2014

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Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – June 2014

The Alternative Bring & Buy Sale – my last remaining regular DJ slot, yet one where we have to fight technical demons on every occasion. Still, once it was all working, we got a decent set out through the PA. Joining me today was Alt B&B regular Scott McMahon, plus Shadowchaser (Ravi), who covered what I normally cover. All this amounted to a first set played in highly unusual circumstances, and a second set containing hardly any of the bands you all know me for.

11am-12 noon – Neo-Somethingorother

Erich Kunzel – Handel’s Sarabande From Suite No.11
Sophia – Herbstwerk
Karjalan Sissit – Requiem
Nico – No One Is There
Ordo Equitum Solis – Through The Fog
Unto Ashes – Young Men Leave For Battle
Tony Wakeford – A Small Town In Germany
Death In June – Hail The White Grain
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – [Mercury Rising] Seduced By the Hisses Of Cinnabar Sweet
Evelyn Evelyn – Elephant Elephant
Andi Sex Gang – Psychic Sarah
ThouShaltNot – The Haunted Phonograph
Einstürzende Neubauten – Sabrina
Monte Cazazza – Sex Is No Emergency
Throbbing Gristle – Hot On The Heels Of Love
Download – Possession
300,000VK – Also Sprach Johann Paul II

2pm-3pm – Gothic Rock and Various Forms of Metal

Bauhaus – Dark Entries
Shadow Project – Holy Hell
Sisters Of Mercy – Lucretia My Reflection
Last Rites – The Many Forms
My Dying Bride – Like Gods Of The Sun
Mono Inc. – Admiration Hill
The Gathering – Adrenaline
Mina Harker – Lolita
Samsas Traum – Endstation: Eden
Nightwish – Wishmaster
Therion – To Mega Therion
Amon Amarth – Gods Of War Arise
Korpiklaani – Vodka
In Extremo – Vollmond

5pm – 5:30pm – Jonny vs Ravi – Venue Closing Tag Team

The DJs change, but the tradition continues!

Green Day – Basket Case
Electric Six – Gay Bar
PUSA – Dune Buggy
Faith No More – Easy
Pulp – Common People
Pet Shop Boys – Go West
Corky and the Juice Pigs – Eskimo
Monty Python – Bruces Philosophers Song

X-KiN Video Launch – Terminates Here IrrEv #04

The 4th Terminates Here Irregular Event saw a return to both the venue (Dirty Dicks) and music style (alternative electronic) heard at IrrEv #01 (Byte Back), as well as reprising an earlier theme, namely the launch of the latest X-KiN video (I was DJing at an earlier such event in September 2012). Captain Howard also returned to the event, both of us playing tunes from our own projects as well as X-KiN, whilst the later sets were handled by Jester and Matt C. My own set was on before the video, and went something like this.

Suicide Commando – See You In Hell!
Pulse Legion – One Thing
A Split-Second – Flesh (33+8 Version)
Snowy Red – Euroshima
Public Relation – Eighty Eight
101 – Rock To The Beat
Front 242 – U-Men
The Neon Judgement – Chinese Black
a;GRUMH – Drama In The Subway
The Klinik – Moving Hands
Kant Kino – LRSBSS
Kommand + Kontrol – Secret Police
Prager Handgriff – Schindluder
Second Voice – Celebrate Our Death
X-KiN – Entranced
Tristesse De La Lune – Queen Of The Damned
Grandchaos – Refuge
Deja Vu 2 – World Alert
Tyske Ludder – March
Covenant – Figurehead (Plain)

Vs – Terminates Here Irregular Event #03

The third Terminates Here irregular event was a Bank Holiday DJ battle between myself and Scott McMahon. Two concepts adopted were frequent changeovers and a music policy that let the request list decide the playlist. Whilst we generally tried to make sure each song in some way followed the last, the number of different subgenres we covered is illustrated (well, my half is), below.

And yes, I now officially play Iron Maiden more often than VNV Nation.


