My discovery of the whole goth/industrial/darkwave scene in the late 90s relied on a few clubs, some word of mouth and a still very patchy World Wide Web. One name that kept cropping up was Project Pitchfork, a band no-one could really describe in the few words, but the name itself intrigued me. Every successive track I heard piqued that curiosity further. I remained a fan even after they’d fallen out of favour with others. And their releases, the good and not-so-good, always got me thinking. In every possible sense, they’re the right candidate for my first ‘Listeners Guide’.
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There was this recent trend on Facebook to post Ten Albums across Ten Days. Some versions involved just posting the cover, others involved writing. Me being me, I did the written version. It’s been a while since I posted anything here, so I thought I’d take the content and turn it into an article here, editing only for the occasional typo and to reflect the changed medium. Note that this isn’t strictly my ‘all time top 10 albums’, certainly not on a pure musical/production level. It’s just the 10 albums about which I thought I could spin the best tale. Continue reading
This was a DJ set at Deptford Cinema, a small volunteer-run picturehouse that runs various film-based events. This was a showing of ‘This Is Spinal Tap’, complete with an air guitar based ‘Battle of the Bands’ and a classic rock and metal soundtrack in the bar (that was my bit).
Tonight’s soundtrack therefore included some tracks from the film, a couple of tributes to ‘Fast’ Eddie Clarke who died earlier in the week, and multiple requests for Iron Maiden (obviously in the mood for British metal bands going globetrotting!).
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Texas Flood
The Beatles – Across The Universe
Bob Dylan – Desolation Row
Lou Reed – Walk On The Wild Side
Leonard Cohen – Closing Time
Alan Parsons Project – Mammagamma
King Crimson – Red
Spinal Tap – Stonehenge
Aphrodite’s Child – The Four Horsemen
Led Zeppelin – When The Levee Breaks
Black Sabbath – Evil Woman
Nazareth – Hair Of The Dog
T-Rex – Children Of The Revolution
Hanoi Rock – Up Around The Bend
Slade – Cum On Feel The Noise
Scorpions – Rock You Like A Hurricane
Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run
Journey – Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
Ratt – Round And Round
<This Is Spinal Tap>
Mercyful Fate – Evil
Anvil – Metal On Metal
Accept – Fast As A Shark
Anthrax – Got The Time
Saxon – Never Surrender
Motörhead – Ace Of Spades
Iron Maiden – The Number Of The Beast
Metallica – For Whom The Bell Tolls
Grave Digger – Rebellion (The Clans Are Marching)
Manowar – Kings of Metal
Sabaton – Primo Victoria
Steel Panther – Death To All But Metal
W.A.S.P. – Animal (Fuck Like A Beast)
Spinal Tap – Hellhole
Tesla – Cumin’ Atcha’ Live
Skid Row – Youth Gone Wild
Poison – Unskinny Bop
Twisted Sister – We’re Not Gonna Take It
Van Halen – Jump
Bon Jovi – Livin’ On A Prayer
Alice Cooper – Poison
Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar On Me
Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train
Iron Maiden – Hallowed By Thy Name
Judas Priest – Living After Midnight
Spinal Tap – Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight
AC/DC – Highway To Hell
Iggy Pop – I Wanna Be Your Dog
The Who – My Generation
Rolling Stone – I Can’t Get No Satisfaction
David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back In Town
Whitesnake – Give Me All Of Your Love
Guns’n’Roses – Live And Let Die
Iron Maiden – The Trooper
Motörhead – Overkill
Dio – Holy Diver
Deep Purple – Smoke On The Water
Rainbow – Stargazer
Argent – God Gave Rock and Roll To You
My final set of 2017 was at the Daancing and Larfing event, a former Manchester-based night revived in South London for one night to celebrate the birthday of the founder, Nathan Clemence (aka DJ Nathan Nothing from Tragedy >For Us< and various other events). There were four comedy acts followed by two live music acts – Black Light Ascension and Special Love. DJ-wise, with DJ Matt The Mo opening up and Getrud Stein closing, my sets were during and after the bands.
Between The Bands
Batch ID – EBM-Girl
Blitzmaschine – Useless Pain
Bloodygrave und Die Lust – Hass & Spass
End Of Data – If I’m Not A Killer
A Thousand Societies – EBM! (A Thousand BPM)
Amnistia – Prosperity
Bakterielle Infektion – Actors on Stage
After The Bands
Depeche Mode – Ice Machine
Robert Görl – Playtime
Cabaret Voltaire – Just Fascination
Front 242 – No Shuffle
Liaisons Dangereuses – Los Niños del Parque
Absolute Body Control – Figures
Eleven Pond – Watching Trees
Fad Gadget – Collapsing New People
John Foxx – No-One Driving
B-Movie – Remembrance Day
Ultravox – All Stood Still
Human League – Empire State Human
Kraftwerk – Radioactivity (The Mix)
Nitzer Ebb – Join In The Chant
Skinny Puppy – Smothered Hope
Leæther Strip – Strap Me Down
Front Line Assembly – Plasticity
Project Pitchfork – K.N.K.A. (Climax Version)
Laibach – Tanz Mit Laibach
DAF – Der Mussolini
Gary Numan – Metal
OMD – Maid of Orleans
Jean Michel Jarre – Oxygene IV
The last YS of 2017 was an ‘invitational’ where all DJs who’d played the event during the year were invited back for one more go. I was of course up for it as ever, though the 8 DJ line-up meant sets were necessarily short and an early start the next day also meant an midnight end for me. I’m still amazed about how much I fitted in, though!
