Space Closing 2016

Oh no. This is way too graphic for my liking. What pic will be next? Pepe being dragged out by his feet?!
 
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Beckiboo said:
We saw a guy going round in the main arena pretending to be drunk/wasted putting his hands in guys pockets/girls bags. Luckily my other half noticed his wallet was bringing moved and jumped out the way. Shocking that people would go on a night out to do that[/QUOTE
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unbelievable:evil::evil:
 
Just got my goody bag from the office inside the club if anyone didn't get theirs
 
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The_millsy said:
Lovely mixmag review of Paul Reynolds set.

http://mixmag.net/feature/spaces-final-closing-fiesta/38
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Thank you the millsy for the link. Everything here summarizes exactly my feelings about the sunset terrace.

I was wanting to make a summary of my night to share it with you anyway, so this was the perfect beginning.

As far as I can remember, the best ever room to party in all of Ibiza has always been the Space sunset terrace for me, with the vibes, the daylight/sunset, the sometimes not so famous DJs (but sometimes true Ibiza legends) and the proximity with the DJ booth, this place is smaller of course than the terrazza or main room, the sound is not that loud as in the rest of the club, it feels more human, more natural to me. So I knew from the start there was a great chance I would end up there for the last few hours, and I did.

Of course, I have to say i think i'm one of the very few to never have taken a pill or whatnot, just some booze (and sometimes not even that!) and the music. That might explain why i'm more into the old school house, funk house, balearic house, even disco house than the massive/huge tech of Coxy for instance or trance of tiesto et al.

So let me say it was a unique night for me. Not a perfect one, but a fulfilling one.

I was willing to go all the way to the end, and i did. Feet hurting, back hurting, head too full of music and pictures of people dancing to really understand what was going on at the end but i was proud i closed the Space.

I had a paper with me, on which I had planned for 2 hours in the afternoon all the DJs I wanted to listen to/party with, everything perfectly clear in my head, and of course at some point nothing went like planned... Now that the dust has settled a bit, I'm confused, because there was too much good music, too many tunes, too many different areas to travel to, atmospheres, etc. to remember everything in detail. By the way between 8 or 9 and 12 it's just a gigantic blur of a party for me, it went so fast, smiling, jumping, dancing, and even crying at some point. Just like in the mixmag review, well, sometimes tears kept flowing on my face without being able to stop them, i think it began precisely when i heard "love is in the air". Sunset terrace was magic. I'm not sure Paul Reynolds did much mixing really, (the way he waves both his arms in the air with his cigarette pretty much all the time tells a lot), but he sure made a pretty nice selection of so many good old fashioned house songs that made the sunset terrace dance like crazy! How music can make you fell good or make your life better never ceases to amaze me.

Anyway, thanks again to all the folks on this forum for the good info that has been shared the days, weeks, months before, it was a great help. I couldn't meet with you at 4 because at that time wandering through the different rooms and corridors was almost impossible.

I guess nobody could have guessed the gigantic mess that was the queue either. I read some comments from the last 2 days on this forum, and I can only disagree with those who said the queue was worth it. No it was not. The party was a blast, but the queue on the front car park was a huge slap in the face of everyone, and especially of those of us who had battled (yes, that's the actual word i used) for hours and days to buy online tickets. How could people without a ticket get in in less than 1/4h, while so many of us had to wait for 3+hours with our tickets in our pockets is just puzzling. And I'm not talking about a classic 3/4 o'clock classic clubbing queue. No. 19:30 queue.

Why 1 "online tickets" line for 2 "buy here tickets" lines? Why not 10 lines? They had plenty of room to do that.
Why no organized lines like what they do at airports or shops?
Why let people queue all by themselves, with not even 1 doorman in charge outside Space?
Why no one staff explaining what to do or what to expect?
Why not letting people with tickets use basically any line, to ease the entrance and avoid the discomfort and so many people fainting?
And why the staff at the door would go sooooooooo slowly, barely looking at you, chatting while you would wait, like there are not 1000 people waiting 10 meters away in the heat and with no water?
Why?
Still now, with all the joy I felt once inside Space (what a relief that felt!!!), this leaves me a bit of a bitter aftertaste. Plus we arrived at 19:30 and I sincerely thought it would take nothing more than 30 minutes to go in with our tickets and IDs (what a fool I was!!!) so I missed a lot of nice DJs sets I would have loved to experience.

And what about this closing of all closing shut down quite abruptly at midday without any notice? Was I the only one expecting something more magnificent and proud for an ending? One last track and after a few seconds (ok, maybe minutes, I don't remember quite well) the doormen were already pushing us all outside like they don't care. After all the beers I had, and the last one bought maybe a few minutes before 12:00, they didn't even let me go to the bathroom ("it's time to go" ; "yeah but i would appreciate to go to the toilets , have some understanding after all" ; "haha, f*** off and go" all that in spanish).

Come on, I know it's not a lovefest and even if I respect Pepe and his crew, some empathy would have helped create a better memory of this last party : I don't know about you, but i kinda regret i didn't feel any warmth or joy in the vast majority of the staff towards the clubbers, in fact at some point I had imagined maybe since it's the last ever party they would throw away gifts and/or drinks as some sort of a reward for our love of this club, for our continuous partying there and all. I mean, not that I really needed any of those, but it felt more like everybody at Space was trying to make the most money out of this last night instead of letting go with a big finale. Yeah, they were still counting the € for every last shot or drink, making you search in the deep of your pocket for 50 cents or a missing euro. Not the idea I had for this party.

Oh, and i had read something here like "i wish they would not oversell so that we could all enjoy the best party ever?" At the time, i thought that would be a really nice idea!
Hahahahahahahahaha!
Nice try, but think again.

Beside that, where were the big fireworks, the performers, the fancy clothes, original decoration and so on? It felt a bit cheap from this point of view imo.

But let's be honest, i felt proud to be there, i wouldn't have missed this for the world, and i'll still remember this night - for decades - as a very particular one.
I'll always cherish the Space, my favorite club ever, for all the good memories, and since i've always come to Ibiza for the love of music, the once in a lifetime lineup they managed to create made me more than happy (i guess all of their pesetas went to pay the DJs, so that's that) and that's what matters.

For those unable to have attended the party, please know that we thought of you, and we had you dancing with us in our heads and in our hearts.

I think it was the last trip on the island for me, it was the end of an era for me. Age and family you know.

But fear not, clubber friends. Music is not a place, even Space, it's not a man, even Pepe Rosello or Carl Cox. Music is music, and will live forever. In Ibiza or somewhere else.
 
fgrellier said:
I think it was the last trip on the island for me, it was the end of an era for me. Age and family you know.

But fear not, clubber friends. Music is not a place, even Space, it's not a man, even Pepe Rosello or Carl Cox. Music is music, and will live forever. In Ibiza or somewhere else.
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Reading this makes me even more depressed than thinking about Space closed forever. Many people declaring that their time on the island is over because Space is gone. It truly marks the end of an era and I'm finding it hard to believe. Great review otherwise, I was touched.
 
Scorchio said:
Reading this makes me even more depressed than thinking about Space closed forever. Many people declaring that their time on the island is over because Space is gone. It truly marks the end of an era and I'm finding it hard to believe. Great review otherwise, I was touched.
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Its been quite a poignant this trip for me this year. Ive been coming for 17 years and our last trip to space was a big group meeting up for one last party in space which was a perfect moment with amazing friends we have collected on the way and a collection of the best tunes we danced to in that 17 years.

Over that time i have gone from teenager (hence the shit username!) to home owner with kids but after all the sloppy stuff said....

No trip will ever be my last trip to Ibiza!!
 
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