2017

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Tragedy >For Us<

Tragedy >For Us< returned to the Urban Bar, this time as a purely DJed event. The lineup was the same as Tragedy >For Two< in 2015, as I was joined by Nathan Nothing and guest DJ traumahound.

Set 1

Note that the early part of this set wasn’t strictly in tune with the events music policy, but it’s clear that was the direction the requests were going in, so I played to the crowd.

Agonoize – Femme Fatale
Funker Vogt – Maschine Zeit
VNV Nation – Control
Die Krupps – Metal Machine Music
Nitzer Ebb – Murderous
Armageddon Dildos – The Constant Beat
Bodystyler – Your Boots
NordarR – Alarm!
Cephalgy – Gott Maschine Vaterland
Camouflage – The Great Commandment

Set 2

Front 242 – Welcome To Paradise
Kloq – Push It
Nitzer Ebb – Warsaw Ghetto
Kraftwerk – The Robots
Laibach – Alle Gegen Alle
Severed Heads – Heart of the Party
A Split-Second – Flesh
Absolute Body Control – Figures
Eleven Pond – Watching Trees
Chris & Cosey – Just Like You

Set 3

Front 242 – Tragedy >For Me<
NIN – That’s What I Get
Depeche Mode – Never Let Me Down (Aggro Mix)
The Normal – Warm Leatherette
Suicide – Rocket USA
Jean-Michel Jarre – La Cage
Vangelis – Pulstar

DJ Terminates Here vs DJ The Scot – June 2017

After the Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale, Scott and I continued at Aces and Eights. As usual, most of the tracks played were requests.

Set 1

Wolfsheim – The Sparrows and The Nightingales
Visage – Fade To Grey
The Sisters Of Mercy – Lucretia, My Reflection
The 69 Eyes – Gothic Girl
HIM – Rip Out The Wings Of A Butterfly
Ramones – Beat On The Brat
Rolling Stones – Sympathy For The Devil
Cream – I Feel Free
AC/DC – Highway To Hell
The Runaways – Cherry Bomb
The Pretenders – Don’t Get Me Wrong
No Doubt – Sunday Morning
Muse – Uprising

Set 2

REM – Losing My Religion
Nirvana – Come As You Are
Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead
Black Sabbath – War Pigs
Eagles – Hotel California
Jimi Hendrix – All Along The Watch Tower
Blue Oyster Card – Don’t Fear The Reaper
Queen – One Vision
Van Halen – You Really Got Me

Set 3

New Order – Blue Monday ’88
B-Movie – Remembrance Day
Kraftwerk – Das Model
Gary Numan – I Die:You Die
Genesis – Land Of Confusion
Mike Oldfield – Wonderful Land
Hawkwind – Silver Machine
The Doors – People Are Strange
The Beatles – Across The Universe
David Bowie – Space Oddity

Final Tag-Team

Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
Pink Floyd – High Hopes
Lou Reed – Berlin
Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
Nick Cave – The Ship Song
Chris Rea – Fool (If You Think It’s Over)
Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon
Billy Bragg – The Man In The Iron Mask
Johnny Cash – The Man Comes Around

Outro: Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygene IV

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – June 2017

Back to the Tufnell Park Dome on what was probably the hottest day of the year so far. Thank you air-con! Scott McMahon and I handled the soundtrack to London’s long-running alternative shopping experience. After all these years, I still find plenty of ways to avoid repeating myself.

12 noon-1pm – Darkwave to Synthpop

Collection d’Arnell-Andréa – Les Cendre-Lisières
Arcana Obscura – Forgotten Lakes
Bel Canto – Spiderdust
Hante. – Infinite Particles of Us
Schneewittchen – Rosengarten
Anne Clark – Wallies
Diffuzion – City Of Dust
Scheuber – Human
Neuroactive – Mécanique
Blind Passenger – Digital Criminal
Glass Apple Bonzai – Too Late To Let Go
Northern Lite – Trouble Makes Good Songs
Daily Planet – Radioactive Love
John Foxx and The Maths – Evergreen
The Human League – Being Boiled
Kite – Jonny Boy

