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Glitterbox at Amnesia Ibiza, Fridays 2026: The Most Joyful Party on the Island Finds Its Greatest Stage

Some parties exist to be heard. Glitterbox exists to be felt, seen, experienced with every sense simultaneously, and remembered for years afterward by everyone who was fortunate enough to be inside when the sequins caught the light and the first bars of a disco-infused house anthem lifted the room into something that felt less like a club night and more like a collective act of joy.

In 2026, Glitterbox makes the move that the Ibiza dance music community has been anticipating since the announcement landed in late 2025: from its long-standing home at Hï Ibiza to the grandest, most historically significant venue the island has to offer. Glitterbox is now at Amnesia Ibiza, every Friday from May 15 to October 9, 2026, across 21 consecutive weeks in the year that Amnesia celebrates its 50th anniversary. The combination of the island's most theatrical and inclusive party brand with the island's oldest and most legendary club, in a landmark anniversary year, is not something that happens by accident. It is, as Ibiza Rocks puts it, "a bold reset" that pairs "Glitterbox's inclusive, colourful ethos with Amnesia's world-famous scale, production and atmosphere."

Twenty-one Fridays. Five decades of Amnesia history. One party that has never been afraid to wear its heart on its sparkling sleeve.

What Glitterbox is and why it matters

Glitterbox was created by Simon Dunmore, the founder of Defected Records, as a specific and deliberate reaction to the direction that commercial dance music was taking in the mid-2010s. Where the dominant festival and club sounds of that era leaned toward the harder, more masculine-coded end of house and techno, Glitterbox went in the opposite direction: deep into the roots of disco, funk, and soulful house music, reconnecting with the specific history of Studio 54, the New York Paradise Garage, the Chicago Warehouse, and the Manchester Haçienda as the places where the values of inclusivity, self-expression, and uninhibited joy first found their electronic music expression.

The party is built on a series of principles that distinguish it from virtually every other major Ibiza event:

Musical philosophy: The Glitterbox sound moves between classic disco (the 1970s canon from Donna Summer, Chic, and Earth Wind and Fire), boogie and soul (the bridge between disco and house in the early 1980s), and contemporary soulful, vocal, and deep house that carries the lineage forward. The genre boundaries are wide and the mixing is fluid, but the emotional register remains consistent: warm, euphoric, and relentlessly life-affirming.

Visual and theatrical production: Glitterbox is one of the most visually produced club nights in the world. The dancefloor is populated not just by clubbers but by professional performers: dancers, aerialists, drag performers, and costumed characters whose visual contribution to the room makes attending Glitterbox a sensory experience that no other club night replicates. The lighting design references the mirror ball culture of original disco venues while deploying contemporary LED and laser technology at the scale of a major production.

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Inclusivity as founding principle: Glitterbox was explicitly founded on the values of the original queer disco and house scenes, where the dancefloor was a sanctuary for people who felt excluded from mainstream culture. This history is not merely decorative: it informs the crowd, the booking decisions, and the general atmosphere in ways that are immediately perceptible from the moment you enter. The Glitterbox dancefloor at Amnesia in 2026 will be one of the most genuinely welcoming spaces on the island.

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The move to Amnesia: why this venue change matters

Glitterbox spent its Ibiza residency years at Hï Ibiza from 2019 to 2025, where it occupied the Theatre Room on Saturday nights and built a loyal crowd of devoted followers who made the pilgrimage to Playa d'en Bossa every Saturday for six seasons. The Hï years were successful by any measure: the Theatre Room, with its theatrical staging and production capabilities, suited Glitterbox's visual ambitions well, and the venue's position in the middle of Ibiza's busiest beach strip gave it excellent foot traffic from visitors staying in the area.

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The move to Amnesia for 2026 represents a significant step upward in every practical dimension: scale, historical prestige, architectural character, and acoustic power.

Scale: Amnesia's capacity is substantially larger than the Hï Theatre Room, giving the Glitterbox production team a canvas they have not previously had in Ibiza. The larger dancefloor does not simply mean more people: it means more room for the performers, more physical space for the lighting and visual effects to develop, and a different relationship between the DJ, the performers, and the crowd that can only be achieved at venue scale.

Amnesia's two rooms: The transition from a single-room residency to Amnesia's Terrace and Main Room format gives Glitterbox the opportunity to run two simultaneous sonic environments that contrast and complement each other across the night. The Terrace, with its semi-open ceiling, is the natural home for the deeper, groovier end of the Glitterbox sound; the Main Room, with its enclosed acoustic power and production capabilities, suits the more euphoric, high-production moments.

Amnesia's 50th Anniversary: Choosing to join Amnesia's roster in its anniversary year gives Glitterbox a specific cultural position within the 2026 season. The disco and early house music that forms the backbone of Glitterbox's musical philosophy was flourishing precisely when Amnesia opened in 1976: the same years that saw Studio 54 in New York at its peak, the same years that gave birth to the cultural movements that produced house music, and the same years that gave Amnesia its own spirit of freedom, inclusivity, and collective joy. In that sense, Glitterbox at Amnesia is not a new pairing: it is a reunion across half a century of shared cultural history.

Ibiza Rocks captures the significance: "Glitterbox hasn't just changed venues, it's made a statement."

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Amnesia Ibiza: the 50-year stage

Amnesia was founded in 1976 by Spanish philosopher and writer Antonio Escohotado in a finca (farmhouse) in the San Rafael area between Ibiza Town and San Antonio, and it is the longest continuously operating nightclub on the island.

The name was deliberately chosen from the Greek: a word meaning forgetting, chosen to embody the philosophy of letting go of everyday life and surrendering fully to the present moment of music and movement. In 1976, that philosophy was radical. In 2026, after fifty years of dance music history have demonstrated that the greatest club experiences are precisely those in which normal life recedes and musical absorption takes its place, it sounds less like a philosophy and more like a description of what the best nights at Amnesia have always been.

The club's specific history connects it directly to the origins of what Glitterbox celebrates. In the late 1980s, Alfredo Fiorito, the Argentine DJ who was Amnesia's first legendary resident, played the open-air space with sets that mixed house, post-disco, and world music in exactly the genre-free, mood-driven way that Glitterbox's DJs deploy in their contemporary sets. The Balearic Sound that Alfredo invented at Amnesia is the direct ancestor of the soulful, eclectic house philosophy that Glitterbox embodies.

Amnesia's location in San Rafael, approximately 5 kilometers from both Ibiza Town and San Antonio along the main connecting road (Carretera Ibiza a San Antonio, C-731), positions it at the geographic heart of the island's nightlife corridor. The surrounding landscape, pine trees and low limestone hills that glow silver-green in headlights on the night drive back to town, is one of the more specifically Ibizan sensory memories that regular visitors accumulate across multiple seasons.

The full Friday season: 21 weeks confirmed

The confirmed Glitterbox at Amnesia Ibiza 2026 Friday season runs from May 15 to October 9, 2026:

May: May 15 (Opening Party), May 22, May 29

June: June 5, 12, 19, 26

July: July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31

August: August 7, 14, 21, 28

September: September 4, 11, 18, 25

October: October 2, 9

The Glitterbox Opening Party: Friday, May 15

The Glitterbox Opening Party at Amnesia on Friday, May 15, 2026 is the event that the Glitterbox faithful have been anticipating since the venue move was announced. Opening parties at new venues carry a specific energy: the curiosity of a first encounter, the collective awareness that history is being made, and the concentrated enthusiasm of an audience who has been waiting for this specific moment. The May 15 opening at Amnesia promises to be one of the most anticipated Friday nights of the early 2026 Ibiza season.

The closing Friday: October 9

The season finale on October 9, 2026 extends Glitterbox's season into Ibiza's closing month, giving the residency one of the latest end dates in the club's history and allowing it to participate in the specific atmosphere of closing season Ibiza: smaller crowds, more devoted attendees, and the bittersweet collective awareness that this is the last one until next summer.

The Glitterbox performers: DJs and live stars

The confirmed 2026 Glitterbox lineup was being released progressively through early 2026, with the first artist announcements expected in February and March ahead of the May opening. Based on the established Glitterbox roster from previous seasons, the 2026 program is expected to include:

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DJ residents and regulars:

• Simon Dunmore himself, who plays regularly at Glitterbox events as a DJ
• Melvo Baptiste, one of Glitterbox's most beloved and longest-serving residents
• Horse Meat Disco (the legendary London collective whose DJ sets are among the most joyful and musically rich in the house and disco world)
• Maribou State, whose live AV performances have become a defining feature of Glitterbox
• Kon (the New York DJ and Kon & Amir collaborator, one of the world's finest diggers of rare soul and funk)
• Dimitri from Paris, the French disco specialist whose knowledge of the original 1970s canon is unequaled

Live performances:

Glitterbox regularly programs live vocalists alongside its DJ sets, with artists whose connection to the disco and soulful house tradition gives them specific credibility in the Glitterbox context. Previous seasons have seen live performances from artists including Ultra Naté (whose "Free" remains one of the most powerful house anthems ever recorded), Kim English, CeCe Rogers, and other vocalists from the original house and garage vocal traditions.

The Glitterbox performers (the visual artists who populate the dancefloor) are a central part of every show. The creative team behind the performer program creates new visual characters and costume themes for each season, ensuring that the theatrical dimension of each Friday night changes and evolves across the 21 weeks rather than repeating a fixed template.

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The Amnesia experience: navigating the venue for a Glitterbox Friday

Amnesia operates across its two iconic spaces, and understanding how to navigate both across a Glitterbox Friday significantly enhances the night.

The Terrace

The Terrace, Amnesia's semi-open-air space whose ceiling partially opens to the sky, is where the warmer, groovier, more intimate dimension of Glitterbox lives on a Friday. The deep house, disco edits, and slower-building sets that form the core of the Glitterbox experience suit the Terrace's acoustic warmth and spatial quality. When dawn begins to show through the ceiling opening, the Terrace produces one of the most beautiful visual moments in Ibiza clubbing.

The Main Room

The Main Room is where Glitterbox's most theatrical and production-intensive programming lives: the live performances, the elaborate visual production, and the more euphoric, full-room moments that require Amnesia's enclosed acoustic power to land with maximum impact. The Main Room at Amnesia gives Glitterbox a production canvas that is simply larger than anything it has worked with at previous venues, and the 2026 creative team has specifically designed the Main Room program to take advantage of that scale.

Practical guide to attending Glitterbox at Amnesia 2026

Getting to Amnesia

Amnesia Ibiza is located at Carretera Ibiza a San Antonio (C-731), San Rafael, Ibiza. Taxis from Ibiza Town take approximately 10 to 12 minutes; from San Antonio, approximately 8 minutes. The island's Disco Bus service connects Ibiza Town, San Antonio, and the major clubs along the San Rafael road, stopping at Amnesia, and provides an economical alternative to taxis for the late-night return journey. Ibiza Airport (IBZ) is approximately 8 kilometers from the club, roughly 15 minutes by taxi.

Tickets

Official tickets are available through:

• amnesia.es (official club website, primary source)
• ibiza-spotlight.com (confirmed official ticketing partner)
• Resident Advisor (authorized ticket platform)

Opening Party tickets and peak season (July and August) dates are expected to sell out well in advance. Booking ahead is strongly recommended for anyone with a specific date in mind.

When to go

• May 15 Opening Party: for the historic first Glitterbox at Amnesia, in the anniversary year, with the specific energy of a first encounter
• July and August peak season: the highest-energy crowd across the full season, with the warmest summer nights and the most visitors at peak Ibiza engagement
• September and October: for those who prefer the island quieter, with Glitterbox regulars forming a more concentrated and musically dedicated audience and accommodation prices significantly lower

Dress code and age restriction

• Age: 18+ strictly enforced
• Dress code aligns with Amnesia's general policy: smart casual, no sportswear, no beach clothing, no flip-flops
• Glitterbox specifically encourages expressive, colorful dress that matches the party's visual philosophy: sequins, bright colors, and theatrical self-expression are not just tolerated but celebrated
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Verified Information at glance

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ItemConfirmed detailsEvent nameGlitterbox at Amnesia Ibiza 2026 Event category21-week weekly DJ residency with live vocalists and theatrical performers; disco, soulful house, vocal house Day of weekEvery Friday Full season datesMay 15, 22, 29 / June 5, 12, 19, 26 / July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 / August 7, 14, 21, 28 / September 4, 11, 18, 25 / October 2, 9, 2026 Total shows21 consecutive Friday nights Glitterbox Opening PartyFriday, May 15, 2026 VenueAmnesia Ibiza, Carretera Ibiza a San Antonio (C-731), San Rafael, Ibiza, Spain Venue founded1976 (50th anniversary in 2026) Previous Glitterbox Ibiza homeHï Ibiza (Saturdays, 2019 to 2025) 

​Glitterbox foundedBy Simon Dunmore (also founder of Defected Records) Musical focusDisco, boogie, soulful house, vocal house, deep house; theatrical performers and live vocalists 

​Two room formatThe Terrace (semi-open-air, deep/groovy) and The Main Room (enclosed, high production, theatrical) Age restriction18+ Dress codeSmart casual; colorful and expressive dress actively encouraged Official ticketingamnesia.es, ibiza-spotlight.com, Resident Advisor Amnesia 50th anniversary seasonOpening Party: May 9, 2026; full season including RESISTANCE (Wednesdays), Pyramid (Sundays), Glitterbox (Fridays) Nearest airportIbiza Airport (IBZ), approximately 8 km from Amnesia / 15 minutes by taxi 

When the mirror ball catches the first light over Amnesia's Terrace on the opening night of May 15 and the bass of the first Glitterbox track rises through the fifty-year-old floor of a club that was built for exactly this kind of collective, joyful, uninhibited dancing, the move from Hï to Amnesia will immediately feel not just right but inevitable. Twenty-one Fridays of sequins, disco, soulful house, extraordinary performers, and the specific warmth that Glitterbox generates in every room it inhabits, in the venue that has been generating that same warmth since the year Donna Summer and Chic were at the top of the charts: that is the offer. The only thing left to do is be there.

Calvin Harris at Ushuaïa Ibiza 2026: The Dual Residency That Rewrote the Rules of a Mediterranean Island Summer

There is a place on the southern coast of Ibiza where the rules of conventional nightclub experience simply do not apply. The stage is outside, the sky is open, the crowd stands in warm Mediterranean afternoon air with the sun still golden overhead, and the DJ behind the production desk has more combined streams than almost any other artist in the history of recorded music. This is Ushuaïa Ibiza at Playa d'en Bossa, and in 2026 it belongs to Calvin Harris on both Fridays and Tuesdays for a season that is, by any objective measure, the largest and most historically significant DJ residency this island has ever produced.

The headline numbers confirm it: Fridays from May 29 to October 2, 2026, running the full length of the Ibiza season from its first breath to its last. Tuesdays from July 7 to August 25, covering the peak summer weeks at the height of demand. That is two shows a week across the most competitive nightlife landscape on earth, at the same venue, by a single artist, in a format that no other DJ has managed to sustain at any Ibiza club in living memory.

When Ibiza Spotlight described this announcement as "The Scottish big boss enters his biggest year yet," they were not reaching for a superlative. They were describing a factual situation: in 2026, Calvin Harris is doing something at Ushuaïa Ibiza that nobody has done before.

Who Calvin Harris is and why this residency is different

Calvin Harris was born Adam Richard Wiles in Dumfries, Scotland in 1984, and he has spent the past two decades systematically becoming the most commercially successful solo producer in the history of popular music. The statistics are extraordinary in their scale: over 56 billion combined streams, a GRAMMY Award, and a back catalogue that includes "We Found Love" with Rihanna, "One Kiss" with Dua Lipa, "Summer", "Feel So Close", "Blame", "Outside", "How Deep Is Your Love", "Promises", and most recently "Blessings".

These are not songs that happened to chart. They are songs that defined entire summers for tens of millions of people across multiple continents, across a period of sustained chart and streaming dominance that stretches from 2007 to the present. The official Ushuaïa website describes him as someone who "has shaped modern dance music like no other DJ," and while that kind of language routinely gets applied to festival headliners with much thinner credentials, in Harris's case it happens to be straightforwardly accurate.

What makes the Ushuaïa residency specifically significant is not just who Harris is, but how he performs in this setting. Ushuaïa Ibiza's open-air stage, situated in the hotel's main pool area at Playa d'en Bossa, gives Harris a production canvas that suits his scale. The sets run from 5:00 PM to 11:00 PM, making this a daytime-to-evening experience in which the transition from afternoon sun to Mediterranean dusk to warm island night happens during the show itself, and the production responds to that transition with lighting and visual effects that use the natural sky as part of the stage design.

ClubTickets.com describes it as "the first artist in history to hold a double residency at the same Ibiza venue in a single season, a testament to the overwhelming demand for his iconic performances." That historical distinctiveness is not marketing copy: it is a confirmed fact, and it places the 2026 season in a category of its own in the 30-plus year history of Ibiza's DJ residency culture.

The Friday residency: the full-season flagship

Fridays at Ushuaïa Ibiza with Calvin Harris, running from May 29 to October 2, 2026, represent the full arc of the Ibiza season.

The Friday residency is the longer-running and more established of the two. Harris has held the Friday slot at Ushuaïa across multiple previous seasons, building what Magic Ibiza describes as a show that "sells out nearly every week, attracting an international crowd who travel to Ibiza specifically for this show."

The Friday dates run:

• May: May 29 (opening weekend of the Ibiza season, historically one of the most atmospheric nights of the year as the island's summer begins)
• June: June 5, 12, 19, 26
• July: July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
• August: August 7, 14, 21, 28
• September: September 4, 11, 18, 25
• October: October 2 (the final Friday of the Ibiza season, historically one of the most emotionally charged nights as the summer closes)

Twenty-two Friday shows spanning the complete 2026 Ibiza season, from the opening weekend party atmosphere of late May to the closing night farewell of October 2.

The Tuesday residency: peak summer, special guests

Tuesdays at Ushuaïa Ibiza with Calvin Harris, running from July 7 to August 25, 2026, represent the peak-season concentrated version of the Harris experience.

The Tuesday residency debuted in 2025 as a response to what the official Ushuaïa website describes as an "explosive debut" that demonstrated demand beyond what Friday alone could accommodate. In 2026, it returns for its second year as an established feature of the Ibiza calendar rather than an experiment, running across eight Tuesday shows through the highest-demand weeks of July and August.

The Tuesday dates run:

• July: July 7, 14, 21, 28
• August: August 4, 11, 18, 25

A total of eight Tuesday shows in the heart of the Ibiza summer, each one programmed with handpicked special guests that Harris selects himself from across his extraordinary network of collaborators. The Ushuaïa website notes that Harris "will handpick special guests to join him on our breathtaking open-air stage," and given that his collaborative history includes performances with Dua Lipa, Rihanna, The Weeknd, Frank Ocean, Ellie Goulding, Tinie Tempah, Tinashe, Rag 'n' Bone Man, Sam Smith, John Newman, and dozens of other major artists, the guest list potential for the Tuesday shows is genuinely extraordinary.

The August Tuesday shows specifically fall during the single busiest weeks on the Ibiza calendar, when the island's hotels are at maximum occupancy, flights are operating at peak frequency, and the nightly competition between venues for crowd and attention is at its most intense. The fact that Ushuaïa's Tuesday offering in those weeks is Calvin Harris performing with special guests means that the competition for those nights is effectively over before it begins.

Ushuaïa Ibiza: the venue that changed what an Ibiza club could be

Ushuaïa Ibiza at Playa d'en Bossa is not a conventional nightclub. It is a 5-star hotel built around an outdoor pool and open-air stage, whose daytime-to-evening format was genuinely innovative when it opened and which has since become one of the most globally imitated club venue concepts in the world.

The venue's technical specifications match its ambitions: the sound system, lighting rig, and stage production at Ushuaïa are designed for stadium-level artists performing to large outdoor crowds, and the sight lines from virtually any position in the pool and surrounding areas to the main stage are exceptional. The open sky above means that the production, which changes across the full six-hour window of a Harris set as the sun moves and the natural light transitions, uses the Mediterranean evening as a collaborator rather than a backdrop.

The venue sits at Playa d'en Bossa, the long sandy beach strip south of Ibiza Town that is the island's most developed and continuously active beachfront zone. The beach itself runs for approximately 3 kilometers and is backed by hotels, bars, and restaurants, making the area around Ushuaïa one of the most socially active locations on the island throughout the day before Harris takes the stage in the early evening.

Dress code, age restrictions, and entry requirements

Ushuaïa Ibiza maintains a consistent dress code policy for the Harris residency that applies to every show:

• Minimum age: 18 years
• No flip-flops
• No shorts
• No swimwear
• No sports merchandise (sportswear, football shirts, athletic clothing)
• Smart casual is the effective standard: stylish summer clothing appropriate for an evening in a premium outdoor venue

These restrictions apply equally to Friday and Tuesday shows. Arriving in beachwear from Playa d'en Bossa, which is the natural temptation given the venue's beach-adjacent location, will result in entry refusal.

Tickets: what to know before you buy

Ticket demand for Calvin Harris at Ushuaïa is consistent and high. Magic Ibiza confirms that the residency "sells out nearly every week," and Ibizabynight specifically recommends buying in advance.

Official ticketing is available through:

• theushuaiaexperience.com: the official Ushuaïa Ibiza website
• clubtickets.com: official ticketing partner
• ibiza-spotlight.com: confirmed ticketing links for both Friday and Tuesday residencies

Pricing for the 2026 season was not fully confirmed at time of publication; ticket prices at Ushuaïa for premium residency events historically start from approximately €30 to €40 for standard entry and rise for VIP table packages. Prices vary across the season, with peak summer dates (July and August) commanding higher entry prices than opening and closing season shows. Purchasing tickets as soon as they become available for your specific date is strongly recommended, particularly for any August Tuesday shows where demand peaks.

Planning your Ibiza trip around the Harris residency

Getting to Ibiza

Ibiza Airport (IBZ) is the island's international gateway, receiving direct flights from London, Manchester, Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Zurich, Barcelona, and across European cities from late April through October. The airport is approximately 7 kilometers from Playa d'en Bossa and a 15 to 20-minute taxi ride from Ushuaïa.

