{"id":1114,"date":"2021-04-14T05:58:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T05:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/competition-archives-uberlin\/"},"modified":"2021-04-14T05:58:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T05:58:44","slug":"competition-archives-uberlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/competition-archives-uberlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition Archives &#8211; \u00fcberlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post hentry\">\n<h5 class=\"postDate\"><abbr class=\"published\" title=\"2015-09-28T11:16:03+0000\">September 28, 2015<\/abbr><\/h5>\n<div class=\"postContent\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"\/free-standup-win-a-pair-of-tickets-for-josie-long-live\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Free standup! Win a pair of tickets for Josie Long live<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"vcard author\">by <span class=\"fn\">James Glazebrook<\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p id=\"top\"\/>\n<div id=\"attachment_14495\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-14495\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/www.josielong.com14.jpg\" alt=\"Josie Long by Idil Sukan @ drawhq.com\" width=\"650\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/www.josielong.com14.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/www.josielong.com14-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josie Long by Idil Sukan @ drawhq.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>[EDIT: this competition is now closed. Click <a href=\"\/tag\/competition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> to see if we\u2019re running any open competitions]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hands up who likes standup comedy? Right, everyone without their hand up can get the fuck out, because there&#8217;s nothing better than listening to a funny human&#8217;s stories and thoughts and jokes and that. And there are fewer funnier than <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.josielong.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josie Long<\/a><\/strong>, who&#8217;s been smashing it on British telly, the Edinburgh Fringe and countless stages for years now. So if you still have your hands up, put one down and use it scroll down to the bit where <strong>we&#8217;re giving away two pairs of tickets to Josie&#8217;s Berlin show next week<\/strong>. I don&#8217;t know what you should do with that other hand &#8211; maybe make a fist or a peace sign or something.\u270c\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know Josie, check out her awesome &#8220;Romance and Adventure&#8221; show below, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acast.com\/distractionpieces\/josie-long-distraction-pieces-podcast-with-scroobius-pip-14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this appearance<\/a> on one of <a href=\"\/epic-list-of-podcast-recommendations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">our favourite podcasts<\/a>, Scroobius Pip&#8217;s Distraction Pieces. You can get full details about the two Berlin shows over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1612410405695393\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Facebook<\/a>, buy tickets to Friday&#8217;s performance\u00a0via <a href=\"http:\/\/liveinberlin.co\/tickets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Live in Berlin<\/a>, and win tickets for Thursday below. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b9WBd_yvrg0?rel=0\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>HOW TO WIN 2 X TICKETS FOR JOSIE LONG\u00a0AT GRIESSMUEHLE\u00a0ON 8TH OCTOBER:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you and a friend want to get your giggle\u00a0on next Thursday? Just answer this question in the comments below:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Who&#8217;s your favourite standup? Include a link to something we can laugh at!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You have until 6pm on Friday 2nd October. Good luck!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Boring Bit (yawn, RULES):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. You must be at least 18 years old to enter.<br \/> 2. ONE ENTRY PER PERSON!<br \/> 3. We will keep a record of each comment in a database and then a random number generator picks the winner.<br \/> 4. Remember to include your full (real) name and email address or we won\u2019t be able to put you on the guestlist!<br \/> 5. We will notify the winners via email.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ssb-share ssb-share-14493 defualt\" post_id=\"14493\">\n<div class=\"defualt-button-fb\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/web.archive.orghttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http:\/\/www.uberlin.co.uk\/free-standup-win-a-pair-of-tickets-for-josie-long-live\/&amp;width&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=false&amp;height=21&amp;appId=743541755673761\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; height:21px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe> \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"defualt-button-twitter\"> \t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"\/free-standup-win-a-pair-of-tickets-for-josie-long-live\/\">Tweet<\/a>  \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"postMeta\">\n<div class=\"postMetaCategory\">Category: <a href=\"\/category\/opinions\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Opinions<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"postMetaTag\">Tags: <a href=\"\/tag\/comedy\/\" rel=\"tag\">comedy<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/competition\/\" rel=\"tag\">Competition<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/josie-long\/\" rel=\"tag\">Josie Long<\/a><\/div>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<div class=\"comments\">                                 <a href=\"\/free-standup-win-a-pair-of-tickets-for-josie-long-live\/#comments\">6 comments<\/a>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post hentry\">\n<h5 class=\"postDate\"><abbr class=\"published\" title=\"2015-09-21T08:53:53+0000\">September 21, 2015<\/abbr><\/h5>\n<div class=\"postContent\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"\/win-2-x-2-tickets-to-between-the-buried-and-me\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Win 2 x 2 tickets to Between the Buried and Me!<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"vcard author\">by <span class=\"fn\">James Glazebrook<\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p id=\"top\"\/><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.metalinjection.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BTBAM-Coma-Ecliptic.jpg?fit=750%2C1000\" alt=\"Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic\" width=\"650\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>[EDIT: this competition is now closed. Click <a href=\"\/tag\/competition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> to see if we\u2019re running any open competitions]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>B-bands are smashing it in metal at the moment! We&#8217;ve just been raving about <a href=\"\/dont-stay-true-the-betrayal-of-bring-me-the-horizon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bring Me The Horizon<\/a>, but\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betweentheburiedandme.