2pm-3pm – Various Electro-Industrial Tunes

Covenant – Slowmotion
Liquid Divine – Click
Binary Park – The Deviated
Voyou – Houseman
Massiv In Mensch – Dark Rave
Negative Format – Spectral Analysis
ES23 – About A God
Tactical Sekt – Xfixiation
Interlace – Under The Sky (Club Version)
Controlled Collapse – Selfless
New Mind – Forge
Limbo – Libido Mater Nostra
Pain Station – Closer To The Edge
Klangstabil – Regelkreisauslöser

4pm-5pm – Gothic Rock, Post-Punk and Punk

Killing Joke – Change
Bauhaus – Lagartija Nick
Phillip Boa and The Voodoo Club – So What
Nosferatu – Torturous
Henke – Vom A Zum F
Sisters Of Mercy – Walk Away
1919 – Cry Wolf
Warsaw – Walked In Line
Section 25 – Dirty Disco
A Certain Ratio – The Fox
Psychic TV – Ov Power
The Pop Group – We Are All Prostitutes
Raincoats – Fairytale In The Supermarket
Penetration – Don’t Dictate
Rezillos – Top Of The Pops
Adverts – Gary Gilmore’s Eyes
The Oppressed – Ultraviolence
Sham 69 – Hurry Up Harry (we’re going down the pub)

5pm – Tag-Team Finale

Quite short as we had more to do over the road….

Theme From ‘Batman’
Intermittent Explosive Disorder – Who Said You Could Die, You Bastard?
Monty Python – Knights Of The Round Table

Ich Will

Returned to the DJ booth at The Lounge/Nightclub Kollis at ICH WILL – the first Rammstein-themed London club night. Technical issues resulted in my first set being extended by an hour, plus a little extra at the close of the night. A quite amazing night all being told – Here’s what I played.

Set 1

The extended nature of my set meant I played one track from every Rammstein album in this set, plus a couple more from singles and a number of non-R+ requests.

Rammstein – Ohne Dich (Mina Harker’s version by Laibach)
Witt – Wo versteckt sich Gott (VNV Nation Remix)
Author + Punisher – Cauterize
Die Krupps – Isolation
Rammstein – Eifersucht
Mortiis – Decadent and Decadent
Sepultura – Orgasmatron
Korn – Blind
Disturbed – Down With The Sickness
Rammstein – Rein Raus
Ministry – Just One Fix
Skinny Puppy – Tin Omen
Rammstein – Wollt Ihr Das Bett In Flammen Sehen?
Stahlmann – Stahlmann
Oomph! – Augen Auf
Unheilig – Maschine
Erdling – Mein Element
Rammstein – Mein Teil
Gothminister – Angel
ASP – Ich Will Brennen
Lord Of The Lost – Die Tomorrow
Rammstein – Benzin
Eisbrecher – Vergissmeinnicht
Megaherz – Rock Me Amadeus
Stabbing Westward – Save Yourself
Revolting Cocks – Beers, Steers and Queers
Rammstein – Stripped
Nine Inch Nails – Sin (Short)
Rammstein – Pussy

Set 2

What to do when the last two requests are for Blutengel and Slipknot.

Rammstein – Moskau
Type O Negative – My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend
Paradise Lost – One Second
Blutengel – You Walk Away
Cubanate – Oxyacetylene
Slipknot – People = Shit
Rammstein – Ich Will
Rammstein – Seeman/Du Riechst So Gut (Terminates Here/Vade Retro crossfade version)

20 Years Of Live Music – Part 18 (2017)

2017 is a story as yet unwritten in full, as the 20-year mark where this tale draws to a close arrives in the middle. And hence a lengthy write-up is beyond me, as I don’t have a years worth of context to build the gigging tales round. But there is one event that does justify a bit more, and those of you who have read this far can probably guess what it is. Continue reading

Renaissance VII

The Renaissance festival returned in 2017 in it’s new home of The Lounge (aka Nightclub Kolis) in Archway. The festival is a celebration of all forms of alternative culture, with art exhibitions, comic books, video clips and life drawing all featuring on this occasion, though the musical elements still occupy much of the day. There was a double-ended stage setup indoors (RAM and TWIN stages) and a small performance area outdoors (ARCHERS stage), and no less than 8 DJs filling in the gaps between the various performances. Here’s my contribution.

