Open Request List

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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

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’)

DJ Terminates Here vs DJ The Scot – September 2014

DJ Setlist

It’s customary after the Alt Bring’n’Buy to cross the road to Aces and Eights for a post-event pizza and pint. This time we took it further, and continued the DJing here, too.

This event worked on an ‘open request list’ principle – the audience decided the music policy, so all but the very first and last tracks played tonight were requests.

Set 1 – 6pm-6:45pm

Borghesia – We Don’t Believe You
Tear Garden – Sheila Liked The Rodeo
Hawkwind – Silver Machine
Pink Floyd – See Emily Play
Nightwish – High Hopes (3 requests for the ‘Floyd, 2 for Nightwish, what else could I do?)
The Eternal Afflict – Kinski Is Dead
Sisters Of Mercy – Black Planet
The Velvet Underground – Venus In Purs
Inkubus Sukkubus – Pagan Born
Omnia – Wytches Brew

Set 2 – 7:30pm-8:15pm

Switchblade Symphony – Bad Trash
Diary Of Dreams – The Wedding
Velvet Acid Christ – Evoked
Deviant UK – Timekiller
Spetsnaz – Apathy
Nitzer Ebb – Let Your Body Learn
OhGr – Shhh
Aesthetic Perfection – Spit It Out
Eisenfunk – Pong
OMD – Enola Gay
Depeche Mode – Stripped

Set 3 – 9pm-9:15pm

Jimi Hendrix – Purple Haze
AC/DC – Back In Black
REO Speedwagon – Back On The Road Again (hell, yeah!)
Cinderella – Don’t Know What You’ve Got Til It’s Gone

Tag-Team Wind Down – 9:15pm-10pm

One final Jonny vs Scott to see the day out.

Iggy Pop – No Fun
Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
Suicide – Rocket USA
B-Movie – Remembrance Day
Ultravox – Quiet Man
Moby – New Dawn Fades
NIN – Dead Souls
Killing Joke – Requiem
PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love
Johnny Cash – Hurt

Vs – Terminates Here Irregular Event #03

DJ Setlist

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