Tufnell Park

Another successful Bring’n’buy sale – Robert Cowlin couldn’t join us today, so instead I was joined in the booth by Scott McMahon, who also did three set (dark indie/soundclash for the first, bleep for the second, goth metal in the third). This of course left me to do a trad-set, which turned out to be a lot of fun.

11am-12noon – Dark Cabaret and Downtempo Electronics

Another 11am ‘special’, but a bit different from usual.

Raison D’etre – Ascencion De Profundis
Nicki Jaine – Pretty Face
Rozz Williams and Gitane Demone – In Every Dream Home A Heartache
Revue Noir – The Gravediggers
Johnny Cash – Hurt
Diary Of Dreams – AmoK (aLive Piano Version)
Absolute Body Control – I’m Leaving
The Human League – Circus Of Death
Depeche Mode – Ice Machine
John Foxx – Underpass
Kraftwerk – Radioactivity (original version)
Deine Lakaien – Generators
Blutengel – I’m Dying Alone
Kirlian Camera – Comfortably Numb

1pm-2pm – A sort of trad-goth set by a not-very-trad-DJ

With Robert off (but appearing in the set as The Mumbles!), I was doing the trad today. Scott gave me a ‘dark indie’ set to fade in on, and expressed a plan to do a ‘bleep’ set after, hence the move away from trad at the end.

This Is Radio Silence – Forever Ends Today
Joy Division – New Dawn Fades
The Mumbles – Movement
The Velvet Underground – All Tommorows Parties
Lene Lovich – Bird Song
Siouxsie and the Banshees – This Wheel’s On Fire
The Eden House – To Believe In Something
The Sisters Of Mercy – Detonation Boulevard
Star Industry – Pray
The Merry Thoughts – 2nd Generation
Switchblade Symphony – Bad Trash
Goethes Erben + Peter Heppner – Glasgarten
The Eternal Afflict – San Diego (Tragical)
In Strict Confidence – Promised Land

3pm-4pm – 90s Dance and Industrial Metal

I’ve always wanted to play some of these songs – a kind of ‘Full Tilt’ revival?

Leftfield – Open Up
Orbital – The Box (Untitled Single Version 4)
Lords Of Acid – Out Comes The Evil
Underworld – Cowgirl
Prodigy – Breathe
Project Pitchfork – 2069AD
Gary Numan – Pure
Rammstein – Sehnsucht
Megaherz – Herz Aus Stein
Unheilig – Ich Will Alles
Gothminister – Monsters
Genitorturers – Lecher Bitch
Killing Miranda – Teenage Vampire
Zeromancer – Need You Like A Drug
Rob Zombie – Sick Bubblegum

5pm-5:30pm – Jonny vs Scott Tag Team Silliness

As ever, we had some fun during clean up. No ‘Timewarp’ (that’s Robert’s track), but still a good to play stuff that we can’t at any other time of day.

Ian Dury – Billericay Dickie
Heart – Barracuda
Emerson, Lake and Palmer – Hoedown
Tatu – Not Going To Get Us
Transvision Vamp – Baby I Don’t Care
Lady Gaga – Bad Romance
Nena – 99 Luftballons
Lordi – Hard Rock Hallelujah

Another successful Bring’n’buy at The Dome. Had a real job getting the DJ kit operational, but we pulled together and got it to work. Robert handled the classic gothic rock, and I was happy to work the fringes around it.

10:45am-11am – Warm-Up

Nine Inch Nails – A Warm Place
Throbbing Gristle – Beachy Head
Vidna Obmana – The Angelic Appearance

12noon-1pm – Neo-folk, Ethereal, Darkwave

HERR – The Fall Of Constantinople
Blood Axis – The Hangman and the Papist
Corvus Corax – Fortuna
Qntal – Am Morgen Fruo
Delerium – Incantation
Kirlian Camera – Eclipse (Anniversary Version)
Diary Of Dreams – Chemicals
Velvet Acid Christ – Caustic Disco
The Crüxshadows – Quicksilver
Mortiis – You Put A Hex On Me
Project Pitchfork – God Wrote
Clan Of Xymox – Emily
OMD – Maid Of Orleans

2pm-3pm – Pure Industrial?

Covenant – Speed (Club Version)
VNV Nation – Serial Killer
Front 242 – Tragedy >For You<
Tyske Ludder – March
Implant – Rip That Thing (System:FX Remix)
Punto Omega – (Marcha Hacia El) Punto Omega
Flesh Field – Haven
Eisbrecher – This Is Deutsch ([:SITD:] Remix)
Rammstein – Rammlied
Ministry – LiesLiesLies
Die Kur – Under The Empire Of Sun To Follow
Static-X – Love Dump
Fear Factory – Linchpin
Zeromancer – Photographic

4pm-5pm – Goths Just Wanna Have Fun

Depeche Mode – Wrong
Muse – Uprising
Editors – Papillon
Pride + Fall – Blood
NeuroticFish – Velocity
Frozen Plasma – Irony
Fictional – Blue Lights
And One – Techno Man
Gary Numan – Metal
Trans-X – Living On Video
Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Love Missile F1-11
Blondie – Atomic
David Bowie – Scary Monsters (& Super Creeps)
Killing Joke – Requiem
Sex Pistols – Anarchy In The UK
Sham 69 – If The Kids Are United

5pm-5:30pm – The Return of Jonny Vs Robert’s ‘Tag Team Cheese’

Toy Dolls – Nellie The Elephant
Dead Or Alive – That’s The Way I Like It
The Vapours – Turning Japanese
Village People – YMCA (why, oh why!!!!!!)
Erasure – Take A Chance On Me
Rocky Horror Picture Show – Timewarp
Potentia Amini – Gaudete

My second Goth/Alternative Bring and Buy. It may be background music but it seems to be appeciated by stallholders who are there for the full 6 hours. Besides, future sets might well not be background music, so I do take the job seriously. Well, I do get a fair bit of fun out of it (see the last set!) or I wouldn’t have done it.Today I was spinning alongside Robert from Night Shift Radio. He’s a trad-goth/post-punk specialist, so in response I concentrated on what we might describe as ‘goth friendly tracks that aren’t goth in the purest sense’.