Which dates to prioritize

• Opening night, Friday May 29: the buzz of the season's first Harris show, before peak crowds arrive, is a specific and valued experience
• Any Tuesday in July or August with confirmed special guest announcement: the combination of peak summer energy and a confirmed major guest is the highest-intensity show option
• Closing Friday, October 2: the emotional weight of a season-ending performance at Ushuaïa is difficult to overstate for those who have followed the full season
• Any show in late September: the island is significantly less crowded after mid-September, hotel prices drop considerably, and the quality of the Harris show is identical

Where to stay near Playa d'en Bossa

• Ushuaïa Ibiza itself: staying in the venue's hotel puts you in the most direct possible relationship with the shows and eliminates travel logistics entirely
• Hard Rock Hotel Ibiza: adjacent to Ushuaïa on Playa d'en Bossa, with direct walking access to the venue
• Ibiza Rocks Hotel (San Antonio area): the Ibiza Rocks team specifically recommends their hotel for Harris shows, noting a 30-minute taxi ride to Ushuaïa from their location

Verified Information at a glance

Item: Confirmed details

Event name: Calvin Harris — Double Residency at Ushuaïa Ibiza 2026

Event category: DJ residency (dual weekly residency, daytime-to-evening open-air club performances)

Friday residency dates: Every Friday, May 29 to October 2, 2026 (22 shows)

Tuesday residency dates: Every Tuesday, July 7 to August 25, 2026 (8 shows)

Total shows: Approximately 30 shows across the season

Venue: Ushuaïa Ibiza, Playa d'en Bossa, Ibiza, Spain

Doors and show times: 5:00 PM to 11:00 PM (every Friday and Tuesday)

Age restriction: 18+

Dress code: No flip-flops, shorts, swimwear, or sports merchandise

Ticketing: theushuaiaexperience.com, clubtickets.com, ibiza-spotlight.com

Artist streams: Over 56 billion combined streams

Historical distinction: First artist to hold a dual residency at the same Ibiza venue in a single season (achieved 2025, continued 2026)

Nearest airport: Ibiza Airport (IBZ), approximately 7 km from Playa d'en Bossa / Ushuaïa Ibiza

From the first Friday afternoon of May 29 when the season opens and the Ushuaïa pool fills with the sound of a Calvin Harris set under a full Mediterranean sky, to the closing October 2 show when the last summer crowd of the year fills Playa d'en Bossa for a farewell that will take most of them months to fully process, the 2026 dual residency is the most comprehensive and historically significant version of the Calvin Harris Ibiza experience that has ever been available. Thirty shows, two nights a week, one artist, one venue, one island: the only question worth asking at this point is which date you are going to be there for.

Amnesia Ibiza 50th Anniversary Season 2026: Half a Century of the Club That Invented the Night

Fifty years is an extraordinary lifespan for any business. For a nightclub, it is essentially unheard of. And for a nightclub that did not merely survive fifty years but spent most of them at the absolute center of global dance music culture, rewriting what club design, club sound, and the club experience itself could be across multiple decades of musical evolution, the word milestone barely captures what Amnesia Ibiza is celebrating in 2026.

Amnesia Ibiza was founded in 1976 by Antonio Escohotado, opening initially under the name "Workshop of Oblivion" in the rural San Rafael area between Ibiza Town and San Antonio, about 5 kilometers from either. It was renamed Amnesia shortly afterward, a name taken from the Greek, chosen because it embodied the club's foundational philosophy: letting go, forgetting your worries, embracing freedom, and fully living in the present moment. In 2026, fifty years after those doors first opened, that philosophy remains as current as it was in 1976, and the club's 50th Anniversary Season intends to honor it with the most ambitious and historically significant program in Amnesia's five-decade existence.

The Opening Party on Saturday, May 9, 2026 launches a season that will run through October 2026, carrying a special series of 50th Anniversary Specials alongside its confirmed weekly residencies. From the earliest pre-season event on April 24 through the final closing parties of early October, this is not just another Ibiza summer. It is a season-long celebration of the venue that Ibiza Spotlight, Electronic Groove, and Deep Tech Magazine all describe as the longest-running club on the island, and one of the most culturally significant clubs in the world.

Amnesia's Founding Story: From a Country House to the Center of the World

The story of Amnesia begins in the specific cultural context of Ibiza in the mid-1970s, when the island was already established as a haven for artists, intellectuals, and free spirits drawn by its combination of natural beauty, affordable living, and tolerant social atmosphere.

Antonio Escohotado, the Spanish philosopher, historian, and writer who would later become one of Spain's most respected intellectuals, opened the club in a finca (rural farmhouse) in the countryside near San Rafael, the small village that sits at the geographic center of Ibiza roughly equidistant between the island's two main towns. The San Rafael location, on the road between Ibiza Town and San Antonio, positioned the club at a crossroads that made it accessible from every corner of the island without being anchored to either of its urban centers: a deliberate statement that what happened inside belonged to Ibiza itself rather than to any particular community within it.

The original venue had no roof. Ibiza's summers are dry and warm from May through October, and the decision to operate under the open sky gave early Amnesia a character that set it apart from the dark, enclosed clubs of mainland European nightlife. Dancers moved under stars and moon, with the smell of the island's pine and rosemary in the air. When the venue was eventually enclosed in 1990 following a regulatory change that required clubs to have roofs, the design preserved as much of the open-air character as possible: the Terrace remained semi-open, and the acoustic design of both rooms was planned to retain the spatial expansiveness that had always been Amnesia's defining physical characteristic.

Through the 1980s, Amnesia was at the center of the Balearic Sound movement, the musical style named after the Balearic Islands that blended house, electronic music, rock, and world music into a fluid, inclusive DJ sound that defined the era and directly influenced the development of British and European rave culture. Alfredo Fiorito, the Argentine DJ who became the original Amnesia resident, is credited as the foundational architect of the Balearic Sound, and the all-night sets he played in the late 1980s under the Amnesia stars were the direct inspiration that brought British DJs including Danny Rampling, Paul Oakenfold, Nicky Holloway, and Johnny Walker to Ibiza, took the experience back to London, and launched the UK acid house movement of 1988. The club's influence on the subsequent thirty years of global electronic music culture flows directly from those nights.

In 2010, Amnesia Ibiza received the DJ Mag Best Club in the World award, the most prestigious recognition in club culture. In 2016, the UNESCO designation of Ibiza's nightlife culture as Intangible Cultural Heritage specifically cited Amnesia as one of the central institutions of that heritage. These are not industry marketing claims. They are external institutional recognitions of what Amnesia represents in the history of global popular culture.

The 50th Anniversary Season: What 2026 Looks Like

The 2026 season is organized around the 50th anniversary framework, with weekly residencies supplemented by a dedicated series of 50th Anniversary Specials that will feature programming designed specifically to celebrate the club's history and its future.

The Pyramid Pre-Opening: April 24, 2026

Before the official season opens, Pyramid hosts a special pre-opening party on Friday, April 24, 2026, during IMS week (International Music Summit), Ibiza's annual gathering of the global electronic music industry.

The April 24 lineup is extraordinary: Sven Väth, Luciano, Deborah De Luca, Shlømo, Clara Cuvé, Katnada, CAAL, and Saoirse. Sven Väth at Amnesia during IMS week in the anniversary year is a specifically loaded combination: Väth is among the most historically connected DJs to Amnesia's story, having played the club across multiple decades, and his presence at the pre-opening is both an honoring of that history and a statement of artistic ambition for the season ahead.

The Opening Party: Saturday, May 9, 2026

The Official Opening Party on Saturday, May 9, 2026 launches the 50th Anniversary Season proper with a lineup that covers both of Amnesia's iconic rooms.

The Terrace lineup: Joseph Capriati, Josh Baker, Seth Troxler, CAAL, Marco Faraone, Enzo Siragusa, Fleur Shore, Luke Dean, Max Dean, Mar-T, Ceri.

The Main Room lineup: Amelie Lens, 999999999, Alan Fitzpatrick, Fatima Hajji, Luca Donzelli, Luxi Villar.

Electronic Groove describes the opening as "one for the history books," noting that the dual-room format of the party, with the Terrace's deep, hypnotic house and techno counterpointing the Main Room's harder, more industrial techno, represents exactly the tension between Amnesia's two sonic identities that has made the venue so musically rich across its history.

The presence of Joseph Capriati on the Terrace billing is particularly significant: Capriati has been one of Amnesia's most beloved resident artists across multiple seasons, and his confirmed opening night appearance all but confirms his return for a full 2026 residency.

The Confirmed Weekly Residencies: Glitterbox, Pyramid, Resistance

Glitterbox: Fridays, May 15 to October 9, 2026

Glitterbox, the disco and soulful house party founded and run by Simon Dunmore and his Defected Records team, makes its historic move to Amnesia Ibiza for the 2026 season after years at Hï Ibiza. Running every Friday from May 15 to October 9, 2026 across 21 consecutive weeks, this is one of the most significant venue moves in Ibiza's 2026 season.

Ibiza Rocks describes the move as "a bold reset, pairing Glitterbox's inclusive, colourful ethos with Amnesia's world-famous scale, production, and atmosphere." The Glitterbox brand is built around disco, soulful house, vocal house, and uplifting club sounds delivered in a theatrical, inclusive environment that celebrates diversity, excess, and joy in equal measure. At Amnesia's scale and within its iconic spaces, this combination has the potential to produce 21 weeks of genuinely landmark Friday nights.

The full Glitterbox 2026 lineup was still being confirmed at the time of writing, with Ibiza Rocks noting that "Glitterbox favourites and special guests" would be announced in due course.

Pyramid: Sundays, June 14 to October 4, 2026

Pyramid, the award-winning techno series that has been one of Amnesia's most consistent and critically respected residencies across recent seasons, returns for every Sunday from June 14 to October 4, 2026, following the pre-opening April 24 special.

Ibiza Rocks confirms the full structure: "opening party 24 April 2026 during IMS, with the summer residency officially getting going on 14th June, with parties every Sunday until 4th October 2026." The Pyramid residency is known for booking the finest names in contemporary techno and dark house across its season, and the 2026 program in the anniversary year is expected to feature particularly notable guest bookings alongside the familiar Pyramid residents.

RESISTANCE Ibiza: Wednesdays, July 22 to September 16, 2026

RESISTANCE, the underground-focused event concept organized by Ultra Music Festival, returns to Amnesia Ibiza for nine consecutive Wednesdays from July 22 to September 16, 2026.

The confirmed headline lineup for RESISTANCE 2026 is exceptional: Adam Beyer, ARTBAT, Boris Brejcha, and Eric Prydz as the season's core headliners. Beatportal confirmed the specific structure: Adam Beyer headlines all nine dates; ARTBAT, Boris Brejcha, and Eric Prydz each play three co-headlining sets throughout the season.

BPM Magazine describes the significance of this lineup: Beyer is the most consistent ambassador of Swedish techno at the highest level; ARTBAT have become one of the most globally in-demand live/DJ acts in underground electronic music; Boris Brejcha, whose face-mask visual identity has made him one of the most visually distinctive DJs in the world, is confirmed to play only Resistance at Amnesia for his entire 2026 Ibiza season; and Eric Prydz's return to the island in the RESISTANCE context places one of electronic music's most ambitious visual and musical architects in the space where that ambition belongs.

Ibiza1 Radio captures the specific weight of the RESISTANCE season in the anniversary context: "This year is special. We aren't just celebrating another summer of beats; we are walking into the 50th-anniversary celebrations of Amnesia Ibiza, a venue that has defined club culture for half a century."

Do Not Sleep: Confirmed Presence

Do Not Sleep, the deep and minimal house concept that has been a fixture of Amnesia's programming across multiple recent seasons, is confirmed at Amnesia for 2026, appearing in the Opening Party lineup and expected to continue its regular season presence.

50th Anniversary Specials

Amnesia's 50th Anniversary Specials are confirmed as a distinct series of parties during the 2026 season. Ibiza Spotlight specifically lists them as "parties that will deviate from its weekly programme," indicating that these are one-off or limited events programmed specifically to mark the anniversary rather than continuations of the standard residency format. Full details of the Anniversary Specials were being released progressively through 2026 and are expected to represent some of the most extraordinary programming the club has assembled in its 50-year history.

The Two Rooms: Understanding Amnesia's Sonic Architecture

Every Amnesia night operates across two distinct and intentionally contrasting spaces, and understanding both is essential for any visitor.

The Terrace

The Terrace is Amnesia's beating heart: a semi-open space that retains the club's original outdoor character, with a ceiling that opens to the sky and a sound system of enormous scale but deep warmth. The Terrace is where Amnesia's more hypnotic, groove-driven programming lives: deep house, minimal techno, Balearic influences, and the flowing, long-form DJ sets for which the space has been famous since Alfredo played there in 1988. When dawn comes to Ibiza and the light changes through the opening in the Terrace ceiling, it produces one of the most visually beautiful moments in club culture anywhere in the world.

The Main Room

The Main Room is Amnesia's more enclosed, architecturally spectacular space: a high-ceilinged, visually dramatic room whose production infrastructure allows for the kind of full-scale laser, LED, and lighting shows that require genuine architectural height and volume to deploy properly. The Main Room is where Amnesia's harder programming lives: techno, industrial, and the more confrontational end of the electronic music spectrum. The acoustic design makes the bass physical in a way that is specific to this room, and the production scale makes the visual experience match the sonic one.

Practical Guide to Attending Amnesia's 50th Anniversary Season

Getting to Amnesia

Amnesia Ibiza is located on the Carretera Ibiza a San Antonio (C-731) in the San Rafael area, approximately 5 kilometers from both Ibiza Town and San Antonio. Taxis from both towns take approximately 10 minutes and are readily available throughout the night. The Disco Bus service that runs between Ibiza Town, San Antonio, and the major clubs along the San Rafael road also stops at Amnesia, providing an affordable and consistent transport option for the main summer weeks.

Ibiza Airport (IBZ) is approximately 8 kilometers from Amnesia, about 15 minutes by taxi.

Tickets and Prices

Tickets for all Amnesia 2026 events are available through amnesia.es, the official club website, and through authorized partners including Ibiza Spotlight and Resident Advisor. Prices for the 50th Anniversary season are expected to reflect the premium nature of the special year; advance booking for all confirmed residency dates is strongly recommended, particularly for RESISTANCE Wednesdays and the Opening Party, which historically sell out well in advance.

Where to Stay

The San Rafael area and the Ibiza Town cluster of hotels provide the most convenient base for regular Amnesia attendance. San Antonio hotels are equally well-positioned given the 5-kilometer distance to the club. The Playa d'en Bossa hotel strip, which runs approximately 8 kilometers from Amnesia, is also viable given taxi accessibility and the advantage of being close to multiple other Ibiza venues for a multi-night stay.

Verified Information at a Glance

Item: Confirmed details

Event Name: Amnesia Ibiza 50th Anniversary Season 2026

Event Category: 50th anniversary season of a world-renowned nightclub: weekly residencies, special anniversary one-off events

Founded: 1976 by Antonio Escohotado (as "Workshop of Oblivion")

Pre-Opening Event: Pyramid special: Friday, April 24, 2026 (IMS week); Sven Väth, Luciano, Deborah De Luca, Saoirse, Shlømo, Clara Cuvé, Katnada, CAAL

Official Opening Party: Saturday, May 9, 2026

Opening Party Terrace: Joseph Capriati, Josh Baker, Seth Troxler, CAAL, Marco Faraone, Enzo Siragusa, Fleur Shore, Luke Dean, Max Dean, Mar-T, Ceri

Opening Party Main Room: Amelie Lens, 999999999, Alan Fitzpatrick, Fatima Hajji, Luca Donzelli, Luxi Villar

Glitterbox Residency: Every Friday, May 15 to October 9, 2026 (21 weeks); disco, soulful house, vocal house

Pyramid Residency: Every Sunday, June 14 to October 4, 2026 (plus pre-opening April 24)

RESISTANCE Residency: Every Wednesday, July 22 to September 16, 2026 (9 weeks); Adam Beyer (all 9), ARTBAT, Boris Brejcha, Eric Prydz (3 shows each)

50th Anniversary Specials: Confirmed series of one-off special events; full schedule to be announced via amnesia.es

Venue: Amnesia Ibiza, Carretera Ibiza a San Antonio (C-731), San Rafael, Ibiza, Spain

Two Spaces: The Terrace (semi-open-air, hypnotic/house) and The Main Room (enclosed, techno/high production)

Official Ticketing: amnesia.es

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David Guetta: F*** ME I'M FAMOUS! at Ushuaïa Ibiza, Mondays 2026

Monday is the day of the week that most people spend recovering from the weekend. In Ibiza, for the past decade and a half, Monday has been the day that David Guetta turns into the best night of the week.

In 2026, the world's number one DJ returns to Ushuaïa Ibiza at Playa d'en Bossa with his legendary F* ME I'M FAMOUS! party, running every Monday from June 1 to October 5, 2026, covering the full arc of the Ibiza season across 19 consecutive weeks. This is not a new venture. It is the continuation of one of the most historically significant DJ residencies ever held on this island, delivered by an artist whose numbers at this specific venue have accumulated to the point where they function as a landmark in the history of electronic music: over 250 performances and more than 1,500 hours of music at Ushuaïa Ibiza alone.

Ibiza By Night's announcement put it plainly: "The facts back it up. History confirms it." When an artist has spent the equivalent of 62 full days playing music at a single outdoor venue over multiple years, returning each summer to an audience that expands rather than contracts, the word "residency" feels inadequate. What Guetta and Ushuaïa have built together over years of Monday nights is something closer to a cultural institution, and in 2026 it returns for another 19-chapter season.

The Story Behind F*** ME I'M FAMOUS!

F* ME I'M FAMOUS! (universally abbreviated as FMIF) began not as a club night but as a radio show, launched by Guetta in the early 2000s as a vehicle for his DJ mixes on platforms including Radio FG in France. The name was deliberately provocative, a knowing joke at the expense of celebrity DJ culture that was simultaneously an accurate description of Guetta's own rapidly escalating status in the world of dance music.

As Guetta's global profile grew, FMIF became a touring party concept, appearing at clubs and events worldwide before finding its permanent summer home at Ushuaïa Ibiza. The venue's outdoor format, its position at Playa d'en Bossa on the western edge of Ibiza's most active beachfront strip, and its culture of festival-level production applied to a club-scale environment made it the ideal physical expression of what FMIF was conceptually: a party that operated at the scale of a stadium event while retaining the intimacy and energy of a club night.

The radio show continues alongside the club events. The FMIF podcast and digital radio broadcasts, which go out weekly and are downloaded and streamed by fans globally, function as the background soundtrack to the live event: listeners who cannot be at Ushuaïa on a Monday in July follow the live energy through the broadcast, while those inside the venue are part of the flagship live transmission of a party brand that exists simultaneously across multiple formats.

David Guetta: The Numbers Behind the World's Number One DJ

David Guetta was born in Paris in 1967, began DJing in the early 1980s, and over the four decades since has built a discography and a global following that has no precise equal in the world of electronic music.

The statistics are worth stating directly:

• World's #1 DJ (DJ Mag rankings)
• Double GRAMMY Award winner
• Discography including global hits that collectively span multiple decades of chart history: "When Love Takes Over" (with Kelly Rowland), "Sexy Bitch" (with Akon), "Titanium" (with Sia), "Without You" (with Usher), "She Wolf" (Falling to Pieces) (with Sia), "Play Hard" (with Ne-Yo and Akon), "Hey Mama" (with Nicki Minaj, Bebe Rexha and Afrojack), "Where Them Girls At" (with Nicki Minaj and Flo Rida), "Just One Last Time" (with Taped Rai), "Bad" (with Showtek), "2U" (with Justin Bieber), "Don't Leave Me Alone" (with Anne-Marie)
• A live and social media audience measured in tens of millions across platforms
• Over 250 performances at Ushuaïa Ibiza specifically, with over 1,500 hours of music at the venue

What Guetta brings to Ushuaïa on a Monday evening is not simply a DJ set in the conventional sense. It is a performance built around a catalogue of songs that have soundtracked major life moments for enormous numbers of people: the songs that played at weddings, at graduation parties, at the first club night someone attended at 18, at festivals in multiple countries, on headphones during commutes across years and decades. When those songs play at Ushuaïa under the open Ibiza sky in the late afternoon, the emotional response they generate is not merely appreciation for good music. It is recognition, memory, and joy simultaneously.

Guetta's Special Guests: Who Joins Him on the Ushuaïa Stage

One of the defining features of the FMIF residency at Ushuaïa Ibiza is the weekly special guest. The official description from Ushuaïa confirms it: "Each week Guetta invites a lineup of special guests to share the stage with him, including collaborators, legends and future stars to keep our outdoor dancefloor moving."

Guetta's collaborative history makes the guest potential for the 2026 season extraordinary. The artists he has produced, written with, and performed with represent a roster that spans the full breadth of contemporary pop and dance music. Across previous FMIF seasons at Ushuaïa, guests have included DJ legends from the house and techno world alongside pop and R&B vocalists who have collaborated with Guetta on studio recordings and who bring their live performances into the open-air setting.

The specific guest lineup for 2026 was being announced show by show rather than disclosed in full ahead of the season, a practice that creates sustained week-by-week anticipation and rewards Ibiza visitors who follow the announcements in real time rather than planning months in advance. Following Guetta's social media and the official Ushuaïa Instagram account provides the most immediate access to guest announcements as they are released, typically a week or two before each show.

The Ushuaïa Ibiza Setting: Open Air, Playa d'en Bossa

Ushuaïa Ibiza at Playa d'en Bossa has been described as the venue that changed what an Ibiza nightclub experience could be, and its specific features explain why FMIF works here in a way it could not work in an enclosed venue.

The venue is built around an outdoor pool and open-air main stage, part of a 5-star hotel complex whose design integrates the club experience into a genuine architectural environment rather than constructing one around the events. The shows run from 5:00 PM to 11:00 PM, a time window specifically chosen to begin in full Mediterranean afternoon light and move through the golden-hour transition to the warm Ibiza evening. The production that Guetta brings to these six-hour sets, which the official announcement describes as "festival-level production that will transform each moment into a treasured memory," uses this transition as part of the visual program: the lighting rigs, the LED screens, and the laser systems are designed to function differently in daylight than in darkness, creating a visible arc across the show that mirrors the natural progression of the day.

