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Die Kur – ‘Manifesto’ Album Launch

DJ Setlist

Last night was the launch party for Die Kur’s new album ‘Manifesto’, a free entry event held at the Purple Turtle. Joining them on the bill were MaxDmyz, The Francesco Fonte Band and Death Valley Scars, plus a brief solo performance by Jerome Badoux from Drilling Spree and a club night afterwards. There were also 4 DJs, myself, The Scott, Vade Retro and Jester. Here’s how my own sets went.

Death Valley Scars Support

Ice Ages – Endless Circle
Yeht Mae – Alien Gruel
Skold vs KMFDM – Bloodsport
Katscan – (Screaming Like A) Crack Baby

Jerome Badoux & MaxDmyz Support

Anathema – Empty
Tiamat – Brighter Than The Sun
Theatre of Tragedy – Storm
Sabaton – Panzer Battalion

Drilling Spree – (Emperor Cover)

Terminates Here vs The Scott

Later in the night, Scott and myself decided to deliver our lengthiest tag-team set yet. Had we been able to go on for longer, we would have probably made it back as far in rock history as The Rolling Stones. As it happens, punk rock was as far as we got. Scott’s selections are marked with (S).

System Of A Down – Sugar
Slipknot – Spit It Out
A Perfect Circle – Judith
Coal Chamber – Sway
Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
The Breeders – Cannonball
Metallica – Enter Sandman
The Cult – Fire Woman
The Sisters Of Mercy – First And Last And Always
Joy Division – Transmission
Killing Joke – Requiem
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Love In A Void
Buzzcocks – Orgasm Addict

DJ Terminates Here vs DJ The Scot – March 2015

DJ Setlist

After the Alt Bring’n’Buy Sale, the final set of the weekend was back in Aces and Eights, a venue I highly recommend for excellent beer (Camden Hells), excellent pizza and, of course, the music. This event was run on an ‘open request list’ basis, and this time we got a real mix of genres to cover.

Set 1

Joy Division – Transmission
Killing Joke – Pssyche
David Bowie – Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
The Clash – London Calling
Sisters of Mercy – Floorshow
Blondie – Heart of Glass
White Town – Your Woman
Deine Lakaien – Overpaid

Set 2

ZZ Top – La Grange
Pantera – Cowboys From Hell
NIN – Last
System of a Down – Revenga
Marilyn Manson – Sweet Dreams
Type O Negative – Love You To Death
I:Scintilla – Cursive Eye
Oomph! – Augen Auf!
Tool – Stinkfist
Black Sabbath – Into The Void

Set 3

Therion – Gothic Kabbalah
Fields of the Nephilim – Preacher Man
March Violets – Snake Dance
New Model Army – 51st State
The Who – Pinball Wizard
Jimi Hendrix – All Along The Watchtower
Alice Cooper – School’s Out
Led Zeppelin – Good Times Bad Times
Rolling Stones – Paint It Black
The Kinks – Lola

Tag-Team Finale

Guns’n’Roses – Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
Blue Oyster Cult – Don’t Fear The Reaper
Boston – More Than A Feeling
Jefferson Airplane – Somebody to Love
Yes – Going For The One
The Stooges – No Fun
Styx – Renegade

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – March 2015

DJ Setlist

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…..

Tragedy >For Us< - TH-IrrEv #05

DJ Setlist

After a long wait, the 5th Terminates Here Irregular Event came to London. This time, myself, Nathan Nothing and Kriegslok explored the worlds of old-school EBM, dark electro and minimal wave. Of all the IrrEv’s so far, this was the one I most wanted to become a ‘regular’, and it may well become so. But for now, this is what I played:

Set 1

MRDTC – Traffic
NTRSN – You See Me
Object – End Of Sin
Dorsetshire – Brothers & Sisters
Limbo – Blutfeuchttraume
Numb – God Is Dead
Benestrophe – Future Tense
Blush Response – On Fire

Set 2

Spark! – Genom Stormen
BiGod 20 – It Doesn’t Matter
Cabaret Voltaire – I Want You
Cat Rapes Dog – American Dream
Cobalt 60 – Bye Bye
Armageddon Dildos – East West
Nitzer Ebb – Murderous

Set 3

Front 242 – Tragedy >For You<
Die Krupps – Robo Sapien
The Invincible Spirit – Push!
A Split-Second – Flesh
Test Dept. – New World Order
Snog – Corporate Slave
Orange Sector – Dynamit

Set 4

It’s here that we briefly broke from EBM ‘purity’ for a synthpoppy tribute to Leonard Nimoy, who passed away on the day of the event.

