If I seem a little strange / well that's because I am

Nights Off

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:39:11 GMT

How utterly lovely is this?

Happy weekend everyone.

Peace will come to me

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:59:18 GMT

Operation Stay Up Again For Far Too Long For No Particular Reason is under way. I was supposed to be working at the door of a gig tonight but it was cancelled so I'm twiddling my thumbs and drinking tea at home under my duvet (whilst wearing the bizarre Stay-Puft November attire of the circulatorily-challenged). I seem to be going through a slightly hyper phase where I need the bare minimum of sleep, and I like being awake when no one else is. So I am going to write some more about music.
New top pop picks recently in no particular order:

1. Holy Fuck - Milkshake

Yes I know this is over a year old, but I've only just got round to listening to the Holy Fuck album. This is a fantastically kinetic noise-kraut-disco beast which sounds at once like both Neu! and the Chemical Brothers. I always imagine Holy Fuck records as being danced to in the sadly now-gone Kaput! Club in Glasgow (subterranean, dark red lighting, weird black and white films, smoke machines) because that's where I first heard their tremendous The Pulse (and promptly spazdanced embarrassingly drunkenly and overenthusiastically). I don't know why I felt the need to tell you that but there you go. Anyway. This is BIG SEXY NOISE! Fuck you Lydia Lunch.

2. Royksopp - This Must Be It (TBS Remix)

Royksopp's twinkly-swoony latest(?) single featuring synth-chanteuse of the moment Karin Andersson is remixed by Taking Back Sunday of all people, and they turn it into a pretty shameless Holiday rip, but with added Italo chugginess and searing keyboards. A sure-fire uplifting dancefloor peaktime (that's enough compound adjectives - Ed) record I think.

3. Atlas Sound - Walkabout (feat. Noah Lennox/Panda Bear)

Something completely different here (obviously, how patronising is it of me to say that, GOD). A gloriously sunny Beach Boys-y chiming thing, with the lost-in-the-woods sampliness and strangeness and echoes that made Panda Bear's band's Merriweather Post Pavilion so striking. A pleasantly circling walk around a multicoloured shiny-bright block (maaan).

4. Mirrors - Into The/Your Heart (Listen at their Myspace here, no YouTube unfortunately and I don't have the heart to put their song up on here as they're not a massive band)

This is a really very straightforward indie/synth-pop tune in the vein of Yazoo's Nobody's Diary or Furniture's Brilliant Mind, sort of. It does have a vaguely U2 chord structure and it's hardly massively groundbreaking or experimental but I think it's really rather charming and shimmery. And they do look rather over-styled and flash-in-the-pannish, don't they, but I still stand by my love for The Departure's All Mapped Out despite their similar unoriginal "vibe" (and quick slide into obscurity). Guilt free pop tunes for all is what I say. Borrowed-nostalgia-for-the-unremembered-Eighties is nothing to be scared of. Or something.

5. HTRK - Ha

(Apologies to those of my Facebook friends who have seen me post this already)
This is so unbelievably, seductively, Lynchily (yeah it's totally a word now) brutal and evil and visceral and grindy and stuff that I can't really find the appropriate words to describe it.. I would just say GRRRR again but- oh look I've done it anyway.

BLACK PLASTIC 8 Setlists

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:05:35 GMT

Ally
David Bowie - Secret Life of Arabia
Poni Hoax - Budapest
Adam Ant - Car Trouble Part 1
Ladytron - Black Plastic
Clio - Faces
Roxy Music - Same Old Scene
Lush - Light From a Dead Star
Big Pink - Dominoes

Jo
Les Georges Leningrad - Missing Gary
Alec Empire - Robot Love
Kazino - Binary
Tom Vek - If You Want
Metronomy - Holiday
Simian Mobile Disco - Cream Dream
Sophie & Peter Johnston - Television Satelite (Peel Session)
Adult. - Pressure Suit

