The Ruine used to be Cologne's first location for techno. Still today many illegal raves are being celebrated - mainly on the right side of the river.
Party stronghold and meeting point of the Bohème: All around the Brussels Square is where the "Sound of Cologne" emerged in the beginning of the 1990s.
Legend has it that Joe Cocker got rejected at the door, Whitney Houston turned up incognito and the Pogues required 20 crates of beer backstage.