‘Nightlife’ Archives
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cookies Cream
Paul Sullivan tries out some innovative vegetarian cuisine at 'underground' restaurant Cookies Cream... The first challenge for any visit to Berlin’s hippest vegetarian restaurant Cookies Cream is finding it. Run by Cookies, veteran party promoter and founder of the popular club located below it, the restaurant adheres to the ‘underground/anonymous’ ethic so popular in Berlin’s house and techno scene. “But it’s located directly above the club”, I hear you cry, “surely it [...]
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 [...]
Berghain & Panorama Bar
Luis-Manuel Garcia profiles one of Berlin's most prominent techno institutions... Berghain: a nightclub that has become an institution of the Berlin techno scene, also taking on mythical proportions in the global techno and house scenes. The club is in fact a reincarnation of an earlier Berlin nightclub, Ostgut (1998-2003), which was located in the empty Ostgüterbahnhof railway shipping warehouse near the Ostbahnhof S-Bahn/railway station in the Friedrichshain district (in former [...]
The Badeschiff
Looking to beat the summer heat? Try Berlin's Badeschiff - a swimming pool in the Spree... Badeschiff - literally "bathing ship" - opened in 2004 as an art project organized by Berlin's Stadtkunstprojekte (City Art ProjectSociety), the AMP Architectos (Teneriffa), architect Gil Wilk and local artist Susanne Lorenz.The initial aim was to enliven city life along what was then a long-neglected stretch of the Spree, between the former Osthafen (East harbour) and Flutgraben, a small [...]
Melting Point Records
STB's wax professor Dave Tinning pays a visit to Kastanienallee's Melting Point records, a legendary Mecca for house, soul, funk and boogie vinyl... When Melting Point opened on Mitte’s Neue Schönhauser Straße in 1994, it was the only store - of any type, really - in Hackesche Höfe, an area which is now jam-packed with designer boutiques and chain stores. By 2005 the store was feeling the squeeze of increasing rents and decided to move to the (then) more affordable [...]
Oye Como Va
Dave Tinning profiles one of Prenzlauer Berg’s premier vinyl outlets…. Oye Records, nestled in a basement just off Prenzlauer Berg’s main drag Kastanienallee, has carved a unique little niche for itself in the capital. Originally catering for collectors of Latin, soul and funk records, Oye has since diversified to cover an impressive range of styles, from afrobeat to blip-hop to UK funky, and on to those Berlin club staples - house and techno. Record stores are not always known [...]
Mein Haus am See
An imaginative new Mitte café-bar with a homey feel and lots of great furniture to lounge on… Contrary to its name, Mein Haus am See is neither a house, nor on the sea. It’s a former bookshop and warehouse space located just off busy Rosenthaler Strasse in Mitte - about as far from the seaside as you can get – that's been renovated into a funky new bar and café. But this is Berlin, where fantasy reigns and one person's innercity hangout can easily be another's beach-side dream. [...]