Speakmarauder
William S Burroughs - Curse Go Back
Humanoid Army - The Strange Door
Big Black - Kerosene
An Experiment on a Bird with an Air Pump - Lights Out
The Wake (UK) - On Our Honeymoon
Blank Dogs - Setting Fire to Your House
For Against - Amen Yves
Eva - Plastic Passion
No Kisses - Not My Cup of Tea
Oto - Anyway
Fad Gadget - For Whom The Bell Tolls
Martin Dupont - He Saw the Light
Schwefelgelb - "some really long german name" (James's words, not mine! ;))
Goblin - Surspiria (Celesta and Bells)_
Fockewulf 190 - Gitano
La Roux - Quicksand

Ally
Pet Shop Boys feat. Dusty Springfield - What Have I Done to Deserve This?
LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations
Simple Minds - I Travel
Avenue D - Do I Look Like a Slut?
Adult. - Blank Eyed, Nose Bleed
Human League - Seconds
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
Strawberry Switchblade - Jolene
Smiths - the Queen is Dead
Duran Duran - The Chauffeur
Ellen Allien - Stadtkind
Peaches - Boys Wanna Be Her
Pete Shelley - Homosapien
Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Jo
Rapture - Sister Saviour
Gang of Four - To Hell with Poverty
Telex - Moskow Diskow
Sparks - Beat the Clock
Units - High Pressure Days (Rory Phillips mix)
Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling
Simian Mobile Disco - Cruel Intentions
Tiga - Shoes
Electronic - Gangster
LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous
ABC - Poison Arrow
Daft Punk - Face to Face
Yazoo - Situation (Hercules & Love Affair mix)
New Order - Perfect Kiss

[Richard setlist not written down]

Ally
Dragonnette - I Get Around (Midnight Juggernauts mix)
Little Boots - Stuck on Repeat
Ladytron - Another Breakfast with You
Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People
Human League - Rock N Roll
Prince - Raspberry Beret
Mint Royale - Don't Falter
Slits - Heard it Through the Grapevine
Gang of Four - At Home He's a Tourist
Fuzzbox - Love is the Slug
Associates - Club Country
Grace Jones - Pull Up to the Bumper

Jo
Fad Gadget - Coitus Interruptus
LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
KLF - 3am Eternal
Presets - My People
Kylie Minogue - Come into my World (Fischerspooner mix)_
Talking Heads - Girlfriend is Better
Electric Six - Danger High Voltage
Roxy Music - Angel Eyes
Cut Copy - Out there on the Ice
New Order - Fine Time

Ally and Jo
White Town - Your Woman
Human League - Love Action
David Bowie - Modern Love
Normal - Warm Leatherette
Faint - Glass Danse
Rapture - Woo! Alright, Yeah, Uh Huh
Peaches - Lovertits
Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric?

Here in the Hollywood hills

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:30:01 GMT

That's enough yammering about indie and so on for a bit I think. Today I want to talk about sort-of-but-not-really dance music that doesn't really do very much in real terms but still feels a bit like it's going somewhere because it's kind of atmospheric and sweeping, which I know isn't the most elegant classification but I've not had very much sleep so there we go.
Apparently "everyone" is going crazy over this record by the brilliantly-named Joy Orbison (Hyph Mngo):

(By the way I think it really needs to be listened to on headphones, so you get the full effect of the boomy bass stuff when it gets going)
When I heard it I immediately thought of MJ Cole's Sincere (which I've mentioned here before but can't be bothered to link back to - VALUE AND SERVICE!)

There are definitely superficial similarities; the twitchy garage/dubstep beat, the swelling augmented chords that feel like cool air rushing past your face, the moany-souly vocal.. But I think Hyph Mngo is more spacious, more lonely. It's Sincere's bleaked-out abstract cousin (or something). I guess it illustrates the difference between dubstep and garage in a way, the former being euphoric (at its best) in its desolation, the latter more about up-close twitchiness and immediacy. Anyway I love Hyph Mngo, it's sad and urgent but also really clear and breezy, and also a bit like Radiohead's Idioteque with its squeezeboxy chords, though interestingly where those chords are used to thrillingly claustrophobic effect in the Radiohead record they sound huge and open in the Joy Orbison one. The rattly, scratchy percussive parts - and the fact that it kind of sidles into the room and builds and ends up commanding all your attention - remind me of the utterly gorgeous (and also very lonely) Someone Great by LCD Soundsystem.
But it also reminds me of this (Metroland by Misc.):

