The Loneliness of the Long Winded DJ
It occurs to me that I used to post setlists and event recaps in here all the time. In the interest of posting more in LJ and just generally being consistent, I am going to post a buttload (they did not actually come from my butt) of setlists from a slew (nor did they come from a slough) of past events as well as a generic recap of the past year or so of those events.
So [generic club] went well/not great/fantastic. We had a decent turnout/a disappointing turnout/an amazing turnout. All of the DJs spun great/depressing/boring/superawesome sets. I am pleased/displeased with my song selections. I had a few/did not have any technical hiccups. I played this one song and it totally packed/killed the dancefloor. Fun was had by all/everyone hates us. You should totally come to our next event! Here's what we played at [generic club];
Dancing Ghosts Presents Let's Dance: A Tribute to David Bowie, January 2010
Orko
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Roxy Music - 2HB
Suede - My Dark Star
David Bowie - Sound and Vision
Brian Eno - Third Uncle
David Bowie - I Have Not Been to Oxford Town
Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing
Nine Inch Nails - Closer
Placebo - Taste in Men
Brian Eno - Baby’s on Fire
David Bowie - Cat People (Putting Out the Fire)
Muse - Time is Running Out
T.Rex - Hot Love
Goldfrapp - Ooh La La
David Bowie - John, I’m Only Dancing
Xander
Adam Ant - Wonderful
David Bowie - Golden Years
Suede - So Young
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Through the Looking Glass
Nina Hagen - New York, NY
Klaus Nomi - Falling in Love Again
David Bowie - Modern Love
The Cure - The Lovecats
David Bowie - Magic Dance
Placebo - Every You Every Me
Sage
David Bowie - Fashion
Blur - Girls and Boys
T.Rex - 20th Century Boy
Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Do You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah!)
Japan - European Son (12’’)
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel (request)
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
Blondie - Rapture
Duran Duran - Fame
David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
David Bowie - Time
Orko
Morrissey - Glamorous Glue
T.Rex - Get it On
David Bowie - China Girl
Pulp - Common People
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Christine
T.Rex - Ride a White Swan
Goldfrapp - Ride a White Horse
Suede - Trash
Tones on Tail - Go!
Sage
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World
Ultravox - Reap the Wild Wind
Joy Division - Shadowplay
David Bowie - Heroes
Stranglers - Midnight Summer Dream
Slade - Goodbye T’Jane (request)
Roxy Music - Do the Strand
David Bowie - Suffragette City
Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
T.Rex - Jeepster
David Bowie - Cracked Actor
David Bowie - White Light/White Heat
Xander
David Bowie - Hello Spaceboy (Pet Shop Boys remix)
Kraftwerk - Computer World
David Bowie - TVC15 (request)
Placebo - Special Needs
Suede - Beautiful Ones
David Bowie - Let’s Dance
Bauhaus - Terror Couple Kill Colonel
David Bowie - Starman
The Rolling Stones - Paint it Black
Siouxsie and the Banshees - 20th Century Boy
Bauhaus - Spirit (request)
Strangelove's 5 Year Anniversary 02/05/2010
First Set
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Monitor
Depeche Mode - Lie to Me
Human League - The Things That Dreams are Made of
Book of Love - I Touch Roses
Martin L. Gore - Compulsion
Pet Shop Boys - Two Divided By Zero
Assemblage 23 - Spark
Depeche Mode - John the Revelator
VNV Nation - Chrome
Goldfrapp - Rocket (Grum Remix)
Wolfsheim - Find You're Gone
Second Set
Depeche Mode - People Are People
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kiss Them For Me
Depeche Mode - Halo /Request
Microchip League - New York, New York
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Christine (Request)
Chameleons - Up the Down Escalator
Joy Division - She's Lost Control
Camouflage - The Great Commandment
Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia, My Reflection
Third Set
Nine Inch Nails - Down In It
Skinny Puppy - Worlock
Depeche Mode - Fly on the Windscreen
Nine Inch Nails - Get Down Make Love
Skinny Puppy - Spasmolytic
Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People
PTP - Rubber Glove Seduction
Azzido Da Bass - Lonely By Your Side
Covenant - I Am
Royksopp - What Else Is There?
