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Nylon
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Nylon
Destination Pacha Ibiza and Destino Five Ibiza — Defected returns with new residences taking the stage
By Susan Hansen Visited by people from across the globe, the cosmopolitan Balearic island of Ibiza is a focal point of Mediterranean culture, nightlife, luxury and culinary adventures. With an array of bustling activity, summer in Ibiza is a treat, a multifaceted work and holiday location that offers a dream-like range of offers for any traveller or working professional. Defected at Pacha Ibiza. Most notably, it's world-famous for its outstanding nightlife and club scene, plus its track record of hosting the greatest DJs in the world is unrivalled. This month Defected returns to Pacha Ibiza, taking over on Thursday, 7th August. The pulsating lineup includes Sam Divine b2b Monki, Groove Armada DJ set, Prunk, Todd Edwards and The Menendez Brothers. Inside Pacha Ibiza Paradiso. An international club powerhouse with a history spanning 25 years, Defected has been instrumental in shaping the development of house music through a dedicated community of more than 10 million fans around the world. The following day, Music On offers a string of techno house talent, as Marco Carola, Luciano, Loco Dice, Prospa and Yugo Sanchez deliver iconic sets of high-octane energy to elevate and keep the dance floor moving. Located on Playa Pacha is luxury resort Destino Five Ibiza. A striking complex overlooking the idyllic surroundings of the town Destino, the hotel is a hotspot where guests are free to immerse themselves in the Bohemian vibes fuelled by The Pacha Group's remarkable legacy. Destino Five Ibiza Resort Overview. A lavish hub for DJs and the broadest palette of travellers, the resort provides the perfect spot for party-goers who need the convenience of easy access to spa treatments and breath-taking views. In similar fashion, culinary delights are set to enhance visits, alongside standout accommodations like the Cherry Vista Suites with expansive private terraces with XL pools. Destino Five Ibiza Cherry Suite with XL Pool. The combination of sunny, feel-good vibes and the irresistible setting makes this entire experience a must-have and a Mediterranean destination like no other. Discover more at their official websites: Pacha Ibiza and Destino Five Ibiza. Photos courtesy Pacha Ibiza and Destino Five Ibiza.
BBC News
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Groove Armada's Andy Cato says farming needs to be 'cool'
Andy Cato, DJ and one half of electronic music group Groove Armada, has told the BBC he is doing his best to make farming "cool" as he promotes regenerative practices as the tenant of a National Trust the farm on the Wiltshire-Oxfordshire border he said: "We need to live in a world where farming and food is cool and aspirational."Cato's style of farming involves trying to reverse biodiversity loss while still growing food and making it economically said it has not come without problems, calling over a decade of farming in France prior to the current farm a "humbling" experience. "There are a lot of days when I think I'm just going to play records on the beach in Ibiza, someone else can sort this out"What keeps me going is that we have a solution here to so many of the existing problems that we face - from health, to climate, to biodiversity. Once you've seen its potential, you can't really walk away from it," he farming aims to reintroduce microbes, nutrients and carbon back into the way of doing this includes planting different crops side by side and also sewing "cover" crops, which protect the soil between harvests to retain organic content. The star's journey into farming started when he was coming back from a gig and was handed a leaflet discussing the modern food going down a "rabbit hole" Cato took a big risk - selling his music publishing rights and bought a farm in France."Everything went completely wrong - a very humbling experience. {It was} a decade and a half long, often a quite painful journey of experimentation."It left an indelible mark not only on how hard farming is, but how lonely it is," he said adding that there are big decisions to made with just one opportunity a year to "set your course". Cato has now created a group of regenerative farmers called explained there is often a thought that "if you want more nature, you need less food", but does not see that this has to be case."We live in a world where it's a £7 pint and a £1 loaf - why are we valuing those things so differently?" Despite the challenges, Cato said: "There's no more fulfilling, exciting or intellectually challenging way to spend your time than combining nature and food production."That is after he has spent much of his life "standing on some of the worlds biggest stages and having a great time".
