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In the 1990’s, Manumission was feted as the biggest — and quite possibly the most hedonistic — weekly party on earth. Known to pack 10,000 people a night into the club Privilege, the bacchanalia sealed Ibiza’s reputation as Europe’s epicenter of dance music (and ecstasy-fueled sex shows). Now, the brains behind it wants to invite you to the Balearics’ first rock ‘n’ roll hotel. On Saturday, Andy McKay opens Ibiza Rocks Hotel — named after the live rock events he started hosting in 2005. And, love it or hate it, the place is set to be more than just a cutely themed beach hotel.
Ibiza Rocks is in fact 300 meters from the beach, and barely passes the conventional comforts of a luxe hotel. But that’s not really why you’re here. The former Club Paraiso in party-central San Antonio is where you can now come to hear rock stars, be a rock star or at least party like one. In addition to 368 rooms, three pools, two poolside bars, two chill-out lounges and one 24-hour bar, Ibiza Rocks will host top indie bands on the hotel’s own stage (the opening party kicks off with British platinum-selling group, The Enemy).
For reasons we can’t quite understand, though, McKay also wants up-and-coming bands to come stay as resident musicians. Surely he’s heard the tales of Led Zeppelin at the Hyatt West Hollywood (formerly Hyatt House, once dubbed “Riot House”), where the rockers rode motorcycles down the hallways? Or of Alice Cooper and company demolishing four suites at the Copacabana Palace in Rio and showering the pool with broken glass? But hey, it’s only rock ‘n’ roll, right? Maybe McKay will have a room for Oasis star Noel Gallagher. We hear the notorious whiner is looking for a new place to bed down — he put his Ibiza villa up for sale the moment James Blunt, whom he finds intolerable, moved next door.
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