London Gothic

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Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – March 2015

Second set of the weekend, and back to London’s foremost event for alternative bargain hunting. This time, no technicals! Joining DJ The Scot and myself today was Grimorg from the London Vampire Meetup. He handled the gothic rock side of things, leaving the alternative rock to Scott, and all the electronics to me!

10:30am-11:50am

Kraftwerk – Autobahn (Short Cut)
Tangerine Dream – Stratosfear
Urawa – Sign
AFX – .215061
Needle Sharing – Clicks Per Second
Speed Tribe – …While Driving Between Raindrops
Les Jumeaux – Cobalt
Greenhaus – One Day Closer
La Floa Maldita – Sorciere
Intermix – Get Religion
Recoil – Want
Art of Noise – Close (To The Edit)
Fad Gadget – Collapsing New People
Depeche Mode – (Set Me Free) Remotivate Me
Polyphonic Size – Mother’s Little Helper
Absolute Body Control – Give Me Your Hands
Light Asylum – Pope Will Roll

2pm-3pm

After much old-school EBM on Friday, I decided to give it a break on this occasion….

Lamia – Peccator
Project Pitchfork – I Live Your Dream
Fusspills 11 – Bodo Ballermann
Flesh Field – Haven
Decoded Feedback – Bio-Vital
Blutengel – Fly Away
Suicidal Romance – Not Alone
Intra-Venus – Anything’s Possible
Angels & Agony – One
Bak XIII – Nothing To Fear
Synthetic – The Body Farm
Mechanical Cabaret – I Lost My Friend To A Video Game
Parralox – I Sing The Body Electric

5pm Tag Team

Due a 3-DJ, 2-line in issue, plus a need to pack up and get across the road, I only threw in one track this time. But I think it’s one that suited me. (Clue: it’s the first one…..)

Cock Sparrer – Take ‘Em All
Suspira Theme – Goblin
Midnight Configuration – Into The Groove
Dick Dale and the Del-Tones – Misirilou
Creaming Jesus – Temple of Love

And then over the road to Aces and Eights…..

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – November 2014

Back to where it all began, six years ago to the day, and still my only regular DJ set. Today myself and regular co-DJ ‘The Scot’ were joined by Simon Landmine (or was is ‘Claymore’?) for this particular daytime DJ set. Due to difficulties finding a key, we were late starting, explaining the curtailed early sets.

We later made up for the late start across the road at Aces and Eights, of course…..

12pm-12:40pm – Minimal Synth and Darkwave

Cevin Key – Aphasia
Chris & Cosey – Just Like You
Linear Movement – Due To You
Oppenheimer Analysis – Don’t Be See With Me
Sixth June – Everytime
Torul – Glow
Spacebuoy – Intoxicated
Regenerator – Shores of Forever (EU Version)
Agonised by Love – Silent War
Xymox – Blind Hearts
Love Is Colder Than Death – In Silence and Tears

2pm-3pm – Electro-Industrial and Futurepop

Skinny Puppy – Smothered Hope
Dive – Sidewalk Sinner
No Sleep By The Machine – Mammonth
Bio-Tek – Communion
Dead When I Found Her – Rain Machine
The .invalid – Breaksequence
Accessory – Deadline
Destroid – Judgement Throne
Epsilon Minus – Future Pop Musik
Cryo – The Portal
VNV Nation – The Great Divide
Frozen Plasma – Irony
Ficitonal – Blue Lights
Fiction 8 – Hegemony

5pm-5:20pm – 3 Way Tag Team

I’ll let regulars work out whose are whose – I’m guilty-as-charged for the London punk (no surprise) and US funk-metal (slightly more of a surprise?).

Red Hot Chilli Peppers – Give It Away
Q Lazarus – Goodbye Horses
Wax Audio – Thunder Busters
The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
Babymetal – Gimme Choko
The Ruts – Babylons Burning

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – September 2014

After two months off DJing, I returned back to the Alternative Bring’n’Buy sale, once again joined by Scott McMahon (now working under the name ‘DJ The Scott’), for our longest day of DJing yet. Today’s set included a number of bands that had made a mark on the UK live scene during August, plus at least one that should have but didn’t (come back Pitchies, all is forgiven!).

