How Ayia Napa became a clubbing capital

Witness History

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History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In the 1990s, Ayia Napa, in Cyprus, went from quiet fishing village to party resort.

The Kool Club was one of the first nightclubs to open in 1995.

Rachel Naylor speaks to founder and DJ Nick Power, the 'godfather of Ayia Napa'.

(Photo: The Kool Club, in Ayia Napa. Credit: Nick Power)

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0:00.0	He is Brian Cox.
0:02.8	Hello.
0:03.3	And he understands science.
0:05.3	I'm Robin Ince and I don't understand it quite so much.
0:09.0	Could it tell us something about the nature of matter?
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0:14.2	Together we'll be joined by a collection of experts and non-expert guests.
0:18.6	What's going on?
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0:21.7	Taking a look at some of the most wonderful things
0:24.4	in the scientific world.
0:25.9	Science with Funny Bits, The Infinite Monkey Cage on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. B.C. World Service and now the Witness History Podcast with me Rachel Naylor.
0:49.0	Grab your crew, your glow sticks and your alka pot or off raving in I and Apa. I'm taking you back to the 90s to when the Cypriot resort was just a quiet fishing
0:56.2	village long before it became a European clubbing capital. I've been speaking to the Godfather
1:02.1	of IANappa, the DJ who put it on the party map.
1:09.1	It's summer 1992 and British-born Cypriot Nick Power is on holiday in Iyanapa in Cyprus.
1:16.4	Sure it was pretty but there wasn't much of a party scene. There was a handful of clubs playing
1:22.3	mainly commercial music for Scandinavian tourists.
1:27.4	All the bars were tuning into the local radio station, which was Napa radio,
1:32.2	between the hours of midnight and 1.30 something like that.
1:35.6	Yo, give me something to dance.
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