Late last night the following news reached us:
Sophie Mac, who last summer turned Delano Beach Club from an ALL-TIME-EMPTY space into a respectable venue with a growing number of fans, and who invest all her vision, contacts, knowledge and experience in this venue, is not anymore the director of Delano.
As Sophie informed us last night the Ibicencan company she was working for and that owns the building at Playa d’en Bossa had fired her and her crew with a four-line email.
Here is the personal statement from Sophie Mac, published on Facebook:
“Like passionate summer romances and Mac book chargers, some of the best things in life are only destined to last for 1 season. Curve-balls can be thrown at even the most professional players, and sometimes in the great game of life: you win some, and then you lose some.
Thus it is with heavy hearts, much regret, though little surprise, that we have to inform you all that the crew @ Delano are no more.
No! Wait – we're not dead. Just been casually tossed aside by the venue owners in their quest for Bossa domination. After only one short season at the reins it looks like local short-sightedness and apparent (alleged?) greed has unfortunately floored us at the first hurdle.
No more legendary burgers, no more Sunday roasts, no more blissful tunes, heavenly cocktails and dirty late night raving. At least not in that particular bar.
It is of course, impossible to keep a good man (or woman) down, and your favourite beach-side bar crew members will no doubt be surfacing this summer in various different guises. Keep an eye out for us, as we will for you, and until we next see you, may we just all send you our most sincere thanks for all your support in 2009. We had a blast and it certainly looked like you did too. In the words of the Space billboard...Muchas Gracias a Todos”.
For islanders and insiders it seems that someone wants to pick the cherries out of the dough that Sophie had prepared so well. But with this image the owners will do hard to get back the many loyal friends and partners of Sophie, and being one of the most ambitioned club directors you can find on the island, she will quickly get up again and find a better job. Let’s see what she will have in store for us this upcoming summer, and just accept the fact that Delano is over!