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Between the Buried and Me<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>may\u00a0have pipped them for our album of the year so far.\u00a0Like BMTH, BTBAM are pushing metalcore into new, exciting directions, albeit down the weirder progressive, concept-album path towards full-blown rock opera. Check out the video for &#8220;The Coma Machine&#8221; to find out what the frig that sounds like in 2015, and scroll down to <strong>win a pair of tickets to the band&#8217;s upcoming Berlin show!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/127734366?color=ffffff\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>HOW TO WIN 2 X TICKETS FOR THE BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME\u00a0AT MUSIK &amp; FRIEDEN\u00a0ON 29TH SEPTEMBER:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you and a friend want to get your prog on at\u00a0Musik &amp; Frieden (formerly Magnet)\u00a0next Tuesday? Just answer this question in the comments below:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What\u2019s your pick for album of the year so far (in any genre)?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You have until 6pm on Friday 25th September. Good luck!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Boring Bit (yawn, RULES):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. You must be at least 18 years old to enter.<br \/> 2. ONE ENTRY PER PERSON!<br \/> 3. We will keep a record of each comment in a database and then a random number generator picks the winner.<br \/> 4. Remember to include your full (real) name and email address or we won\u2019t be able to put you on the guestlist!<br \/> 5. We will notify the winners via email.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ssb-share ssb-share-14448 defualt\" post_id=\"14448\">\n<div class=\"defualt-button-fb\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/web.archive.orghttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http:\/\/www.uberlin.co.uk\/win-2-x-2-tickets-to-between-the-buried-and-me\/&amp;width&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=false&amp;height=21&amp;appId=743541755673761\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; height:21px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe> \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"defualt-button-twitter\"> \t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"\/win-2-x-2-tickets-to-between-the-buried-and-me\/\">Tweet<\/a>  \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"postMeta\">\n<div class=\"postMetaCategory\">Category: <a href=\"\/category\/music\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Music<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"postMetaTag\">Tags: <a href=\"\/tag\/competition\/\" rel=\"tag\">Competition<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/metal\/\" rel=\"tag\">Metal<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/metalcore\/\" rel=\"tag\">Metalcore<\/a><\/div>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<div class=\"comments\">                                 <a href=\"\/win-2-x-2-tickets-to-between-the-buried-and-me\/#comments\">7 comments<\/a>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post hentry\">\n<h5 class=\"postDate\"><abbr class=\"published\" title=\"2015-07-26T08:37:07+0000\">July 26, 2015<\/abbr><\/h5>\n<div class=\"postContent\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"\/win-pair-tickets-dillinger-escape-plan-m\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Win a pair of tickets to The Dillinger Escape Plan m\/<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"vcard author\">by <span class=\"fn\">James Glazebrook<\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p id=\"top\"\/>\n<div id=\"attachment_14071\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/benweinman\/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-14071\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Untitled.png\" alt=\"@benweinman on instagram\" width=\"650\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Untitled.png 632w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Untitled-150x150.png 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Untitled-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">@benweinman on instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>[EDIT: this competition is now closed.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/demons_galore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click\u00a0<\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"\/tag\/competition\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', '\/tag\/competition\/', 'here');\" title=\"\u00fcberlin competitions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>\u00a0to see if we\u2019re running any open competitions]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WTF. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dillingerescapeplan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Dillinger Escape Plan<\/a><\/strong> have to be the maddest band on the planet. Have a look at their craziest moments, and scroll down to find how to win 2 tickets to see them test Postbahnhof&#8217;s fire codes next Sunday, August 16th.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YGJSL8zlqIY?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>HOW TO WIN 2 X TICKETS FOR THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN AT POSTBAHNHOF ON 16TH AUGUST:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Want to headwalk your way to Postbahnof next Sunday? Just answer this question in the comments below:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What\u2019s the craziest concert you\u2019ve ever been to?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You have until 6pm on Friday 7th August. Good luck!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Boring Bit (yawn, RULES):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. You must be at least 18 years old to enter.<br \/> 2. ONE ENTRY PER PERSON!<br \/> 3. We will keep a record of each comment in a database and then a random number generator picks the winner.<br \/> 4. Remember to include your full (real) name and email address or we won\u2019t be able to put you on the guestlist!<br \/> 5. We will notify the winners via email.