Croatia - Electric Elephant

It would be good to have an Ibiza Spotlight crew in attendance!

I got cheap Ryan Air flights and the tickets for the festival was only £70. It will cost me about the same as a 48 hour session in Ibiza for 11 days in Croatia! :D
 
Where you flying from m8? Only flights I can find are down south.I was hoping to fly from brum.
It's gunna be a task getting my mates on board :(
 
i may well be going, its some mates of mates who run it - they really do believe in doing things properly and with the right attitude so i would expect it be very happy and very non commercial

should be brilliant - deciding what to do - its this or big chill
 
Evolution said:
That over ibiza.......erm EPIC FAIL!
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Explain?

This isnt a replacement for Ibiza, merely an alternative which will work out substantially cheaper. This should also provide an opportunity to party with like minded people whilst avoiding a lot of the over commercialism that has unfortunately impacted Ibiza of late.

Good music, a lot cheaper, no growling bouncers with attitude, no bar girls who think they have the most important jobs in the world. It will be a refreshing change.

Ps. See you in Ibiza next year!
 
I'm going to Garden Festival in July which is basically the same festival just a different date. Flights were £100 each, festival ticked £70 each. Haven't found anywhere to stay yet but I'm really looking forward to something different! And I've heard the scenery is amazing in Croatia :)
 
Dirk Bigler said:
Explain?

This isnt a replacement for Ibiza, merely an alternative which will work out substantially cheaper. This should also provide an opportunity to party with like minded people whilst avoiding a lot of the over commercialism that has unfortunately impacted Ibiza of late.

Good music, a lot cheaper, no growling bouncers with attitude, no bar girls who think they have the most important jobs in the world. It will be a refreshing change.

Ps. See you in Ibiza next year!
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Well put - it should be brilliant - more soulfull tunes and less (hardly any) electro tho - which at my time of life is welcome!
 
So who is defo in so far?

1/ Dirk Bigler
2/ Carlos the Jackal


Anymore takers?

Found this from the Guradian...

When the country's best club Electric Chair closed in January this year, there was much rumour and debate about what the founders, The Unabombers, would do next. Few could have anticipated that after 13 years of subterranean clubbing below the pavements of Manchester and an ethic that revolved around "a basement, a red light and a feeling", they would emerge into the sunshine and resurface on the beautiful Dalmatian coast of Croatia.
Electric Elephant - the name of the new venture and nothing to do with Thomas Edison electrifying an elephant to show the danger of alternating current - is based on the same beautiful site as the Garden Festival in Petrcane, near Zadar.
Petrcane is a beautiful 900 year-old fishing village, but the festival is actually on a curving headland, partially hidden in trees, a short distance away. The site itself is a mini festival paradise - a circular beachfront bar built into the sea with a large wooden terrace from which to watch the glorious sunsets. The heart of the action is Barbarellas, a seventies discotheque in the round that was built for the original advent of disco, but laid derelict for years until rescued by current owners Nick Colgan and Eddie O'Callaghan.
Breaking out of the basements has also allowed Electriks to showcase a hithero-hidden side of their music tastes. So, while they brought along longtime sparring partners like the house and disco Idjut Boys and the Balearic Aficionado, they also brought a bunch of psychedelic folk artists including Adem, King Creosote, Pictish Trail, Quiet Village and Liz Green. One of the highlights of the festival was a late night impromptu live acoustic set by John Stammers on the roof of the beach bar, which is about as far as you can get from the bass heavy sweaty basements The Unabombers grew up in.
The other highlight was the daily boat parties on the Argonaut - a couple of hundred salty old disco heads and electric souls setting sail every afternoon on the Adriatic for parties hosted by Lowlife, Homoelectric v Horsemeat Disco and Electric Chair v the Idjut Boys. Even Alfredo, the original Ibiza legend was forced to ponder if Adriatic is the new Balearic.
So, no basement, and the red light is now the sun dropping into the sea but, more importantly, the feeling remains intact. Magical.
 
Dirk Bigler said:
So who is defo in so far?

1/ Dirk Bigler
2/ Carlos the Jackal


Anymore takers?

Found this from the Guradian...

