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how fast do you need an answer? gonna go for coffee and cake with a "berliner mädel" in two days... I'll ask her then if that is time enough... 8)
 
grego said:
... a club called octagon?? ...
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what ??
i never heard of a "club" called octagon ...
asked some friends living in berlin and they don`t know it, too.
so there are 2 possibilities:
- "a club called octagon" doesn´t exist
- "a club called octagon" exists, but is worthless crap :lol:

ps:
or are you speaking about these old public urinals in berlin ? :lol: ?
because these houses are called "cafe achteck" and
"achteck" = "octagon" !
 
thanks icey..........i found the info i need.

it's new, really new and very underground and secretive and probably going to be closed down soon!!! 8O:?:
 
icebaer69 said:
what ??
i never heard of a "club" called octagon ...
asked some friends living in berlin and they don`t know it, too.
so there are 2 possibilities:
- "a club called octagon" doesn´t exist
- "a club called octagon" exists, but is worthless crap :lol:

ps:
or are you speaking about these old public urinals in berlin ? :lol: ?
because these houses are called "cafe achteck" and
"achteck" = "octagon" !
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it is in freidrichsan area, entrance is through a kebab shop..... 8O
 
grego said:
it is in freidrichsan area, entrance is through a kebab shop..... 8O
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I will visiting Berlin next month at 24th of november, for some days, because I'm going to a concert from the amazing New Zealand's Band "Fat Freddys Drop" at 25th in the Columbiahalle.

If it's enough time for you, I will ask some of my "Berlinpeople", if they knew anything about this new club???? It's sooooooo new, that nowhere is any information to get..... Friedrichshain is a citypart from Berlins old Eastside, a very busy place, with many new ideas. So it's not to be wondering about, that the entrance will be through a Kebab Shop..... ;)

But eventual it's a fake........

Hasta pronto
 
there isn't much on the net about this, some friends told me about it and then i asked a DJ and they knew nothing either. then jesse rose told me. the only reference on the net i can find is this, it is a year old in fact.

Doner Party @ Octagon
For me this has been THE nightlife highlight of the last 3 weeks and represents what Berlin is all about. I was invited out to this by my flatmate Karin's lovely friend Benjamin who I'd met the night before. I'd been hearing a bit about these 'kebab parties' that are basically discos that take place either in or around actual kebab shops. SERIOUSLY. There's a kebab restaurant/take away on the same street as my work called Bagdad, which is very atypical of all the kebab places I've frequented over the years: plastic chairs, travel agent style posters of Turkey, brass nick knacks, religious icons etc. I eat there about once a week (and can highly recommend the chicken durum doner). Apparently though every couple of months on a Saturday night they just move the tables to the side, close the window shades and throw these parties which from all reports are some of the best Berlin has to offer. The other place I've heard of is called Oktagon, which is where I ended up a couple of Saturdays ago. OK so picture this: you cross the bridge over the Spree and the U-bahn lines from Kreuzberg to Friedrichshain. Just on the other side of the bridge is a tiny little kebab shop called Oktagon. Yes it has 8 walls. Now if you just want to grab a beer, a doner, some pommes (chips) or anything else slightly kebabby you're more than welcome to do so. Every now and then though (have not been able to determine exactly how often) you will find people walking into Oktagon, through the shop, through the back door, down the stairs, into the courtyard, through the courtyard, round the corner, round another corner to a massive derelict building.

Its 2 floors, most rooms are without doors, and there's portaloos (ick) outside. Almost every surface inside is covered in layer upon layer graffiti. The cloak room looks like an old broom cupboard and the bar must have been some kind of communal shower thing in its previous life. At first I thought it was some kind of squat party (which was fine by me) but then started noticing a few things... the random graffiti would in the most random places evolve into a really beautiful nature-themed art piece (grass, trees, birds etc), the random white paint splatters on the stair case are actually intricately painted bugs, the portaloos are really really clean and don't smell, and the downstairs soundsystem is one of the best i've heard in all the clubs i've been to. The upstairs room is my favourite: blood red walls with a pattern of ants stencilled in gold film all over it, with a big ostentatious chandelier - it's amazing and really beautiful. So it's not a squat party at all it's a legitimate venue. I love love love love love this about Berlin, it is so straightforward and unfussy and unfrivolous and professional, but that coexists perfectly with a really loose, organic, open minded attitude. It just fits me, you know?
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http://misspotentiality.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html
 
grego said:
... the only reference on the net i can find is this,
it is a year old in fact ...
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description of this club sounds very interesting,
but it´s from last year - so probably long gone ?!? ...
... i found this:

"...
Honorable mention: In the last few weeks the buzzword on everyone’s lips is Octagon.
A club run by some of the coolest collectives in the city can be found in Freidricshan.
That’s if you can find it. The entrance is inside a kebab shop. Yes, inside.
Walk down the crumbling hallway and into one of the most spectacular tree lined courtyards you’ll ever see.
It is here that two floors have been converted into Berlin’s latest guerrilla club.
If you going to the city soon, make sure you go there.
It may not last long and expect the best of Berlin’s party scene to be there,
alongside 1,000 semi screwed up bodies!
..."
(http://www.bigshotmag.com/news2/?p=77)

you should call the kebabshop and ask them :-))

oktagon
warschauer str 53, ecke revaler str.
10243 berlin-friedrichshain
tel: 0049-30-74001730
 
grego said:
... i need some info on a club called octagon?? ...
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i asked a friend to check the oktagon out - he is going (probably) this weekend !
he told me that he went to a similar place (electrodisco in a kebabshop
called bagdad) last summer:
www.sexydoener.de

ps:
kebab-electro is over -
now the place to be is techno-taverna
:lol: :lol:
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pps:
stay away from these tours :-)
www.berlinpissup.com
 
icebaer69 said:
i asked a friend to check the oktagon out -
he is going (probably) this weekend ! ...
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he just gave me a call - while standing in front of the place !
he said everything looks very mysterious and spooky ... the place has a neonsign
which says "saray" now, so the oktagon-kebab definitely doesn´t exist anymore ...
... tonight the "saray-"neon is still on, but the place looks rotten and deserted,
doors are blocked, so he couldn´t enter the courtyard to the other house ...
will send me some pictures later.

ps:
he told me of a place he went 1 month ago where you had to crawl (!)
through some kind of tunnel to enter :-)
 
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