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The History Of Ku

Gary — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:41:14 +0000

For me, Privilege and Amnesia are the two clubs i see as being the original foundations of the clubbing scene in Ibiza, right or wrong that’s how i picture it. A couple of weeks ago a i published some video’s of Amnesia closing party in 1989. Recently Ibiza Spotlight have written an article about the history of Ku which later got renamed as Privilege.

If it interests you like it does me then take a read, there are some great photo’s with the article as well

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Amnesia Closing Party 1989

Gary — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:34:11 +0000

If you have read my blog for long enough you will know how much i love old footage / imagery of Ibiza, It doesn’t matter who you are, the more time goes on the more you think the past is better, it’s an unfortunate fact of life!! ‘The End Of Ibiza’ has been predicted almost every year over the last 12 years ive been going. The restrictions on clubs shutting at 6am many years ago signalled the end, then the change of council toughening up on licences, that was going to finish off Ibiza, then DC10 got shut and daytime parties were stopped, that was another round of people predicting the end of Ibiza, surly there is nothing left to go for eh?

Well i still say that no change has happened in recent times that would top off the changes that were enforced when the clubs in Ibiza were forced to put a roof on their activities. For me, this would have been the change in the law that would cripple my experience of Ibiza, fortunately i was never lucky enough to experience this, i say fortunately because i don’t know what im missing out on!!

Saying all this, i do love seeing clubs without a roof on, it’s very rare that footage is put online but today i spotted a tweet from Amnesia which was a link to footage of Amnesia closing party in 1989! The footage is come from testpressing.org and they have 5 videos.

I hope you enjoy

Source: TestPress.org

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Amnesia Closing Party 1989

Classic Ibiza

Gary — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:12:15 +0000

Ibiza has been attracting an international crowd since day 1! you may not believe this but people were going to ibiza to party way before the British decided to invade in masses every summer. In music terms the word classic’s is thrown around every day, CD’s are released and if you listen to a classic’s cd it probably wont go back past 1999/98. I’m fond of these Cd’s and scared at the same time cause what is now classed as a classic is what was cutting edge when i started going to Ibiza!!

To me classic Ibiza goes back a lot further, classic Ibiza to me is a time before it was possible for me to go there, it wa a time that if i had a time machine i would love to go back and experiance. Classic ibiza to me is when all the clubs were open air, Es Paradis was a garden people danced in, Amnesia resembled a barn and Ku (privilege) looked like someones swimming pool! How do i know this? cause ive seen the pictures!

Its sad that its something that can never be experienced again but with hindsight at the time maybe they would never have believed what Ibiza has become. i have pictures here and if i find more i will add to this post. I love the fact that you can still see which clubs are in the pictures as for two of them the main features of the clubs from back then are still in the clubs now which makes me feel like there is still a part of the old Ibiza that started of the Ibiza we know still in the clubs we know and love.

Ive also found a few video’s that are in Ibiza, they are not all dance music but they are still the clubs we love!

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Please leave some comments on this post and lets try and get some remanising on the go! if you ever went to the clubs like this then tell us a story!

Freddie Murcury performing at Ku in 1987

Sven Vath @ Ku 1990

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