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Devine Intervention: review of Charlys Angelz in Ibiza & interview with Vicky Devine
Reported by Lizzie Curious
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Submitted 13-07-05 23:20
My evening began with one of the most clichéd (but highly enjoyable and thoroughly recommended) activities on offer in Ibiza: watching the sun go down at the legendary Café Del Mar. Sure, everyone knows about the sunset at Café Del Mar and you can buy compilation CDs of the same name at the checkout in your local supermarket, but for me, it’s one of the many special things about Ibiza that I just love. So we savoured the beautiful sunset, accompanied by amazing chill out tunes such as Massive Attack’s ‘Unfinished Sympathy’ (don’t you just love it when the DJ is telepathic), relaxing drinks and idle chat. It’s really a great way to start your evening… soaking up the atmosphere, whiling away the hours people-watching as the good, the bad and the ‘blatantly been up for 72 hours but still hanging on in there till the bitter end’ float by. Glassy-eyed clubbers plan the forthcoming evening’s shenanigans, aided of course by the ubiquitous promoters, who are always on hand to suggest where you could go for a great night out. Alongside the tried and tested formula of wearing a thong made of dental floss and a postage stamp bra to advertise a club night, I was delighted to see other marketing tactics now being employed. As a sufferer of a severe snake phobia (no snide Freudian comments thank you) I was particularly delighted to suffer near cardiac failure when I came across a huge f**k-off boa constrictor being touted about the rocks! Time to make a swift exit to Charlys Angelz methinks.
Walking through the West End is nothing less than a full-on mission. We managed to successfully dodge the numerous ticket touts and scantily clad bar workers trying to entice us in with the revered promise of a FREE shot of watered-down, bright blue petrol and headed straight to Play 2 — the West End’s main club and the weekly home of Ibiza’s only all female DJ night, Charlys Angelz.
We arrived at about 1am, got the first of many drinks in behind the bar and watched the club begin to fill up, with house tunes from Ibiza DJ Kate E-B. I had a chat to Charlys resident DJ and promoter, Vicky Devine, before stepping up on the decks for the first of my two sets for the night. It was Vicky’s birthday, so I had a hunch we were in for a mad night. As the night started to build I played a set of house classics to get the crowd going, well-known tunes such as Jaydee’s ‘Plastic Dreams’ and Lee Cabrera’s ‘Shake It’ enticing people away from the bar and onto the dancefloor. Vicky Devine then took her place behind the wheels of steel and adeptly progressed the music from house through to trance. By this time Play2 was getting full and the atmosphere was starting to buzz as the lasers were switched on — the crowd responding well to tunes such as Ferry Corsten’s ‘Punkb and of course ‘Café Del Mar’.
Then it was time for my second set of the night and the atmosphere was so great that Vicky and I decided to go back to back. To be honest, normally I’m not a huge fan of playing b2b sets. Being somewhat of a control-freak when I’m mixing, I like to know where my set is going and I’m mentally planning a couple of tunes ahead all the time. However, sometimes in a b2b situation you just click with the other DJ and the tunes seem to really flow. This was exactly the sort of b2b session that Vicky and I had. Each tune seemed to flow perfectly into the next and judging by the cheers of approval and hands in the air response from the crowd they felt the same way! Charlys Angelz is all about the trance tunes you love; the ones that make you smile and bring back hazy memories of blinding nights out with your mates and having FUN!!! Classics such as Binary Finary ‘1998’ BBE’s ‘Seven Days and One Week’, ‘Madagascar’ and the superb ‘Cosmic Freefall’ bootleg all raised the roof at Play2.
By 4am the club was really pumping and packed, having had a final burst of punters through the door as the bars in the West End closed their doors for the night. Although the West End is infamous for its lager louts, I really found the crowd at Charlys Angelz to be very friendly and up for getting strapped into simply having good old-fashioned fun. Time was flying and before I knew it, DJ Bunny, who hails from Ireland and was out for the summer season on the White Isle, had turned up to spin.