Irish Times
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
I'm a millennial and serial renter, but I've found a way to put down roots
To all the millennials who used to dance in the local nightclub to Better Off Alone by Alice Deejay, or Believe by Cher , or Superstylin' by Groove Armada: hey, how are you? How are your gardens doing? Invested in a rain butt yet? It's funny how we once used to lie to our parents about going to the cinema and instead dice with alcohol poisoning in fields, but now get excited when a friend gets a new air fryer so we can compare basket capacity. I have a favourite spatula. Sometimes I treat myself to brand name kitchen roll. You get older, and interests change. I am an elder millennial and I'm in my gardening era. At this age one naturally bends towards one or more of the big four: wine knowledge, gardening, running or birds. This summer I've chosen plants and, more specifically, I've become a clematis bore. Chances are, if you left your house right now and walked around outside, you'd never be further than six feet from a clematis. They're like the beautiful, climbing, flowering rats of the plant world. People love to coax them up and around doorways, along trellises, across walls. READ MORE I've rented in Dublin for more tha 20 years, which means I've never put down literal roots. The permanence of planting versus the impermanence of renting results in a reluctance to invest time and, more importantly, money into a garden that you can't take with you when you go. I've lived in my current rental for over six years and have never gone further than some halfhearted supermarket planters. Last year I attempted an evergreen in a large pot, but it swiftly died and revealed itself to be a never green. I'm limited to pots because my outside space consists only of paving slabs, no soil. I dream of nothing more than a patch of grass, but the internet tells me that planting grass seed on top of concrete is a fool's errand. Grass will only ever grow over concrete if you don't want it to. I took a notion this summer to put some of the cognitive dissonance of gardening in a rental aside and decided I needed a clematis to add some beauty to the grim glass and tubular railings that are so reminiscent of Celtic Tiger shopping-centre-as-home-design chic. I did this with the understanding that I would a) need to invest in quite a large pot, and b) if I ever leave, I won't be able to wrench the clematis tendrils from their forever home and must entrust it to the next tenant. And sure look, the way things are going I might be here forever. [ Balcony bounty: Easy-grow herbs and salads that thrive in small spaces Opens in new window ] Turning to the internet for advice is often like going for a swim in the Sea of Conflation. Everyone who's ever grown a clematis and posted about it online is sure that their way is the only way, forgetting about the myriad factors – climate, soil, aspect, expertise, patience – that led to their success. I allowed myself to become completely bamboozled about pot size and soil type, never mind that there are about 800 varieties of clematis. I turned to the internet gardeners of TikTok and YouTube for some more solid advice. The internet gardeners I favour are comforting dad figures, amalgamations of 1990s gardening icons Gerry Daly from Greenfingers and Alan Titchmarsh from Ground Force. Remember Ground Force? I guarantee if you bring it up to anyone the first thing they'll mention is presenter Charlie Dimmock's penchant for going braless for comfort on the show. How thrilled the expert horticulturalist must be to have that as her legacy. My clematis – variety unknown because I prematurely binned the little tag that came with it – has been in situ for about two weeks now. I've given her as sizeable a pot as I was willing to purchase and taken heed of the 'cold feet, warm head' rule – she likes her roots cool but lots of sun on her vines and leaves. I got her a trellis to climb. I go out and check on her every day like a lunatic and she's currently promising two flowers, so I have the hospital bag ready to go for whenever she pops. [ 'How can I make my wisteria and clematis-clad wall look less bare in winter?' Opens in new window ] She's not alone out there either. A fuchsia I'd given up on sprang back to life and I added a friend from the sale section in B&Q. There's a miniature rose bush doing its best, along with something that is possibly a weed but its lovely and green so it can stay. Next stop, Chelsea Flower Show.
Irish Times
03-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Blindboy comes out on his phone at All Together Now 2025: ‘I'm showing my mum this many people actually showed up'
Festivalgoers are being kind to themselves on the final day of All Together Now after burning the candle at both ends on Friday and Saturday at the Curraghmore Estate, in Co Waterford. Part of that means charging their phones despite an €8 fee, as well as an almost half-hour wait to reach the top of the queue – the price, it seems, of staying in contact with tentmates and the outside world. Loud huffing and puffing is coming from one not-so-happy camper towards the front of the line, who tells The Irish Times that his battery was on 15 per cent when he joined the wait and is now down to 3 per cent. 'It's a bit of an oxymoron' to call it a phone-charging queue, he says. Campers are also flocking to the showers after perhaps not washing for two or three days; others are buying breakfast burritos and iced coffees in a pavilion that, only a few hours earlier, was thumping with beats provided by Groove Armada. READ MORE At noon, as the comedian and podcaster Blindboy takes to the festival's second-biggest stage, in the Something Kind of Wonderful tent, he apologises to the crowd for being on his phone as he came out. 'I'm showing my mum that this many people actually showed up,' he tells the thousands of people sitting in front of him. It's impressive when any act draws such a large crowd, but particularly so when the artist is first up on the day's time sheet and will be talking about social issues such as inequality and the effects of toxic masculinity. He earns chuckles by asking the crowd if they have 'sore heads and sore bums' before reading them his short story I'll Give You Barcelona. The audience are listening to his every word. All Together Now 2025: Blindboy in the Something Kind of Wonderful Tent. Photograph: Stephen Conneely Nelly Furtado , the Canadian singer whose first big song was I'm Like a Bird, in 2000, which she followed up with a string of other hits, will be on the main stage on Sunday night to close out the final day of All Together Now 2025. When she was in Ireland last year, she ended her set at the Forbidden Fruit festival with a mash-up of her song Say It Right with Glue, by Bicep , the Belfast-born, London-based techno duo who headlined Saturday night at All Together Now with strong plays of Glue and other hits, such as Water and Apricots. It was their Chroma line-up – an audiovisual series that harmonises heavy techno with an intense light show – that really stood out. On Sunday afternoon, All Together Now campers are both hoping that Furtado will repeat her remix and eagerly awaiting their chance to scream 2000s hits at the top of their lungs.