Playa d'en Bossa itself, the long sandy beach strip where Ushuaïa sits, runs for approximately 3 kilometers and is backed by hotels, beach clubs, and restaurants that are active throughout the day. Arriving at Ushuaïa for a Monday FMIF means spending a day on one of Ibiza's most accessible and fully-serviced beaches before walking into the venue as the afternoon begins to cool, which is both the most logical and the most purely enjoyable way to experience the show.

19 Weeks, 19 Mondays: The Full 2026 Season Schedule

The confirmed schedule for F* ME I'M FAMOUS! by David Guetta at Ushuaïa Ibiza 2026 runs across 19 consecutive Mondays:

June: June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29

July: July 6, 13, 20, 27

August: August 3, 10, 17, 24, 31

September: September 7, 14, 21, 28

October: October 5

The June 1 opening show falls on the first Monday of the Ibiza season's main programming phase, kicking off what Ushuaïa has confirmed is "the iconic open-air venue's" most in-demand Monday event of any given summer. The October 5 closing show is the season finale, the last Monday of the Ibiza summer, and historically one of the most emotionally intense events on the island's closing season calendar.

WeRaveYou specifically notes the significance: "Taking over the iconic venue for nineteen nights, Guetta will be bringing the heat every Monday starting 1st June and up until 5th October 2026."

Guetta's 2026 Ibiza Double: FMIF and Galactic Circus

For those who cannot get enough of Guetta on Ibiza's island, 2026 brings an additional dimension to his summer presence.

Beyond the Monday FMIF residency at Ushuaïa, Guetta is also confirmed as the headliner of Galactic Circus, his residency at [UNVRS] Ibiza (the island's new hyperclub, formerly DC10), running every Friday from June 19 to October 2, 2026. [UNVRS] operates under a completely different aesthetic and acoustic philosophy to Ushuaïa, with a darker, more enclosed environment that contrasts directly with the open-air daytime format of FMIF.

The result is that Guetta occupies two different nights per week at two different venues with two distinct party concepts: FMIF's celebratory, pop-crossover, festival-production Monday energy at Ushuaïa versus Galactic Circus's later, darker, underground-influenced Friday night at [UNVRS]. For visitors planning an extended Ibiza stay, the option of attending both is a genuine and extraordinary one: two Guetta experiences in the same week, each completely unlike the other.

Practical Guide to Attending FMIF at Ushuaïa 2026

Getting to Ushuaïa from Ibiza Airport

Ibiza Airport (IBZ) is approximately 7 kilometers from Ushuaïa Ibiza at Playa d'en Bossa, a journey of 15 to 20 minutes by taxi. The airport receives direct flights from London, Manchester, Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Milan, and most European capitals throughout the Ibiza summer season.

Tickets

Official ticketing is available through:

• theushuaiaexperience.com (official Ushuaïa website, primary source)
• clubtickets.com (official ticketing partner)
• tryibiza.com (confirmed authorized ticketing)

The Ibiza Rocks team and Ibizabynight both confirm that FMIF shows sell out consistently and recommend buying well in advance of your chosen Monday. VIP table packages are available through the same channels for those wanting a reserved table experience rather than general admission.

Entry Requirements

• Age: 18+ strictly enforced
• No flip-flops
• No beach shorts
• No swimwear
• No sports merchandise (jerseys, tracksuits, athletic clothing)
• Smart summer casual is the effective standard

Accommodation Near Ushuaïa

• Ushuaïa Ibiza Hotel: staying in the venue itself eliminates all transport concerns; the hotel guests have direct access to the pool stage
• Hard Rock Hotel Ibiza: immediately adjacent to Ushuaïa on Playa d'en Bossa, walking distance to the venue
• Other Playa d'en Bossa hotels: the strip has multiple mid-range and premium options within 5 to 10 minutes' walk of Ushuaïa

When to Book Ibiza Accommodation

June dates at Ushuaïa offer slightly more accessible tickets and lower accommodation prices than peak July and August. The September shows are particularly worth considering for visitors who want the full FMIF experience but prefer a quieter island overall, with accommodation prices dropping after the August peak. The October 5 closing night is a once-a-year event with specific emotional energy that repeat visitors to the island's closing season will recognize immediately.

Verified Information at a Glance

Item: Confirmed details

Event name: F*** ME I'M FAMOUS! by David Guetta at Ushuaïa Ibiza 2026

Event category: Weekly DJ residency, open-air electronic music event (house, dance pop, festival production)

Day of the week: Every Monday

Full season dates: June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 / July 6, 13, 20, 27 / August 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 / September 7, 14, 21, 28 / October 5, 2026

Total shows: 19 consecutive Monday shows

Venue: Ushuaïa Ibiza, Playa d'en Bossa, Ibiza, Spain

Doors / show hours: 5:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Age restriction: 18+

Dress code: No flip-flops, beach shorts, swimwear, or sports merchandise

Special guests: Weekly special guests confirmed; specific guests announced show by show

Ticketing: theushuaiaexperience.com, clubtickets.com, tryibiza.com

Artist status: World's #1 DJ, double GRAMMY winner

Historical record at Ushuaïa: Over 250 performances, over 1,500 hours of music at Ushuaïa Ibiza

Official announcement: February 8, 2026

David Guetta second Ibiza residency: Galactic Circus at [UNVRS] Ibiza, every Friday June 19 to October 2, 2026

Nearest airport: Ibiza Airport (IBZ), approximately 7 km / 15 to 20 minutes by taxi

The Monday that begins with a morning on Playa d'en Bossa, moves through an afternoon where the sun over Ibiza's coastline does the kind of things to light and water that no photograph fully captures, and ends with six hours of David Guetta building from the opening bars of a show to the peak of a crowd in full voice under an October night sky at Ushuaïa is not a Monday in the ordinary sense of the word. Nineteen of them are available between June 1 and October 5, 2026, and every single one of them is worth being there for.

FISHER at [UNVRS] Ibiza, Thursdays 2026: Year Two of the Thursday Night Revolution

If you were in Ibiza on a Thursday night last summer, and you made the decision to be at [UNVRS], you already know what this article is about. You watched a bucket-hat-wearing Australian DJ descend from the roof into the booth of a 10,000-capacity hyperclub, you felt the bass of "Losing It" move through the floor and into your chest, and at some point between midnight and sunrise you found yourself questioning how a single human being was generating this much collective energy inside a single room.

In 2026, FISHER is back at [UNVRS] Ibiza for Year 2 of his Thursday night residency, running every Thursday from June 4 to September 10, 2026, across 15 consecutive weeks. The official announcement from [UNVRS] describes it as "15 high-octane nights of stadium-sized showmanship and relentless energy," and anyone who attended Year 1 will confirm that this description, which might read as promotional language for any other artist at any other venue, is in FISHER's case a precise factual account of what actually happens on a Thursday night when the Fish is in the booth.

Ibiza1 Radio put it simply: "Mark your calendars and book your flights, because Thursdays in Ibiza now officially belong to the Fish." With 15 shows spanning the full peak of the island's summer season, from the opening June weekend through the mid-September nights when Ibiza's summer begins its beautiful, bittersweet slowdown, FISHER's 2026 Thursday residency is one of the most anticipated events in the island's 2026 calendar.

Who FISHER is: the Australian who built a global tech-house movement

FISHER is the stage name of Paul Riordan, born and raised in Sydney, Australia, a former professional surfer who transitioned into DJing and production and spent years building his reputation on the Australian and international club circuit before his track "Losing It" changed everything in 2018.

"Losing It" became one of the defining tracks of the late 2010s tech-house movement, an extraordinarily simple loop-driven production built around a repeated vocal hook that worked at festival scale, club scale, and outdoor terrace scale with equal effectiveness. The track reached number one on the Beatport chart and remained there for months, introducing FISHER's name to an international audience that had not previously known his work.

What followed confirmed that "Losing It" was not a fluke. "You Little Beauty," "Take It Off," "Freaks," "Feels So Right," "Just Feels Tight," and his globally played remixes including Bob Sinclar's "World Hold On" and Marlon Hoffstadt's "It's That Time" built a catalogue that consistently occupied the top end of tech-house charts while maintaining a distinctive identity: high-energy, loop-driven, deeply groove-oriented, with a sense of humor and irreverence that mirrors FISHER's own personality and separates his music from the more self-serious end of the house and techno spectrum.

His label Catch & Release has become a genuinely significant platform for tech-house production talent, releasing tracks from artists including Chris Lake, Mochakk, KREAM, and multiple others who have gone on to become major names in the genre. The label's Thursday resident slot philosophy at his residencies, where Catch & Release artists and guests fill the program around FISHER's headlining sets, means that a Thursday night at [UNVRS] is simultaneously a FISHER show and a showcase for the wider ecosystem he has built around himself.

Beyond the music, FISHER's live presence is simply different from almost every other working DJ. His sets are physically animated in a way that defies the conventions of DJ performance: he dances, shouts, gestures, climbs equipment, interacts with crowd members in the front rows, and brings an energy to the booth that belongs more to the tradition of frontman rock performance than to the contemplative, heads-down DJ craft that defines many of his contemporaries. At a 10,000-capacity venue like [UNVRS], where the back of the room is far from the booth, this matters enormously: FISHER's performance presence communicates energy to every corner of the space.

Last summer at [UNVRS], he famously descended from the roof into the DJ booth on a wire rig. Nobody who was in the room when it happened will be mentioning it casually, and the question of what theatrical entrance Year 2 holds has been circulating in dance music social media since the residency was announced.

[UNVRS] Ibiza: the world's first hyperclub

[UNVRS] (pronounced "Universe") is the new identity and full transformation of the venue that was for decades known as DC10: one of the most mythologized clubs in Ibiza's history, a gritty, industrial-aesthetic space in the San Rafael area that hosted the legendary Circoloco parties and became the island's most beloved underground institution.

The venue was acquired by The Night League, the hospitality group that also operates Hï Ibiza and Ushuaïa Ibiza, and comprehensively redesigned as [UNVRS], which it describes as "the world's first Hyperclub": a technologically advanced, architecturally transformed venue that retains the industrial character of the DC10 building while implementing state-of-the-art sound, lighting, and visual systems at a scale that makes it arguably the most technically sophisticated club space on the island.

The 10,000-capacity figure that multiple sources apply to [UNVRS] places it in a different physical category from most of the island's other clubs. Hï Ibiza and Amnesia are large clubs; [UNVRS] is a different scale entirely, more stadium than nightclub in terms of raw capacity, yet programmed with the same residential DJ culture that defines Ibiza's most intimate club experiences. The tension between that scale and that intimacy is what makes [UNVRS] so specifically interesting as a venue, and it is precisely the tension that FISHER's performance style is uniquely equipped to resolve: he is one of the few DJs in the world who can simultaneously play to 10,000 people and make every one of them feel as though the show is happening specifically for them.

The venue sits at Urbanización San Rafael, near San Antoni de Portmany, in the same general area as Amnesia, roughly 5 kilometers from both Ibiza Town and San Antonio. This San Rafael corridor, which runs along the main road between the island's two major urban centers, has historically been the geographic heart of Ibiza's nightlife, and [UNVRS]'s location within it connects the new venue to the decades of club history that happened in the same stretch of road.

The 2026 Thursday schedule: 15 nights confirmed

The FISHER residency at [UNVRS] Ibiza 2026 runs for 15 consecutive Thursday nights:

June: June 4, 11, 18, 25

July: July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

August: August 6, 13, 20, 27

September: September 3, 10

Doors open at 23:30 and the nights run until close, typically in the early morning hours. The late doors time reflects [UNVRS]'s position as a night-into-morning venue rather than the afternoon-to-evening format of Ushuaïa: this is a different kind of Ibiza experience, more traditional in its rhythms, beginning at midnight and reaching its peak somewhere between 2:00 AM and 4:00 AM when the club is at full capacity and FISHER is at full intensity.

Try Ibiza, who published a comprehensive FISHER 2026 guide in early March, notes specifically that "peak-season nights in July and August are especially recommended" for first-timers to the residency, given that the crowd energy and FISHER's own performance intensity tend to peak in the highest-demand weeks.

The June 4 opening Thursday is also specifically notable: it falls during one of the most anticipated opening weekends of the 2026 Ibiza season, when the island's major venues are all launching their summer programs simultaneously and the collective energy of the island at the start of a new season is at its most electric.

The September 10 closing Thursday is the season's final FISHER night, and like all closing shows at major Ibiza residencies, it carries a specific emotional weight: the awareness that this is the last one until next year concentrates the crowd's attention and generates an atmosphere that is fundamentally different from the peak-season shows.

The guest lineup: who joins FISHER at [UNVRS]

The confirmed past guests at FISHER's [UNVRS] Thursday residency across Year 1 include some of the most respected names in the current tech-house and house music world:

• Chris Lake: FISHER's closest creative peer and collaborator in tech-house, whose sets complement FISHER's own music most directly
• Folamour: the French DJ and producer whose sets bring a deeper, more soulful dimension to the Thursday program
• Loco Dice: one of the most respected names in Ibiza's underground history, whose presence at a FISHER night represents a genuine crossover of club culture generations
• Luciano: the Chilean-Swiss DJ whose melodic, hypnotic sets have made him one of Ibiza's most beloved long-term residents
• Marlon Hoffstadt: whose track "It's That Time" FISHER remixed into one of his signature sets pieces
• Patrick Mason: a rising name whose Catch & Release releases have made him a natural Thursday night presence
• Sammy Virji: the British DJ whose blends of UK funky, breakbeat, and tech-house have made him one of the most in-demand breakthrough names in European clubbing
• Solardo: the Manchester duo whose deep, minimal tech-house has been a consistent feature of high-quality Ibiza programming

The 2026 guest lineup was being announced show by show rather than in advance as a full season reveal, consistent with the "follow the Fish" culture that has built around the residency. Following FISHER's Instagram, @unvrs.official, and tryibiza.com provides the earliest access to guest announcements for each specific Thursday.

The [UNVRS] 2026 full weekly lineup

FISHER's Thursday residency exists within the broader [UNVRS] 2026 weekly program, which is arguably the most impressive weekly roster of any single club in Ibiza this season. Understanding the full weekly schedule helps visitors planning an extended Ibiza stay to build a multi-night program around the venue:

• Mondays: John Summit (Experts Only, John Summit's debut [UNVRS] residency)
• Wednesdays: Jamie Jones' Paradise (the longstanding Ibiza institution in its [UNVRS] home)
• Thursdays: FISHER (tech-house, 23:30 to close)
• Fridays: David Guetta's Galactic Circus (the Guetta Friday concept)
• Saturdays: ELROW (the theatrical, party-within-a-party concept)
• Sundays: Carl Cox (the Ibiza legend, confirmed for the full Sunday season)

A visitor who stays in Ibiza from Wednesday through Sunday in July or August 2026 and spends each night at [UNVRS] will experience five consecutive nights programmed by five of the most distinct voices in contemporary club music, in a venue purpose-built to deliver each of them at maximum impact.

Practical guide: attending FISHER at [UNVRS] 2026

Getting there

[UNVRS] Ibiza is located at Urbanización San Rafael, s/n, 07816 Sant Antoni de Portmany, in the San Rafael area between Ibiza Town and San Antonio. Taxis from Ibiza Town take approximately 10 to 15 minutes; from San Antonio, approximately 8 to 10 minutes. Ibiza Airport (IBZ) is approximately 8 to 10 kilometers away, roughly 15 to 20 minutes by taxi.

The Disco Bus (official Ibiza night bus) runs between Ibiza Town, San Antonio, and the clubs along the San Rafael road, stopping near [UNVRS], and provides an affordable late-night transport option throughout the summer season.

Tickets

Official tickets are available through:

• unvrs.com (the official venue website, primary source)
• clubtickets.com (official ticketing partner)
• tryibiza.com (authorized guide and ticketing platform)

Ibizabynight and Ibiza1 Radio both explicitly recommend booking in advance: Year 1 sold out consistently across peak July and August dates, and Year 2 demand is expected to be higher.

Entry requirements

• Age: 18+ strictly enforced
• No flip-flops
• No beach shorts
• No swimwear
• No sports merchandise
• Smart casual is effective; the venue is a club, not a beach

Where to stay

The San Rafael corridor hotels and the Ibiza Town and San Antonio accommodation clusters are all within 10 to 15 minutes of [UNVRS]. The Playa d'en Bossa hotel strip, slightly further at approximately 15 to 20 minutes by taxi, offers the additional advantage of proximity to Ushuaïa and Hï for multi-venue nights.

Verified Information at a glance

Item: Confirmed details

Event name: FISHER at [UNVRS] Ibiza 2026 (Year 2 of Thursday night residency)

Event category: Weekly DJ residency, tech-house, late night (midnight to close)

Day of week: Every Thursday

Full season dates: June 4, 11, 18, 25 / July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 / August 6, 13, 20, 27 / September 3, 10, 2026

Total shows: 15 consecutive Thursday nights

Venue: [UNVRS] Ibiza (formerly DC10), Urbanización San Rafael, s/n, 07816 Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza, Spain

Venue capacity: 10,000

Doors: 23:30 to Close

Age restriction: 18+

Dress code: No flip-flops, beach shorts, swimwear, or sports merchandise

Past guests: Chris Lake, Folamour, Loco Dice, Luciano, Marlon Hoffstadt, Patrick Mason, Sammy Virji, Solardo (and more)

FISHER's key tracks: "Losing It," "You Little Beauty," "Take It Off," "Freaks," "Just Feels Tight"

FISHER's label: Catch & Release

Official ticketing: unvrs.com, clubtickets.com, tryibiza.com

Residency year: Year 2 (debut season was 2025)

[UNVRS] opening party: April 26, 2026; Black Coffee, CamelPhat, Carl Cox, Deer Jade, Miss Monique, Paco Osuna

Nearest airport: Ibiza Airport (IBZ), approximately 8 to 10 km / 15 to 20 minutes by taxi

When the lights at [UNVRS] fire up on the night of June 4, the 10,000-capacity floor begins to fill, and somewhere above the booth the Fish starts his descent into another Thursday night on the island, Year 2 of the residency that Ibiza1 Radio called "the most energetic Ibiza party" of 2025 will begin its 15-chapter run through one of the best summers this island has had to offer in years. Fifteen Thursdays, one artist, one Hyperclub, zero setlists, and absolutely no guarantee of what happens next: that is exactly the point, and that is exactly why you need to be there.

Defected at Club Chinois Ibiza, Thursdays 2026: House Music's Greatest Label Finds Its Perfect Home

There are record labels and then there are institutions. Defected Records belongs firmly to the second category: a London-born house music label and events brand founded in 1999 that has spent 27 years doing one thing with unwavering dedication, releasing, promoting, and celebrating house music in all its forms, from the deepest Chicago roots to the most contemporary vocal and soulful expressions of a genre that refuses to stop evolving.

Every summer since the early 2000s, Defected has planted its flag on the island of Ibiza, claiming a night, a room, and a dancefloor as its Balearic home for the season. The locations have shifted across the years, as Ibiza's nightlife landscape itself has shifted: from El Divino on the Marina to Eden to Space to Pacha to Hï Ibiza, seven different venues across a quarter century of island residencies, each representing both the brand's adaptability and its refusal to accept anything less than the right venue for the music it stands for.

In 2026, that search arrives at its most compelling destination yet. Defected has announced a 23-week Thursday night residency at Club Chinois, situated in the heart of Marina Ibiza (Marina Botafoc), running from Thursday, May 7 to Thursday, October 8, 2026: the longest Ibiza residency the label has ever held, in a venue that Ibiza Spotlight describes as the latest in a series of "coups" that have transformed Chinois from a new arrival into one of the most musically respected nightspots on the island.

And Ibiza Spotlight, who know this island's nightlife as well as anyone, added one more detail that gives the 2026 season a specific historical resonance: Defected started its Ibiza journey at the former El Divino, which stood just metres away in Ibiza Marina. Twenty-three years later, the label is back in the marina, in a venue a short walk from where it all began. For house music culture in Ibiza, that is not just a booking. It is a full circle.

The Defected story: 27 years of house music from London to the world

Defected Records was founded in 1999 by Simon Dunmore in London, at a time when the second wave of UK house music was recalibrating around soulful, vocal, and deep house sounds rather than the harder, more commercial direction the genre had been pulled in during the mid-1990s.

Dunmore's founding philosophy was straightforward: release records that are genuinely great, trust the audience to find them, and build a community around music rather than around celebrity. That philosophy made Defected one of the most consistently credible house labels of the 2000s and 2010s, releasing music by artists including Armand Van Helden, Dennis Ferrer, Kerri Chandler, Kevin Saunderson, Riva Starr, Sam Divine, and a roster of names that reads like a curriculum vitae of house music's finest practitioners across a full generation.

As the label's catalogue and reputation grew, the events arm of Defected became equally significant. The Defected In The House compilation series (which ran to over 30 volumes before evolving into the current Defected In Ibiza series) introduced the label's musical identity to enormous numbers of people who might never have heard the individual records, and the brand's annual Ibiza residency became one of the most anticipated events in the island's summer calendar, selling out consistently and building a community of dedicated followers who return summer after summer specifically for Defected.

In 2023, Wez Saunders succeeded Simon Dunmore as CEO of Defected, bringing a new generation of leadership while explicitly committing to the label's founding values. His statement on the Chinois 2026 announcement captures the philosophy precisely:

"Chinois is an incredible space, and this line-up reflects where Defected stands right now, honouring our roots while pushing the culture forward. It's about world-class DJs, genuine community and the energy you only get when the right crowd meets the right music."

Club Chinois: Ibiza's fastest-rising venue

Club Chinois opened in 2022 at Passeig Joan Carles I, 17, Eivissa in the Marina Ibiza area, taking over the space previously occupied by the legendary HEART club. The marina location, within easy walking distance of Ibiza Town's old city center and its famous Dalt Vila (the UNESCO-listed walled upper town), places Chinois at one of the most geographically central and scenically dramatic spots in all of Ibiza nightlife.

Magic Ibiza describes Chinois as "an elegant club situated in Marina Botafoc that will take you on a journey through space and time," noting its reputation for musical credibility, intimacy, and a dancefloor-first philosophy that distinguishes it from the island's larger superclubs. The venue's opening hours, 11:00 PM to 6:00 AM, place it in the traditional Ibiza late-night club format: beginning as the dinner tables are cleared and running through to a proper Ibiza dawn.

