Its just over 4 weeks now until we fly out and with the Cream opening party kicking off tonight it seems apt that I post my second blog. All those jammy mofo’s are over there now, sun going down and all there night is going to entail now is 8 or 9 hours of deep tech trickery and massive trance monsters from PVD and co!! A night of lazers, hands in the air, walls of sound, ice blasts, hugging strangers, indoor sunnies and out and out Creamy goodness!! Jealous!!

So they all get to smash it to the sounds of John O’Callaghan and I write to you from my appartment in Manchester, I may not be there in person but I am certainly there in spirit (thank god my girlfriend loves techno too). Daily texts between the lads are flowing with excitement for when we go and we are counting down the days, holiday clothes are being bought and an untold amount of sit ups are being painstakingly ploughed through! The rituals have started, podcasts downloaded to keep up on the summer bangers, calenders checked and re-checked to make sure we hit the clubs we want and catch the tunes we need,  the websites and rumour room scoured and verified to make sure we are with the cool and sexy, young and trendies! We WILL get the most out of our time!!

I really urge everyone who reads this blog and is making a pilgrimage this summer to do everything that is in your power to take one new person with you this year, I will personally buy a return flight for anyone who isnt 100% hooked after one night!

Peace, Love and Techno…

Hello everyone

Summer is here!!! My name is Paul and Gary has very kindly let me write a blog on his site that I hope will appeal to Ibiza veterans and newbies alike. If you have already made a pilgrimage then I am sure at some point you have struggled to explain to your friends or people who arent quite up on the scene how special a place Ibiza is? If you havent made it there yet then I urge you to read this blog, believe the hype and have the time of your life at the centre of the universe!!!!

You cant really put your finger on it but there is something about that island and the beautiful crazies that inhabit it that is so infectious that it has us thinking about it 24 hours a day 7 days a week until that time comes back round that we can shake reality loose and be who we want to be in a sea of hedonism and music!

I am going to Ibiza again this summer on the 17th of July with a small group of friends, all white isle veterans and what I want to bring to you is first of all a countdown of what we are looking forward to, past exploits, expectations and then ultimately diary of our experiences for the 7 days we are over there, a blow by blow account of what the island has to offer!

The fact of the matter is however that you could get one hundred people writing one hundred accounts of their experiences and all will be as dazzling and as different as the last! Ibiza addicts all over the world  I hope you enjoy reading about our time on planet Ibiza and it sets you up for your summer of peace, love and music!

Much Love

Paul

Every summer the We love crew do a wicked job of producing podcasts that make you wish you were there! The podcasts will be weekly for the summer and this week episode one is out and its the build up top the opening. There is a feature with Groove Armada who have made amazing music that always reminds me of Ibiza and the people behind We Love Ibiza.

Check out this weeks podcast in the player below.

The opening of We love is this Sunday coming and the lineup is:

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Update** New Images and DJ set download links

The opening party for Ushuaia is happening right now and you can check it out on www.ibizasonica.com

The advertised lineup to the opening party is

Luciano
Reboot
Michel Cleis
Robert Dietz
Ernesto Ferreyra

The party is on from 3pm (ibiza time), till midnight

If you want to re live the Ushuaia opening party or hear what it was like, then check out these links to the live recorded sets.

Ushuaia Opening Part 1

Ushuaia Opening Part 2

Source: Ibiza Spotlight
Images: Ibiza Sonica Facebook
Live Sets: Mixcloud

Cream really are ‘Cream of the crop’ when it comes to putting on parties in Ibiza. Love the night or hate it, Cream have been putting parties on in Ibiza for so long now (17 years) it is never questioned if the nights will be busy because they are.

Over the years Cream has seen of other great British clubs such as GodsKitchen who also once graced Amnesia as well as Gatecrasher who never really took off. 12 years ago, people like Seb Fontain were the crowd pullers filling out Amnesia, now its paul van dyk running the show at Cream.

