Well, back from Hamburg where I had an excellent week - we checked out
Va-Va-Voom at the Molotow on the Reeperbahn - a delapidated (but nicely so)
basement club - where they were having an excellent soul and beat special.
Only mod (except the DJ) in the place happened to be from London, though
should have guessed from the hair - would have been nice if he'd bothered
dancing to more than 2 songs all night though.
Great mix of music - in style not that different to, say, the Brighton Beach
back room - a bit of latin, lot of soul, bit of r'n'b, bit of beat (though
no psyche and freakbeat - the club has different themes each week) - but
what was nice was the unfamiliarity of the tunes, and also the fact that
'normal' punters were dancing to them at 4 in the morning. Also checked out
a performance of Wilde's 'An Ideal Husband' at The English Theatre and tried
to work out what TV show half the actors had appeared on, and many cocktail
bar happy hours - the best being the last (in some business type hotel -
must have ended up with half a mint bush in my Mojito).
The worst part was finding a vintage menswear shop while looking for a bin
(on Turnerstrasse in St.Pauli in case you find yourself there) which - it
being Easter weekend and only finding in on the last day - I never got to go
into, but in the window were vintage Cardin ties, cuff-links, and through
the window nothing but suits and vintage shirts (in packets). I can only
console myself with the thought that there was nothing there. It also didn't
look cheap.
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