Set 1 – 10:20am-11:45am

Neo-folk for set up, some downtempo electronics to cure any hangovers, and then onto the minimal melodic synth thing that I’ve discovered works particularly well at this time of morning.

:Wumpscut: – Angel
Coph Nia – The New Oath
Blood Axis & Les Joyeaux De La Princesse – Foile Verte
Sieben – Love’s Promise
Dernière Volonté – Le Poison
Rome – To Die Among Strangers
Jordan Reyne – The Shadow Line
Portishead – Numb
Xingu Hill – Core Illness
Scorn – Weakener
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Pieces From The Whole
Echo West – In Pop We Trust
Iioioioii – Stardust
No Comment – Back In The 80s (Maxi Version)
Carpe Diem – Dream On
Eleven Pond – Watching Trees
Martial Canterel – You Today
Sturm Café – Koka Kola Freiheit
Welle:Erdball – Der Flipperkönig
Mr.Kitty – Insects
Auto-Auto – Toadboy
The Faint – Agenda Suicide

Set 2 – 1pm-2pm

Despite focusing on older EBM and dark electro in club sets these days, this event is about variety, so I dug out some of the lesser-played (by me) ‘oontz’ material, too.

Front 242 – Flag
Die Krupps – Robo Sapien
Eco – Hass Und Liebe
Project Pitchfork – Alpha Omega
Velvet Acid Christ – We Have To See We Have To Know
Juno Reactor – God Is God
Mentallo + The Fixer – Tachyon
Enter + Fall – Push Enter + Fall Down
X-Fusion – The Dungeon Of Reality
Tamtrum – Abort The Pope
XP8 – Das Licht
Seabound – Hooked
Covenant – The Men
Informatik – Something To Believe In

Set 3 – 3pm-4pm

Scott handled the post-punky side of goth, thus leaving me with various 90s and 00s rockier material, with a metallic twist at the end.

Suspiria – Allegedy, Dancefloor Tragedy
Squid – Endgame
Midnight Configuration – Sinister, Sinister
Bella Morte – Find Forever Gone
Breath Of Life – Bad Race
Still Patient? – Chameleon
Cancer Barrack – Cancer Barrack
The Beauty Of Gemina – Haddon Hall
Lacrimosa – Durch Nacht Und Flut (Club Version)
ASP – Ich Will Brennen
Staubkind – Dein Engel Schweight
In Extremo – Küss mich
Eluveitie – A Rose For Epona
Tyr – Hold The Heathen Hammer High
Die Kur – The Order Of Things To Be

5pm-5:30pm – Jonny vs Scott Tag Team

Actually, this ended up as more of a ‘England vs USA’ Tag Team (not being sufficient amounts of Scottish punk to hand for Scott to show his background)……

Cock Sparrer – Take ‘em All
Blondie – X-Offender
Cockney Rejects – Oi Oi Oi
Dead Kennedys – California Uber Alles
Ian Dury – Sex and Drugs and Rock’n’Roll
Lou Reed – Vicious

With that done, it was over the road to Aces and Eights to continue with our Open Request List event…..

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – June 2014

The Alternative Bring & Buy Sale – my last remaining regular DJ slot, yet one where we have to fight technical demons on every occasion. Still, once it was all working, we got a decent set out through the PA. Joining me today was Alt B&B regular Scott McMahon, plus Shadowchaser (Ravi), who covered what I normally cover. All this amounted to a first set played in highly unusual circumstances, and a second set containing hardly any of the bands you all know me for.

11am-12 noon – Neo-Somethingorother

Erich Kunzel – Handel’s Sarabande From Suite No.11
Sophia – Herbstwerk
Karjalan Sissit – Requiem
Nico – No One Is There
Ordo Equitum Solis – Through The Fog
Unto Ashes – Young Men Leave For Battle
Tony Wakeford – A Small Town In Germany
Death In June – Hail The White Grain
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – [Mercury Rising] Seduced By the Hisses Of Cinnabar Sweet
Evelyn Evelyn – Elephant Elephant
Andi Sex Gang – Psychic Sarah
ThouShaltNot – The Haunted Phonograph
Einstürzende Neubauten – Sabrina
Monte Cazazza – Sex Is No Emergency
Throbbing Gristle – Hot On The Heels Of Love
Download – Possession
300,000VK – Also Sprach Johann Paul II

