Sixsixsixties

My baby is turning 5 next week and we will celebrate with a ferocious anniversary rave at Pekfabrik in Antwerp. Don’t sleep!

“By the end of ’91, everything was developing quickly. In the ’80s, when West Berlin was the place for squatters, if you had an interest in fringe culture, you would know about Oranienstraße: Trash, SO36 and some other core venues were there. After the Wall came down, the city saw a massive overload of locations. It became dazzling.

Whether you came to Berlin in ’91, ’93, ’95 or ’97, you would go to a record store, and see there’s about 200 different flyers lying around. 190 of those venues neither you nor the people working in the store would have heard of. Random people would come in and drop these little pieces of potential information toward illegal spaces that exist maybe for three month, tops. It would be beautiful to come as an outsider and just follow the signs.”