Nightlife
Press Information
February 2008
Copenhagen Nightlife
Nightlife in Copenhagen changes fast and starts late, things don't really get going on Friday and Saturday night until after midnight. The city has an ever-changing range of clubs, restaurants and bars catering to all tastes - cutting edge dance music; world-class jazz; or pop. The city also has a surprise up its sleeve in the form of several popular and groovy DJ/bar/restaurant 'hybrids' that change mood and function over the course of an evening.
A newcomer among the in spots is Hotel Twentyseven in Løngangsstræde 27 - hence the name. Just check in with one of the Live Life-packages; enjoy life in The Wine Room, experience wine from all over the world; enjoy classical and molecular drinks served in the Honey Ryder Cocktail Lounge, with DJs Thursday to Saturday and get a cool experience in the Absolut Icebar Copenhagen, built uniquely with ice from the Torne-river in Lapland. Even the restrooms are designed to give you an extraordinary experience!
Vega and Rust
The Vega complex, housed in a magnificent 1950's trade union building, is one of the most popular night life venues in the city and with the opening of a new, super-cool Vega Lounge that popularity looks set to continue. After opening in 1996, Vega quickly built a reputation for attracting big name acts (David Bowie, Kylie Minogue, Bjork and Prince, among others). It also has a strong reputation for luring the best DJs in the world (Fatboy Slim has played here), and has been consistently voted among the five best DJ venues in the world by Muzik and Jockey Slut magazines. Vega, located in Vesterbro, is divided into four main areas: Store Vega (Big Vega), a concert and club night venue with a capacity of 1,500; Lille Vega (Little Vega), where you'll find the best Friday and Saturday club nights; and the Ideal Bar, which also has DJs and live bands at the weekends. And finally, the much-anticipated Vega Lounge has opened in two rooms across another floor. Vega Lounge plays soulful music, has waitress service, an extensive drinks menu and a relaxed vibe, all wrapped up in decor described as '1950s with a 2001 makeover'.
Rivalling Vega for popularity and also attracting cutting edge, big name acts is Rust in Nørrebro. Since birth in 1989 Rust has been at the forefront of Copenhagen nightlife, presenting a vital live music and clubbing scene for those who prefer their night out a bit off the mainstream. Though not as big as Vega, Rust is spread over three floors and has a cocktail bar, main bar and large dance floor. Popular with students and trendy, young locals, Rust also has an outdoor yard, which is open during the summer. Four days a week, Rust provides help for the clubaholics! : Wednesdays to Saturdays .
In October 2004 a new nightspot opened in the former circus building not far from the City Hall Square. Wallmans offers a spectacular dinner show. About 1000 guests can enjoy a 4-course dinner while being served and entertained by Wallman’s 22 professional artists on seven stages beneath the circus-building dome. After the show the interior is transformed into a gigantic nightclub with dancing.
The club scene
On Jarmers Plads the recently opened top tuned design Hotel Fox has its bar with cutting edge drinks in the reception and in the summer time on the hotel terrace.
Bar Rouge at the five star design hotel Sankt Petri in a former department store from 1928 has Bar Rouge Nights every Friday and Saturday. Bartenders shake international cocktails and the DJs give you the latest and greatest, plus have their own Lounge CDs for sale.
Culture Box, Fri & Sat, offers films and international DJs and is the new playground for non-commercial cultural music events: Techno, House, Electro, Abstract HipHop, Drum'n'Bass, Dub, Reggae and electronic jazz.
The Copenhagen district of Vesterbro has plenty to offer a younger crowd, including Bang and Jensen, a café housed in a converted chemist and nextdoor Boutique Lize, offers some of the tastiest and less expensive drinks in town. Further down the road Republik Weimar offers underground live and electronic music in ‘Basement’ next door to Vega on Enghavevej, every Thursday from 9pm.
Moving on to the district of Nørrebro, Gefährlich (German for 'dangerous') is not merely a restaurant, bar, art gallery, coffee shop, boutique, records store, cultural centre or nightclub: it is underground but not quite as much underground in feel as Stengade 30, in Nørrebro, which blends the best of Danish and overseas rock and dance acts.
Hybrid Bars/Lounges
A wide range of the city's nightlife venues the trendy Zoo Bar in Kronprinsensgade and the gourmet fast food joint Delicatessen in Vesterbro, defy conventional categorisation. In the daytime, they may operate as a café or restaurant; come the evening, they become restaurants and/or bars, and there's a good chance that, by the end of the night, a DJ will have the clientele filling the dance floor.
