Ben picked me up from the airport in style, 80s Mercedes style, daaayyuummm! Ben gave me the impromptu tour of Berlin at 11:00. We finally made it to where everyone was hanging out.
This happened to be the same bar I was in 3 and half years ago when I visited Berlin with Jakob. It was pretty funny.
As we waited 20 minutes to get our Capirinhas the rest of the party was getting antsy.
We made it to our first stop, Pick Nick. This was apparently the most hipster ass bar/club in Berlin. It reminded me of some American Apparel party or something. I was totally fine with it though of course.
Hipsters
More hipsters, skinny jeans.
Back inside, Ben and I sat here for most of the night. There was a guy who basically looked like Henrik Fisker, we told him to beat it.
Blurry "Yeah!"
Inside there were rooms upstairs and down. The vibe was positive and the music was good. I could've stayed here all night. Berlin is basically a town full of a bunch of kids and hipsters running around getting trashed.
We decided to go to one more place just to really run the whole, "partying in Berlin for a night idea," into the ground. Ben said, "We're going to Berghain."
So this is the last picture of the night. We got to this crazy bar just before 6 in the morning and stood in a cue with about 30-40 other people. In the line were your average club heads, rave freaks and for the most part 75% bears. The Berghain is no stranger to leather belts, assless chaps and police man hats.
We went to the front door and they said, "No cameras." I guess there just needs to be no publicity whatsoever of this place. As you can see from the outside its about 5 stories tall and there's a party inside the whole thing. It was and probably is one of the craziest biggest clubs in Europe.
Inside is a beautiful old building probably used for generating electricity or storing something rather tall. The ceilings stretch 5 stories all the way from the floor to the roof. There are steel stairs guiding you through the 10x10x60 concrete rectangular pillars. All the while with 20 foot speakers blasting the nastiest hard house super techo you can think off.
This place was serious. I've been places with 10-20 clubs in a row playing loud bad techno who think that they're big. I've been to probably over a 100 parties between chicago and detroit not to mention the 1 million people total audience of the Detroit Electronic Music Festival. I've been to many a old warehouse and other beautiful structures of what are now modern lofts or stil just old crazy buildings. I'm not saying this to be cool, I'm just saying I'm well qualified to say all these places combined might add up to the shear power that was inside the Berghain.
Don't get me wrong, it wasn't as if I have to ever come back here, it was just an amazing site to see when you compare all the parties you've been too. This is one of those places that when the sun starts showing through the blinds, big shutters come down out of the ceiling and, THUD, shut the sun out. Cheers go up and people get louder. I saw this and just started laughing. Where was this place 7 years ago? We left at about 8:30 and welcomed the sun with surrender. Although this warning of reality hadn't changed the line outside much. There were still about 25 people waiting to get in. My assumption is that this place runs from Thursday night to Monday morning.
We went back to the hotel more tired than anything, showered up and grabbed some breakfast. I snapped the only daylight picture of Berlin before I got on the train. It might sound like a lot, and I guess it was, but it was great to see Ben and relate on good oldschool times like these, but nonetheless it was really nothing more and actually less than anything already accomplished, so cheers.
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I love berlin
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