IN THEIR WORDS......The Ibiza After Hours Closings - Ben Turner

BEN TURNER FROM GRAPHITE MEDIA & EDITOR OF BOTH PACHA & SOHO HOUSE'S HOUSE MAGAZINE.

"Club culture in the late 1980s in the UK was once
all about illegal partying, and the government implemented laws to restrict
them happening. This decision is the reverse. Legal clubs operating after
6am are now being forced to close, which will in return become a headache as
more and more illegal events will now happen. You simply can't stop the fact
that people go clubbing very late in Ibiza (2-3am) and like to go to bed
much later than 6am - indeed simply cqn't go to bed at 6am. Last summer,
despite Amnesia being closed by the police at the start of the season, some
of the best ever Cocoon after-hours parties occurred, posing a bigger job
for the authorities to deal with and police. I fully agree that the traffic
flashpoints for parents and workers with revellers is a situation to be
avoided, but this decision will not make much difference to this problem.
What could happen is that more and more people are switched off from even
going to Ibiza, which is where the decision will bite the government the
hardest. It does appeaer that the Ibiza government do noT want partygoers to
even go to the island - anybody reading this blog is intelligent enough to
know that dance culture is the reason the island is so famous, and there is
so much good that comes from that. As Miami itself can testify."