Which is such a beautiful record - such a restrained record - and even more spaced out and smooth and kind of quietly epic, but with this incredibly pretty reveal when the sample comes in, a kind of headspace Dancefloor Moment, or something. All those augmented chords again, they're really evocative and trigger loads of memories for me of being in national parks in America, really early in the morning, or on a plane maybe just before it goes above the clouds (apart from the hideous dread I feel on planes but never mind) a sense of scale and brightness, cleanness.
At the darker end of things is Layo & Bushwacka!'s (such a lame name such a lame name such a lame name) Shining Through, which I couldn't find a video of so have an mp3. This one is similarly pulsing and swoopy but feels like it's in a huge cave for half of it, after which there's a similarly glorious stepping-into-the-moonlight reveal with a guitar riff of all things. It's like the nocturnal, more dangerous version of Metroland. All that boomy bass and breakbeat. Grrrr.

Exploding Head indeed

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:53:08 GMT

Stuff in my head lately:

- I had a dream the other night that solely consisted of the process involved in making a cake for diamond_geyser's birthday. This pales in comparison to moleintheground's latest entry.

- This, over and over and over and over again (The Long Blondes' Too Clever By Half)

When the guitar comes in, grrrr angularrrr! Lovely little Talking Heads synth noises as well.

- This, over and over and over and over again (In Your Heart by A Place To Bury Strangers)

Oh my actual God. Kevin Shields Blissout Metalgrinder in full effect RRRrrRRRRrrRrrrrRRR!

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I overuse the "rrrrr" a bit don't I.

Thoughts following flyering and a particularly mundane day, or WHY ISN'T IT FRIDAY YET?!

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:50:46 GMT

Why I Think That Without You I'm Nothing By Placebo Is Actually An Excellent Song, by Jo Bevan - A Girl With Far Too Much Time On Her Hands

I started thinking about Placebo again recently after listening to HEALTH's utterly stellar Die Slow (more on that later, probably), which reminds me a little of Molko et al's Pure Morning (both sort-of-motorik droney dynamic stompy things etc) put through a big Kevin Shields blissout metalgrinder (or something). I dug out my copy of Placebo's second album - the one I used to love when I was a similar kind of OTT and indiekiddish to how I am lately actually, only then I had an excuse - and have been listening to the title track quite a lot whilst wandering round town over the past few days. I know it's incredibly uncool to like Placebo, and they did kind of steal Scarfo's sound in the early days of their existence, blah blah blah, but this song really is quite brilliant in a hugely overdramatic, teenage-sulk sort of way (and I do like that sort of thing, you may have noticed). The spidery, slightly atonal intro is gothic in a silvery, Siouxsie sort of way, and the percussion is pleasingly wide-open and vaguely Pink Floydesque. The production is almost Steve Lillywhite-levels of night-sky cinematic, which I always find exciting. Molko's lyrics hardly constitute the most eloquent offerings in pop music, but the fact that the song builds up to such a simple and universally affecting refrain works really rather spectacularly, especially with such a huge cascading riff. The effect is similar to the moment in Gary Numan's Are "Friends" Electric when the guitars kick in and everything comes crashing down, a huge sobbing kind of release.. I'll stand up for this record regardless. The less said about everything they did after that album the better, though.

So, um, yes. I really am frightfully bored. What are you going to do about it?

Friday Youtube Corner With Jojo

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:30:42 GMT

Simian Mobile Disco + Gruff Rhys = glorious shiny-bright pop song that sounds not unlike the Peel Session version of Television Satellite by Sophie & Peter Johnston (one of my finds of the year):

XTC's stunning Love On A Farmboy's Wages (from the At Home With.. series):

Lovely big sulky super-8 nindiepop from The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, who sound like they should come from mid-eighties Scotland and not 2009 New York:

Vivien Goldman's fantastic kitchensink groove Launderette (I love her deadpan delivery):

GIRLS! DON'T! COUNT! Section 25's brutal mechanical masterpiece:

And finally, Adam Buxton explores the themes and ideas of the seminal filmic work Ratatouille:

As it is so it goes so it went. Hey guys BLACK PLASTIC's tonight! *jumps up and down*

REPORTAGE - OFFSET

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:52:15 GMT

SUPER DIY FUN TIMES ONLY SLIGHTLY SHODDY BLACK PLASTIC OFFSET PODCAST UP!

