When I look back at where I started, DJing in small clubs in Leeds, carrying my own speakers through side doors and building nights from nothing, it still feels a bit mad that I’m now opening a venue in Marbella. But Zanettis Marbella was never about chasing a location. It was always about scaling a feeling.
I’ve lived inside nightlife culture for most of my life. Not just the music, but everything around it. The energy in a room before it peaks. That moment when a dinner turns into a party without anyone really deciding it should. Strangers becoming one crowd. That shift is what I’ve always been obsessed with. It is where hospitality actually comes alive. Zanettis Marbella is my version of that idea made real.
Marbella made sense because it already understands celebration. People come here ready for it. They want to switch off, let go and experience something bigger than a normal night out. But over the years I noticed something missing. There are amazing restaurants. There are amazing clubs. But very few places that properly connect the two in a way that feels natural and not forced.
That is exactly what we have built.
Zanettis Marbella is a hybrid space. It starts as a restaurant, but it is designed to evolve into a full nightlife experience. The idea is simple. You should not feel like you are leaving one place to go somewhere else just because the energy changes. The energy should build where you are.
The DJs are not an extra feature. They are part of the experience from the start. The sound, the lighting, the pacing of service, even how the room is set, it is all designed to move together. It is not dinner first and party second. It is one continuous experience that grows as the night goes on.
This came from years of watching how people actually want to spend their nights. Nobody really wants disruption. Nobody wants to reset the vibe halfway through an evening and start again somewhere else. People want flow. They want things to make sense without thinking too much about it. They want a night that builds naturally and feels effortless.
Opening in Marbella also means something to me personally. It feels like a new chapter, not just as an artist but as someone building hospitality spaces that reflect real experience. I have always believed nightlife is a craft. It is psychology. It is timing. It is reading a room properly and understanding what people need before they even know it themselves. You only learn that by being in it for years.
Zanettis is built off that experience.
But this is not just about bringing something to Marbella. It is about blending cultures. I did not want to drop a UK concept into Spain and call it done. I wanted to take the energy I grew up with in Leeds and mix it with the spirit of Marbella. That combination is what makes it feel different. Familiar but unpredictable at the same time.
At the end of the day, hospitality is not just food or drinks or design. It is emotion. People will forget menus and details. What they do not forget is how a place made them feel. If we have done this right, Zanettis Marbella will be a place people talk about not just because of what happened, but because of how the whole night felt from start to finish.
That is what we are building. And this is only the beginning.
What we are also focused on is how the experience feels over time, not just in moments. Too many venues rely on a single peak in the night, but Zanettis is designed around progression. The atmosphere is allowed to breathe, shift and build in a way that feels natural rather than staged. That means people don’t feel like they are being pushed through an experience, they feel like they are part of it unfolding.
There is also a real emphasis on detail. Small things matter more than people realise in hospitality – how service moves, how transitions happen between dinner and music, how the room subtly changes without disrupting the flow. These are the things that separate something memorable from something forgettable.
Ultimately, Zanettis Marbella is about creating a space where nothing feels disconnected. From the first drink to the last record, it should feel like one continuous journey rather than separate parts of a night.
There is also something important about timing. Marbella already sets a high expectation for nights out, but what we are trying to do is extend that expectation rather than compete with it. If people stay longer, feel more immersed, and leave with a stronger sense of experience, then we know the concept is working in the way it was intended to.