New Order - Your Silent Face
Maps - It Will Find You
Spleen United - Failure 1977
Nine Inch Nails - Only
Final Set
Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope
Nine Inch Nails - The Hand that Feeds
the Faint - Paranoiattack
the Presets - A New Sky
Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
Goose - Bring it On
Revolting Cocks - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
Snog - The Ballad
Little Boots - New In Town (Golden Filter remix)
Pigface - Suck
Dancing Ghosts Presents A Tribute To Dead Can Dance, March 2010
Orko
Dead Can Dance - Saffron
Ivoux - Koturine
Rachel Goswell - Plucked (Ulrich Schnauss remix)
Dead Can Dance - Yulunga (Spirit Dance)
Bat For Lashes - Glass
Cocteau Twins - Ivo
Dead Can Dance - Enigma of the Absolute
Delirium - Twilight
Hearts of Black Science - Serene
Dead Can Dance - The Carnival is Over
Xander
This Mortal Coil - Dreams Made Flesh
Tulku - Meena Devi (Goddess)
Le Mystere de Voix Bulgares - The Voyage
Dead Can Dance - As the Bell Rings the Maypole Spins
Loreena McKennitt - Marco Polo
Lisa Gerrard - Tell it From the Mountain
Cocteau Twins - Serpentskin
Death in June - Break the Black Ice
Dead Can Dance - Avatar
Faith and the Muse - Through the Pale Door
Sage
Lunascape - Lane Navachi
Goldfrapp - Utopia
Dead Can Dance - Radharc
The Glove - Orgy
Bel Canto - Spider Dust
The Creatures - So Unreal
Dead Can Dance - Threshold
Danielle Dax - Fizzing Human Bomb
Cocteau Twins - Shallow than Halo
Cranes - Reverie
Clan of Xymox - Agonized by Love
Dead Can Dance - Advent
This Ascension - Swandive
This Mortal Coil - Sixteen Days/Gathering Dust
Xander
Dead Can Dance - The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove request
Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke - The Human Game
Bel Canto - Shimmering, Warm and Bright
Dead Can Dance - Mesmerism
Cranes - Beautiful Friend
Cocteau Twins - Summerhead
Dead Can Dance - Carnival of Light
Faith and the Muse - Shattered in Aspect
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dizzy
Orko
Dead Can Dance - Spirit
Bat for Lashes - Daniel
The Big Pink - Velvet
Dead Can Dance - Ulysses
The Cure - Burn
Curve - Horror Head
Dead Can Dance - American Dreaming
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
Sage
The Mission - Tower of Strength
Dead Can Dance - Black Sun
Danielle Dax - Pariah
Love Club - Corpses in the Sand request
Dead Can Dance - The Trial
Cocteau Twins - Wax and Wane
Bauhaus - King Volcano
Dead Can Dance - Cantara
Dancing Ghosts' World Goth Day Party, May 2010
Xander
45 Grave - Party Time
Shadow Project - Holy Holy
The Birthday Party - Mr. Clarinet
Virgin Prunes - Sweethome Under White Clouds
Sex Gang Children - Power Waits
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Metal Postcard
Bauhaus - Dancing
Alien Sex Fiend - Clockwork Banana, Banana Moon
Ministry - I’m Falling
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Talk About the Weather
The Bolshoi - She Don’t Know
The March Violets - Walk Into the Sun
The Sisters of Mercy - No Time to Cry
Christian Death - Spectre
Orko
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Only Dreaming
The Gun Club - Sex Beat
The Chameleons - Second Skin
Dead Can Dance - Threshold
Christian Death - The Drowning
UK Decay - For Madmen Only
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Happy House
The Cure - A Short Term Effect
Modern English - Someone’s Calling
Joy Division - Disorder
The March Violets - Steam
Sex Gang Children - Dieche
Cocteau Twins - Lorelei
Sage
Bel Canto - Shimmering, Warm & Bright request
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Arabian Knights
The Mission - Wasteland
Kommunity FK - Something Inside Me Has Died
Clan of Xymox - No Words request
Bauhaus - Stigmata Martyr
Christian Death - Figurative Theatre
Misfits - London Dungeon
Lords of the New Church - Dance With Me
The Sisters of Mercy - Alice
Specimen - Dead Man’s Autochop
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
Xander
Alien Sex Fiend - Now I’m Feeling Zombified
Gitane Demone - My Classic Ego
Xmal Deutschland - Matador
Dead Can Dance - Carnival of Light
The Creatures - Dancing on Glass request
Cocteau Twins - Aikea-Guinea
The Cure - Primary request
Clan of Xymox - Louise
Bauhaus - The Passion of Lovers
The Legendary Pink Dots - Blacklist request
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Weeping Song
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dazzle
Sage
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi’s Dead
Nina Hagen - Born in Xixax request
Danielle Dax - Fizzing Human Bomb request
Christian Death - Romeo’s Distress request
Captain Sensible and the Softies - Jet Boy, Jet Girl
Misfits - Die, Die My Darling
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Into the Light request
The Sisters of Mercy - Marian
The Tear Garden - Romulus and Venus request
Death in June - The Calling request
Fields of the Nephilim - Preacher Man
Bauhaus - Silent Hedges
Orko
Virgin Prunes - Pagan Lovesong request
Specimen - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Cocteau Twins - Garlands
The Cure - Cold
The Birthday Party - Release the Bats
Alien Sex Fiend - E.S.T. (Trip to the Moon) request
Modern English - Gathering Dust
The Cure - A Forest
Blacklist - Pure Joy in My Heart
Tones on Tail - Go!
