Ibiza Rocks surprises with the British revelation, but there’s an even more exciting promise: LCD Soundsystem
This year they’ve outdone themselves.  Ibiza Rocks gives us (ahem… the tickets aren’t exactly cheap) a concert by this year’s biggest rock revelation, Arctic Monkeys.  And as if that wasn’t enough, the dance scene’s equivalent: LCD Soundsystem.  The rest of the programme also calls us along to the Bar M in San Antonio to remember that music is live.

And later they say there are no concerts in Ibiza.  Although only in summer, the programme of Ibiza Rocks at the Bar M in San Antonio turns our island into a launch pad for present indie rock, especially British.  If in the last two years we’ve had Kaiser Chiefs, Hot Hot Heat, Juliette Lewis and The Licks, The Streets (the best of current Hip Hop, it’s not only about Rock) or the unstoppable Babyshambles of Pete Doherty (drugs aside, he’s one of the best lyricists around; anyone who can listen to “Fuck forever” or “Albion” without feeling something, has no feelings)…, well this year they’ve outdone themselves: on 1^st September the Arctic Monkeys are playing, the cockiest and most sarcastic band of the moment.  At just 20 years old, they’re insultingly good.  Neither The Strokes nor Pete Doherty’s first band, The Libertines, with whom the Arctic Monkeys have been compared, caused as much impact with their respective first albums as these Sheffield lads.  And most of all, it’s been a while since we’ve seen a band so hungry as to eat the world when they get up on stage.
The other big stars on the billboard have nothing to do with British indie, although they may share the punk spirit: LCD Soundsystem, the most explosive merger of rock and dance ever seen (with permission of !!! or Chk Chk Chk).  If the recordings of these North-Americans leave nobody indifferent, their concerts are the cream off the milk – the Lord of the Manor, as I’m short of adjectives today – an “orgasmic experience” (or “cosmic happening”).  From punk-funk to acid house, passing through the fire-cracker of a track; “Tribulations”.  Anyway, if it serves as a recommendation, we’re sure that it’ll be the best concert on the island since Moby and Leftfield visited Privilege in 1999.
LCD Soundsystem will shake San Antonio on the 18^th July.  But there are still other dates which are more than recommendable: the 19^th June, the Ibiza Rocks programme kicks-off with The View; the 10^th July, other specialists in making rock a dance orgy: the Brazilians, Cansei de Ser Sexy; Noel Gallagher’s favourite group, Kasabian, is giving two performances, the 17^th and 18^th July;  on the 31^st, The Enemy’s turn; on the 7^th August, pure hedonism with Mika, who’s been compared to Freddie Mercury; and the 3^rd and 4^th September, the fresh and hyper-vitamin pop of the Scottish The Fratellis.