8:30pm-9pm

Jean Michel Jarre – Chronologie VI
Kraftwerk – Radioactivity
Parade Ground – Strange World
DAF/DOS – Wegen Dir
OMD – Red Frame White Light
Fad Gadget – Ricky’s Hand
Devo – Whip It
Pink Industry – Not Moving
Psychic TV – No Go Go

9:30pm-10pm

Faith and the Muse – Cantus
Sisters Of Mercy – You Could Be The OneXandria – Sisters Of The Light
Iron Maiden – Can I Play With Madness
AC/DC – Highway To Hell
Motörhead – Ace Of Spades
Mötley Crüe – Smokin’ In The Boys Room
Skid Row – Monkey Business
Beatles – Revolution

10:30pm-11pm

Blur – Girls and Boys
Apoptygma Berzerk – In This Together
Psychedelic Furs – Love My Way
Depeche Mode – Wrong
Yazoo – Nobody’s Diary
Falco – Rock Me Amadeus
Nine Inch Nails – Terrible Lie

11:30pm-12 Midnight

Aphex Twin – Come To Jonny (that’s what I call it)
Prodigy – Voodoo People
Chemical Brothers – Hey Girl Hey Boy
Front 242 – Headhunter V1.0
Nitzer Ebb – Join In The Chant
Spetsnaz – Apathy

Closing Half-Hour – Scott vs Jonny Tag Team

Pulp – Common People
Moby – James Bond Theme
White Lies – To Lose My Life
Monaco – Sweet Lips
White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
Filter – The Best Things
Rocky Roberts and Luis Bacalov – Django
Monty Python – Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life

Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale – March 2014

Back once again to the Tufnell Park Dome, where myself and Scott McMahon take daytime DJing into even more uncharted territories.

Set 1 – 10:30am – 12pm – Darkambient, Darkwave, Melodic Synth

Klaus Schulze – Synphara
Brighter Death Now – Slaughterhouse
Archon Satani – Eternal Suffering This Christian World
MZ.412 – Mourning Star
Atrium Carceri – Third From The Centre
Nine Inch Nails – A Warm Place
Oneiriod Psychosis – As Leaves Fall
Diary Of Dreams – Rumours About Angels
Soil and Eclipse – Necromancy
Sombre Printemps – Orphaned
Equitant – Technik
Severed Heads – Dead Eyes Open
Absolute Body Control – Do You Feel It Inside (Rewind Version)
Delay – Working In A Factory
Fad Gadget – Collapsing New People
Tears For Fears – Mad World
Jon and Vangelis – I’ll Find My Way Home
OMD – Maid Of Orleans

1pm-2pm – EBM, Electro-Industrial and Futurepop

Agent Side Grinder – The Screams
A Split-Second – Flesh
Signal Aout 42 – Dead Is Calling
Front 242 – Funkahdafi
Insekt – In The Eye
E-Craft – Electrocution
Die Krupps – Robo Sapien
Aslan Faction – Bring On The Dying
Skinny Puppy – SaLvo
Project Pitchfork – Human Crossing
Rotersand – All In All
Apoptygma Berzerk – Spindizzy
Swarf – Fall
Dust Of Basement – Don’t Forget Desire

Set 3 – 3pm-4pm – Old Goth and Old Rock

Christian Death – Deathwish
Tones On Tail – Christian Says
Virgin Prunes – Baby Turns Blue
Rosetta Stone – An Eye For The Main Chance
Descendants of Cain – War Of Ages
Saints Of Eden – One
The Mission – Wasteland
The Cult – Love Removal Machine
T-Rex – Children Of The Revolution
Uriah Heep – Lady In Black
10CC – Life Is A Minestrone
UFO – Doctor Doctor
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Iron Maiden – 2 Minutes To Midnight
Saxon – The Eagle Has Landed\

5pm-5:30pm – Jonny vs Scott Tag Team

The tradition (?) continues….

