Ibiza’s DC10 to be shut for one year, possibly forever

Ibiza’s DC10 to be shut for one year, possibly forever

6 October, 2008 | 1.12PM

• Written by: Zack Rico
• Filed under: Music News:

DC10 club in Ibiza has been fighting an uphill battle with the island’s authorities for the whole season, but last week the club’s future seemed bleak after a council meeting in Sant Josep slapped the owners with a €300,000 fine and a one year closure.

The problem is, the authorities have found DC10’s ultimate weak point (we can’t believe it took them 10 years to find it) - it only has a legal capacity of 65, which means the club has absolutely no chance of survival, unless they can somehow secure a license.

In the murky, disco-mafia-tinted world of Ibiza’s legal system that will be practically impossible.

DC10 has been operating as a nightclub for 10 years, so if the authorities want to go down the ‘you don’t have the license to hold that many people’ route, they shouldn’t be allowed to do that without getting accused of negligence themselves.

DC10 has been packing thousands into the club every Monday for its Circoloco parties for years, and surely as the licensing authority for nightlife, the council should be held accountable for missing that huge error?

If they looked hard enough, they probably could find equally dodgy things at the other clubs on the island.

Ultimately though, such efforts to rescue the closure of DC10 would be futile.

For years the big clubs on the island have been jealous of DC10’s success, and finally they’ve succeeded in ousting the club from their island (legally).

The game is finally up for DC10, and Ibiza will suffer greatly without the presence of this mighty dancefloor, which has done more for the credibility and musical direction of the island in the last decade than any other venue.

Pacha, Space, Amnesia - they’re all great nightclubs, but DC10 was special. It was our generation’s Hacienda.

It was an untainted, hedonistic temple where you truly felt free.

DC10’s owners and Circoloco understood that at the heart of dance music is a firm belief of tolerance, freedom and hedonism, and they never once sold out.

Last Monday, Ricardo Villalobos and Luciano played back-to-back for four and half hour on DC10’s famous terrace, and by all accounts, it was typically DC10 - simply mind blowing.

But good things never last, especially in clubland (actually in the case of DC10, that isn’t true - it did last, and even after 10 years the parties on a Monday were still as exciting, provocative and fun as they had always been).

[Note: This post is not based entirely on facts, but rather on my own personal thoughts. Frankly, the closure of DC10 is a travesty for Ibiza, and no response other than an emotional one is needed.]

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