Let’s take a brief look at the latest club news from around the world.
For a few days now, the opening of a super club in the south of Brazil, in Santa Catarina, has been announced, coinciding with the start of summer in the South American country.
Surreal Park is a huge club that will occupy an extension of more than 8500 m2, and whose line-up preview is simply impressive, with names like Carl Craig, Ellen Allien, Gui Boratto, Henrik Schwarz, Kevin Saunderson, Paco Osuna, Rebolledo, Sasse, Steve Rachmad and many more names from the inauguration (which will take place on 26 December) until the end of February, where it will host a new edition of the BPM Festival.
At the helm of all this will be Renato Ratier, and so far what we can tell you is that it will be located in a beautiful countryside area surrounded by woods. For the moment, we can only provide a virtual recreation of the space, which looks as impressive as the initial line-up.
In Brazil, it seems that the situation with respect to the Covid is stabilised, and certainly much better than it was a few months ago…
But this is not the case in Germany.
Facing a spike in cases that had not been seen before, the German authorities have decided to take urgent measures to tackle the rise in infections and the hospitalizations and deaths that are unfortunately associated with these infection figures.
In nightlife and clubbing, these measures have already been implemented. In Berlin, from this weekend onwards, the capacity will be reduced to 50% and, as it has been lately, anyone wishing to enter will have to show proof of full vaccination or proof of having passed the disease. And clubbers in the German capital can count themselves lucky, because in other parts of the country, the restrictions have gone even further.
In Bavaria, clubs will be closed for three weeks starting November 22nd. Speaking to Resident Advisor, David Muallem, co-founder of Munich club Blitz, said a few days ago: “I could see it coming.” “If I’m really honest, I think we won’t be open before maybe the end of January or February. But I don’t know. I can’t predict the future.
Similar measures are also being considered in Saxony.
The Berlin ClubCommission, an association with dozens of members of the Berlin club scene, considers the restrictions on clubs to be unfair, arguing that, according to publicly available data, the hotspots of Covid infections are in rural areas where vaccination rates are much lower.
Lutz Leichsenring, press spokesman for the association: “Club visitors: go inside, find out afterwards if a person who was present on the night of your visit tested positive for Corona. In almost all other areas of public and private life, this certainty is not given. Even if we, as an operator, look at the coming months with concern, we can say of ourselves that we take the rules of hygiene and contact tracing very seriously”.
This comes on top of the news that broke in the middle of the month, when it was announced that from November 20th Dutch clubs (as well as bars, pubs and cafes) must close at eight o’clock in the evening. This restriction will last for at least three weeks, and comes in a country like the Netherlands where 85% of the population is fully vaccinated.
We hope that the general situation will improve as soon as possible and that these restrictions will be lifted sooner rather than later.