Since opening, Chinois has assembled one of the most artistically coherent weekly programs of any venue in Ibiza. Its willingness to attract events from the island's more established venues (both Claptone's Masquerade and Bedouin's SAGA moved to Chinois from Pacha ahead of the 2025 season) demonstrates a venue identity confident enough to compete with Ibiza's long-established institutions on quality rather than on scale.

The 2026 Chinois weekly schedule anchors this philosophy across three confirmed residencies:

• Thursdays: Defected (23 weeks, May 7 to October 8)
• Saturdays: Claptone's The Masquerade (the theatrical masked DJ's beloved house party)
• Sundays: Bedouin presents SAGA (the deep, cinematic sound of the Israeli duo's signature event)

Three nights, three completely distinct musical identities, all sharing a single philosophy: the music, the DJ, and the dancefloor come first.

The 2026 lineup: from Chicago origins to tomorrow's talent

The confirmed Defected Chinois Ibiza 2026 artist lineup is one of the most carefully balanced and historically comprehensive programs the brand has announced for any single Ibiza season. DVox Magazine describes it as bringing together "house music pioneers, global icons and a new generation of talent shaping the future of the genre."

The pioneers and founding generation

The lineup's most historically significant names represent the original wave of house music in all its founding city identities:

• Lil Louis: the Chicago producer whose "French Kiss" (1989) is one of the most important and most unmistakable house records ever made, a foundational figure in the genre's development
• Carl Craig: the Detroit techno legend whose work has crossed freely between techno and deep house throughout his career, one of the most critically revered figures in electronic music
• Kerri Chandler: a New Jersey house producer and DJ of immense reputation, known for some of the deepest and most soulful records in the house canon
• Kevin Saunderson: a founding Belleville Three member and Detroit techno/house originator, whose label Inner City produced the global hit "Big Fun" and whose DJ performances are among the most historically significant in electronic music
• Armand Van Helden: the Boston-born producer who defined the sound of deep house in the late 1990s and whose records including "You Don't Know Me," "Flower," "My My My," and "Duck Sauce's Barbra Streisand" have maintained a cross-generational impact across three decades

The contemporary headliners

The lineup's middle generation represents the artists who have been central to house music's commercial and creative story in the 2000s and 2010s:

• Dennis Ferrer: the New York producer and DJ whose "Hey Hey" is one of the most beloved house anthems of the 2000s, and whose DJ sets remain among the most consistent and deeply satisfying in the business
• Eats Everything: the Bristol-based DJ and producer Daniel Pearce, one of the most popular and consistently high-energy house DJs of the current generation
• Jayda G: the Canadian DJ and neuroscientist whose sets blend house, disco, and rare groove in a way that is both historically informed and genuinely contemporary
• Jonas Blue: the British producer whose viral acoustic remixes and original productions have brought house sensibility to enormous mainstream audiences
• HoneyLUV: the Chicago DJ whose Defected-aligned sound and rapid international rise make her one of the most exciting names on the current circuit

The Defected family

The label's own artist roster and residents form the third strand of the program:

• Sam Divine: Defected's longest-serving female DJ and resident, whose association with the label across over a decade has made her one of the most recognizable voices in the Defected community
• Monki: BBC Radio 1 alumni and deep house specialist whose Defected alignment spans multiple years of releases and residencies
• Melé: the Cardiff-born DJ whose genre-fluid style (house, breaks, garage, funk) has made him one of the most distinctive voices in the current Defected lineup
• Riva Starr: the Italian-British producer whose Defected catalogue is among the most consistently quality-assured in the label's history
• Deetron: Swiss-born DJ and producer Steph Laswaad, a deep house and techno crossover figure of significant repute
• Oden & Fatzo: the duo whose productions for Defected have built a growing fanbase across Europe
• Arielle Free: the DJ and broadcaster whose Defected connection has grown across recent seasons
• Shermanology: the Surinamese-Dutch trio known for their soulful, high-energy productions

The next generation

Completing the lineup's ambition to represent the full arc of house music:

• TSHA: the British DJ and producer whose melodic, textured productions have built significant critical acclaim
• Eliza Rose: whose "B.O.T.A. (Baddest of Them All)" became one of the biggest UK chart house hits in years
• Cinthie: the Berlin-based DJ whose deep house and disco sensibility has made her one of the most loved names on the European underground circuit
• KILIMANJARO: rising talent with growing Defected association
• Ella Knight: a new voice in house music's current wave

23 weeks at Marina Ibiza: the full Thursday schedule

Every Thursday from May 7 to October 8, 2026, across 23 consecutive weeks:

May: May 7, 14, 21, 28

June: June 4, 11, 18, 25

July: July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

August: August 6, 13, 20, 27

September: September 3, 10, 17, 24

October: October 1, 8

The May 7 opening night positions Defected at Chinois as one of the earliest significant Thursday residency launches of the 2026 Ibiza season, beginning three weeks before some of the island's larger club programs get fully underway. The October 8 closing night extends the residency into the island's closing season, when the crowds thin, the air cools slightly, and the parties that remain acquire a particular warmth and intensity that regulars consider the best of the year.

Try Ibiza, who published a comprehensive 2026 guide to the residency, notes that the May dates offer a particularly valuable experience for visitors who want Defected at Chinois without the peak summer intensity: "Tickets are easier to get, crowds are passionate Defected regulars rather than casual festival tourists, and the opening weeks of a season always carry their own specific energy."

The venue setting: Marina Ibiza and the island around it

Club Chinois sits in Marina Ibiza (also known as Marina Botafoc), the yacht harbor area immediately northeast of Ibiza Town. This location gives it one of the most scenically dramatic approaches of any Ibiza club: arriving by taxi or on foot along the marina promenade, with the lit masts of the moored yachts on one side and the illuminated walls of Dalt Vila (Ibiza's UNESCO-listed old walled city) rising on the hillside ahead, is an arrival experience that the enclosed clubs of San Antonio cannot replicate.

Dalt Vila itself, the ancient walled city at the heart of Ibiza Town, is one of the Mediterranean's finest historic sites: a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999, its fortification walls date from the 16th century and its highest point is crowned by the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Snows, visible from far out at sea. The contrast between the 500-year-old stone above and the contemporary club below is quintessentially Ibizan: an island that has been simultaneously ancient and utterly present for as long as anyone has been visiting.

The marina area is also home to some of Ibiza's finest restaurants, including La Scala and the celebrated El Chiringuito on nearby Es Cavallet beach, making the Club Chinois neighborhood an ideal destination for dinner before a Thursday Defected night rather than a taxi ride from a distant hotel strip.

Practical guide to attending Defected at Club Chinois 2026

Getting there

Club Chinois is located at Passeig Joan Carles I, 17, 07800 Eivissa, in Marina Ibiza. The venue is approximately a 15 to 20 minute walk from the center of Ibiza Town, or a short taxi ride from anywhere in the town. Ibiza Airport (IBZ) is approximately 6 to 7 kilometers from the marina, a 10 to 15 minute taxi journey.

Tickets and pricing

Official tickets are available through:

• chinois.com (official venue website, primary source)
• ibiza-spotlight.com (confirmed official ticketing partner)
• dice.fm (also confirmed; tickets from approximately €30 to €45 depending on the date and artist billing)
• tryibiza.com

The early bird launch price of €30 was available until January 6, 2026. Ticket prices for peak summer dates (July and August) will be at the higher end of the range; May and October dates will generally be more accessible.

Hours

11:00 PM to 6:00 AM every Thursday.

Club Chinois full 2026 weekly program

• Thursdays: Defected (May 7 to October 8)
• Saturdays: Claptone's The Masquerade
• Sundays: Bedouin presents SAGA

Verified Information at a glance

Item: Confirmed details

Event name: Defected at Club Chinois Ibiza 2026

Event category: 23-week weekly DJ residency; house music (deep house, soulful house, vocal house, classic and contemporary)

Day of week: Every Thursday

Full season dates: May 7, 14, 21, 28 / June 4, 11, 18, 25 / July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 / August 6, 13, 20, 27 / September 3, 10, 17, 24 / October 1, 8, 2026

Total shows: 23 consecutive Thursday nights

Venue: Club Chinois, Passeig Joan Carles I, 17, 07800 Eivissa (Marina Ibiza), Ibiza, Spain

Club hours: 11:00 PM to 6:00 AM

Key confirmed artists: Lil

Marco Carola Presents Music On at Pacha Ibiza – Fridays 2026: Six Years of Friday Night Ownership Continues

There are moments in Ibiza's nightlife calendar that have, through sheer consistency and quality, stopped being events and become institutions. Marco Carola's Music On at Pacha Ibiza on Friday nights is one of them: a residency that has anchored the island's most prestigious club on its most coveted night of the week since 2019, building over seven seasons into something that operates less like a party booking and more like an immovable fixture in the DNA of the Ibiza summer.

In January 2026, amid months of speculation about whether Carola might finally move Music On to a different venue after years of rumored interest from Amnesia and elsewhere, the Italian DJ and producer ended the debate with a single confirmation: Music On returns to Pacha Ibiza for 2026, every Friday from May 15 to October 9, marking the sixth consecutive year of the residency at the same venue, and extending the partnership through at least 2028 in the most emphatic statement of commitment in the island's recent nightlife history.

Ibiza Spotlight, whose knowledge of the island's club scene is as deep as any publication's, described the 2026 announcement with characteristic precision: "Music On cements its status as a cornerstone of Pacha Ibiza's summer party calendar for the sixth year running, returning to Friday nights, 15 May to 9 October." Twenty-two Fridays. The most enduring man-venue combination in contemporary Ibiza nightlife.

Marco Carola: The Architect of Modern Underground Techno

Marco Carola was born in Naples, Italy, in 1973, and he has spent three decades building one of the most respected and distinctive artistic identities in global electronic music. Where many DJs define themselves through genre association or tempo preferences, Carola has built his reputation on something harder to pin down and ultimately more valuable: the ability to control a dancefloor through pure groove, patience, and the kind of three-dimensional track selection that rewards close listening even while it drives physical movement.

Pacha's own description of him is specific in its language: "an icon in the techno scene. His sets are full of energy and stand out for his minimalist approach." The minimalist description matters: in an era of electronic music performance where bigger production, more dramatic drops, and more commercially familiar elements have come to define many of the island's most attended events, Carola's approach is the opposite. The music is deep, precise, and relentless: minimal techno built on groove rather than impact, with transitions that happen so smoothly that the crowd moves from track to track without feeling the join, until hours have passed and nobody in the room is quite sure how the night got to where it is.

His technical facility is genuine and specific. Carola is known across the DJ community for his three-deck mixing style, which gives him significantly more flexibility in transitions and layering than the standard two-deck format allows. The marathon sets he plays, regularly extending well beyond the scheduled end time at Pacha, are not simply about endurance: they are about the specific form of trust between a DJ and a crowd that only develops across several hours of shared musical journey, when the audience has surrendered its resistance and the dancefloor has achieved the collective absorption that Carola describes as the goal of every Music On night.

His label, Music On Records, has become one of the most respected imprints in underground house and techno, releasing music that reflects the same values as the parties: technically precise, groove-focused, uncompromising in quality, and completely indifferent to trends. The Music On brand, which encompasses the label, the events, and the residency, is one of the most coherent artistic identities in the global underground scene, and its Pacha residency is the place where that identity finds its most complete and sustained expression.

The Music On Story: From the Island's Early Days to Pacha Permanence

Music On first appeared in Ibiza in the early 2010s, beginning with smaller-scale events across the island before finding its first major Ibiza home at Amnesia in 2012. The Amnesia years established Music On as a serious and growing force in the island's underground scene, with Carola's reputation pulling in a crowd of genuine house and techno enthusiasts rather than casual clubbers drawn by celebrity.

The defining move came in 2019, when Music On relocated to Pacha Ibiza, a shift that initially surprised observers given Pacha's historical association with more commercial and mainstream programming. The surprise evaporated quickly. The combination of Carola's underground credibility and Pacha's unmatched architectural character, its intimate main room, its multiple levels, its famous cherries branding, and its position as Ibiza's oldest and most legendary nightclub, produced a synergy that nobody who had seen Music On at Amnesia had quite anticipated.

Ibiza1 Radio describes what followed: "The synergy between Carola's raw, groove-driven sound and Pacha's iconic ambiance created an unmatched atmosphere, quickly establishing Music On as the undisputed king of Friday nights." That verdict has been consistent across every subsequent season.

The 2026 extension through 2028 confirmed in January of this year by Ibiza1 Radio is, as they describe it, "a powerful statement of intent": not simply a booking renewal but a formal institutional partnership between one of the world's most respected DJs and the world's most historically significant nightclub, running for a defined and substantial future period. For anyone who cares about the health of underground electronic music culture on the island, it is among the most reassuring pieces of news the 2026 season has produced.

Pacha Ibiza: The Venue That Music On Calls Home

Pacha Ibiza was founded in 1973 at Passeig Joan Carles I, 07800 Eivissa, making it the oldest continuously operating nightclub on the island and one of the oldest in the world. Its location in the marina area of Ibiza Town, between the old city and the Dalt Vila UNESCO-listed walled town that rises above it on the hill, gives it the most historically rich physical context of any Ibiza club. The club's famous double-cherry logo, a motif now internationally recognized as a symbol of Ibiza itself, is visible from the approach on foot along the marina promenade.

The interior of Pacha is organized across multiple levels and interconnected spaces, with the main dancefloor forming the heart of the venue and a series of bars, lounges, terraces, and secondary rooms creating a social environment that rewards exploration during the non-peak hours before and between DJ sets. This multi-space character means that a Music On Friday at Pacha is not a single-room experience: it is a full-venue immersion in which different spaces carry different acoustic intensities, and the geography of the crowd shifts across the night as Carola's set builds from its opening groove to its late-night peak.

The club has undergone significant renovation in recent years, updating its technical infrastructure while preserving the physical character and intimacy that make it unique among the island's venues. The renovation specifically served the Music On philosophy, which demands a sound system capable of delivering Carola's minimal, bass-forward productions at the kind of physical impact that makes the technical minimalism of the music translate into full-body experience on the dancefloor.

The 2026 Season: 22 Fridays from May to October

The confirmed Music On at Pacha Ibiza 2026 season runs across 22 consecutive Friday nights:

The Pacha Grand Opening Weekend: April 24, 2026

Marco Carola opens the entire Pacha season as the headline act of Part One of the Grand Opening Weekend on Friday, April 24, 2026, performing alongside Vintage Culture B2B GORDO and Frank Storm. Tickets from €85. He additionally headlines Part Three on Sunday April 26 at Destino Pacha Ibiza with Mau P and Mason Collective. The Opening Weekend essentially gives the most committed Music On followers two Carola performances before the regular season even begins.

The Music On Season: May 15 to October 9, 2026

• May: May 15 (Music On Opening Party), May 22, May 29
• June: June 5, 12, 19, 26
• July: July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
• August: August 7, 14, 21, 28
• September: September 4, 11, 18, 25
• October: October 2, 9

Every Friday runs from 23:00 to 06:00. Carola himself is confirmed as the centrepiece of all 22 parties, as Ibiza Spotlight notes: "The bossman himself is at the epicentre of all 22 parties."

The Music On Opening Party: Friday, May 15

The Music On Opening Party on May 15 is described by Ibiza Spotlight as "a notorious floor-filler as loyal fans rally in their masses." For the dedicated Music On community who have been anticipating the season since the previous October, this first Friday back is less a club night than a reunion. The opening night energy at Pacha when the cherry-lit sign is illuminated above the entrance queue and the bass of the first Carola track makes the walls resonate is one of the specific and unrepeatable Ibiza experiences that no photograph adequately captures.

The Music On Dancefloor Experience: What to Expect

Understanding a Music On night at Pacha as a first-time visitor requires letting go of whatever expectations standard DJ nights have built.

The set begins slowly and deepens. The first hour of a Carola set at Pacha is a careful construction: establishing the groove, building familiarity between the music and the crowd, introducing the first elements of the hypnotic loop structure that characterizes his most distinctive productions. This is not the festival approach of opening hard and maintaining peak energy for 90 minutes. It is the opposite: a musical narrative that begins at one emotional pitch and moves, over five to six hours, to something significantly deeper and more physically absorbing.

The crowd is specific. Music On at Pacha draws a dedicated underground following rather than a generalist crowd. The people on the dancefloor at 3:00 AM on a Music On Friday are there specifically for Carola's sound, and the collective musical understanding in the room creates a dancefloor atmosphere that differs fundamentally from events where a significant proportion of the audience is less engaged with the music itself.

The guests complete the night. Each Music On Friday features carefully curated support from guest DJs selected to complement Carola's sound. The Music On brand has historically brought both established names from the minimal techno world and rising artists from within the broader Carola network to the Pacha stage. Specific guest lineups for 2026 were being announced on a rolling basis through the official Music On social media channels.

Pacha, Ibiza Town, and the Island Around the Club

Pacha's Ibiza Town location makes it the most naturally integrated of the island's major clubs into the broader cultural life of Ibiza. The club sits within walking distance of the old city, the harbor front, the Dalt Vila historic quarter, and the concentration of restaurants and bars in the marina and center of town that provide the pre-club experience for most Music On visitors.

The Dalt Vila, rising immediately above the marina on its ancient fortified hill, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site containing Cathedral of Our Lady of the Snows, multiple historic churches, the island's archaeological museum, and the best panoramic view of the harbor and the sea from anywhere in Ibiza Town. A late afternoon visit to Dalt Vila before a Music On night, watching the sun lower over the harbor from the old city walls, is one of the most rewarding ways to spend the hours before Pacha opens its doors at 23:00.

The San Antonio sunset strip (approximately 15 km across the island) and the beaches of Playa d'en Bossa and Ses Salines provide the daytime counterpart to the Friday night Pacha experience, and Ibiza Town's harbor itself, with the famous Café del Mar at nearby San Antonio (accessible by sunset boat), makes the full Friday arc from afternoon beach to sunset view to late dinner to Pacha a sequence that represents the quintessential Ibiza day.

Practical Guide to Attending Music On at Pacha 2026

Getting to Pacha

Pacha Ibiza is at Passeig Joan Carles I, 07800 Eivissa, approximately 6 kilometers from Ibiza Airport (IBZ) and within walking distance or a short taxi ride from central Ibiza Town accommodation. Taxis from Playa d'en Bossa or the San Rafael club corridor take approximately 10 to 15 minutes.

Tickets

Official tickets are available through:

• pacha.com (the primary official source; Grand Opening Weekend from €85)
• ibiza-spotlight.com (confirmed official ticketing partner)
• youhearitfirst.com (confirmed ticketing platform)

Music On Friday nights sell out consistently during peak season. Purchasing tickets in advance is strongly recommended for any Friday in July or August.

Hours

23:00 to 06:00 every Friday.

Dress Code

Pacha Ibiza operates a smart casual dress code consistent with its position as the island's most prestigious nightclub. Beach clothing, sportswear, and flip-flops are not appropriate for entry. Age restriction is 18+.

Where to Stay

Ibiza Town and the marina area accommodation places visitors within walking distance of Pacha. Hotels in Playa d'en Bossa and the airport corridor are approximately 10 to 15 minutes by taxi.

Verified Information at a Glance

Item Confirmed details

• Event name: Marco Carola Presents Music On at Pacha Ibiza 2026
• Event category: Weekly DJ residency, minimal techno, deep tech-house, underground electronic music
• Day of week: Every Friday
• Season dates: May 15 to October 9, 2026 (22 shows)
• Total shows: 22 consecutive Friday nights
• Pre-season event: Pacha Grand Opening Weekend Part One: Friday, April 24, 2026 (Marco Carola, Vintage Culture B2B GORDO, Frank Storm; from €85)
• Additional pre-season: Destino Pacha Opening: Sunday, April 26, 2026 (Marco Carola, Mau P, Mason Collective)
• Music On Opening Party: Friday, May 15, 2026
• Venue: Pacha Ibiza, Passeig Joan Carles I, 07800 Eivissa, Ibiza, Spain
• Club hours: 23:00 to 06:00
• Admission: Grand Opening from €85; regular Music On Fridays TBC via pacha.com
• Contract confirmed: Through at least 2028
• Consecutive years at Pacha: 6th year (since 2019)
• Music On history on island: Early 2010s debut; Amnesia 2012; Pacha 2019 onward
• Official ticketing: pacha.com, ibiza-spotlight.com, youhearitfirst.com
• Age restriction: 18+
• Nearest airport: Ibiza Airport (IBZ), approximately 6 km from Pacha

When Marco Carola takes the Pacha booth on the first Friday night of May 15 and opens the 2026 Music On season with the kind of groove that takes ten minutes to settle into and several hours to want to leave, six consecutive years of Friday night ownership at the world's most legendary nightclub will begin their newest chapter. The residency that ended months of speculation with a statement of commitment through 2028 is not slowing down and not softening its standards: 22 Fridays of the deepest, most groove-driven underground electronic music available anywhere on this island, hosted by the artist who has made Pacha's Friday night the one that this corner of the Mediterranean cannot imagine summer without. The cherries are lit. The season is on.

Claptone: The Masquerade at Club Chinois, Saturdays 2026 Ibiza – Where Elegance Meets Mystery on the Dancefloor

Somewhere between who you are at home and who you become when the music takes hold of you, there is a door. Claptone's Masquerade has always known where that door is, and every Saturday night at Club Chinois in Marina Ibiza throughout the summer of 2026, it holds that door open.

The mysterious golden-masked German DJ who has spent more than a decade building one of the most theatrically distinctive and musically substantial residency concepts in the world returns to Club Chinois for Year 2 of The Masquerade's Ibiza home, running every Saturday from May 16 to October 10, 2026: 22 consecutive Saturday nights at the marina venue that Ibiza Spotlight has called "one of Ibiza's most intimate sonic temples."

In his own words, which capture the spirit of The Masquerade as well as any outside description could: "Ibiza is sacred ground for electronic music lovers and will always hold a special place in my heart, as it is a place where people come together to celebrate life through sound." At Chinois, every Saturday, with masks encouraged and expectations deliberately set high, that celebration is the program from 23:30 to 06:30.

Who Claptone is: The Mystery Behind the Golden Mask

Claptone is a German tech-house producer and DJ who performs at every public appearance behind a golden plague-doctor mask, a Venetian carnival-style face covering whose effect has been to make him one of the most immediately recognizable visual presences in global electronic music while simultaneously maintaining near-total personal anonymity.

