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Allister & Mariana: click for more

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Ex Manumission dance Mariana Truffi L. Ribiero remains one of the best known personalities in Ibiza working constantly as a DJ and model while booking the dates for a growing number of island DJs.

“Allister was one of a kind.

There is no Allister type.

One of these unique figures that press manage to miss.

He knew better than anyone else I met how to be free, to be who you want to and enjoy life.

Everyone wanted to know him, to talk to him, to take pictures or simply wave from far. He was “The great maestro”.

I was really amazed to see, just by walking in a room, how much energy Allister was able to move.

And there he was…looking fab. Like a book or movie character that came alive. He was the king of entertainment. He was the last breath of studio 54.

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One of his favorites stories was when we used to go from Manumission to Carry On at Space and ending at Bora Bora.

Just one detail, we still have the same outfits from Manumission. That means Allister was wearing his black suit on the beach. We laughed until we were exhausted then walked down the beach as if was a catwalk. Everyone is looking at us. Some guy comes up to Allister and say: “Your music is the best! You are God to me!”  The guy has mistaken Allister for Sven Vath! We look at each other and decided to keep the story going just for fun. So Allister signs an autograph for the guy and after talking about how good a DJ he was for an hour , the guy decides to go and get a gift to Allister, a stick of lip gloss. Ha ha ha ha.

After losing our voices from having so much fun we decided to leave because Allister realized he’d left his bag at Space, again. That was a weekly journey.

We are walking on the street just before Space and a car breaks in the midle of the street with a girl shouting inside like ” Oh my God! Thats him!!!”. She jumps out of the car and runs up to Allister and takes a picture with him. I couldnt believe my eyes. I said: Allister you stopped the traffic’.

Yes, my darling!” he replied,  ”Come with me and I’ll make you famous.”

I felt very lucky to have  such a character as a friend, so much so that I never minded if I had to stay behind him catching the stuff he would drop or help him to find stuff he would lose or handle him when he was annoying. He was my inspiration. He will always be in my heart and in my favorites life stories.

And I will tell my kids and grand kids a story of a fabolous man full of great tales. ”

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Mariana on DJ magazine

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Victoria Hotel, Ibiza (cheap holidays in Ibiza- click for more)

Red Cross officials have revealed that incidents of jellyfish stings amongst Ibiza bathers have dramatically plunged this season after unusually strong winter storms reduced the salinity of water surrounding the island’s beaches. (Ibiza-Spotlight).

The fearsomely painful stingers instead turned up in their thousands close to the El Perellonet beach near Valencia this week, stinging over 700 people in one day. Fox News reported that the Valencia stingers are unusually small and virtually invisible, though pack a powerful punch for swimmers unlucky enough to touch them.

“In the five or six years I have been in this job, I have never seen anything like this,” local tourism chief Juan Carlos Castellano told the US news organisation.

Details of the jellyfishes’ decision to avoid the Balearics came as the Guardian revealed that struggling tour operators are slashing prices to holidays in Ibiza, with potentially 50% discounts likely to be available in September when school holidays are over.

Travel analyst Bob Atkinson from travelsupermarket.com suggested discounts of around 30-40% are already on sale, particularly on self catering packages.

“At the moment, where they are really struggling to give it away is the Balearics and Greece,” he told the Guardian.

“Tour operators hold out as long as they can, but right at the last minute, two or three days before, they are dropping prices down as much as they can. If you are the ultimate flexible customer, you can grab a real bargain,” he recommended.

TravelSupermarket were offering 7 day trips with 2 star accommodation in San Antonio from £222 and 3 star accommodation (also in San Antonio) from just £275 person (including return London- Ibiza flights). A week in four star Hotel Victoria in Talamanca outside Ibiza Town (rated highly on numerous online postings) currently costs just £383 including flights.

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Spanish police have revealed that Ibiza drug dealers sell an estimated 40,000 ecstasy pills a night just as a new study of 3,000 Balearic tourists showed that one in five use ecstasy and the same proportion cocaine during their holidays.

A police spokesperson said most of the dealers are from Manchester or Liverpool though are difficult to catch.

Infamous Liverpool gangster Curtis Warren

“The British do not use locals to sell, only other British people, and they are selling it mostly to foreigners to avoid accidentally selling to an undercover officer,’ he told the Daily Mirror, “As a result it is very difficult to penetrate these groups,” he added.

Speaking to the Telegraph a ‘police source’ said ‘“This summer looks bad, worse even than previous years.

“It is proving very difficult to do an effective job,” the source added. “We have a team of only 15 drug enforcers across the whole island and only one vehicle.”

In related news, Britain’s Foreign Office revealed that 944 Brits were arrested for drugs offences worldwide last year representing one in seven of all arrest for Brits overseas (between April 2009 and March 2010).

The report revealed that Thailand has the highest arrest rate for Brits per thousand generally with Dubai close behind in second place.

“This report shines a light on the number of Britons who get into difficulty abroad each year,” said UK Minister Jeremy Browne, “The worrying fact is that so many of these situations are preventable.”

“It is illegal to have sex or cohabit outside marriage, including in hotels,” the report also warned (speaking specifically about Dubai) “Pregnancy outside marriage can lead to imprisonment. Adultery, cross-dressing and homosexual behaviour are illegal.”

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We Love (click on the picture for more)

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Ten years after he became the head booker at Ibiza’s most credible and critically important party (We Love) at the island’s most influential venue (Space), Mark Broadbent ‘s advice for landing a gig is impressively (if deceptively) simple.

“Make friends with us,” he recommends, “reach out.”

Well aware of We Love’s career boosting potential he’s equally conscious that every new booking means an established player loses out, a side of his job he admits continuing to find more than a little tricky.

“It’s a terrible thing to have to do to tell someone you’re no longer booking them and over the years I’ve dropped quite a few acts who were mainstays of our programming back in the day,” he admits.

‘You’ve got to remember that most of these people have become friends but at the end of the day you’re not doing anybody favours by just booking them for the sake of it. Everybody can tell when a booking has been made for those reasons. Still, it’s the worst part of the job and it keeps me awake at night sometimes,” he admits.

Mark Broadbent

Pursuing a policy of mixing big name ‘underground’ names (this season’s stars include Carl Craig, Claude Von Stroke and Joris Voorn) with rising talent (notably Deepgroove and  Berghain’s Marcel Dettman this season), We Love is broadly centred around techno, though Mark’s keen to avoid being pigeon-holed by genres.

“We book acts from all four corners of the globe and given that we have six rooms to program you can often find lesser know genres like dubstep, for example Appleblim – being played in the club at the same time as big room house, for example by someone like Steve Lawler,” he points out.

“Music is our passion and we hunt it out in the best venues and parties and try to replicate what we experienced through our programming here at Space. This has also helped keep our parties very cosmopolitan in terms of our customers.”

He’s also impressively unflustered about the actions of rival Balearic clubs such as Pacha who made a dramatic move this season in signing minimal/ deep type Luciano for a season of Sunday night affairs.

“After 15 years living and working on Ibiza I have found that people who like to go to Pacha will go there but on the same token, if you don’t like Pacha for one reason or another, no DJ booking is going to make you go there,” he says.

“I think maybe we have lost the odd soul to Luciano this summer but if you’re a regular customer of ours, there is no competition really.”

Space girls

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