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Berlin Nightlife Review (Berghain/Panorama Bar, Tresor)
WATERGATE and WEEKEND
Both of these clubs we tried to get into, but failed. Reason? "Too many boys." This was even the reason when we went to Watergate 30 mins before it opened, were the first 20 people in line, and had met 5 girls to go in with us.
TRESOR
After being quite enraged that we didn't get into either Watergate or Weekend, we decided to check out Tresor. We were walking down the street it was supposed to be on with our eyes peeled (since Berlin venue can be extremely hard to find due to being unmarked), when we ran into a HUGE building with nothing but the Tresor logo being shined on the the front of the building with a light.
We walked in and saw what looked like the stairwell of a parking lot in an extremly sketchy apartment building. There were multiple passage ways and doors with no indication as to where the dancefloors were. We therefore waited until someone else came in, and then followed them hoping that they would lead us to the dancefloor instead of somewhere else where we werent supposed to be/didn't want to be.
As a little piece of background information, the new Tresor is in a renovated powerplant. Don't let the word "renovated" fool you though, as really the only renovations they seemed to have done is put a bar, and a DJ booth in. Therefore, walking into just the bathroom and coatcheck area of Tresor, I was met with a sense of excitement, awe, and even a mild bit of intimidation. It was a massive concrete hallway, with huge concrete columns, and very high ceilings. Many of the markings from when the powerplant was still there were still on the wall.
Here's an example of one of the smaller hallways:
Since the main room wasn't open yet, we went up to Room 2. The DJ was playing a really good tech house set, but the place was kind of empty. I remarked to myself that I was now starting to take these kinds of sets for granted, as if I had heard a set like this in Toronto, I would be going crazy (anti-flame disclaimer: this has to do with the fact that the music I heard in Germany is more aligned with my preferences, not because the DJs in Germany are any better than those in Toronto). There wasn't anything too special about the upstairs room except for the music, so we decided to check out Room 1.
When we finally found the entrance into Room 1, we opened the door to see a pitch black hallway, with very dim orange lights lining the wall (which in my opinion were only to make the hallway eerier looking; not to provide any light). Now, just to put this in perspective, imagine being in a foreign country, in an abandoned power plant, you open the door to the main room, and all you see is a pitch black hallway, and all you hear is serious techno banging at the other end. Needless to say, I was a bit nervous. We started walking down the hall cautiously, when a German girl noticed us and said, "Don't let it scare you! Keep going!", to which I jokingly replied, "You already have". We reached the end of the tunnel, where there was a bit of red lighting (kind of reminded me a bit of Aria), turned around, and saw the main floor.
In it's own way, the Tresor main floor is one of the most intense dancefloors I've ever been on in my life. Think Comfort Zone (ie low ceilings, around the surface area), with lower lighiting, banging techno, better and louder sound, concrete columns, and a DJ booth that looks like this:
Being on the dancefloor literally felt like you were in a giant's shoebox and that he was shaking it around. There weren't that many people in the club (ie not much vibe), so it was a bit hard staying on the main dancefloor for more than 30 minutes without being too overwhelmed.
The sidies of the dance floor had "seating areas" which were just basically rows of concrete slabs that looked like autopsy tables.
No real review on the music because I didn't really pay too much attention, and we weren't there for that long. All I can say is that the upstairs was really banging but good tech house, and downstairs was techno, that got a bit too fast and banging for us by the end given that there weren't that many people downstairs.
I would love to return to Tresor one day for a big party. I can only imagine what it would be like. For an serious business, underground type party, I can't think of many (if any) venues that would be better than this.
BERGHAIN and PANORAMA BAR
(Panorama Bar is on the top floor of that rather intimidating looking building)
For those that don't know about this venue, it is the #1 club in the world according to some dance music publications who cater to the more underground type of clubber. Also, it is worth reading this description before you read my review to understand what we were expecting:
quote: Berghain has a strong reputation for decadence and hedonism; a New Zealand Herald article describes "people openly indulging in sexual acts" inside the club, and the basement contains a dark room specifically set aside for that purpose
Before getting to this venue, we had read multiple reviews of people being denied at the door. Why? No reason ever given, (except for, as one reviewer said he was told, "Because it is so."). There was much speculation on these websites as to what the reasons were, but it seemed that there really were no specific things that you should avoid while standing in line, except for making noise, looking fucked up, or talking at all.