His real identity remains unconfirmed. The mask has been worn without exception since the earliest days of his public career, at every DJ set, every press appearance, every festival performance, and every residency show he has ever given. When Mixmag arranged to interview him in his first-ever face-to-face press encounter, their journalist was blindfolded before the meeting began. Wikipedia notes, only partly humorously, that his capacity to appear to be performing at multiple venues simultaneously led to widespread speculation that Claptone might not be a single individual at all.

His explanation for the mask is, in its own way, illuminating: "It felt natural to wear the mask and was at one point a part of me. It wasn't a conscious decision that it would give me more freedom. It just happened out of different circumstances." What the mask creates in practice is a separation between the personal and the artistic, a clean division between the private human being and the public DJ persona, that frees both the artist and the audience from the distractions of celebrity identity. At a Claptone show, the music, the atmosphere, and the collective experience of the room are what matter, not the person in the booth.

His music reflects the same values. The catalogue he has built under the Claptone name across more than a decade includes "Good to You," the track that launched his international profile, followed by "No Eyes," "Heartbeat," "Under the Moon," "Cream," and a series of remixes whose subjects include Depeche Mode and Gorillaz, demonstrating a pop cultural literacy that sits alongside his underground credibility without compromising either. The sound is consistently tech-house: groove-driven, melodically rich, with a warmth in the low end that makes it unusually accessible for music operating at the serious end of the house spectrum.

The fan response to the mask is one of the more remarkable phenomena in contemporary club culture. Audiences at Masquerade events regularly arrive wearing their own golden plague-doctor masks, creating a visual mirroring of their host that transforms the dancefloor into a collective masked ball rather than a conventional concert crowd. It is this mirroring, this invitation to wear a mask and temporarily become someone else, that gives The Masquerade its specific character as an event concept.

The Masquerade: A Concept Ten Years in the Making

The Masquerade as an event concept was originated in 2016, initially as a touring event format that Claptone took to clubs and festivals globally: Sydney, New York, London, Miami, and a dedicated arena at Tomorrowland in Belgium, among many others. The concept centers on the Venetian masquerade ball tradition, with the DJ as the mysterious host, the venue as a transformed ballroom, and the crowd as masked guests invited to step outside their everyday identities for the duration of the night.

The Ibiza chapter of The Masquerade began with a debut residency at Pacha Ibiza in 2019, running for 19 weeks from late May to late September and establishing immediately the extraordinary guest quality that The Masquerade would become known for in the island context. The 2019 Pacha lineup included Jon Hopkins, Maya Jane Coles, Faithless (DJ set), MK, Diplo, Purple Disco Machine, Danny Tenaglia, Duke Dumont, Armand Van Helden, Kerri Chandler, Sonny Fodera, Basement Jaxx, Todd Terry, Hannah Wants, Nora En Pure, Felix Da Housecat, Riva Starr, and a dozen more names that represented a genuinely comprehensive survey of the house and tech-house world's finest practitioners.

The Masquerade remained at Pacha through 2024, building across five seasons into one of the venue's most beloved and consistently highest-quality residencies. The move to Club Chinois for 2025 was part of the same wave of programming ambition that brought Defected and Bedouin's SAGA to the marina venue, and the debut Masquerade season at Chinois confirmed what both Claptone and Chinois had anticipated: the combination of a more intimate venue, a refined musical atmosphere, and a crowd that specifically sought out quality over celebrity created a Saturday night experience that Ibiza Spotlight described as "a highly respected peak-weekend option."

The 2026 return for 22 weeks confirms that the Chinois move worked exactly as intended. Chinois itself frames the 2026 season with a confidence built on the debut year's success: "2026 marks a new chapter that promises deeper musical journeys and an even stronger sense of occasion." The extended run from May 16 to October 10, three more weeks than the 2025 season, is the most concrete statement of that confidence.

Club Chinois: The Setting That Defines The Masquerade in 2026

Club Chinois opened in 2022 at Passeig Joan Carles I, 17, 07800 Eivissa, in the Marina Ibiza area (also known as Marina Botafoc), taking over the space previously occupied by the legendary HEART club. The marina setting is specific and irreplaceable: Club Chinois sits within sight of the moored yachts of Ibiza's harbor, with the illuminated stone walls of Dalt Vila, the island's UNESCO-listed 16th-century walled old city, rising on the hillside immediately to the south.

The approach to Chinois on a Saturday night, walking the marina promenade with the lights of the harbor on one side and the ancient fortified city on the other, is one of the most atmospherically rich pre-club experiences on the island. It is also the perfect geographical introduction to what The Masquerade represents: a blend of historical elegance and contemporary hedonism, ancient setting and modern sound, that has no equivalent anywhere in the island's nightlife.

Magic Ibiza describes Chinois as "an elegant club situated in Marina Botafoc that will take you on a journey through space and time," and the combination of the venue's aesthetic quality, its boutique scale relative to the island's large superclubs, and its programming philosophy of music first at all costs makes it the most natural permanent home The Masquerade has found in any city globally.

The Dalt Vila itself, which visitors can explore during daytime hours before The Masquerade begins at 23:30, contains the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Snows, the Museu d'Art Contemporani d'Eivissa, multiple historic churches and medieval streets, and panoramic viewpoints over the harbor and the sea that justify several hours of exploration before the Saturday night begins. The combination of a Dalt Vila afternoon and a Masquerade Saturday night is among the most culturally complete days Ibiza offers to any visitor.

The 2026 Guest Philosophy: Quality at Every Turn

The weekly guest booking strategy at The Masquerade has always been one of its most distinguishing features, and the 2026 season at Chinois continues and deepens the approach that made the Pacha and Chinois seasons so critically admired.

The Chinois official page for the 2026 season describes the program as offering "extended sets, carefully curated guests, and a room transformed into a world where elegance, mystery, and house music collide." The extended set format is significant: rather than the standard DJ-switch format in which multiple artists play shorter sets, The Masquerade programs longer, more developed sets that allow artists to take the crowd somewhere rather than simply executing a 60 to 90-minute showcase.

Based on the established guest philosophy and the caliber of previous seasons, the 2026 program is expected to span the full range of house and tech-house's finest names. The 2025 season's guests, which included Nora En Pure, Dimitri from Paris, Boris Brejcha, Elderbrook, 2manydjs, Pete Tong, Roger Sanchez, Hannah Wants b2b Paul Woolford, and David Penn b2b Ferrick Dawn, give a precise indication of the musical breadth and caliber that Claptone assembles around himself each season.

Full 2026 weekly guest announcements were expected progressively through March and April 2026, with Claptone's own website (claptone.com), Chinois's official channels (chinois.com), and Ibiza Spotlight providing the earliest confirmed guest information for each specific Saturday.

The 22-Week Season: Full Confirmed Schedule

The confirmed Claptone: The Masquerade at Club Chinois Ibiza 2026 season runs for 22 consecutive Saturday nights:

May: May 16 (Opening Night), May 23, May 30

June: June 6, June 13, June 20, June 27

July: July 4, July 11, July 18, July 25

August: August 1, August 8, August 15, August 22, August 29

September: September 5, September 12, September 19, September 26

October: October 3, October 10 (Season Finale)

Shows run from 23:30 to 06:30 every Saturday.

The Opening Night: Saturday, May 16

The Masquerade Opening Night on Saturday, May 16, 2026 launches what Chinois has framed as "a new chapter" in the event's Ibiza story. After a debut season that turned Saturday nights at the marina venue into one of the island's most respected club options, the second opening carries the specific energy of a returning institution rather than a first experiment, and the crowd who were at the 2025 opening and are back in May 2026 will feel the difference.

Peak Season Saturdays: July and August

The ten Saturday shows across July and August represent the peak of the Masquerade experience in terms of island energy, warmth, and crowd intensity. These are also the dates for which demand is highest and advance booking is most essential.

The Season Finale: Saturday, October 10

The closing night on October 10 represents the latest end-of-season date in the Masquerade's Ibiza history, and closing parties at Chinois carry a specific quality that experienced Ibiza visitors will recognize: a crowd that is predominantly devoted regulars rather than first-timers, a collective awareness that this is the last one until next summer, and an atmosphere of warmth and fond farewell that is unlike any peak-season Saturday.

Practical Guide to Attending The Masquerade at Chinois 2026

Getting There

Club Chinois is located at Passeig Joan Carles I, 17, 07800 Eivissa, in the Marina Ibiza area. The venue is within a 15 to 20 minute walk of the center of Ibiza Town, or a short taxi ride from anywhere within the town. Ibiza Airport (IBZ) is approximately 6 to 7 kilometers from the marina, a 10 to 15 minute taxi journey.

Tickets and Pricing

Official tickets for Claptone: The Masquerade at Chinois Ibiza 2026 are available through:

• chinois.com (the official venue website, primary source)
• ibiza-spotlight.com (confirmed official ticketing partner)
• clubtickets.com (official ticketing partner)
• ibizafiestas.com

First release standard tickets were available from €30 per person. Prices for peak summer dates are expected to increase in later release stages. Advance booking is recommended, particularly for July and August Saturdays.

Club Hours

23:30 to 06:30 every Saturday.

What to Wear

The Masquerade actively encourages guests to wear masks in the Venetian masquerade ball tradition. Many regular attendees arrive in golden plague-doctor masks that mirror Claptone's own, while others wear decorative masquerade masks that fit the event's atmosphere. Smart evening dress is appropriate: the event's aesthetic is elegance meets mystery, not the casual beach club culture of the island's daytime.

Standard Chinois entry requirements apply: 18+, no flip-flops, no beach shorts, no swimwear, no sports merchandise.

Where to Stay

Ibiza Town's accommodation cluster, the marina area hotels, and the harbor-side options all put guests within walking distance or a very short taxi ride of Chinois. Hotels in Playa d'en Bossa (approximately 15 minutes by taxi) offer the added advantage of daytime beach access at one of the island's most developed and facility-rich stretches of coast.

Club Chinois 2026 Full Weekly Program

• Thursdays: Defected (May 7 to October 8)
• Saturdays: Claptone: The Masquerade (May 16 to October 10)
• Sundays: Bedouin presents SAGA

Verified Information at a Glance

Item: Confirmed details

Event Name: Claptone: The Masquerade at Club Chinois Ibiza 2026

Event Category: 22-week weekly DJ residency with curated guests; tech-house, deep house, elegant masked party concept

Day of Week: Every Saturday

Full Season Dates: May 16, 23, 30 / June 6, 13, 20, 27 / July 4, 11, 18, 25 / August 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 / September 5, 12, 19, 26 / October 3, 10, 2026

Total Shows: 22 consecutive Saturday nights

Opening Night: Saturday, May 16, 2026

Season Finale: Saturday, October 10, 2026

Venue: Club Chinois, Passeig Joan Carles I, 17, 07800 Eivissa (Marina Ibiza), Ibiza, Spain

Club Hours: 23:30 to 06:30

Ticket Price: From €30 (first release, standard)

Residency Year at Chinois: Year 2 (debut 2025; previously Pacha Ibiza 2019 to 2024)

The Masquerade Concept Founded: 2016

Claptone Identity: German tech-house DJ/producer performing in a golden plague-doctor mask

Key Claptone Tracks: "Good to You," "No Eyes," "Heartbeat," "Under the Moon," "Cream"

Past Notable Guests: Jon Hopkins, MK, Diplo, Boris Brejcha, Pete Tong, Roger Sanchez, Danny Tenaglia, Nora En Pure, Dimitri from Paris, Hannah Wants, Faithless (DJ set), Purple Disco Machine, Armand Van Helden, Kerri Chandler, Duke Dumont, Elderbrook

Also at Chinois 2026: Defected (Thursdays), Bedouin's SAGA (Sundays)

Ticket Platforms: chinois.com, ibiza-spotlight.com, clubtickets.com, ibizafiestas.com

Age Restriction: 18+

elrow at [UNVRS] Ibiza, Saturdays 2026: Enter the WORTEX and Leave Reality Behind

There are club nights. There are parties. And then there is elrow. The Barcelona-born immersive entertainment concept that turned the conventional wisdom of nightclub culture completely on its head by deciding that the music, however extraordinary, was only one dimension of what a truly memorable night should be, returned to [UNVRS] Ibiza in 2025 for its debut at the island's brand-new hyperclub and proceeded to establish itself as what BPM Magazine confirmed as "a defining presence on the island's Saturday landscape."

In 2026, it is back for Year 2, bigger, more elaborate, and operating under a new conceptual framework that defines the entire season. elrow at [UNVRS] Ibiza, every Saturday from June 6 to October 3, 2026, across 18 consecutive Saturday nights, invites you to "Enter the WORTEX": a parallel universe of six immersive worlds, over 300 live performers, 360-degree scenography, bespoke costumes from elrow's own workshops, and a team of more than 160 people working behind the scenes to transform a 10,000-capacity hyperclub into an experience that has no equivalent anywhere on this island, or on any other.

Ibiza Rocks describes it simply: "The craziest party on the island." After 15 years of elrow operating across more than 60 cities in 25 countries and reaching an estimated 1.7 million people per year, that claim from a team that covers the island's nightlife as closely as anyone is both a genuine endorsement and a precise factual observation.

The elrow story: from a Barcelona farm to a global entertainment empire

elrow was founded in 2010 by Juan Arnau Jr., known universally as "Juanito," in Barcelona, Spain. The name traces back to a Barcelona club called Row that the Arnau family operated in the early 2000s, and the elrow brand itself grew from a Sunday party for friends that Juanito organized at a repurposed farm space outside Barcelona.

The Arnau family's entertainment history runs far deeper than 2010, however. The family business behind elrow spans three centuries of entertainment history in Catalonia, through multiple generations of venue owners and event operators whose accumulated experience in creating environments for people to enjoy themselves forms the cultural bedrock on which Juanito built his modern vision.

What distinguished elrow from its Barcelona beginnings was Juanito's explicit rejection of the idea that a club night needed to be primarily about the DJ. As he has explained in multiple interviews: "For many years it was only about the music. There was no experience, there was nothing personal. When we did elrow, I told my father: if we do something in Barcelona, we have to try and change the mentality of the people and make it more about them. So when they come to the show we have to make them happy, and they must be the show."

That philosophy produced something genuinely new in nightclub culture. An elrow event is built on the idea that every person in the room is a performer as much as a clubber: the costumes, the confetti, the theatrical characters who circulate through the crowd, the immersive set design that transforms the room into a specific world with its own logic and visual language, all work together to dissolve the boundary between observer and participant. The result is a night that those who have attended describe as feeling genuinely unlike anything else they have experienced in a club context.

The numbers confirm that the philosophy worked at scale. By 2017, elrow was running 132 events per year in more than 25 countries, reaching an estimated 1.7 million people annually. By 2019, the brand had surpassed €20 million in annual revenue, employed more than 100 people at its Barcelona headquarters, and established a global reputation as one of the most innovative and commercially successful event brands in the history of dance music. Today it operates in more than 60 cities worldwide, with a permanent production workshop that creates the bespoke costumes, props, and set elements that make each elrow show visually distinctive.

Enter the WORTEX: the 2026 immersive concept

The 2026 elrow theme, applied across all 18 Saturday shows at [UNVRS] Ibiza, is "Enter the WORTEX."

BPM Magazine describes it as "a framework positioned as an escape from routine into parallel worlds governed by spectacle and imagination." The WORTEX concept unfolds across six distinct immersive worlds across the season, each one a self-contained visual and thematic universe with its own scenography, costume program, performer characters, and sensory identity.

The six worlds rotate across the 18 Saturday shows, meaning that no two consecutive elrow nights are visually identical: each visit to [UNVRS] on a Saturday offers a different WORTEX world, a different set of theatrical environments, and a different cast of performers operating within a new thematic framework. For visitors making multiple Saturday returns across the season, this rotating format means each show is a genuinely new experience rather than a repetition.

Ibiza Rocks notes the specific production commitment: "Expect theatrical performers, vibrant decor, heaps of confetti and the signature elrow unpredictable silliness." The "unpredictable silliness" is a deliberate brand value rather than a happy accident: elrow's identity has always included humor, absurdity, and playfulness as core elements alongside the musical and visual production, creating an atmosphere in which the solemnity that sometimes settles over high-end nightclub events is actively and continuously punctured.

[UNVRS] Ibiza: the hyperclub built for this scale

[UNVRS] (formerly DC10), located at Urbanización San Rafael near San Antoni de Portmany, is the ideal host for elrow's ambitions precisely because of its scale. With a 10,000-person capacity, next-generation sound, lighting, and visual infrastructure, and the physical volume of an industrial architecture that was comprehensively redesigned for the [UNVRS] brand, the venue gives elrow a production canvas that most clubs cannot offer.

BPM Magazine specifically notes that [UNVRS]'s infrastructure enables elrow's productions to "reach new levels of scale and clarity": the 360-degree scenography that is central to the WORTEX concept requires a venue that allows visual elements to wrap around the entire crowd simultaneously, which [UNVRS]'s spatial design facilitates in a way that enclosed, lower-ceilinged rooms cannot.

The DC10 legacy that runs beneath [UNVRS]'s contemporary identity also adds specific meaning to the elrow presence on Saturdays. DC10 was for decades Ibiza's most mythologized underground venue, hosting the legendary Circoloco parties and building a reputation as the island's most authentic and musically uncompromising space. The transformation of that space into [UNVRS] was a radical reimagining rather than a continuity, and elrow's theatrical Saturday presence represents one of the sharpest possible contrasts with the DC10 aesthetic, occupying the same walls with a completely opposite philosophy: maximum spectacle, maximum color, maximum participation, and the deliberate reversal of every convention of underground club culture.

elrow and Ibiza: a long history on the island

elrow's relationship with Ibiza predates the [UNVRS] era by several years. The brand ran a celebrated residency at Amnesia Ibiza beginning in 2017, which continued through 2022 and built an enormous following among Ibiza regulars who made elrow Saturdays at Amnesia a fixture of their island summers. The Amnesia years included legendary opening parties featuring artists such as Ilario Alicante, Kölsch, Ewan McVicar, Melanie Ribbe, Viviana Casanova, and Marc Maya, and established elrow as one of the most consistently sold-out events on the island.

The move to [UNVRS] in 2025 represented a significant upgrade in terms of venue scale and technological infrastructure, and the confirmation of Year 2 at [UNVRS] in 2026 demonstrates that the transition worked exactly as intended. The brand that has operated in more than 60 cities globally has found, at [UNVRS] Ibiza on a Saturday night, one of its definitive residency homes.

The music: house, tech-house, and techno across 18 shows

The elrow musical philosophy places the DJ in a specific relationship with the theatrical production that is different from the DJ-centric format of most Ibiza residencies. The music, which operates across house, tech-house, and techno, is not the sole focus but the rhythmic and emotional foundation on which the theatrical world is built. The result is that elrow's DJ bookings tend toward artists whose sound works as a continuous, groove-driven backdrop to spectacle rather than the kind of build-and-drop production that competes with the visual elements for attention.

The 2026 lineup was confirmed as to be announced across the season, with BPM Magazine noting that the full residency will feature "a lot of huge artist names" released progressively rather than as a single pre-season announcement. Following @elrow on Instagram and monitoring unvrs.com provides the earliest access to artist bookings for specific Saturday dates as they are confirmed.

Previous elrow Ibiza seasons have featured artists including Ilario Alicante (the Italian DJ who is among elrow's longest-serving musical partners), Kölsch (the Danish producer whose melodic techno is among the most atmospherically rich in the genre), Ewan McVicar, Joseph Capriati, Melanie Ribbe, Viviana Casanova, and Marc Maya, reflecting the broad range of house and techno styles that the party accommodates within its theatrical framework.

The full 2026 Saturday season schedule

The confirmed elrow at [UNVRS] Ibiza 2026 season runs for 18 consecutive Saturday nights:

June: June 6 (Opening Night), June 13, June 20, June 27

July: July 4, July 11, July 18, July 25

August: August 1, August 8, August 15, August 22, August 29

September: September 5, September 12, September 19, September 26

October: October 3 (Season Finale)

Doors open at 23:30 and nights run through to close. The June 6 opening night launches the WORTEX concept's first Ibiza world and marks the beginning of elrow's second consecutive summer at [UNVRS]: an arrival that, after Year 1 established the residency as a Saturday night institution, will carry the specific extra energy of a crowd returning to something they already love.

The October 3 season finale is elrow's last Saturday of 2026 at [UNVRS] and, given the brand's history of closing parties at Ibiza, will be among the most elaborately produced and emotionally charged nights of the season's closing weeks.

Peak season Saturdays: July and August

The July and August shows represent the peak of the [UNVRS] Saturday experience: ten consecutive weeks during the heart of the Ibiza summer, when the island is at full capacity, the nights are warmest, and the crowd energy at a 10,000-person theatrical event is at its maximum. These dates also represent the highest demand across the season, and advance ticket purchase for any Saturday in July or August is essential.

September and October: the quieter magic

For visitors who prefer Ibiza in its less crowded, more intimate closing-season mode, the September and October Saturdays offer the full elrow WORTEX production with a slightly smaller and more devoted crowd. Accommodation prices across the island drop significantly after the August peak, flight availability increases, and the beaches from Playa d'en Bossa to Ses Salines to Cala Jondal are at their most accessible.

Practical guide to attending elrow at [UNVRS] 2026

Getting there

[UNVRS] Ibiza is located at Urbanización San Rafael, s/n, 07816 Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza. The venue sits in the San Rafael area, approximately 5 kilometers from both Ibiza Town and San Antonio, and is accessible by taxi from either in 8 to 15 minutes. Ibiza Airport (IBZ) is approximately 8 to 10 kilometers away, around 15 to 20 minutes by taxi.

The Disco Bus (Ibiza's official night bus service) runs between Ibiza Town, San Antonio, and the clubs along the San Rafael corridor, stopping at [UNVRS], providing an affordable transport alternative throughout the peak summer weeks.

Tickets

Official tickets are available through:

• unvrs.com (official venue website, primary source)
• elrow.com (official elrow ticketing for all Ibiza 2026 dates)
• clubtickets.com (official ticketing partner)

BPM Magazine confirms that tickets are already on sale for all 18 dates, and recommends purchasing in advance given the residency's track record of selling out across peak season Saturdays.

