Conor Creighton goes in search of the Irish musicians who left Ireland looking for inspiration and found it in Europe’s most bohemian city.

It’s when you look down at your watch and see that all of a sudden it’s six in the morning and no one looks like leaving the bar anytime soon that it dawns on you how very, very different Berlin is to Dublin. And when you look around the room and see the kids dancing in the corner haven’t been to bed in three days and the reasonable looking guy beside you is actually in a pair of pink heels, that you realise Berlin is very, very different to anywhere else in the whole world.

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