When the country's best club Electric Chair closed in January this year, there was much rumour and debate about what the founders, The Unabombers, would do next. Few could have anticipated that after 13 years of subterranean clubbing below the pavements of Manchester and an ethic that revolved around "a basement, a red light and a feeling", they would emerge into the sunshine and resurface on the beautiful Dalmatian coast of Croatia.
Electric Elephant - the name of the new venture and nothing to do with Thomas Edison electrifying an elephant to show the danger of alternating current - is based on the same beautiful site as the Garden Festival in Petrcane, near Zadar.
Petrcane is a beautiful 900 year-old fishing village, but the festival is actually on a curving headland, partially hidden in trees, a short distance away. The site itself is a mini festival paradise - a circular beachfront bar built into the sea with a large wooden terrace from which to watch the glorious sunsets. The heart of the action is Barbarellas, a seventies discotheque in the round that was built for the original advent of disco, but laid derelict for years until rescued by current owners Nick Colgan and Eddie O'Callaghan.
Breaking out of the basements has also allowed Electriks to showcase a hithero-hidden side of their music tastes. So, while they brought along longtime sparring partners like the house and disco Idjut Boys and the Balearic Aficionado, they also brought a bunch of psychedelic folk artists including Adem, King Creosote, Pictish Trail, Quiet Village and Liz Green. One of the highlights of the festival was a late night impromptu live acoustic set by John Stammers on the roof of the beach bar, which is about as far as you can get from the bass heavy sweaty basements The Unabombers grew up in.
The other highlight was the daily boat parties on the Argonaut - a couple of hundred salty old disco heads and electric souls setting sail every afternoon on the Adriatic for parties hosted by Lowlife, Homoelectric v Horsemeat Disco and Electric Chair v the Idjut Boys. Even Alfredo, the original Ibiza legend was forced to ponder if Adriatic is the new Balearic.
So, no basement, and the red light is now the sun dropping into the sea but, more importantly, the feeling remains intact. Magical.
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get in, i can be friend to the stars! i was in the pub with one of them (unabombers) just yesterday evening. if you live in manc or are ever in Chorlton - they have a bar now called Elektrics - fine ales, a good jukebox and subbuteo.
 
Tell them to hurry up with the full line up then! :D

Also ask if I can get a slot, happy to do a truly fantastic sunset Balearic mix!
 
We found this place that has just had a major renovation and looks decent enough. I think a lot of people end up staying there. Only problem is you have to book it Saturday to Saturday. Though it is stumbling distance from the festival!

http://www.pinija.hr/en/

We arrive on the Wednesday so staying in Zagda and checking it out and getting a taxi on the Friday for the opening, it's only 15 minutes away. We will then move on Saturday morning and chill there for a week, probably need a few days to recover afterwards anyway!

This also did it for me 'You can spend the hot summer nights in the Pinija Club, the Croatian version od Caffe del Mar. This club, designed in the original style of the 1970s, is Zadar's nightlife hotspot that guarantees goos entertainment.' That and the crazy golf course swung it.
 
Cheers! How exactly does the festival work? Is it start Friday and finish Sunday non stop or is there closing times for each day? I cant find much info on the website yet, its still to be launched. We don't really want to come over for 7 days just from the friday to tuesday. Looks like we're going to have to stay in zadar??
 
Found an article below that says there are now opening and closing parties on the Thursday and Monday.

Also last years set times are here. Appears to start at 12.00 everyday and goes on to 6 the next morning. I will be fitting in my crazy golf probably between 6 am and 9am.

http://www.djhistory.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37038


The Beach Bar - by day a chilled balearic blissed out space party, then as sunset moves into dusk a party under the stars and in the sea!

The Live Stage - acoustic-folk, psychedelia, electronica from early evening to dusk.

Club Terrace - futuristic moonlit jackin in the trees and under the stars

The Club - For those who just can't stop, the party continues each night at Barbarella's club. Built in the round during the 70's a classic bit of eastern european architecture. And nothing has changed. Baldelli's Cosmic Club meets a 70's Pacha on a James Bond set. Open til 6am. Free to all Elephantee's

The Boat - The beautiful Argonaught sets sail daily for three magical parties on the sea. It sails from the village at 2pm each day and returns at 6pm, just walk along the sea front past the local food store and you'll see the beautiful Argonaught waiting for you! Remember tickets for the boat party are available each day on a first come first served basis. Please collect them from the collection point at the beach bar from 11am each morning.



The Electric Elephant Festival line-up for the 28th, 29th & 30th August 2009 in Petrcane, Croatia has just been announced.


Electric Elephant, the Croatian boutique festival run by the team behind Manchester’s legendary Electric Chair club, is pleased to announce a stellar DJ line-up for its second annual event, due to take place from
28 - 30 August 2009.


With an incredible list of international Djs to suit all tastes, the festival will see sunkissed and moonlit sets from Andrew Weatherall, Jesse Rose, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Bullion, Soul Jazz Soundsystem, The Unabombers, Danielle Baldelli, Andy Votel & Dom Thomas (Finders Keepers) Disco Bloodbath, Idjut Boys, Horse Meat Disco, Low Life, Aficionado, Basement Bogaloo, Emma (Chibuku), To The Bone, Andy Peek (C’mon Feet), Downtown Sounds and more DJs to be confirmed soon.


The equally mouth-watering line-up of live acts will be announced shortly.
This year promises to be bigger and better – more people, more DJs, more music and more of the magic – but the organisers promise to keep the intiamte spirit of the first festival alive and are capping the capacity at 2,000. “It’s about being inclusive but minus all the claptrap of generic money making events that have no soul and no toilets,” they say.


In the spirit of expansion, the festival will now have opening and closing parties on the Thursday and Monday, and following on from the success of last year’s boat parties, there’ll be more water-borne adventures to be had, with two boat parties setting sail every day including a folk boat and a very special boat party hosted by Andrew Weatherall.


All this for a recession-busting £69.99 ticket.
 
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