Entry requirements

• Age: 18+ strictly enforced
• No flip-flops
• No beach shorts
• No swimwear
• No sports merchandise
• Smart casual is appropriate; elrow's visual culture actively encourages expressive, colorful, theatrical dressing that matches the WORTEX universe aesthetic

Where to stay

Accommodation in Ibiza Town, San Antonio, or anywhere along the San Rafael corridor puts visitors within 15 minutes of [UNVRS]. The Playa d'en Bossa hotel strip, approximately 12 to 15 minutes by taxi, offers the additional advantage of daytime beach access at one of the island's finest and most fully serviced stretches of sand, with Ushuaïa Ibiza and Hï Ibiza also nearby for multi-venue weekends.

The full [UNVRS] 2026 Saturday context

elrow's Saturday presence exists within [UNVRS]'s remarkable 2026 weekly lineup:

• Mondays: John Summit (Experts Only)
• Wednesdays: Jamie Jones' Paradise
• Thursdays: FISHER
• Fridays: David Guetta's Galactic Circus
• Saturdays: elrow (Enter the WORTEX)
• Sundays: Carl Cox

The Saturday slot between Guetta's Friday and Carl Cox's Sunday positions elrow in the middle of what is arguably the most artistically diverse and impressive weekly roster any single club has assembled in Ibiza for years, and the visual and theatrical contrast between elrow's Saturday world-building and the more DJ-focused nights on either side of it makes the Saturday slot something genuinely unique within the [UNVRS] weekly program.

Verified Information at a glance

Item: Confirmed details

Event name: elrow at [UNVRS] Ibiza 2026 — "Enter the WORTEX"

Event category: 18-week weekly immersive club event; house, tech-house, techno with 360-degree theatrical production

Day of week: Every Saturday

Full season dates: June 6, 13, 20, 27 / July 4, 11, 18, 25 / August 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 / September 5, 12, 19, 26 / October 3, 2026

Total shows: 18 consecutive Saturday nights

Venue: [UNVRS] Ibiza (formerly DC10), Urbanización San Rafael, s/n, 07816 Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza, Spain

Venue capacity: 10,000

Doors: 23:30 to Close

2026 theme: "Enter the WORTEX" (6 parallel immersive worlds across the season)

Production scale: 360-degree scenography, 300+ performers, bespoke costumes, 160+ production team

elrow founded: 2010 by Juan Arnau Jr. (Juanito), Barcelona, Spain

Global footprint: 60+ cities, 25+ countries, est. 1.7 million people/year

Previous Ibiza homes: Amnesia Ibiza (2017 to 2022); [UNVRS] debut 2025 (Year 1)

Age restriction: 18+

Dress code: No flip-flops, beach shorts, swimwear, or sports merchandise

Official ticketing: unvrs.com, elrow.com, clubtickets.com

Nearest airport: Ibiza Airport (IBZ), approximately 8 to 10 km / 15 to 20 minutes by taxi

[UNVRS] opening party: April 26, 2026; Black Coffee, CamelPhat, Carl Cox, Deer Jade, Miss Monique, Paco Osuna

When the confetti cannons fire on the opening night of June 6 and

Black Coffee at Hï Ibiza, Saturdays 2026: Eight Seasons of the Sound That Changed the Island

There are partnerships in Ibiza's history that defined eras. Black Coffee and Hï Ibiza on Saturday nights is one of them: a collaboration that began in 2017 on the opening season of what is now confirmed as the world's number one club, and that has spent eight consecutive summer seasons doing something genuinely unprecedented in the island's nightlife history.

It brought Afro house to the center of the Ibiza conversation. Not as a curiosity, not as a brief experiment in programming diversity, but as the defining sound of the island's most anticipated Saturday night, season after season, until the music that Nkosinathi Innocent Maphumulo has spent his life developing in Durban and Johannesburg became inseparable from the experience of being in Ibiza on a summer Saturday.

In 2026, Black Coffee returns to Hï Ibiza for his eighth season at the club, playing every Saturday from May 2 to October 3, 2026, across 23 consecutive Saturday nights in the Theatre room at Playa d'en Bossa. Doors open at 23:30 and the night runs to close. The official Hï Ibiza announcement describes it precisely: "The artist behind one of the most influential sounds of our time returns for an 8th year of his flagship Saturday night residency at Hï Ibiza, renewing a partnership that has become a symbol of the island for its influence on contemporary electronic music."

That is a large claim. It is also, by any objective measure, accurate.

Nkosinathi Maphumulo: The Man Behind the Sound

Black Coffee is the stage name of Nkosinathi Innocent Maphumulo, born on March 11, 1976, in South Africa. His journey from the music culture of South Africa's townships to the GRAMMY Award stage and the world's most prestigious DJ residencies is one of the genuinely extraordinary stories in contemporary popular music.

He grew up immersed in the sounds that would become the foundation of his artistic identity: the deep, percussive, vocal-rich house music tradition of South Africa's townships, combined with the broader heritage of jazz, soul, and traditional African music that formed the backdrop of his early life. A serious car accident in his youth left him with a partially paralyzed left arm, a physical reality that he has spoken about candidly and that makes his DJ technique, which he developed entirely around the limitation, one of the most technically distinctive in the world.

His career statistics are extraordinary across every category:

• GRAMMY Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album (2022) for You Need Me, making him the first African artist ever to win a GRAMMY in this category
• Eight South African Music Awards (SAMAs)
• Four DJ Awards
• Two Metro FM Awards
• A 60-hour continuous DJ performance at Maponya Mall, Soweto in 2010, in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World Records
• Performances at Coachella, Ultra Music Festival, and the world's most prestigious electronic music events
• Ranked in Resident Advisor's Top 100 DJs list

The GRAMMY win is historically significant in ways that extend far beyond Black Coffee's personal achievement. The Best Dance/Electronic Album category, which had been dominated by North American and European artists since its inception, had never been won by an African artist before 2022. The win was a formal institutional recognition that the Afro house sound that Black Coffee had spent his career developing and championing was not a regional variant of a global genre but a genuinely world-class artistic achievement that stood comparison with anything being produced anywhere in the world.

His signature sound, which he and his label have described as "Afropolitan", blends the deep, percussive, vocal foundations of African house with the melodic sensibility of soulful house and the atmospheric qualities of deep electronic music that operates well at the scale of a large club room. The result is music that is simultaneously danceable and emotionally engaging: it works on the dancefloor at 2:00 AM at Hï Ibiza as completely as it works through headphones on a quiet afternoon.

The Hï Ibiza Story: Why This Club, Why This Partnership

Hï Ibiza opened in 2017 at Playa d'en Bossa, transforming what had been the Space Ibiza site into a new venue that was, from its opening night, positioned at the absolute forefront of global club design, production technology, and programming ambition.

The club operates across three state-of-the-art rooms plus open-air terraces: the Theatre, where Black Coffee performs, and the Club, plus a terrace environment that allows programming across multiple simultaneous sonic environments. The Theatre is specifically designed as an intimate, immersive space that combines exceptional acoustic quality with production infrastructure including LED walls, laser systems, and a stage architecture that allows the visual and sonic elements of a performance to integrate completely.

The club has held the DJ Mag number one ranking for multiple consecutive years, confirming it as the most critically and commercially respected nightclub in the world by the standards of the global dance music community. That context matters for understanding the Black Coffee Saturday residency: this is the world's best DJ, as measured by multiple objective award criteria, holding the most prestigious residency night at the world's number one club, for the eighth consecutive year.

The partnership was described by Hï Ibiza's official announcement in unambiguous terms: "The storied relationship between Black Coffee and Hï Ibiza began in 2017, the club's inaugural year. Ibiza was ready for a new sound, and the GRAMMY-winning South African artist delivered."

The African Art Dimension: Visual Culture at Saturday Night Level

What makes the Black Coffee Saturday residency at Hï Ibiza genuinely distinctive from almost every other major Ibiza residency is the deliberate integration of African artistic culture into every dimension of the show.

The official Hï Ibiza description is specific: "Each season Black Coffee invites artists, filmmakers and creative talents from across the African art scene to shape the visual universe of the residency." This means that the visual production of a Saturday night at Hï Ibiza in 2026, the LED content, the film projections, the artistic framing of the event, is not simply a production company's work but a deliberate curatorial statement about the breadth and quality of contemporary African artistic production.

For 2026 specifically, Hï Ibiza confirmed that the residency will feature "a renewed production, new visual languages and a creative narrative" developed in collaboration with new African creative talent, elevating the experience into what they describe as "even more immersive territory." The result is that attending a Black Coffee Saturday at Hï Ibiza in 2026 is simultaneously a dance music experience and an encounter with the visual and narrative cultures of the African continent, delivered at the production standard of the world's number one club.

The 23-Week Season: Every Saturday Confirmed

The full confirmed schedule for Black Coffee at Hï Ibiza 2026 covers 23 consecutive Saturday nights:

May: May 2 (Opening Night), May 9, May 16, May 23, May 30

June: June 6, June 13, June 20, June 27

July: July 4, July 11, July 18, July 25

August: August 1, August 8, August 15, August 22, August 29

September: September 5, September 12, September 19, September 26

October: October 3 (Closing Party)

Every show runs from 23:30 to close.

The Opening Night: Saturday, May 2

The May 2 opening night is the earliest major Saturday residency launch of the 2026 Ibiza season, and for the Black Coffee faithful who return each year, it carries the specific emotional resonance of a reunion. The first Saturday at Hï Ibiza every May, when the Theatre room fills with the opening hours of a new Black Coffee season and the Afropolitan sound establishes itself again as the defining note of the island's Saturdays, is one of the most eagerly anticipated single evenings in Ibiza's calendar.

The October 3 Closing Party

The October 3 Closing Party is one of the most emotionally resonant evenings of the entire Ibiza season. The awareness that this is the last Black Coffee Saturday until May of the following year, combined with the late-season atmosphere of the island in early October when the tourist peak has passed and the remaining crowd is predominantly made up of devoted regulars, creates a closing night atmosphere that long-time residency followers describe as unlike anything else in the Ibiza calendar.

The Guest Artists: Who Joins Black Coffee at Hï

The curation of support artists at the Black Coffee Saturday residency is among the most highly regarded aspects of the event. Hï Ibiza confirms that the 2026 program will "bring together some of the most forward-thinking artists in electronic music," and the specific guest list was being announced on a rolling weekly basis through the official channels.

The residency's history of guest bookings across previous seasons has included artists from multiple corners of the electronic music world who align with Black Coffee's Afropolitan sensibility: South African artists from the afro house and amapiano worlds, European deep house producers, and established global names who have recorded or toured with Maphumulo across his career. Previous seasons have seen guests including Themba, Enoo Napa, Manda Manda, Latasha, and international names who connect with the musical values of the residency.

Following @blackcoffeemusic on Instagram and monitoring hiibiza.com provides the earliest access to weekly guest announcements as they are confirmed for each specific Saturday.

Playa d'en Bossa and the Island Context

Playa d'en Bossa, where Hï Ibiza sits, is the longest and most fully developed beach strip in Ibiza, running for approximately 3 kilometers along the southern coast of the island between the airport and the southeastern tip of Ibiza Town's outskirts. The beach is backed by hotels, beach clubs, bars, and restaurants that are active throughout the day, making the Playa d'en Bossa area the most self-contained and fully serviced resort strip on the island.

Ushuaïa Ibiza, the open-air club that hosts Calvin Harris on Fridays and Tuesdays, sits on the same stretch of beach as Hï Ibiza, making the Playa d'en Bossa area a two-venue combination for visitors who want both the early-evening Friday outdoor experience and the late-night Saturday Theatre experience within walking distance of each other.

Ibiza Town and its Dalt Vila UNESCO-listed old city are approximately 6 kilometers to the northwest, a 10 to 15 minute taxi ride. The island's other major clubs, in the San Rafael area, are approximately 12 to 15 minutes away.

Practical Guide to Attending Black Coffee at Hï Ibiza 2026

Getting There

Hï Ibiza is located at Playa d'en Bossa, Ibiza. The club is approximately 5 to 6 kilometers from Ibiza Airport (IBZ), a 10 to 15 minute taxi journey. From Ibiza Town, approximately 10 to 15 minutes by taxi. The Playa d'en Bossa area has excellent accommodation options with walking-distance access to the venue.

Tickets and Pricing

Official tickets are available through:

• hiibiza.com (official Hï Ibiza website, primary source)
• clubtickets.com (official ticketing partner)
• ibizafiestas.com

Confirmed 2026 pricing:

• Entry before 1:00 AM: €80
• Standard ticket: €100
• VIP Tables: bookable through hiibiza.com

The early arrival discount (€80 before 1:00 AM vs €100 standard) rewards visitors who plan their arrival and rewards early booking. Peak summer Saturdays (July and August) sell out consistently, and advance booking is essential for those dates.

Entry Requirements

• Age: 18+ strictly enforced
• No flip-flops
• No beach shorts
• No swimwear
• No sports merchandise
• Smart casual is the effective standard for Hï Ibiza

Also at Hï Ibiza in 2026

The Saturday Black Coffee residency sits within a full Hï Ibiza weekly program that also includes:

• Dom Dolla (confirmed return)
• James Hype and Meduza (confirmed link-up)
• Francis Mercier's Soley (debut residency)
• Eastenderz (new home at Hï)

Verified Information at a Glance

ItemConfirmed details

Event NameBlack Coffee at Hï Ibiza, Saturdays 2026

Event Category23-week weekly DJ residency with curated guest artists; Afro house, Afropolitan, deep house

Day of WeekEvery Saturday

Full Season DatesMay 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 / June 6, 13, 20, 27 / July 4, 11, 18, 25 / August 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 / September 5, 12, 19, 26 / October 3, 2026

Total Shows23 consecutive Saturday nights

Opening NightSaturday, May 2, 2026

Closing NightSaturday, October 3, 2026 (Closing Party)

VenueHï Ibiza (Theatre room), Playa d'en Bossa, Ibiza, Spain (World's #1 Club)

Doors23:30 to Close

Ticket PricesEntry before 1AM: €80 / Standard: €100 / VIP Tables available

Residency Year8th season at Hï Ibiza (partnership since 2017, Hï's inaugural year)

Black Coffee Real NameNkosinathi Innocent Maphumulo, born March 11, 1976, South Africa

Key AwardsGRAMMY Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album (2022); 8 SAMAs; 4 DJ Awards

Historic AchievementFirst African artist to win a GRAMMY for Best Dance/Electronic Album

Signature SoundAfro house / Afropolitan

Visual ConceptAfrican artists, filmmakers and creative talents curate the visual universe each season

Official Ticketinghiibiza.com, clubtickets.com, ibizafiestas.com

Nearest AirportIbiza Airport (IBZ), approximately 5 to 6 km / 10 to 15 minutes by taxi

When Black Coffee walks into the Theatre on the evening of May 2 and the opening bars of the first track of the 2026 season move across a dancefloor that has been waiting since October for exactly this moment, the eighth year of the partnership that changed what Saturday night in Ibiza could sound like will begin its newest chapter. Twenty-three Saturdays of Afropolitan sound, African visual culture, curated guest artists, and the specific, irreplaceable experience of being in the world's number one club when it is operating at its absolute peak: that is what Playa d'en Bossa offers every Saturday from May to October 2026. The only decision left is which Saturday you are going to be there for.

Solomun +1 at Pacha Ibiza, Sundays 2026: 13 Years of the Residency That Nobody Wants to End

There is a specific kind of Sunday night in Ibiza that belongs entirely to one man and whoever he decides to invite. The booth is in the center of the room. The crowd surrounds it on all sides. The night does not end quickly because nobody in the room wants it to. And somewhere in the middle of a Solomun set that is two hours deep and still building, with the bass warming the walls of the most famous nightclub in the world, the specific message that has guided this residency for over a decade settles over the dancefloor like a shared agreement: Nobody Is Not Loved.

Solomun +1 at Pacha Ibiza returns for the 2026 season running every Sunday from May 31 to October 4, 2026: 19 consecutive Sunday nights in the venue that has been Ibiza's defining nightclub since 1973. This marks the 14th consecutive season of one of the most celebrated and longest-running DJ residencies in the island's history, a relationship between an artist and a venue that began in 2013 and has grown, season by season, into something that Pacha's own team describes as "one of the most influential residencies in Ibiza."

Ibiza Spotlight, watching the island's club scene with a decade of accumulated perspective on this specific residency, put it plainly in their 2026 announcement: "13 years deep and still thriving." The guest list from 2025 says everything about why: Skrillex, Anyma, Jamie xx, Four Tet, Peggy Gou, Marco Carola, Denis Sulta. Seven extraordinary guests across a single season, each one chosen by Solomun personally, each one representing a different corner of the electronic and wider music world, and each one sharing the Pacha dancefloor with an artist whose own musical depth makes the sharing meaningful.

Who Solomun is: from Travnik to Ibiza via Hamburg

Mladen Solomun was born on December 27, 1975, in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and grew up in Hamburg, Germany, the city that became both his permanent home and the base from which he built one of the most coherent artistic identities in contemporary electronic music.

Hamburg's house music scene in the late 1990s and early 2000s had its own distinct character: less technically focused than Berlin's techno world, more rooted in vocal and melodic house traditions that had been present in the city since the late 1980s. Solomun absorbed that character and reflected it back in his own productions and DJ sets: music that was, as he once described it to NSS Magazine, a deliberate reaction against the minimalism that dominated the early 2000s. "For me it was too much and I had the strong feeling that electronic music could easily have a little bit more emotions," he explained. "This was also one of the reasons we founded Diynamic, to give this sound a platform."

Diynamic Music was co-founded by Solomun and Adriano Trolio on November 4, 2006, in Hamburg, and in 2026 it enters its 20th year of operation. From its Hamburg base, Diynamic has grown into one of the most respected underground house labels in the world, releasing music by Solomun alongside artists including H.O.S.H., Stimming, Kollektiv Turmstrasse, WhoMadeWho, and a roster of names that collectively define a sound: melodically rich, rhythmically deep, emotionally honest, and completely consistent with the underground values that the label was founded to champion.

His awards reflect the consistency of that commitment:

• Three-time DJ Awards winner for Best Producer and Best Deep House DJ
• A residency and performance history that spans Coachella, Tomorrowland, Glastonbury, and the world's most prestigious electronic music events
• A 2025 performance at Sphere in Las Vegas, one of the most technologically advanced entertainment venues ever built, placing Solomun in the company of artists at the very front of both artistic and production ambition
• A recent stop at Alexandra Palace in London as part of an ongoing headline touring program
• An October 2025 collaboration with Anyma on "Till I Die" that demonstrated his continued creative currency with the next generation of electronic music
• A recent remix of Nina Simone's "Take Care of Business" for Verve Records that placed him in direct conversation with jazz and soul heritage while operating within an electronic production framework

The Nina Simone remix is particularly illustrative of Solomun's artistic range. Verve Records, the legendary jazz imprint that originally released Nina Simone, does not commission remixes from DJs who lack the depth to handle the material. The fact that they turned to Solomun is a confirmation of the musical intelligence that his Pacha audiences have experienced for 13 consecutive years.

The +1 concept: the most elegant idea in residency history

The +1 concept is, in retrospect, an idea so simple and so effective that its absence from other major residencies is genuinely surprising.

Every Sunday at Pacha, Solomun performs alongside exactly one guest. Not a support act and a headline. Not three or four names on a poster. One DJ, playing alongside Solomun, sharing the stage and the music for the full duration of the night.

The implications of this format are extensive. The guest must be significant enough to justify the singular billing, which means Solomun's guest selections operate at the level of the world's finest DJs, producers, and musicians rather than the support tier. The guest's set is long rather than brief, giving them time to develop a musical argument across several hours rather than delivering a highlight reel in 90 minutes. The result is a musical conversation between two artists at the top of their craft, rather than a DJ night organized as a talent showcase.

Pacha's official description captures the philosophy precisely: "The structure remains deliberately simple, giving space for the artists and their music to shape each night on their own terms."

The booth at the center of the room, which Solomun introduced at Pacha and which has become one of the most instantly recognizable visual signatures of the residency, is the physical expression of the same philosophy. By placing the DJ at the center of the dancefloor rather than elevated at one end, Solomun dissolved the performer-audience separation that conventional club design maintains. The crowd surrounds the DJ on all sides, and the relationship between the music and the movement that responds to it becomes circular and mutual rather than directional. It is a small architectural decision with large human consequences: a Sunday night at Solomun +1 at Pacha feels different from virtually any other club night specifically because of where the booth is.

Fourteen years and counting: the Pacha-Solomun history

Solomun +1 at Pacha Ibiza began in 2013 and has run without interruption across every subsequent summer, making it one of the longest-running continuous residencies at any single venue in Ibiza's history.

The residency's growth across 13 seasons has been, in the language of the industry, organic: built entirely on the quality of the musical experience rather than on marketing campaigns, celebrity associations, or the commercial production values that drive attendance at many comparable events. Loud Life's characterization of the format is precise: "extended sets, a booth placed within the crowd, and a focus on continuity rather than rapid change." Each of those three elements is deliberate and each reinforces the others.

The 2025 season demonstrated exactly how the +1 concept performs at its highest level. Ibiza Spotlight confirmed the guest roster: Skrillex, Anyma, Jamie xx, Four Tet, Peggy Gou, Marco Carola, Denis Sulta. That is a single season's guest list that spans the distance from bass music to ambient electronic, from deep house to French electronic, from Scottish techno to South Korean minimal: a range that no other curator in the world's current DJ scene could credibly assemble for their own weekly Ibiza night. It is simultaneously evidence of Solomun's musical breadth and a practical demonstration of the respect that artists across the electronic spectrum have for what he has built over 13 years at Pacha.

The 2026 guest list was not fully announced at time of writing, with Pacha confirming that weekly +1 selections would be released progressively through the season as they had been in previous years. Following @solomun808 on Instagram, pacha.com, and ibiza-spotlight.com provides the earliest confirmed access to each weekly guest announcement.

Pacha Ibiza: where 14 seasons of Sundays live

Pacha Ibiza was founded in 1973 at Passeig Joan Carles I, 07800 Eivissa, making it the longest continuously operating nightclub on the island and one of the oldest in the world. Its famous double-cherry logo is globally recognized as a symbol of Ibiza itself, and the venue's position in the marina area of Ibiza Town, within walking distance of the Dalt Vila UNESCO-listed walled city, gives it the most historically layered physical context of any Ibiza club.

