festnoise | Music & Festivals

Although Berlin is famous for its electronic music scene and the unique clubs, the city also has a great live music variety with many venues where to enjoy music of any genre. Here is a selection of my favorite spots with a capacity of up to 500 people!

Privatclub

Privatclub is located in an old post house in the heart of Kreuzberg between the stations of Schlesisches Tor and Görlitzer Bahnhof. It has capacity to locate up to 200 people and its interior design includes 70s furniture. Cozy place, perfect setting for all kinds of concerts on a small scale.

Check Privatclub`s website for more information and find it in Berlin here.

SO36

Iconic Berlin club, originally focused on punk music and often frequented in the 70s was by musicians such as Iggy Pop or David Bowie. In those days the club rivaled New York's CBGB as one of the finest new-wave venues in the world. However unlike CBGB the venue still stands as of today and remains a fixture on the Berlin music scene championing new artists, while staying true to its punk past. It has a capacity of 250 people.

Check SO36`s website for more information and find it in Berlin here.

Badehaus

Badehaus is a concert venue located in the raw area in Friedrichshain containing two rooms and a summer-terrace. The main concert hall can locate up to 200 people. The programme is really open to nearly every genre but if you like hip hop, this is your place. Every Tuesday night they’re hosting the legendary Swag Jam, a hip hop jam session led by a full band.

Check Badehaus` website for more information and find it in Berlin here.

Loophole

Located in a former brothel, Loophole is one of the best underground music venues in Neukölln and has existed since long before the hype around this neighborhood took off. With a capacity of 150 people, it usually offers a reliably solid program of experimental noise and left field electronica as well as unpredictable party events.

Follow Loophole`s on facebook for more information and find it in Berlin here.

Gretchen

Gretchen is located in the middle of Berlin-Kreuzberg and stands out due to the beautiful vaulted ceiling and delicate columns. The venue has been the former stables of the Prussian 1st Guards Dragoon Regiment Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland from 1854, so Gretchen presents itself in a historic charm combined with a cool club design. From electronic music to live concerts, if you like Drum'n'Bass, this is the place!

Check Gretchen`s website for more information and find it in Berlin here.

FluxBau

Located directly by the Spree river in Kreuzberg, FluxBau has two floors and a unique terrace with amazing views to some of Berlin's most famous landmarks.

Check FluxBau`s website for more information and find it in Berlin here.

Schokoladen

Located in a former chocolate factory in the Ackerstraße Berlin-Mitte, Schokolanden is an alternative cultural centre with a pub and live music with capacity up to 130 people, offering a program going from Reggae to Power Pop and Ska to Rock. It also hosts cult Berlin parties such as a karaoke night or the queer punk electro night.

Follow Schokoladen`s on facebook for more information and find it in Berlin here.

Kantine am Berghain

With a capacity of 200 people, the Kantine is located in a small building, former staff canteen of the giant ex-power station that today locates the famous Berghain club. It also has a beer garden with a fireplace. And no, in the Kantine you won't find problems to get in!

Check Kantine`s website for more information and find it in Berlin here.

Monarch

Located in a shabby stretch of concrete '70s real estate and hidden behind graffiti covered stairways and forbidding steel doors, Monarch´s stage offers eclectic lineups with electro and indie sounds. It has panoramic views across Kottbusser Tor, heart of Kreuzberg.

Check Monarch`s website for more information and find it in Berlin here.

Musik & Frieden

Located in Kreuzberg next to the Spree and the Watergate club, Musik & Frieden has different spaces divided in two floors and occupies the space of the former Magnet Club. It always offers a very interesting program.

Check Musik & Frieden`s website for more information and find it in Berlin here.

Acud Macht Neu

Located in the border of Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg, Acud’s club is on the ground floor at the Courtyard and its music program showcases a diverse range of genres, providing also a platform and a hub for a network for international and local artistic communities.

Check Acud`s website for more information and find it in Berlin here.

Columbia Theater

Small sister of Columbiahalle. Columbia Theater is a pleasant venue with very good acoustics and an exterior design reminiscent of the Einstein Tower of Potsdam, reference of German expressionism by Erich Mendelsohn. Both Columbia venues are located opposite to the old Tempelhof airport, and are former US leisure facilities. The history of the venues goes back to 1951, when the Columbiahalle opened as a sports hall for American soldiers posted in Berlin and Columbia Theater, directly next-door was a 400-seat cinema, also for the American soldiers.

Check Columbia Theater`s website for more information and find it in Berlin here.

Frannz Club

Franz was an East Berlin club located where the former Schultheiss brewery, today's Kulturbrauerei, in the Prenzlauer Berg district.

Check Frannz`s website for more information and find it in Berlin here.

Cassiopeia

Located in front of Badehaus in the Warschauer Straße, Cassiopeia occupies a converted industrial hall that includes a Summer garden with hammocks and torches. It is the place to go if you like black music, especially hip hop and reggae music from all over the world.

Check Cassiopeia`s website for more information and find it in Berlin here.

Klunkerkranich

Located in the pulsating heart of northern Neukölln directly on top of the ugly building of the Neukölln Arcaden, the Klunkerkranich is a cultural cozy roof garden that, in addition to spacious and green outdoor areas and the most panoramic view of Berlin, offers concerts and DJ programs among other interesting cultural activities. A must.

Check Klunkerkranich`s website for more information and find it in Berlin here.

Holzmarkt - Säälchen

The Säälchen is a small flexible hall located directly on the Spree and part of the renovated area of Holzmarkt.

Check Säälchen`s website for more information and find it in Berlin here.

Auster Club

Located in Kreuzberg, close to other clubs like Bi Nuu, SO36 or Privatclub, Auster Club has a capacity to locate 150 people and is hidden in the cellar vaults of the Weltrestaurant Markthalle. The club is reminiscent of a 40s basement jazz venue and today is popular as a location for showcases and new bands.

Check Auster`s website for more information and find it in Berlin here.

Duncker Club

Located in the heart of Prenzlauer Berg, the Duncker Club, with more than 30 years of history it's one of the oldest Indie Rock locations and during the GDR it was one of the few Berlin places that offered punk concerts outside of the prescribed GDR culture. Nowadays Mondays are reserved for EBM, Gothic or Deathrock music and on Thursdays there are free indie concerts and an aftershow party.

Check Dunckerclub`s website for more information and find it in Berlin here.

Maschinenhaus

Located in the Kulturbrauerei next to Frannz Club, Maschinenhaus is the little sister of Kesselhaus, the annex space with bigger capacity.

Check Maschinenhaus`s website for more information and find it in Berlin here.

Madame Claude

Like Loophole, Madame Claude used to be a brothel and today is a small and cozy place where to enjoy music. Initiated by the childish dream to play in a backwards flat, the decoration of the main room of Madame Claude is a reconstitution of an apartment which would have been built upside down challenging the laws of gravity with furnitures on the ceiling.