The Danish capital is great because you can get laid and stoned while eating a meat sandwich in a quasi-autonomous anarcho commune. If you don't like meat, weed, sex, or anarchists then you have just stumbled onto the wrong website, friend. An average Wednesday night out in Copenhagen ends at about six in the morning. A shitty Thursday night with crappy cranberry cocktails rolls into bed at around noon.
The line outside of Culture Box on a Saturday night never ceases. Rain, hail, sleet, or snow, the deep house bros are posted outside drinking cheap beers and waiting to get the chance to spill drinks on the dancefloor with one of their idols. We say bros, because the ratio of men to women at Culture Box is almost always about 70 to Apart from lots of coke Vikings, it draws some of the biggest names in deep house and techno, from Marcel Dettmann to Ben Klock, Jeff Mills, Richie Hawtin, and other legends of the scene.
It happens monthly at Vesterbro and has played host to such names as Triky, J Tijn, Reeko, and other people who have somehow forged a living out of nosebleed techno. As with many of the best places in Copenhagen, the bar at Exile nights mostly seems to make its money selling water and chewing gum. If pissing outside your local bakery in the middle of the day while you listen to slightly more mainstream music and drink vodka out of a water bottle is more your style, get ready for Distortion , Copenhagen's most ridiculous street festival.
Every year different neighborhoods are sectioned off for all-day raves that only stop when everyone's ushered inside clubs to drink more and stop scaring children. Unbelievably, this is allowed to happen for five days in a row, and the day rave is always completely free. Pop, indie, hip-hop, and techno fans will all find something for them at Distortion as they long as they're sober enough to find the right tent.
Because Amsterdam is depressing as shit, Copenhagen is just about the best place in Europe to be a stoner. Christiania, an anarcho-hippie commune, is best described as a city within a city. Since the s, when a gang of hippies squatted its old military facility, Christiania has been a weed marketplace with more than 50 shops that's a conservative estimate selling a broad selection of cannabis products from all over the world. The police made an effort a couple of years back to crack down on Christiania's flagrant dopeheads, but it failed horribly, pushing hash dealers into the inner city and flaring up a gang war.