Naturally, since we had been denied at 2 other clubs that week, we were quite nervous about getting in. However, being a gay-friendly club, we knew that we weren't going to get denied entry for not having girls with us (which was the reason we got denied to the other two clubs). However, once we got to the door, we were denied entry. Absolutely stunned, the guy I was with pulled some Jedi mind-tricks with the doorman and talked us in (no bribing was involved). Just FYI, we went VERY early (2am, but the club doesn't really start getting busy until 4am, and the party doesn't really get started until 6am), didn't talk in line, and didn't go out anywhere before (in fact, we had just woken up). Moral of the story: you can probably be denied entry to this club for no reason at all.
When we got in, we felt like the luckiest people on earth, so we were overly respectful and polite to all the staff members we encountered, even though it wasn't exactly reciprocated. I was made to feel that it was I who had the privilege to be in there, and not them who had the privilege of me being in there spending my money.
We walked into main floor which was quite large, and saw many couches, nooks, crannies, and even a room that was pitch black off into the distance (more on that later). The building is extremely large, with 3 levels, and very high ceilings. This club is in an abandoned power plant that has been barely renovated, so you can again imagine what it's like.
We walked onto the main dance floor, which can hold around 1500 people, and has 18 meter ceilings. It's a very basic/minimally designed, large room, with the DJ booth in the front at ground level. Not much to say about the room itself here.
We went up to Panorama Bar pretty quickly since nothing much was happening downstairs. Panorama Bar was the room with all the hype, so I was a little disappointed when I walked upstairs around 3am and saw what I saw. It was just a run down looking bar with crappy lighting and pretty good sound. There was however a really cool painting going along the back wall, and a large 1.5mx2.5m picture of a vagina on the wall. Interesting... Also, there was a small hallway on one side of the place with what can only be described as human sized cubby holes and compartments (more on that later).
The DJ wasn't doing much for me, and it seemed like nothing more than social hour. Everyone was just standing around and drinking, and not many people were talking.
After about an hour and a half upstairs, I decided to go back to Berghain. Given that it was now 3:30am, I was starting to get a little bit disappointed by what I was seeing. Although there was a decent party going on downstairs, it had nowhere near lived up to the hype, and wasn't really worth the aggravation we went through to get in.
I went back upstairs at 4am to see Jesse Rose who was one of the headliners. (Random moment: on the way upstairs, some guy just came up to Jay and I, walking the other way on the stairs, gave us a huge smile, hugged us both quickly, and then ran away. He didn't stop or say anything, he just looked like he was having a great time and wanted to thank us. Normally this would be a bit off-putting, but was actually quite funny.) I had never seen Jesse before, but was quite impressed. He played a combination of Luciano's style of hard, but sexy tech house, with a sprinkling of deep house to keep the crowd smiling. There were many instances where instrumental samples were layered on top of the mechanical tech-house tracks, which lightened the mood. He also played a lot of proper, jacking house a la Mark Farina. It worked surprisingly well, and I would definitely see this guy again.
Although the set was good, we didn't really come to this place to see him, and the vibe was still not living up to the hype. The crowd was still surprisingly tame (think Footwork at 11pm, but instead it was 6am).
We then went downstairs to check out Renato Cohen, who also really impressed me. Renato was banging out the techno, and he was right into it. I only knew his name from a couple of productions I liked years ago, but had no idea he was a such a good DJ. Someone PLEASE bring this guy to Toronto. I think the Toronto crowd would love him.
A bit before the sun started to rise, I went back up to Panorama Bar. The place was starting to move, but I was getting nervous that the shutters on the windows would stay open in the day light and that everyone would leave. However, when the sun reached a certain point, the shutters went down and closed, with a responding cheer from the crowd. I stayed up there until about 7, went back downstairs for 30 minutes, came back upstairs, and my jaw dropped. I don't know what happened in that 30 minutes, but it went from a pretty average party, to absolute pandemonium, with people jumping up and down, arms around each other, screaming along to the lyrics of the 90s house anthems that were being played. I was like a deer in the headlights. About 2 minutes after I was up there, when the beat finally dropped during "It's Too Late", the shutters opened for a few seconds, filling the room with the first bit of sun Berlin had seen all week, and the crowd absolutely lost it. Everyone just turned around to their neighbor, grabbed them by the arms, hugged them or kissed them, jumped up and down, and screamed. I will never forget this moment for my entire life. I have goosebumps right now thinking of it. During DJ Pierre's set, there were many moments where time stood still, and nothing else mattered but the then-and-now.
