Wednesday, half past eleven, Dircksenstraße. You walk into a Späti under the S-Bahn arches, past the fridges and the strip light, and pull a number. Then you go down. No door fee, no list, and a train passing over your head every few minutes.
That is Loone's second room, and one of the few genuinely free nights left in the middle of Berlin.
Who Loone are
Loone is a livestream platform, not a promoter. Every week they hand the booth to a label, a collective or an artist, point a camera at it, and send the night out live. In Persian, loone means nest — the thing you build piece by piece until it becomes home. Lowercase, on purpose.
The archive is the part people underestimate. Everything they have ever broadcast stays up and stays free, on their site and on YouTube: Fiedel b2b Norman Nodge, Ed Davenport, Pink Concrete, takeovers from Space Trax and RAW/QTR. No login, no paywall. Nobody's name is on the door because the booking is supposed to be the point.
Bigger nest, still Loone
They just relaunched under exactly that line. New website, a cleaner way to request the booth, and the actual news: a second room.
Kreuzberg stays. It's a Bar on the square near Görlitzer Bahnhof is still theirs — darts, cheap beer, the whole neighbourhood in one room, broadcast coming from the floor below. What changes is that it is no longer the only one.
The new room: AMT
2.9 km north, under the Alexanderplatz arches. AMT opened in March 2026 in a former casino at Dircksenstraße 114, a project by Robert Havemann, the same founder as Velvet in Neukölln. Around 1,000 capacity across two floors, plus a darkroom and a chill-out, and a bespoke Kirsch rig designed by Willsingh Wilson of Wax Acoustics.
Which means: a real sound system in a real club, one U-Bahn ride from wherever you are, on a night that costs nothing.
More on the venue: AMT Club Berlin.
The door is a Späti
The entrance is the Späti next to Burgermeister. Fridges, strip light, and a door you would walk straight past. Over 21, ask in German, pull a number — Loone are clear that this is AMT's policy and not a bit of theatre. Their house, their rules.
Then it is down the spiral, under the viaduct proper, two levels, train overhead.
What it actually costs
- Entry: free. One in, one out once the room is full, so early is not a bad idea.
- Drinks: Späti-adjacent. Cheap for a club in Mitte. Still more than your corner shop charges.
- When: midweek, Wednesday and Thursday. Which room a night lands in changes week to week, so check loone.live before you head out.
House rules are short and travel with them to both rooms: ask first, no dress code and no list, and racism, homophobia, transphobia or handsiness get you walked out.
Why we care
We just wrote about what a night in Berlin costs a 22-year-old: 20 to 30€ at the door before the cloakroom and the first drink. A midweek room with a good rig, a booked lineup and no door price is the other end of the same problem — and it is the version that needs no funding, no study and no policy.
One caveat: the Späti door is over 21, so the youngest part of the crowd this city keeps losing still does not get in here. Worth saying out loud.
Otherwise: Wednesday, Alexanderplatz, ask for a number.
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