As Pacha's own team notes: "Pacha Ibiza has been a fixture on the island since 1973, long enough to have become synonymous with Ibiza's identity as a global destination for dance music. Solomun +1 has grown within that context, contributing to the institution around it while carving out a distinct character of its own."

The Solomun +1 move to place the booth at the center of the room was a physical intervention in Pacha's own architecture, and the fact that Pacha accommodated and ultimately embraced the change across 14 seasons is a testament to the mutual trust between the venue and its most beloved long-term resident. The centered booth is now so associated with the Sunday night experience at Pacha that many regular visitors to the residency cannot picture the room any other way.

The marina area around Pacha, with its promenade walkway lined with moored yachts and the illuminated Dalt Vila rising on the hillside to the south, provides a physical approach to a Sunday night that perfectly fits the introspective, warm, and emotionally resonant character of the Solomun +1 experience. Walking the marina on a Sunday evening in late July, with the Ibiza summer at its warmest and the first bars of whatever Solomun has chosen to open with drifting out through the Pacha entrance, is one of the most quintessentially Ibizan experiences the island offers.

The full 2026 Sunday season: 19 weeks confirmed

The confirmed Solomun +1 at Pacha Ibiza 2026 season runs across 19 consecutive Sunday nights:

May: May 31 (Opening Night)

June: June 7, June 14, June 21, June 28

July: July 5, July 12, July 19, July 26

August: August 2, August 9, August 16, August 23, August 30

September: September 6, September 13, September 20, September 27

October: October 4 (Closing Party)

The Opening Night: Sunday, May 31

The May 31 Opening Night launches the 14th season of Solomun +1 at Pacha with the specific energy that only an opening night brings: the first revelation of who the season's first +1 guest is, the first hours of the centered booth surrounded by a crowd that has been anticipating this moment since October, and the full awareness of 19 weeks of Sunday nights stretching ahead.

Peak Sundays: July and August

The nine Sunday shows across July and August represent the peak of the season in terms of crowd intensity and island energy. The warmest nights, the fullest dancefloor, and the highest demand of the year all concentrate in these nine weeks. Advance ticket purchasing for any Sunday in July or August is essential.

The closing party: Sunday, October 4

The October 4 Closing Party is the emotional culmination of a 19-week run and, for those who have attended multiple Solomun +1 seasons, one of the most reliably moving nights in the Ibiza calendar. When Solomun plays the final track of the final Sunday and the lights come up in the Pacha main room, the knowledge that this specific Sunday experience will not happen again until May 2027 concentrates the crowd's attention in a way that no peak-season show can match.

Diynamic's 20th year and what it means for the 2026 season

The 2026 season arrives with the additional context of Diynamic Music entering its 20th year. The label that Solomun co-founded with Adriano Trolio in Hamburg in November 2006 has spent two decades releasing music that has defined a specific corner of underground electronic culture, and the anniversary year brings with it a program of commemorative releases, special collaborative projects, and milestone events that are expected to feed directly into the Pacha Sunday season.

Loud Life notes the significance: the 2026 Pacha season "further extends a shared legacy defined by long-term continuity" between Solomun, Diynamic, and Pacha, three institutions whose combined histories now span the better part of three decades of Ibiza and global dance music culture.

The Nina Simone remix on Verve Records and the Anyma collaboration "Till I Die," both released in 2025 and both demonstrating Solomun's reach across genre and generation, suggest a 2026 +1 guest list that could extend even further than the remarkable 2025 edition. When an artist is remixing jazz canon while simultaneously collaborating with the next generation of electronic music, the range of artists who might logically appear as his +1 at Pacha on a Sunday becomes almost impossibly broad.

Practical guide to attending Solomun +1 at Pacha 2026

Getting to Pacha

Pacha Ibiza is at Passeig Joan Carles I, 07800 Eivissa, in the marina area of Ibiza Town. Ibiza Airport (IBZ) is approximately 6 to 7 kilometers from the venue, a 10 to 15 minute taxi journey. The club is within walking distance of central Ibiza Town accommodation and a short taxi ride from Playa d'en Bossa or the San Rafael club corridor.

Tickets and pricing

Official tickets for Solomun +1 at Pacha Ibiza 2026 are available through:

• pacha.com (the primary official source)
• ibiza-spotlight.com (confirmed official ticketing partner)

Ticket prices for the 2026 season were being confirmed on a rolling basis as the season approached. Pacha Sunday nights with Solomun +1 have historically sold out consistently across peak season, and advance purchase is strongly recommended for any Sunday in July or August. VIP table bookings are available through pacha.com for those wanting a reserved space.

What to expect inside

Arriving at Pacha for a Solomun +1 Sunday and entering the main room to find the booth at the center of the crowd is, for first-time attendees, immediately recognizable as different. The dancefloor surrounds the booth on all sides. There is no wrong side of the room, no back-of-the-venue exile from the music source. Every position in the room is equidistant from the center of the night, and Solomun's own physical presence behind the decks, visible from every angle, makes the collective nature of the experience immediately perceptible.

Dress code and age

• Age: 18+ strictly enforced
• Smart casual; Pacha's standard dress code applies
• No beach clothing, no flip-flops, no sportswear

Verified Information at glance

Item Confirmed details

Event name: Solomun +1 at Pacha Ibiza 2026

Event category: 19-week weekly DJ residency with a single curated guest each week; melodic house, deep house, Diynamic sound

Day of week: Every Sunday

Season dates: May 31 to October 4, 2026 (19 shows)

Total shows: 19 consecutive Sunday nights

Opening night: Sunday, May 31, 2026

Closing party: Sunday, October 4, 2026

Venue: Pacha Ibiza, Passeig Joan Carles I, 07800 Eivissa, Ibiza, Spain

Pacha founded: 1973

Format: Solomun + 1 guest only; booth placed at center of dancefloor; extended marathon sets

Mantra: "Nobody Is Not Loved"

Residency history: Since 2013 (2026 = 14th season)

2025 +1 guests: Skrillex, Anyma, Jamie xx, Four Tet, Peggy Gou, Marco Carola, Denis Sulta

Solomun real name: Mladen Solomun, born December 27, 1975, Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Diynamic Music: Co-founded with Adriano Trolio, Hamburg, Germany, November 4, 2006 (entering 20th

David Guetta Presents Galactic Circus at [UNVRS] Ibiza, Fridays 2026: The Most Spectacular Night in the Galaxy Returns

When the world's number one DJ builds a circus inside the world's first hyperclub and calls it a parallel universe, the natural response might be skepticism. When that circus debuted in 2025 and immediately became what the Diario de Ibiza described as "one of the great events of the night calendar" and a show already described as historic by the island's most informed nightlife journalists, that skepticism becomes very difficult to maintain.

David Guetta Presents Galactic Circus at [UNVRS] Ibiza returns for its second season on Friday nights from June 19 to October 2, 2026: 16 consecutive Friday nights at the 10,000-capacity hyperclub in San Rafael, where the stage setup, the production infrastructure, and the specific creative vision that Guetta has built around this concept combine into an experience that every source covering the 2026 season has confirmed is unlike anything else the island offers on a Friday night.

The man behind it described his own ambitions for Year 2 in terms that set the expectation precisely:

"2025 was an incredible year for Galactic Circus. I was blown away by the audience, the state-of-the-art production, the sound and the [UNVRS] team that made it all happen. I'm deeply grateful for everything we accomplished together and can't wait to return in 2026 to take it even further: bigger anthems, a production that will leave you speechless, and a sonic utopia that we will create together with the audience every Friday."

The phrase "sonic utopia" is not accidental. It describes exactly what Galactic Circus at [UNVRS] is designed to be: not a DJ performance, not a standard club night, but a fully realized alternative world that exists only on Friday nights in a converted former DC10 building in the Ibiza countryside.

The Galactic Circus Concept: What It Actually Is

Galactic Circus was conceived as a response to a specific creative challenge that David Guetta set himself after years of residency performances: how to create a club night experience that went beyond what any DJ performance could deliver on its own.

His own explanation captures the thinking: "This isn't just about playing music. It's about creating an experience that is larger than life." The concept that emerged from that ambition draws on the visual language of the circus and the cosmic: Guetta as ringmaster at the center of a neon-drenched, futuristic big top, surrounded by production elements that include:

• Constantly moving structures that transform the physical space of [UNVRS] throughout the night, giving the room a different visual character at different hours
• Enveloping light effects designed specifically for the spatial dimensions of [UNVRS]'s industrial architecture, which provides ceiling height and floor area that conventional clubs cannot match
• Artists descending from the ceiling, a theatrical performance element that creates physical arrival moments in the show that operate at the scale of stadium concerts
• LED and laser systems designed to work together as a coordinated visual narrative rather than as separate production elements
• A fully designed production aesthetic that applies the visual logic of a cosmic carnival across every aspect of the show, from Guetta's own presentation to the performer costumes to the structural set elements that frame the dancefloor

Living Ibiza's description of the experience is precise: "The dance floor is transformed into a living space." That transformation is the point. At Galactic Circus, you are not standing in a nightclub watching a DJ. You are inside a world that has been built around you, and the music is the axis around which that world rotates.

The concept was described by CDA Magazine as a show that "redefines the concept of a residency" by treating the night as "an immersive, sensory overload that takes attendees on a journey through a neon-drenched, futuristic big top." The 2025 debut, which was livestreamed by DJ Mag TV in September 2025, opening with Guetta's 2-billion-streamed anthem "I'm Good (Blue)", confirmed that the concept delivered at the scale its ambition required.

David Guetta: 30 Years of Ibiza and the World's Number One Ranking

David Guetta's history with Ibiza is one of the longest continuous artist-island relationships in the modern era of electronic music. As Ibiza Rocks confirmed in their 2026 announcement: "No stranger to the island, David Guetta's history with Ibiza spans over 3 decades, having played at many of the island's venues." From early residencies at various clubs through the F* ME I'M FAMOUS! era at Pacha and Space, to the Ushuaïa Ibiza chapter, and now the Galactic Circus era at [UNVRS], every phase of Guetta's relationship with the island has marked a distinct chapter in both his own artistic development and Ibiza's evolving nightlife story.

The statistics that accompany his name are, by now, among the most cited in all of popular music:

• World's #1 DJ (DJ Mag rankings)
• Double GRAMMY Award winner
• Over 56 billion combined streams across his catalogue
• "I'm Good (Blue)" with Bebe Rexha: 2 billion streams, one of the most-streamed tracks in Spotify history
• A discography spanning over two decades that includes "When Love Takes Over" with Kelly Rowland, "Sexy Bitch" with Akon, "Titanium" with Sia, "Without You" with Usher, "Hey Mama" with Nicki Minaj and Bebe Rexha, "2U" with Justin Bieber, "Play Hard" with Ne-Yo, and dozens more that have collectively defined multiple eras of global popular music

What Galactic Circus gives Guetta that his previous Ibiza residencies did not is a vehicle for the full breadth of that catalogue. Living Ibiza specifically notes: "The concept allows the artist to deploy his full creative range. The sessions flow naturally between genres, scenes and styles." The 16 Friday nights between June 19 and October 2 each offer a different configuration of Guetta's sets: drawing on the dance floor anthems, the pop crossover moments, the club-specific productions, and the underground-influenced tracks that represent the full spectrum of a career spanning three decades and every significant development in electronic music during that period.

The 2026 Season Alongside FMIF: A Unique Double Guetta Ibiza Summer

For those who know Guetta's 2026 Ibiza program in full, the Galactic Circus Friday residency exists alongside his Monday F* ME I'M FAMOUS! residency at Ushuaïa Ibiza (running every Monday May 29 to October 5, 2026). The two residencies are deliberately distinct from each other, operating at completely different times, venues, and energy formats:

F* ME I'M FAMOUS! at Ushuaïa is a daytime-to-evening, open-air, 5 PM to 11 PM event in the sunshine and Mediterranean outdoor setting of Playa d'en Bossa, with a pop-crossover and house-forward musical philosophy.

Galactic Circus at [UNVRS] is a late-night, indoor, 23:30 to close event in the industrial immersive space of the hyperclub in San Rafael, with a cosmic production narrative and a wider musical range that extends from the anthems to the darker, more club-specific material.

For visitors planning an extended Ibiza stay, attending both events in the same week is both logistically straightforward and musically rewarding: two Guetta experiences, completely different in atmosphere and format, each representing a distinct dimension of what makes him the world's most commercially successful electronic music artist.

[UNVRS]: The Hyperclub That Galactic Circus Was Built For

[UNVRS] at Urbanización San Rafael near San Antoni de Portmany is, in the language of its own description, "the world's first Hyperclub." The transformation of the former DC10 site by The Night League (also operators of Ushuaïa Ibiza and Hï Ibiza) produced a venue whose physical specifications are uniquely suited to what Galactic Circus demands:

• 10,000-plus capacity, providing the floor area that the moving structural elements and the crowd-surrounding production design require
• Industrial ceiling height, enabling the aerial performance elements and the descend-from-ceiling theatrical arrivals that define Galactic Circus's visual program
• State-of-the-art sound system, specifically designed for a space that must deliver clear, powerful audio to an enormous crowd spread across a wide floor area
• Full LED and laser infrastructure built into the architectural design rather than retrofitted, allowing the production team to deploy visual effects at every depth and angle of the room

Magic Ibiza describes the result as "a cosmic playground, a space for forward-thinkers, dreamers, and those who come to Ibiza for something bigger than just a party." After the 2025 debut confirmed that the venue and the concept were matched, 2026 raises the stakes across every production dimension.

The Full 2026 Friday Season Schedule

The confirmed David Guetta Presents Galactic Circus at [UNVRS] Ibiza 2026 season runs across 16 consecutive Friday nights:

June: June 19 (Opening Night), June 26

July: July 3, July 10, July 17, July 24, July 31

August: August 7, August 14, August 21, August 28

September: September 4, September 11, September 18, September 25

October: October 2 (Season Finale)

Doors open at 23:30 and nights run through to close.

The Opening Night: Friday, June 19

The June 19 Opening Night launches Year 2 of Galactic Circus at [UNVRS] with the weight of a debut season described as historic behind it. For the crowd who attended the 2025 opening and returns for 2026, the first Friday night of the new season carries the specific energy of a world being re-entered rather than encountered for the first time.

Peak Season Fridays: July and August

The nine consecutive Friday shows across July and August represent the absolute peak of the Galactic Circus season: the warmest nights, the fullest venue, and the most intense production moments as Guetta and the [UNVRS] team deploy the most ambitious show elements in the weeks that attract the island's largest and most energetic crowds. These are also the dates with the highest demand and the most urgent need for advance ticket purchase.

The Season Finale: Friday, October 2

The October 2 Season Finale closes the Galactic Circus season on the last Friday of the Ibiza calendar, a night that carries the combined emotional weight of a closing party atmosphere and the specific awareness that the most ambitious immersive show in Ibiza's 2026 nightlife program is drawing its final curtain for the year.

Practical Guide to Attending Galactic Circus 2026

Getting to [UNVRS]

[UNVRS] Ibiza is located at Urbanización San Rafael, s/n, 07816 Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza. The venue sits in the San Rafael corridor between Ibiza Town and San Antonio, approximately 5 kilometers from both town centers, accessible by taxi in 8 to 15 minutes from either. Ibiza Airport (IBZ) is approximately 8 to 10 kilometers away, around 15 to 20 minutes by taxi.

The Disco Bus (Ibiza's official night transport service) serves the San Rafael corridor and stops near [UNVRS], providing affordable late-night return transport throughout the summer season.

Tickets and VIP

Official tickets and VIP table reservations are available exclusively through:

• unvrs.com (primary official source, confirmed)

Guetta's track record of selling out consistently at every major Ibiza venue across his career makes advance purchase essential, particularly for July and August Fridays.

Entry Requirements

• Age: 18+ strictly enforced
• No flip-flops
• No beach shorts
• No swimwear
• No sports merchandise

What to Wear

Smart casual with an eye toward the theatrical: the Galactic Circus aesthetic rewards participants who dress with some acknowledgment of the cosmic, circus-influenced visual world of the event, while the standard [UNVRS] entry policy rules out beach and athletic wear.

The Full [UNVRS] 2026 Weekly Context

Galactic Circus occupies the Friday slot within [UNVRS]'s remarkable 2026 weekly program:

• Mondays: John Summit (Experts Only)
• Wednesdays: Jamie Jones' Paradise
• Thursdays: FISHER
• Fridays: David Guetta presents Galactic Circus
• Saturdays: elrow (Enter the WORTEX)
• Sundays: Carl Cox

The Friday position between FISHER's Thursday late-night tech-house and elrow's Saturday theatrical spectacle places Galactic Circus in the center of what is the most diverse and compelling three-night programming stretch of any single venue in Ibiza's 2026 summer season.

Verified Information at a Glance

Item Confirmed details

Event name: David Guetta Presents Galactic Circus at [UNVRS] Ibiza 2026

Event category: 16-week weekly DJ residency with full immersive production; electronic, house, EDM, anthems, cross-genre

Day of week: Every Friday

Full season dates: June 19, 26 / July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 / August 7, 14, 21, 28 / September 4, 11, 18, 25 / October 2, 2026

Total shows: 16 consecutive Friday nights

Opening night: Friday, June 19, 2026

Season finale: Friday, October 2, 2026

Venue: [UNVRS] Ibiza (formerly DC10), Urbanización San Rafael, s/n, 07816 Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza, Spain

Venue capacity: 10,000+

Doors: 23:30 to Close

Production elements: Moving structures, aerial performers, enveloping light effects, LED and laser systems, cosmic big top aesthetic

Guetta's second 2026 residency: F* ME I'M FAMOUS! at Ushuaïa Ibiza, every Monday May 29 to October 5, 2026

Guetta streams: Over 56 billion combined

Guetta DJ status: World's #1 DJ, double GRAMMY winner

Age restriction: 18+

Dress code: No flip-flops, beach shorts, swimwear, or sports merchandise

Official ticketing: unvrs.com

Nearest airport: Ibiza Airport (IBZ), approximately 8 to 10 km / 15 to 20 minutes by taxi

Residency year: Year 2 (debut 2025, described as historic by island press)

When the structures begin moving at [UNVRS] on the evening of June 19 and the first bars of the 2026 Galactic Circus season echo through the walls of Ibiza's hyperclub in San Rafael, Year 2 of the most ambitious immersive production concept the island has hosted will begin doing what it did in 2025 and doing it, in Guetta's own words, even further. Bigger anthems, a production that will leave you speechless, and a sonic utopia built from scratch every Friday night for 16 weeks: the ringmaster is back, the circus is open, and the universe that exists inside [UNVRS] between 23:30 and close every Friday from June 19 to October 2 is waiting for you to enter it.

Carl Cox at [UNVRS] Ibiza, Sundays 2026: The King Returns for Year Two

There is a phrase that anyone who has followed the story of Carl Cox on the island of Ibiza knows by heart. It has accompanied him across four decades of DJ performances, across 15 legendary years at Space Ibiza, across a two-year absence and a triumphant 2025 return to the island at [UNVRS], and it will accompany him again across every Sunday from June 21 to October 4, 2026, as his own voice opens every set and invites the crowd into whatever is about to happen:

"Oh yes, Oh yes!"

Two words. The most recognizable opening of any DJ performance in the world. The voice of a man who has been making rooms move since 1985, and who in 2026 is still doing it with more authority, more musical intelligence, and more physical joy than almost anyone else currently working in the same space.

Carl Cox is back at [UNVRS] Ibiza for his second consecutive Sunday residency, running every Sunday from June 21 to October 4, 2026, across 16 consecutive nights at the 10,000-capacity hyperclub in San Rafael. Deep Tech Magazine called the announcement the kind that "lands with the weight that only a handful of dance music names can still generate." They were understating it. Carl Cox is not a handful of dance music names. He is, in the most precise possible sense of the word, irreplaceable.

Carl Cox: The Undisputed King of Ibiza

Carl Cox was born on July 29, 1962, in Barbados, and grew up in Crawley, England, developing his love for music through the soul, funk, and disco records that filled his teenage years before the UK warehouse rave scene of the mid-1980s gave him the context in which those musical instincts could become something larger.

His professional DJ career began in 1985, and within a few years he had established himself as one of the most technically skilled and musically adventurous DJs working in the British rave scene. His signature three-turntable mixing style, which he developed as a practical solution to the challenge of blending records with different tempos, became one of the most imitated technical achievements in DJ history, giving his sets a complexity and fluidity that distinguished them immediately from the standard two-deck format.

The statistics that accumulated across the following three decades are extraordinary:

• #1 DJ in the world, three consecutive years (1999, 2000, 2001) in the DJ Mag poll, an achievement no other artist has matched in consecutive form
• Founder of Intec Records, one of the most respected underground techno labels in the world, and Space Music label
• An Ibiza history spanning over 25 years, including the 15-consecutive-year Space Ibiza residency from 2001 to 2016, described on his official biography page as "one of the most successful residencies in Ibiza history"
• Performances at virtually every significant festival and club across Europe, North America, Australia, Asia, and South America across a career now spanning four decades

The Space Ibiza years are where his relationship with the island reached its defining expression. From 2001 to 2016, Carl Cox Music On at Space was not just a club night: it was an institution, a weekly appointment that defined what Sunday night on the island meant, and a residency that Dancing Astronaut described at its close as having Cox representing "dance music at the highest level among anyone I know." When Cox himself announced the end of the Space residency in 2015, reflecting that a 15-year run had been one of the greatest achievements of his life, the collective response from the island's dance music community was unprecedented: an entire year of farewell parties, emotional final seasons, and the specific mourning of something that had felt permanent.

The two-year absence from Ibiza that followed the Space closure was, as it turned out, temporary. The 2025 return to [UNVRS] confirmed what the dance music community had been hoping for: that Cox and Ibiza were not finished with each other, and that the right venue, at the right moment, with the right production environment, could bring one of the island's most defining relationships back to life at full force.

Magic Ibiza's assessment of the 2025 debut season captures the outcome: "Sundays quickly became a weekly pilgrimage for techno lovers, long-time fans, and anyone chasing Cox's unmistakable energy." Year 2 is built on that foundation.

The 2026 Sunday Program: All-Night Sets and Special Guests

The official [UNVRS] description of the 2026 season establishes the format with precision:

"With special all-night-long sets for both the residency opening and closing parties, surprise special guests, unannounced B2Bs, and so much, in Carl's own words: 'expect the unexpected, always.'