2pm-3pm – Gothic Rock and Various Forms of Metal

Bauhaus – Dark Entries
Shadow Project – Holy Hell
Sisters Of Mercy – Lucretia My Reflection
Last Rites – The Many Forms
My Dying Bride – Like Gods Of The Sun
Mono Inc. – Admiration Hill
The Gathering – Adrenaline
Mina Harker – Lolita
Samsas Traum – Endstation: Eden
Nightwish – Wishmaster
Therion – To Mega Therion
Amon Amarth – Gods Of War Arise
Korpiklaani – Vodka
In Extremo – Vollmond

5pm – 5:30pm – Jonny vs Ravi – Venue Closing Tag Team

The DJs change, but the tradition continues!

Green Day – Basket Case
Electric Six – Gay Bar
PUSA – Dune Buggy
Faith No More – Easy
Pulp – Common People
Pet Shop Boys – Go West
Corky and the Juice Pigs – Eskimo
Monty Python – Bruces Philosophers Song

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – March 2014

Back once again to the Tufnell Park Dome, where myself and Scott McMahon take daytime DJing into even more uncharted territories.

Set 1 – 10:30am – 12pm – Darkambient, Darkwave, Melodic Synth

Klaus Schulze – Synphara
Brighter Death Now – Slaughterhouse
Archon Satani – Eternal Suffering This Christian World
MZ.412 – Mourning Star
Atrium Carceri – Third From The Centre
Nine Inch Nails – A Warm Place
Oneiriod Psychosis – As Leaves Fall
Diary Of Dreams – Rumours About Angels
Soil and Eclipse – Necromancy
Sombre Printemps – Orphaned
Equitant – Technik
Severed Heads – Dead Eyes Open
Absolute Body Control – Do You Feel It Inside (Rewind Version)
Delay – Working In A Factory
Fad Gadget – Collapsing New People
Tears For Fears – Mad World
Jon and Vangelis – I’ll Find My Way Home
OMD – Maid Of Orleans

1pm-2pm – EBM, Electro-Industrial and Futurepop

Agent Side Grinder – The Screams
A Split-Second – Flesh
Signal Aout 42 – Dead Is Calling
Front 242 – Funkahdafi
Insekt – In The Eye
E-Craft – Electrocution
Die Krupps – Robo Sapien
Aslan Faction – Bring On The Dying
Skinny Puppy – SaLvo
Project Pitchfork – Human Crossing
Rotersand – All In All
Apoptygma Berzerk – Spindizzy
Swarf – Fall
Dust Of Basement – Don’t Forget Desire

Set 3 – 3pm-4pm – Old Goth and Old Rock

Christian Death – Deathwish
Tones On Tail – Christian Says
Virgin Prunes – Baby Turns Blue
Rosetta Stone – An Eye For The Main Chance
Descendants of Cain – War Of Ages
Saints Of Eden – One
The Mission – Wasteland
The Cult – Love Removal Machine
T-Rex – Children Of The Revolution
Uriah Heep – Lady In Black
10CC – Life Is A Minestrone
UFO – Doctor Doctor
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Iron Maiden – 2 Minutes To Midnight
Saxon – The Eagle Has Landed\

5pm-5:30pm – Jonny vs Scott Tag Team

The tradition (?) continues….

Billy Joel – We Didn’t Start The Fire
Nancy Sinatra – These Boots
Motley Crue – Shout At The Devil
Rocky Roberts and Luis Bacalov – Django
Kenny Rogers – The Gambler
The White Stripes – Jolene
Jerry Lee Lewis – Great Balls of Fire
Nick Cave – By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Monty Python – Lumberjack

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – December 2013

The fourth Alternative Bring’n’Buy of 2013, my third one as DJ. This time, myself and Scott McMahon decided to tackle it as a 2-piece. He handled guitar music, I mainly handle stuff played on synths. Here’s my side of what was played.

12 noon – 1pm – Atmospheric and Darkwave

Strictly speaking, I started at 12:10pm, but details, details…..

Estampie – Aurora
Dead Can Dance – Enigma Of The Absolute
Sopor Aeturnus – The House Is Empty Now
Aurora Sutra – The Garden Of Temptation
Miranda Sex Garden – Gush Forth My Tears
Helium Vola – Nummus
Siderarctica – Circle Of The Angels
Mechanical Moth – Prophecy Of The Moth
Relatives Menschsein – Die Zeit
Das Ich – Das Dunkle Lnad
Trümmerwelten – Engelsleich
Eternal Aflict – Kinski Is Dead

2pm – 3pm – EBM and Elektro, Old and New

I might be happier in old-school territory now, but I still play industrial of all varieties.