Dancing Ghosts Present Hymn For The Fallen, June 2010
Orko
Halou - I’ll Carry You
Craig Armstrong featuring Elizabeth Fraser - This Love
Chapterhouse - Mesmerise
jj - Ecstacy
Bat for Lashes - Glass
Brendan Perry - Babylon
The National - Brainy
The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief
Hooverphonic - Sarangi
Cocteau Twins - My Love Paramour
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Red Light
Blonde Redhead - Silently
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher Than the Stars (Saint Etienne Rmx)
Xander
Röyksopp - In Space
Delerium - Terra Firma
Helium Vola - Nummus
Qntal - Ad Mortem Festinamus
Dead Can Dance - The Spider’s Stratagem
Bel Canto - The Suffering
The Cure - One More Time
Cocteau Twins - Persephone
Joy Division - She’s Lost Control request
Xymox - Twisted
Sage
Death in June - Giddy Giddy Carousel
Bauhaus - King Volcano
The Legendary Pink Dots - The More it Changes
Cranes - Beautiful Friend
Miranda Sex Garden - Cover My Face
The Sisters of Mercy - Poison Door request
Faith and the Muse - Sparks
My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
The Horrors - Three Decades request
The Church - Ripple
Curve - Coast is Clear request
Orko
Lush - For Love
The Legendary Pink Dots - Blacklist
Cocteau Twins - Kookaburra
Christian Death - The Drowning
Pixies - Velouria
Joy Division - Digital
Danielle Dax - Big Hollow Man
The Cure - Disintegration
Peter Murphy - Final Solution
45 Grave - Phantoms
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dazzle
Sage
The Sisters of Mercy - Marian
The Chameleons - Second Skin
New Order - Ceremony
Bauhaus - She’s in Parties
Cocteau Twins - Garlands request
Virgin Prunes - Ulakanakulot/Decline and Fall
Love and Rockets - The Light
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Do You Love Me?
Xymox - Evelyn request
Christian Death - This Glass House request
Specimen - Dead Man’s Autochop
Lene Lovich - It’s You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)
Nina Hagen - Born in Xixax
Xander
Cocteau Twins - Peppermint Pig request
Cranes - Can’t Get Free
Faye Wong - Impatience
Bel Canto - Shimmering, Warm and Bright
Delerium - Flowers Become Screens
This Mortal Coil - Drugs
The Cure - Doubt
Chameleons - Swamp Thing
Felt - Primitive Painters
Dead Can Dance - Nierika
Strangelove's Tribute to Skinny Puppy, July 2010
First Set
Skinny Puppy - Rodent
Pig - Scumsberg
Bat for Lashes - A Forest
Lead into Gold - Faster than Light
Clan of Xymox - Medusa
Massive Attack - Black Milk
Cyberaktif - Nothing Stays
Depeche Mode - It’s No Good
Second Set
Skinny Puppy - Worlock
KMFDM - Godlike
Placebo - Taste in Men
Revolting Cocks - Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?
Goldfrapp - Train
Azzido Da Bass - Lonely By Your Side
Skinny Puppy - Testure
Edge of Dawn - Beyond the Gate
New Order - True Faith
Ladytron - Ghosts
Third Set
Cocteau Twins - Wax and Wane
Royksopp - What Else Is There?
Skinny Puppy - Human Disease (SKUMM) Request
The Legendary Pink Dots - Blacklist
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting Request
Depeche Mode - Halo
Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope
Sisters of Mercy - Dominion
Tones on Tail - Christian Says
Dancing Ghosts Presents A Tribute To The Legendary Pink Dots & Tear Garden
Xander
The Legendary Pink Dots - New Tomorrow
The Legendary Pink Dots - Hotel Noir
The Legendary Pink Dots - Cheraderama
Current 93 - A Gothic Lovesong (for N)
Fire and Ice - Blood on the Snow
The Legendary Pink Dots - Ampitheatre
Orko
Brendan Perry - Wintersun
The Legendary Pink Dots - Straight On Til Morning
Tricky - Ponderosa
Twilight Circus Dub Soundsystem - Horsie
The Legendary Pink Dots - Damien
Iamamiwhoami - T
Tomas Diablo
Rome - Wir Gotter Der Stadt
The Legendary Pink Dots - Tower Five
Brian Eno - Baby’s On Fire
The Legendary Pink Dots - Pennies For Heaven
Bauhaus - She’s In Parties
Alien Sex Fiend - I Walk the Line
Xander
Fad Gadget - Lady Shave
Edward Ka-Spel - Atomic Roses
The Tear Garden - Romulus and Venus
Gary Numan - Films
Death in June - Break the Black Ice
The Legendary Pink Dots - Remember Me This Way
The Legendary Pink Dots - When Lenny Meets Lorca
Orko
Doubting Thomas - I.D.L.