Archers Stage Set

New ground always being broken, this was my first ever DJ set outdoors. This accounts for the quite subtle nature of what I played.

Vernian Process – Sarabande
VNV Nation – Solitary (Orchestral Version)
Spiritual Front – My Kingdom For A Horse
Current 93 – Oh Coal Black Smith
Gae Bolg – Hymne
Faun – Punagra
Cinderella Effect – Timekiller
Deine Lakaien – Love Me To The End
Diary Of Dreams – AmoK (Acoustic Version feat. Torben Wendt)
Ego Likeness – I Live On What’s Left 2008
Silke Bischoff – On The Other Side ’93

RAM Stage Set 1

Kat5can – (Screaming Like A) Crack Baby
Battery – Meat Market
Krystal System – 26 Days
NIN – Heresy
Pitchshifter – Please Sir
KMFDM – Never Say Never

RAM Stage Set 2

Concrete Lung – Recovery Position
Fear Factory – Self-Immolation
Sepultura – Arise
Testament – Into The Pit

DJ Terminates Here vs DJ The Scot – Easter Special

Scott and myself decided to run a one-off version of our Open Request List event on Easter Sunday 2017. Most of the tracks listed here are requests, though I did try to make some of the ‘link-up tracks’ biblical-themed (even if it was done with a degree of irony).

Set 1 (Warm Up)

Nazareth – Hair Of The Dog
Scorpions – Rock You Like A Hurricane
Journey – Chain Reaction
Rainbow – Man On The Silver Mountain

Set 2

Iggy Pop – The Passenger
Dio – Rainbow In The Dark
Twisted Sister – I Wanna Rock
L.A.Guns – Ballad of Jayne
Y&T – Summertime Girls
Marilyn Manson – Deep Six
Type O Negative – Christian Woman
Prong – Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck
System Of A Down – Cigaro
Rage Against The Machine – Bullet In The Head
Faith No More – Easy

Set 3

She Wants Revenge – Take The World
Wumpscut – Jesus Antichristus
Schwarzblut – Judas
MaxDmyz – Muthablud
Tool – Sober
NIN – The Line Begins To Blur
Rob Zombie – Living Dead Girl
Marilyn Manson – The Dope Show
Guns & Roses – Welcome To The Jungle
Van Halen – Ain’t Talking ‘Bout Love

Set 4

Hawkwind – Silver Machine
Jefferson Airplane -White Rabbit
The Killers – Mr Brightside
Beatles – Helter Skelter
New York Dolls – Trash
Motörhead – Overkill
Metallica – Master Of Puppets

Final Tag-Team

Slayer – Raining Blood
Killing Joke – Death And Resurrection Show
Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
The Velvet Underground – All Tomorrow’s Parties
Blondie – Sunday Girl
David Bowie – Starman
Iggy Pop – Nightclubbing 
Silver Apples – Misty Mountain
Pink Floyd- Astronomy Donine
Mike Oldfield – Five Miles Out
Leonard Cohen – The Future

Outro: Vangelis – Love Theme from Bladerunner

Encore?: T-Rex – 20th Century Boy

DJ Terminates Here vs DJ The Scot – March 2017

After the Alt Bring’n’Buy, Scott and myself went across the road and continued the music at Aces and Eights. As ever, this was run on an ‘Open Request List’ basis, though the earlier-than-usual start gave us a chance for a warm-up before the diverse collection of requests came in.

Set 1 (Warm-Up)

Wishbone Ash – Blowin’ Free
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising
Bruce Springsteen – Atlantic City
Kenny Rogers – Coward of the County
Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah

Set 2

HIM – Wicked Game
Type O Negative – My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend
Marilyn Manson – The Dope Show
Green Day – Basket Case
Faith No More – Easy
Placebo – Taste In Men
The Prodigy – Breathe
Project Pitchfork – Conjure
Light Asylum – Dark Allies
Linea Aspera – Eviction
Depeche Mode – Stripped

Set 3

Led Zeppelin – Immigrant Song
ZZ Top – Sharp Dressed Man
Bon Jovi – Wanted Dead or Alive
Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast
Megadeth – Hangar 18
System of a Down – Cigaro
Alice In Chains – Man In The Box

