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Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – August 2012

My longest day of DJing, ever. Two events, one after the other, on two floors of the same venue.

10:30am- 12 noon – Early Morning Synthesiser

An intentional change from the usual ‘damnbient’ music policy that opens up this event. It was simply too hot. One tradition, opening-with-an-incredibly-long-track-during-setup-time, was retained.

The Orb – A Huge Ever-Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld
The Knife – She’s Having A Baby
The Weathermen – Punishment Park
The Neon Judgement – Chinese Black
Absolute Body Control – Figures
Kraftwerk – Antenna
Pavillon 7B – You See
Analog Angel – The Miracle
Fairlight Children – Before You Came Along
Golden Boy & Miss Kittin – Rippin’ Kittin
The Presets – Girl And The Sea
Carved Souls – Box
Neuropa – Fashion War
Vision Talk – Elevation
Cinemascape – I Won’t Come Home Tonight
Bronski Beat – Hit That Perfect Beat
Rational Youth – Saturdays In Silesia
Images In Vogue – Lust For Love
The Other Two – Tasty Fish
Eurythmics – Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty Four)
OMD – Red Frame White Light
Depeche Mode – Ice Machine

2pm-3pm – Not Cooling Off Yet

From hard bleepy stuff to borderline goth……

Eisenfunk – Pong (600XL Remix by Xotox)
Grendel – End Of Ages
Freakangel – The Last White Dance
VNV Nation – Nemesis
Melotron – Folge Mir Ins Licht
T.O.Y. – Welcome To Spaceradio
Mari Chrome – Toxic
Spectra*Paris – Falsos Suenos (Spectramix)
Snake Skin – Etterna
Stray – Remember Me
18 Summers – Girl Of 18 Summers
Project Pitchfork – View From A Throne
The Beauty Of Gemina – The Lonesome Death Of A Goth DJ
Diary Of Dreams – Kindrom

And then downstairs to join Vade Retro in the DJ booth between the bands at Renaissance III.

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – November 2011

My last planned DJ set of 2011, back in the familiar surroundings of the upstairs room at the Tufnell Park dome, soundtracking this most unique and independent form of retain therapy. My co-DJs today were Kat Orphanides (playing metal and punk) and Ash (pretty much everything else). As a specialist in daytime dark-scene DJing, I once again dreamed up a new approach for the early slot, whilst deciding to focus on good old-fashion goth later on.

10:30am-12noon

Due to a need to lend a hand setting up the whole event, I purposely opened with a 23-minute long track, followed by touches of Project-label goodness, martial drumming and then onto something a bit more, erm, gothy?

Klaus Schulze – Synphära
Eno + Fripp – Wind On Water
LoveLiesCrushing – Valerian (Her Voice Honeyed)
Soul Whirling Somewhere – Wish
Lycia – Dare
Rosa Crux – Noctes Insomnes
Puissance – Grace Of God
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – The Perplexity Of Hybris (I Glorify Myself)
The Machine In The Garden – Final Form
The Shroud – Pixy Led
Faith And The Muse – The Burning Season
All About Eve – Flowers In Your Hair
Untoten – Shelter From Death
Collide – Space Oddity
The Last Dance – Distantly

2pm – 3pm

A mostly-goth set between a mostly-metal set and a mostly-industrial set.

Die Kur – New Era
Star Industry – Nineties
The Sisters Of Mercy – Vision Thing
The March Violets – Snake Dance
Garden Of Delight – Shared Creation
Elusive – Ride
Ikon – Why (7″)
Sex Gang Children – Beasts
Bauhaus – She’s In Parties
Suspiria – (Now We See) The Swine
Diary Of Dreams – Undividable
Dream Disciples – Room 57
Project Pitchfork – I Live Your Dream
Kirlian Camera – Nightglory
Global Citizen – Your Majesty

5pm-5:30pm – 3 Way Tag Team

For the first time, 3 DJs contributed to the end-of-event silliness. The first track here actually scratched a DJing itch I hardly dared admit to.

