November 6, 2009

Berlin is fucking great - 02

We had breakfast at the übercool café Cream down the street and then we walked Kreuzberg for many hours. We saw interesting galleries like La Catrina and some not so cool record shops nearby. Then we followed Görlitzer Park to Weiner str. and Oranien str. and visited Core TEX – a heaven for punks and their like and saw clubs like Wild at Heart and SO36. After visiting several shops we had coffee at Café Luzia.

After the coffee break we went to the Ramones Museum because we would like to see that, but also because Jay Reatard was gonna play a solo show. Jay’s new rhythm group is the dudes from Danish band Cola Freaks so I said hi to Anders and we watched the show. After that we hang out for a couple of beers and decided to walk up to Zapata and see what that was all about.

God damn, Zapata is the most amazing alternative place I’ve ever witnessed. Complete overdrive of artists making great sculptures and paintings. We could have stared at all this great art for hours if it wasn’t so fucking cold. We had a beer and chili con carne at Studio 54 and after that we went home for a short nap. The plan was to see Jay Reatard again with band at White Trash Fast Food. Anders had told us they were gonna play at 12.30 for some Halloween bash.

I guess we were overtired so we just overslept and woke up at 01 in the morning completely confused. But hey, we had not come to sleep the night away, so we got up and went to Halloween party at Wild at Heart. Crazy night with punk’a’billys all dressed up and old punk hits from the speakers. After some beers and tequilas we woke up and had a cool night…



La Catrina | Ramones Museum | Luzia | Zapata | Wild at Heart