Tonight saw the second in this year’s summer Tuesday night sequence of Ibiza Rocks and, as a total contrast, we were treated to a gig at the Electric Bar’ deep inside the new Ibiza Rocks hotel.

I never went to Liverpool’s Cavern’, but I imagine it would have been something like this. A few more bobs and kipper ties no doubt, but low ceilings, strip lighting and a sweaty, expectant crowd. In fact nothing like last week’s outdoor gig at the horse trotting stadium, nor probably next week’s too…

It’s part of the beauty of the mystery tour’ concept. Like the hill parties of yore, the whereabouts of which were spirited to subversive music lovers by word of mouth. Early morning liaisons in the car parks of remote country pubs led to wild processions of headlights high up into the hills on rough caminos, to find themselves blocked in for days till everyone sobered up and went home.

Nowadays the laws are a bit tighter, and there are far more Guardia protecting the vested interests’ interests, so keeping the gig in-house’ could be construed as a favour to society - except that Ibiza Rocks lay on coaches to their parties… On the other hand, the mystery tour also lends itself nicely to the option of selecting venues according to ticket sales. We digress, with the ceiling only a matter of inches above the heads of the headline band, ‘One Night Only’, the atmosphere was sweaty and the young audience were heaving. Up front the occasional air borne beer increased the humidity, but didn’t dampen the atmosphere.

Suitably inspired, as they hammered out Started a Fire’, their 2008 hit single, the lead singer leapt onto the drum kit and smacked his head against the ceiling. Nobody laughed, they were all too busy singing along - after all it was only midnight and the party was set to finish at 5 in the morning…

Click on images for larger versions - another great night for live music…

Iain from Hungover Stuntmen in the afternoon	The chillout pool

The main pool

pre-gig	One Night Only crew soundcheck

The Lobby

Underground Heroes	Underground Heroes

Underground Heroes	Underground Heroes

The Hungover Stuntmen	The Hungover Stuntmen

The Hungover Stuntmen	The Hungover Stuntmen

The Hungover Stuntmen	The Hungover Stuntmen

Metronomy	Metronomy

Metronomy	Metronomy

Metronomy

One Night Only	One Night Only

One Night Only	One Night Only

One Night Only	Another great night…

June 29th is the date for a mini festival at Las Dalias organised by local resident Andy Taylor ex of Duran Duran fame.

Underground Heroes at Ibiza Rocks Hotel shop - Photo by Rachel Lines

It all starts at 4pm and runs through till 6am

• Childrens area with face painting, clowns, X-box etc
• 2 live stages
• festival food: hotdogs, burgers etc
• a new lounge and newly redecorated

Andy Taylor will play on the main stage as well as

• Andy Taylor Jr’s band The Electic City
• The Underground Heroes
• Hungover Stuntmen
• The Natives
• The Sneakypeeks
• Duke

DJ’s include

Hungover Stuntmen at Ibiza Rocks Hotel

• Lenny Ibizarre
• Jon Sa Trincha
• Dan Williams and Jade Jagger
• Graham Sahara
• Willy Graff

It’s a great idea and it promises to be great fun - tickets are 30 euros from Las Dalias - a little bit of glastonbury finally comes to Ibiza.

Some more pictures from last nights Rock Night opening party at the Ibiza Rocks Hotel.

We were really impressed with the Underground Heroes - a really tight, energetic band and we’re looking forward to see them play again at the opening of Ibiza Rocks on Tuesday. As
usual the Hungover Stuntmen played a blinding set including a great cover of the Stones - Sympathy For The Devil.

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Underground Heroes	Underground Heroes

	Daisy Heartbreaker

Daisy Heartbreaker	Hungover Stuntmen

Just got some more information from Daisy Heartbreaker:

Rock Nights was born in Ibiza during the summer of 2006, and now takes place monthly, throughout the year. In 2008
get ready for 6 special episodes in the summer season!

