Jaymo and Andy part 2
|13:46 UK time, Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Jaymo:
I am currently sat amongst the crime scene formerly known as my bedroom. Think post-apocalyse Ikea meets abandoned launderette, and you're about there.
I'm trying to piece together the evidence from what has been a rather large weekend. Amongst the numerous congeries littering the floor, a selection of club wristbands, an empty bottle of vodka, and a flyer, for what appears to be a swingers club, seem the most curious. A visual analogy that appropriately sums up the preceding craziness, that has probably left many other bedrooms in a similar state.
Friday's Ibiza Rocks party was a roadblock. Nicola Bear kicked off proceedings, with Zane, Doorly and us following suit - between us I don't think we left one genre of music untouched. But Radio 1 is a family affair, and as Toddla T was in the building he made an impromptu guest performance - badman MC business!
Once Annie and Pete took control, to broadcast their shows live, things went from nuts to Nutella. As you would expect, The Swedish House mafia got mad love, their track 'One' is dominating dance-floors at the moment. For me, though, it was all about Aeroplane and Riva Starr, two of my favourite DJ's who've both helped pioneer the Disco and House music resurgence that has exploded in recent months.
We travel abroad quite a lot, and one thing people regularly say is how amazing it is that we have a radio station that supports cutting-edge music, rather than just commercial stuff. You kinda take it for granted, but events like this, with artists like this, shows to the world that the UK is still at the epicenter of forward thinking new music. And for that I am proud! Later that night we hit Wonderland at Eden, where we host Room Two each week. Yet another awesome party, and potentially where this bottle of vodka came from. In fact, it's definitely where this bottle of vodka came from.
Which reminds me, I need to tidy my room.
Andy:
i'll be honest, i'm currently sat on the beach at Sands (right opposite Space), with just a Macbook covering my incredibly white thighs, which, thanks to my extra long swimming shorts, haven't seen an ounce of sun all summer! This weekend has been mind-glowingly good, i'll pick up where Jay left off... (I think he's actually STILL in his room, 24 hours later!)
Saturday night was the turn of the world's biggest club, Privilege, to continue the party, and quite rightly take things to the next level. We arrived at about 1am with Annie Mac and our friends Lucy, Doorly & Nicola (after eating an unquantifiable amount of seabass & asparagus at one of our favourite restaurants Aura). Pete Tong was in full swing, broadcasting to the world via the Essential Mix, in front of the biggest LED screen i had ever seen - it was truly spectacular!
We we're due to start at 3am, right after Alex Metric, in the Coco Loco room, which is an amazing space right next to the main room (there's tree's growing inside and everything!). After a mad dash replacing CDJ's we began, and it was the fastest 1 hour 30 minutes of our entire life!
There was such a good vibe in there, and we could have quite easily played for another few hours! Shouts to everyone that made that gig so good, and sorry to those who couldn't squeeze in! (maybe also a slap on the wrist to the sound engineer who unplugged a CDJ on our second to last track!)
All in all, an amazing finale to another ground-breaking Radio 1 Ibiza weekend... We're going to be reliving some of the best moments from Ibiza Rocks when we cover for Pete Tong this Friday night from 9pm on Radio 1, so get involved! Catch you then :-)
I am currently sat amongst the crime scene formerly known as my bedroom. Think post-apocalyse Ikea meets abandoned launderette, and you're about there.
I'm trying to piece together the evidence from what has been a rather large weekend. Amongst the numerous congeries littering the floor, a selection of club wristbands, an empty bottle of vodka, and a flyer, for what appears to be a swingers club, seem the most curious. A visual analogy that appropriately sums up the preceding craziness, that has probably left many other bedrooms in a similar state.
Friday's Ibiza Rocks party was a roadblock. Nicola Bear kicked off proceedings, with Zane, Doorly and us following suit - between us I don't think we left one genre of music untouched. But Radio 1 is a family affair, and as Toddla T was in the building he made an impromptu guest performance - badman MC business!
Once Annie and Pete took control, to broadcast their shows live, things went from nuts to Nutella. As you would expect, The Swedish House mafia got mad love, their track 'One' is dominating dance-floors at the moment. For me, though, it was all about Aeroplane and Riva Starr, two of my favourite DJ's who've both helped pioneer the Disco and House music resurgence that has exploded in recent months.
We travel abroad quite a lot, and one thing people regularly say is how amazing it is that we have a radio station that supports cutting-edge music, rather than just commercial stuff. You kinda take it for granted, but events like this, with artists like this, shows to the world that the UK is still at the epicenter of forward thinking new music. And for that I am proud! Later that night we hit Wonderland at Eden, where we host Room Two each week. Yet another awesome party, and potentially where this bottle of vodka came from. In fact, it's definitely where this bottle of vodka came from.
Which reminds me, I need to tidy my room.
Andy:
i'll be honest, i'm currently sat on the beach at Sands (right opposite Space), with just a Macbook covering my incredibly white thighs, which, thanks to my extra long swimming shorts, haven't seen an ounce of sun all summer! This weekend has been mind-glowingly good, i'll pick up where Jay left off... (I think he's actually STILL in his room, 24 hours later!)
Saturday night was the turn of the world's biggest club, Privilege, to continue the party, and quite rightly take things to the next level. We arrived at about 1am with Annie Mac and our friends Lucy, Doorly & Nicola (after eating an unquantifiable amount of seabass & asparagus at one of our favourite restaurants Aura). Pete Tong was in full swing, broadcasting to the world via the Essential Mix, in front of the biggest LED screen i had ever seen - it was truly spectacular!
We we're due to start at 3am, right after Alex Metric, in the Coco Loco room, which is an amazing space right next to the main room (there's tree's growing inside and everything!). After a mad dash replacing CDJ's we began, and it was the fastest 1 hour 30 minutes of our entire life!
There was such a good vibe in there, and we could have quite easily played for another few hours! Shouts to everyone that made that gig so good, and sorry to those who couldn't squeeze in! (maybe also a slap on the wrist to the sound engineer who unplugged a CDJ on our second to last track!)
All in all, an amazing finale to another ground-breaking Radio 1 Ibiza weekend... We're going to be reliving some of the best moments from Ibiza Rocks when we cover for Pete Tong this Friday night from 9pm on Radio 1, so get involved! Catch you then :-)
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