Haujobb – Dead Market
Individual Totem – Lost Souls
X Marks The Pedwalk – Paranoid Illusions
Noise Unit – Agitate
The Invincible Spirit – Push!
Front 242 – Until Death Us Do Part
Pouppée Fabrikk – Keine Zukunft
Darkmen – Legs Like Gold
Klutæ – Desert Storm
God Module – Resurrection
Tactical Sekt – Xfixiation (Original version….for once!)
Infekktion – Electrocution
Funker Vogt – Black Market Dealers
Miss Construction – Eins Und Zwei
Rabia Sorda – What You Get Is What You See

4pm – 5pm – Futurepop and Synthpop

Including the first ever appearance of a certain ‘bleedin obvious’ Covenant song in a TH set.

Deja Vu II – World Alert
A Spell Inside – I Will
Blind Passengers – Headlights
Mesh – Trust You (Single)
Covenant – Dead Songs (that’s what I call it)
NeuroticFish – Velocity
Pride + Fall – December
The Azoic – Conflict
Spray – He Came With The Sleigh
Erasure – Gaudete
SPOCK – White Christmas
Marc Almond – Tears Run Rings
Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams
Depeche Mode – Everything Counts
The Human League – Don’t You Want Me
Pet Shop Boys – Always On My Mind

5pm – Scott vs Jonny Tag Team

A tradition started in 2009 still continues…..

Cowboy Timmy – Mr Hankey The Christmas Poo
Schmoof – Sweet Child O’Mine
Satan – Christmas In Hell
Reverend Horton Heat – Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
chef – Chocolate Salty Balls
Monty Python – Lumberjack Song
HP Lovecraft Society – It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Fish

Unofficial Sets

Compiled here are a number of setlists from events that I provided music for but for whatever reason don’t qualify as ‘official’ Terminates Here sets, for one of the following reason:
  • The set was prerecorded
  • The event was a ‘practice’ or kit-testing session
  • The event was so poorly attended that it was a glorified practice session.
  • The set took place in a private building (private parties in regular pubs/clubs DO count)

London Gothic Meetup 200 – 24 October 2009

There was no DJ booth here, so I took requests online in advance of the event. The set was premixed into blocks of 3 or 4 songs, with gaps to allow for requests on the night. Robert once again handled the goth rock, post-punk, new wave area, thus letting me handle all the fringe styles. No-one yelled ‘Play Some Goth’ all night, so I think we got away with it.

7pm-8pm

Current 93 – All The Pretty Little Horses
Emilie Autumn – Largo
Vernian Process – Sarabande
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – She’s In Love With A Whip (My Venus In Furs)
Dead Can Dance – The Host Of Seraphim
Qntal – Am Morgen Fruo
The Creatures – Pluto Drive
Faith And The Muse – Whispered In Your Ear
Collide – Wings Of Steel
Diary Of Dreams – Kindrom
Clan Of Xymox – This World Project Pitchfork – I Live Your Dream

9pm-10:15pm

Within Temptatation – See Who I Am
Nightwish – Wish I Had An Angel
Epica – Sensorium
Rammstein – Pussy
NIN – The Day The World Went Away
KMFDM – A Drug Against War
Deviant UK – Access Denied
Front 242 – Headhunter (Live Code Version)
Front Line Assembly – Iceolate
Combichrist – Get Your Body Beat
Modulate – Skullfuck
Grendel – Zombienation (v2k5)
VNV Nation – The Great Divide
Covenant – Like Tears In Rain
The Cruxshadows – Tears
The Birthday Massacre – I Think We’re Alone Now