Yes – Owner Of A Lonely Heart (J)
Ghost Dance – Radar Love (K)
Voltaire – Vampire Club (Twilight Version) (A)
Ministry – What A Wonderful World (J)
Manuskript – Rock Me Amadeus (K)
The Timelords – Doctorin’ The Tardis (J)
Alestorm – Wolves Of The Sea (K)
Men Without Hats – The Safety Dance (J)
Lady Gaga – Poker Face (K)

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – August 2011

Having taken a break from playing CDs at the Alternative Bring’n’Buy in April in order to, erm, sell CDs at the Alternative Bring’n’Buy, today I went back to Plan A. I was joined by my regular co-DJs Robert Cowlin and Scott McMahon, who between them handled all the genres than having guitars in.

11am-12noon – Another Sunday Morning Special

I’ve kicked off with darkambient, mittelalter, neo-folk and dark cabaret in the past. And today? A 13-minute psychedelic Krautrock epic. And then lots of old-school synths. I love the early shift!

Tangerine Dream – Fly And Collision Of Comas Sola
Jean-Michel Jarre – Ethnicolor 1
Suicide – Rocket USA
Claire Obscur – Blume
Twilight Ritual – Closed Circuit
DAF – Der Räuber und der Prinz
Depeche Mode – Puppets
Absolute Body Control – Never Seen
Attrition – Thin Red Line
Kirlian Camera – The Desert Inside
Diary Of Dreams – Soul Stripper
Silke Bischoff – Waste Of Time
Girls Under Glass – Ohne Dich
Pink Turns Blue – Your Master Is Calling

2pm-3pm – EBM and Electro-Industrial

I think this is one of my favourite sets in recent times. A quick salute to the stall that sold me all those Pankow and Click Click CDs!

Front 242 – U-Men
Spetsnaz – That Perfect Body
Jäger 90 – Wie Du
Kommando XY – Genesis Does (What Nintendon’t)
Nitzer Ebb – Control I’m Here
Portion Control – Amnesia
Auto Da Feh – Divided We Fall
Invincible Spirit – Push!
Project Pitchfork – Go Further
Evil’s Toy – Organics
Plastic Noise Experience – Kill The 6
Funker Vogt – History
System:FX – Overdrive
Dismantled – Thanks For Everything
Inertia – Shakalaka Baby!

5pm-5:30pm – Jonny vs Scott Tag Team Silliness

In the true B&B tradition, there was time for playing somewhat ‘atypical’ tracks at the end. Every time it gets more and more random..…

Men Without Hats – The Safety Dance
Pulp – Disco 2000
The Confettis – The Sound Of C
Placebo – Daddy Cool
Mike Oldfield – Moonlight Shadow
Lady Gaga – Judas
The Bloodhound Gang – The Bad Touch (Eiffel 65 Remix)
Lordi – Hard Rock Hallejulah

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – December 2010

For the third time in 2010, I take to the DJ booth for London’s premier event for independent stallholders of a goth/alternative ilk to set up shop in a hall in Tufnell Park for 6 hours on a Sunday. More stalls than ever, attendence topped 200 once again, what’s not to love?

Scott McMahon joined me once again, prior to rushing down to the Reptile Club to play some more. Also joining me today was James Black of Black n Beard Radio, taking a break from stallholding duties to spin a few sets. As it was the festive season, each of us took a chance to spin some vaguely Chrismassy tunes.

10:30am-11am – Jonny’s Sunday Morning Ambience

The Dome had refitted it’s soundsystem, meaning we we up and running much earlier than usual. Some would have taken the opportunity to grab a coffee. Not me.

Potentia Animi – Oh Tannenbaum
Jean-Michel Jarre – Equinoxe I
Vangelis – Tears In Rain
Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson – Journey
Steve Roach – Infinite Shore
Lustmord – Beckoning
Wendy Carlos – Title Music From A Clockwork Orange

1pm-2pm – Half Industrial, Half Goth

I don’t get to play much trad, so it was nice to play some bands that I really should be spinning more often – I’d never previously played Mission, Cult or the Nephs, and I haven’t played The Cure since 2001!