Get it here

Featuring interviews with Top Italo DJ Chris Flatline, An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump and Jeremy Kerr from A Certain Ratio, plus lots of drunken giggling and stupid questions.

BLACK PLASTIC 8

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:08:43 GMT

Schwefelgelb

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:33:17 GMT

Yeah so anyway! Have you heard this? I absolutely love it even though it's quite ridiculous. Presets meets DAF punchy shouty synthy loveliness:

They are playing on Sunday along with the excellent No Kisses at this. I will be there and you should too!

Black Plastic 7 17/07/09

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:17:41 GMT

Jo Cliché
Siouxsie & the Banshees – Arabian Nights
Make Up – I am Pentagon
Death in Vegas – Ein Für Die Damen
Whitey – YUH2BM
Liars – Grown Men Don’t Fall In The River, Just Like That
Chrome – Meet You In The Subway
Colder – Wrong Baby
Adult. – Pressure Suit
Sparks – La Dolce Vita
Metronomy – On Dancefloors

Suicide Ally
DAF – Der Rauber und der Prinz
Marianne Faithfull – Sex With Strangers
ARE Weapons – Don’t Be Scared
Le Tigre – Hot Topic
David Bowie – Be My Wife
Suede – Heroine
Ladytron – Another Breakfast with You
Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express
Adult. – Blank Eyed, Nose Bleed

Chris Damage
Soft Cell – Memorabilia
Death in June – The Calling Mk II
Heaven 17 – Fascist Groove Thing
Paul Hardcastle – Nineteen
Zeigenbock Kopf – Sex With a Man
Cranes – [?]
Duran Duran – [?]
The Cure – Play for Today
Jesus & Mary Chain – Sidewalking
Curve – Ten Little Girls
Kylie – Come Into My World (Fischerspooner mix)
Dave Clark – What Was Her Name?
Nitzer Ebb – Let Your Body Learn
Spandau Ballet – Highly Strung
Japan – Adolescent Sex

Jo Cliché
Daft Punk – Face to Face
Talking Heads – Girlfriend is Better
Gossip – Heavy Cross
Fad Gadget – Love Parasite
LCD Soundsystem – Tribulations
Gang of Four – To Hell with Poverty
Telex – Moskow Diskow
Sparks – Beat the Clock
La Roux – In for the Kill (Lifelike mix)
Long Blondes – Century
Depeche Mode – World in my Eyes
New Order – Perfect Kiss 12”
Tiga – Shoes
CSS – Alala (Billion Dollar DJs mix)

Suicide Ally
Visage – Fade to Grey
Simple Minds – I Travel
Strawberry Switchblade – Jolene
MSTRKRFT – She’s Good for Business
Bis – Eurodisco
PSB – Left to My Own Devices
Vicious Pink – Cccan’t You See
Annie – Chewing Gum
Saint Etienne – Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Elastica – Vaseline
Le Tigre – Deceptacon
Tatu – How Soon is Now?
Miss Kittin – Rippin Kittin
Human League – Seconds

Dellamorte
Smiths – Ask
Poney Pony Runn Run – Hey You (Dance mix)
MGMT – Kids (Pet Shop Boys mix)
The Hood Internet – Bitches
Dragonette – The Boys
Friendly Fires – Paris (Aeroplane vs Vipolva mix)
Bananarama – Venus
Royksopp – Girl + Robot
Pet Shop Boys – Always in my House
Aha – Take on Me (Twelve mix)
ABC – Look of Love (Part 1)
OMD – Enola Gay
Gossip – Heavy Cross
Sneaky Sound System – I Love It (Riot In Belgium Mix)
Smiths – Girlfriend in a Coma (Codex mix)
Gossip – Listen Up
Blondie – Hanging on the Telephone