DAF – Der Mussolini
Welle:Erdball – Monton + Minimal
SPOCK – Never Trust A Klingon
Portion Control – Icon
Force Dimension – Dust (X-tended)
Borghesia – Discipline
AutoDaFeh – Retro Electric
Klutæ – Tequila Slammer

Reptile – January 2015

DJ Setlist

This was an event that was supposed to happen in December 2014, but unfortunately a police cordon around the venue on the night resulted in a last-minute cancellation. All concerned returned to Nightclub Kolis on Saturday night, and this time everything went to plan. The centrepiece of tonight’s event was Jayce Lewis’ band Protafield making the trip from South Wales to London to provide a particularly memorable live event. My first set of the night was immediately before their show, the second later in the night.

Set 1 -Pre-Protafield

Nitzer Ebb – Let Your Body Learn
KMFDM – More and Faster 12″
Fear Factory – Self-Immolation (Liquid Sky Mix)
Project Pitchfork – Existence v4.1
Nine Inch Nails – Wish
Cubanate – Oxyacetylene
Prodigy – Voodoo People (Pendulum Remix)
Mindless Self Indulgence – Shut Me Up
Rammstein – Feuer Frei! (BANG! BANG!)

Set 2- Post-Protafield

Laibach – God Is God
Die Krupps – Robo Sapien
Combichrist – Get Your Body Beat
Front 242 – Happiness (Re:Boot Version)
Covenant – Figurehead (Plain)
Ministry – Stigmata
Skinny Puppy – Tin Omen

EOL-Audio Archive

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This is a collection of various reviews I wrote for my old EOL-Audio website, and later in other places. Some have been edited for clarity and factual accuracy, but the original opinions are intact, even if I’ve changed my mind since then.

I no longer host the content as individual posts, as they were beginning to swamp newer content. However, the full EOL-Audio texts has been preserved in a PDF, for those who want to read absolutely everything – EOL Audio Archive PDF (4Mb file).

Renaissance V

DJ Setlist

Renaissance is a once-a-year alternative all-day festival. This was my fourth time DJing the event, which has since relocated to Elektrowerkz, home of Slimelight. The new venue allowed for a second stage, resulting in the biggest line-up yet. 5 DJs were brought in to cover the gaps between the performances on mainstage (aka ‘Ram’ stage), and also on the second Archer (‘soloist’) stage in the bar area (Vade Retro, The Scott, Alan 69, Jester and myself). There was also a chance to DJ the Slimelight Goth/80s floor afterwards.

Archers Stage Sets 1-4

The Archers stage began live performance at 4pm, but I took the chance to play some more of the atmospheric tunes in my collection earlier in the day. This wasn’t continuous, leaving gaps when everyone was watching the bands in the other room, but at least it provided some contrast. This also saw my first real attempt at classical music DJing, following the Terminates Here rule that anything in my collection is viable setlist content!

Purcell – Music For the Funeral of Queen Mary: March
Handel – Sarabande from Suite No. 11
Bach – Bouree in B Minor
Beethoven – Adagio Canabile
Elgar – Enigma Variations (Nimrod)
Vivaldi – Winter – Allegro Non Molto

Stalingrad – The Road On Which You’ll Die
The Protagonist – Zoroaster
Hector Berlioz – Theme from The Shining
Ron Goodwin – March of the Children (From Village of the Damned)

Coil – Dark River
Ambre – Khan
Steve Roach – Infinite Shore

Death In June & Boyd Rice – Black Sun Rise
Current 93 – All The Pretty Little Horses
Jordan Reyne – Factory Nation
Strawbs – The Hangman and the Papist
Blood Axis – Reign I Forever

Ram Stage Sets

Now support DJing for the bands. Originally, Death Valley Scars were meant to do a PA immediately before Splendor, but as things transpired that wasn’t possible, so I ended up supported each band individually.

O.V.N.I. – Good For You
Soko Friedhof – Blutrünstiges Mädchen
OhGr – Shhh

Foetus – Friend or Foe
Luxt – American Beast
Ministry – Lay Lady Lay

Florence + The Machine – Kiss With A Fist
Apocalyptica – Quuatano
Diablo Swing Orchestra – Balrog Boogies
Vic Anselmo – Open Wide

Emigrate – Wake Up
Ost+Front – Mensch
Atrocity – Trial
Godflesh – Like Rats

Archers Stage Sets 5-6

At this point, I was brought in to support Howlin’ Anton from Bleak, whose full band I’ve support DJed for in the past. How to support Death Blues? Answer……

Nick Cave and the Bad Seed – Where The Wild Roses Grow
Johnny Cash – Hurt
Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
Type O Negative – White Slavery
Rammstein – Seeman

And then back a little later. By this stage in the event, only real anthems fitted the bill on either stage. Cue anthems.

