Live music in Ibiza 2005

Glastonbury-style music festival for Ibiza, June 2005

From the Times Online:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1775670,00.html

September 12, 2005

Ibiza gets Glastonbury Groove
By Adam Sherwin

The famously-flooded rock festival will take a holiday on the sun-soaked rave island next year

IBIZA’S golden beaches will replace the flooded fields of Glastonbury when the hippie holiday destination stages next summer’s leading rock festival.
Glastonbury is taking a year off to allow farmer Michael Eavis’s fields, and residents, a break. Ibiza is seizing an opportunity to transform itself from a drug-fuelled clubbers’ paradise into the holiday home of live rock music.

Kaiser Chiefs said they hoped to join the headliners at the three-day weekend event in June. Other groups who may appear include Oasis, Snow Patrol, Goldfrapp, Franz Ferdinand and Hard-Fir.

The festival will incorporate outdoor stages as well as Manumission, Europe’s largest superclub, which can hold 10,000 people.

It intends to maintain Glastonbury’s “hippie” ethos, with street traders welcome but corporate sponsorship restricted. Bands may perform well into the early hours thanks to Ibiza’s relaxed licensing laws.

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Matthew Herbert's Plat du Jour

Matthew Herbert's Plat du Jour

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Matthew Herbert recording a chicken

Ok, so far Mr Herbert is not planning to come to Ibiza but he should.

This is from the web site of his new album, http://www.platdujour.co.uk/:

"On stage we will be bringing a chef with us who will be attempting to alter mood and enhance the music with smells. There will also be a drummer playing a drum kit made only from items brought from Tesco, Britain's biggest supermarket. There will be three renowned jazz musicians - Dave O'Higgins, Pete Wraight and Phil Parnell - capturing live samples and triggering them though midi controllers. Finally I will be attempting to bring it all together sonically, technically and hopefully musically. There will be visuals presented by fine artist Lenka Clayton, who has attempted to interpret the process by which I have created the music, rather than simply document it...

"The structure of the live shows and the way it will tour will have at its core the same principles of the record. We will ask local promoters to source local food producers to create a small market before and after the show. It will also require a committed absence of pre-packaged and processed food from the backstage area. No more cheap sandwiches, crisps or cans of coke."
 
Re: Matthew Herbert's Plat du Jour

Dr Mick said:
[a drummer playing a drum kit made only from items brought from Tesco
Click to expand...

Surely the 'Mercado Mafia' of SYP et al will denounce this to the policia leading to the taping up of his tupperware snare drum? :P
 
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