Monthly archives: June 2017

27 posts

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 – The End, And After?

The story ends neatly at the 20 year mark, with plenty of shows still to look forward to later in 2017 and new bands appearing all of the time. But will I still be going to these shows in another 20 years? Hard to say. The prospects beyond the next few years simply aren’t as good as they have been of late, with the demonisation of music venues and the complications of Brexit refusing to go away. Continue reading

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

20 Years Of Live Music – Part 17 (2016)

For 2016, I’ve decided not to write a detailed account of WGT or Infest. That’s not to reflect badly on either event, just that I can’t spin any lengthy tale about WGT 2016 that isn’t a slightly-modified version of one you’ve already read. As for Infest 2016, that’s coming in a future piece….so here’s a few less-obvious tales of live music instead. Continue reading