The Legendary Pink Dots - Dissonance
The Glove - Mouth to Mouth
The Legendary Pink Dots - Citadel
Cyberaktif - Nothing Stays
Skinny Puppy - Shore Lined Poison
Tomas Diablo
Nine Inch Nails - Down In It
The Tear Garden - In Search of My Rose
The Legendary Pink Dots - Casting The Runes
The Sisters of Mercy - Nine While Nine
The Legendary Pink Dots - Under Glass
Nitzer Ebb - Lightning Man
The Legendary Pink Dots - Zoo
Kraftwerk - Das Model
Xander
The Tear Garden - Desert Island Disc
The Legendary Pink Dots - Curious Guy
Coil - Love’s Secret Domain
Bauhaus - In Fear of Fear
Clan of Xymox - Back Door
The Tear Garden - Ophelia request
Swans - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Orko
The Legendary Pink Dots - Hellsville request
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dazzle request
Florence and the Machine - Blinding
The Legendary Pink Dots - Belladona request
The Knife - We Share Our Mothers Health
The Tear Garden - Valium
Joy Division - Disorder
The Cure - Primary
The Legendary Pink Dots - Blacklist
Tomas
Altered Images - Happy Birthday
The Tear Garden - Sheila Liked the Rodeo
The Legendary Pink Dots - Just a Lifetime
P.I.L. - Order of Death
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
The Legendary Pink Dots - The More It Changes
Bel Canto - Intravenous
Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours
And finally....
Dancing Ghosts' 4AD 30th Anniversary Party
Xander
Psychotik Tanks - Let’s Have a Party
Mass - You and I
The The - Song Without an Ending
The Birthday Party - The Friend Catcher
Sort Sol - Marble Station
Pieter Nooten and Michael Brook - Searching
Dif Juz - Re
Cocteau Twins - Pale Clouded White
This Mortal Coil - Dreams Made Flesh
Pale Saints - Featherframe
Lush - Desire Lines
Orko
Zola Jesus - Night
Brendan Perry - The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Cocteau Twins - Pitch the Baby
Mojave 3 - Who Do You Love
The National - Brainy
Pixies - No. 13 Baby
Clan of Xymox - Medusa
Blonde Redhead - Here Sometimes
The Big Pink - Too Young to Love
O Children - Ruins
Chameleons - In Shreds
Tindersticks - Rented Rooms
Fact.50
This Mortal Coil - Not Me
Throwing Muses - Not Too Soon
Pale Saints - Throwing Back the Apple
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dazzle request
Bauhaus - Stigmata Martyr
TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me
Cocteau Twins - Blood Bitch
This Mortal Coil - 16 Days-Gathering Dust
Xmal Deutschland - Hand in Hand
The Past Seven Days - Radiance
Clan of Xymox - Back Door
Visage - I’m Still Searching
Peter Murphy - Crystal Wrists
Vernian Process - Vagues De Vapeur
Xander
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
The Breeders - Cannonball
Cocteau Twins - Carolyn’s Fingers
Dead Can Dance - Carnival of Light
Bauhaus - Nerves
Xmal Deutschland - Incubus Succubus II
The Wolfgang Press - Going South
Clan of Xymox - No Human Can Drown request
This Mortal Coil - Strength of Strings request
Cocteau Twins - Lorelei request
Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke - The Human Game
Beirut - Scenic World
Belly - Feed the Tree
Orko
Lush - For Love
Siouxsie and the Bansees - Kiss them For Me
The Big Pink - Velvet request
Christian Death - Romeo’s Distress request
Danielle Dax - Whistling for His Love
Pixies - Velouria
Modern English - Someone’s Calling
Cocteau Twins - Orange Appled request
Florence and the Machine - Heavy in Your Arms
Massive Attack - Black Milk
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Fact.50
Chameleons - Swamp Thing
Cranes - Beautiful Friend
Echo and the Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses
Love and Rockets - So Alive
Pixies - Gigantic
Clan of Xymox - Muscoviet Mosquito
Dead Can Dance - Cantara request
Little Nemo - The 15th
Cold Cave - Youth and Lust
Modern English - I Melt With You
Frazier Chorus - Typical
The Legendary Pink Dots - Blacklist request
The Birthday Party - Mr. Clarinet
Pixies - Where is My Mind?
That about catches me up, I think, save for a spot at Villainy, the setlist of which doesn't exist. But I can assure you, I rocked the fuck out of that crowd. Hell yes. (Okay, probably not.)
Honestly, Dancing Ghosts is pretty much moving from strength to strength nowadays. We seem to have a very loyal following that appreciates what we've tried to do; sort of fill the void left by Dark Sparkle and be one of SF's true, pure old-school goth clubs ie; no EBM/power noise/whatever all the stompy kids are into these days (which isn't to disparage either Death Guild or Strangelove of course, which are both obviously great clubs, but they hew more towards the synthpoppy and industrial sides of things than we do) and I have to say, it's pretty damn nice being a part of a reasonably successful event. I'd had brief tastes of it before with both Compulsion and Shark Attack, but it was never consistent like it seems to be with Dancing Ghosts. Here's hoping it continues this way. We certainly can't afford to get complacent or cocky.