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ssb-share ssb-share-14066 defualt\" post_id=\"14066\">\n<div class=\"defualt-button-fb\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/web.archive.orghttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http:\/\/www.uberlin.co.uk\/win-pair-tickets-dillinger-escape-plan-m\/&amp;width&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=false&amp;height=21&amp;appId=743541755673761\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; height:21px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe> \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"defualt-button-twitter\"> \t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"\/win-pair-tickets-dillinger-escape-plan-m\/\">Tweet<\/a>  \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"postMeta\">\n<div class=\"postMetaCategory\">Category: <a href=\"\/category\/music\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Music<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"postMetaTag\">Tags: <a href=\"\/tag\/competition\/\" rel=\"tag\">Competition<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/metal\/\" rel=\"tag\">Metal<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/the-dillinger-escape-plan\/\" rel=\"tag\">The Dillinger Escape Plan<\/a><\/div>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<div class=\"comments\">                                 <a href=\"\/win-pair-tickets-dillinger-escape-plan-m\/#comments\">7 comments<\/a>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post hentry\">\n<h5 class=\"postDate\"><abbr class=\"published\" title=\"2015-07-15T07:39:29+0000\">July 15, 2015<\/abbr><\/h5>\n<div class=\"postContent\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"\/wedding-workers-foreigners-beer\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Wedding: Workers, Foreigners and Beer<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"vcard author\">by <span class=\"fn\">Guest Blogger<\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p id=\"top\"\/>\n<div id=\"attachment_14017\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/linkaaodom.com\/\"><img class=\"size-large wp-image-14017\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Wedding_LinkaAOdom-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Linka A Odom\" width=\"650\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Wedding_LinkaAOdom-1024x768.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Wedding_LinkaAOdom-300x225.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Wedding_LinkaAOdom.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Linka A Odom<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>[EDIT: this competition is now closed.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/demons_galore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click\u00a0<\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"\/tag\/competition\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', '\/tag\/competition\/', 'here');\" title=\"\u00fcberlin competitions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>\u00a0to see if we\u2019re running any open competitions]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Letters<i> from Berlin<\/i>\u00a0is a collection of 12 weekly essays, each focussed on a different district of the city. Bringing together photographers, filmmakers, writers, translators and theatre directors,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thepigeonhole.com\/books\/letters-from-berlin\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>Letters from Berlin<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0(published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepigeonhole.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Pigeonhole<\/a>) reflects the many creative facets of this uncanny city, creating an album of vivid snapshots.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Enjoy an excerpt from one of our favourite essays,\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marcel-krueger.squarespace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marcel Kr\u00fcger&#8217;s<\/a> walk through Wedding, and enter our competition\u00a0to win a free subscription to the series.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Links, links, links, links,<br \/> Ein Lump wer kapituliert.<br \/> Links, links, links, link!<br \/> Der rote Wedding marschiert!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2013 Erich Weinert, 1929<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Wedding was a raw expanse of towerblocks, tattoo pits, kebab shops. Nogoodniks in mauve-coloured tracksuits decorated every corner. We had a properly respectful air as we passed through. This was how Berlin was supposed to be. [\u2026] The rearsides of the towerblocks loomed either side of a dirt pathway itchy with catkins beneath our sandals, and the word \u2018proletariat\u2019 rolled its glamorous syllables over my tongue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2013 Kevin Barry, from \u2018Berlin Arkonaplatz \u2013 My Lesbian Summer\u2019, 2012<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Sometimes I think that while Berlin is the ever-changing Moloch on the plains of Brandenburg and the wetlands of the Spree, its outgrowth Wedding has remained endearingly static over the last fifty years. Maybe it always had a certain roguishness that prevented beautification and change. Wedding is allegedly always up-and-coming. \u2018<em>Der Wedding kommt<\/em>\u2019, Wedding is coming, some of my friends used to say when I visited Berlin for the first time in 2001, staying near the fleshpots of then ungentrified Prenzlauer Berg. Some keep repeating it to this day. <em>Der Wedding kommt<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Sunday, by now after lunchtime and I\u2019ve walked a bit: it\u2019s definitely time for refreshments. I take a detour from Seestra\u00dfe and step into a neighbourhood brewery, Vagabund Brauerei on Antwerpener Stra\u00dfe. Three American home brewers opened a small taproom here in 2013, and they serve their own craft brews together with classic German and Belgian beers.<\/p>\n<p>Like many other working-class areas, Wedding has a long tradition of brewing, which is slowly being rejuvenated. On nearby M\u00fcllerstra\u00dfe is Eschenbr\u00e4u, one of Berlin\u2019s first craft breweries, open since 2001, and also close by is the best small beer speciality store in Berlin, Hopfen &amp; Malz. There\u2019s also the VLB Berlin (Versuch- u. Lehranstalt f\u00fcr Brauerei in Berlin), which provides research, training, education and service for the brewing industry. Founded in 1883, it moved to its current location on Seestra\u00dfe in 1898, and until 1981 it even operated the <em>Hochschul Brauerei<\/em>, or brewery university, where students could try brewing different types of beer, which were then sold to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Vagabund Brewery has become a poster child for the local craft beer scene. It has been featured in articles in <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, <em>Forbes<\/em> travel, <em>Der Spiegel<\/em> and a plethora of German newspapers feting the craft-beer trend. One could easily say that Vagabund is a pub catering only to moustachioed expat drinkers and not to locals and is therefore a prime example of gentrification pushing out existing social structures, a topic hotly discussed in Berlin. As I enter the bright interior of the taproom, almost deserted so early on a Sunday afternoon, I\u2019m glad to see both Matt Walthall and David Spengler, two of the three owners, manning the bar. We soon start chatting about beer and gentrification.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018So often people ask us about this \u201ctrend\u201d of locally brewed craft beer,\u2019 Matt says. \u2018David and I studied history, and that is part of what draws us to brewing: there\u2019s so much history involved. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, every Berlin neighbourhood had its own brewery \u2013 so, for us, the whole appeal is not about being trendsetters. We clearly see ourselves as part of a tradition.