Ally & Jo
Death from Above 1979 – Romantic Rights (Erol Alkan’s Love From Below mix)
Gang of Four – At Home He Feels Like a Tourist
Bush Tetras – Too Many Creeps
Pulp – Party Hard
Rapture – I Need Your Love
Depeche Mode – Everything Counts
A Split Second – Flesh
KLF – 3am Eternal
Associates – Party Fears Two
Aha – Sun Always Shines on TV
Faint – Glass Danse
Frankie – Two Tribes
Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill
Siouxsie & the Banshees – Cities in Dust
Tubeway Army – Are Friends Electric?

OMG an ARP

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:16:46 GMT

Back by popular demand:

Now, there are several reasons why I believe this to be the best image on the internet.

1. It is deeply reminiscent to my mind of René Magritte's seminal surrealist painting Time Transfixed (La Durée Poignardée, 1938), in which immediately familiar and otherwise mundane objects are posed in a seperately familiar setting but in such a way as to subvert the mundanity of the seperate elements of the image and thus render it an ultimately extremely uncanny image in order to present the mystery in the tension between all objects in the world no matter how normal or commonplace they may be. The cat's expression can be seen as either a zen-like state of calm or deep fear; it is emblematic of the confusion and despair of mankind as a whole, frozen in the headlights at the possibility of higher, more mystical understanding (which is exemplified by the magical (yet still recognisable) sound-machine and the sparkling yet desolate wilderness of open space). It is surely no coincidence that the ARP model chosen in this Hamiltonesque neopop-Dada meisterwerk is the Odyssey.*
2. It is offered (usually) without explanation, as all great artistic works must be, so as to avoid the sheer arrogance of imposing the artist's views as to how to interpret the work on the viewer.
3. It is of a cat.
4. It involves a synthesiser.
5. It is in space.

*This ~~may be~~ definitely is a load of bollocks that I just made up

Urgent plea

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:41:59 GMT

We have to get our stuff out of the exhibition space by 6pm sharp today and I'm not going to be able to make it due to work - is there anyone out there who might be able to go and collect it for me from Village Underground off Commercial Street? Eternal love and gratitude offered in return! One of my prints was really quite expensive to get done and I'd really not like to lose it :/

Brave Exhibitions 05/07/09

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:00:02 GMT

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

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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.

Final show malarkey

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:54:40 GMT

Does anyone know of any photocopy places in London that are open late/on weekends?

Rock Steady 19/06/09

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:35:18 GMT

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

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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?

£5 Fringe Launch Party at the Boogaloo 15/06/09

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:43:35 GMT

A fun night, some ace comedians and free Pimm's/cider - Marvellous. The brief was party-oriented indie/pop so I duly obliged:

Annie - Chewing Gum
Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper
Aztec Camera - Oblivious
Kelley Polar - Entropy Reigns (In The Celestial City)
Chromeo - Needy Girl
Luke Haines - Off My Rocker
Pulp - Death II
Sugababes - Easy
Dandy Warhols - We Used To Be Friends
Le Tigre - Slideshow At Free University
Datarock - I Used To Dance WIth My Daddy
Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better
Hercules & Love Affair - You Belong
Girls Aloud - Call The Shots
Smiths - Barbarism Begins At Home
Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood
Can - I Want More
Associates - Love Hangover
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[The acts]
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Roisin Murphy - Let Me Know
Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
Pulp - Countdown
Tok Tok Vs Soffy O - Missy Queen's Gonna Die (Martini Bros Mix)
The Departure - All Mapped Out
Hot Chip - My Piano
Cut Copy - Lights And Music
New Order - Temptation
Duran Duran - Planet Earth
LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Cities In Dust
Sparks - Beat The Clock
Soulwax - NY Excuse
Mystery Jets - Two Doors Down
Smiths - William, It Was Really Nothing
Metronomy - Heartbreaker
Gossip - Listen Up!
Human League - Do Or Die
Robyn - With Every Heartbeat
Electric 6 - Danger! High Voltage!
Pulp - Party Hard
Heaven 17 - Temptation
La Roux - Quicksand
Prince - When Doves Cry
Ladytron - Playgirl (Zombie Nation Remix)
Long Blondes - Century
Japan - Cantonese Boy
Haircut 100 - Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)
ABC - Show Me
Bronski Beat - Small Town Boy
(& A small part of Orgasm Addict by the Buzzcocks before the sound was cut)

REMEMBER BITCHES

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:58:24 GMT

Procrastination ENDGAME

Sat, 16 May 2009 16:40:34 GMT

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.