Rammstein – Moskau
Terminal Choice – Be Like Me
Agonoize – For The Sick And Disturbed
Psyclon Nine – Lamb Of God
Feindflug – Leitbild
Signal Aout 42 – To Talk Nonsense
Project Pitchfork – Requiem
Diary Of Dreams – Ex-ile
Dreadful Shadows – Futility
Fields Of The Nephilim – Preacher Man
The Cult – She Sells Sanctuary
Adoration – Same As It Ever Was
The Mission – Severina
Sisters Of Mercy – Alice
Christian Death – Romeo’s Distress
The Cure – 10:15 Saturday Night

4pm-5pm – Goth of the Pops?

The first three songs in this set each remind me of a very special person in my life. The last? Probably best not to ask!

Blutengel – Navigator
Ravenous – The Voices You Hear (Spit and Polish Mix)
Mesh – Step By Step
Icon Of Coil – Stimulated
XPQ-21 – Rockin’ Silver Knight (Skinjob Remix)
Assemblage 23 – Document
RBN – Faithless (Radio Edit)
The Nine – My Fallacy (Delusional Mix)
Psyche – Six Feet Under
Iris – Annie, Would I Lie To You?
Parralox – Supermagic
Camouflage – The Great Commandment
Welle:Erdball – Monoton + Minimal
SPOCK – White Christmas
Erasure – Take A Chance On Me
Divine – You Think You’re A Man

5pm-5:20pm – Tag Team With Myself

Unfortunately, neither of my co-DJs was available for tag-team today, so I got cheesy for 20 minutes whilst everyone was clearing up.

Rocky Horror Picture Show – Time Warp
The Reverend Horton Heat – Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Men Without Hats – Safety Dance
The Human League – Don’t You Want Me
Pet Shop Boys – Always On My Mind
A-Ha – Take On Me

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – October 2010

After skipping the July event, I returned to the Dome to DJ the Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale once more. I had no less than three co-DJs, Robert Cowlin putting in a couple of hours of trad-goth and new wave, Scott McMahon coming in at the last minute to do an hour of metal, with Ashleigh (aka Miss Jade) taking a break from her stall and handling the final hour.

10:45am-12noon

At least a couple of people thanked me for playing bands that weren’t even in the setlist – yep, it’s another Jonny early-hours special! The first track was 13 minutes long, which explains the early start.

Swans – The Sound
Sol Invictus – A Rose In Hell
Death In June – But What Ends When The Symbols Shatter?
Black Tape For A Blue Girl – All My Lovers
Love Spirals Downwards – Mirrors A Still Sky
Persephone – Immersion
Apocalyptica – The Unforgiven
Lacrimosa – Seele In Not (Urversion)
Illuminate – Ein Erwachen
How To Destroy Angel – The Space In Between
Ego Likeness – I Live On What’s Left
Claire Voyant – Love The Giver
Diary Of Dreams – The Colours Of Grey
Girls Under Glass – When I Think About You
The Ghost Of Lemora – Dread The Day (The Cities Rise)
Inkubus Sukkubus – Paint It Black
Alien Sex Fiend – Dead And Buried

2pm-3pm

An industrial set….

Fleischmann – Die Roboter
The Young Gods – Skinflowers
NIN – Wish
Cubanate – Oxyacetylene
Project Pitchfork – I Am (A Thought In Slowmotion)
Absurd Minds – Essence
Velvet Acid Christ – Parasite
X Marks The Pedwalk – Paranoid Illusions
Leæther Strip – Strap Me Down
System:FX – Virus
Accessory – Deadline
God Module – Resurrection Resurrected
The Retrosic – Ground Zero (Valley Of Death)
[:SITD:] – Laughingstock
Faderhead – Noisebastardz

5pm-5:30pm

Usually any DJs remaining would do a tag-team ‘fun set’ whilst everyone’s clearing up. None of the others could join me today (though Ashleigh put in the Evelyn Evelyn track), so I did it solo this time.

Ultraviolence – Paranoid
Utah Saints – Something Good
Squeeze – Cool For Cats
Evelyn Evelyn – Elephant Elephant
Madness – Baggy Trousers
Men Without Hats – The Safety Dance
Falco – Rock Me Amadeus
Adam Ant – Stand And Deliver
Ian Dury – Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

Decadence In The Afternoon

A private Sunday afternoon party held by London Gothic.