Absolut Icebar Copenhagen opened in the spring of 2007 by the new life style Hotel Copenhagen 27. The temperature is kept at a constant minus 5 degrees centigrade, and walls, bar, art, furniture and even the glasses for your drinks are made of crystal clear ice.
Isola Rock Music Club is a newly opened bar and heaven for serious rock lovers and appreciators of quality music be it the great classics or the latest from the international rock stages - over and underground.
Custom House in Havnegade offers champagne by the glass on Wednesdays and on Thursdays have after-hours-bar: genbar. Focus is on hot music and innovative cocktails.
Just Dance
In Baron Boltens Gård is the private membersclub NASA, which - if you are pretty enough or look rich enough - you might be able to wriggle your way in to without membership. As a club within the club Fridays offer 'FIRE - you're hot when you're on fire!' Nasa has become member of the exclusive World Finest Clubs - www.finestclubs.com., which for clubs is what the Michelin stars are forrestaurants.
Park is, however, a more than acceptable replacement if you don't fancy doing battle with the doorman at NASA. Park is close by Parken, the national stadium in Østerbro, and presents live music every week, DJs and discothèque every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Park also runs a café/restaurant, offering a three-course menu for dinner and outdoor barbeque in the summertime.
Another great place to boogie through the night is Søpavillonen, situated by Peblinge Sø (lake). Every Friday and Saturday bands play popular copy music and afterwards the discothèque goes on till five o’clock in the morning.
For jazz lovers, the world famous Copenhagen Jazz House offers international quality performers in an intoxicating, intimate atmosphere. Club nights at weekends tend to draw a younger crowd.
And finally, Copenhagen's gay scene is centred on Oscar with DJ's on Fridays and mixed club Dunkel Bar with toned down twilight lighting, black painted walls and stuffed owls looking down upon the guests. Here DJs also haunt
Music events
'A celebration of Copenhagen nightlife', Copenhagen Distortion is the biggest annual clubbing and nightlife event of the year lasting 5 days and nights! Always starting on the Wednesday before the first Sunday in June.
An unusual summer event deserves mention: 'Lækker Lytter' - Musical cosiness without limits. Mobile from a raft and bicycles, at Islands Brygge, in parks and streets, whenever the sun is shining. 'Lækker Lytter' won the award for 'Best CPH Club 2003/2004'.
Clubbing/Raves venues in Copenhagen please check: www.housemusik.dk
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Klub Vega (Vesterbro) |
Park Diskotek (Østerbro) |
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Nasa (Baron Boltens Gård) |
Club Mambo (salsa & samba) |
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Rust (Nørrebro) |
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Barcelona (Nørrebro) |
Bar Rouge |
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Delicatessen (Vesterbro) |
Fox Kitchen & Bar |
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Zoo Bar |
Gefährlich |
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Aura |
Grill Bar |
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Restaurant Olsen |
Absolut Icebar Copenhagen |
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Twentyseven |
Isola Rock Music Club |
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Custom House |
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Copenhagen JazzHouse |
Jazzhuset Vognporten |
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La Fontaine |
Sofiekælderen |
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Forbrændingen (Albertslund) |
Loppen (Christiania) |
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Pumpehuset |
Vega (Vesterbro) |
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Pakhus 11 (Amerikakaj) |
Musikcaféen, Huset |
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Pavillonen (Østerbro) |
Mojo Blues-Bar |
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Stengade 30 (Nørrebro) |
Søpavillionen (Live-bands & DJ´s) |
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Wallmans (closed during the summer) |
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Riesen (Vesterbro) |
Basement (next to Vega) |
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Bang & Jensen (Vesterbro) |
Ideal Bar (Vega on Vesterbro) |
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Celcius (overlooking City Hall Sq.) |
Culture Box (Fri+Sat 11pm-5am) |
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Boutique Lize (Vesterbro) |
Republik Weimar (Thurs from 9pm) |
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The Laundromat Café |
Oak Room |
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Copenhagen Distortion (in June only) |
"Lækker Lytter" |
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Clubbing/Raves |
Pop (monthly events, different venues) |
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STRØM (electronic music festival) |
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Dunkel Bar |
Oscar Bar & Café |
