it *ahem* didn't end too happily the last time I posted on this thread... I reacted badly to a comment which I felt was directed at people like me, probably an overreaction, but the damage was done, the indignity getting called insufferable by the village idiots. I guess, the internetz is always a risk, things get misunderstood, jokes die on their arse, but life goes on..
In general though, I stay off this thread cos A. just about zero interests me and B. it doesn't reflect the reality of where Ibiza is at musically. When I see wiser heads moaning about stuff I instinctively agree, but then I remember the cooler gigs and parties which get zero hype on this thread ie the small stuff left to gather cobwebs in barely viewed posts in the smaller clubs section. Does anyone, for instance, mention Sigma or Lolas or Paradise Lost or parties like Flash, Gozo or Homies, or Vinyl Club or Blues Station, in fact an entire ecosystem of smaller bars playing reggae, hiphop, soul, rock, chillout, or (real) house? The obvious hangouts for music heads of advanced age?
Now I'm obviously an old bastard with zero relevance to anything, no doubt muted by at least 27 regulars, but I still love the island in my own way. I've spent the last 10 years fully immersed in mainland Spanish/Catalan culture, and try to support family businesses, hotels, restaurants, shops and real parties wherever we go. And the same applies across the water too. There are existential threats to the island's social, environment and economic model which a large % of this forum doesn't give a shit about, but for me they matter a lot more than the annual round of millionaire DJ musical chairs.