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We didn\u2019t plan to come to Wedding specifically. We looked all over Berlin for a year and a half, but we couldn\u2019t find the right combination of brew room, taproom and a big enough basement. I was actually the one who was the most sceptical of Wedding \u2013 I thought of Bernauer Stra\u00dfe, Plattenbauten and so on. And then I moved here and now I\u2019m the biggest promoter. Wedding still has a strong community feel to it, and there are no areas here where whole blocks have been bought by developers, like in Neuk\u00f6lln. And it\u2019s one of the few places in Berlin where the classic population structures have not been pushed out \u2013 the majority of our neighbours have been here for twenty or thirty years.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the neighbouring commercial establishments are a strange mix of shisha bars, corner pubs with Sternenburger posters (\u2018Sterni\u2019 is the cheap and mass-produced Berlin beer preferred by many inhabitants of Wedding) and bookmakers with bright neon signs reflecting off the street\u2019s wet cobblestones. Three years ago, a man ran amok on the street here, armed with two knives and an axe, and was shot by the police. But in general nowadays, things are fairly quiet.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We love how laid back the street is,\u2019 David chips in. \u2018Sometimes when I\u2019m in some of those \u201chappening\u201d districts down in the southeast of the city, I\u2019m amazed because there\u2019s just so many people. In our little promenade street, it\u2019s much more laid-back and chill. I also like knowing the people from the neighbourhood and even having a drink with them sometimes. I think that might be harder to do somewhere else.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018In the beginning I was quite nervous about whether the neighbours would accept us,\u2019 Matt admits. \u2018There was this elderly woman walking past the shop every day when we were renovating, and she was always giving us this look, and I thought, \u201cShe probably hates us.\u201d Then one day when I was outside cleaning the windows she came up to me and said, \u201cOh I\u2019m so glad that you kids are here now!\u201d Afterwards we learned that the previous tenants were Hell\u2019s Angels.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>I ask David how he feels about gentrification, especially in Wedding.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I guess some people would consider us gentrifiers,\u2019 he says, \u2018but really, that word just plain sucks, along with its negative connotations. We didn\u2019t take over the entire block with the intention of knocking down all the old buildings, building new high-rise apartment complexes and charging three times the rent. That, to me, is \u201cgentrification\u201d. We just built a small brewery and bar in a place that once sold heroin out the back door. If a small, independently owned coffee shop or bookstore or chess store opens up, is that also gentrification? Where is the line, the gentrifi-demarcation? I made that last word up, by the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We both laugh, and I drain my glass. Time to walk more of Wedding. I finally hop on one of the trams and travel along Osloer Stra\u00dfe to the former border, clanking past the <em>Currywurst<\/em> booth on the corner of Prinzenallee, where sausages are served with the hottest sauces in Berlin; they have names like \u2018Pain Is Good\u2019, \u2018Ground Zero\u2019 and \u2018Holy Shit\u2019. We cross the Panke, the small, ancient river that runs all the way from Bernau in Brandenburg through Pankow and Wedding until it ends in the Berlin-Spandau shipping canal, another former border between East and West. I switch from tram to U-Bahn and emerge onto the corner of Brunnenstra\u00dfe and Bernauer Stra\u00dfe soon after.<\/p>\n<p>After the Second World War, Wedding became part of the French sector of Berlin. French troops occupied a large military complex near Tegel airport and erected a cultural centre complete with a 15-metre-high faux Eiffel Tower on M\u00fcllerstra\u00dfe. They protected the Western Sector, but the development of prospering Wedding still lay in the hands of the West Berlin city council.<\/p>\n<p>The buildings on the north side of Wedding&#8217;s Bernauer Stra\u00dfe and the street itself, including sidewalks, were in the Allied sector, while the buildings along the southern side were in Soviet territory. When the Berlin Wall was erected in August 1961, many of those who lived in these buildings frantically jumped from their windows before the buildings were evacuated and the windows bricked up. Wedding was also the western terminus of one of the first refugee tunnels dug underneath the Berlin Wall. The tunnel ran from the basement of an abandoned factory on Sch\u00f6nholzer Stra\u00dfe in the Soviet sector to another building in the West, passing underneath Bernauer Stra\u00dfe. Though well constructed and successfully kept a secret, the tunnel was plagued by water from leaking pipes and had to be shut down after only a few days of operation. Near the spot on Bernauer Stra\u00dfe where the tunnel ended, a section of the Wall has been reconstructed as one of the official memorials to the division of Germany.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks before my walk, I was talking to Sven Goldmann, a journalist for the Berlin newspaper <em>Der Tagesspiegel<\/em>, who remembers growing up in Wedding during the Cold War: \u2018My grandmother often reminded us how good we had it,\u2019 he told me. \u2018In the Thirties, Wedding had been a communist area and dangerous. People were shot here. Every third man was out of work and the women were sitting at home. Well, my grandmother was old. The younger generations had a better time: all the communists were living behind the Berlin wall, and there were no people out of work here. As kids we were happy: our parents worked at the Wittler bread factory in Maxstra\u00dfe or at the Rotaprint printing press, and we played football on the many empty spaces among the buildings. Well, at least until the builders came and we had to find another pitch.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As Annett Gr\u00f6schner writes in <i>City Spaces: Filling in Berlin&#8217;s Gaps<\/i> (Readux, 2015; trans. Katy Derbyshire), when the Wall was built, the neighbourhood around Brunnenstra\u00dfe \u2018lent itself to urban planning experiments. For the reconstruction of Wedding, soon revealed as its eradication, a gigantic money-wasting machine was set in motion, private land was bought up by non-commercial housing associations, old houses demolished and new ones built that looked thin-skinned and made only for sleeping in.\u2019 Today, this is known as Brunnenviertel, a striking conglomeration of 1970s concrete and plastic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2018One day our teacher took us to one of the watchtowers for tourists, from where we could observe East Berlin,\u2019 Sven Goldman said, \u2018and she told us how lucky we were to have all the new buildings here while the people in the East had to live in the shabby old houses.