Pizzaman87
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Party/Event: Tiësto at Privilege
Club: Privilege
Date: June 22, 2009
DJs: Three random guys, then Tiësto
Cost of entry: 39€ tickets bought from Ibiza-Spotlight.com
Cost of drinks: N/A, none bought.
Transport: Took the Discobus roundtrip from Playa den Bossa for 12€ total.
Review:
Tiësto at Privilege was a night I had been looking forward to for quite some time. Nyana was one of the first electronic CDs I ever owned, and Tiësto’s artist albums and remixes had never failed to impress me. Overall, the prospect of seeing one of the world’s former number one DJs at the world’s largest club sounded like a combination almost too good to be true—and in some ways it was.
Getting into the club didn’t take long as I had purchased tickets online through Ibiza-Spotlight and was given guest list entry. It should be noted that at the door they did check purses and pockets, and did frisk more so than any other club on the island. If your camera was found, you were charged 5€ to store it for the night. However, I lucked out and got my camera through security with no problems, and once inside, you could snap as many pictures as you wanted, as the bouncers were more concerned with troublemakers than those taking photographs.
In general, the walk into Privilege is shocking. The vast size of the place is purely jaw-dropping. The interior of the club itself didn’t have any apparently flashy design, other than dark walls, lots of balconies, and a MASSIVE ceiling. Quite simply put, the club looked like a gigantic airplane hangar.
In order to reach the main dance floor, from the entrance, you have to walk down a set a stairs which at times, could become quite busy. Once down on the main floor, there was a DJ booth situated in the middle of the space in front of you overtop a swimming pool. From here, if you look above and behind you, you can see the huge VIP area.
It was about 1:30 AM when I had arrived, only to find out that Tiësto still hadn’t started. I was a bit surprised by this as numerous posters throughout the island advertised a six hour solo set from Tiësto himself, but for over an hour, the anxious crowd was entertained by sipping on drinks and listening to three unnamed, mediocre-at-best DJs perform. Next—out of nowhere—a huge curtain in fell down in the distance, and Tiësto appears before a raucous crowd, who quickly rushed to an initially unapparent area in front of him. It was definitely a great entrance!
I quickly hurried over to this section of the club, only to find things packed should-to-shoulder as Tiësto started testing out how loud Privilege’s new audio system would go with the bass cranked all the way up. As his set wore on, the crowd was greeted by two lifeless dancers on either side of the DJ booth, then—another surprise—the walls behind Tiësto started lighting up various patterns and images, and smoke machines started going off. Things were off to a good start, but as time went on, I realized that my occasional excitement was coming from the random effects that were happening in the club, not from the DJ, the crowd, or the music.
In the end, for this to have been the same Tiësto I grew up listening to throughout my teenage years, I left the club that night unimpressed and unfulfilled. It’s an evening worth a look, but all things considered, I’ll probably check out Cocoon the next time I’m in Ibiza on a Monday.
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