Flex (Club)

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Entrance of the flex

The Flex in Vienna is a music club located between the Schottenring underground station and the Augartenbrücke and in this function the venue for performances by local and international music groups and DJs .

history

The Flex-Cafe, which was completed at the end of 2007
The flex during the day

On New Year's Eve 1989/90, the Flex, operated by a group of people from the scene around the occupied house in Aegidigasse, opened in Arndtstraße in Vienna's 12th district . Initially as a mix of underground club, point meeting and cultural center, with a focus on concerts by hardcore punk bands. Later, within a year and a half, the club relocated to a disused subway shaft on the U4 line on the Danube Canal . The construction of the new club cost around 11 million schillings (around 800,000 euros), of which the City of Vienna contributed a one-off start-up subsidy of 3 million schillings (around 220,000 euros). The new restaurant opened on October 1st, 1995. In addition, since 2007 the "Flex" has had a porch next to the club entrance ("Flex Café"). The club has around 100,000 visitors annually.

program

The London band Toy in Flex (Waves Vienna 2012)
Talking to Turtles in the Flex Café (Waves Vienna 2012)

In addition to the various fixed program tracks, concerts of the most varied of musical styles are usually held on the remaining days. In addition to local bands and newcomers, internationally known, current bands such as Stereo MCs , Juliette and the Licks , Funeral for a Friend , Pete Doherty or Arcade Fire , Austrian artists such as Attwenger or Louie Austen and DJs such as Jeff Mills , Ellen Allien , Sven Väth regularly appear or DJ DSL on. Since 2011, Flex has been one of the clubs where concerts of the Waves Vienna festival take place.

Dub club
Since it reopened in 1995, there has been dub and jungle music here every Monday . In October 2007 the Dub Club was replaced by the new "Drop Shop". Special attention is paid to electro, nu-skool breaks and dubstep.
Crazy
Every Tuesday this program, called Electronic Tuesday , mainly delivers minimal techno . DJs include Electric Indigo .
London Calling
Indie is on the program every Friday . Resident DJs are DJ Likely Lady, Nils & Erv and Manshee.
Beat it
A drum and bass evening every Thursday. The organizers are D.Kay and Raw.Full (aka Ill.Skillz )
Wicked
mostly every 4th Saturday. A monthly ragga-jungle-tek evening with alternating Raggajungle and Raggatek . The organizers are Wickedsquad (Spaceant & Mariposa).

controversy

Over the years, the club has hit the headlines again and again, and it is often portrayed as the drug hangout par excellence. The Flex has also already been accused of racist door policy. In addition, the club was refused to move the curfew from 4 a.m. to 6 a.m. until July 2011. The reason for this was cited by the police as the crime problem, especially in connection with drugs, around the Flex. In July 2011, however - after years of discussion - the curfew was finally extended to 6 a.m., as in most other clubs in Vienna. The decision in 2005 to prevent guards from taking drinks in front of the Flex caused a stir, as at that time the path along the Danube Canal behind the Flex was closed due to underground construction work. The incorporation of public land on the Danube Canal Promenade, which is heavily frequented by pedestrians and cyclists and narrowed to a width of 4 m by the construction of a 3 m high fence, is also causing controversy.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.szene1.at/location/flex/comments
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sozialismus.net
  3. ↑ Falter 39/05 - Sound and Soda
  4. ^ "Flex" boss wants to stay open longer despite the "drug Naschmarkt" ( memento from December 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Debate about drugs in "Flex" flared up. In: oesterreich.orf.at. December 7, 2008, accessed November 23, 2017 .
  6. ↑ http://www.krone.at/Wien/Stenzel_sieh_Flex_als_Drogen-Anziehungspunkt-Szenelokal_im_Visier-Story-124408
  7. ↑ Racism allegations against Flex. In: oesterreich.orf.at. March 30, 2006, accessed December 1, 2017 .
  8. ↑ http://no-racism.net/article/1614/
  9. ↑ curfew dispute at the Viennese "Flex" ( memento from March 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ http://www.vienna.at/news/wien/artikel/flex-spaetere-sperrstunde-wuerde-kriminalitaet-verlaengern/cn/news-20081203-03190771
  11. ↑ http://www.news.at/articles/0849/45/227743/drogenproblem-sperrstunden-debatte-ursula-stenzel-kultlokal-flex
  12. ↑ http://fm4.orf.at/stories/1684143
  13. ↑ http://fm4v2.orf.at/burstup/200253/main
  14. ↑ Matthias Winterer: Flex is spreading Article in the "Wiener Zeitung" from October 1, 2016.

literature

  • Rosemarie Rauscher: Politics in the Underground. On the problem of subculture music venues in Vienna using the example of Arena and Flex . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 1998.

Web links

Commons : Flex  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 4.8 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 13.7 ″  E