Carl Cox recently announced he was leaving his spiritual home, Space Ibiza. Now in a recent interview he has revealed why.
In an interview posted yesterday by InTheMix Carl Cox has explained why next season will be his last at the Ibiza nightclub where has been a resident for 14 years. It turns out that Ushuaïa will take control of Space Ibiza in 2017 and Coxy does not want to be part of it..
“It’s not that I’m walking away from the club, because Pepe , the owner of Space, his contract is up at the club. He’s going to be 80 years old and will officially be out. It gets handed over to Ushuaïa Group across the road and its manager Jan will be given the keys to run Space. And once that happens, everything changes. So I have no desire to stay in that club for any reason.”
“They want me to stay from a business point of view – it makes sense for them, but it’s not what I want in my heart,” the 53-year-old said. “And if I was going to stay, I’ll tell you now, it’d only be because they were giving me one million euros to DJ. I’d be like “Wooo!” every night, I’d get up for 90 minutes to mix and pocket €1 million playing all the records from Beatport, and there would be as many VIP tables as possible. I’d be smiling all the way to the bank.
“But my heart tells me I will not ever do that – because if Pepe’s not there, I am not there. We grew up together, we’ve been all the way through this together, and we’re going to finish together. And I’m quite happy about that, because it means we leave the legacy of a club that made a difference. We can walk away with that – the legendary status of what used to happen at Space when we were there – because no one else can emulate that, it’s not possible.”
So it’s the end of an era, no more Pepe Rosello and Carl Cox at Space. We wonder how Ushuaïa will transform the club and what else will change in 2017, above all we plan to make the most of the 2016 season as we love Space just the way it is!
Original Source: InTheMix (brought to our attention by MixMag)