This lighting technique is the most simplest, but probably one of the most effective that I have ever seen. This cheesier house set was exactly what the crowd needed to get it going.
It was at this moment when I realized why Panorama Bar is talked about with an almost religious reverence.
After DJ Pierre closed out his set, Style of Eye went on and played a bumping tech-house set that was very well done. Hearing Lucio Aquilina - Magic M at 10am with the light shining in through the shutters with that open/closing technique was another moment that I will not forget anytime soon. Another really crazy moment is when the DJ played that lullaby sounding track that sounds like someone is playing a triangle during the breakdown (must find out the name of this track - I've heard it being played quite frequently recently) at around 11am. He kept looping that specific part over and over again. It was very, very eerie, and people were just looking around out each other nervously, not knowing what to do. Amazing.
At around 10am is when shit started to hit the fan with the crowd. Although they were almost too tame a little earlier, they were far from it now.
As the sun came up and the 6am crowd came in, we started to notice quite a few characters and antics going on in the crowd. Needless to say, this was definitely the most eclectic crowd I have ever seen. Some of these characters/antics included:
- Highest ratio of men with mustaches:men without mustaches that I have ever seen anywhere, including one guy with an impeccably trimmed porn 'stache, complete with porn-star, low v-neck shirt (exposing chest hair)
- A guy with hot pink slim jeans, black leather high top boots with many buckles, a checkered belt and a shirt that said "SUPER CUTE" (although my friend said he was anything but). This guy and his buddies had about a 45 minute session on the back couch at around 9am, trying each others shoes and socks on (ie wearing a huge stilletto on one foot, and a Converse shoe on the other and trying to walk around). They would also touch unsuspecting passer-bys with their bare feet. If the victims got closer to investigate, they would continue their bare-footed assault.
- A girl that was dressed in a badminton player's outfit
- A girl that was wearing a flight attendant's outfit (she really looked like she had just got off a flight. I would have inquired, but her level of intoxication made me guess that she wasn't in a position to explain)
- Flight attendant girl, and about 4 others in her group, all wearing strange clothing or props, all equally as intoxicated, dancing completely off beat (interpretive dancing?)
- Some guy sleeping in a cubby hole (who was still sleeping there 6 hours later)
- People getting blowjobs and having full on sex in the cubby holes and other random corners
- 2 girls making out for literally 40 minutes straight, with heavy petting (making out with heavy petting was increasing as the morning went on, even though Panorama Bar is not really that dark at all, putting you in full view of everyone else)
- Some guy "dancing" beside us who had his eyes closed for around 30-40 minutes straight.
- Seeing Jesse Rose hanging out and partying until 2pm.
- People sitting on the bar stools and having drinks at all times of the night and morning
- Never seeing less than 2 people coming out of bathroom stalls
- A full cappuccino/espresso machine that people actually used to have cappuccinos at 2pm.
- A random girl offering me a "shower" with her bottle of water, and then 50EUR to "guard her boot while she went to go get drinks" (she actually had her boot off and her 50EUR in her hand)
...that's about all I can remember.
At around noon, the Panorama Bar resident Nick H�ppner came on. WOW. From the cheesy house in the morning, up until this point, the music went from light and fun, and got progressively more serious. Nick H�ppner continued on with this trend, and banged out a driving tech house/techno set without a single vocal. As the music got darker, so did the room as the position of the sun changed. At the same time, the vibe was also darkening so.
Around this point I was getting extremely tired and was having a hard time dealing with the sketchy crowd (due more to my tiredness than the crowd being pushy/bothersome), but I just couldn't bring myself to leave. There were so many times where I went to go sit down during one of the few more relaxed songs in his set, but literally got up the next track later with a jump, as my back and leg muscles yelped in pain. Nick H�ppner played one of the best sets I heard all year. I'd really love to hear more from him.