3:30pm-4:15pm – Dark Cabaret, Dark Wave, Dark Other Stuff

Dead Can Dance – De Profundis (Out Of The Depths Of Sorrow)
Helium Vola – Dormi
Jill Tracy – Evil Night Together
The Dresden Dolls – My Alcoholic Friends
Cinderella Effect – Timekiller
Bat For Lashes – Horse And I
Emilie Autumn – Unlaced
Diary Of Dreams – The Curse
Diorama – Child Of Entertainment
Mesh – Not Prepared
Wolfsheim – The Sparrows And The Nightingales
She Wants Revenge – Spend The Night

7pm-8pm – NDH, Industrial and Bleepy Stuff

Oomph! – God Is A Popstar
Unheilig – Maschine
Rammstein – Du Hast
KMFDM – Never Say Never
In Strict Confidence – Silver Bullets
Project Pitchfork – K.N.K.A. (Climax Version)
Noisuf-X – Toccata Del Terrore
Hocico – Forgotten Tears
Punto Omega – Punto Omega
VNV Nation – Chrome
Apoptygma Berzerk – Unicorn (Fairlight Children Remix)
The Prodigy – Out Of Space
Power-Pill – Pac-Man
Orbital – Doctor?
Marsheaux – Pop Corn

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – March 2010

Another successful Bring’n’buy sale – Robert Cowlin couldn’t join us today, so instead I was joined in the booth by Scott McMahon, who also did three set (dark indie/soundclash for the first, bleep for the second, goth metal in the third). This of course left me to do a trad-set, which turned out to be a lot of fun.

11am-12noon – Dark Cabaret and Downtempo Electronics

Another 11am ‘special’, but a bit different from usual.

Raison D’etre – Ascencion De Profundis
Nicki Jaine – Pretty Face
Rozz Williams and Gitane Demone – In Every Dream Home A Heartache
Revue Noir – The Gravediggers
Johnny Cash – Hurt
Diary Of Dreams – AmoK (aLive Piano Version)
Absolute Body Control – I’m Leaving
The Human League – Circus Of Death
Depeche Mode – Ice Machine
John Foxx – Underpass
Kraftwerk – Radioactivity (original version)
Deine Lakaien – Generators
Blutengel – I’m Dying Alone
Kirlian Camera – Comfortably Numb

1pm-2pm – A sort of trad-goth set by a not-very-trad-DJ

With Robert off (but appearing in the set as The Mumbles!), I was doing the trad today. Scott gave me a ‘dark indie’ set to fade in on, and expressed a plan to do a ‘bleep’ set after, hence the move away from trad at the end.

This Is Radio Silence – Forever Ends Today
Joy Division – New Dawn Fades
The Mumbles – Movement
The Velvet Underground – All Tommorows Parties
Lene Lovich – Bird Song
Siouxsie and the Banshees – This Wheel’s On Fire
The Eden House – To Believe In Something
The Sisters Of Mercy – Detonation Boulevard
Star Industry – Pray
The Merry Thoughts – 2nd Generation
Switchblade Symphony – Bad Trash
Goethes Erben + Peter Heppner – Glasgarten
The Eternal Afflict – San Diego (Tragical)
In Strict Confidence – Promised Land

3pm-4pm – 90s Dance and Industrial Metal

I’ve always wanted to play some of these songs – a kind of ‘Full Tilt’ revival?

Leftfield – Open Up
Orbital – The Box (Untitled Single Version 4)
Lords Of Acid – Out Comes The Evil
Underworld – Cowgirl
Prodigy – Breathe
Project Pitchfork – 2069AD
Gary Numan – Pure
Rammstein – Sehnsucht
Megaherz – Herz Aus Stein
Unheilig – Ich Will Alles
Gothminister – Monsters
Genitorturers – Lecher Bitch
Killing Miranda – Teenage Vampire
Zeromancer – Need You Like A Drug
Rob Zombie – Sick Bubblegum

5pm-5:30pm – Jonny vs Scott Tag Team Silliness

As ever, we had some fun during clean up. No ‘Timewarp’ (that’s Robert’s track), but still a good to play stuff that we can’t at any other time of day.

