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Spy club re-launch this Saturday

Spy club re-launch this Saturday at Department in Mitte. Check the gay Berlin calendar and search for Spy for details and the line up. You can even get dinner!

Spy Club relaunches

Bob Young (promoter of GMF) and his team start on a new mission 29 September with the official relaunch of Spy Club under the leadership of Rolf Scheider. It's all happening at Department (previously Rodeo Club) an imposing three storey building at August Strasse 5a and they start with a French theme. The party begins at 23:00 but you can go early at 20:30 for a French food, French singer and burlesque performance. 80€ includes cocktail, ½ litre of wine or Crémant, whatever that is. Reservation required. Later they have dancing on two floors with DJs Tapesh (Get Physical, Noir), Oliver Tabillion (COOP, Asphalt) and Bader & Bernhard on the small one.

SPY CLUB GOES EDIBLE

Spy club at Cookies is hosted by Cookies Cream this August 27. And there's a three course veggie mail round the back from 22:00. The party kicks off at 23:00 in the regular location with DJs Rampa, Kollektiv Ost and Joey Hansom. Click the headline for details.

SPY CLUB - DD REVIEW

Last month team damaged went to Spy Club at Cookies to check it out. It was a very nice surprise. It says it is on the corner of Friedrichstrasse and Unter den Linden. It is. And on the same corner as the Westin Grand hotel, so it looks like part of that and we worried that it might be too up-market for us. No such problem. We arrived about 00:30, got quickly past the friendly doorman (no queue) and it was the usual murky entrance to a gay Berlin club. Once we had done the coat check and navigated tortuous corridors we found the large dance floor and bar which was busy enough and filling fast.

It's a big room with two bars, plenty of seating and a large dance floor. There's another small room with a bar where the Jailbait crew (lower pic) were DJ-ing. It doubles as a smoking room. It was a fog in there, even for a diehard smoker like me. The other punters were mostly young gay men, up for it, dressed sexily in every style including nothing but running shorts. To begin with we preferred Jackee Word and Jailbait's tunes but then the minimal electro on the main floor caught our mood and we joined the other dancers there. Before we left about 3am it was rammed and staff said it usually got even busier.

The bar staff were perfect: Numerous, happy, smiley, sexy and fast. It was instant beer (4.50€) whenever you went to the bar. There were a couple of security staff around as well, one of them seemed permanently stationed in the larger toilet. The other didn't have much to do except to tell absent minded smokers who lit up to get into the smoking room.

Bottom line: Good dancing, good space, good service, good boys, good fun.

Where	Friedrichstrasse/ Unter den Linden, Berlin-Mitte
When	Once a month (usually 4th Saturday) / 10€
Web	http://www.spyclub.de/
Attracts	Young crowd 20s-30s, some ladies. Some fashionistas
Quantity	500-900
Darkroom	No
Dance	Yes

GAY JOB FAIR SAT 28 MAY

Berlin is normally known as the home of work shy party animals. It's all about to change with the arrival of Europe's only gay job fair the MILK-Messe on Saturday May 28. Companies like IBM, Deutsche Bank, Google, Allianz and Deutsche Post will be there showing what nice gay friendly employers they can be. And it's followed by an official after party at Spy club with discount entry. It's hetero friendly ;-)

 

We read about this on queer.de (here) and they are offering a 5€ discount on the 11€ tickets if you enter the Aktionscode "queerde". Tickets here. More details on the fair here.

Spy Club at Cookies

Spy Club at Cookies is now every 2nd Friday of the month. Next one on the Friday 14th. Its in your gay Berlin calendar.

As far as we can see from the image we were sent, the DJs will be Tama Sumo (Panoramma Bar), Zoe (GMF) and Karin & Julie. Cookies is at Friedrichstraße/ Unter den Linden, Mitte .