Ten years the folks over at Ibiza Rocks have been cracking on with their parties on the island. Ten whole seasons, a variety of venues across the island, countless performances (unless someone actually counts them) and enough high five moments to last another 10 years. That's some pretty good going for an island many people think is exclusively for house and techno music.
For four of those years, Ibiza Rocks younger, wilder, slightly more raucous brother has been holding down Fort Rocks on Fridays nights under the banner of 'We Are Rockstars!' Unlike the Wednesday shows for IR, W.A.R! is a more electronic music focused off-shoot, catering for the UK dance music scene in particular. Sub genre's such as UK garage, grime, drum 'n' bass and house all get a massive 'oi oi' shout out across the 16 week season, with all the who's, what's and why's answered below.
The opening party kicks off on Friday 5th June and continues all summer long until Friday 18th September for the closing.
Headline acts come in the form of Gorgon City, Sigma, Hannah Wants, DJ EZ, Shadow Child, Jaymo & Andy George, Mistajam, TEED, Example, Bondax, Redlight and more besides whilst the party continues to throw its support behind some of the UK's rising underground stars. We're talking Stormzy, Novelist, Meridian Dan, Preditah to name a few.
There are of course some standout shows across the season - David Rodigan MBE is a guy you should all know and love and, surprisingly, he has never played on the island, so that will be a great show. Gorgon City also play live, whilst UK underground purveyor Bugged Out! hosts on a few occasions and everyone should get down to the Rinse FM party as they lay down the coolest of cool line-ups. All the details via the calendar below.
This season W.A.R! have linked up with Sankeys under the stewardship of resident DJ Doorly to host weekly parties to enjoy after W.A.R! under the name of SHELTER. All the info on that bad boy here.
Earlybird tickets for the W.A.R! shows are still on sale now for 30€.
VIDEO | Check out the party that was had for the W.A.R! 3rd birthday in 2014.
