The World's Biggest Club

Saturday night took us to Privilege, which is the biggest nightclub in the world... And with a capacity of around 10,000 it feels like it! They even have a Guinness World Record logo on their welcome sign!

So by now, we had more or less gotten into the swing of arriving at a club when British clubs would be closing, we rocked up at about half 1 and we felt uncool - the fashionably late possee wouldnt be arriving till around about 4. But then, they wear sunglasses in nightclubs, so I guess i can handle being uncool in comparrison ;-)

Anyway, our reason for such an uncool early arrival was that the Main Room DJ from 1 till 3 was Luis, a good friend of 24-7 Ibiza, and a Christian, so he had sorted us all out on the guest list, and in return, we had promised to come for his set and pray for him as we danced. I didn't get to meet him in the end (he doesnt speak a word of english - although my spanish probably would have stretched to small talk!), but it was cool to be there to support a brother as he played to a crowd of several thousand...

The layout of the club is phenomenal. the DJ booth is smack in the centre of the main room, surrounded by a huge area of water. You can only get to it via a thin metal walkway, and everything looks a little space-age... It looks like something out of the crystal maze!

Again, The dancers were so beautiful and talented that I felt utterly inadequete (see Pacha Post), but what the hell, this is Ibiza, no one cares how you dance! Although, however, the INCREDIBLY camp (and probably gay) guy wearing a g-string and wrapped in a net was less than pleasant.

After Luis came off, the DJ that came on after him (apparently pretty famous, although I dont remember his name!) was doing an electro-house set, which most of us weren't much in the mood for, so we went to check out the side room, where the AppleFunk Sessions were going on... the first thing that struck me as I came in was that there was a big fecking tree growing in the middle of the room - pretty impressive! This room felt tiny compared with the main room, but as I spent a bit of time in there, I realised that the capacity of this room alone must be well over a thousand - it was just diddy in comparrison with the main room!

Anyway, the music... The AppleFunk guys combined two genres I love - house and funk... So we spent the next two hours going crazy in there! Apparently one of the applefunkers was one half of Soul Central... well known for their "Strings of Life" remix... Best of all... they gave me a free applefunk keyring. I guess im still having difficulty parting with the "give me free stuff!" aspect of student life!

So, a top quality night - Probably a lot better when there's someone playing stuff I like in the main room, but there was something funnily intimate about the side room, despite its size! I'd definately reccomend it as a venue - I wonder if they do private parties....?

Tonight (Tues) we're heading off to Space, another of the superclubs - Carl Cox is Resident, DJ Marky playing on the Terrace, and guest DJ: Fatboy Slim! be jealous.

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God Bless,

C