Le Meridien Mina Seyahi Beach Resort & Marina hosted Rod Steward and Spandau Ballet for the weekend on the 9th of May 2010.
Rod Steward featured left with Derryn French Director of Market Communications and Peter Alatsas General Manager.
Below Spandau Ballet with Derryn French.
A fully air conditioned stadium is being built on Barasti beach. With the capacity to accommodate approximately 1200 guests Barasti will be showing all the action from the forthcoming Football in South Africa in the Barasti Beach Stadium.
Barasti has partnered with Carlsberg to deliver a true Football experience. African + Eastern and Carlsberg are delighted to be involved with another first for Dubai and Barasti. “After months of careful planning and collaboration, we are looking forward to a fantastic summer trading period in the Barasti Beach Stadium” commented David Beattie, Sales Manager, African + Eastern.
Barasti has also once again teamed up with their preferred radio partner, Arabian Radio Network’s channels Dubai 92, City and Virgin radio to promote the Barasti Beach Stadium. Steve Smith, COO, Arabian Radio Network, said: “We are glad to offer our radio platforms to back this event through our partnership with Barasti. With the scale and optimum viewing opportunities that the Dome will provide, we are confident it will prove to be one of the most popular venues for football fans in the UAE right through the football season. Our radio platforms – Dubai 92, City 101.6 and Virgin Radio Dubai – will ensure our listeners connect with the Barasti Stadium and contribute to the high-voltage action that will soon take centre-stage at the venue.”
“The Barasti Beach Dome is quite simply a brilliant venue from which to enjoy all the football. 7DAYS is very excited to be Barasti’s official newspaper partner from 23rd May to 11th July and there can be no doubt that readers will respond very strongly to the ‘Barasti build-up’ from late May and the Beach Dome venue during the finals will be nothing less than a huge success.” Mark Rix- CEO 7 Days.
The Mega Dome is 35 metres in circumference and with a height of 17.5 metres and weighing over 20 tonnes, creating a perfect semi-sphere of over 5 storeys high. It will take up residence on Barasti Beach with the opening scheduled for the 10th June 2010 and is the first time this remarkable structure has been seen in Dubai.
Entrance is free and Barasti Beach Stadium will be open from 2pm to 2.30am daily, with a 270 tonne air conditioning unit providing a super cool environment. The enormous screen, showing every exciting game, 12 metres wide, is the equivalent of watching an area the size of 100 television sets.
“We are very excited to bring the Barasti Beach Stadium to Barasti. We have worked closely with our partners to ensure that once again Barasti delivers a fantastic experience to our customers. Barasti Beach Stadium will provide Barasti with the perfect air conditioned environment as well as an unrivalled football experience!” Comments Tolga Lacin, Executive Assistant Manager of Food and Beverage, Mina Seyahi Complex.
For reservations and enquiries call 04 3181313.
With the huge success of our last Flashback with Vanilla Ice, we are looking forward to the return of this concept with Dr Alban and Blackbox.
A live set by both of these groups is sure to set the stage for another massive party on the Beach of Barasti.
Dr. Alban was born as Alban Uzoma Nwapa into a middle class family of 10 children in Oguta, Imo state Nigeria. He had his secondary education at Christ The King College, Aba, Nigeria. He spent most of his youth in his hometown Oguta. His father was a dentist. He grew up listening to Fela Kuti and James Brown. At age 23, he travelled to Sweden to study dentistry. In order to be able to finance his studies, Dr. Alban started making music. He worked as a DJ in the Stockholm club 'Alphabet Street'. Very quickly his name became widely known, especially since Dr. Alban often sang to the records he put on the turntable. DJ René couldn't help but notice him and so he was discovered. Dr. Alban finished his studies and even opened his own dentistry practice, keeping his disk jockeying as a lucrative sideline.
In 1990, he met with Denniz Pop from the SweMix label. Together with Denniz and Rap-Queen Leila K, his first record, "Hello Africa" - his declaration of love for his African home - broke all records. Alban Xhezair Nwapa took the stage name Dr. Alban, a nod to his dental studies. His debut album Hello Africa sold roughly 1 million copies worldwide.[citation needed]
One year later this success was surpassed by the second album One Love. 1.6 million singles of the song "It's My Life" were sold (the single was even used as background music for a Tampax advert). It was #1 in the Netherlands, Israel and Germany and #2 in the UK. The following single "One Love" was #5 in Israel. The album immediately sold over 1.7 million units. Then followed the albums Look Who's Talking and Born In Africa. All in all, Dr. Alban has racked up worldwide sales of over 5 million albums and over 6 million singles, which resulted in 7 times Silver, 30 times Gold and 30 times Platinum. His hit single "No Coke" was used to illustrate an anti-drugs campaign in Sweden. The single "Sing Hallelujah" reached #5 in Israel.
After a re-release of "No Coke", Dr. Alban confirmed his Euro dance style with his hit "Look Who's Talking", which reached #4 in Israel, #6 at MTV Europe, and #54 in UK. "Let The Beat Go On" was #12 in Israel, and #12 at MTV9.
Following the social awareness expressed in "No Coke", Dr. Alban participated in a traffic information short film with the song "Moppepojkar"[3] ("Moped boys").
He created his own record company 'Dr. Records', on which he released Born in Africa, the first CD recorded completely in his Dr. Records studios. He had production credits on projects by artists such as La Cream and Daddy Showkey.
More recently, his voice was featured on Sash!'s single "Colour The World". After one year of silence he came back with a new track entitled "Because Of You", followed by "What Do I Do" and a new album, not Euro-dance related. Dr. Alban was very satisfied with the new album Prescription. Many hands have been involved in making this new album sound special. There are also guest appearances from Tony Rebell and Anthony B.
In 2005, he featured on Lady D's debut album, with a track called Love Na Jeje. Lady D is the wife of Charlie Boy, a cousin of Dr. Alban's.
In 2007 Dr. Alban has released new album Back to basics. It is sold only on the Internet through official website, with exception for Russia where CDs and cassettes were issued.
In 2008, he released a single with Haddaway, entitled "I Love The 90's". Alban proved that he did not forget his fellow artists of the last decade and he mentions in the lyrics some of the best hits of the Euro years: "Rhythm Is a Dancer", "What Is Love", "Scatman", "All That She Wants" and his own "It's My Life".
In 2009, Dr. Alban released a new single with Dutch-based Euro artist Haddaway. Also, he released a new album with cousin Charly Boy, Nigerian-based naija artist.
Tickets AED100.00
Free for ladies and Facecard holders before 8pm
VIP table packages available - call Barasti on +971 4 318 1313
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