June 29th is the date for a mini festival at Las Dalias organised by local resident Andy Taylor ex of Duran Duran fame.

Underground Heroes at Ibiza Rocks Hotel shop - Photo by Rachel Lines

It all starts at 4pm and runs through till 6am

• Childrens area with face painting, clowns, X-box etc
• 2 live stages
• festival food: hotdogs, burgers etc
• a new lounge and newly redecorated

Andy Taylor will play on the main stage as well as

• Andy Taylor Jr’s band The Electic City
• The Underground Heroes
• Hungover Stuntmen
• The Natives
• The Sneakypeeks
• Duke

DJ’s include

Hungover Stuntmen at Ibiza Rocks Hotel

• Lenny Ibizarre
• Jon Sa Trincha
• Dan Williams and Jade Jagger
• Graham Sahara
• Willy Graff

It’s a great idea and it promises to be great fun - tickets are 30 euros from Las Dalias - a little bit of glastonbury finally comes to Ibiza.

Top night - about 5 weeks ago we took photos of how the hotel looked before - tonight we saw the difference. It looks and feels great. Aside from some of the big names (Pete Tong turned up as well as Paco Medina from the Consel) the world and his wife turned up and kudos to Andy and Dawn and everyone involved - theyve turned it around and should be very pleased with what they’ve achieved.
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Paco Medina (Ibiza Consel) 2nd from right	Jade Jagger & Tony Pike

Octavia from Pikes Hotel and Philipp from Ibizarre Records	Mike, Claire and Johnny

	Hungover Stuntmen

We had lovely cakes and coffee this afternoon at the press call for the 2nd Butterfly Ball next week at Es Vive. This is a chance for island residents (and anyone else for that matter) to give something back to the island as its in aid of the islands local Cancer Charity and the UK Macmillons cancer support trust - charities that are very close to home to a lot of people here…

You can email the organisers through their myspace page or email: thebutterflyballATgooglemail.com

so we make no apology of copying and pasting todays press release (albiet tarted up for the web ;) )

‘The Butterfly Ball’

In aid of MACMILLAN CANCER SUPPORT +
AECC (Asociación Española contra el Cáncer)

Tues 9th October
Hotel Es Vive (Figueretas), Ibiza
From 20.30hrs.

The concept of The Butterfly Ball stems from a children’s book first published in 1973.

Written in poetic form by William Plomer and beautifully illustrated by Alan Aldridge, the book tells the tale of the creatures of the forest preparing themselves for ‘The Big Day’ - the day of The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshoppers Feast.

The event of the same name has been organised to take place in Ibiza in order to raise much needed funds for both Macmillan Cancer Support in the UK and the Spanish Cancer Association, AECC.

In order to raise awareness and cash for the cause, a night of eating (a sumptuous Thai Buffet), drinking(champagne to start), bidding(celebrity auction) and dancing(in the Hotel Es Vive’s Cabaret Bar) has been meticulously organised as a way to do just that.

The festivities will commence at 20.30 when the Hotel’s doors will be opened to guests, who will be greeted with champagne and canapés. The Buffet will follow on, a veritable feast of Thai delights, prepared by the in house chefs of Hotel Es Vive. Once guests have been sufficiently fed and watered, the Butterfly Celebrity Auction will commence.

Amongst other items up for grabs to the highest bidder; signed shirts from the likes of David Beckham and Pau Gasol, rock memorabilia from artists including Arctic Monkeys and Kaiser Chiefs, art from a range of well known artists, Marcos Torres and Gary Cook amongst them, weekend breaks and spa treatments from island hospitality institutions including Pikes, Atzaro, the Hotel Es Vive itself, not to mention the various other collectable antiques and unique items on offer in the auction.

The auction will be hosted by Keith Holden, legendary island character. Giving him a hand on the stage, the event’s presenter and island personality, Jessica Henderson (aka DJess)

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