Vicky then suggested we do a three-way b2b as both Vicky and I were having far too much fun to be dragged away from the decks. So we spent the next hour enjoying playing more feel-good, pumping trance and generally grinning and dancing around madly as all DJs who are having the time of their lives should. Adam White’s ‘Tears of A Rose’ got a great reaction, Oceanlab’s ‘Satellite’ (my favourite trance tune of 2004) had all hands in the air and I was really pleased to see the crowd singing along to the vocal mix of mine and Anthony Dean’s tune ‘In A Trance’. The last set was played Little Miss Quick from Portsmouth who ended the night with a banging hard house set.
The next evening I caught up with Vicky Devine to nurse our hangovers together and to ask her a few questions about what it was like to be living the dream and spending her summers DJing in Ibiza…
LC: Hi Vicky! Well, it's already shaping up to be a superb summer for you. I must say to most of us you lead an idyllic lifestyle, leaving grey old Blighty behind and jetting off to DJ in the White Isle every summer. What first took you to over to Ibiza and what has brought you back year after year?
Vicky: Yes — I feel very lucky to be able to live my summers in the sun! I first came on holiday to Ibiza in the summer of 2000 with some friends, and just loved the island so much I knew I wanted to be here. I then got the opportunity to be a promoter and resident DJ at Charlys Angelz the year after and that got me my foot in the door so to speak. Every year since then I have met more and more people, have made a lot of great friends, and have again been lucky enough to play at many clubs and nights on the island now. Its a dream come true to be asked to come back and play over here every year now, and obviously this summer having been offered the residency at Judgement Sunday is the icing on the cake for me!
Indulge us (or make us seethe with jealousy) ....describe to us one of your perfect Ibiza memories.
Gosh… there are so many!! All the Charlys Angelz events hold special memories for me — both at its original home at Club Summum where we started in 2001 and now at Play 2. I’ve met some fantastic people off the back of doing that and have had some real laughs in the process!!! But in general, DJíng aside, I love the island itself. Up in the north of the island is a beautiful beach called Cala San Vicent where I go to chill out (or get over a monster hangover!), and Formentura, the smaller island just over the water from Ibiza town is beautiful - I always love going there when I can get time. And then you can’t forget the sunsets. I love going down to Cafe Mambo and just sitting watching the sun set into the sea.
So, now for the time-honoured DJ interview question that has to be asked.... what first got you into DJing and when did you realise it was something you wanted to do for your career?
Well I was a dancer and magazine reviewer before being a DJ so have always been into the music. When I was at college I used to go round to my friend’s house and practice on his decks but never thought of doing it as a career really until I met Sophie (Sugar). She had just started playing out at the time and encouraged me to take it more seriously too. I then got my confidence together to get my arse in gear and practiced even more until I was good enough to play out too and it went from there. Once you get the bug — it’s with you for life!
Charlys Angelz has been running in Ibiza for over four years and is the only long-running night in Ibiza to consistently push the talents of female DJs from around the world. What inspired you to start the night? Where do you see the night heading in the future?
It’s all about showcasing female talent, that was the inspiration. When we set the night up in 2001, female DJs were still a relatively unique thing, but there were some that were completely rocking it. The concept to run an all female night to showcase that just seemed too good an idea not too! We were given the opportunity, managed to get sponsorship and that’s how it started. The first two years when we ran it at Club Summum, we did all sorts of things such as themed nights and we even got some of the well-known male residents to come down and DJ dressed as women! Plus some of the biggest female DJs came down to play — Anne Savage, Lisa Pin-Up, Jo Mills to name but a few. Unfortunately the sponsorship deal came to an end and eventually we had to move the night, which is why it is now at Play 2. We were unsure how this was going to affect things to begin with, but as it turns out in some ways it is even more successful there because of its location and the fact that it is free entry — I’ve had some of my best nights in Ibiza down at Charlys on a Saturday night!
We do also run the night as a tour all over the world in conjunction with the Flipside DJ agency (www.flipsidedjs.com) — we did a club at Moscow in Russia on New Year’s Eve, have been on tour in Australia and New Zealand with it and more recently did the Ice Factory in Scotland. What I would like to do now is put it as a collaboration with somebody in the UK to help build the brand back there — the night is well known over here and we have a really good following, but I still believe there are much bigger places for it to go both here and in the UK.
How have you found being a female DJ and promoter in a very male-dominated industry and has this changed at all since you have been DJing?