Daily Mail
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Gary Lineker reopens war of words with the BBC, accusing it 'of having an agenda', before telling Glastonbury crowd 'Free Palestine'
Gary Lineker has reopened his feud with the BBC during an appearance on stage at Glastonbury - before calling out: 'Free Palestine.' The former England football captain, who signed off as Match Of The Day presenter after three decades last month, accused corporation chiefs of having 'lost their way'. Lineker, 64, quit his role as the BBC's best paid presenter a year ahead of schedule following his controversial sharing of an online post condemned as anti-Semitic. He has now suggested that people 'at the very top of the BBC' had 'an agenda', as he took part in a Q&A session at the music festival staged in Somerset this weekend. He was speaking during an on-stage conversation with Groove Armada DJ and farming advocate Andy Cato at the Glastonbury event on Saturday afternoon. Ex-England, Tottenham Hotspur and Barcelona striker Lineker, when asked about the BBC for whom he worked for 30 years, said: 'I think they have lost their way a little bit. 'There are thousands of brilliant people at the BBC but at the moment I don't think that's reflected right at the very top.' He also told of some sympathy, however, for the corporation's highest-profile official, saying: 'I feel for Tim Davie, the director-general, because I believe there are people above him that have an agenda.' Lineker was questioned in the Glastonbury session about his increasingly outspoken views on politics, which have attracted criticism and questions about BBC impartiality. The broadcaster, who co-runs lucrative podcast brand Goalhanger, said: 'I did have a very big platform and thought, what's the point if you don't use it - if you don't push beliefs that you believe to be right? 'I don't really use Twitter any more because it's become a hateful place, which is a shame really because I used to enjoy it, but I will keep posting on Instagram, so more of the same.' Lineker finished the Q&A encounter by saying he 'wanted to see Kneecap', the Irish rappers whose appearance at Glastonbury has attracted controversy - including calls from Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer for the BBC not to show their performance. The ex-footballer noted, however, that his own Glastonbury appearance on-stage clashed with their scheduled gig elsewhere on the site. Before departing, Lineker told his audience: 'Free Palestine.' Lineker faced a backlash last month after sharing on Instagram to his 1.2million followers a video from the group Palestine Lobby, featuring an emoji of a rat - a symbol that has been used in Nazi propaganda as an anti-Jewish smear. The former football star later issued an 'unreserved apology', saying: 'I would never knowingly share anything antisemitic. It goes against everything I believe in. The post was removed as soon as I became aware of the issue. 'Whilst I strongly believe in the importance of speaking out on humanitarian issues, including the tragedy unfolding in Gaza, I also know that how we do so matters. 'I take full responsibility for this mistake. 'That image does not reflect my views. It was an error on my part for which I apologise unreservedly.' Lineker's representative had earlier said: 'Whilst viewing and reposting a video, Gary did not notice a rodent emoticon added by the author of the post. 'Although if he had, he would not have made any connection. The repost has been removed.' He had previously announced he would be leaving his Saturday night presenting role at the end of the season just finished. He was originally meant to stay with the corporation long enough to host coverage of the 2025-2026 FA Cup and next year's World Cup. But following the controversy over his Instagram post, he told how they had reached an agreement for him to depart entirely 12 months from the end of his contract. His departure also meant the end of the licensing deal for his Goalhanger podcasts, The Rest Is Football and The Rest Is History, now leaving BBC Sounds this year. Announcing his exit in a BBC statement, Lineker said: 'Football has been at the heart of my life for as long as I can remember – both on the pitch and in the studio. 'I care deeply about the game, and about the work I've done with the BBC over many years. 'As I've said, I would never consciously repost anything antisemitic – it goes against everything I stand for. 'However, I recognise the error and upset that I caused, and reiterate how sorry I am. Stepping back now feels like the responsible course of action.' The BBC's director of sport Alex Kay-Jelski emailed staff minutes later, saying: 'I appreciate the last week has been difficult and emotional for many of you. 'Thank you for all the messages and conversations, even if some of them weren't easy to have. 'It is sad to be saying goodbye to such a brilliant broadcaster and I also want to thank Gary for his years of service'. Lineker has previously faced controversy for his political interventions which critics claim are breaches of BBC impartiality rules. These included accusing the previous Conservative Government of using anti-migrant language reminiscent of the Nazis. The most recent BBC accounts show he was the corporation's best paid presenter for the seventh successive year, receiving up to £1.35million in 2023-2024.
