RSSNot if You Were the Last Club on Earth: Club 11 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Situated on the 11th floor of a disused Post Office (what Post Offices need 11 floors anyway?), Club 11 is within spitting distance of Centraal Station and as many prostitutes as you can feast your little stoned hands on. The entrance is an experience in itself, with the club's strobes being visible a good mile away and an old creaky, graffiti covered elevator bringing loads of chatty ravers up to the club. Amsterdam has many attractions, but a variety of good dance clubs is not one of them, hence why 11 is usually packed. Never before 2am though, so on our Irish watches we were a bit bemused when we arrived at midnight to find nobody home.
Talent: The clientele in 11 are more varied than the beans on the street outside. Amsterdam is a resting point for young people all over Europe and beyond, so alongside all the titanic local lads (In Holland, if you're male and under 6'4 you're considered small) is a concoction of little princesses from Germany, Sweden and even Israel. But don’t take that as an invitation to introduce yourself. If they're not dancing or posing or doing both they still don’t give a shit about how many drinks tokens you're willing to waste on them. And if the views of the clientele become tiresome (unlikely), the view outside the floor to ceiling windows when the sun comes up is breathtaking.
Toilets: 8 jacks and 2 piss-pots...and that was in the males. Although hash is legal in Amsterdam and everything else pretty casually ignored by the authorities, people still spend 15 minutes in the toilet debating the merits of Colombia and Bolivia. Maybe they just don’t like sharing.
Sounds: A lot of stuff goes in here, so long as you can nod your head to it. Italian bassline madmen Crookers were playing on my last visit, Matthias Tanzmann was representing for minimal techno the time before. Whatever is playing, there's 12 enormous visuals screens to let you know about it. And everyone speaks English, so if you're not sure, just ask.
Goodies: You're really asking several questions here. As touched on above, The Dam is probably the drug capital of Europe. Sure even John Gilligan bought his weekly hash mountains here. Hash cafe's are on every street corner, and although smoking is supposed to be kept confined to these places, that never happens. How are you supposed to remember that when you're baked off your face anyway?
Icebreaker: Any pills?
Jawbreaker: These aren't pills, these are Panadol!
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I felt the general attitude of the crowd there to be dry at best, alot of good looking people who didnt know what to do with themselves in a club enviroment, but the club itself was great, heavyweight F1 rig in the basement was brilliant, Carl Craig playing on it that night too,
lads this closd down in june.
Yep closed as the building is being knocked down. They thought about moving the nights elsewhere but it was the venue rather than the nights that attracted people. Great club.
Great club! A friend of ours Nuno Dos Santos was the resident there(it is closed down now) and
we are getting him over to play for us in February....
Holland is usually associated with painfully bad trance but the Dutch techno and house scenes have gone through the roof....
Check out Nuno Dos Santos(Compost Records).....brilliant stuff:-)
The club was made up of various different crews from around amsterdam. To the uninformed punter Amsterdam might associated with Trance but there is so much dope stuff there....Hum Hum, Bitterzoet, Wicked Jazz sounds, Sugar Factory, Rush-hour, Aardvark, Westergast, Kindred Spirits and the North Sea Jazz festival in Rotterdam is possible the most future looking jazz festival on the map.
yeah man, Holland does have a great music scene:-) Im gonna try and get over for the Amsterdam dance event in October..........just looking at the line-up for I love techno or I love cheesey electro:-)...the ADE looks a far better option:-)
It may not be as well regarded for clubs as say Germany but the dutchies have it going on. Labels like Creme, Delsin, Rush hour, Clone have some of the best music coming out anywhere imo. They seem far less interested in fads too.
Big time:-) As great as Berlin, Cologne etc is.....It is the `cool` place to be....a lot of fashionistas- pretentious muppets etc.
The Dutch scene is really chilled.....
lived there for four months this year. the bad trance/dance scene is prominent alright but theres some serious stuff going on all the time with clone, rush hour etc. caught nunos dos santos alright.
the dubstep side of thigs is huge over there.
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the talent section of this article sucks paddy what about the ladies
sort it out :P