Cologne hot spots

i thought the chocolate museum was gonna be a willy wonka-ish orgy of sweets

but it isn't...it's actually kinda boring

total konfusion (the kompakt club night) is ace

kompakt record store is also ace

Here is a guide to record shops:
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/fs-muwi/platten/
(in German, but still useful if you can just make out enough to work out the opening times and get a vague idea of what genre they sell)

I thought I had posted that link on here before but I can't find a thread with it on; this thread might be where I thought I'd posted it.

A-Musik record store is also also ace, I thought: loads of new Mouse-on-Mars-related things, of course, and other new and used electronic stuff, but also a lot of post-rock, noise, improv. When I went there it was all very cheap, too, but that was just pre-Euro. I also remember good things about Normal (a block away from Ritterstrasse, which has three record shops on, if you're looking for an afternoon of shopping; a huge building that looks like a warehouse apart from the sign over the door round the side, I nearly missed it) and Music-Rebel but it was a long time ago now...

when are you going exactly

i used to love a bar called "six pack". if you can find it , it's kinda fun. but I'm not sure it's still around.