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Brave Exhibitions 05/07/09 [06 Jul 2009|01:51am] [ music | Elliott Smith - Tomorrow, Tomorrow ] 10-10.30ish (Earlier, or the I Wish It Could Be Love Your Enemies Every Day set) Associates - White Car In Germany Microdisney - Love Your Enemies The (Hypothetical) Prophets - Person To Person A Blaze Colour - Cold As Ever Micropenis - Commie Students Starter - Lunapark The Passage - Drugface Ludus - Breaking The Rules --- Later, or the Oh I'm In Shoooooreditch Now And My Hangover Has Magically Gone Due To Staropramen set No Bra - Munchausen The Vichy Government - My Mail-Order Bride The Make-Up - I Am Pentagon Ultravox - Herr X The Fall - Black Monk Theme Pt 1 Talking Heads - Found A Job Gravy Train!!!! - Hella Nervous (dedicated to NURVUSSSSSSS) Killing Joke - Love Like Blood I have had one of the best weekends of my life, I think. Fully, unequivocally brilliant. Sleep now. Or perhaps watching Shallow Grave until the early hours? Who can say! Is this the light of a new day dawning? A future bright for you to walk in? No it's just another Monday morning. Do it all over again. 27 comments|post comment

Final show malarkey [25 Jun 2009|11:54am] Does anyone know of any photocopy places in London that are open late/on weekends? 4 comments|post comment

Rock Steady 19/06/09 [20 Jun 2009|12:19am] [ mood | tired ] Metro Area - Miura Padded Cell - Fare Beneath London Lifelike - Discomachine Paula - Als Es Passierte (Andreas Dorau Remix) Misc. - Metroland Claude VonStroke - Who's Afraid Of Detroit? [this might have been the best mix I have ever done technically speaking] Gabriel Ananda - Ihre Presonliche Glucksmelodie -- Tiga - Shoes Boom Bip - The Pinks Codec & Flexor - Crazy Girls Yazoo - Situation (Hercules & Love Affair Remix) LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous! (Soulwax Remix) Zombie Nation - Forza Simian Mobile Disco - It's The Beat Francisco - Fregna (The Age) Chemical Brothers - Base 6 [this provoked a big cheer from the dancefloor!] Pretty much everything was technically perfect here, but I do wish I had had time to make some new CDs so I could play newer records. It was good to get to play Forza though. I had to run home shortly after this as I am brutally hungover and not drinking for a while, so had nerves, booze-guilt and exhaustion which meant I was basically having no fun despite the presence of my lovely friends. Unfortunately this also meant that I had to cancel going to Trailer Trash with Chloe AGAIN which I feel rotten about as I've still never managed to go with her yet. Sorry Chloe! Of course now I am at home I am struck by the absolutely massive feeling of complete and utter loneliness which I have been trying to keep at bay. Still. Chin up, you're alright kid, it's always darkest before the dawn, eh? 15 comments|post comment

£5 Fringe Launch Party at the Boogaloo 15/06/09 [17 Jun 2009|01:31pm] [ mood | groggy ] [ music | The Knife - Silent Shout ] A fun night, some ace comedians and free Pimm's/cider - Marvellous. The brief was party-oriented indie/pop so I duly obliged: ( Setlist ) 8 comments|post comment

REMEMBER BITCHES [12 Jun 2009|12:51pm] [ mood | supa doopa ] [ music | Supa Doopa ] 4 comments|post comment

Procrastination ENDGAME [16 May 2009|05:39pm] That is all. *I didn't make this, by the way - that would require far more procrastinatory skill and effort than I have at my command. 5 comments|post comment

RELAUNCH [13 May 2009|03:12pm] MORE DETAILS SOON! 9 comments|post comment

Rock Steady 17/04/09 [18 Apr 2009|02:58am] [ mood | sleepy ] [ music | E4 nonsense ] First set 9.45-10.30 Fan Death - Veronica's Veil Padded Cell - Fare Beneath London Yazoo - Situation (Hercules & Love Affair Remix) Groove Armada - Drop The Tough (Twelves Remix) Big Face - I Wanna Be A Style Crusader (David E Sugar Paradise Garage Remix) Sebastien Tellier - Kilometer (Aeroplane Italo 84 Remix) Lifelike - Discomachine Hercules & Love Affair - You Belong Claude Vonstroke - Who's Afraid Of Detroit? Local Boy - Thriller Of A Lonely Heart Second Set 11.15-12.00 Surkin - White Knight Two Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor (Lifelike Remix) Duran Duran - Planet Earth (Night Mix) Rapture - I Need Your Love Tiga - Hot In Herre CSS - Alala (Billion Dollar DJs Mix) Kylie - Come Into My World (Fischerspooner Remix) Simian Mobile Disco - It's The Beat Chemical Brothers - Base 6 [cue a lot of confused looks/craaazy staares from a couple of guys on the dancefloor: "A chick? Who digs big beat?"]/injoke about two people on my friendslist will get Slyde - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 5 comments|post comment