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>After the Wall fell and capitalism had defeated communism, Wedding suffered. In a united Germany, Berlin companies no longer received state subventions, and many of the factories in Wedding closed as business was outsourced. In the last twenty-five years, unemployment in Wedding has been at a steady fifteen per cent, and even though there are initiatives by both state and city to tackle this, it seems many people here will remain without jobs for the foreseeable future. Petty crime is also widespread. Soldiner Stra\u00dfe near Gesundbrunnen, for example, had such a bad name that footballers at the 2006 World Cup described it as \u2018Berlin\u2019s Soweto\u2019. Around the turn of the millennium, various groups were formed in an attempt to bring some positive energy to the area. The arts initiative Kolonie Wedding, founded in 2001, set up studios and galleries in what would be otherwise empty shop fronts and once a month hosts coordinated vernissage weekends with walking tours between the different venues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I take the U-Bahn and re-emerge from its depths on Nauener Platz, where the owner of the local kebab shop calls me \u2018neighbour\u2019 every time I stop by, and where a punk with beer on his breath once helped me out with washing powder at the laundrette. I reach my little apartment building again, the grey, two-storeyed one, nestled between the five-storey Wilheminian buildings to its left and right. The sun is finally out and the drunkard\/madman gone, and on the other side of the street Turkish teenagers sit on benches in the park tilting their sunglassed faces skywards. As I enter the building, I find a poster hung there by Berlin police, informing me that someone has broken into our building while I have been out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is Wedding: fifty-year-old corner pubs that once catered to off-shift workers and now serve those in need of a drink at ten in the morning; communists, resistance fighters and morphine addicts; a mini Eiffel Tower and young Americans reanimating the age-old brewing tradition of Prussian Berlin. It\u2019s not a particularly nice place, but it is a prime example of the fascinating ruggedness often associated with Berlin that is fast disappearing from many other places throughout the city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOW TO WIN A FREE SUBSCRIPTION FOR\u00a0<em>LETTERS FROM BERLIN<\/em>\u00a0\u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just leave us a comment below. The first 10 comments get a free subscription!<\/p>\n<p>You have until 6pm on Friday 24th July\u00a0to enter.\u00a0Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>The Boring Bit (yawn, RULES):<\/p>\n<p>1. 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Destroyed, divided and held captive during a century of chaos and upheaval, borderless Berlin has yet remained a city where drifters, dreamers and outsiders can find a place \u2014 and finally run free. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In <em>City of Exiles<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuartbraun.com\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.stuartbraun.com\/', 'Stuart Braun');\" title=\"Stuart Braun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stuart Braun<\/a> evokes the restless spirits that have come and gone from Berlin across the last century, the itinerants who are the source of the Berliner Luft, the special free air that infuses this beguiling metropolis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more about <em>City of Exiles\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CityofExiles\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CityofExiles', 'here');\" title=\"City of Exiles on Facebook\">here<\/a>, attend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1588067188099856\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1588067188099856\/', 'its launch at Agora');\" title=\"City of Exiles Berlin book launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">its launch at Agora<\/a>, read an excerpt below and, after\u00a0that, find out how to win a signed copy of the book.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I needed to get out of<br \/> Australia, and Berlin had<br \/> long been my Plan B.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It was, I\u2019ll admit, a pretty vague plan. I\u2019d spent some inspired weeks in Berlin in \u201996, had often professed love for the city. But I was young then. The years passed. That fabled summer was fading into the mists of my wasted youth.<\/p>\n<p>Yet out of all the cities I had travelled and sometimes lived in, Berlin was the one that gave me hope. It was my promised place \u2014 the salve for my savage restlessness.<\/p>\n<p>In Australia, I\u2019d been making documentaries about the Aboriginal people I had met on the streets of inner-city Melbourne. Maybe I was trying to belong, trying to connect with the indigenous history of a land I believed was not really mine.<\/p>\n<p>I was also doing bits of writing but it hadn\u2019t quite clicked since I\u2019d returned from Tokyo\u2014the city I escaped to in the early 2000s, and where I consolidated my career as a journalist and writer. Melbourne was a nice change from my hometown of Sydney. I had many friends in the city. I had found love in Melbourne. But I kept dreaming of escape. I kept dreaming of Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>What was the problem? Hard to say. Australia\u2019s beautiful. It\u2019s supposed to be wild and free. I find it very controlling. Too many rules. And competitive. Stressful. Trying to get ahead. To fulfil the dream of owning a big house \u2014 two big houses, preferably.<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne was once a little like Berlin. It was affordable, sort of European, home to many artists. But these days you need a million bucks to live in Melbourne. It started to feel segregated, as my Aboriginal friends who were getting kicked off the streets they call home will confirm. And you had to drive. You sat in traffic a lot with all the people trying to get back to the safety of their big house. I don\u2019t know. I suppose I\u2019d always felt a kind of anxiety in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>It was 2006, and like a good citizen I got a bank loan and bought a house. Mine was off-grid, fitted with a couple of solar panels, the cheapest one bedroom in the state on a dirt road to nowhere. A little cottage in the mountains where I could escape the city, write and build some kind of foundation. It was paradise up there in the rainforest with the kookaburras. A real sanctuary. But I kept thinking that I needed to move to Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>I was making a documentary about the Aboriginal community in the Fitzroy district of Melbourne\u2014the Black Mile that was being recolonised through gentrification \u2014 when I decided it was finally time to go. Luckily, my partner Melisa agreed.<\/p>\n<p>It had been 13 years. I could barely remember Berlin. But I had a strong sense of it. As we flew in over the outlying forests and lakes in the autumn of 2009, I felt like I was coming home. People welcomed us into the city, angels on trains and sidewalks showing us the way. After a week in Berlin, I wrote this in my notebook.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the city where Walter Benjamin and the National Socialist Party were born, a city of great humanity and horror, my companion and I have decided to create history. One is only as good as his and her address, and so our metropolitan moment can now be had, our time on the good strasse where the world has come to meet, merge, emerge. It\u2019s the time of the gypsies and we\u2019ve made it, just, easily, not knowing how, when, where, why, but staying on track, on song, en route to this prehistoric, predestined, preternatural gathering in the land of the goths.