Mittelalter Nacht – 17 April 2010

This was the first known attempt at running a mittelalter night in London – and where better to hold it than Zeitgeist, a German Gastropub south of the river. Thanks must go to Ian for organising the whole event, and also the organisers for putting on a charity buffet, which was as tasty and filling as everything else I’ve ever eaten there!
There was no DJ booth, so sets were pre-recorded. Ian and Alan provided the bulk of the music, though I did provide one hour myself, which was played between 9pm and 10pm. To keep things varied, I managed to get some neo-folk, folk rock and ethereal tunes into my own set. Here it is:
Strawbs – The Hangman And The Papist (Acoustic Version)
Fire And Ice – The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Estampie – A Voi Gente Lamia – O Virgo Spelendens
Delerium feat Medieval Baebes – Extollere
Helium Vola – In Lichter Farbe Steht der Wald Die
Irrlichter – Totus Floreo
Unto Ashes – One World One Sky
Corvus Corax – Skudrinka
Cultus Ferox – Götterdämmerung
Omnia – Wytches Brew
In Extremo – Merseburger Zaubersprüche II
Saltatio Mortis – God Gave Rock’n’Roll
Nightwish – Moondance

Mittelalter Nacht II – 22 October 2010

For the second time in 2010, a Mittelalter Night was held at the Zeitgeist gastropub. A larger pool of DJs were called upon this time, covering everything from folk metal to mittelalter punk. My own set included a selection of more ‘electro-mittelalter’ tracks as well as some more conventional material. For technical reasons it was pre-recorded, but was played between 9pm and 10pm on the night itself.
The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud – Amara Tanta Tyri IV
Stoa – Autumn
Ataraxia – Elevazione
Qntal – Glacies
Helium Vola – Nummus
Lesiem – Fundamentum
Vangelis – Conquest Of Paradise
Potentia Animi – Viva La More
Heimataerde – Herr Mannelig
Eisenfunk – Skudrinka
Corvus Corax – Gaudalier (PC Project Remix)
Tanzwut – Exkremento
In Extremo – Villeman Og Magnhild
Faun – Rhiannon
Airim – Follow Me Up To Carlow

Gothic Sunday Chillout and Kit-Testing Session – March 6 2011

A Sunday afternoon with London Gothic is always well spent, especially when no less than 5 DJs gather to test out a selection of virtual DJ kit. The nature of this event means that the sets were all necessarily short. Here’s what I played:

Set 1

Code 64 – Leaving Earth
Beborn Beton – Another World
De/Vision – The End

Set 2

Melotron – Machmal (Edit)
Presets – Girl and the Sea
The Knife – Pass This On
Golden Boy and Miss Kittin – Rippin Kittin

Set 3

Umbra Et Imago feat Tanzwut – Feuer Und Licht
Schandmaul – Vor Der Schlacht
After Forever – Energize Me
Tiamat – The Ar
Theatre Of Tragedy – Machine
The Galan Pixs – Crackerjack – Return Of The Faith Healer

Downstairs Set – 15 February 2013

Whilst I was DJing Upstairs at said party, a pre-recorded set I made earlier in the day was playing downstairs. Due to it’s length, I never recorded the exact tracklist, nor it’s order, but here’s the highlights at least.
Atrium Carceri – Knowledge Of The Few
Coph Nia – Sympathy For The Devil
Steve Roach – Infinte Shore
Current 93 – Imperium I
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – She’s In Love With A Whip (Venus In Furs)
NON – Total War (Osaka version)
Laibach – Grosste Kraft & Mama Leone (plus their version of Rammstein’s Ohne Dich)
Blood Axis – Reign I Forever
The Prodigy – 3 Kilos
Jean Michel Jarre – Ethnicolour and Oxygene III
How To Destroy Angels – A Drowning
Swans – The Sound
Underworld – Stagger
Helium Vola – Omnis Mudia Creatura
Stalingrad – The Road On Which You’ll Die
Wendy Carlos – Title Music From A Clockwork Orange
Diary Of Dreams – Stimulation & Traumtanzer
A Split Second – Flesh (33rpm version)
DAF – Der Rauber and Der Prinz
Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral (The Bottom) & Something I Can Never Have
Marilyn Manson – Cryptochid
Fear Factory – Timelessness
Ministry – The Fall
Gary Numan – Deadliner
Vic Anselmo – Das Dunkle Land
Kirlian Camera – Ascension
Delerium – Incantation and Heavens Earth
Der Dritte Raum – Swing Bop (thus filling the request for electro swing!)
Velvet Acid Christ – We Have To See We Have To Know
:Wumspcut: – Thorns (Distant Vocals)
Covenant – Slowmotion
VNV Nation – Carbon
Mortis – Everyone Leaves
Girls Under Glass – Frozen
Project Pitchfork – Souls
Apoptygma Berzerk – 25 Cromwell Street

