The final bullet of his Powerpoint interrogation was a blunt, "Where are you coming from?" "Errr…London. Burt Helm, How the Bouncer of Berghain Chooses Who Gets into the Most. This time around, for reasons only my future analyst will know, I fluffed it. Berlin Bouncer pulls back the curtain to reveal the personal histories and artistic ambitions of these figures, and the realities of living and ageing in a city once again undergoing rapid change. Corona, Night Class: A Downtown Memoir (New York: Soft Skull, 2017). The clubs lead bouncer Sven Marquardt has made no secret of how difficult and non-specific the credentials are, stating that anyone from a suited-up lawyer to 'guys in masks' could be right, but. Normally when I'm asked my age I'm pretty certain that I'll have said "26" within a good half-second of the question hanging in the air. Which is probably why I felt panicked and nervous when it came to sauntering up to the digitized doorman who was glowering at me through my browser. It was a fun night, but it wasn't an authentic experience by any stretch of the imagination. Just once, mind, and even that was on a press trip, so I got to saunter past Sven and the lads and straight into the garden to bang pints of prosecco with other braying journalists and a really tired looking Bernard Sumner from New Order.
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