The only thing I find a bit disappointing is that Dancing Ghosts' success hasn't really yielded all that many guest DJ spots for me. I largely blame myself of course. I simply don't go out as much as I used to. I could blame this on living in the East Bay, but the truth is I had all but stopped going out while I lived in SF. Then again, even if I did go out, I am really, really bad at self-promoting. I mean, tragically, epically, astoundingly bad. So it wouldn't really matter if I was at every possible club every night of the week. I'd still be the socially anxious guy standing against the wall, nursing a drink looking all awkward. It's not like I'd be hobnobbing or schmoozing the promoters. I guess I kind of (not so) secretly (and totally unrealistically) hoped that people would see that Dancing Ghosts was doing well and would be all "omg, we HAVE to get those DJs to spin at OUR club!!!" Which is absurd since in all my years of DJing and promoting, I've never known it to work that way.
But dammit, while I love old-school goth and deathrock, I really want to spin electro and indie again! Oh well.
One cool thing is that I'll be DJing Wumpskate in San Jose in November. I'm pretty excited about this since I'll get to bust out some EBM and synthpop, which will be a nice change of pace. I just need to figure out how the hell I'm going to get there and back. I have no clue why the fuck I thought living in the East Bay without a car would be a good idea. *sigh*
Jeez, this entry turned into a total self-pity party. Sorry about that. On a slightly more uplifting note (well, uplifting for me, as I sincerely doubt this news will impact your day at all) I'm SUPER close to switching to laptop DJing, and to that point am considering purchasing this mixer, which is absurdly cheap on Amazon. I can't really afford it, but maybe I can just start claiming DJ income and write it off as a business expense, hehe.
So [generic club] went well/not great/fantastic. We had a decent turnout/a disappointing turnout/an amazing turnout. All of the DJs spun great/depressing/boring/superawesome sets. I am pleased/displeased with my song selections. I had a few/did not have any technical hiccups. I played this one song and it totally packed/killed the dancefloor. Fun was had by all/everyone hates us. You should totally come to our next event! Here's what we played at [generic club];
Dancing Ghosts Presents Let's Dance: A Tribute to David Bowie, January 2010
Orko
David Bowie - Space Oddity
Roxy Music - 2HB
Suede - My Dark Star
David Bowie - Sound and Vision
Brian Eno - Third Uncle
David Bowie - I Have Not Been to Oxford Town
Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing
Nine Inch Nails - Closer
Placebo - Taste in Men
Brian Eno - Baby’s on Fire
David Bowie - Cat People (Putting Out the Fire)
Muse - Time is Running Out
T.Rex - Hot Love
Goldfrapp - Ooh La La
David Bowie - John, I’m Only Dancing
Xander
Adam Ant - Wonderful
David Bowie - Golden Years
Suede - So Young
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Through the Looking Glass
Nina Hagen - New York, NY
Klaus Nomi - Falling in Love Again
David Bowie - Modern Love
The Cure - The Lovecats
David Bowie - Magic Dance
Placebo - Every You Every Me
Sage
David Bowie - Fashion
Blur - Girls and Boys
T.Rex - 20th Century Boy
Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Do You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah!)
Japan - European Son (12’’)
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel (request)
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
Blondie - Rapture
Duran Duran - Fame
David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
David Bowie - Time
Orko
Morrissey - Glamorous Glue
T.Rex - Get it On
David Bowie - China Girl
Pulp - Common People
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Christine
T.Rex - Ride a White Swan
Goldfrapp - Ride a White Horse
Suede - Trash
Tones on Tail - Go!
Sage
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World
Ultravox - Reap the Wild Wind
Joy Division - Shadowplay
David Bowie - Heroes
Stranglers - Midnight Summer Dream
Slade - Goodbye T’Jane (request)
Roxy Music - Do the Strand
David Bowie - Suffragette City
Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
T.Rex - Jeepster
David Bowie - Cracked Actor
David Bowie - White Light/White Heat
Xander
David Bowie - Hello Spaceboy (Pet Shop Boys remix)
Kraftwerk - Computer World
David Bowie - TVC15 (request)
Placebo - Special Needs
Suede - Beautiful Ones
David Bowie - Let’s Dance
Bauhaus - Terror Couple Kill Colonel
David Bowie - Starman
The Rolling Stones - Paint it Black
Siouxsie and the Banshees - 20th Century Boy
Bauhaus - Spirit (request)
Strangelove's 5 Year Anniversary 02/05/2010
First Set
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Monitor
Depeche Mode - Lie to Me
Human League - The Things That Dreams are Made of
Book of Love - I Touch Roses
Martin L. Gore - Compulsion
Pet Shop Boys - Two Divided By Zero
Assemblage 23 - Spark
Depeche Mode - John the Revelator
VNV Nation - Chrome
Goldfrapp - Rocket (Grum Remix)
Wolfsheim - Find You're Gone
Second Set
Depeche Mode - People Are People
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kiss Them For Me
Depeche Mode - Halo /Request
Microchip League - New York, New York
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Christine (Request)
Chameleons - Up the Down Escalator
Joy Division - She's Lost Control
Camouflage - The Great Commandment
Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia, My Reflection
Third Set
Nine Inch Nails - Down In It
Skinny Puppy - Worlock
Depeche Mode - Fly on the Windscreen
Nine Inch Nails - Get Down Make Love
Skinny Puppy - Spasmolytic
Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People
PTP - Rubber Glove Seduction
Azzido Da Bass - Lonely By Your Side
Covenant - I Am
Royksopp - What Else Is There?