Set 1 – 9:00pm
Front 242 – Geography I
Laibach – Alle Gegen Alle
Kraftwerk – Pocket Calculator
Robert Marlow – The Face of Dorian Gray
Arbeid Adelt! – De dag dat het zonlicht niet meer scheen
Siglo xx – Individuality
Durutti Column – Sketch For Summer
Young Marble Giants – Include Me Out
XTC – Science Friction
Set 2 – 11:30pm
In an era when Whamageddon is actually a thing, cheesy Christmas hits were banned at this event. Foul-mouthed punky ones? They’re still OK. But first better get something tuneful in……
David Bowie – Sound And Vision
Levellers – One Way
Waterboys – The Whole Of The Moon
Big Country – In A Big Country
Adam Ant – Stand And Deliver
Killing Joke – Eighties
Slaughter and the Dogs – Situations
Undertones – Teenage Kicks
UK Subs – Hey Santa
The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Comfort And Oi!)
By now, the worst of the snow had cleared and hence we had a decent turnout for our final post-ABBS Open Request List of the year.
Set 1
Manic Street Preachers – Motorcycle Emptiness
Killing Joke – Eighties
Depeche Mode – Wrong
Kirlian Camera – Blue Room (7″)
Deine Lakaien – Reincarnation
Colony 5 – My World
Apoptygma Berzerk – Non-Stop Violence
Light Asylum – Dark Allies
Ladytron – Destroy Everything You Touch
Einstürzende Neubauten – Die Interimsliebenden
Eisbrecher – Ohne Dich
Gary Moore – Friday On My Mind
Exploited – Punk’s Not Dead
Virgin Prunes – Baby Turns Blue
Pink Turns Blue – Walking On Both Sides
Set 2
Alphaville – Big In Japan
Talk Talk – Such A Shame
Depeche Mode – Never Let Me Down
Talking Heads – Psycho Killer (the all-time Aces Sunday favourite!)
Blondie – Atomic
Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
This Ascension – Megan
Tones On Tail – Performance
Inspiral Carpets – Saturn 5
Set 3
Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back In Town
The Rolling Stones – Beast Of Burden
Fleetwood Mac – Go Your Own Way
Black Sabbath – Evil Woman
Pearl Jam – Even Flow
Soundgarden – Rusty Cage
Tool – Stinkfist
Lindemann – Praise Abort
Front 242 – Headhunter (Live Moments)
Soft Cell – Sex Dwarf
Final Tag-Team
Scott’s tracks are in italics.
Nick Cave – Deanna
Depeche Mode – Blasphemous Rumours
Jesus and Mary Chain – April Skies
Bauhaus – Dark Entries
William Shatner – Common People
The Pogues – A Pair Of Brown Eyes
Johnny Cash – Rusty Cage
Buddy Holly – That’ll Be The Day
Link Wray – Rumble
Ian Dury – What A Waste
Leonard Cohen – The Future
Outro: Spectra*Paris – Stille Nacht
The December edition of the ABBS was hit by snow on the morning of the event, but despite a thinner crowd than normal, we still carried on as usual. Scott handled the early part of the DJ, whilst DJs Grimorg and Demondaz played later on. This left me with:
12 noon-1pm – Lunchtime Selection
On this occasion, a good old mix-of-all-sorts-of-stuff.
John Carpenter – Assault on Precinct 13 (Main Theme)
Rick Wakeman – Catherine Of Aragon
Hans Zimmer – Rain Man Theme
Freudstein – Live This Lies
VCMG – Lowly
Ascii.Disko – Strassen
Potentia Animi – Vive La More
Eminence Of Darkness – Pet
Frozen Autumn – Ashes
Beborn Beton – Another World
Psy’Aviah – Infected
Obszon Geschopf – Rue Morgue Creature
Out Out – E&E
Acumen (Nation) – Anchorite
Unheilig – Herz Aus Eis (played with great irony…..)
3pm – Shoegaze, Alt Rock and Crossover Dance
I’d agreed with Scott that we’d try a role-reversal set today – he played EBM and industrial, and I played the things he normally did.
Tricky – Overcome
Zola Jesus – Manifest Destiny
Bat For Lashes – In God’s House
Cranes – Can’t Get Free
My Bloody Valentine – Only Shallow
Slowdive – Sleep
Ride – Vapour Trail
Jesus and Mary Chain – Just Like Honey
Chapterhouse – Falling Down
Lush – Ladykillers
Sonic Youth – Kool Thing
Pixies – Debaser
Smashing Pumpkins – Zero
Garbage – When I Grow Up
Primal Scream – Rocks
Fatboy Slim – Right Here, Right Now
Shamen – Phorever People
And then handed over to Demondaz to finish off here whilst we were over the road….
