17 1 Berlin bar live music french 27 false 306155 52.4996332 13.4376765 Madame Claude Daily, 19:00-open end +493084110859 [U1] at Schlesisches Tor 2009-07-09T17:37:42+02:00 false Lübbener Straße 19 2009-07-09T17:37:42+02:00 http://www.myspace.com/madame_claude 10997 Founded by a French threesome, Madame Claude takes the idea of a bar and flips it on its head. Literally. Upon entering the former brothel, one encounters a maze-like layout and Lynchian decor stuck firmly to the ceiling. Everything is turned upside down: the pictures, the tables, the surveillance cameras and even the world map. Thankfully, the free kicker table, table tennis on selected nights and live music—down in the basement, focusing mostly on experimental realms—have been kept right-side up. For these live bands, the entrance fee is delightfully pay-as-you-wish (anything between one and six euros will suffice). It's a genuinely novel experience, but the bar might well leave you with, well, a distorted sense of gravity. /system/photos/0049/7565/Picture_16_thumb.jpg 2009-07-09T17:37:42+02:00 Berlin Bar 497565 tracy the astonishing via Flickr /system/photos/0049/7565/Picture_16.jpg 497241 Simon Harris /system/photos/0049/7241/mdmc3.jpg 497231 Simon Harris /system/photos/0049/7231/mdmc2.jpg 497246 Simon Harris /system/photos/0049/7246/mdmc4.jpg 497256 Simon Harris /system/photos/0049/7256/mdmc6.jpg 497261 Simon Harris /system/photos/0049/7261/mdmc7.jpg