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Manumission takes a holiday, but Ibiza Rocks returns

By | Published on Wednesday 20 May 2009

The big news from Ibiza last week was that one of the White Isle’s biggest institutions, the circus of a club night that is Manumission, will not return for this year’s clubbing season.

The quite late in the day announcement was issued in a slightly rambling and somewhat cryptic statement that said the two Mancunians behind the mega-club night – Andy and Mike McKay – were taking a year off to “tend to their chickens”. The door remains open, of course, for Manumission Ibiza to return in 2010, though insiders say both brothers have other projects they want to pursue.

For Andy McKay, those projects are already up and running really – the Minimission club nights that he already has planned for London, Paris, New York and Bali and, back on the White Isle, the continuation of this other summer project there, Ibiza Rocks, the alternative club night noted for bring some indie cool to the clubbing island.

The line up for this year’s Ibiza Rocks programme, which will run from 16 Jun to 8 Sep, was announced yesterday, and on the bill already are many of the dancey indie crossover types you’d expect like The Ting Tings, Friendly Fires, Soulwax, Frankmusik, MGMT, Pendulum, Klaxons and South Central plus DJs Kissy Sell Out and Zane Lowe. There will also be a weekly aftershow party on a more straight clubbing theme called Reclaim The Dancefloor!



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