Some more random thoughts:
- Horrible dancers in this club. As the night went on, they were only reacting to the rare climax, but the vibe was still insane and everyone was having a great time
- Main floor (with the exception of the dark room) was actually a lot more tame than we expected it to be.
- Panorama Bar was a lot more in your face than Berghain, even though it was supposed to be the other way around.
- Panorama Bar is an all-day affair (it's open for 24-36 hours at a time) in the sense that people come at all hours of the day, many looking like they had just got up. The place was about 75 percent full until we left sometime in the afternoon, and it didn't look like it was letting up anytime soon.
When leaving the place, I realized why they have such a tight door policy. With a very loose policy as to what you can and cannot do inside, there must be some sort of control at the door. And boy, was there ever controls at the door. People were still getting turned away in droves at all hours of the night/morning. The club could have had 3x the amount of people in it, but they were still turning people away. There were more than enough people turned away to pack the place. Another theory my friend had was that because there is such a tight control at the door, you feel that you are privileged to get in, and respect that privilege by not causing trouble. Although people were openly taking part in one of the highest levels of hedonism that I've ever seen, no one was really bothering anyone else.
This club is not for the faint of heart past 8am. That said, it only really become special after 6am. This was a place where I literally felt I could do whatever I wanted. Although I'm sure they were plain clothed and lurking somewhere, I didn't see one single visible security guard except for at the door the entire time I was there. This, coupled with the fact that more than half the club is not a dance floor area means there is a lot of are many nooks, crannies, and small empty rooms to do whatever your heart desires. It is also worth mentioning that although this is supposed to be a gay club, there are still a lot of very attractive girls, who clearly have their heads up and are looking around the room. It can make things a lot more interesting.
Around the time we were leaving, we were told that there are illegal squatter after parties that go on every week, in different locations, when Panorama Bar closes that go on until Monday afternoon. This is in the absence of Bar25, which is the outdoor venue in the summer that is literally open the entire weekend from Thursday - Tuesday in the summer. Doesn't anyone in this city work?!
In short, if you can handle it, and if you can get in, this place is an experience like no other.
This was a regular Saturday at Berghain/Panorama Bar. I wonder what it would be like on a bigger night...
This foto alone is interesting enough. The review that follows just makes it all the much better.
I'm not sure about the whole turning people away thing...
I've heard quite a few interesting stories about this place from some friends in Germany 
I can't wait to get the opportunity to check it out next summer.
I hate to sound simplistic, but...
What an awesome review. You really have a way of creating a story and journey to follow, I was hoping it kept going, just so I would have more to read.
From what you described, it seems like a experiences I've always wanted. Real hedonism with electronic music. In my mind, that has always been the draw, and destination for EDM. Go listen to music, do what ever the fuck you want, just don't hurt anybody else. I've seen some 'antics' here in Toronto, but nothing like you describe.
to those people just not giving a fuck.
i love the scene in Berlin
its the most unique, underground and cool scene i ever had a chance to experience
I was there last summer and best party was this rave under a bridge (the one near watergate). 300+ people all raving to the sounds coming out of a truck with speakers on it. good times cant wait to go back to Berlin
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| Originally posted by The Highroller A guy with hot pink slim jeans, black leather high top boots with many buckles, a checkered belt and a shirt that said "SUPER CUTE" (although Jay says he was anything but). This guy and his buddies had about a 45 minute session on the back couch at around 9am, trying each others shoes and socks on (ie wearing a huge stilletto on one foot, and a Converse shoe on the other and trying to walk around). They would also touch unsuspecting passer-bys with their bare feet. If the victims got closer to invesigate, they would continue their bare-footed assault. |
Yay, I was waiting for a full review of the sketch.
Mark got lost downstairs in the orgy room on his way to the bathroom - runs back, eyes wide, "OMG I JUST SAW A DUDE FINGER ANOTHER DUDE'S ASS!!!"
And I definitely remember the nooks and crannies of panorama. I'd love to go back, as I didn't stay late enough to really witness everything you described.