Every element of that statement is meaningful.

All-Night-Long Solo Sets: Opening and Closing

The June 21 Opening Night and October 4 Closing Night both feature Carl Cox playing all-night-long solo sets, a format that is simultaneously the most demanding test of a DJ's musicality and the most complete expression of their artistic identity. An all-night-long Cox set at [UNVRS] is not simply a longer version of a standard set: it is a different kind of musical experience entirely, structured over many hours, beginning at one emotional register and moving through the full arc of what Cox's music can express before arriving somewhere that a two-hour set simply does not have the time to reach.

BPM Magazine confirmed specifically: "Extended open-to-close performances scheduled for both the opening and closing parties." Two dates across the season where the full depth of Cox's capability is deployed without interruption or time constraint, and the Ibiza Sunday night belongs entirely to him.

Surprise Guests and Unannounced B2Bs

For the remaining 14 Sundays across the season, the [UNVRS] format builds around surprise special guests and unannounced B2B collaborations that are not pre-announced but revealed on the night or in the days immediately before. DJ Magazine confirmed that Carl Cox unveiled the main room lineups for the summer 2026 residency in late February 2026, with the specific guests announced on a rolling basis through the season.

The B2B format holds particular appeal in the Cox context. His position at the intersection of house, techno, and the underground electronic music that spans both means that the range of artists with whom a B2B is musically coherent is extraordinary: from established legends of his own generation to the most forward-looking producers of the current generation whose music Cox has been championing on Intec and in his sets for years.

The phrase "expect the unexpected, always" is both a personal Cox mantra and an accurate description of what 16 Sundays at [UNVRS] will deliver in 2026. When a DJ whose career spans four decades and whose musical range runs from deep house through acid techno through minimal and back again promises the unexpected, the credibility behind that promise is substantial.

"House, Techno, and Beyond": The Musical Philosophy

The official description of the Carl Cox Sundays at [UNVRS] uses a phrase that encapsulates his entire career in three words: "House, Techno, and Beyond."

The "beyond" is the most important word. Cox has spent four decades resisting the genre boxes that the music industry creates and the press applies. His sets have always drawn freely across the spectrum of dance music, connecting soul and funk roots to Chicago house to Detroit techno to acid to minimal to contemporary underground productions in a flow that makes the genre labels feel inadequate rather than descriptive.

The [UNVRS] format is specifically designed to accommodate this breadth. Magic Ibiza's description of the Sunday residency philosophy makes the point directly: "long sets, genre-spanning selections, and a dancefloor driven by experience rather than trends." The phrase "driven by experience rather than trends" is the key: Cox's selections are the product of 40 years of accumulated musical knowledge rather than responsiveness to what is currently popular, and the resulting sets have a depth and historical layering that sets them apart from almost any contemporary DJ you could name.

BPM Magazine describes the Sunday residency in terms that capture the full picture: "The residency is built around marathon sets and carefully curated lineups reflecting Cox's approach to house and techno," adding that "Sunday nights at [UNVRS] continue as a space where Cox's influence, spanning genres, generations and technological shifts, finds expression through extended performances and communal experience."

[UNVRS]: The Stage that Cox's Legacy Requires

[UNVRS] (formerly DC10), located at Urbanización San Rafael near San Antoni de Portmany, provides the specific physical environment that Cox's musical ambitions require. Magic Ibiza is precise: "[UNVRS] provides the scale and sound system Carl Cox needs to do what he does best."

The 10,000-capacity floor area and the industrial architecture of the former DC10 building, transformed and upgraded for the [UNVRS] era by The Night League, give Cox's Sunday nights a spatial grandeur that matches the scale of his musical vision. The sound system, designed for this specific space and its dimensions, delivers bass at a physical intensity that Cox's house and techno requires to function at full force.

The DC10 legacy embedded in the building's history adds a specific resonance to Cox's presence within these walls. DC10's Circoloco parties were among the most important Sunday parties in Ibiza's history, and the Sunday slot at [UNVRS] consciously honors that tradition while updating it to the scale and technical standard of the new venue. Cox's own history with the island, spanning the same decades as DC10's most significant years, means that his Sunday presence at [UNVRS] connects the new venue's ambitions to the full breadth of what Ibiza's Sunday underground culture has been and means.

The Full 2026 Sunday Season: 16 Nights Confirmed

The confirmed Carl Cox at [UNVRS] Ibiza 2026 season runs across 16 consecutive Sunday nights:

• June: June 21 (Opening Night, all-night-long solo set)
• July: July 5, July 12, July 19, July 26
• August: August 2, August 9, August 16, August 23, August 30
• September: September 6, September 13, September 20, September 27
• October: October 4 (Closing Party, all-night-long solo set)

Doors open at 23:30 and nights run to close, with Carl Cox typically taking the booth from 03:00 for his primary set, supported by carefully curated opening and supporting artists across the earlier hours of the night.

The Opening Night: Sunday, June 21

The June 21 Opening Night is the most anticipated single Sunday event of the 2026 Ibiza season for the Cox faithful. An all-night-long solo Cox set on the first Sunday of the summer, in a 10,000-capacity hyperclub that experienced his 2025 debut season and is now welcoming him back with the mutual confidence of an established relationship, carries the specific energy of a genuine occasion.

Peak Season Sundays: July and August

The ten Sunday shows spanning July and August are the peak-demand dates of the season. The warmest nights, the fullest room, and the most intensive guest lineup announcements all cluster in these weeks. Advance ticket purchase is essential for any Sunday in July or August.

The Closing Party: Sunday, October 4

The October 4 Closing Party is the season's emotional culmination, with Cox's second all-night-long solo set of the year closing the 2026 chapter of a Sunday legacy that now extends well into its second decade of Ibiza history across two venue homes. In the island's closing-season atmosphere of early October, with the summer crowds thinning and the devoted regulars making up the majority of the dancefloor, a solo all-night Cox set is the most perfectly matched event imaginable.

Practical Guide to Attending Carl Cox at [UNVRS] 2026

Getting There

[UNVRS] Ibiza is at Urbanización San Rafael, s/n, 07816 Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza. The San Rafael location sits approximately 5 kilometers from both Ibiza Town and San Antonio, with taxi journeys of 8 to 15 minutes from either. Ibiza Airport (IBZ) is approximately 8 to 10 kilometers away, around 15 to 20 minutes by taxi.

The Disco Bus service connects the major Ibiza Town, San Antonio, and club corridor stops including [UNVRS], providing affordable night transport throughout the summer.

Tickets and Pricing

Official tickets are available through:

• unvrs.com (primary official source, confirmed)
• clubtickets.com (official ticketing partner)

Tickets from €70 per person. The opening night all-night-long solo set and the closing party are expected to carry the highest demand of the season. Advance purchase is strongly recommended for all July and August Sundays and both the opening and closing nights.

Entry Requirements

• Age: 18+ strictly enforced
• No flip-flops
• No beach shorts
• No swimwear
• No sports merchandise
• Smart casual is the appropriate standard

The [UNVRS] 2026 Full Weekly Program

The Carl Cox Sunday slot completes [UNVRS]'s extraordinary 2026 weekly lineup:

• Mondays: John Summit (Experts Only)
• Wednesdays: Jamie Jones' Paradise
• Thursdays: FISHER
• Fridays: David Guetta's Galactic Circus
• Saturdays: elrow (Enter the WORTEX)
• Sundays: Carl Cox

Verified Information at a Glance

Event Name: Carl Cox at [UNVRS] Ibiza 2026, Sunday Residency

Event Category: 16-week weekly DJ residency; house, techno, genre-spanning; late-night extended marathon sets

Day of Week: Every Sunday

Full Season Dates: June 21 / July 5, 12, 19, 26 / August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 / September 6, 13, 20, 27 / October 4, 2026

Total Shows: 16 consecutive Sunday nights

Opening Night Format: Sunday, June 21, 2026 — Carl Cox all-night-long solo set

Closing Party Format: Sunday, October 4, 2026 — Carl Cox all-night-long solo set

Remaining 14 Sundays: Surprise special guests and unannounced B2B collaborations

Venue: [UNVRS] Ibiza (formerly DC10), Urbanización San Rafael, s/n, 07816 Sant Antoni de Portmany, Ibiza, Spain

Venue Capacity: 10,000+

Doors: 23:30 to Close (Carl Cox typically from 03:00)

Ticket Prices: From €70

Residency Year at [UNVRS]: Year 2 (debut 2025 after years away from island)

Previous Ibiza Residency: Space Ibiza: 15 consecutive years (2001 to 2016)

Carl Cox Born: July 29, 1962, Barbados; raised Crawley, England

DJ Career Began: 1985

DJ Mag #1 Ranking: Three consecutive years: 1999, 2000, 2001

Labels: Intec Records, Space Music

Cox's Mantra: "Expect the unexpected, always"

Official Ticketing: unvrs.com, clubtickets.com

Age Restriction: 18+

Nearest Airport: Ibiza Airport (IBZ), approximately 8 to 10 km / 15 to 20 minutes by taxi

When Carl Cox opens his mouth in the booth on the night of June 21 and the two words that have preceded four decades of his finest performances ring across [UNVRS]'s 10,000-capacity floor, the second chapter of his Sunday residency at the island's hyperclub will begin with exactly the same message it has always carried: the night is his, the room belongs to everyone, and what is about to happen is going to be worth every moment you waited for it. Sixteen Sundays, two all-night solo sets, a season of unannounced guests and unexpected musical turns, and the man who defined what Sunday night in Ibiza can be, doing it again with the full authority of everything he has ever been: that is what [UNVRS] is offering from June 21 to October 4, 2026. Oh yes. Oh yes.

Swedish House Mafia at Ushuaïa Ibiza, Sundays 2026: The Trio's Most Ambitious Ibiza Summer Yet

There are moments in electronic music history that function as permanent markers, before and after points that everyone present remembers with complete sensory clarity. Swedish House Mafia's history with Ibiza is built entirely from those moments, accumulated across more than two decades on an island that has served simultaneously as the backdrop and the amplifier for some of the most significant events in the modern era of dance music.

In 2026, the trio of Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso return for what is, by any measure, their most ambitious Ibiza project to date: a 12-week Sunday residency at Ushuaïa Ibiza running from June 28 to September 13, 2026, marking the fifth time Swedish House Mafia have headlined the world's number one open-air club, and the longest consecutive residency they have ever held on the island.

The official announcement from the trio leaves no doubt about what this means to them personally:

"Ibiza has always been a big part of our story and returning to the island to headline Ushuaïa Ibiza feels like coming home. Our fans mean everything to us, and this wouldn't be possible without them. We can't wait to return and come together to make new memories later this summer."

Twelve Sundays. Open-air Mediterranean skies. Five o'clock sunshine that transitions through golden hour into a full evening sky, with the ocean visible from the Playa d'en Bossa beach that lines the venue's eastern edge. And the music of a group whose combined streaming and radio numbers run into the billions, played live by the three people who made it, on the stage they know better than any other in the world.

Swedish House Mafia: Two Decades of Defining the Global Dance Music Conversation

Swedish House Mafia was formed from three separate careers that were already individually significant when the trio first came together under the collective name.

Axwell (Axel Christofer Hedfors), Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso are each Swedes who came up through the progressive house and electro house world of the early 2000s, individually building reputations as producers and DJs before the chemistry between them as a collective became too powerful to remain informal. The Swedish House Mafia name gave a single identity to something that the dance music world had already been experiencing piece by piece: the convergence of three distinct talents into something that was larger than the sum of its parts.

Their catalogue of recordings represents one of the most commercially successful and sonically influential bodies of work in electronic music:

• "Don't You Worry Child" (featuring John Martin): peaked #1 in multiple countries globally, reaching the UK Singles Chart top position and generating hundreds of millions of streams
• "Save the World": one of the defining festival anthems of the early 2010s, with the call-and-response energy that defined their live show for years
• "One" (featuring Pharrell Williams): a collaboration that bridged the gap between their underground credibility and mainstream commercial culture at the highest level
• "Finally" (featuring Alicia Keys): a 2022 release that marked their return with a musical collaboration that placed them at the center of popular music discourse
• "Heaven Takes You Home": a more recent release carrying the SHM sound into its 3.0 era
• Multiple remixes and solo releases through Axwell's solo catalog, Sebastian Ingrosso's work with Alesso and Tommy Trash, and Steve Angello's SIZE Records output that collectively demonstrate the breadth of the trio's individual and combined musical range

They are GRAMMY-nominated and have achieved milestones that no electronic music act had previously reached. Their 2022 comeback included a headline performance at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York City, making them the first electronic act ever to headline the venue where the US Open tennis championship is played. The 3.0 era launched with a show at the world's largest bullring in Mexico City before moving to New York and then a New Year's Eve headline set at San Francisco's Pier 80.

These are not the career statistics of a nostalgia act revisiting past glories. They are the statistics of a group operating at the front of global entertainment culture in 2026, bringing the full weight of their history and the creative ambition of their current era to Ibiza's most prestigious outdoor stage every Sunday for 12 weeks.

The 3.0 Era: What Ushuaïa Ibiza Will Look Like on Sundays

The SHM 3.0 era is the framing concept for the entire 2026 residency, and the production aesthetic it brings to Ushuaïa is specific, ambitious, and unlike anything the trio has presented on the island before.

The official Ushuaïa announcement describes it precisely: "Each week they'll showcase a bold new visual identity as part of the group's 3.0 era. Events designed for the audience to lose themselves in the timeless music and cinematic production."

Find Your Sounds provides the most detailed production description: "a brutalist aesthetic paired with cinematic production inspired by fashion and architecture." The brutalist architectural reference is a significant creative choice: brutalism, with its emphasis on raw material, structural honesty, and monumental scale, is a visual language that creates an immediate tension with the warmth and color of the Mediterranean outdoor environment at Ushuaïa. That tension, between the raw and the beautiful, between the architectural monument and the Ibiza sky, is exactly the kind of visual dialogue that production teams at SHM's scale have the resources and imagination to create.

Rave Jungle describes the overall 2026 Ushuaïa presentation as operating "within an evolving artistic vision that finds new expression through cinematic production, fashion-forward aesthetics and architectural design." For an audience attending a Sunday SHM show at Ushuaïa in the peak of the 2026 Ibiza summer, the visual experience will be as deliberately designed and as consciously executed as the music itself.

Ushuaïa Ibiza: The World's Best Open-Air Stage

Ushuaïa Ibiza sits at the northern end of Playa d'en Bossa, Ibiza's longest and most fully serviced beach strip, in the Tower Hotel complex that is integrated with the venue. The venue earned the DJ Mag #1 open-air club ranking in 2025, confirming what its regular attendees have argued for years: that the combination of its production infrastructure, its architectural staging, its open-air Mediterranean setting, and its programming ambition makes it the finest outdoor club experience in the world.

The specific qualities that make Ushuaïa the right venue for SHM's 3.0 era production are those of scale, visual opportunity, and crowd relationship. The stage faces the crowd across a substantial outdoor floor area with no roof above either performer or audience, meaning that the sky itself becomes a production element as the afternoon light transitions through sunset into evening across the three hours between 17:00 and 23:00. The LED screens and structural stage elements are designed for this outdoor scale, and the visual impact of a production at Ushuaïa at dusk, with the Mediterranean sea visible beyond the venue's perimeter and the Dalt Vila UNESCO old city of Ibiza Town rising on the western horizon, is simply not reproducible indoors.

Playa d'en Bossa itself extends for approximately 3 kilometers southward from the Ushuaïa end, with hotels, beach clubs, restaurants, and bars lining the entire strip. Hï Ibiza sits further along the same beach strip, making Playa d'en Bossa the most concentrated multi-venue area on the island and a natural base for anyone centering their Ibiza visit around the Sunday SHM shows.

SHM and Ibiza: A History Measured in Landmark Nights

The relationship between Swedish House Mafia and Ibiza long precedes the Ushuaïa era. All three members first came to the island individually as DJs in the 2000s, playing at venues across the island as their solo careers were building momentum. As a collective, the SHM name became part of the island's identity at a time when the convergence of European progressive house with the island's longer electronic music heritage was producing something new.

The Ushuaïa chapter specifically began with headline performances in 2022 and 2023, followed by a six-date residency in 2024 that served as a proof of concept for the longer 2026 commitment. The 2026 residency of 12 consecutive Sundays is described by every source as the largest and most ambitious Ibiza project they have undertaken, and the fifth headline appearance at Ushuaïa is confirmation that the relationship between the trio and the venue has reached a level of mutual trust and shared ambition that produces a different quality of show than a one-off performance ever could.

The Full 2026 Sunday Season: 12 Consecutive Shows

The confirmed Swedish House Mafia at Ushuaïa Ibiza 2026 Sunday season runs across 12 consecutive Sundays:

June: June 28 (Opening Night)

July: July 5, July 12, July 19, July 26

August: August 2, August 9, August 16, August 23, August 30

September: September 6, September 13 (Closing Night)

Shows run from 17:00 to 23:00 every Sunday: the entire experience takes place in the late afternoon and evening, with the music beginning in full summer sunshine and ending under an Ibiza night sky.

The Opening Night: Sunday, June 28

The June 28 Opening Night is the moment the 2026 chapter of SHM at Ushuaïa begins, with the full 3.0 era production unveiled to an Ibiza audience for the first time. The last weekend of June in Ibiza falls within the island's early-peak season: warm enough for full open-air commitment, early enough in the summer that the energy of the season's arrival is still fresh in the crowd.

Peak Season Sundays: July and August

The ten Sunday shows across July and August take the residency through the absolute peak of the Ibiza summer: the hottest days, the most visitors on the island, and the full-capacity open-air experience that Ushuaïa Ibiza at its peak represents. These are the highest-demand dates of the season and the shows most likely to sell out earliest.

The Closing Night: Sunday, September 13

The September 13 Closing Night ends the residency at the beginning of Ibiza's transition out of its summer peak, with the island entering the quieter, more intimate atmosphere of mid-September. Closing nights carry a specific emotional weight for regular SHM fans, and the final Sunday of a 12-week run has the full accumulated energy of everything that came before it.

The Ushuaïa 2026 Sunday Context

The SHM Sunday residency sits within Ushuaïa's 2026 weekly programming that also features:

• ANTS: every Saturday (May 2 to October 3)
• Calvin Harris: Tuesdays and Fridays (confirmed return)
• Tomorrowland presents Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike: Wednesdays (May 6 to September 30)
• Martin Garrix: Thursdays (July 2 to September 24, 11th consecutive season)
• David Guetta's F* ME I'M FAMOUS!: Mondays (June 1 to October 5)

The Sunday SHM slot completes what is the most impressive single-week outdoor programming roster Ushuaïa has assembled in its history, with six days of the week covered by headline names who each represent a defining strand of global dance music culture.

Practical Guide to Attending SHM at Ushuaïa 2026

Getting There

Ushuaïa Ibiza is located at Bulevar Padre Pinya, 2, 07817 Playa d'en Bossa, Ibiza. Ibiza Airport (IBZ) is approximately 4 to 5 kilometers away, a 10-minute taxi journey. From Ibiza Town, approximately 10 to 15 minutes by taxi. The beach strip itself is walkable from multiple Playa d'en Bossa hotels.

Tickets and VIP

Official tickets are available through:

• theushuaiaexperience.com (official Ushuaïa website, primary source)
• clubtickets.com (official ticketing partner)

VIP table bookings are available through the official Ushuaïa website. Tickets are confirmed on sale now. Peak summer Sunday shows (July and August) are expected to sell out in advance, and early booking is strongly recommended.

Show Format and What to Expect

The 17:00 to 23:00 format makes the Swedish House Mafia Sunday fundamentally different from the late-night indoor residencies elsewhere on the island. Guests typically arrive during the afternoon hours, with the full daytime warmth of the Ibiza summer adding a specific energy to the early part of the show that transitions as the light changes across the set. Arriving at or shortly after 17:00 provides the full sunset-to-night arc of the outdoor production.

Entry Requirements

• Age: 18+ strictly enforced
• No flip-flops
• No beach shorts
• No swimwear
• No sports merchandise
• Smart casual; the open-air afternoon format suits light summer dress

Verified Information at a Glance

Item: Confirmed details

Event Name: Swedish House Mafia at Ushuaïa Ibiza 2026, Sunday Residency

Event Category: 12-week weekly headline residency; progressive house, electro house, anthemic EDM; cinematic open-air production

Day of Week: Every Sunday

Full Season Dates: June 28 / July 5, 12, 19, 26 / August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 / September 6, 13, 2026

Total Shows: 12 consecutive Sunday nights

Opening Night: Sunday, June 28, 2026

Closing Night: Sunday, September 13, 2026

Venue: Ushuaïa Ibiza, Bulevar Padre Pinya 2, 07817 Playa d'en Bossa, Ibiza, Spain (DJ Mag #1 Open-Air Club 2025)

Show Hours: 17:00 to 23:00 (afternoon into evening, open-air)

Members: Axwell (Axel Christofer Hedfors), Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso

Creative Concept: 3.0 era: brutalist aesthetic, cinematic production inspired by fashion and architecture; bold new visual identity each week

Previous Ushuaïa Appearances: 2022, 2023 (headline performances); 2024 (6-date residency); 2026 (12-week residency = 5th headline)

Key Tracks: "Don't You Worry Child," "Save the World," "One" ft. Pharrell, "Finally" ft. Alicia Keys, "Heaven Takes You Home

Historic Milestone: First electronic act to headline Arthur Ashe Stadium, New York City

Awards: GRAMMY-nominated

Age Restriction: 18+

Dress Code: No flip-flops, beach shorts, swimwear, or sports merchandise

Official Ticketing: theushuaiaexperience.com, clubtickets.com

Nearest Airport: Ibiza Airport (IBZ), approximately 4 to 5 km from Ushuaïa / 10 minutes by taxi

Twelve Sundays in the Ibiza summer between June 28 and September 13, with the afternoon sun turning the Playa d'en Bossa sky into the most beautiful natural backdrop any outdoor stage in the world can offer, and the three members of Swedish House Mafia delivering the 3.0 era's most ambitious production yet to a crowd standing beneath it: this is not simply a residency announcement. It is the confirmation that the group that helped define what Ibiza sounds like in the modern era has come home to the island, to the venue that knows them best, for the longest and most deeply committed version of that homecoming they have ever offered. The Sunday that was already the best day of the week just became something more.