Billy Joel – We Didn’t Start The Fire
Nancy Sinatra – These Boots
Motley Crue – Shout At The Devil
Rocky Roberts and Luis Bacalov – Django
Kenny Rogers – The Gambler
The White Stripes – Jolene
Jerry Lee Lewis – Great Balls of Fire
Nick Cave – By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Monty Python – Lumberjack

The Asylum

My first ever set outside of London took place on Friday at the Asylum Club in Chelmsford. In the end, I played several sets, both between the bands and then afterwards. Here was the eventual playlist.

Jesus and Mary Chain – Just Like Honey
Stone Temple Pilots – Creep
Pearl Jam – Jeremy
Alice In Chains – Man In The Box
Foo Fighters – The Pretender
Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun

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Smashing Pumpkins – Zero
My Bloody Valentine – Only Shallow
Lush – Ladykillers
Cranes – Can’t Get Free
Freebass – Lady Violence

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Tool – Stinkfist
Pantera – Walk
Machine Head – Ten Ton Hammer
Faith No More – Epic
Rage Against The Machine – Killing In The Name
Nine Inch Nails – Wish
Pop Will Eat Itself – Ich Bin Ein Auslander
Depeche Mode – Never Let Me Down
Killing Joke – Eighties
The Damned – Eloise
Simple Minds – Don’t You Forget About Me
The Cult – She Sells Sanctuary
Fields Of The Nephilim – Moonchild
Metallica – Wherever I May Roam
Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar On Me
Iron Maiden – Can I Play With Madness
Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
Garbage – I Think I’m Paranoid
Green Day – Basket Case
NOFX – Turning Japanese
Pennywise – Stand By Me
PUSA – Peaches
Toy Dolls – Nellie The Elephant

….that was initially it for that floor, but a encore of sorts ensued (from this point until the end of the night, most songs played were requests, which also explain the ‘releated projects’ feel!)

Covenant – Dead Starts (Version)
The Cure – A Forest (Tree Mix)

….and then a switch to the downstairs bar

White Zombie – More Human Than Human
Ministry – Just One Fix
Nitzer Ebb – Let Your Body Learn
New Order – Blue Monday (Original)
Alien Sex Fiend – Dead And Buried
Joy Division – Transmission
Cocteau Twins – Sugar Hiccup
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Happy House
Tubeway Army – My Shadow In Vain
Creatures – Dancing On Glass
The Birthday Party – Release The Bats
The Clash – I Fought The Law
AC/DC – Black In Black
Aerosmith – Crazy
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
The Rolling Stones – Paint It Black
The Kinks – You Really Got Me

Die Kur, MaxDmyz & Little Death Machine

A now-annual occurence at The Intrepid Fox. Three DJs (myself, Vade Retro and DJ 69) filled in the gaps. I got in a couple of sets on this occasion.

Pre-Bands

Nine Inch Nails – Help Me I Am In Hell
Ventenner – 1
Chris Connelly – Stowaway
The Young Gods – Skinflowers
Orgy – Stitches
Rico – Attack Me
Stabbing Westward – Lies
Interlock – Skinless

Post-Bands

I:Scintilla – Havestar
Ministry – NWO
Front Line Assembly – Liquid Separation
Deja Vu II – World Alert (…..by special request!)

Elixir Bar Set

A DJ set from a birthday party at the Elixir Bar. My agreed remit for the night was old-school rock and metal, so no EBM or industrial this time, but instead everything from power ballads to full-on thrash.

8pm-8:30pm

Nico – Frozen Warnings
Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
Poison – Every Rose Has It’s Thorn
Uriah Heep – Lady In Black
Boston – More Than A Feeling
Whitesnake – Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of The City
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Freebird

11pm-12am

Rolling Stones – Paint It Black
The Who – My Generation
Led Zeppelin – Black Dog
Girlschool – Race With The Devil
Heart – Barracuda
Van Halen – Jump
Bon Jovi – Livin’ On A Prayer
Twisted Sister – We’re Not Going To Take It
Iron Maiden – Run To The Hills
Dio – Holy Diver
Diamond Head – Starcrossed (Lovers Of The Night)
Judas Priest – Breaking The Law
Motorhead – Ace Of Spades
Megadeth – Holy Wars…The Punishment Due
Slayer – Raining Blood
Testament – Over The Wall