Berlin’s recently shuttered Watergate nightclub will live on in spirit and dance this summer with a series of open-air parties from the club’s team.
The nightlife institution, which permanently closed at the end of last year due to rising costs and rent hikes after 22 years in business, announced its return last week with “Don’t Stop The Dance,” a four-party run at Berlin’s Sage Beach, beginning this May.
Berlin’s own deep house staple Chris Luno will kick off the series of “Watergate Open Airs” on May 24, followed by more chilled house grooves in a triple-headline night from melodic house icons Bedouin, Cologne-Berlin duo andhim, and Nigerian-German selector JAMIIE on June 14. Lineups for further parties on July 5 and August 16 will be announced in the coming months.
In its Instagram announcement, the Watergate team wrote: “After the last track faded and the lights went out, we didn’t know when or how we would come together again. Now we do.”
“We’ve brought the same team, the same energy and the same belief in moments that stay with you,” the post continues. “Familiar faces, new light. Find us.”
Watergate was founded in 2002 by Ulrich Wombacher, Steffen Hack, and Niklas Eichstädt in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, where it became known as one of Berlin’s most influential nightclubs—a reputation so esteemed that an anonymous nightlife advocacy group memorialized its physical space with a gravestone in January. Along with its party brand, Watergate’s namesake record label remains operational.
Check out Watergate’s post below. Tickets for each of the brand’s open-air parties at Sage Beach are available here via Resident Advisor.
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Featured image courtesy: Watergate.