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| Originally posted by Skipper I didn't stay late enough to really witness everything you described. |
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| Originally posted by Skipper Yay, I was waiting for a full review of the sketch. Mark got lost downstairs in the orgy room on his way to the bathroom - runs back, eyes wide, "OMG I JUST SAW A DUDE FINGER ANOTHER DUDE'S ASS!!!" And I definitely remember the nooks and crannies of panorama. I'd love to go back, as I didn't stay late enough to really witness everything you described. |
Awesome review! Sounds like a trip! Those Germans. I tell yah.
Did alot of people speak English? How was your German?
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| Originally posted by The Highroller TRESOR When we finally found the entrance into Room 1, we opened the door to see a pitch black hallway, with very dim orange lights lining the wall (which in my opinion were only to make the hallway eerier looking; not to provide any light). Now, just to put this in perspective, imagine being in a foreign country, in an abandoned power plant, you open the door to the main room, and all you see is a pitch black hallway, and all you hear is serious techno banging at the other end. Needless to say, I was a bit nervous. We started walking down the hall cautiously, when a German girl noticed us and said, "Don't let it scare you! Keep going!", to which I jokingly replied, "You already have". We reached the end of the tunnel, where there was a bit of red lighting (kind of reminded me a bit of Aria), turned around, and saw the main floor. |
great review yet again!!!
the club sounds 
would looooove to check it out one of these days!
OK, so here are my thoughts:
a) I WANT TO GO TO THIS PLACE -SO BADLY- !!!
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| Originally posted by The Highroller [color=ccff00] As soon as I walked in, I turned to my right and saw 3 rather attractive, but slightly sketchy looking 19-21 year old girls wearing nothing but underwear/lingerie. |
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There was however a really cool painting going along the back wall, and a large 1.5mx2.5m picture of a vagina on the wall. Interesting... |
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Also, there was a small hallway on one side of the place with what can only be described as human sized cubby holes and compartments (more on that later). |
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- People getting blowjobs and having full on sex in the cubby holes and other random corners |
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- 2 girls making out for literally 40 minutes straight (I actually timed it) with heavy petting (making out with heavy petting was increasing as the morning went on, even though Panorama Bar is not really that dark at all, putting you in full view of everyone else) |
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- Some guy "dancing" beside us who had his eyes closed for around 30-40 minutes straight. |
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- A random girl offering me a "shower" with her bottle of water, and then 50EUR to "guard her boot while she went to go get drinks" (she actually had her boot off and her 50EUR in her hand) |
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| Originally posted by Orko What an awesome review. You really have a way of creating a story and journey to follow, I was hoping it kept going, just so I would have more to read. |
You make the writer in me proud and envious of your talent at the same time!)
Berghain/Panaroma Bar
OK, I am not really know for writing reviews like Graham and usually I am happy enough to simply sum up a party with good friends, good music, good times. Our night/day at Berghain made such an impression that I feel it deserves a full on review since I do think it should be experienced by many of my friends here on TA.
When I had made the decision to make the trip to Germany for Time Warp to meet up with Graham, Paul, and Kate I decided I would stay in Europe for a week to travel. After talking with Graham we decided we would head to Berlin for the week�in all honesty I really didn�t have much of a desire to visit Berlin but figured why not it had a lot of history and we would already be in Berlin. Once the decision was made to go to Berlin I started to look into what we could do when we were there and I remembered reading about this place that was suppose to be like CZ in Berlin�after some research I discovered it was called Berghain. The more I read about this place the more intrigued I became and it soon became the event I was looking forward to the most about the trip (even more so than Time Warp).
For those of you interested here are some links to the articles I read that got me so hyped up for this place.
Website - http://www.berghain.de/berghain/pro...l/programm.html - it is in German but check out their flyers at the least
System install � some of the better pictures on the internet http://www.funktion-one.com/Berghain_Germany_Mondo.htm
This is a link to a place where you can read a pile of reviews and you can read lots of stories about people being turned away - http://www.berlin-life.com/drink/pu..._&_Panorama_Bar
Below is a quote from an article which sums up Berghain quite well.
Beyond its lineups, Berghain is famous for two things: Its space and its libertinism. Housed in a disused power plant, the Berghain complex is an intimidating, post-industrial behemoth boasting a cavernous main room; the more intimate Panoramabar upstairs; cement floors, ceiling, walls and staircases; and dark, meandering passageways and cubbyholes, which unlike their counterparts in the United States, offer zones of total autonomy. Everything is dark; cameras are strictly verboten. (There are also no mirrors in the toilets, a crucial point in facilitating the club's endurance-testing marathon sessions: you might be more inclined to go home if you could see how fucked you looked.)