Black Plastic 6 04/04/09 [16 Apr 2009|04:16pm] [ music | Steve Bug - That Kid (Ha.Te Mix) ] ( BLACK PLASTIC 6 SETLISTS ) 25 comments|post comment

Team Black Plastic @ Future Brain, 03/04/09 [04 Apr 2009|09:56am] [ mood | sleepy ] Pointer Sisters - Automatic Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait Clio - Faces La Roux - Quicksand A Number of Names - Shari Vari Baby's Gang - America Mr Flagio - Take A Chance Charlie - Spacer Woman Pet Shop Boys - Heart Divine - Walk Like a Man Donna Summer - I Feel Love Silent Circle - Touch in the Night Heartbreak - Regret FPU - Crockett's Theme 2 comments|post comment

Goodness me [03 Apr 2009|03:28pm] [ mood | hyper-mediocriteeeee ] [ music | A Split Second - Flesh ] Greetings O my brothers. Hey! BLACK PLASTIC is TOMORROW!: Tomorrow your residents Suicide Ally and Jo Cliche will be joined by Tom of Kaput! Club (Glasgow) for more of your favourite new romantic dark electro post punk disco. Expect to hear the likes of: Associates, Avenue D, Blondie, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Cansei De Ser Sexy, Chemical Brothers, Chicks On Speed, Anne Clark, Client, Colder, Cranes, Crystal Castles, The Cure, Curve, DAF, Daft Punk, Depeche Mode, Devo, Digitalism, Duran Duran, Ellen Allien, Erasure, Fad Gadget, Fockewulf 190, The Hacker, The Human League, Japan, John Foxx, Joy Division, Justice, the KLF, Killing Joke, The Knife, Kraftwerk, LCD Soundsystem, Ladytron, Madonna, Magazine, Kylie Minogue, New Order, The Normal, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, The Passions, Peaches, Pet Shop Boys, Prince, Public Image Ltd., SebastiAn, Severed Heads, Soft Cell, Sparks, Strawberry Switchblade, Tiga, Trans X,Transvision Vamp, Ultravox(!), Visage, We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It 8pm - 2am £3 before 10, £6/£5 thereafter The Star, 359 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 6LG http://twisted.org.uk/~blackplastic/ But before that gets here, the Black Plastic DJs will be guest DJing at the mighty FUTURE BRAIN tonight, playing italo, new wave and all kinds of synthesizer dance joy. http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=57953843426 Hope to see you this weekend! love, Ally & Jo xxxxxxx 5 comments|post comment

[28 Mar 2009|09:56am] BLACK.PLASTIC 6 is in just ONE WEEK!! (click flyer to see reverse) I am, of course, hideously overexcited. BE THERE OR BE DEAD! 4 comments|post comment

Rock Steady 13/03/09 [14 Mar 2009|02:58pm] Big Face - I Wanna Be A Style Crusader (David E Sugar Paradise Garage Remix) Padded Cell - Fare Beneath London Death In Vegas - Hands Around My Throat Boom Bip - The Pinks Booka Shade - Point Break Gabriel Ananda - Ihre Presonliche Glucksmelodie Paula - Als Es Passierte (Andreas Dorau Remix) Joakim - Drumtrax Felix - Don't You Want Me (Hooj Edit) Awesome 3 - Don't Go (Kicks Like A Mule Remix) JX - Son Of A Gun (Red Jerry and JX Mix) 2 comments|post comment

