Skrufff: How much has leaving ‘We Love’ changed the way people treat you: have you lost any/ many ‘friends’? I do hope that I have not been seen as being critical of the island Ibiza, as a whole as this is not what I wanted.” A bit like the people who we took over from all those years ago would have been about myself. All my comments were based on frustration, at seeing something I love changing and being taken over by people who I believed to be less than sympathetic to the lifestyle that we have grown to love here. I do hope that comments I’ve made over the years here in Skrufff and in other publications can be seen for what they are or were. Mark Broadbent: “I don’t think I’ve provoked any anger in anybody as far as I know – not due to my comments on the changing face of Ibiza anyway! - But then the kind of people your alluding to would never directly say anything to me or anybody else that’s openly critical about anything. Skrufff: I always get the sense that Ibiza people are very sensitive to criticism about the island: how much has your directness provoked anger amongst people still involved in the club scene there? There is a huge and ever growing market for this with house/EDM etc being the soundtrack to the high-street and the suburbs of Europe and the U.S.” The artists that are making what you term EDM will change their style slightly over the years (as has happened with Avicii) and their fans will follow them for a few more years before finding other acts with a more “grown-up” approach to making music to follow in line with their now more cultivated taste, it’s youth based or entry level music at the end of the day. Mark Broadbent: “I think it will carry on in this manner for sometime. Skrufff (Jonty Skrufff): Where do you believe things are heading in Ibiza? (what happens if/ when the EDM bubble bursts?) Just keep it to yourself should you happen upon them.” If you look hard enough there are still a few good people on the island keeping the ‘original’ vibe alive in hidden corners and caves around the place. The face of Ibiza has now changed for good – for the most part – and there are now other places to visit if you want to re-capture that hippie / free spirit we once loved here so much many moons ago. Hippies dancing on the beach, drinking beers they bought in corner shops, isn’t going to do that so these people are now less catered for and in some places / cases actively discouraged. People have invested a lot of money on their swanky bars and hotel complexes and they need less savvy and more monied people to fill them. “A very different kind of clubber now comes here than did ten years ago but Ibiza needs this kind of tourist to sustain the growth made during these last ten years. ![]() “I do not think it has done either, I think that it has changed the scene here dramatically but the island has never been busier,” he points out. “I wasn’t about to jump on board some other soulless ship of EDM pirates in a hurry.”Ĭhatting to Skrufff this week from Ibiza (he’s still based there) he’s as always outspoken so how much does he believe EDM has ruined (or at least significantly damaged) the Ibiza party scene? “I have just left what for some would have been the dream job of programing one of the best parties in the world due to a lack of enthusiasm in the way things are heading in Ibiza and how that party will now need to be programed to achieve the kind of numbers we had grown to expect”, said Mark. The guys asked me to bring a little of my own colour to the table and to be honest this is the one thing I wanted to hear,” he explained. You know the chemistry is right when it feels like this, seems we have been friends forever. “I have wanted more involvement with the guys since first meeting them what now seems a lifetime ago although I’m sure it’s not actually that long. Looking after bookings for a new summer season of events at the alfresco 1,500 capacity seaside space, he was characteristically blunt about his motivations for his role, in a press release issued last week. ![]() 12 months after unexpectedly announcing he was leaving seminal Ibiza event We Love and nightlife promotion in general, Mark Broadbent has equally unexpectedly resurfaced in Croatia, as the chief programmer for Garden Festival’s in house venue Barbarella ’s.
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