From Michael Upton Sent Tue, Sep 28th 1999, 04:56
From Michael Upton Sent Tue, Sep 28th 1999, 04:56
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 11:11:33 Lance @ Inaudible wrote: >The cologne scene is such a dynamic fruitful >one these days... 'Scuse me if this gets rambly, but... One thing that struck me when I went to Cologne in June was that there's no clubs of any particular interest. The "best club in Cologne" seemed to actually be a place in Dusseldorf called Ego, which everyone I met into dancey stuff was rating highly, and travelling to on the weekends. (I went there to try and see Monolake, but realised a little too late that I was wandering about a city I didn't know after midnight, looking for a venue that was just listed as on the corner of two particular streets. No luck. :-/ The biggest disappointment of my time in Germany by a mile.) At any rate, without any particular rallying point, venue wise, I don't think it's accurate to talk about "the Cologne scene". Releases seemed to be coming from various bunches of people, unconnected except by dint of being in the same city. I also found it both amusing and encouraging that for all the attention releases seem to get just by virtue of being from Cologne, the ones who definitely weren't buying the hype were the people living there and making the music. Michael PS. FWIW, this wasn't supposed to be a criticism of Lance, although I wouldn't use the term "the Cologne scene". While I'm being defensive, I was only there for a week, so I may have got a very skewed impression of the place. :-) Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com