Ibiza’s new laws: notes from inside IMS

Ibiza’s new laws: notes from inside IMS

29 May, 2008 | 11.44AM

• Written by: Terry Church
• Filed under: Music News: ibiza, ims, international music summit

One of the hot topics up for discussion at the International Music Summit currently taking place in Ibiza is the new laws which prevent the island’s clubs from opening too early.

Ibiza used to be the land of freedom with relaxed laws that helped promote the island’s image as a tolerant hedonistic paradise, but last year the government passed new measures that prohibited from clubs opening before noon.

That change brought an end to We Love’s 22 hour parties at Space and Circoloco’s 8 AM starts at DC10.

On a panel entitled ‘Ibiza - The Year of Change’, representatives from all the island’s clubs (including DC10) sat alongside government spokesman Paco Medina in order to debate the changes.

Our source inside the International Music Summit witnessed the panel, and uploaded some insightful notes to his blog.

Word has it that at first, the panel started quite amicably as representatives from all the clubs (Pacha, Amnesia, Space, Eden, Es Paradis, Circo Loco and Ibiza Rocks) agreed publicly to obey the new law.

But then Circo Loco’s Andrea Pelino admitted that, in total honesty, Italians like to dance during the daytime, or as the sun rises out of the sea, which is why DC10 has been such a global success story over the last decade.

The government’s argument that “the law had to be changed to protect elderly people and children on their way to school from meeting the summer guests, that have changed their island life so dramatically that many of them find themselves unusually rich,” doesn’t hold too much water for DC10 anyway, which is located in the middle of nowhere, next to a field and an airport runway.

Andy McKay from Ibiza Rocks then chipped in, warning that although the new laws create a level playing field, it will drive some party organisers underground.

Check out the full notes from the panel here.

[Thanks Ade!]

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