Looking for a venue in Ibiza for MINT

you could try the west end, somewhere like Play2. Cant imagine there is much scope for scouse house outside of that one ****ed up alley way of a road.

I'd be inclined to say give up though. The music you're into is ****.

Hope that helps.
 
what a lovely warm spotlight welcome. can anybody give a more positive response?
 
you could try the west end, somewhere like Play2. Cant imagine there is much scope for scouse house outside of that one ****ed up alley way of a road.

I'd be inclined to say give up though. The music you're into is ****.

Hope that helps.

blummin eck, dont judge us all on that. I'm not going to pretend as someone brought up on the drome and kinetic that I havent been lured by more 'high octane' stuff at one point in my past!8)

Problem is, I would guess, is that Ibiza would appear to be relatively set in its ways in terms of music, daft as that may seem. I am so very far from being the expert that a lot of others on here are, but its got to be able to fill a club to justify letting the venue out. So may i guess a bar, and probably a west end bar at that is going to be easist particularly if your starting it off, good luck - no doubt others will pile in with more informed responses than mine when.:)
 
Alex, if you care to check out the website and look at the mix link on the forum you will see a range of music from old skool, Funky, Hard House and Scouse. Ive played them all but particularly enjoy the hard house style.

http://www.mixupload.com/index.php?showuser=39656

But thank you for your short un-educated input you loser:lol: .

We give people a chance at MINT if they are any good as its a hard industry to get into because of small minded people such as yourself. Some of the kids coming thru are really good and with our new youth studios opening soon we are encouraging them to develop any talent they may have.

Everyone is entitled to enjoy whatever music they want. But according to you they dont.

But thanks to anyone with constructive views guys.

Sean
 
i am sure if someone had the guts to open a bar playing that style of music.it would go down well.aatw sell loads of tunes and have a massive following in holland and liverpool.
you never know one day it could take off big time in ibiza.

no need to swear about anyones taste in music.i must say ibiza.s music had really changed since the early days back in 82/3.there was not samples in those days just two tunes played over each other.the balearic beat was born.........
sometimes you dont know your dancing to a aatw track.aatw is the clubland cds you buy its the label they are on=aatw
 
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Sean,

ibiza, as i'm sure you know, has a huge range of dance music events and has done it all from hip hop to drum 'n' bass to jungle to trance to hard house, whatever. so don't let promoting a type of genre of dance music put you off.........

san antonio is your best bet for a starting place for venues. in the past events like sundissential, HQ, Nucleuz, tidy, lashed have all had reasonable success (at eden mainly) running stand alone nights but they have also done this with some serious finance to promote them.

what sort of size venue are you looking for?? presuming that it's small to medium size venues, then your options are 2 fold.

1) back room of a club promoted by another night.......i.e. an alternative to the main event , which will broadly appeal to the punters attending the main night. E.g. Judgement Sundays, Gatecrasher Classic, euphoria/tidy @ es paradis. The problem you will have here is many of these nights have established support/2nd room events and breaking them will be difficult. The only way to do so is by marketing the old fashioned way or better still going to ibiza and flogging them the idea. (look at the confirmed club listings section of the forum for potential contacts) if the main promoter likes your ideas then they could give you a shot in the back room, even if just for one night or a few hours. do your best to figure out which nights have strong back rooms and which nights are actually looking for a decent guest support.

2) Go for your own event in a smaller venue, like a preparty bar or smaller club in the west end. The trouble here is that, historically, many of the venues such as nightlife and play 2 have their own DJs who play a wide range of more commercially tinged dance music every night, they often don't host guest nights every night of the week. The other problem is that trying to obtain one of these venues is almost impossible unless you are over in ibiza doing it face-to-face. Think of it this way, in the UK most clubs open 3-5 nights a week and always looking for events in order to fill the clubs, so when you come along with your night, if they like it - you're in. In ibiza everything is open 24/7 and therefore a bar is more likely to employ a resident DJ (even all the bars in the west end do) to play the music most likely to appeal to as many customers as possible. These venues will be free to get into as well, so if you did get a gig you'd have to do everything for free and cover any promotion of the night you wanted to do.

I think the main problem for you sean is that the type of venue you're event would be most suited too (e.g. a small-medium sized club) doesn't really exist in ibiza other than a few in the west end and the issue here is that no entrance fee is paid so guest events/nights are not promoted in the same way as they would be if an entrance fee was being charged. In context, the place will be being plugged for the drinks deals and fit girls, rather than for your music.

Last but not least, 100% of bar owners in the west end or in the bay of san an would allow you to host a night at their place if they thought you could pull in the numbers (thus, increase bar takings). The only realistic way for you to do this is to be pounding the streets and selling your night to them.............it's quite likely someone will give you a chance in their bar one night (or part of one night, if the music is putting off the punters).............if you get the chance, work your bollox off promoting the niche and getting all your friends in there, and make sure the word spreads around the workers too as often they dictate to the masses what/where is hot and what/where is not.

good luck!:D:D
 
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carl cox does pull them a bit.,space opening party sees 30.000 people through the doors in a day.he gets a wage plus part of the bar takings.the opening party pays wages for the whole year,so everyparty after that is profit
 
woody are you sure about your figures? 30,000 in one day seems an awful lot of people!
 
I would guess that the first figure may involve all the pass out and re-entries? allows space to big up the numbers without strictly telling a porky pie?

Also there is a thread on here with people who appear to be in the know detailing how much they get paid for it - something bonkers like 40 grand a pop for the coxmeister. And people have a go at footballers for their behaviour!?
 
Am i missing something here... What is "Scouse House"?!?!?!?!?!

Good luck with the venture mate...

If i were you, id get out to ibiza about now, or in a fortnight, and phucking kiss eden's arse all day and all night, cos i reckon you might be able to squeeze the 2nd room on one of their harder nights...

Otherwise i think its gonna be the West End, and to be brutal, i think it'd be horrendously tough and hard work to make a new night stand out from the rest in the west end...

It'd all depend on whether any more bars like Plastik and Orange Corner pop up... If you're not sure what they are, they're nice bars in the middle of... to be frank... a load of sick-smelling hell holes!

San An is trying to shift that West End image so its a matter of time, and i reckon you could pull off the night in a "classier" bar once that happens.

But get to Eden, and be a persistent, annoying C U Next Tuesday until they say yes!

good luck
 
Summum in the bay of San Antonio might be a "bigger than bar" location that would suit you but i don't know anything about its avaliability or how you would look into this

Maybe one of the Ibicenco mods could help with that
 
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