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Web 2.0 – Where is Europe?

Times are changing. The Web2.0 revolution has substantially altered how we talk, work and live online. A new paradigm has taken the burden of thinking about technology from the users. If you want to start a multi-lingual fanzine written by contributors around the world without ever meeting them...

The European exchange

Dance music, as we know it, may have been forged in the white heat of America’s discothèques, but it was the early electronic experiments of Europeans that laid the foundations. Russian inventors like Leon Theremin, French and German avant-garde composers/musique concrete practitioners like the...

European circus

Of course, everyone’s familiar with the big names – Cannes, Venice, Berlinale – but what’s behind these trademarks, hardly anybody knows. Reason enough to take a closer look and answer the question of why three of the most important festivals are held in Europe. “We are European” it says on the...

Am I European or just confused?

When Mark Reeder arrived in Berlin from Manchester on a dreary night in 1978, he might as well have landed on another planet. Aged 28 and in Berlin as a representative for Factory Records - the label that gave the world Joy Division, New Order and The Happy Mondays - life was by no means easy....

The A to Z of your Europe

A is for After-parties. A dying breed in Europe it seems, after tough new legislation has put an end to all-day raves in Ibiza. This summer, clubbers will have no choice but to head to bed on the Party Isle once the clock strikes 6am. B is for not-so Bendy bananas. For som...

A united Europe

JARI SALO, PEPE DELUX, FINLAND: “It's great and terrible at the same time,” says Jari. “It’s great as it’s so much easier to find freaks, umm, people who share the same taste as you in music. Gigging is easier, especially for underground groups and DJs. But it’s terrible as there are less...

Europe's new creative hotspots

Berlin’'s exploded, Barcelona is past its peak and Paris is so ´90snineties it hurts. We map the hottest, hippest European enclaves that are set to kick off at the end of the noughties. 1. Zurich (the ‘'new Berlin’' in nightlife terms) Shhhh – whisper it. Europe has a new party...

In praise of Euro fast food

McDonalds, Subway, Burger King, KFC, Pizza Hut, Domino’s - you can keep them all. And the same goes for fine-dining, Michelin stars, “slow food”, Routiers, places with cutlery on the tables, restaurants you need to reserve, and tavernas, bistros and boîtes in cool cities that you need a guidebo...