After the wall came down we got given half a new city to explore! Even better, east Berlin with so many derelict houses was a perfect playground where new bars and clubs opened up all the time.

One night we went in search of a new place ‘Wydocks’. We found it, at least we entered what appeared to be a rather small bar. After getting our beers we looked around. Stage? Kind of embarrassing to ask where the band will be playing, but in the end we did. The bar man pointed to a dark hole in one wall, maybe 1.5m in diameter. Crawling through we hit a rough wooden ladder in the dark which we climbed to find ourselves in a kind of loft above the bar. Fun times when in East Berlin nobody cared about building or safety requirements.

Some years later, Wydocks was then more established with a proper location, by chance I stumbled upon a Feeling B gig, ‘Die Maske des Roten Todes’. Part music, part performance, interesting stuff.

Feeling B’s ‘Tschaka’ always announced DT64’s guide to the city’s events. A perfect song for that purpose. Before the wall came down, DT64 was the GDR’s official youth radio station, nothing we from the West would listen to. But it evolved to the coolest, most independent radio station of the city. One of our main sources for new places.

Several members of Feeling B went on to found Rammstein, but that was never my thing.