve ever seen! Honestly, it was incredible. Quite a lot of electro remixes of well known tunes, it just sounded brilliant. The ice-cannons were going off vertically, people were going mental and and the lasers were mind boggling! I’ve never seen lasers like that before.

Norman was also loving it, jumping around waving his hands everywhere and he had his own air horn that he was very fond of using! I also heard he was in the club early mingling with the punters. He did this bit where he was cutting in tunes quickly, which was superb then there was a bit of rock, Sunshine of Your Love and he finished with Bob Marley’s Bring Me Love. The whole place was singing! How many DJs can do that? I’ll tell you…1. I’d seen many a brilliant DJ this summer but they all simply mix tunes or use effects at the most, nobody does this.

The big man then came back on at 3am, and the lasers were now going insane. This was banging techno, none of that quirky weird stuff, and I think everyone would love it in there. It was incredibly busy and I heard the Terrace was too, where LTJ Bukem and Josh Wink were playing. A great line up and a great night, but that’s where the Ibiza 2007 adventure ended for us and I haven’t even mentioned Café Mambo and the incredible sunset or the fire jugglers.

For those who have never been….go, that’s my only advice! See you next year.

40/40 Ultimate Gold

Review written by: Kevin Boyle

kevin@uk-cl.co.uk