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Work! (To Live) – March 2025

My first set of 2025, back at Aces and Eights for Work! (To Live), alongside DJs Nathan Nothing and guest Soylent Black, plus Transhuman Rebirth live.  

9pm

Kraftwerk – Ohm Sweet Ohm
Pyrolator – Max
Crash Course In Science – Flying Turns
Suicide – Rocket USA
Psyche – The Brain Collapses
Ministry – Same Old Madness
Absolute Body Control – Give Me Your Hands
Die Form – Chronovision
Kirlian Camera – I Am The Light
Calva y Nada – Rascheln
Fortification 55 – And Tomorrow Atlantis
Benefits – Land Of The Tyrants

11:45pm

DAF – Kebabträume
A Split-Second – Bend My Body Armour
Autodafeh – Greed
The Invincible Spirit – Push!
Project Pitchfork – Requiem
Front 242 – No Shuffle
Spetsnaz – Apathy
Nitzer Ebb – Join The The Chant! (Metal Mix)
Die Robo Sapiens – Robo Sapien
Portion Control – Amnesia
Youth Code – For I Am Cursed
Dive – Sidewalk Sinner

Update – December 2024

It was a slow summer on the writing front, but things have woken up since.  I’m now working with an editor on the ‘Dark Scene 500’ text.  Piece by piece, we’re getting my writing into a fit state to publish.  500 songs that define a music scene is quite a number to get through but we are well under way. 

I’m also considering the next steps – self-publishing and then promotion.  I’m going to be contacting all the people I know who I think may be able to help, once the distractions of Christmas are over.  However, I’m also open to suggestions for how to promote this book to a wide an audience as possible.  If you’re interested in what I’m doing and think you can help (or know someone who can), please get in touch.  

Work! (To Live) – November 2024

The last Work! of 2024.  Joining Nathan and I tonight was guest DJ Cavey Nik, plus a live set from Dicepeople.  Here’s what I played.

9pm

Randolph and Mortimer – The Incomplete Truth
Click Click – Awake and Watching
Hula – Poison
A Split-Second – Rigor Mortis
Pankow – Sickness Taking Over
Borghesia – Discipline
No Sleep By The Machine – Mammonth
Parade Ground – Strange World
Bodystyler – Life After Death
Fixmer-McCarthy – Freefall
Cobalt 60 – Before
NordaR – Alarm


23:45pm

KMFDM – More’n’Faster
Snog – Corporate Slave
Die Krupps- Robo Sapien
Leæther Strip – Strap Me Down
Front Line Assembly – Iceolate
Covenant – Figurehead (Plain)
VNV Nation – Cold
Front 242 – U-Men
Acid Horse – No Name, No Slogan
Nitzer Ebb – Getting Closer

Work! (To Live) – July 2024

DJ set from Work! in July 2024.  Guest DJ this time was Mike Klein from Germany, and there was also a live performance from Majestoluxe from Sweden.  Here’s what I played.  

9pm

Insekt – Damage Done
Ionic Vision – Mass Madness
Pandoria – Crush
Psychic Force – Acceleration
Blind Vision – Bestialic Beat
Brigade Werther – Killbeat
Multiple Man – Luxury
Aircrash Bureau – Machine
Oomph! – Der Neue Gott
Void Kampf – EBM Poseurs

23:45pm

Boy Harsher – Pain (yes, I finally played it)
ULTRA SUNN – Keep Your Eyes Open
Buzz Kull – Into The Void
Kirlian Camera – Eclipse (Anniversary)
Cabaret Voltaire – I Want You
Skinny Puppy – Far Too Frail
Fad Gadget – Ricky’s Hand
Absoulte Body Control – Figures
Front 242 – Rhythm Of Time

Update – May 2024

Hi, a few bits of news on the writing front.   I’m now looking into editing and publishing (probably self-publishing) for the “Dark Scene 500” book, subjects that are entirely new to me.  I have a few leads, but if anyone knows anyone who can help with either, please get in touch, as the internet is full of conflicting advice!  All I’ve learned so far is ‘steer clear of vanity publishers’.  

Whilst I’ve been waiting for responses, I’ve updated the existing Listerners Guides on this site, with plans to write a new one soon.  This includes releases up to 2024, included the long-awaiting end to Project Pitchfork’s most recent trilogy.   If you haven’t checked them recently, take a look at the Articles Page.  

Lava – May 2024

Back to Lava with DJ’s Translight and Mark13, featuring live bands Down from Above and Inertia (finally Reza and I on the same bill!). This time held in the legendary Cart and Horses pub in East London. Being the home of Iron Maiden, this set was more guitar heavy than what I’d normally do – but given it was an afterparty set, a lot of old favourites made it in. But not before a minutes noise in tribute to Steve Albini.