RELAUNCH

Wed, 13 May 2009 14:15:43 GMT

MORE DETAILS SOON!

Rock Steady 17/04/09

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:05:36 GMT

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

Black Plastic 6 04/04/09

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:21:34 GMT

[Jo]
Ultravox - Astradyne
Simon Bookish - Portrait of the Artist as a Fountain
Grauzone - Film 2
Tuxedomoon - What Use
John Ruth - Goodbye
Wire - Map Ref 41N 93W
Joy Division - Komakino
Violets - Troubles of Keneat

[Ally]
Meat Beat Manifesto - Asbestos Lead Asbestos
Poni Hoax - Budapest
Digitalism vs Cure - Fire in Cairo
Ladytron - Black Plastic
Whitey - Stay on the Outside
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Honeybear
David Bowie - Breaking Glass

[Jo]
Ruth - Thriller
Sophie & Peter Johnson - Television Satellite (Peel Session Version)
Zoot Woman - Living in a Magazine
Luke Haines - Off my Rocker
A Certain Ratio - Flight
Chris & Cosey - Walking Through Heaven
Dungen - Panda <- Tom for a bit
Ciccone Youth - Into the Groove(y)
New Order - Hurt
Kraftwerk - Aerodynamik

[Ally]
Severed Heads - Dead Eyes Opened
Dragonette - I Get Around (Midnight Juggernauts remix)
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
Girls Aloud - The Show
Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Clio - Faces
Duran Duran - The Chauffeur
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Siobhan Fahey - Bitter Pill
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - Daisy Chain 4 Satan

[Jo]
LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous (Soulwax Mix)
Simple Minds - I Travel
Depeche Mode - World in my Eyes
Sneaker Pimps - Bloodsport
Medium Medium - Hungry So Angry
Gossip - Listen Up
Sylvester - Do You Wanna Funk?
Pulp - Death II

[Ally]
Strawberry Switchblade - Jolene
La Roux - Quicksand
Beats International - Dub Be Good to Me
Golden Boy - Rippin Kittin
Uffie - Hot Chick
Rapture - I Need Your Love
White Town - Your WOman
Pulp - Party ard
Curve - Fait
MSTRKRFT - She's Good for Business

[Tom]
J. G. Thirwell - Warm Leatherette
Neu! - Hallogallo ( Mary Hill edit)
Adult. - Contagious
The Organ - Brother
B-52's - 52 Girls
New order - The Village
Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
Grauzone - Eisbär
Ten Benson - Rock Cottage
Can - Moonshake
Bauhaus - Dark Entries
The Associates - Skipping
The Bug/Human League - Sound of the Poison Dart (Scissorkicks Mindmeld)
Ministry - The Light Pours Out of Me
Killing Joke - Eighties
Ganf of Four - At Home He's a Tourist

[Ally & Jo]
Associates _- Club Country
Presets - Talk Like That
Faint - Glass Danse
Felix da Housecat - Madame Hollywood (Ursula 1000 mix)
Peaches - Lovertits
Human League - Love Action
Santogold - Creator
Chromeo - Needy Girl (Lifelike mix)
Fockewulf 190 - Gitano
Robyn - Every Heartbeat
Aha - Sun Always Shines on TV
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
Primitives - Crash
Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric

Team Black Plastic @ Future Brain, 03/04/09

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:57:51 GMT

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

Goodness me

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:31:32 GMT

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

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:57:54 GMT

BLACK.PLASTIC 6 is in just ONE WEEK!!

(click flyer to see reverse)

I am, of course, hideously overexcited. BE THERE OR BE DEAD!