Pete Tong and Jules Buckley brought Ibiza Classics back to the hall where it began, for four nights in the show’s tenth year.
Pete Tong, a BBC Radio 1 presenter since 1991, played four nights of Ibiza Classics at the Royal Albert Hall in South Kensington from Thursday 29 May 2025. Jules Buckley conducted the Essential Orchestra.
Tong was born in Dartford in 1960 and played his first public gig at a friend’s wedding at 15. He joined Capital Radio in 1988 to present a weekly dance programme, and began his Friday evening show on Radio 1 in January 1991.
His name became rhyming slang in the phrase “it’s all gone Pete Tong”. He later gave the phrase to his club night at Pacha in Ibiza.
Ibiza Classics began at the Hall in 2015, at a late-night BBC Prom where the station introduced Tong to Buckley. The run, which ended on Sunday 1 June, marked ten years of the show.
Each night opened with a guest DJ: Seth Troxler on Thursday, Damian Lazarus on Friday, David Morales on Saturday and Paul Oakenfold on Sunday. Ibiza Classics followed at 20:45.
The guest vocalists were Becky Hill, Jacob Lusk of Gabriels, Jazzy, Clementine Douglas and Barbara Tucker.