Cologne's live music clubs

Map of 5 locations in Cologne, Germany

Cologne's live rooms are mostly inherited: a machine factory in Ehrenfeld with its crane rails still bolted to the ceiling, a basement under an established concert house, a yard on Hornstraße that runs to a season and then closes. What links them on paper is Klubkomm, the association that speaks for the city's music venues, and what separates them is the door: capacity, stairs, and whether the toilet was ever adapted. Those last details are recorded here rather than implied, because they decide who actually gets in.

Places in this collection

  • Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld — Known locally as CBE, it programmes both concerts and club nights, with tickets on sale far in advance and recurring nights such as the mon…
  • Odonien — Run by Odo Rumpf GmbH on Hornstraße, Odonien works as a site rather than a hall, and its bass and techno programme is built around a season…
  • Tsunami Club — A pub-scale room on Im Ferkulum in the Südstadt that books concerts, which puts it at the small end of Cologne's live circuit rather than o…
  • JAKI — The newest room in the Stadtgarten concert house complex on Venloer Straße, opened as a live club one floor below ground. It shares its add…
  • Live Music Hall — The hall belonged to the Heinz Strunck+Co machine factory and latterly to Robert Bosch's packaging machinery division, and the crane runway…

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