Reeperbahn 28/02/09 [02 Mar 2009|11:31am] [ mood | okay ] Jo Cliché & Suicide Ally 11pm-12am DAF - Absolute Body Control My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Do You Fear (For Your Child?) Liaisons Dangereuses - Peut Etre Digitalism vs the Cure - Fire in Cairo The Hacker - Flesh & Bone feat Perspects Acid Horse - No Name, No Slogan Kraftwerk - Aero Dynamik Rapture - I Need Your Love Charlie - Spacer Woman Fockewulf 190 - Gitano Severed Heads - Dead Eyes Opened Die Krupps - Machineries of Joy Peaches - Set it Off I had an excellent weekend all told, but it seemed to involve going to every party and drinking everything and kind of hurtling along at top speed, so I'm pretty knackered now. Anyway! Both Friday and Saturday were great fun playing-records-and-jumping-around-meeting-new-people-being-overexcited, and then Sunday was spent in bed watching mindless TV and reading with a very sweet sleepy stephens so that was lovely too. 33 comments|post comment

Rock Steady 27/02/2009 [28 Feb 2009|12:47am] [ mood | tired ] [ music | Modeselektor - Edgar ] 9.15?-9.45 Metro Area - Miura Padded Cell - Fare Beneath London Kraak & Smaak - Bobby & Whitney Joakim - I Wish You Were Gone Chicken Lips - White Dwarf Extended Mix [It was at this point that I ran out of slowish disco records and was glad of Will taking over] 10.30-11.15 Claude Vonstroke - Who's Afraid Of Detroit? Mylo - Paris 400 (SebastiAn Mix) Charlie - Spacer Woman The Knife - Marble House (Rex The Dog Mix) Boom Bip - The Pinks Lifelike - Discopolis (Breaks Mix) Ellen Allien & Apparat - Do Not Break Aphex Twin - Windowlicker (Run Jeremy Remix) Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler (Extended Dancefloor Mix) [BECAUSE I ALWAYS PLAY IT AIEE] I can officially beatmatch every time now. Which is good. Would have liked to be able to break out more of the older stuff that I had planned but I forgot I was only on relatively early so it wouldn't have been too appropriate in actual fact - next time though! See a lot of you tomorrow at Reeperbahn I hope. I'm STOKED. 2 comments|post comment

BLACK.PLASTIC.6 [25 Feb 2009|12:13pm] [ mood | rushed ] [ music | Tiga - Burning Down (TGV Remix) ] Next Black Plastic date: 4th of April! Featuring special guest TOM KAPUT (Kaput! Club Glasgow) (Click for back of flyer) Other dates for your diary: 27/02/09: Jo Cliché DJing at Rock Steady at the Bedroom Bar - neodisco, electro, electro house, breaks, and much more besides. 28/02/09: Black Plastic DJs Suicide Ally and Jo Cliché DJ set at minimal wave/EBM club Reeperbahn 12/03/09: Suicide Ally and Chris Damage's indie/ustrial club night Self Non Self moves to Camden 3 comments|post comment

