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“If it were me I would go twice as ‘ard twice as shocking.” – Jean Paul Gaultier

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“Manumission was the pinnacle of a certain kind of hedonism. It was the moment when Ibiza was truly the centre of the world for that kind of energy.

Manumission was the club.

It was all about music but it was also quite sexy. We were there in this Manumission Motel with all these dancers. It was an extraordinary time.” – Groove Armada

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GOT A GREAT MANUMISSION, MOTEL OR CARRY ON STORY?

Did you have High Times in 90s Ibiza!?

Are you - in the words of Truman Capote's Holly Golightly, top banana in the shock department 🍌

The book is almost complete. Praise the Lord!!! We are giving a final call out for tasty anecdotes before delivering the manuscript to our publisher

If you have an astounding, extraordinary Manumission, Motel or Carry On story that you think should be included in the memoir ~

The Motel by Claire Manumission

DM me now friends & … ⏳️ xx or forever hold your peace baby 💋

Dearest Friends & Moteliers,

Our minds pirouette between the past and what lays ahead, suerte y amor para el nuevo año 2024! Two years writing the memoir! As one year blends with another we find ourselves on the final stretch ~ Hallelujah!
The chapters are richer ~ ever ramping up in pace, drama & action. As a result the writing has taken longer than we initially hoped.

Just like the creation & delivery of its subject matter ~ writing THE MOTEL: High Times In 90’s Ibiza, has been an around-the-clock funny, sad, stimulating, exhausting & at times maddening endeavour.

Recent chapters included stories built on extensive research, fact checking & interviews with the inmates and intimate circle of Manumission and the Motel.

This book is intended to be an entertaining yet truthful time capsule honestly reflecting on the lives and adventures of a nonconformist tribe. In the hope that if it is picked up 200 years from now it might be viewed as an anthropological study. A guide to an alternative way of life. God knows how repressed people will be in the future or what more freedoms will be taken away!?

The finale sees Howard Marks, & .welsh & Monkey Mafia, entangle with the massive from entertainers to , music industry darlings & fresh faced DJs as the sweat drips off the low slung ceiling of the pink p***y strip joint, the rooftop shantytown swells into existence & secrets and stimulants are shared in the graffiti stained corridors. Some fall in love over the wheels of steel. The rest of us fall into a psychedelic black spot…

In the words of publisher : ‘As one of the few people so far to read the Motel I know that it will be looked upon as the great 90s memoir. No other book comes close to capturing the spirit of those times in the way that Claire has managed.’

With tears in my eyes here's to Happy Endings and New Beginnings.

Abrazos muy fuertes, from Mike & yours truly ~ The Manumission Mrs xx

A nice excerpt from our book 'The Motel' published in VICE. Photography by kind permission of . Photographs originally shot for The Face magazine back in the summer of 98. Essential reading if you ever wanted to know how to get hold of something you are told you cannot have!!! 🙏🏻💗 In our case it just happened to be a little pink roadside Motel! Xx

Manumission Motel: How I Built the Iconic 90s Ibiza Club The builders told me they'd need "a big bag of coke – a very big bag."

Thank you DJ Mag - it's always a pleasure to be in your fine company.

Claire Manumission has written a memoir, The Motel: High Times in ‘90s Ibiza "With club culture currently under the spell of VIP service, corporate sponsoring and branding, The Motel is a timely reminder that life in Ibiza wasn't always that way"