‘Music’ Archives
CTM Festival 2012
Between 30th January and 5th February 2012, the thirteenth edition of Berlin's CTM (Club Transmediale) festival will be taking over a range of venues in the city. Paired with the Transmediale festival for media art, the two will run concurrently, with a number of crossover events as well as their own individual line-ups. Both already have significant reputations for fantastic, thought-provoking programmes that avoid treading along established genre lines in favour of a broader, more thematic [...]
Berlin’s Lesbische Frauen
Brendan Nash explores Berlin's Weimar-era lesbian scene... In 1928, Ruth Margarete Roellig wrote a guide book for visitors to Berlin. But this wasn't just any run-of-the-mill guidebook. This was "Berlin's Lesbische Frauen" a comprehensive guide to the hottest and most happening lesbian bars and clubs the city had to offer. With an estimated 85,000 living in the city, Berlin was the lesbian capital of the world, and visitors were flocking in to experience all the city had to offer, and [...]
Record Store Day Berlin
Record Store Day is a new event which will be taking place in Berlin alongside the BerMuDa festival on the 5th of November. The idea behind the event is to create a special day for record shops across Berlin who will offer one-off exclusive releases from leading record labels and in-store performances from affiliated artists. Some of the labels that are taking part on the release-side are Dirtybird, Get Physical, Monkey Town, Wolf & Lamb and Hypercolor, and more. Interview with Oye record [...]
City Lit: The Beauty of Transgression
The Beauty of Transgression is a vivid remembrance of Berlin’s gritty, loud last decades of the 20th century, and a meditation on where the city’s unique sensibility is headed. Danielle de Picciotto’s Berlin memoir begins with her arrival in the divided city in 1987, though its story follows threads back into her and her family’s past as well as the dark, glittering history of the German metropolis itself. Artist, musician, filmmaker, curator, co-founder of the Love Parade and more, [...]
Dustin O’Halloran, Pianist & Composer
Wyndham Wallace shoots the breeze with Berlin-based pianist and composer Dustin O'Halloran... If you’ve seen Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, you may already be familiar with Berlin-based Dustin O’Halloran’s exquisite solo piano music: the American contributed a number of pieces to the film’s soundtrack, including the haunting ‘Opus 23’. A member of the band Devics, who were signed to Cocteau Twin Simon Raymonde’s Bella Union Records label, he has released two albums of [...]
Ewan Pearson, Clubland Maestro
Wyndham Wallace chats to Berlin-based DJ, producer, writer and clubland luminary Ewan Pearson... Very much the renaissance man, English born Ewan Pearson has earned a reputation as one of the best contemporary DJs, producers and musicians around. Known to many for his remixes of Goldfrapp, The Chemical Brothers, Feist and Franz Ferdinand, he’s not afraid of venturing beyond the electronic music scene, and has worked as a producer for The Rapture, Gwen Stefani, M83, Delphic and [...]
MADE
Carlijn Potma chats to Nico Zeh, creative orchestrator and founder of acclaimed Berlin art space, MADE... Over a year ago, Berlin was enriched with a new conceptual art space: MADE. ‘Yet another art venue..’, many would think. But this art center - 420 m2 , located on the 9th floor of a former office building at Alexanderplatz and designed by the architect Alexis Dornier - seems more ambitious. Fully supported by Absolut Vodka, this all-white creative space programs a wide range of [...]
The Three Sisters
Molly Hannon checks out a new Kreuzberg dining spot that fuses rock & roll with traditional cuisine and local produce... “Primitive Rock 'n’ Roll and Fine food” is the Three Sisters’ motto. However, upon entering the restaurant, one senses there is nothing primitive about this place. It looks more like an old style ballroom reminiscent of the American South, with its high lofty ceilings, whitewashed walls, long oak bar, and a small stage with a grand piano. (This Southern [...]
St. Gaudy Café
Carlijn Potma checks out the tasty snacks and convivial vibe at Pberg's St. Gaudy Café... "Human and animal, warm and cool, spacious and cosy" is how St. Gaudy Café, a lively coffee shop on the corner of Schoenhauser Allee and Gaudystrasse, describes itself. As the statement suggests it’s an open, breezy kind of place - something of a neighbourhood favourite in an area of Berlin not especially renowned for its funky caffeine hangouts. A steady stream of people saunter in for [...]
14 Ways To Avoid Valentine’s Day in Berlin
Here at Slow Travel Berlin we believe in love. But while the city's lovers and romantics will find plenty of ways to enjoy Valentine's Day in the city, there are others who won't be drowning in roses and chocolate hearts. Ruth Michaelson offers 14 ideas for singles, incurable un-romantics and those simply not into love's most commercial event... 1. Visit a flotation tank. Even in Berlin the hustle and bustle of everyday life can get you down a bit, and sometimes a little respite [...]