New Order - Your Silent Face
Maps - It Will Find You
Spleen United - Failure 1977
Nine Inch Nails - Only
Final Set
Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope
Nine Inch Nails - The Hand that Feeds
the Faint - Paranoiattack
the Presets - A New Sky
Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
Goose - Bring it On
Revolting Cocks - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
Snog - The Ballad
Little Boots - New In Town (Golden Filter remix)
Pigface - Suck
Dancing Ghosts Presents A Tribute To Dead Can Dance, March 2010
Orko
Dead Can Dance - Saffron
Ivoux - Koturine
Rachel Goswell - Plucked (Ulrich Schnauss remix)
Dead Can Dance - Yulunga (Spirit Dance)
Bat For Lashes - Glass
Cocteau Twins - Ivo
Dead Can Dance - Enigma of the Absolute
Delirium - Twilight
Hearts of Black Science - Serene
Dead Can Dance - The Carnival is Over
Xander
This Mortal Coil - Dreams Made Flesh
Tulku - Meena Devi (Goddess)
Le Mystere de Voix Bulgares - The Voyage
Dead Can Dance - As the Bell Rings the Maypole Spins
Loreena McKennitt - Marco Polo
Lisa Gerrard - Tell it From the Mountain
Cocteau Twins - Serpentskin
Death in June - Break the Black Ice
Dead Can Dance - Avatar
Faith and the Muse - Through the Pale Door
Sage
Lunascape - Lane Navachi
Goldfrapp - Utopia
Dead Can Dance - Radharc
The Glove - Orgy
Bel Canto - Spider Dust
The Creatures - So Unreal
Dead Can Dance - Threshold
Danielle Dax - Fizzing Human Bomb
Cocteau Twins - Shallow than Halo
Cranes - Reverie
Clan of Xymox - Agonized by Love
Dead Can Dance - Advent
This Ascension - Swandive
This Mortal Coil - Sixteen Days/Gathering Dust
Xander
Dead Can Dance - The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove request
Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke - The Human Game
Bel Canto - Shimmering, Warm and Bright
Dead Can Dance - Mesmerism
Cranes - Beautiful Friend
Cocteau Twins - Summerhead
Dead Can Dance - Carnival of Light
Faith and the Muse - Shattered in Aspect
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dizzy
Orko
Dead Can Dance - Spirit
Bat for Lashes - Daniel
The Big Pink - Velvet
Dead Can Dance - Ulysses
The Cure - Burn
Curve - Horror Head
Dead Can Dance - American Dreaming
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
Sage
The Mission - Tower of Strength
Dead Can Dance - Black Sun
Danielle Dax - Pariah
Love Club - Corpses in the Sand request
Dead Can Dance - The Trial
Cocteau Twins - Wax and Wane
Bauhaus - King Volcano
Dead Can Dance - Cantara
Dancing Ghosts' World Goth Day Party, May 2010
Xander
45 Grave - Party Time
Shadow Project - Holy Holy
The Birthday Party - Mr. Clarinet
Virgin Prunes - Sweethome Under White Clouds
Sex Gang Children - Power Waits
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Metal Postcard
Bauhaus - Dancing
Alien Sex Fiend - Clockwork Banana, Banana Moon
Ministry - I’m Falling
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Talk About the Weather
The Bolshoi - She Don’t Know
The March Violets - Walk Into the Sun
The Sisters of Mercy - No Time to Cry
Christian Death - Spectre
Orko
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Only Dreaming
The Gun Club - Sex Beat
The Chameleons - Second Skin
Dead Can Dance - Threshold
Christian Death - The Drowning
UK Decay - For Madmen Only
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Happy House
The Cure - A Short Term Effect
Modern English - Someone’s Calling
Joy Division - Disorder
The March Violets - Steam
Sex Gang Children - Dieche
Cocteau Twins - Lorelei
Sage
Bel Canto - Shimmering, Warm & Bright request
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Arabian Knights
The Mission - Wasteland
Kommunity FK - Something Inside Me Has Died
Clan of Xymox - No Words request
Bauhaus - Stigmata Martyr
Christian Death - Figurative Theatre
Misfits - London Dungeon
Lords of the New Church - Dance With Me
The Sisters of Mercy - Alice
Specimen - Dead Man’s Autochop
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
Xander
Alien Sex Fiend - Now I’m Feeling Zombified
Gitane Demone - My Classic Ego
Xmal Deutschland - Matador
Dead Can Dance - Carnival of Light
The Creatures - Dancing on Glass request
Cocteau Twins - Aikea-Guinea
The Cure - Primary request
Clan of Xymox - Louise
Bauhaus - The Passion of Lovers
The Legendary Pink Dots - Blacklist request
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Weeping Song
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dazzle
Sage
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi’s Dead
Nina Hagen - Born in Xixax request
Danielle Dax - Fizzing Human Bomb request
Christian Death - Romeo’s Distress request
Captain Sensible and the Softies - Jet Boy, Jet Girl
Misfits - Die, Die My Darling
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Into the Light request
The Sisters of Mercy - Marian
The Tear Garden - Romulus and Venus request
Death in June - The Calling request
Fields of the Nephilim - Preacher Man
Bauhaus - Silent Hedges
Orko
Virgin Prunes - Pagan Lovesong request
Specimen - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Cocteau Twins - Garlands
The Cure - Cold
The Birthday Party - Release the Bats
Alien Sex Fiend - E.S.T. (Trip to the Moon) request
Modern English - Gathering Dust
The Cure - A Forest
Blacklist - Pure Joy in My Heart
Tones on Tail - Go!
