Friday 14 September 2012

Brunnen 70


Underground party at Brunnen 70
Address: Brunnenstraße 70, 13355, Mitte
U-Bahn: Voltastraße
Opening times: Fri – Sat, 11pm-late
Admission: 10€
Website: www.brunnen70.de

Based inside the sprawling foundations of a row of shops on Brunnenstraβe, this underground club has everything a music lover needs – and a lot more. Once you have found the club, there is no sign and only an iron railing indicating the entrance, you are ushered into a cargo lift by the heavily tattooed bouncers. You can hear the muffled bass as you descend in the lift. Then the metal doors open and you are in the depths of an expansive club. It is a dungeon labyrinth, with neon lights shining upon the crumbling grey walls and copper pipes trailing along the low ceilings. An eclectic crowd of ravers and music lovers span across the many concealed rooms. The first room offers live music throughout the night as local, unsigned bands share the stage and treat the crowds to a mix of electro, synth-rock, indie and punk. Unfortunately the sound system is not as earth shaking as the other major clubs, however the D.I.Y feel to this gritty venue generates an electric atmosphere.
If you explore deeper you will find other rooms with clubbers dancing to anything from psych-trance to Balkan beats. Each room has its own unique feel. You can be raving beneath strobe lights fitted inside empty petrol canisters upon the roof of one room and then relax on the tattered sofas in another room which walls are painted with luminous graffiti. There is even a karaoke bar where you can grab the microphone and sing your favourite Madonna song or just stay and dance along. Cult films are played in a cinema towards the back, a ‘hit the goat’ carnival game offers strawberry vodka shots as a prize and there is even a hairdressers just in case you feel like a trim at 4 o’clock in the morning.
The club only opens on Friday and Saturday nights at 11pm but the party goes on well into the morning. Entry costs 10€ and a beer is 2,50€, but remember to bring enough money with you as it is quite a mission to find the exit and go back up the lift just to use a cash machine.  

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