Carl Cox reveals plan to build a new Space Ibiza

Can't remember what event I attended in the wake of the Manchester bombings, but the fact that the ramped up security was more concerned about weapons getting in actually put me more at ease about getting other contraband in
 
cunninghamali said:
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Looks like Carl Cox doing a space tour!
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This is tragic, and completely misses the point. Times change, people need to move on. Even worse to wring the thing to death. He is worse than anyone in trying to leverage the name for his financial gain.

Space epitomized a place and time in history, it was special and iconic for that reason. Some of us can count ourselves lucky to have experienced just how incredibly special that was, and the memories are there for those that did. BUT IT CAN NOT BE RECREATED!!! Now matter how hard people want to.
 
john454 said:
This is tragic, and completely misses the point. Times change, people need to move on. Even worse to wring the thing to death. He is worse than anyone in trying to leverage the name for his financial gain.

Space epitomized a place and time in history, it was special and iconic for that reason. Some of us can count ourselves lucky to have experienced just how incredibly special that was, and the memories are there for those that did. BUT IT CAN NOT BE RECREATED!!! Now matter how hard people want to.
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I am going to this event, but i'd still be going if it was just a Carl Cox event without the Space branding, so I agree with your point.

I support the return of Space if they find a suitable venue in Ibiza and go for a 'no VIP area' vibe. I've thought that redeveloping Sankeys would work. But I've never liked taking these nightclub brands 'on tour' as it often is just a few signs and banners shoved up in an unrelated venue that has a totally different vibe.
 
I've seen Space-branded parties in London that featured one-half of Groove Armada, Tania Vulcano and Huxley. Even if you think Cox is the antichrist, at least he represented that club far more than that cobbled-together line-up. I'm not a big fan of the clubs on tour phenomena either. But if it's going to be done, where Space is concerned I'd rather it gets done with Cox who held a residency there for 15-years, than a bunch of random acts.
 
Digital2013 said:
I am going to this event, but i'd still be going if it was just a Carl Cox event without the Space branding, so I agree with your point.
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Exactly, Cox is enough of brand in his own name that he doesn't need to do this.

Before I first went to Ibiza, I used to look at pictures of Space, Amnesia etc in mixmag etc and wonder just what 'ibiza' was. There was no insta etc, so it was impossible to have any real expectation or pre-conceived ideas, maybe just some stories from some older kids in the pub that went a couple of years before.

Then you go, you take the disco bus from San An and arrive at what feels like the personification of hedonism. Pure joy. It was like experiencing a life without limits for a brief moment it time. Surrounded by people from all over. Then the morning comes and you have a wrist band slipped on your wrist for 10e of re-entry. You que up outside while they sweep the floor and go back in. What the f**k. Goosebumps thinking about it.

Then back to blighty. Back to your town or village. Just memories of a moment or place that could have all quite easily have been a dream. No trace, only your memories.

I think for everyone who was lucky enough to experience this time (and before) in Ibiza, we still associate these moments with our clubbing there, even as it has evolved dramatically. My point against reviving Space, is that it's symbolic of this point in time. Not to say any worse or better (though I have an opinion, just different). A unique experience before homogeneous club culture, Facebook and Tripadvisor.

When you first went to Ibiza, it was in search of something. Space was more than just a club, more than just music. It should be left to stand on its own, revered and mythologised, not bastardised.
 
I would have it in San Antonio!

Bossa these days is an absolute dive - the glory days of Bora Bora and the original Space are gone and the resort has nothing left to offer.

If this is a completely newly built club it needs to be viewed as a new project and I think doing it in a totally new resort/location makes perfect sense in order to make it easier to distance it from the original club and avoid everyone comparing it as we have all done with Hï and Space.
 
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