The basement boasts a "darkroom" space explicitly dedicated to sexual activity, but you hardly need to go that far to find satisfaction, if that's what you seek: Virtually every corner of the club, from the bathrooms to the dancefloor, might serve as a good spot for a tryst. Berghain's reputation for excess is hardly a secret: Even the New York Times style writer and cultural critic Guy Trebay described "live sex taking place on the dance floor beneath the colossal Wolfgang Tillmans photograph at the Berghain disco." (For anyone wanting to understand the full Berghain experience, the disco DJ Daniel Wang's 2004 report of the Panoramabar's reopening is essential and inspiring reading.) But to view Berghain only in sensationalistic terms, as an anything-goes pleasurezone of sex and drugs, is to miss the greater significance of the operation.
Here is the link to the whole article - http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/artic...month-in-techno
I also highly recommend reading the review they mention above (it is very long but it is amazing).
As Graham wrote we did everything we thought we should to get in and in the end we were simply told to step to the left when we got to the front of the line (along with 2 guys in front of us, 4 girls behind us, and 2 other guys behind them). I realized all of the other people were together and told Graham to hang around for a bit until they left. Once we got in we both felt as if it was a privilege to have been let in and for the longest time we both felt we could get a tap on our shoulders and be told to leave.
Once walking in the first thing you see is a huge mural that is etched into the stone (or glass) that immediately makes you feel overwhelmed. The bottom floor has a lot of stone seats and the length of the room is probably close to the size of Guvernment with the said dark room to one end. At the other end by the coat check is the stairs up to the second level (Berghain). In this section there is not second floor so the ceiling goes right up to the top of the building which must be at least 100 feet (30 meters for you Graham). Standing there looking up again you feel overwhelmed by the sheer size of this place.
When you get up to the main floor you suddenly realize that they do not use most of the space. There is more unused space in the club than space that is used. As Graham said we saw the 3 (anorexic chic) young girls dancing on the podium in their underwear�I relaxed a bit because I had feared that Graham may be overwhelmed by the gayness of the club. In fact despite everything we had read and although the club is probably 70% gay it never feels like a gay club because everyone is just doing their own thing and not imposing themselves on others.
Berghain, the main floor is dark, loud, and very smokey (the Germans sure love their smoke machines). We searched out the washroom and headed off there. The stalls in Berghain are pitch black, there is no light, it is scary the first time in there. We later observed that there seemed to be an unwritten rule in Berghain�YOU WILL NOT ENTER A WASHROOM STALL ALONE�YOU MUST BE WITH AT LEAST ONE OTHER PERSON�PREFERABLY 2.
We then went up to Panaroma Bar which is the third floor and the first thing you notice is how bright the room is and that brings a completely different atmosphere to the party. I honestly didn�t think much of this place when we first went up, but as Graham said it ended up being the place to be. The shades being opened and closed when the sun is out and people�s reactions is something special that needs to be experienced.
Music wise Graham summed it up perfectly�Jesse Rose was really good (I talked to him after his set and he commented how bad the set at Circa was and how upset he was that they had closed down the room so early, but he did say he wanted to come back and play some of the other clubs here in Toronto he has heard about)�he finished his set at 6AM and he was still there having fun by the bar at 2PM.
Renato Cohen was exactly what I wanted to hear at that time on the main floor and I was having a blast while Graham was walking around. Graham then came up to me and told me to come upstairs as the room was now going off. That was the understatement of the year thus far. The place was going crazy, everyone was dancing, hugging, singing along to total cheese. It was perfect. We stayed up in Panaroma Bar for the rest of the night as I couldn�t drag myself away despite everything that I had read about Berghain. We stayed until 4PM although I was tempted to stick around until it closed at 8PM just to say we did, but we couldn�t have asked for a better 14 hours at a party.
I had thought DC10 was the best party I had been to and it was amazing with all of its characters. The big difference between DC10 and Berghain with its characters is that you get the feeling that people at DC10 dress up and joke around when they go there. The people at Berghain aren�t dressing up and wearing masks�this is their everyday life.
