FISHER at [UNVRS] – Thursdays 2026

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.