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The National Socialist Party was born in Munich (something Berliners are proud of), but what did I know? I was writing crap in a 30-cent exercise book I\u2019d recently purchased in India, about a city I had been in for exactly seven days. But looking at the words again a few years later, I\u2019m struck by the line about the place where the world has come to meet, the words &#8220;preternatural gathering&#8221;, words that resonated and seemingly inspired me to write this book.<\/p>\n<p>Subconsciously, I knew that I was now living in a city of exiles. I was one of many. I was among people who had nearly all come to Berlin from elsewhere. Some were privileged soul-searchers like me, some came because this long divided and bankrupt city was relatively empty and cheap and gave people the freedom to do their own thing, to make their art. Some were real exiles: refugees from war-torn Sierra Leone; Palestinians who had lost their home forever; Germans who had escaped to a walled, demilitarised city in the 1970s to avoid joining the army; Greeks and Spaniards fleeing austerity and unending deep recession. Oh, and don\u2019t forget the dogs. Many are refugees, like our Spanish street dog who was rescued from certain death. We take him to bars, restaurants, the office, on the train. He\u2019s somehow free here and like many of Berlin\u2019s exiles, he needed to get out of somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>When I wrote those words about the time of the gypsies, I didn\u2019t know what I was saying. But now that I think about it, I wrote those words because I quickly felt that a certain kind of vagabond, of free spirit, was drawn to this city. Maybe I was writing in my notebook about the meeting of another Lost Generation, like the one after the Great War, all those disillusioned souls who wanted to be writers and artists and sometimes ended up in Paris, but also Berlin, as I\u2019ll explain later. Maybe Berlin really was a great open street where the world had come to &#8220;meet, merge, emerge&#8221;. Maybe Berlin was a place where people try to be poetic.<\/p>\n<p><em>What will I do in Berlin?<\/em> I thought. <em>Will I write about the Stasi, or the Wall, or drinking and dancing and going to darkrooms and living on very little and having so much fun and losing my soul like they talked about <a href=\"\/gif-illustrated-guide-writing-berlin\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', '\/gif-illustrated-guide-writing-berlin\/', 'in all the magazines');\" title=\"The GIF Illustrated Guide to Writing about Berlin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in all the magazines<\/a>? <\/em> Berlin was having another mythological moment; it was the golden 1920s all over. But there was something else about this city, something that hadn\u2019t really been written about.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Berlin reminded me of the places in inner Melbourne where my Aboriginal friends had long gathered. They originally came from different tribes across the state, and many ended up in Melbourne after escaping missions, jails and children\u2019s homes in which they\u2019d been imprisoned\u2014often after being stolen from their parents. They gathered in these once working-class streets of Melbourne and set up a meeting place for a displaced generation. They created this place on their own terms, taking back squares and parks for themselves. They were still marginalised of course, and there were drugs, alcohol, fights and police harassment. But there was a freedom, a kind of self-determination that\u00a0I could identify with, that I was looking for I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a hazy comparison; but many people had similarly come to Berlin to live on their own terms. It was also a meeting place. Berlin was open to these exiles; it gave them space to build their world from the ground up. Not always. But the potential was there. Like the indigenous people from diverse regions who came to Melbourne and created a pan-Aboriginal identity, a necessary solidarity, Berlin\u2019s global tribes were also getting together. Here you had no family structures to fall back on. You had to work together. Plus there was no corporate money, no big investors or sponsors around. The good money went south to Munich and Frankfurt during the war and wall years and\u00a0never came back. That\u2019s why all the enterprise \u2014 the bars, galleries, clubs, outdoor markets and bookstores \u2014 seemed to be independent collaborations. You still don\u2019t see many chains. Meeting people who\u2019d been here a long time, they all talked about this idea of a Berlin family.<\/p>\n<p>As I started to think about Berlin as a sanctuary, and remembered that, in the 1980s, a band of Berlin exiles, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, recorded an old blues song here called &#8220;City of Refuge&#8221;, I started to realise that people had been coming to Berlin for similar reasons for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>It was 2010, and the American photographer Nan Goldin was in town to promote an exhibition of images taken during her Berlin years in the 1980s and \u201990s. She is a legend among some of my friends, and I\u2019d seen her very candid portrayals of the people she knew intimately in Berlin, some dying of AIDS, others living in squats. I attended the retrospective on the day that Goldin delivered a talk, and was struck by the following words:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The best years of my life were here in Berlin. I don\u2019t say that lightly. I\u2019ve been looking for a home all my life. The only place I feel myself and comfortable and feel real love for my friends is Berlin.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Goldin had been a runaway since she was a teen, finally escaping to New York before moving to Berlin. She now lives in Paris with her girlfriend. But Berlin remains the only true home she\u2019s ever had.<\/p>\n<p>My father, who, aged 16, fled Hungary as the Red Army put down the 1956 revolution, told me he could live in Berlin as he walked the city for the first time. He says it every time he returns. If only he had the means, he\u2019d move here. But why would he leave the sparkling east coast of Australia for this dark, decrepit city? Sure, the linden trees remind him of his village in Hungary. Yet it\u2019s difficult to say. He just feels good here.<\/p>\n<p>So I had something to write about: this idea of a city of exiles, this place where different kinds of people didn\u2019t necessarily just fit in, but felt good \u2014 not always, but in a fundamental way, a way that had long eluded many of them. I read about the Czech-Jewish writer Franz Kafka and his obsession with finding sanctuary in Berlin, the city that remained his mythical escape until his death, his \u2018antidote\u2019 to his despised hometown of Prague.