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July 02 Creamfields -- leaving no stone unchurned
The reason I've never done PR is because I like people to like me. As a journalist I've elicited a couple of death threats and the odd angry phone call but nothing like the eye-rolling derision I suspect most publicists suffer silently. However, overly persistent press officers (in common with films and European hair styles) can actually actually reach a point where they are so bad they're good. Hats off to Cream. It is their thirteenth smashing season in Ibiza. They have umpteen stupidly huge festivals around the globe. Their flagship, Creamfields UK, is now a weekend festival with a stonkingly expensive line-up of A-list talent. They don't need to clamber into my inbox every three seconds to remind me how great they are. But they do. And while it makes me sigh and roll my eyes I am developing a warmth towards 'Rosie' for her Biblical persistence (if you're not familiar with the story of Abraham nagging God to spare Sodom & Gomorrah you a) probably had a life as a kid, not Sunday School and b) can read all about it here). Anyway, I digress. The lovely Rosie, whoever she may be, urgently wants you to know about a poll which reveals what Cream's faithful followers are most looking forward to at the festival. Personally, I find the answers much, much less revealing than the fact Creamfields commissioned a poll. That is so overkill it's brilliant. Anyway, I would hate for their hard work to go to waste so interested parties can read the results here.
July 01 Things I learned at Cocoon Ibiza...1. Sometimes it's worth getting out of bed at 3AM, throwing on some clothes and heading out to see what happens. 2. Some DJs are worth paying 20 euros for two hours on the dancefloor. Loco Dice is one of them. 3. If you're going to date a DJ, make sure it's Onur Ozer (below). Not only does the Turkish techno star have cheekbones that could cut crystal and insouciant rockstar cool, he also spent the whole night draped uxoriously over his girlfriend. They are clearly, in British tabloid parlance, "loved up."
4. Italians are tiny. Seriously. Pint-sized men in over-compensatory supersized sunnies everywhere, like heavily tattooed Lilliputians. 5. Flip-flops + broken glass = blood on the dancefloor. After dancing for hours in a (small) pool of my own blood at Cocoon last year I wore boots this time. It was some other poor girl stumbling around the club at 6AM with her toes sliced open. 6. Cocoon has embraced "Ibiza time." Either my watch is very fast or the island's supposedly strictly-enforced 6AM closing time was being cheerfully ignored. 7. 'Wolverine' is in. The "Luciano: The Early Years"-style porno 'tache has given way to grossly oversized burners that pay homage, intentional or not, to Hugh Jackman's X-Man character. Guys... just because you can grow a bizarre thicket on your cheeks doesn't mean you should.
June 26 Minus presents Contakt - no sign of intelligent life?Dear sweet loving lord... is Richie Hawtin for real? The erstwhile Detroit club kid turned minimal ubermensch seems to have been overdosing on Smallville: Superman The Early Years and Columbian exports (er, coffee?) Or he's a satirist to put Jonathan Swift to shame. There is simply no other explanation for Contakt. Gussied up in Jedi-like robes and sporting a ridiculous beard Richie and co. pose around a lightbox full of holes. An idiotically pretentious (and, I hope, tongue-in-cheek) intro refers to "an unknown cubical object" and a "clandestine excavation site," concluding, "its origins remain unclear but it seems certain to have been created by an intelligence far greater than our own" -- which is more than can be said for this dopey promotional gambit. Click into the site and you're treated to weird babble like "As guardian of The Cube Richie Hawtin has released the following statement: '...The Cube is a highly advanced communications device that responds positively to the presence of humans and interacts accordingly.'" A knowing jest or is Hawtin finally disappearing up his own backside? God only knows...
June 25 Sophisticated Funk and SuperMartXe whip up a StormWatching a really good club promoter at work is great fun. And I've been lucky enough to have a front row seat as Storm Ibiza has gently manoeuvred trans-Atlantic hip hop outfit Sophisticated Funk into bed with Spanish gay superclub SuperMartXe. The pair is taking over Manumission's old Friday night slot at Privilege, injecting fresh life and glamour into the World's Biggest Club (TM). No one thought the mix of hip hop and full-on SuperMartXe style sex would world except... promoters. It was Storm's Helen & Nikki and SuperMartXe's Oscar who cooked up the partnership, charming and cajoling everyone else to march to their beat. Now, with opening just days away (Friday, 27 June) they've turned completely nocturnal, working nightly into the wee hours (currently, they're the only people in Ibiza getting paler as summer progresses). Personally, I can't wait to see how opening night unfolds. But I suspect it won't be half as much fun as the "behind the scenes."
June 23 DC10 Ibiza - closed and silent
I can't quite believe it but my favourite club in the world (by a considerable margin) won't open today. DC10, shut down by the Spanish authorities, has started its 57 day closure order, leaving a gaping gray void in formerly colourful Monday afternoons. It seems silly to get sentimental over a club but it's hard not to when the crazy little white hut, crouched at the end of a runway, holds so many happy memories. Thankfully my best mate and I (above) rocked the arse off the opening party, walking out saying "that was the best day ever." Circoloco at DC10 is the last place in Ibiza where a party still feels like a party and where silliness and sublime music make hours flash past. Personally, I'm gutted to see it shut and I live here. If I were coming on holiday especially to go to DC10 (as I did for years) I would be furious. Friends of the club have started an online petition to have it re-opened, which you can sign here.
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