ugh that always ends badly! mongrels, spring '09

The breakcore scene I meant. Brain not working today.

Oi Jim can you move my stupid Genesis poll to ILM, I'm a dickhead.

sauteed

how does one run a club night, is what i wonder. keep thinking an optimo-type scenario would work well down ere - play weird records a bit quieter for first hour or so (let people chat and mingle), have band performance or two, then spin dancier stuff for rest of evening.

Friends of mine are about to start a night at the GB called Harvest thats "soul rock n roll and indie" apparently, looking fwd to that one.

i don't mean to dump on yr friends but that doesn't sound like a terribly original slant on the club nite

tho then i suppose original don't make peeps dance hey

i could count on one hand the times that i have had people dancing when i djed

You gots to play da hits brofo

actually there was that night of the 24HPP launch where i was killin' it.. i got cheers for interpol and my awesome beatmatching from lcd soundsystem to le tigre (admittedly not difficult)

^tru. I was at prob the lollest indie venue in Bris a few weeks ago, as soon as they put on a strokes track all the kiddies went shitnuts. it was pretty terrible. And i felt like such a creepy old dude there, we left v quickly.

xp

apaz this is what the kids dig

M.I.A, Ladyhawke, Bloc Party, Interpol,Kasabian, Presets, Fratellis, The Rapture, The Ting Tings, Crystal Castles, MGMT, Klaxons, Foals, Joe Lean, Maximo Park, Postal Service, Peter Bjorn and John, Arctic Monkeys, Libertines, Kaiser Chiefs, Last Shadow Puppets, Mystery Jets, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Glasvegas, Chairlift, Metronomy, Late of the Pier, LCD Soundsystem, Freezepop, Black Kids, Little Red, Joy Division, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Clash, The Smiths, Teenagers, The Cure, Blondie, The Stone Roses, The Rolling Stones, Pulp, Suede, The Futureheads, Le Tigre, The Who, TV on the Radio, Shy Child, Vampire Weekend, Primal Scream, Franz Ferdinand, Modest Mouse, Belle & Sebastian, Kings Of Leon, Morrissey, The Strokes, Gorillaz, Arcade Fire, Ladytron, The Hives, The White Stripes, Echo & The Bunnymen, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Cut Copy, Doves, Hot Hot Heat, The Editors, The Killers, The Knife, The Charlatans, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Electric Six, Happy Mondays, Duran Duran, The Cars, Ian Brown, Visage, Joy Division, New Order, Velvet Underground, Ramones, The Jam, The Kinks, Peaches, Oasis, Teenage Fanclub, Madness, Blur, Supergrass, Style Council, Small Faces, Pixies, Ride and Ultravox

i would go shitnuts if i heard fleetwood mac at a clubb

"...and Ultravox!"

I'd love to hear that gypsy song in a club.

Re yr prev list, there are equivalent lists for rock clubs, dance clubs, retro rave events, metal, goffic, r'n'b, hip hop, funk, rockabilly etc etc etc.

There is one night where if things are flagging you play Cherry Pie and the floor fills instantly, just as it did last time and the time before that.

So I find out what this club plays and I give about 70% of it to them again, plus say 30% new stuff that's sorta like the stuff they like. This is the way things are going, we DJs have got to move with the times. We research, arrive prepared, play them their fave tunes, and then leave with our $100. IT'S THE IPOD IPHONE GENERATION. They want the hits all in a row.

'big love' arthur baker 12" mix

i don't mean to dump on yr friends but that doesn't sound like a terribly original slant on the club nite

Oh I know that, but this is people in the "goth" scene, so it makes a bloody nice change, IMO

yeah would love to hear keep on going in a cluub

xp

http://www.believedhype.com/2008/09/fleetwood-mac-remixes.html

Not that I give .02 shits about clubs anyway.

Tiny scenes are everywhere these days. Did you know there's a 70's rock scene in Sydney populated entirely by people under 25? I blame the mother of that wolf. I'm a scene hopper. I like scenes, but I don't like to be seen in a scene, seen?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5bQc5tgQG3I/SMSWb_7cmlI/AAAAAAAAAMI/fVDpM_lWJoE/s320/fleetwoodmac.jpg

Goddam

i assume all have heard this

http://www.scissorkick.com/2008/05/fleetwood-mac-cut-copy-lifelike-remix/

xpost hahaha loool

Did you know there's a 70's rock scene in Sydney populated entirely by people under 25?

Is that anything like the "back in the day" club here? (which is shite)

seems like all the 60s clubs are full of the under 25ers too

(x-post) Just had a look at their playlist - yep, that's pretty much it.

Young people really suck. What is their problem with all that smooth skin and keeping their hair and shit?

Oh shit yeah, I accidentally encountered Sydney's 70s rock scene. It was ghastly!

^exhibit #1

hardlol

jim what's your position on stevie's 'stand back' in the club context. i heard the OG versh out one night at s0rry gr4ndm4 and thought it sounded amazing. so many ppl have ripped off the synth line tho.

piss orf jim!!!!!

You won't be surprised to know about my involvement in the burgeoning 80s synthpop scene.

I'm going to call myself DJ HardLOL

were you the watermelon from that severed heads tv spot?

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jim what's your position on stevie's 'stand back' in the club context.

hmmm welp i think it could be awesome but i would have to experience same, preferably biscuited to the eyeballs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FbxjSK7zkQ

felix-ified version. would go ORF i'm thinking

For the rock clubs I call myself '@ndy @rseC@ndy'. The story behind that name is that one of the promoters was talking to the other. She said 'What's Andy's DJ name?' and the other one said 'Ask Andy'. Then the first one goes '@rseC@ndy'? and puts that name on the flyer.

hahaha great story

(x-x-post) hmm yes agreed stormer

felix-ified version. would go ORF i'm thinking

quite banging

It's not intelligent and it's not from Detroit but it's fackin avin' it

detroit can eat a fuc

lolll i say this wearing the 'juan & kevin & jeff & derrick' t-shirt

Speaking of 80s synthpop tunes me and R were going to do some covers of some, inna psych/shoegaze stylee, for shits n gigs.

Any suggestions? He wants to do some obscure A-Ha song. Me, I thought something like Visage or Spandau Ballet could be lol.

Fade To Grey was made to shoegaze, as was Mind Of A Toy or even Damned Don't Cry.

'head over heels' is 'A MUST!', as they say

Yeah it was Damned dont Cry I had in mind. I can totally hear that with swooshy walls o' noise.

Also on my list: Kim Wilde "View from a Bridge" and Duran's "Chauffer", but R said the latter's too obvious and I think he's right.

xpost funny you say that haitch! One we are def doing is "Shout".

If our karaoke versh was anything to go by, we're ON A WINNAR.

lolllll

i have retired my karaoke take on 'purple rain'. you do a couple of good performances and people start expecting too much!!