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Live music and clubs
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Copenhagen is Scandinavia's party town, and has a nightlife to suit the widest - and wildest - tastes, at least at weekends, although things can be fairly subdued during the week. The city's liberal drinking laws, the most relaxed in Scandinavia, pull in punters from far and wide - it's particularly popular with Swedes, who descend on the city en masse in search of a good time. A wide range of
bars
and
clubs
cater to fun-lovers of all ages, with every sort of music from bebop to bhangra; entrance is usually around 40-50kr.
There's also a healthy raft of live music venues. Traditionally, the jazz scene has always been the city's liveliest - a legacy of the number of respected American jazz musicians such as Dexter Gordon and Ben Webster who lived here during the 1960s and 1970s - and the annual jazz festival is world renowned, whilst there are a number of other festivals worth investigating. There's also a healthy local rock music scene, while many big-name international acts include Copenhagen on their tours (while many more turn up for the huge Roskilde Festival). A number of the smaller venues double as cafA©s during the day and bars in the evening, before becoming live music venues or nightclub after midnight.
Many of the larger venues sell
tickets
through
Billetnet
(credit card booking line tel 70 15 65 65), at Vesterbrogade 3 beside Tivoli's main entrance and in all post offices (10kr booking fee). You can also
book online
at many venues - we've given Web sites where they exist. Other useful information
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Denmark,
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