Terminates Here Irregular Event #02 – (Un)Common People – 2 November 2013

An event run at VERY short notice in November 2013 – for financial reasons, it was a case of then or not at all. With only one attendee who wasn’t a DJ or arrived with a DJ, the whole event became more of a beatmatchers ‘live in the studio’ test session.
Massive Attack – Teardrop
Air – Sexy Boy
Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds
Prodigy – Poison
Leftfield – Release The Pressure
Faithless – Salva Mea (Floating Mix/Tuff Mix combo)
4 Strings – Daytime William Orbit – Adagio For Strings (Ferry Corsten Remix)…mixed into
Tiesto – Adagio For Strings (excerpt)
Bomb The Bass – Megablast
Chemical Brothers – Block Rockin’ Beats
Underworld – Born Slippy.NUXX
Robert Miles – Children (Dream Version)
Blur – Girls and Boys
Lightning Seeds + Baddiel/Skinner – Three Lions
Pulp – Common People
Presidents of the United States of America – Peaches

Office Closure Party – 18 January 2018

I’ve even DJed as part of my day job.  This was a party to mark the closure of our old office.  I only did the opening phase, a more “contemporary” DJ did the late shift.  But here’s my bit for the record:

Wendy Carlos – Title Music From A Clockwork Orange
Angelo Badalamenti – Laura Palmer’s Theme
Vangelis – Love Theme From Bladerunner
Ennio Morricone – Gabriel’s Oboe
Brian Eno – An Ending (Ascent)
Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygene I
Massive Attack – Teardrop
Moby – Porcelain
The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds
Delerium – Incantation
Guru Josch – Infinity
KLF – 3am Eternal
Shamen – Phorever People
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Two Tribes
Bananarama – Venus
Human League – Don’t You Want Me
Depeche Mode – Never Let Me Down
Stranglers – Peaches
The Cranberries – Zombie
Blur – Girls + Boys
Pulp – Common People

 

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – October 2013

Part 2 of my triple-header, and back to where it all began at the Tufnell Park Dome. Joining me today was Alt B&B regular Scott, and also Captain Howard, who handled most of the styles I normally play, that gave me an opportunity to play, well, something else.

Set 1 – Folk-Prog-Psych-Glam Rock

With industrial and electronic covered and goth due later, this set reflects various other tunes that I thought I made a change from what I normally do.

Strawbs – The Hangman And The Papist
Steeleye Span – Blackleg Miner
Blackmores Night – Wind In The Willows
Fairport Convention – Breakfast In Mayfair
Can – She Brings The Rain
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band – Sugar and Spikes
Hawkwind – Silver Machine
Pink Floyd – Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)
Jethro Tull – Aqualung
Deep Purple – Knocking At Your Back Door
Camel – Cloak and Dagger Man
Foreigner – Double Vision
Roxy Music – Re-Make Re-Model
Sweet – Ballroom Blitz

Set 2 – Old Goth With A Bit Of New Stuff

A kind of once-a-year thing for me. But I’m happy to play it more often if anyone’s interested…..

Fortification 55 – And Tomorrow Atlantis
Hungry Lucy – Could It Be
Collide – Wings Of Steel
Razor Skyline – Queen Of Heaven
The Glove – Like An Animal
Atomic Neon – Cold Room
Manuskript – Flies In The Marzipan
Love Like Blood – Shed Your Skin
Killing Joke – Empire Song
Rubicon – Watch Without Pain
Bauhaus – Lagartija Nick
Sisters Of Mercy – Detonation Boulevard
Mono Inc – Burn Me
The Birthday Massacre – Happy Birthday
Helalyn Flowers – Guided By Voices

Jonny Vs Scott Tag Team Silliness

Something of a tradition – throw away all integrity and make clear up a lot less tedious. (Though to be fair, I’d play some of these in regular sets).

Madonna – Material Girl
Primal Scream – Rocks
Bon Jovi – You Give Love A Bad Name
Dee-Lite – Groove Is In The Heart
Men Without Hats – The Safety Dance
Shamen – L.S.I.
KLF – 3am Eternal
Monty Python – Bruce’s Philosophers Song + Knights Of The Round Table

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – July 2013

My first set in a couple of months, and my first full-length set since the end of Neo-Noir. Today I was joined by DJs Scott and Sinbad, thus re-uniting half the line-up from Reptile NYE 2012. With the two of them handling “everything with guitars in”, I played synthy stuff pretty much all day.