Sheep on Drugs – 15 Minutes of Fame
Lords of Acid – Out Comes The Evil
Prodigy – Everybody In The Place
Faithless – Salva Mea (Floating Mix)
Underworld – Born Slippy.NUXX
Robert Miles – Children
William Orbit – Barber’s Adagio For Strings (Ferry Corsten Mix)
VNV Nation – Joy
Front 242 – Headhunter (Apoptygma Berzerk Mix)
Project Pitchfork – Timekiller
Vangelis – Tears In The Rain (the lead out song….time for everyone to go and watch Die Kur)

Slimelight Goth/80s Floor

A little bonus set at the afterparty….performed off tablet for technical reasons, but only my second attempt at playing Slimelight (my first being 45 minutes on the Industek floor two years ago). Tonight’s set was somewhat more accessible!

OMD – Maid of Orleans
Depeche Mode – Ice Machine
The Human League – Empire State Human
Simple Minds – I Travel
Gary Numan – Metal
Killing Joke – Requiem
Gang Of Four – Damaged Goods
Magazine – Shot By Both Sides
Joy Division – Isolation
Chameleons – Don’t Fall
Sisters Of Mercy – Alice
Love and Rockets – Kundalini Express

DJ Terminates Here vs DJ The Scot – November 2014

DJ Setlist

It was a lot of fun last time, so DJ The Scott and myself decided to once again extend the social side of the Alt Bring’n’Buy by crossing the road, and continuing the DJing on an ‘Open Request List’ basis. We passed round sheets of paper, pencils and let the audience decide the direction the music took. Here’s (half) of what was played.

Set 1

To prove how unexpected things happen at such events, I open up with a 90s guitar rocker that would be unlikely to offend many eardrums, only for the early requests to immediately throw me back a decade to 80s new wave!

Manic Street Preachers – From Despair to Where
Depeche Mode – Shake The Disease
New Order – True Faith
Eurythmics – Missionary Man
Soft Cell – Sex Dwarf
The Damned – Eloise
Peter Murphy – Cuts You Up

Set 2

A surprising number of requests for German-language songs. This set was (mostly) for them.

Clan Of Xymox – This World
Goethes Erben – Leben Um Zu Leben
E Nomine – Mitternacht
Mantus – Keine Liebe
Rammstein – Dalai Lama
Fleischmann – Frei
Eisbrecher – This Is Deutsch ([:SITD:] Remix) – two band requests in one!
Oomph! – Der Neue Gott
The Creatures – Exterminating Angel

Set 3

Post-punk and classic rock, plenty of demand for both!

Siouxsie and the Banshees – Love In A Void
The Cure – Killing an Arab
Specimen – Hex
Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
Xmal Deutschland – Begrab Meinen Herz
The Birthday Party – Release The Bats
Generation X – Wild Youth
Patti Smith – Because The Night
Iggy Pop – Lust For Life
Guns’n’Roses – Live and Let Die
Warrant – Cherry Pie
Whitesnake – Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of The City
Blue Oyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper

Closing Tag-Team Set

A bewildering final run of requests led to our closing tag-team consisting (unusually) of some quite long songs. S: indicates Scott’s selections, TH: are mine!

The Sisterhood – Giving Ground
Partly Faithful – Stop
Das Ich – Keimzeit
How To Destroy Angels – The Space In Between
Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
Radiohead – Paranoid Android
Metallica – One
Johnny Cash – When The Man Comes Around
Wendy Carlos – Beethoviana (from ‘A Clockwork Orange’)

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – November 2014

DJ Setlist

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

Goth Jam & Open Mic

DJ Setlist

A new concept for live performance in London – get a venue, PA and a few instruments, and let anyone have a go at whatever form of performance seems to fit the mood of the moment. A mixture of original music, covers and performance poetry were the hallmarks of this event. My own musical project Deja Vu 2 had it’s ‘zeroth’ even performance (as in it was a 3-song PA with no other live members), though I also did an improvisational jam of a fourth lyric (music as yet unwritten) and did vocals on a cover of some-old-goth-tune. Oh, and I also did some DJing.

Usually when I do between-bands work, I have some idea of what style to aim for. On this occasion, this was only occasionally possible. Also, I needed a very long song to cover either side of my own performance! One thing I did manage to do was get in a trio of vocoder-heavy tunes at the end of the night, have got one of the things to work myself when playing live! Anyway, for the sake of keeping a record, here’s setlist and running order from the night.

Absurd Minds – Essence
Psyche – Unveiling The Secret

Suspiria – Now, We See The Swine
Seven Trees – Going Down
ClockDVA – The Act

Jean Michel Jarre – Ethnicolor 1 (first half)

song PA – Deja Vu 2>

Jean Michel Jarre – Ethnicolor 1 (second half)
Scapa Flow – Crucial Impact

Death In June – Hullo Angel

The KVB – Captives
Thomas Dolby – Leipzig
The Cars – Just What I Needed

Poison – Every Rose Has It’s Thorn

Current 93 – Oh Coal Black Smith

Spetsnaz – Apathy

Strawbs – The Hangman And The Papist
Styx – Mr.Roboto
Telex – Moskow Disko
Kraftwerk – Computer World
OMD – Maid of Orleans
VNV Nation – Nova