Big Black – The Power Of Independent Trucking
Earth Loop Recall – Optimism Creeping In
NIN – Sin
Project Pitchfork – Timekiller
Cubanate – Oxyacetylene
Prodigy – Omen
Pop Will Eat Itself – Ich Bin Ein Auslander
Killing Joke – Millenium
Sisters of Mercy – Vision Thing
Killing Miranda – Teenage Vampire
Ministry – Ricky’s Hand
KMFDM – Godlike (Chicago Trax)

Work! (To Live) – March 2024

First Terminates Here set of 2024, joining Nathan Nothing and guest DJ Andrew Piper for some more EBM and related styles.

9pm

Wumpscut – Is It You?
Das Ich – Das Dunkle Land
ClockDVA – The Act
X Marks The Pedwalk – Paranoid Illusion
Cabaret Voltaire – The Dream Ticket
Dive – Sidewalk Sinner
MRDTC – Traffic
NTRSN – You See Me
Orange Sector – Der Maschinist
Force Dimension – 200FA
Portion Control – Icon
Wulfband – Kaos MF


23:45pm

Project Pitchfork – K.N.K.A. (Climax Version)
Front Line Assembly – Mindphaser
Eco – Hass und Liebe
Shift – Electrofixx
Ministry – Over The Shoulder
Front 242 – Quite Unusual
The Invincible Spirit – Push!
Kraftwerk – Radioactivity (The Mix Version)
The Human League – Empire State Human
ZyniC – Dream In Black And White
Kite – Jonny Boy

 

Update – February 2024

I’ve been quiet in recent months, but I can now say the draft of the ‘Dark Scene 500’ (final title to be determined) is complete.  I’m now looking into options for external editing and publishing.  Expect to hear a LOT more when this process begins in earnest.  Thanks go to everyone who came to me with ideas and suggestions.  There’s still a long way to go before this thing becomes reality, but the part I do largely on my own is done now.

Meanwhile, I’m going through my older writings and updating them to 2024 status.  To start with, I revisited my old Infest retrospective, which now covers the festival in it’s current incarnation.

Infest – A Personal Retrospective

Work! (To Live) – November 2023

Probably the last Terminates Here set of 2023, joining Nathan Nothing and guest Matt Hart for a night of body beats, with a live show from German chip-punk act GrGr.  In amongst all this, here’s what I played.

9pm

Vince Clarke – White Rabbit
Riotmiloo – Define Normal
Benefits – Warhorse
Tackhead – Mind At The End Of The Tether
Lead Into Gold – The Final Blows
Signal Aout 42 – Shut Up
Dupont – Planless Exhibition
Project Pitchfork – Song of the Winds
Das Ich – Kain und Abel (short cut)
Placebo Effect – Slashed Open
The Eternal Afflict – We Libanon You

 

Midnight

:Wumpscut: – On the Run
Front 242 – Punish Your Machine
Nitzer Ebb – Murderous
Portion Control – Amnesia
Red Meat – Providence
Ministry – Just Like You
Die Krupps – Metal Machine Music
Cabaret Voltaire – I Want You
DAF – Verschwende Deine Jugend
Jäger 90 – Dessau
Spark! – Ett Lejon I Dig

Work! (To Live) – July 2023

Back to Work!  Tonights event featured guest DJ Traumahound – by joining Nathan and myself, we recreated a DJ line-up last seen and heard in Aces way back in 2015.  Also featured tonight was the first London show of Vagerr.  Anyway, this is what I played.

 

9pm

Flesh Eating Foundation – Report Highlighting Gross Incompetence….
No Sleep By The Machine – Lye
Dead When I Found Her – Downpour
Dorsetshire – Brothers and Sisters
Seven Trees – Going Down
A Split-Second – Bend My Body Armour
Signal Aout 42 – Pro Patria
Underviewer – Nobody But You
Borghesia – Ni Upanja, Ni Strahu
High-Functioning Flesh – Hunger Cries
SARIN – Crash
Kanka + Bodewell – Marathon


12:10am

Rein – Bodyhammer
Youth Code – The Dust of Fallen Rome
Project Pitchfork – KNKA (Climax version)
Leæther Strip – Strap Me Down
Test Dept. – Landlord
Front 242 – Tragedy >For You<
Die Krupps – Metal Machine Music
RevCo – Attack Ships On Fire
Klinik – Moving Hands
Fad Gadget – Ricky’s Hand