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Thu02Oct202519:30Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Admission free
BERGHAIN NIGHTS by Liam Cagney
Book launch sponsored by The Berliner Magazine
(c) Reaktion Books ‘A deeply exciting book’ – Wendy Erskine
This evening we gather to celebrate the launch of "Berghain Nights: A Journey Through Techno and Berlin Club Culture" by Liam Cagney.
In this literary debut, Cagney takes us on a tour, illuminating and delirious, of some of our city’s favourite club spaces, exploring what it means to take clubbing seriously as culture. Blending essay and memoir, "Berghain Nights" features interviews with major artists like Ellen Allien, Rrose, Luke Slater, Eris Drew and Function, alongside other figures from Berlin’s night-time economy and the history of techno.
From kinky parties at KitKat Club to the industrial gloom of Tresor, from the queer garden of Buttons to the gay psychedelia of Cocktail d’Amore, Berghain Nights not only captures the excitement of Berlin’s clubs, it explores how spaces like these can help one find a truer self.
The event will be hosted by the DJ and editor of The Berliner Magazine, Jonny Tiernan, and the book will be on sale courtesy of The Curious Fox.
(c) Thomas Margraf Liam Cagney is an Irish writer who has been described by the Irish Times as the country's ‘nightclub chronicler’ His work appears in places like the Guardian, the Spectator, the TLS, and DJ Mag. His fiction was shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize and he was awarded an Arts Council of Ireland Emerging Writer Bursary. He is the author of the academic monograph "Gérard Grisey and Spectral Music: Composition in the Information Age" (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
(c) privat Jonny Tiernan is a DJ and the Editor-in-Chief of The Berliner, Berlin's leading cultural magazine and Germany's largest English magazine.