Well obviously the number of DJs across the board has increased since I started and so in turn there are far more female DJs around now than when I started. On the whole there are far, far less female DJs than male, but these days it’s not easy to make it whether you are male or female. From a personal point of view its been tough at times — particularly out in Ibiza where it is predominantly males both DJíng and running the nights, but I think ultimately it’s your strength of character that gets you through in addition to talent of course, whether you are male or female.
This year you have a coveted weekly residency at Judgement Sundays, at legendary San Antonio club Eden, warming up for international top ten DJs and also closing the night too. Tell us a bit about it!!
I was absolutely thrilled to get the Judgement residency, as I am sure you can imagine! I’d already spent four summers on the island playing at every bar and club I possibly could just to get my foot in the door at a night like this and eventually I got asked to play a closing set for them last year. This then went on to me playing the closing party and then getting the phone call in the winter and being asked to play every week. Its fantastic for me to be given this opportunity and just brilliant to play to a crowd like that week in week out — that’s what every DJ craves. As for the music I’m actually getting to play my main style and the music I love the most — trance, because I am playing in the main room every week. I play house as well, but that mainly came about to start with because there aren’t that many nights on the island to play trance at... and so in order to play out more and because I was warming up a lot of the time when I first came over here I had to adapt.
I still love playing house and continue to play house at other places, but to be able to play trance in a big club in Ibiza and like you say — alongside some of the biggest names in the industry — is just awesome for me. I also get to showcase my tracks that I am producing to an amazing audience, which is again fab! I’ve got two out at the moment — ‘Entravanse’ (which has just been remixed by Andy Bagguley) and ‘Echoed Kisses’. Things are looking good for both but it’s all thanks to being able to cane them at one of the best nights on the island!
You're jetting back to the big smoke to play at Knowwhere on Friday 15 July, give us a hint to what we can expect from a Devine-stylee set...
I am again thrilled to have been asked to play again at Knowwhere at the Fridge. I played there last summer and love both the promotion itself and the club. I’m playing fairly early in the night so won’t be banging it out too hard, but will be playing all the trance that has been rocking it over here — and of course my new tunes too!
Ibiza: sun, sea, and fantastic music in clubs that are out of this world. Like so many of you, I am already daydreaming about my next trip to the magical White Isle.
You can catch Vicky in the main room at Judgement Sundays every week at Eden in San Antonio and of course every week on Saturday night at Charlys Angelz. We will both be DJing at Knowwhere at The Fridge on the 15th July — look forward to seeing you there Vicky!
More info: www.vickydevine.com
All photos courtesy of Lizzie Curious. Not to be reproduced without permission.
Knowwhere In July
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Friday 15th July 2005
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£10 members £12 In Advance, More On The Door
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www.clubknowwhere.co.uk
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The next Knowwhere takes place on Friday 15th of July, so put the date in your diaries. We have another awesome line-up for you, with the return once again of Trance-Master Dave Pearce topping the bill! Dave starts off his Ibiza residency on the 2nd of August at Eden this summer, and will also be appearing in Tenerife, Mallorca and Corfu, so start off your summer partying with him down at the Fridge!
Also returning this month we welcome back Ibiza sensation Vicky Devine! Vicky has already started her summer appearances, with residencies at BCM in Majorca, Charlys Angelz weekly showcase in Ibiza, and of course at Judgement Sundays also on the White Isle. She’s just found time in her busy schedule to return to London and hit the decks again for London’s favourite Trance party!
Essex DJ The Soundman debuts for us this month, a regular on the local scene out east, we’re really looking forward to this long awaited opening set.
The Trance room will also be bouncing to the sounds of residents Adam White and Anthony Dean this month, with their trade-marked Knowwhere sound that hits the spot every time!
In the funky room resident Lizzie Curious will be joined by Chris McGrath and Double D, so make sure you book your tickets early for this one!
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Other Features By Lizzie Curious:
Curious goes crazy in Majorca — Angelz of Funk at BCM, 22/07/05
Tribute to DJ Matt Jay 1973 – 2005
We’re on a road to Knowwhere….. Review of Knowwhere Xmas party
A Curious adventure in Finland, 16-19 May 2003
The views and opinions expressed in this review are strictly those of the author only for which HarderFaster will not be held responsible or liable.
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