that night in berlin city 4

the wounds will heal...

let me tell you about yesterdays party, in this mad place they call berlin city...

starting the evening at the vegetarian organic fastfood diner yellow sunshine. then quickly moving on to a hardcore concert in subversiv (brunnenstr. 7) of the high society (plus "lights out") the audience was in a weird state, nobody dancing really, but the band was astonishing. then we moved over to another place, just across the street: ballast der republik (brunnenstr. 183) for another punk concert and their great bar. since the night was young, we formed a spontanous hardcore formation ourselves and started a half-hour jam session. my fingers started bleeding at the first "song". we gave up very fast, too much turbomate (club mate with wodka) in our blood and not enought talent. but you will hear from us again...

now we changed location again, to the lokal (also around rosenthaler platz) to the sad remains of a karaoke party. the imposing of ibiza had turned into a weird replication of ibiza. and the song selection was not so interesting. so we split, some went to climb on a roof and for some the night continued with more hardcore (more band projects were started that night) and some more hard beats...

in supamolly (jessner str.), a name witch refers to those days of autonomy and squatting in berlin when the police suspied the local scene of building tuned super molotov cocktails, there was the afterparty of some ska-concert. for one hour there was still some dancing, then the place emptied and something new had to be found. quickly passing by feuermelder, zielona gora and astro bar, it occured to me that this evening maybe should end now (it was only 5 in the morning).

but then i heard nice beats coming from the RAW (revaler str). cassiopeia was just about to close, but the RAW tempel was still hosting a great breakcore/electronic madness party. the smoke machines were turned to maximum and green lasers were darting through the fog. the beats were crazy and the audience too. a totally mixed audience by the way; psychotic ravers, atzen, fresh rockers, and so on. at some point it was too much. the toilets were flooded by water (something crashed), the boys were going mad. i couldn't focus on anything anymore. i had to leave. but it was a nice end to a weird night.

i headed for the exit. outside on the street i couldn't really walk. but i made it home :).

some tips for the next days:
tonight: in the c-base party by phenolit, during the annual chaos communication conference.
tomorrow: first results of tonights hardcore practices in the ballast der republik