We've reached the halfway mark in our summer season and if last week was anything to go by, the arrival of August (and the Italians!) this week is set to be nothing less than a stampede here at We Love... Space!

The Detroit invasion in the Discoteca last week may have seemed like an attempt to deafen a few clubbers, but true to form, Jeff Mills and Derrick May were nothing short of brilliant. Loud, fast and brilliant. A big round of applause goes to We Love... resident Jem Haynes, who had the cavernous room filled up so fast we thought it was 3am already. He'll be back to do it again this week, and more times over the summer if you missed it.

And speaking even further of Jem - after the gig, we packed him up and shipped him off to the sunny shores of Montenegro to earn his keep, where he absolutely tore the room apart at our first ever We Love... event over there, saving the day by playing two sets when Serge Santiago failed to turn up for duty. Nice one!

Sing us a song, you're the piano man... well, err, actually, we'd rather you didn't - just keep on doing what you were doing! In case you weren't on hand to witness the spectacle we're talking about, the piano man in question is Francesco Tristano, who was twinkling the ivories alongside the legendary Carl Craig on the ones and twos (and iPads and drum machines and all kinds of other knob-twiddling devices). Goes without saying the highlights of their set were Strings of Life and The Bells, and our stark realisation that all the noises in The Bells come directly from a piano!

Following up such a performance is an extremely difficult job to say the least, so the baton was passed over to trusty We Lover... James Zabiela, who, despite feeling under the weather himself, absolutely rocked the Discoteca to the core...

Well, we're not afraid to say it... THANK GOD the football is over! It may have been pandemonium in the streets in Playa D'en Bossa (plus some slight hysteria in the Discoteca when the head of Space security started doing laps with a flag) as Spain took the cup, but here at We Love... HQ, we're just as happy to get back to the business of throwing parties.

Forget the Dutch - we reckon poor Lottie was the biggest victim of the sport, suffering a slow start for her only We Love... Space gig this year while waiting for the sports buffs to slowly trickle off the streets and into the club. Sorry Lottie! An hour later, it was a completely different story as Chew The Fat!'s wonderkid Foamo played to the best reception we've seen in the room to date, followed by a blinding (and bleeping) set by Steve Aoki, who despite his promises wasn't wearing his Spanish footy jersey... again we say thank god - the guy's an LA fashion icon, so we'd hope he never embraces the hooligan look!

It was a storming week at We Love... last week and we're certainly not making small talk about the weather here. Taking no prisoners as usual was Ivan Smagghe - who also wants a new rule for clubs in Ibiza to allow people with no teeth to enter for free, or at the very least stop mocking the poor (we wonder what he's getting at?). Jas and James from Simian Mobile Disco absolutely destroyed the disco, followed by a fantastic finish by Deepgroove who closed with their own amazing re-edit of Gorillaz' Dare.

Other highlights included seeing 2manydjs actually crack a smile - it was Steph's 40th after all - while seriously churning through their tunes at high speed, Heidi rocking it (or more appropriately, jacking it) and the Black Rabbits causing mayhem in El Salon with American import Shaun Reeves. And if you weren't there to catch part of the seven-hour b2b marathon on the roof from Ian Blevins and Jamie Fatneck, we suggest you head up there this week for the sequel!...

Ask anyone in our office, and they'll merely gloat (or lapse into a dreamy reverie) when telling you about just how freaking amazing Prins Thomas was when he made his We Love... debut last weekend. WOW. In fact, it's even been cited that just being in his presence was like being among cosmic royalty, as some of our star-struck resident DJs will attest to! Meanwhile, right next door, El Salon at the hands of the Tirk crew, became a nu-disco inferno - be sure to check them out when they return in July.

Not to be outdone by anyone, Jesse Rose rocked the room with a high tempo fusion of classics, ska and bouncy bouncy house! Over in the Discoteca, the dance floor was being torn apart by young jozif during the early set, warming up for the swish Swedish duo of Minilogue. Taking it up yet another notch, just when we thought it wasn't possible, was Joris Voorn, who had the club in the palm of his hands for his welcome return as our exclusive resident. Have we mentioned it's good to be back?

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