Random Thoughts
- Huge art work in Panaroma including a 4�x8� vagina
- Random hug from blonde German as he came up the stairs
- Just because you wear a shirt that says �super cute� doesn�t mean you are super cute
- Trannies of all shapes, sizes, and ages
- The worst trannies I have ever seen (hairy chest, arms, boobs the size of watermelons)
- Seeing a guy in a cubby hole from at least 5am until 2pm�I honestly started to think he was dead since he just wasn�t moving
- No security
- More scarves of guys in one location
- German interpretive dance is funny
- The best staches I have ever seen in my life�I think Graham and I have seen the best possible porn stache
- Guy short circuiting and falling down against a wall but tried to cover it up by pretending he was dancing and pumping his hands in the air
- Sex acts do happen but people don�t put it in your face
- Really young girls�who wear Anne of Green Gables sweaters
- Sketch can be fun in the light
- Bar stools on the dance floor
- Drinking all night�people were getting Jager shots at 3PM
- Full on espresso machine�not an automatic push a button machine�grind your own beans, pound in down, heat up the milk, here is your late�at 3PM
- Germans still use a lot of vinyl
- Nick H�ppner was great, but needs to have a cigarette in his mouth or he train wrecks from nicotine withdrawal (he was amazing but had a smoke in his mouth the whole time other than the one train wreck)
- Lots of facial piercings (especially septum piercings)
- No security guards
- No last call is a good thing
For me Berghain ended up being the highlight of my 12 days in Germany with Graham despite going to Time Warp and Tresor. I would love to go back again and if at all possible I will. The only scary part is that you always risk not getting in. I have so much more to say about this place so just ask me when you see me out.
Re: OK, so here are my thoughts:
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| Originally posted by Jem_hadar a) I WANT TO GO TO THIS PLACE -SO BADLY- !!! b) Incredible. Awesome. Seriously, I need to go here. lol. c) I hope you took a picture of it! I wanna see it. d) Love it! Human sized cubby holes/compartments and an orgy room! Sounds like a fantastic club to bring your girl too! I'd have a blast, I have on doubt. e) ... "came up to Jay and ME" (sorry, I had to Grahamers! )f) How many were chicks giving blowjobs to guys?? (as opposed to guys giving to guys, as I'm assuming the vast majority would have been...) How much of the sexual fornification you saw was girl-girl, guy-guy, and girl-guy (simple ratios, only, please )g) LEGEND! SIMPLY INCREDIBLE. I wish to the HIGH HEAVENS AND HELLS that I'd witness this fist-hand myself! Wow... that moment would have been made for me, I swear! h) This is -VERY- hard to do... trust me... I've tried many times at the Zone, KH, and Footwork. Its a fantastic experience though if you pull it off. Darkness is nice... keeping your balance in a pushy crowd is difficult though, so it's not something I'd recommended usually trying when out dancing at a packed venue. i) BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Fucking BEST thing I read the WHOLE review! I smiled and laughed my ass off out loud for real. Just had my mngr come into my office asking me what was so funny! I shit you not. Brilliant. Result! hahahaha... ... so... DID YOU DO IT GRAHAM? LOL! |
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| Originally posted by The Highroller and downstairs was techno, that got a bit too fast and banging for us by the end |
Re: Re: OK, so here are my thoughts:
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| Originally posted by musicsnob_NOT honestly...and no offense here but your replys to Grahams post are EXACTLY the type of people they try to keep out of this place. |
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| Originally posted by Orko You really have a way of creating a story and journey to follow, I was hoping it kept going, just so I would have more to read. |
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| Originally posted by musicsnob_NOT There was one point where Graham and I were sitting at the side of the main dance floor and the lights, pounding music and the crowd was one of the most intense feelings I have ever experienced in a club. We both felt it and had to leave that area. If this works, here is a video of the walk into the main room of Tresor. I was not walking slow, and the darkness is captured well on the video. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10878819662 Tresor turned around our week in Berlin. We were having a great time, but were disappointed (pissed off actually) that we weren't able to get into some of the clubs. This actually turned out to be the best since I can't imagine a trip to Berlin without going to Tresor now. |
The video link actually works...cool...I have some others from inside the club...will upload
Here is the Tresor video ... walking to the main room
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