# The Ibiza Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Places\ **Created:** [March 13, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800 "2021-03-13T18:56:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 37
**Author:** ![howler](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/howler/32/28123_2.png) [@howler](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/howler)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800/730 "2024-04-02T18:37:22Z")
Yeah, heard that news a few weeks back. Everything’s up in the air atm. ---
**Author:** ![grantham\_disco](https://forum.testpressing.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@grantham\_disco](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/grantham_disco)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800/731 "2024-04-02T18:41:13Z")
Its liberating!! (& nothing to do with selling tickets) ---
**Author:** ![jolyon](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/jolyon/32/32255_2.png) [@jolyon](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/jolyon)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800/732 "2024-04-02T19:02:03Z")
All very odd. ---
**Author:** ![Nice2CU2CUNice](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/nice2cu2cunice/32/12127_2.png) [@Nice2CU2CUNice](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/Nice2CU2CUNice)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 9:23pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800/733 "2024-04-02T21:23:57Z")
I was there for that summer and staying with Claire’s sister Lois. Awkward watching from the side with her but I don’t think Mike got it up once lol ---
**Author:** ![Nice2CU2CUNice](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/nice2cu2cunice/32/12127_2.png) [@Nice2CU2CUNice](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/Nice2CU2CUNice)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800/734 "2024-04-02T21:59:47Z")
The split in the camp with Mike /Clare and Andy! Dawn that year is what really finished Manumission… I know it went on for a few years later but it was like walking into a shopping centre on Christmas eve the last few times I went… ---
**Author:** ![Chris](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/chris/32/13168_2.png) [@Chris](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/Chris)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 10:22pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800/735 "2024-04-02T22:22:54Z")
Only ever went to Manumission in Ibiza once in 1995. It was before the sex shows etc but the trashiness was already there. The year before were were at Black & White at Ku. Just a bit better… ---
**Author:** ![Nice2CU2CUNice](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/nice2cu2cunice/32/12127_2.png) [@Nice2CU2CUNice](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/Nice2CU2CUNice)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 11:28pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800/736 "2024-04-02T23:28:16Z")
The sex show was 1996. I remember flame Girl from Amsterdam came down either 95 or 96, she was a professional performer who would during her show could manage to stick her hand up her Ass… 😬 The crowd loved it ---
**Author:** ![ehdublyou](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/ehdublyou/32/26518_2.png) [@ehdublyou](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/ehdublyou)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 9:35am UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800/737 "2024-04-03T09:35:26Z")
She’d do well on Britain’s Got Talent. ---
**Author:** ![elzorro](https://forum.testpressing.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ea666f/32.png) [@elzorro](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/elzorro)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 9:48am UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800/738 "2024-04-03T09:48:50Z")
I mean, in the cold light of day, many years later, you have to wonder how the f\*\*\* that was considered something that was part of the Ibizan experience? Or any house music/club experience ? Madness. The Chisel Years. End of @howler ’s Golden Era for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Hierbas](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/hierbas/32/18779_2.png) [@Hierbas](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/Hierbas)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 9:58am UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800/739 "2024-04-03T09:58:45Z")
if can afford it will try and make it over to a Harvey (+ Malanga or Beat Hotel) but will see how the summer pans out. Musicwise, there is virtually nothing else that wouldn’t make you want to commit hara kiri. ---
**Author:** ![jolyon](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/jolyon/32/32255_2.png) [@jolyon](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/jolyon)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800/740 "2024-04-03T11:17:32Z")
I was thinking this earlier. It’s easy to forget how mainstream and naff “clubbing” was becoming by the mid 90s. Even at the underground end of it the “Balearic network” was basically a House version of the Chris Hill soul mafia. Add in the over commercialisation and growing cheesiness of the overground House scene (alcopops, fluffy bra, handbag, Jeremy fucking Healy, Ministry CDs, M People, Prog House landfill, corporate Ibiza etc) and the bland Strictly Rhythm-snore fests of a lot of US House focused nights … so much of the scene felt really quite dated and crap to me by the late 90s. Disco saved me. ---
**Author:** ![howler](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/howler/32/28123_2.png) [@howler](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/howler)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 1:07pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800/741 "2024-04-03T13:07:50Z")
I got so bored, I fucked off to NZ for a couple of years 😃. Was a pretty good time to be there, tbh, '96 & '97. Everything still felt fairly fresh and there were some decent smaller clubs in Auckland. ---
**Author:** ![jolyon](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/jolyon/32/32255_2.png) [@jolyon](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/jolyon)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 1:29pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800/742 "2024-04-03T13:29:52Z")
Happiness Stans, Indulge, Come Dancing, Heavenly Social parties at Turnmills, early UK Garage nights at The Chunnel … all my favourite nights in London during the mid to late 90s … all got a bit bugle and big beat at times though 😅 ---
**Author:** ![jolyon](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/jolyon/32/32255_2.png) [@jolyon](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/jolyon)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800/743 "2024-04-03T13:30:50Z")
Sorry this thread has veered well off topic 😬 ---
**Author:** ![AndyM](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/andym/32/14917_2.png) [@AndyM](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/AndyM)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800/744 "2024-04-03T13:32:11Z")
Happiness Stans - was that in that ramshackle place in Farringdon? Can’t remember the name. Lots of small rooms and stairs and always a good vibe ---
**Author:** ![jolyon](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/jolyon/32/32255_2.png) [@jolyon](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/jolyon)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800/745 "2024-04-03T13:34:05Z")
Yep! Brilliant fun … different rooms, loads of disco and funk, quite retro I suppose, and a long way away from the commercial House scene (as I saw it at the time). The venue was Smithfield’s. ![IMG_5781](https://forum.testpressing.org/uploads/default/original/3X/e/c/ec1c192a677544b58b52f80ff290a9cf2cd09b80.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![AndyM](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/andym/32/14917_2.png) [@AndyM](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/AndyM)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800/746 "2024-04-03T13:53:07Z")
Yes had some great nights in there! ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/joe/32/26080_2.png) [@Joe](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 2:12pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800/747 "2024-04-03T14:12:51Z")
A piece in the evening standard about Alfredo > **[Ibiza is paradise on earth for dance lovers, yet it still doesn’t look after...](https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/ibiza-nightclub-dj-alfredo-fundraiser-b1149158.html)** > > I’m not being funny but… with only weeks away from a new season in Ibiza, I’d like to spare a thought. Who here has had their moment of magic in Ibiza? Or on any dancefloor listening to the sounds of their favourite DJs and creating special memories? ---
**Author:** ![reubenturner](https://forum.testpressing.org/user_avatar/forum.testpressing.org/reubenturner/32/22676_2.png) [@reubenturner](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/reubenturner)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800/748 "2024-04-03T14:15:50Z")
Five clubs in one! ---
**Author:** ![elzorro](https://forum.testpressing.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ea666f/32.png) [@elzorro](https://forum.testpressing.org/u/elzorro)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800/749 "2024-04-03T17:13:12Z")
Very true. By the time I moved to London (from Brighton) in 98 I mainly went out to our own small parties playing reggae, hip hop, some house, eclectic/balearic bits and increasingly disco/edits. Very few memories of going to actual London clubs by then. [Previous page](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800.md?page=36) [Next page](https://forum.testpressing.org/t/the-ibiza-thread/1800.md?page=38)