Rock Night’s founders and hosts are glamorous rock chick Daisy Heartbreaker (DJ & Artist) & Mr. DC (Diego Calvo /”Dirty Cash”), who is in charge of the “dirty business” under the title of General Manager and both of them are proudly announcing that, prime Spanish artist Marcos Torres, has recently joined the team. The result is a “time bomb”, 3 of the most popular faces
of the “indie - underground” scene in the White Island who now will be “brain storming” new ways to bring people
together to have fun, to rock, to punk, to headbang & to celebrate other artists’ creativity. It all happens at the Rock
Nights multidisciplinary & multicultural space.

Rock Nights club is a new & unique indie-party vision where art works from local, national & international underground contemporary artists are showcased in fusion with the Rock Nights concept that offers a mix live soundtrack of Rock, Alternative, Punk, New Wave & Electronica beats dropped by Daisy Heartbreaker, guest DJs & live acts mixed up with Pop paraphernalia & Kitsch
Art to create a great atmosphere.

A different & successful event in the ibicencan nightlife for you to enjoy or get trashed, to celebrate or get fuc***… All with its unique Arty Party style. Feel free to discover it for yourself.

• 11:00 PM Marcos Torres - 1 hr. DJ Set
• 12:00 AM Underground Heroes - 30 min Set
• 12:30 AM Daisy Heartbreaker - 30 min DJ Set
• 01:00 AM Hangover Stuntmen - 30 min Set
• 01:30 AM Colin Peters - 1 hr. DJ Set
• 02:30 AM Ben DeMiedo - 1 hr. DJ Set
• 03:30 AM Daisy Heartbreaker - 30 min DJ Set

See you there…

Some more pictures from last nights Ibiza Rocks Hotel opening party with The Enemy
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Zane Lowe	The free X-Box’s in the lobby

The Hungover Stuntmen and Andy Taylor on the VIP terrace	The Stage

The two sofas in the lobby made from old-style bath tubs

	The main pool

Those nice guys the Hungover Stuntmen have sent us a copy of their new album that they recorded here last year - two words - “buy it”

Highlights for us are “Ballad Of The Hungover Stuntman” - starting with a spaghetti western style intro and containing the lines “I Blame it on the BBC” from which the album gets it title. Other standout tracks are “Love Is Suicide” and “United States Of Emergency” which we can’t wait to hear live…

They’ll be at the Ibiza Rocks Hotel from May 28th

The Hungover Stuntmen continue to be top guys - they’ve sent us a scan of the liner notes on their new album…

“Blame The BBC” - out in all good record shops and some naff ones too on April 28th - buy it…

At the risk of pointing out the obvious, Ibiza NOW are thanked… in the same paragraph as the likes of Paul Weller, Roger Daltrey, John Otway et al…. we’re chuffed to bits….

cheers guys - see you in the summer

Our favourite rockers Hungover Stuntmen have released a 5 minute promo documentary about recording their forthcoming album at Andy Taylors studios here in Ibiza last year.

(previous posts: Hungover Stuntmen at Ibiza Rocks, Hungover Stuntmen Recording In Ibiza)

Its been very sunny for the past couple of weeks so it seems that the Almond blossom has appeared a bit early. Everywhere you go on the island at the moment the almond is in full bloom…

Santa Gertrudis "High Street" as of today - 1st Feb 2008

We had to pop in to see Pikes Hotel today and remembered the photos we’d taken back at the end of August when We Are Scientists played there as part of the Ibiza Rocks series. So we took the opportunity to take a "before & after" photo from the same spot to show how things can appear differently… - except the "before" was actually "after"…

We also are delighted to learn that those top guys known as Hungover Stuntmen have name-checked us on their forthcoming album - we’re chuffed to bits. “Blame The BBC” - out in all good record shops and some naff ones too on March 17th - buy it…We’ve a scan of the relevant artwork but have been sworn to keep it under wraps for the moment.

Also if you’re in Ibiza at the moment check out This Ibiza Life tonight on 106.4 fm as we’ll be on as guests of the host Gail Fear - probably relentlessly plugging the website and magazine. Hopefully we’ll even put up a podcast of it tomorrow. (We have to race back to Santa Eulalia after the show for the weekly Los Corrales vs The Tall Ships pool competition…

Our favourite guys in rock released their new video today. (They recorded their forthcoming album at Andy Taylors studios here last summer, played a headlining gig at Ibiza Rocks and are top blokes).