DJ Teminates Here’s first-ever set outside the UK took place last night at Wommel within Fort II, just outside Antwerp. The event featured live sets from Lizard Smile and Spankraght and an afterparty for a couple of hours after. Here’s what I played.
Sisters Of Mercy – Vision Thing
The Cult – Fire Woman
Balaam and the Angel – Don’t Want Your Love
Mono Inc. – After The War
Samsas Traum – Endstation.Eden
HIM – Buried Alive By Love
Paradise Lost – Forever Failure
Type O Negative – Everyone I Love Is Dead
Pitch Shifter – To Die Is Gain
Author & Punisher – Cauterize
Decree – Fateless
Ministry – Flashback
Kill Switch…Klick – Decanonized
CHANT. – Brave New Apocalypse
Static-X – Love Dump
Fear Factory – Pisschrist
Blue Eyed Christ – Drown
3TEETH – Final Product
<Spankraght>
Christian Death – Church Of No Return
Dronning Maud Land – Hollow Eyes
Eternal Afflict – Kinski Is Dead
Girls Under Glass – Feuerengel
Star Industry – New Religion
Pink Turns Blue – If Two Worlds Kiss
<Lizard Smile>
Bauhaus – Dark Entries
The Cure – The Hanging Garden
Depeche Mode – Stripped
Front 242 – Tragedy >For You<
Klinik – Moving Hands
A Split-Second – Flesh
Kirlian Camrera – Eclipse (Anniversary Version)
Fad Gadget – Ricky’s Hand
Nine Inch Nails – Sin
Rammstein – Ich Will
KMFDM – Anarchy
Ministry – Just One Fix
Rob Zombie – Living Dead Girl
Skinny Puppy – Tin Omen
Front Line Assembly – Mindphaser
Borghesia – Ni Upanja, Ni Strahu
Laibach – Tanz Mit Laibach
Das Ich – Destillat
Project Pitchfork – Requiem
Covenant – Dead Stars
VNV Nation – Solitary
The Crüxshadows – Tears
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Happy House
Killing Joke – Love Like Blood (Extended)
Sisters of Mercy – Temple Of Love 1992
A return to DJing after a couple of months off, and back to Yesterday’s Shadow. By now you might know what to expect from me, but even here were a few surprises. One was the quite-unexpected request for Dernière Volonté (couldn’t resist that one). The other was the loss of Malcolm Young of AC/DC earler that day – with his brother George also having left us a few weeks ago, I felt duty-bound to get some kind of tribute into the evening’s proceedings.
Set 1: 10:15pm
The Skids – Into The Valley
The Ruts – Babylon’s Burning
Richard Hell and the Voidoids – (I Belong To The) Blank Generation
Wire – I Am The Fly
David Bowie – Breaking Glass
Blondie – X-Offender
Psychedelic Furs – Love My Way
Depeche Mode – Something To Do
Front 242 – Until Death >Us Do Part<
DAF – Der Mussolini
Death In June – The Calling (Mk II)
Dernière Volonté – Au Travers De Lauriers
Empathy Test – Here Is The Place
Deine Lakaien – Return
Set 2: 1:10am
Harold Faltermeyer – Axel F
Jan Hammer – Crockett’s Theme
OMD – If You Leave
A Flock Of Seagulls – (Wishing I Had) A Photograph Of You
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Two Tribes
Yes – Owner Of A Lonely Heart
AC/DC – Highway To Hell
The Cult – Rain
Sisters of Mercy – Vision Thing
Bauhaus – Lagartija Nick
At last I returned to Yesterday’s Shadow at The Pack and Carraige to join DJs Demondaz, Jonny Haart, Scott and Ana Necrogoth in a night dedicated to (mostly) 80s.
Set 1 – 10:45pm
Subway Sect – Ambition
Elvis Costello – Watching The Detectives
David Bowie – Up The Hill Backwards
Savage Republic – Next To Nothing
Pere Ubu – Street Waves
Ausweis – Eva
Killing Joke – Love Like Blood
Psychedelic Furs – India
Naked Eyes – Promises, Promises
The Associates – Party Fears Two
Information Society – What’s On Your Mind (Pure Energy)
Berlin – Metro
Set 2 – 2:05am
Front 242 – Tragedy >For You<
DAF – Der Mussolini
Depeche Mode – People are People
Spandau Ballet – To Cut A Long Story Short
A Flock of Seagulls – I Ran
B-Movie – Remembrance Day
OMD – Enola Gay
Gary Numan – Metal
Kraftwerk – The Model
Human League – Empire State Human
John Foxx – Underpass
Jean Michel Jarre – Oxygene IV
Outro: Monty Python – Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life