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many have come to Berlin and have disliked it, or have just found it okay. They have not had the epiphany that Goldin or Kafka had. Some had little choice in coming to Berlin. Like the French Huguenots, who were escaping religious persecution in the late 1600s. They were offered sanctuary. They couldn\u2019t say no. They helped establish a template for tolerance in Berlin that I will get to later, and which partly explains why Jewish people were so integral to this city until 1933 \u2014 the year Hitler came to town from Munich, the year Berlin officially marks as the &#8220;destruction of diversity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s, <a href=\"\/tag\/david-bowie\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', '\/tag\/david-bowie\/', 'David Bowie');\" title=\"David Bowie on \u00fcberlin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Bowie<\/a>, like the Huguenots, found refuge in Berlin. I shouldn\u2019t mention Bowie. His Berlin story is cooked. I can hear my friends now \u2014 <em>no you didn\u2019t, of all the people, in the prologue!<\/em> But Bowie loved this town because he, like everyone else, could just be a Berliner. He moved around as he pleased. He was taken at face value. &#8220;I just can\u2019t express the feeling of freedom I felt there&#8221;, he said a little predictably.<\/p>\n<p>But what exactly is this feeling of freedom, and why has it endured? Why this city, built on a sandy swamp, a no man\u2019s land bordering East and West Europe? Why, despite the decades of conflagration, the crushing continental cold?<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of books have been written about a Berlin that grew up so fast, flowered so brilliantly, that was burnt, divided and held prisoner for half a century. They have inevitably pored over its restive history, its cultural effusions and totalitarian darknesses, its decadence, its ghosts, its secret police.<\/p>\n<p>But as my earlier notebook ranting about preternatural gatherings and the time of the gypsies alluded, I believe that Berlin is Berlin because of its strangers, its wanderers, its many displaced people who have come to build a kind of safe haven. These free-flowing exiles are the source of the freedom so many feel when they come to Berlin \u2014 they are the city\u2019s substance in a sense.<\/p>\n<p>I know; I\u2019m making a huge generalisation. But it\u2019s a means for me to explain why, as I walk and bicycle Berlin\u2019s cobbled and increasingly renovated streets, I feel so settled, more than I\u2019ve ever felt before. By trying to understand how this city of exiles came to be, maybe I can also hope to understand the place I left behind, and to one day go back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOW TO WIN A SIGNED COPY OF <em>CITY OF EXILES: BERLIN FROM THE OUTSIDE IN<\/em> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just leave us a comment below with the answer to this question:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>(apart from Bowie, Kafka, Nan Goldin and Nick Cave)<br \/> Who do you think is the quintessential Berliner-in-exile?<br \/> And why?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Our 2 favourite answers will win a signed copy of\u00a0<em>City of Exiles<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You have until 6pm on Tuesday 19th May\u00a0to enter.\u00a0Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>The Boring Bit (yawn, RULES):<\/p>\n<p>1. You must be 18 years or older to enter.<br \/> 2. ONE ENTRY PER PERSON!<br \/> 3.\u00a0Our favourite comments win. Simple as.<br \/> 4. If you win, we\u2019ll let you know by email and get your postal address.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ssb-share ssb-share-13645 defualt\" post_id=\"13645\">\n<div class=\"defualt-button-fb\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/web.archive.orghttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http:\/\/www.uberlin.co.uk\/city-of-exiles\/&amp;width&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=false&amp;height=21&amp;appId=743541755673761\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; height:21px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe> \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"defualt-button-twitter\"> \t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"\/city-of-exiles\/\">Tweet<\/a>  \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"postMeta\">\n<div class=\"postMetaCategory\">Category: <a href=\"\/category\/opinions\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Opinions<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"postMetaTag\">Tags: <a href=\"\/tag\/city-of-exiles\/\" rel=\"tag\">City of Exiles<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/competition\/\" rel=\"tag\">Competition<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/stuart-braun\/\" rel=\"tag\">Stuart Braun<\/a><\/div>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<div class=\"comments\">                                 <a href=\"\/city-of-exiles\/#comments\">7 comments<\/a>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post hentry\">\n<h5 class=\"postDate\"><abbr class=\"published\" title=\"2015-05-10T11:33:25+0000\">May 10, 2015<\/abbr><\/h5>\n<div class=\"postContent\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"\/win-2-tickets-torche-bi-nuu\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Win 2 tickets to Torche at Bi Nuu!<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"vcard author\">by <span class=\"fn\">Guest Blogger<\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p id=\"top\"\/><strong>by Mike T West.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>EDIT: this competition is now closed.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/demons_galore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click\u00a0<\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"\/tag\/competition\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', '\/tag\/competition\/', 'here');\" title=\"\u00fcberlin competitions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>\u00a0to see if we\u2019re running any open competitions]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sweet M\u00e4nnertag\/Vatertag\/Christi Himmelfahrt we&#8217;ve got\u00a0another long German weekend coming up. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re especially pumped to be giving away two pairs of tickets to see the crushing crushdom of sludge-stoner crushers &#8211; <strong>Torche!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WITH AN &#8220;E&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.torchemusic.com\/site\/wp-content\/gallery\/press-photos\/Torche-press-photo-4_JanetteValentine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Formed ten years ago in Miami, Florida, Torche have just released their fourth doom-pop opus, <em>Restarter<\/em>. The album finds them laying down some of their heaviest material to date and continuing to refine the band&#8217;s defiant metal-non-metal attitude.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/179663717&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>HOW TO WIN 2 TICKETS FOR TORCHE\u00a0AT BI NUU\u00a0ON SATURDAY 16TH MAY:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are teaming up with Landstreicher Konzerte and giving away two pairs of tickets for Torche&#8217;s show at Bi Nuu next Saturday. Just leave us a comment below with the answer to this question:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If you could invent a German public holiday to replace <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Father's_Day#.C2.A0Germany\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Father\\'s_Day#.C2.A0Germany', 'M\u00e4nnertag');\" title=\"M\u00e4nnertag on Wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">M\u00e4nnertag<\/a>, what would it be called?