Ian Dury – Billericay Dickie
Heart – Barracuda
Emerson, Lake and Palmer – Hoedown
Tatu – Not Going To Get Us
Transvision Vamp – Baby I Don’t Care
Lady Gaga – Bad Romance
Nena – 99 Luftballons
Lordi – Hard Rock Hallelujah

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – December 2009

Another successful Bring’n’buy at The Dome. Had a real job getting the DJ kit operational, but we pulled together and got it to work. Robert handled the classic gothic rock, and I was happy to work the fringes around it.

10:45am-11am – Warm-Up

Nine Inch Nails – A Warm Place
Throbbing Gristle – Beachy Head
Vidna Obmana – The Angelic Appearance

12noon-1pm – Neo-folk, Ethereal, Darkwave

HERR – The Fall Of Constantinople
Blood Axis – The Hangman and the Papist
Corvus Corax – Fortuna
Qntal – Am Morgen Fruo
Delerium – Incantation
Kirlian Camera – Eclipse (Anniversary Version)
Diary Of Dreams – Chemicals
Velvet Acid Christ – Caustic Disco
The Crüxshadows – Quicksilver
Mortiis – You Put A Hex On Me
Project Pitchfork – God Wrote
Clan Of Xymox – Emily
OMD – Maid Of Orleans

2pm-3pm – Pure Industrial?

Covenant – Speed (Club Version)
VNV Nation – Serial Killer
Front 242 – Tragedy >For You<
Tyske Ludder – March
Implant – Rip That Thing (System:FX Remix)
Punto Omega – (Marcha Hacia El) Punto Omega
Flesh Field – Haven
Eisbrecher – This Is Deutsch ([:SITD:] Remix)
Rammstein – Rammlied
Ministry – LiesLiesLies
Die Kur – Under The Empire Of Sun To Follow
Static-X – Love Dump
Fear Factory – Linchpin
Zeromancer – Photographic

4pm-5pm – Goths Just Wanna Have Fun

Depeche Mode – Wrong
Muse – Uprising
Editors – Papillon
Pride + Fall – Blood
NeuroticFish – Velocity
Frozen Plasma – Irony
Fictional – Blue Lights
And One – Techno Man
Gary Numan – Metal
Trans-X – Living On Video
Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Love Missile F1-11
Blondie – Atomic
David Bowie – Scary Monsters (& Super Creeps)
Killing Joke – Requiem
Sex Pistols – Anarchy In The UK
Sham 69 – If The Kids Are United

5pm-5:30pm – The Return of Jonny Vs Robert’s ‘Tag Team Cheese’

Toy Dolls – Nellie The Elephant
Dead Or Alive – That’s The Way I Like It
The Vapours – Turning Japanese
Village People – YMCA (why, oh why!!!!!!)
Erasure – Take A Chance On Me
Rocky Horror Picture Show – Timewarp
Potentia Amini – Gaudete

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – August 2009

My second Goth/Alternative Bring and Buy. It may be background music but it seems to be appeciated by stallholders who are there for the full 6 hours. Besides, future sets might well not be background music, so I do take the job seriously. Well, I do get a fair bit of fun out of it (see the last set!) or I wouldn’t have done it.Today I was spinning alongside Robert from Night Shift Radio. He’s a trad-goth/post-punk specialist, so in response I concentrated on what we might describe as ‘goth friendly tracks that aren’t goth in the purest sense’.

11am-Noon – The Low-Key Morning Set

NON – The Fountain Of Fortune
SonVer – Anonima
Einstürzende Neubauten – Sabrina
Vangelis – Blade Runner Main Titles
Wendy Carlos – Title Music From A Clockwork Orange
Arcana – Our God Weeps
Stalingrad – Neither Honour Nor Glory
In The Nursery – Groundloop
Faun – Punagra
Corvus Corax – Milli Anni Passi Sunt (PC Project Version)
Deine Lakaien – Return
Lamia – Das Omen
Blutengel – Lucifer
Diary Of Dreams – The Wedding
Leæther Strip – The Shame Of A Nation
Front Line Assembly – Civilsation
Wumpscut – Thorns (Distant Vocals)

