13 Things All Music Lovers In Berlin Will Understand

Germany’s capital has an explosive, seven-days-a-week music scene. Whatever the frequency, people in Berlin seem to eat, sleep, breathe, and generally orbit around their musical desires. If you’re a music lover living in Berlin, then you might identify with some of these quirky observations.

The best music and parties are on Sundays

Sundays are reserved for real music lovers in Berlin, and the best line-ups happen on Sunday nights, right through until Monday morning.

Genres are an outdated concept

Music is a lifestyle

Being a music addict is not just a nice hobby or something to unwind with after a long day in the office: music is full-time job. Berlin is bursting with countless record labels, studio spaces, nightclubs, festivals, music apps and street musicians who all make livelihoods – and a way of life – from music.

Berlin’s streets are performance spaces

From outside the train station at Warschauer to Mauerpark on Sundays, Berlin’s buskers love to bring their music out of the concert venues and into the streets. This is where a lot of the magic happens for both audience and street performer, as every music lover knows.

Music family

When your entire WG (flat-share) gathers around a laptop to watch the new Gorillaz feat. Benjamin Clementine video, and you’re holding onto each other with gaping eyes and mouths.

Headphones are your number one accessory

Headphones provide the soundtrack while traveling the city on trains. Something gritty, grey and overcrowded is given fresh perspective when looked at with a musical accompaniment, elevating an ordinary scene into an artistic moment. Music lovers understand the need to carry headphones everywhere, the music they provide when cruising cityscapes help to get along with the mundane tasks of life and find beauty in its flaws.

Everything is OK as long as there is music

Giving the death stare to people talking during concerts

When watching live music, whether it’s their favorite band or an unknown artist they’re going to discover, music lovers are very committed to giving their full ears. People who chit chat during the concert will receive a silencing stare, or are sometimes even asked to be quiet. People go to music shows to listen to the music, and not to catch up on what Sharon in accounting did at work today.

When people say they’re super-fans, but only know the most famous song

Music lovers find it very hard to swallow this claim, but have to most times to avoid being a music snob. When people in Berlin go to watch a concert and the crowd is relatively placid and restless up until they play the hit songs, which is the only reason they’ve ever heard of the band in the first place. Music lovers still try to enjoy the concert through the plethora of camera phones that have suddenly popped up to capture the #bestbandever.

Music lovers know the entire discography of bands they love

Texting your friends your evening schedule

When you write out your evening itinerary of musical events that begins with a folk festival at 6.00 p.m. and ends with a new techno club opening at 2.00 a.m., and the gig of a guy playing the Spanish guitar somewhere in the middle.

“In the pocket”

When a musician or music lover describes someone as being “in the pocket,” they are talking about someone who really knows how to hit those drums or tickle that guitar. It’s a compliment reserved for someone exuding rhythm and finesse when they play, someone born with the groove inside of them.

Music all the time, everywhere

When you decide to venture out of the city for a relaxing day by the lake, to be with nature and the birds, except everyone there has brought their own wireless speaker and by 3.00 p.m. it’s really just a mini-festival.

The all-black attire

Berliners dedicated to the techno scene understand that black is the color of the night, and the “unofficial official” dress code for clubs. High heels and a sexy red dress will make you stand out, but if you happen to be in the queue for Berghain with a get-up like that, your chances of getting into the techno temple are very slim.

Buying tickets months in advance

The favorite pastime of the music lover in Berlin is to go to concerts, and with a new band in town almost every night of the week, that’s where all their money goes. Music lovers also know to get their tickets well in advance, leaving nothing to chance because every big show in Berlin seems to sell out.

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