10:30am-12 noon – Synthetic Startup

Kept it mellow for the opening hour, given the likely heat.

Sabres Of Paradise – Clock Factory
Boards Of Canada – Turquiose Hexagon Sun
Autechre – Bike
Underworld – Dirty Epic
Yage – 831am
Finitribe – Forevergreen
Male Or Female – Louder Than Silence
Lassigue Bendthaus – Fiber
Cleen – Sunburst
Elektric Music – Esperanto
Rorschach Garden – Robot Song
Depeche Mode – Nodisco
OMD – Dresden
Hard Corps – Clean Tables
Northern Kind – On+On
Marsheaux – Breakthrough

2am-3am – More Bleep

So yes, in this set somewhere is a track of my own creation….

Halo In Reverse – King O
NIN – Survivalism
Meat Beat Manifesto – Prime Audio Soup
Deja Vu II – World Alert
Front 242 – Quite Unusual
Brigade Werther – Killbeat
Skinny Puppy – Smothered Hope
Tyske Ludder – Monotonie
Aiboforcen – E.W.I.F.
VNV Nation – Chrome
Icon Of Coil – Dead Enough For Life
Project Pitchfork – Timekiller
Suicidal Romance – Like An Angel
Blutengel – Stay (Shakespeares Sister Cover)

5am-5:30pm – Jonny vs Scott Tag Team

The traditional venue clearer.

Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back In Town
The Pogues – Fiesta
WASP – I Wanna Be Somebody
John Travolta and Oliva-Newton John – Summer Nights
Monty Python – Every Sperm Is Sacred
Johnny Cash – Ring Of Fire
Elvis Presley – Jailhouse Rock

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – December 2012

Once again, I operated the early shift at the Alternative Bring and Buy Sale, with Scott and Miss Jade covering the other sets. And also once again, I dreamt up another way of ‘doing’ the opening phase, plus my once-a-year journey into trad-goth!

10:30am – 12noon – Dambience, IDM and various electronic things

Archon Satani – Fleshseed
Brighter Death Now – Slaughterhouse
Atrium Carceri – Knowledge Of The Few
Ah Cama-Sotz – Lix Tatrax
Boyd Rice and Fiends – Worlds Collide
Synaesthesia – Wasteland
Future Sound Of London – My Kingdom
Enigma – Sadness Part 1
Aphex Twin – Aegispolis
µ-Ziq – Hasty Boom Alert
Add N To (X) – Revenge Of The Black Regent
Komputer – Looking Down On London
Metroland – Harry Beck
Kraftwerk – Numbers
Crystal Castles – Untrust Us
Goldfrapp – Number 1
Ladytron – Ace of Hz
Depeche Mode – Never Let Me Down (Aggro Mix)

2pm-3pm – Play Some Goth

Dave Gahan – Dirty Sticky Floors
Sisters Of Mercy – First And Last And Always
Inkubus Sukkubus – Heartbeat Of The Earth
The Horatii – Body Of The Fish
The Birthday Party – Release The Bats
Two Witches – Spirit Sacrifice
Flesh For Lulu – Laundromat Kat
The Cure – Primary
New Order – Dreams Never End
This Ascension – Fuego Cayendo
Skeletal Family – Promised Land
Rome Burns – Co-ordinates Of Control
Rhombus – 4472
Grooving In Green – A New Vessel
Forthcoming Fire – Feuer
Diary Of Dreams – Retaliation
Diorama – Child Of Entertainment
Deine Lakaien – Return

5pm-5:30pm – Jonny vs Scott Tag Team

Because it’s something of a tradition……especially at Christmas time, where there is an extra excuse to get silly. Scott’s tracks are in italics.

Reverend Horton Heat – Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Placebo – Daddy Kool
Twisted Sister – We’re Not Going To Take It
No Doubt – Oi To The World
Motorhead – Ace Of Spades
(Unknown Ska Version) – Frosty The Snowman
Animaniacs – Noel Song
(Unknown Cover) – It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of Year
Monty Python – Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life