Dancing Ghosts Present Hymn For The Fallen, June 2010
Orko
Halou - I’ll Carry You
Craig Armstrong featuring Elizabeth Fraser - This Love
Chapterhouse - Mesmerise
jj - Ecstacy
Bat for Lashes - Glass
Brendan Perry - Babylon
The National - Brainy
The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief
Hooverphonic - Sarangi
Cocteau Twins - My Love Paramour
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Red Light
Blonde Redhead - Silently
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher Than the Stars (Saint Etienne Rmx)
Xander
Röyksopp - In Space
Delerium - Terra Firma
Helium Vola - Nummus
Qntal - Ad Mortem Festinamus
Dead Can Dance - The Spider’s Stratagem
Bel Canto - The Suffering
The Cure - One More Time
Cocteau Twins - Persephone
Joy Division - She’s Lost Control request
Xymox - Twisted
Sage
Death in June - Giddy Giddy Carousel
Bauhaus - King Volcano
The Legendary Pink Dots - The More it Changes
Cranes - Beautiful Friend
Miranda Sex Garden - Cover My Face
The Sisters of Mercy - Poison Door request
Faith and the Muse - Sparks
My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow
The Horrors - Three Decades request
The Church - Ripple
Curve - Coast is Clear request
Orko
Lush - For Love
The Legendary Pink Dots - Blacklist
Cocteau Twins - Kookaburra
Christian Death - The Drowning
Pixies - Velouria
Joy Division - Digital
Danielle Dax - Big Hollow Man
The Cure - Disintegration
Peter Murphy - Final Solution
45 Grave - Phantoms
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dazzle
Sage
The Sisters of Mercy - Marian
The Chameleons - Second Skin
New Order - Ceremony
Bauhaus - She’s in Parties
Cocteau Twins - Garlands request
Virgin Prunes - Ulakanakulot/Decline and Fall
Love and Rockets - The Light
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Do You Love Me?
Xymox - Evelyn request
Christian Death - This Glass House request
Specimen - Dead Man’s Autochop
Lene Lovich - It’s You, Only You (Mein Schmerz)
Nina Hagen - Born in Xixax
Xander
Cocteau Twins - Peppermint Pig request
Cranes - Can’t Get Free
Faye Wong - Impatience
Bel Canto - Shimmering, Warm and Bright
Delerium - Flowers Become Screens
This Mortal Coil - Drugs
The Cure - Doubt
Chameleons - Swamp Thing
Felt - Primitive Painters
Dead Can Dance - Nierika
Strangelove's Tribute to Skinny Puppy, July 2010
First Set
Skinny Puppy - Rodent
Pig - Scumsberg
Bat for Lashes - A Forest
Lead into Gold - Faster than Light
Clan of Xymox - Medusa
Massive Attack - Black Milk
Cyberaktif - Nothing Stays
Depeche Mode - It’s No Good
Second Set
Skinny Puppy - Worlock
KMFDM - Godlike
Placebo - Taste in Men
Revolting Cocks - Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?
Goldfrapp - Train
Azzido Da Bass - Lonely By Your Side
Skinny Puppy - Testure
Edge of Dawn - Beyond the Gate
New Order - True Faith
Ladytron - Ghosts
Third Set
Cocteau Twins - Wax and Wane
Royksopp - What Else Is There?