In 2011 Cream will have 3 residents, keeping with the trance edge cream has, PVD and Above and Beyond who will be joined with Eddie Helliwell for the summer, None of them are playing every week but they are residents.

The notable night this year has to be Creams birthday on the 4th August (recorded for radio 1 weekend night maybe?) which will see the Terrace become the main room which is something i would love to see but have never seen for myself.

Thursday 4th August

Main Room
Calvin Harris (DJ Set)
Laidback Luke
Sidney Samson

Mixmag Terrace
Paul van Dyk (Special Mixmag Terrace Set)
Ferry Corsten
Gareth Wyn

I believe the 4th July will also be a great night on the terrace with the size matters party

Thursday 14th July

Main Room
Eddie Halliwell
Above & Beyond
John O’Callaghan

Mixmag Terrace presents Size Matters Vs Phazing
Dirty South
AN21 & Max Vangeli (B2B)
Kim Fai

Some of the notable people missing this year are definitely Eric Prydz, i would be very surprised if he wasn’t in Ibiza this year meaning he is either playing for someone else or he has his own night which has been rumoured.

The second person missing is Annie Mac, only a couple of years back she was a resident, this year missing completely, her popularity has risen in this time leading me to think she may also set up her own night at Eden maybe?

If you would like to see the full lineup, please check out my cream @ amnesia 2011 blog post

Source: Cream

This year the Ibiza Rocks after show party will be held in Es Paradis on Wednesdays.

Ibiza Rocks is held every Wednesday in 2011 at the Ibiza Rocks hotel, after every gig, there is an after show party, in the past it was Reclaim The Dancefloor, for 2011 it seems to be the Ibiza Rocks after show party.

Everyone who goes to the Ibiza Rocks hotel for the gig will get free entry to Es Paradis for the after party if they go before 1:30am.

No word yet on the residents for 2011 but you can expect big names to be entertaining.

Source: Facebook

Cafe Mambo have just given a rough date for the opening of Cafe Mambo for the 2011 season.

They have just tweeted

This will put the opening at around the 13th May, this puts the opening at around 1 week before the Ibiza Music Convention which all ties in very nicely

Source: Twitter

If your anything like me, you will always make time when you’re in Ibiza to get to the shops that sells all the clubs merchandise, The things you can buy in the shops in Ibiza (pacha shop, mambo shop, space shop that big shop on the corner in PDB!!) you generally can’t really find anywhere else.

Today however i have stumbled across the Pacha online shop which currently has a sale on.

http://pachacollection.com is an online shop selling a range of the clothes that you can buy from the shops in Ibiza, They don’t seem to have everything but if you like the clothing range that Pacha produce then its well worth a visit.

As an update to this post, you can also buy Pacha merchandise for a really good price at www.eivissasunset.co.uk.

There isn’t much more to say about Circo Loco that hasn’t already been said by me 1000 times!

If you feel like a bit of Crazy Circus action this Christmas, then you actually have a few options. Firstly, you can take a trip to Sankeys in Manchester on Boxing day.

Sunday 26th December
10:00pm till 6:00am
Kevin Saunderson
Art Department
Boris Werner
DJ Wild
System of Survival

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If you ask me what i thought the stand out night of 2010 was, i would probably say Cadenza. Luciano has always had a great following and his Cadenza night seemed to be mentioned by everyone.

I didn’t get to the night myself but i did go to the Ushuaia opening party that had the Cadenza boys playing, the amount of people who crammed the beach last night was crazy and probably why the party got stopped a couple of weeks later!!

I really expect Cadenza to play a large part of the 2011 season, id like to see a more organised pre party for people to go to (one that’s going to stay open) because when it was on, it was on!!

Cadenza in 2011 will throw one of the first parties in Ibiza, Cadenza will take over Pacha for the Cadenza showcase night which will start from 12 midnight in Pacha in Ibiza town.

Lineup:

Cesar Merveille
Robert Dietz
Maayan Nidam

Source: Facebook