Top Ten Albums That Had An Effect On My Life, or Look At How Indie Jojo Is [18 Feb 2009|03:40pm] [ mood | giddy ] [ music | Perspects - 13 (In Two Parts) ] I was tagged by suicideally so here goes, in no particular order: 1. The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow (if that counts as an album, I know it's a compilation, shush; if not then I'll have Meat Is Murder instead) There is simply not a bad song on here. Ranging from the gorgeous spiderweb melancholy of the semiacoustic tracks like Back To The Old House, to the heady film-credits grey-skyed rush of William, It Was Really Nothing, to the booming industro-emotional thunderstorm of How Soon Is Now? and back again. It's just everything pop music should be - exciting, dramatic, reflective, seductive and magical. This got me through pretty much every up and every down of my teenage years, and it still excites and comforts me in equal measure. 2. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible Yes, I know. It remains one of the most intensely angry and desperate things I've ever heard, and I think parts of it are really quite beautiful in a white-hot fury sort of way. I used to listen to this on the bus to school all the time and then wondered why I was like a ball of self-disgusted nerves all the time. It did help me feel less alone and tragic though. 3. Blur - Parklife A gloriously kaleidoscopic pop album in the vein of XTC's angrily literate vignettes about England. Blur were my first ever "favourite band" and I spent so long listening to this the notes and words have all kind of been imprinted on my brain. I'm sure this got annoying in its omnipresence when it came out but I was in the States then, you see. Probably part of the reason I was so into it was due to the fact that I came back to the UK after all that British Identity = Cool stuff was over. 4. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Juju Another wonderfully intense set of songs which fizzes with energy, mysterious glamour and intent. A band at the height of their powers. A true dark jewel of a thing. Are you getting enough clichés here? This got me into female-fronted bands - for some reason I was always highly skeptical of female singers before I heard this and fell in love with it. It also opened my eyes to the more gothward leanings of post-punk, but no "proper goth" stuff I've heard really lives up to it at all. 5. New Order - Power Corruption & Lies Opens with the breathless teenage cinema of Age Of Consent and stays that good. I love that you can hear the sound of something new and slightly unfinished emerging from something familiar and tinted with gloomy nostalgia. And it has great tunes. Not to mention the most beautiful record sleeve Of All Time. The first record I bought on vinyl and the soundtrack to many a late-night wandering/contemplating/going quietly spare. 6. A Bugged Out Mix by Erol Alkan The reason I wanted to start DJing. 7. Radiohead - OK Computer This blew me away completely when I first heard it. I think a good measure of a really extraordinary piece of art is when you may well be able to understand it and find it appealing but you can't for the life of you imagine actually creating it, having the idea for it. This is a concept album which works beautifully and powerfully to describe late twentieth-century postpostpost-industrialisation overwhelm (it's a word now), fear and alienation. I think. I went mental at one of my schools when I was about fourteen and spent about a year writing a big thesis about this compared with Orwell's 1984 up in my room before I was asked to leave the establishment for being too miserable/insane. 8. Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts The realisation that music need not follow verse-chorus-verse, nor have distinguishable lyrics, and can in fact veer into the realms of - gasp! - ambience without for a second being boring or losing the essential romance of the pop idea. Or something. 9. XTC - Black Sea I do love my observational clever-clever pop music. XTC have always been one of my favourite bands because they don't labour the point too much, have a sense of absurd humour but aren't "zany", and like, really care about what they write about. And Andy Partridge is one of the most unusual and skilled songwriters I have ever encountered. My dad had lots of XTC records and this was the first album I really got into, which introduced me to the fact that pop music could be about things and have tunes at the same time. Also brilliantly sympathetic to my suburban youth and whatnot. 10. Peaches - The Teaches Of The album which soundtracked me starting going out to clubs. I think my first club moment, when I remember thinking "this is the best fun in the world", was when I was dancing to Lovertits on my own, off my face on Tesco own brand vodka, in a badly thrown-together outfit in the mirrored basement of Stay Beautiful in 2004. I love how Peaches is never afraid to be scary or ugly in her exploration of sexuality. This is really filthy and danceable, but also refreshingly confrontational and stark in sound. It's kind of like how I wanted Suicide to sound but they never quite consistently lived up to it. Ooh, controversial. And on that bombshell.. I tag ultraruby, p_dan_tic, moleintheground, charleston, mark13, toptens, angelv, thedavidx, s0b and curiousbadger. So much I had to leave off this, arg! I was tempted to put the Heart & Soul Joy Division box set in but I thought that might be pushing the idea of "album" a bit far. Oh and also we got our marks for the unit I handed in recently today and I have got 84% - one point off a First. As it's supposedly an upward direction we are expected to move in before the final assessment, I am very pleased. I am sipping booze, predictably, to celebrate. Oh and here's my exciting Xtreem 1981 Haircut for those of you who didn't see it/don't have Facebook: 29 comments|post comment

Black Plastic 5 24/01/09 [27 Jan 2009|12:45pm] [ mood | cheerful ] [ music | Underworld - Juanita Kiteless To Dream Of Love ] (picture c/o Hannah Goodwin) ( Setlists here ) Totally fantastic night (despite me getting inordinately stressed with some of the queueing fandango); thank you so much to every enthusiastic, glamorous, drunk and dance-crazy person who came along and made it so brilliant. 8 comments|post comment

Tonight [24 Jan 2009|10:21am] The Guardian Guide love us! 12 comments|post comment

BLACK.PLASTIC.5 [23 Jan 2009|11:00am] [ mood | giddy ] [ music | Visage - Der Amboss ] BLACK PLASTIC is TOMORROW! BLACK.PLASTIC.5 is on Saturday January 24th, 8pm-2am (no entry after 1am) at the Star of Bethnal Green (formerly the Pleasure Unit) at 359 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 6LG Entry is £3 before 10pm, and £6/£5 with flyer/NUS thereafter Your residents Suicide Ally and Jo Cliché will be joined by Daughters of the Kaos (Club Motherfucker) Tube: Bethnal Green/ Train: Bethnal Green/ Buses: 8, 106, 253, 309, 388, D3, D6 Click here for our website, and here for our Myspace for more information including playlists, podcasts and more. Be there or be DEAD! 1 comment|post comment

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