Tell me about Düsseldorf

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I'm leaving in a couple of weeks to work there for 3 to 6 months. What is it like? Any great venues for music?

alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Saturday, 3 February 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.musikszene-duesseldorf.de/news.php

scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 February 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.karneval-in-duesseldorf.de/images/nasen/naseln-fuer-duesseldorf.jpg

scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 February 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.schuetzen-1316-duesseldorf.de/img/schuetzenfest.jpg

scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 February 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Now it's way overhyped.

alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Saturday, 3 February 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

Dusseldorf's great - Altstadt is fun, but when I lived 'round those parts, it seemed like I went to Cologne more often for shows...

natedey (ndeyoung), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:35 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, multi Klamotti internationali in the Boutiqui of Düsseldorf City
And so many Daimlers and so many Gangsters
Und Mädels,
Fein, fein,
Schön, schön,
So schön.

Maltodextrin (Maltodextrin), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:45 (eighteen years ago)

The main venue for big shows is the Philipshalle.

Events in the near future:
http://cms.philipshalle.de/statisch/framesets/programme-public.php?Nr=2&

Only ever been there once (Tool, last year), no idea about the rest of the city, sorry.

StanM (StanM), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

(the first link should have been the home page: http://cms.philipshalle.de/index-cms-englisch.php? )

StanM (StanM), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

What about record shops, lots of good ones? Thanks for the replies so far.

alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Sunday, 4 February 2007 02:03 (eighteen years ago)

deutchsland up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I DIDINT LIE,AND I DIDNT CHEAT get thunderstruck with the thunderfuck bitch

UART variations (ex machina), Sunday, 4 February 2007 02:35 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...
i dont know about record stores but this venue is supposedly good

fies, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

CARNAVAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

alex in montreal, Thursday, 31 January 2008 09:37 (seventeen years ago)

Shit football team

Tom D., Thursday, 31 January 2008 09:59 (seventeen years ago)

Is it worth going for a week-end?

baaderonixx, Thursday, 31 January 2008 10:13 (seventeen years ago)

Well I don't know, I moved here on the Carnaval Monday last year, and it was quite rowdy (broken glass everywhere on the streets, pissed drunk folks in ridiculous costumes)... it was rather festive and very very crowded everywhere, so if you hate being around people...

I heard Cologne do it better, and that's 20 minutes away.

alex in montreal, Thursday, 31 January 2008 10:38 (seventeen years ago)

Oh, I meant more in general - is D'orf worth going for a week-end?

baaderonixx, Thursday, 31 January 2008 11:13 (seventeen years ago)

I'm curious to know where the record shops in Düsseldorf are too, not because I'm going, but because I went to Duisburg last year and thought that Ddf would have totally awesome record shops for a day trip, except a bit of googling found me like 6 in Duisburg and none in Dusseldorf, which cannot be right. At all.

(You get some weird looks being a tourist in Duisburg! There's nowhere to buy a postcard except the zoo, so everyone got cards with lemurs and red pandas on.)

a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 31 January 2008 11:26 (seventeen years ago)

Hmm, it's OK if you're in the general area and for a weekend, but I wouldn't, say, take a 6-hour train to get here. I mean, there are some nice museums and it can get festive occasionally, but it's not super exciting or anything. Pleasant, is the best way to describe Duesseldorf.

The only record store that I've been to here (and keep in mind I'm mostly into punk rock) is Hitsville on Wallstr. in Altstadt. I think there's 1 or 2 more electronic-based record stores, but it's definitely not Cologne.

However, the saving grace is the once-every-two-months record convention that tours this area of Germany (http://www.cd-boerse.net/).

alex in montreal, Thursday, 31 January 2008 13:36 (seventeen years ago)

six months pass...

I have the car, maybe I'll drive up to Düsseldorf this week-end

baaderonixx, Thursday, 28 August 2008 07:42 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

I went yesterday and had a sausage.

baaderonixx, Monday, 20 October 2008 07:52 (seventeen years ago)


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