1pm-2pm – Old EBM into Gothic Metal

DAF – Kebabtraume
Nitzer Ebb – Let Your Body Learn
VNV Nation – Cold (Advance + Follow v2 version)
And One – Military Fashion Show
Front 242 – Religion
Project Pitchfork – Existence v4.1
Die Krupps – Isolation
Die Kur – The Fall Of The Empire
Lacuna Coil – Spellbound
Nightwish – Wishmaster
Therion – Three Ships Of Berik (Parts 1&2)
Within Temptation – Mother Earth
Saltatio Mortis – Spielmannsschwur
In Extremo – Küss mich
Tanzwut – Toccata
HIM – Buried Alive By Love

3pm-4pm – Bleepy Cheese, Followed By Lots Of Industrialish Stuff

Sigue Sigue Sputnik – 21st Century Boy
Spray – I Am Gothic
Apoptygma Berzerk – Love Never Dies
Rotersand – Electronic World Transmission
Implant – The Dive
Combichrist – Intruder Alert
Front Line Assembly – Mindphaser
System:FX – Turn To Rust
The Prodigy – Omen
Nine Inch Nails – Head Like A Hole
Dope Stars Inc. – Bang Your Head
Zeromancer – Doctor Online
Rammstein – Feuer Frei!
Oomph! – Augen Auf
Megaherz – Tanz Auf Dem Vulkan
Earth Loop Recall – Optimism Creeping In

5pm-5:30pm – Tag Team 80s Cheese!

The Human League – Don’t You Want Me
The Communards – Don’t Leave Me This Way
A-Ha – Take On Me
Erasure – Sometimes
Tears For Fears – Head Over Heels
Pet Shop Boys – Go West
Wham! – Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
Monty Python – Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – November 2008

My return to the decks after more that 6 years off came at the Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale at The Dome in Tufnell Park. It wasn’t a dancefloor-oriented event, so I meant I could really stretch my wings and show that I’m not tied down to any one subgenre. Even then, I only got to touch on some areas of the scene, but I’m quite pleased about how it turned out in the end.

11am to 12:15pm – ‘The Slow Moody Sunday Morning Set’

Laibach – Mama Leone
Rik Schaffer – Downtown Theme from ‘Vampire: Bloodlines’
Blood Axis – The Gospel Of Inhumanity
Die Form – Cantique 1
Leisem – Fundamentum
Helium Vola – Omnis Mundi Creatura
Dead Can Dance – Enigma Of The Absolute
Deine Lakaien – Love Me To The End
Chiasm – Isolated
Kirlian Camera – Eclipse
L’Âme Immortelle – Bitterkeit
Das Ich – Das Dunkle Land
Diary Of Dreams – Malice
Project Pitchfork – Merry-Go-Round To Hell
FAQ – We Come In Pieces (Duet Version)
Rotersand – The Gods Have Gone Insane
32 Crash – Slow Crash
DuPont – Planless Exhibition

1pm to 2pm – ‘The Gothic Rock’n’Metal Set’

Magazine – Shot By Both Sides
Bauhaus – Dark Entries
Zeraphine – Be My Rain
ASP – Welcome
Star Industry – Lost Generation
London After Midnight – Psychomagnet
Samsas Traum – Ein Foetus Wie Du
Sisters Of Mercy – Vision Thing
Lacuna Coil – Swamped
Paradise Lost – One Second
Type O Negative – Love You To Death
Rammstein – Ohne Dich
In Extremo – Vollmond
Tanzwut – Lügner

3pm to 4pm – ‘Darkwave to Industrial and Back Again’

Diary Of Dreams – The Plague
Solar Fake – Stigmata Rain
Covenant – Figurehead (Plain)
Mesh – Step By Step
Velvet Acid Christ – Futile (Nazi Bastard Mix)
Heimataerde – Deus Lo Vult
Gothminister – Angel
KMFDM – Anarchy
Jesus On Extasy – Assassinate Me
Unheilig – Herz Aus Eis
Nine Inch Nails – The Hand That Feeds
Killing Joke – Pandemonium (Cybersank Extended)
The Birthday Massacre – Video Kid
Girls Under Glass – Frozen