11am-Noon – The Low-Key Morning Set

NON – The Fountain Of Fortune
SonVer – Anonima
Einstürzende Neubauten – Sabrina
Vangelis – Blade Runner Main Titles
Wendy Carlos – Title Music From A Clockwork Orange
Arcana – Our God Weeps
Stalingrad – Neither Honour Nor Glory
In The Nursery – Groundloop
Faun – Punagra
Corvus Corax – Milli Anni Passi Sunt (PC Project Version)
Deine Lakaien – Return
Lamia – Das Omen
Blutengel – Lucifer
Diary Of Dreams – The Wedding
Leæther Strip – The Shame Of A Nation
Front Line Assembly – Civilsation
Wumpscut – Thorns (Distant Vocals)

1pm-2pm – Old EBM into Gothic Metal

DAF – Kebabtraume
Nitzer Ebb – Let Your Body Learn
VNV Nation – Cold (Advance + Follow v2 version)
And One – Military Fashion Show
Front 242 – Religion
Project Pitchfork – Existence v4.1
Die Krupps – Isolation
Die Kur – The Fall Of The Empire
Lacuna Coil – Spellbound
Nightwish – Wishmaster
Therion – Three Ships Of Berik (Parts 1&2)
Within Temptation – Mother Earth
Saltatio Mortis – Spielmannsschwur
In Extremo – Küss mich
Tanzwut – Toccata
HIM – Buried Alive By Love

3pm-4pm – Bleepy Cheese, Followed By Lots Of Industrialish Stuff

Sigue Sigue Sputnik – 21st Century Boy
Spray – I Am Gothic
Apoptygma Berzerk – Love Never Dies
Rotersand – Electronic World Transmission
Implant – The Dive
Combichrist – Intruder Alert
Front Line Assembly – Mindphaser
System:FX – Turn To Rust
The Prodigy – Omen
Nine Inch Nails – Head Like A Hole
Dope Stars Inc. – Bang Your Head
Zeromancer – Doctor Online
Rammstein – Feuer Frei!
Oomph! – Augen Auf
Megaherz – Tanz Auf Dem Vulkan
Earth Loop Recall – Optimism Creeping In

5pm-5:30pm – Tag Team 80s Cheese!

The Human League – Don’t You Want Me
The Communards – Don’t Leave Me This Way
A-Ha – Take On Me
Erasure – Sometimes
Tears For Fears – Head Over Heels
Pet Shop Boys – Go West
Wham! – Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
Monty Python – Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life

My return to the decks after more that 6 years off came at the Alternative Bring’n’Buy Sale at The Dome in Tufnell Park. It wasn’t a dancefloor-oriented event, so I meant I could really stretch my wings and show that I’m not tied down to any one subgenre. Even then, I only got to touch on some areas of the scene, but I’m quite pleased about how it turned out in the end.

11am to 12:15pm – ‘The Slow Moody Sunday Morning Set’

Laibach – Mama Leone
Rik Schaffer – Downtown Theme from ‘Vampire: Bloodlines’
Blood Axis – The Gospel Of Inhumanity
Die Form – Cantique 1
Leisem – Fundamentum
Helium Vola – Omnis Mundi Creatura
Dead Can Dance – Enigma Of The Absolute
Deine Lakaien – Love Me To The End
Chiasm – Isolated
Kirlian Camera – Eclipse
L’Âme Immortelle – Bitterkeit
Das Ich – Das Dunkle Land
Diary Of Dreams – Malice
Project Pitchfork – Merry-Go-Round To Hell
FAQ – We Come In Pieces (Duet Version)
Rotersand – The Gods Have Gone Insane
32 Crash – Slow Crash
DuPont – Planless Exhibition

1pm to 2pm – ‘The Gothic Rock’n’Metal Set’

Magazine – Shot By Both Sides
Bauhaus – Dark Entries
Zeraphine – Be My Rain
ASP – Welcome
Star Industry – Lost Generation
London After Midnight – Psychomagnet
Samsas Traum – Ein Foetus Wie Du
Sisters Of Mercy – Vision Thing
Lacuna Coil – Swamped
Paradise Lost – One Second
Type O Negative – Love You To Death
Rammstein – Ohne Dich
In Extremo – Vollmond
Tanzwut – Lügner

3pm to 4pm – ‘Darkwave to Industrial and Back Again’

Diary Of Dreams – The Plague
Solar Fake – Stigmata Rain
Covenant – Figurehead (Plain)
Mesh – Step By Step
Velvet Acid Christ – Futile (Nazi Bastard Mix)
Heimataerde – Deus Lo Vult
Gothminister – Angel
KMFDM – Anarchy
Jesus On Extasy – Assassinate Me
Unheilig – Herz Aus Eis
Nine Inch Nails – The Hand That Feeds
Killing Joke – Pandemonium (Cybersank Extended)
The Birthday Massacre – Video Kid
Girls Under Glass – Frozen