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You have until midnight on Tuesday\u00a012th May\u00a0to enter. GOOD LUCK!<\/p>\n<p><em>The Boring Bit (yawn, RULES):<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1. You must be 18 years or older to enter.<br \/> 2. ONE ENTRY PER PERSON!<br \/> 3.\u00a0We will keep a record of each comment in a database and then a random number generator picks the winner.<br \/> 4.\u00a0Remember to include your full (real) name and email address, so we can contact you if you win.<br \/> 5. We will notify the winners via email on Wednesday 13th May.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ssb-share ssb-share-13637 defualt\" post_id=\"13637\">\n<div class=\"defualt-button-fb\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/web.archive.orghttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http:\/\/www.uberlin.co.uk\/win-2-tickets-torche-bi-nuu\/&amp;width&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=false&amp;height=21&amp;appId=743541755673761\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; height:21px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe> \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"defualt-button-twitter\"> \t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"\/win-2-tickets-torche-bi-nuu\/\">Tweet<\/a>  \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"postMeta\">\n<div class=\"postMetaCategory\">Category: <a href=\"\/category\/music\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Music<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"postMetaTag\">Tags: <a href=\"\/tag\/bi-nuu\/\" rel=\"tag\">Bi Nuu<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/competition\/\" rel=\"tag\">Competition<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/metal\/\" rel=\"tag\">Metal<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/torche\/\" rel=\"tag\">Torche<\/a><\/div>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<div class=\"comments\">                                 <a href=\"\/win-2-tickets-torche-bi-nuu\/#comments\">2 comments<\/a>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post hentry\">\n<h5 class=\"postDate\"><abbr class=\"published\" title=\"2015-04-07T13:19:48+0000\">April 7, 2015<\/abbr><\/h5>\n<div class=\"postContent\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"\/giveaway-win-2-tickets-eyehategod\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Giveaway: win 2 tickets to EYEHATEGOD!<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"vcard author\">by <span class=\"fn\">James Glazebrook<\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p id=\"top\"\/><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/rockville.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Eyehategod-band.jpg\" alt=\"EYEHATEGOD\" width=\"650\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>EDIT: this competition is now closed.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/demons_galore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click\u00a0<\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"\/tag\/competition\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', '\/tag\/competition\/', 'here');\" title=\"\u00fcberlin competitions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>\u00a0to see if we\u2019re running any open competitions]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/eyehategod.ee\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/eyehategod.ee\/', 'EYEHATEGOD');\" title=\"EYEHATEGOD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EYEHATEGOD<\/a><\/strong> are fucking legends! A cornerstone of the New Orleans metal scene, their caustic fusion of breakneck hardcore and crushing sludge spawned a generation of crusty-ass, iconoclastic riff monsters. Next Monday, the boys from the bayou are back in Berlin, knocking our socks\/cocks off at\u00a0Cassiopeia &#8211; and we have 2 pairs of tickets to give away!\u00a0For a quick education on EYEHATEGOD, watch this stellar short documentary from Noisey, and scroll down to find out how to <strong>win two tickets to next week&#8217;s show!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9LWsImITWd4?showinfo=0\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>HOW TO WIN 2 TICKETS FOR EYEHATEGOD\u00a0AT CASSIOPEIA\u00a0ON MONDAY APRIL\u00a013TH (<a href=\"http:\/\/cassiopeia-berlin.de\/event\/eyehategod\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full event details<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just leave us a comment below with the answer to this question:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>(apart from EYEHATEGOD) What&#8217;s the best thing ever to come out of New Orleans?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You have until midnight on Friday 10th April\u00a0to enter. GOOD LUCK!<\/p>\n<p><em>The Boring Bit (yawn, RULES):<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1. You must be 18 years or older to enter.<br \/> 2. ONE ENTRY PER PERSON!<br \/> 3.\u00a0We will keep a record of each comment in a database and then a random number generator picks the winner.<br \/> 4.\u00a0Remember to include your full (real) name and email address, so we can contact you if you win.<br \/> 5. We will notify the winner via email on Saturday\u00a011th April.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ssb-share ssb-share-13464 defualt\" post_id=\"13464\">\n<div class=\"defualt-button-fb\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/web.archive.orghttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http:\/\/www.uberlin.co.uk\/giveaway-win-2-tickets-eyehategod\/&amp;width&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=false&amp;height=21&amp;appId=743541755673761\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; height:21px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe> \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"defualt-button-twitter\"> \t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"\/giveaway-win-2-tickets-eyehategod\/\">Tweet<\/a>  \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"postMeta\">\n<div class=\"postMetaCategory\">Category: <a href=\"\/category\/music\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Music<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"postMetaTag\">Tags: <a href=\"\/tag\/competition\/\" rel=\"tag\">Competition<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/eyehategod\/\" rel=\"tag\">EYEHATEGOD<\/a><\/div>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<div class=\"comments\">                                 <a href=\"\/giveaway-win-2-tickets-eyehategod\/#comments\">12 comments<\/a>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"pageNav\">\n<div class=\"prev\"><a href=\"\/tag\/competition\/page\/2\/\">&laquo;<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"next\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 28, 2015 Free standup! Win a pair of tickets for Josie Long live by James Glazebrook Josie Long by Idil Sukan @ drawhq.com [EDIT: this competition is now closed. Click here to see if we\u2019re running any open competitions] Hands up who likes standup comedy? 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