Raum 18

Last tuesday, I went to Raum 18, which is a small multipurpose room rented out for music performances in Neukölln, somewhere next to a canal/river close to the Sonnenallee bhf. If I recall correctly, it must be somewhere at the centre of here.
I passed a huge and expensive-looking hotel first and then the area quickly changed to an utterly deserted, smelling-like-car-paint industrial area. Only a small board bearing an "18" gives any indication of the venue, and you have to climb several stairs passing raum 1, raum 2 all the way up to raum 18 - which explains the name as well. Cool place with old chairs, unstable bar and orange-painted TL lights, but with a decent sound system and off course pretty cheap.
There were about 20 people there (same amount of people who said they would come on last.fm) for the drone concert of that evening. People were friendly and mainly from out of the country - I heard more english than german. The music was, well, drone. Not for every evening, but interesting nontheless. One of the guys is Dutch, and they had just been doing a tour through some old Eastern Block countries.

Had a nice chat with a New Yorker who just moved to Berlin for a stay untill the end of the year. Another guy there came from the Baltic sea and moved to Berlin a couple of years ago. Needless to say, the was a graphical artist. The New York guy made drone music.
I'll have to think up something cooler than "computer guy".

On the picture you see an image of that hotel, taken from the bridge on the Sonnenallee.