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Royal Arena: What Copenhagen Gained (and Lost) With a Proper Big Room
The city finally got an arena the big tours would stop for — and paid for it in intimacy
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Columbia Theater and Huxleys, Berlin: Two Rooms in Old West Berlin
A former GI cinema by Tempelhof and an 1880 pleasure garden in Neukölln — two mid-sized Berlin rooms with long, strange pedigrees
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SO36: Kreuzberg's Punk Cathedral
The Oranienstraße room where West Berlin punk was born, and where it still lives
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Docks and Markthalle: Hamburg's Reeperbahn Rock Rooms
A cinema on the Reeperbahn and a market hall by the station — two of Hamburg's essential mid-size stages
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Loppen: Christiania's Sweatbox Where the Sound Still Wins
A few hundred bodies, one low attic room, and a PA that refuses to lose
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John Dee, Oslo: Rockefeller's Little Sister
The 500-capacity basement club under the old Oslo bathhouse, where the heavy circuit lands before it graduates upstairs
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Rockefeller: Oslo Rock in an Old Bathhouse
How a 1930s public baths on Torggata became the anchor of Norwegian live music
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Debaser: Stockholm's Waterside Rock Institution
Named after a Pixies song, marooned under a bridge on Södermalm, and still swinging
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Den Grå Hal: Christiania's Cathedral of Noise
The biggest room in the Freetown, an 1891 riding hall that swallows sound whole
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Tavastia: Helsinki's Legendary Rock Club
Fifty-odd years of Finnish noise in a stubborn old house off Urho Kekkosen katu
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Posten: Odense's Loyal Little Rock Room
A converted postal package house by the station has been Odense's rock stronghold for nearly forty years — the third pillar of provincial Danish live music
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Doornroosje, Nijmegen: The Dutch Room That Rebuilt Itself
From a squat in an abandoned school to a purpose-built hall by the station — fifty years of one stubborn Nijmegen venue
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Slaktkyrkan, Stockholm: The Deconsecrated-Church Metal Venue
A former slaughterhouse hall in Stockholm's old meatpacking district, reborn as a black-box for the heavy end
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VEGA: The Union Hall That Became Denmark's Best-Sounding Room
Inside Vilhelm Lauritzen's listed functionalist temple on Enghavevej
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Voxhall and Train: Aarhus Rock, Where I Started
The two central Aarhus clubs that raised a generation of Jutland gig-goers — including me — reviewed by someone who grew up in their sweat
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Parken: What Happens When a Football Ground Becomes a Stage
Denmark's national stadium was built for football and drafted into stadium rock — what the pitch, the roof and 50,000 bodies do to a gig
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Docken and Forum: Copenhagen's Big Utility Rooms
A raw salt warehouse in Nordhavn and a functionalist exhibition hall from 1926 — the city's two flexible mid-big rooms, and how to survive them
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Pumpehuset: Rock in an Old Waterworks, With a Beer Garden Out Back
The yellow-brick sweatbox on Studiestræde, and the garden that saves you
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KB Hallen: The Hall That Burned and Came Back
Frederiksberg's functionalist arena died in a 2011 fire and was rebuilt as a near-copy of itself — here's what that costs and what it keeps
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Hotel Cecil: The Copenhagen Club That Time Swallowed
One funkis building in the old town that has been a hotel, a theatre stage, and the city's great jazz house in turn
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013, Tilburg: Roadburn's Home Room
The purpose-built Dutch pop hall that became the doom world's annual pilgrimage site
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Ideal Bar and Lille VEGA: The Small Rooms Where Careers Start
The two intimate stages hiding inside Vesterbro's VEGA complex, where tomorrow's headliners play tonight
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Rust: Where Nørrebro Goes to Lose the Plot
The three-floor Guldbergsgade institution that turns from live room to nightclub as the hour gets late
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Stengade: Nørrebro's Sweatbox for the Underground
The squat-born Nørrebro club that has carried Copenhagen's loud fringe since 1972
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Bremen Teater, Copenhagen: Gigs in the Grand Old Theatre
A raked mid-century auditorium on Nyropsgade that swaps a rock club's shove for chandeliers and a proper seated view
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Radar, Aarhus: His Hometown's Loud Room
The 300-capacity regional venue in the old Godsbanen freight yard, and the Musikcaféen it grew out of
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Amager Bio: Copenhagen's Perfect Mid-Size Room
The Amager cinema that traded film reels for a 1,300-capacity live floor
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Nosturi, Helsinki: The Beloved Room We Lost
An elegy for the seaside crane-hall that ran Finnish live music for twenty years, until the developers came for the shore