Set 4

Spizzenergi – Where’s Captain Kirk
Public Image Ltd – Rise
Untoten – Alexanderplatz
DAF – Der Mussolini
David Bowie – I’m Deranged
Hawkwind – Silver Machine
Supertramp – The Logical Song
Styx – Renegade

Final Jonny vs Scott Tag Team

David Bowie – Space Oddity
Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
Fairport Convention – Breakfast In Mayfair
The Beatles – Revolution 1
The Doors – People Are Strange
The Velvet Underground – All Tommorrows Parties
Joy Division – Atmosphere
Depeche Mode – A Question of Lust
The Stone Roses – I Wanna Be Adored
Primal Scream – Higher Than The Sun

Outro: Angelo Badalamenti – Laura Palmer’s Theme

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – March 2017

The quarterly alternative retail experience continues into it’s 11th year! The Tufnell Park Dome has been reconfigured a bit, but DJ The Scott and myself continue to provide the sountrack, this time accompanied by Jonny Haart and Demondaz from Yesterday’s Shadow (plus various other events, but YS is the only other place you’ll find all of us regularly!). Here’s my contributions to the days soundtrack.

11:45am-1pm – 90s Electronica to Old-school Industrial

Amorphous Androgynous – The Mello Hippo Disco Show
Jean-Michel Jarre & Yello – Why This, Why That and Why
Massive Attack – Teardrop
Leftfield – Melt
Seize – Victim
DJ Quicksilver – African Rain
808 State – Plan 9 (LP Mix)
Sash! – Little River
The Orb – Asylum (7″)
BT – Love, Peace and Grease
Josh Wink – How’s The Music
Sandoz – Armed Response
Millimetric – Suffoque
Underviewer – Nobody But You
SARIN – Interface
Holm/Mirland – In Control
Hula – Poison
ClockDVA – Sound Mirror 1 Programme 5

3pm-4pm – Guitar industrial to Mittelalter Rock

Orgy – Stitches
NIN – The Perfect Drug
Essence Of Mind – For Real
Cyanotic – Sensory Deprivation
Marc Heal – Failure
Penal Colony – Product
Erdling – Es Ist Zeit
Megaherz – Rock Me Amadeus
Murder Inc. – Gambit
Seigmen – Slaver Av Solen
Dream Theatre – Another Day
Paradise Lost – One Second
Visions of Atlantis – Lemuria
Ingrimm – Die Pest
Schandmaul – Walpurgisnacht
Feuerschwanz – Metvernichter
In Extremo – Vollmond

And then over the road to Aces and Eights….

Tragedy >Four<

This was the fourth edition of my Tragedy >For Us< event, and also the first Terminates Here promoted event to feature live bands, with Black Light Ascension, Personal Propaganda Machine and DJ Translight all playing live sets (I recommend you check all of them out!). DJs Nathan Nothing and Kriegslok also returned, DJing between the bands and Nathan also joining me to play the afterparty. Everyone involved did a brilliant job – it really couldn’t have gone better,

The timing of my sets and the audience meant my own sets were a little more ‘populist’ than normal, though still keeping largely to the music policy. As the event was also a celebration of International EBM Day (24/2), there were a higher-than-normal number of Front 242 tracks in the set.

Set 1

Front 242 – No Shuffle
THX – To Travel
Frame Of Mind – Heart Beat
Skinny Puppy – Smothered Hope
AutoDaFeh – Divided We Fall
Escalator – God Eat God
Leæther Strip – Strap Me Down
VNV Nation – Cold
Front 242 – Welcome To Paradise

Set 2

Ministry – Revenge
Cory Hart – Sunglasses At Night
Kraftwerk – Numbers
Nitzer Ebb – Let Your Body Learn
DAF – Der Mussolini
Invincible Spirit – Push!
Project Pitchfork – Conjure
:Wumpscut: – Wreath Of Barbs
Die Krupps – Robo Sapien

Set 3

Front 242 – Tragedy >For You<
Die Form – Chronovision
Kirlian Camera – Eclipse (Anniversary)
VNV Nation – Joy
Front 242 – Headhunter V1
Laibach – WAT

Outro: Darkmen – Photographic