Clockwork Orange at Es Paradis

Ibizajames1980

Ibizajames1980

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Anyone attending this? I never went to it when it had it's original run as first visited the Island in 2003 and missed last years by a few hours. Can't wait for the 24th
 
I used to go to Clockwork Orange back in the mid 90s - it was a hedonists delight of wrongness - I loved it! I will be in Ibiza on the 24th July too and have considered going for old times sake but not sure if they can re-create the 90s vibe?
 
There is 15 of us going as well. Last year it was amazing and the party on the Sunday at Sands was the best day I've had clubbing in years. Loads of people happy and up dancing. No one stood round on their phones trying to look cool it was brill.
 
I was there last year & heading out on this Saturday for a fortnight so will be attending Es Paradis again next Friday.

The Sunday at Nassau Tanit beach looks like it'll be a special day as well.
 
ive been looking forward to this all year, cannot wait, brilliant music and friendly crowd the way it was and the way it should be, it's all about the old skool and always will be.
 
i very rarely go out thesedays at my age approaching my mid 40's but im going all out for this , the missus too who has never been to IBIZA before is in for an absolute treat.
 
Dirk Bigler said:
Any reviews yet?
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I was hoping to get to Sands today for a quick hour on the way back from Sa Trinxa. We were covered in sand (no pun intended), i couldn't talk me chicks into going:( and the missus has refused point blank to drive.
According to various sources on twitter, its "Going off" right now
 
I went to Es Paradis on Friday and I can honestly say it was the best night I've had in Ibiza for a very long time, if ever! It's absolutely true what everyone says about the atmosphere being different, despite being of the right age, I missed out on the original Clockwork Orange parties and so it was fantastic to get a feel for what it used to be like.

I decided to get there earlier than I normally would as I guessed, being a special, one-off party, that it would be busy from the off and it turned out to be the case. I got in at about 00:45 and it was already fuller than peak time on other nights I've been so the omens were already good! I had a bit of a funny incident when I was at the exit of the toilets, while fiddling to get my ear plug filters out of their tiny plastic bag, two girls on their way past stopped and said "No, no, you mustn't do that out here, they'll chuck you out!", I tried to explain it wasn't what they thought it was but the were having none of it and then tried to persuade me to sell them any "spares" I had! It took me about 5 minute to get it thought to them that they were ear-plug filters not tablets!

It's hard to put my finger on exactly what was different about the crowd, but it just had a totally different, friendlier feel to it than any other party I've been to. With the exception of one twat there wasn't a mobile phone in sight and, to be fair, that twat was me :-/ (I couldn't resist a grabbing a quick vid when Make The World Go Round was dropped and everyone went crazy!). I apologise for being that person! At most parties there seems to be the odd bunch of vest-wearing or topless meat heads that will, from time to time, start trying to wind people up or be a bit aggressive but, again, none of it here whatsoever, I honestly didn't see one person that didn't look like they weren't having the time of their lives.

I could go on, but I won't, but having spent well over 1000€ just to come to this party for the weekend I can honestly say I don't regret spending a cent of it! The only slight negatives were a couple of technical failures in the booth late on and the poor quality of the "supplies" I brought with me, but neither were sufficient to make the slightest dent in what was an utterly fantastic night.
 
I've long since given up worrying bout what other people think, as far as I'm concerned it's all about the atmosphere generated by the DJ on the night and the way they construct their set rather than pinning myself to any particular genre. Some of the best times I've had are when the DJ is good enough to get away with playing something really off the wall. For example, a few months back I was at a party in Frankfurt and the DJ was playing a really good, banging set and all of a sudden dropped in Don't Worry, Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin. Now, I can already feel the collective eye-roll, and under normal circumstances I would rather have a red-hot poker inserted into my ears than listen to that, however, the crowd went ballistic, everyone shoved their hands in the air and it was a real hair-on-end moment, before he dropped straight back into his thumping set. Meanwhile, in the main stadium the likes of Avicii, Aoki et al. were being paid probably a thousand times more than this no-name DJ in the tent yet struggled to get any engagement from the crowd at all, most of the "big names" were downright embarrassing to be honest. Similarly, despite being fairly ambivalent towards techno, I saw Villalobos (I think for Sven Väth's birthday bash) at Cocoon in Frankfurt a few years back and he was superb! He played the back room with a few hundred people and no-one left until the end!
 
TimmiT said:
I went to Es Paradis on Friday and I can honestly say it was the best night I've had in Ibiza for a very long time, if ever! It's absolutely true what everyone says about the atmosphere being different, despite being of the right age, I missed out on the original Clockwork Orange parties and so it was fantastic to get a feel for what it used to be like.

I decided to get there earlier than I normally would as I guessed, being a special, one-off party, that it would be busy from the off and it turned out to be the case. I got in at about 00:45 and it was already fuller than peak time on other nights I've been so the omens were already good! I had a bit of a funny incident when I was at the exit of the toilets, while fiddling to get my ear plug filters out of their tiny plastic bag, two girls on their way past stopped and said "No, no, you mustn't do that out here, they'll chuck you out!", I tried to explain it wasn't what they thought it was but the were having none of it and then tried to persuade me to sell them any "spares" I had! It took me about 5 minute to get it thought to them that they were ear-plug filters not tablets!

It's hard to put my finger on exactly what was different about the crowd, but it just had a totally different, friendlier feel to it than any other party I've been to. With the exception of one twat there wasn't a mobile phone in sight and, to be fair, that twat was me :-/ (I couldn't resist a grabbing a quick vid when Make The World Go Round was dropped and everyone went crazy!). I apologise for being that person! At most parties there seems to be the odd bunch of vest-wearing or topless meat heads that will, from time to time, start trying to wind people up or be a bit aggressive but, again, none of it here whatsoever, I honestly didn't see one person that didn't look like they weren't having the time of their lives.

I could go on, but I won't, but having spent well over 1000€ just to come to this party for the weekend I can honestly say I don't regret spending a cent of it! The only slight negatives were a couple of technical failures in the booth late on and the poor quality of the "supplies" I brought with me, but neither were sufficient to make the slightest dent in what was an utterly fantastic night.
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Brilliant review. Thank you.
 
We went on a stag do 8 of us 34 and over and 3 in the 40s and we all knew what to expect. But we had 1 in our group who is 24. All he kept saying all night was how everywhere he looked he saw older men and women, off their heads, dancing non stop and smiling from ear to ear, loving it! He ain't much of a clubber but said it was the best night he had ever been to. It won't be his last!!

Really a superb night. Depeche Mode just can't get enough and the eurythmics sweet dreams were my highlights! flew back yesterday afternoon so sadly missed the beach party. But was chuffed to be a small part of the clockwork weekend!

I've been clubbing since 98 and Ibiza since 2003 and it was one of the best nights I've ever had. Such an Amazing and beautiful Nightclub! Roll on the Dates for clockwork 2016!
 
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