Club Vega

After some running around last night, Minnesota Greg and I ventured off to find Club Vega, a nightclub that seems to make it into most of the guidebooks as a Copenhagen hot spot. It was pretty easy to get there from Katherine Kollegiet, just had to hop on the S-Train and it dropped us off about four blocks away. I don't think we say the entire place, but rather just the nightclub - there were two rooms on the second floor and another two on the third floor. There must be other places to go because Vega hosts concerts both large and small, with acts such as Modest Mouse, Rufus Wainwright, Dropkick Murphys, The Game, and Blondie coming up in the next month, among others.

I would say that Club Vega lives up to its reputation. There was a distinct lack of pretension relative to similar clubs in the States, and you didn't have to worry about a dress code. The music was good, and if you didn't like the music in one room you could just move to another. The price of a Tuborg (39 kroners or about $7) was not much more than you would pay at a downtown nightclub in Minneapolis, and water was free. We got there a little before 12:30 so we didn't have to pay any cover charge either. No lines for the bathroom either. Really the only problem was the smoke, but even that was tolerable since the ceilings were high and not that many people were smoking.

Getting back on the other hand was another story. I forgot that the S-Train closes at 1:00 or so, so I ended up walking back home which took about an hour or so. On the plus side, I know what the Carlsberg brewery looks like at night.