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Fire-breathing dwarves, topless dancers, high wire acrobats and a live porn show at dawn - despite Bacchanalian competition, one Ibizan club has managed to remain the most riotous night on the White Isle.

The Mediterranean pleasure palace of Manumission has become legendary within the clubbing fraternity - the ultimate getaway for Britain's hordes of party animals who have flocked to the Spanish island in their thousands every year since the veterans of the UK acid house scene fled their industrial urban warehouses in the early-1990s.

But this summer a hedonistic hole will be left in Ibiza's clubbing scene following the news that, for the first time since it was established, Manumission will not open its doors.

Andy and Mike McKay, the two Mancunian brothers who set up the famous club night back in 1994, have remained mysteriously circumspect over why they will no longer be putting on the weekly dance night which cost £200,000 (NZ$518,000) to stage, regularly attracted up to 10,000 clubbers and is recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's biggest party.