Paradiso (Amsterdam)

Paradiso's main hall in Amsterdam on August 6, 2018, with the floor and both balconies on their feet for Patti Smith's closing song. The tiers wrap so tightly around the stage that nobody is far from it. The building went up in 1880 as a meeting hall for a religious group, the Vrije Gemeente, which explains the churchlike look and the nickname pop temple. It opened as a club on March 30, 1968, and within months was booking Pink Floyd and Captain Beefheart. The Rolling Stones played two nights here in May 1995. Get a balcony spot for the sight lines.