Skinny Puppy - Human Disease (SKUMM) Request
The Legendary Pink Dots - Blacklist
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting Request
Depeche Mode - Halo
Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope
Sisters of Mercy - Dominion
Tones on Tail - Christian Says
Dancing Ghosts Presents A Tribute To The Legendary Pink Dots & Tear Garden
Xander
The Legendary Pink Dots - New Tomorrow
The Legendary Pink Dots - Hotel Noir
The Legendary Pink Dots - Cheraderama
Current 93 - A Gothic Lovesong (for N)
Fire and Ice - Blood on the Snow
The Legendary Pink Dots - Ampitheatre
Orko
Brendan Perry - Wintersun
The Legendary Pink Dots - Straight On Til Morning
Tricky - Ponderosa
Twilight Circus Dub Soundsystem - Horsie
The Legendary Pink Dots - Damien
Iamamiwhoami - T
Tomas Diablo
Rome - Wir Gotter Der Stadt
The Legendary Pink Dots - Tower Five
Brian Eno - Baby’s On Fire
The Legendary Pink Dots - Pennies For Heaven
Bauhaus - She’s In Parties
Alien Sex Fiend - I Walk the Line
Xander
Fad Gadget - Lady Shave
Edward Ka-Spel - Atomic Roses
The Tear Garden - Romulus and Venus
Gary Numan - Films
Death in June - Break the Black Ice
The Legendary Pink Dots - Remember Me This Way
The Legendary Pink Dots - When Lenny Meets Lorca
Orko
Doubting Thomas - I.D.L.
The Legendary Pink Dots - Dissonance
The Glove - Mouth to Mouth
The Legendary Pink Dots - Citadel
Cyberaktif - Nothing Stays
Skinny Puppy - Shore Lined Poison
Tomas Diablo
Nine Inch Nails - Down In It
The Tear Garden - In Search of My Rose
The Legendary Pink Dots - Casting The Runes
The Sisters of Mercy - Nine While Nine
The Legendary Pink Dots - Under Glass
Nitzer Ebb - Lightning Man
The Legendary Pink Dots - Zoo
Kraftwerk - Das Model
Xander
The Tear Garden - Desert Island Disc
The Legendary Pink Dots - Curious Guy
Coil - Love’s Secret Domain
Bauhaus - In Fear of Fear
Clan of Xymox - Back Door
The Tear Garden - Ophelia request
Swans - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Orko
The Legendary Pink Dots - Hellsville request
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dazzle request
Florence and the Machine - Blinding
The Legendary Pink Dots - Belladona request
The Knife - We Share Our Mothers Health
The Tear Garden - Valium
Joy Division - Disorder
The Cure - Primary
The Legendary Pink Dots - Blacklist
Tomas
Altered Images - Happy Birthday
The Tear Garden - Sheila Liked the Rodeo
The Legendary Pink Dots - Just a Lifetime
P.I.L. - Order of Death
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
The Legendary Pink Dots - The More It Changes
Bel Canto - Intravenous
Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours
And finally....
Dancing Ghosts' 4AD 30th Anniversary Party
Xander
Psychotik Tanks - Let’s Have a Party
Mass - You and I
The The - Song Without an Ending
The Birthday Party - The Friend Catcher
Sort Sol - Marble Station
Pieter Nooten and Michael Brook - Searching
Dif Juz - Re
Cocteau Twins - Pale Clouded White
This Mortal Coil - Dreams Made Flesh
Pale Saints - Featherframe
Lush - Desire Lines
Orko
Zola Jesus - Night
Brendan Perry - The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Cocteau Twins - Pitch the Baby
Mojave 3 - Who Do You Love
The National - Brainy
Pixies - No. 13 Baby
Clan of Xymox - Medusa
Blonde Redhead - Here Sometimes
The Big Pink - Too Young to Love
O Children - Ruins
Chameleons - In Shreds
Tindersticks - Rented Rooms
Fact.50
This Mortal Coil - Not Me
Throwing Muses - Not Too Soon
Pale Saints - Throwing Back the Apple
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dazzle request
Bauhaus - Stigmata Martyr
TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me
Cocteau Twins - Blood Bitch
This Mortal Coil - 16 Days-Gathering Dust
Xmal Deutschland - Hand in Hand
The Past Seven Days - Radiance
Clan of Xymox - Back Door
Visage - I’m Still Searching
Peter Murphy - Crystal Wrists
Vernian Process - Vagues De Vapeur
Xander
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
The Breeders - Cannonball
Cocteau Twins - Carolyn’s Fingers
Dead Can Dance - Carnival of Light
Bauhaus - Nerves
Xmal Deutschland - Incubus Succubus II
The Wolfgang Press - Going South
Clan of Xymox - No Human Can Drown request
This Mortal Coil - Strength of Strings request
Cocteau Twins - Lorelei request
Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke - The Human Game
Beirut - Scenic World
Belly - Feed the Tree
Orko
Lush - For Love
Siouxsie and the Bansees - Kiss them For Me
The Big Pink - Velvet request
Christian Death - Romeo’s Distress request
Danielle Dax - Whistling for His Love
Pixies - Velouria
Modern English - Someone’s Calling
Cocteau Twins - Orange Appled request
Florence and the Machine - Heavy in Your Arms
Massive Attack - Black Milk
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Fact.50
Chameleons - Swamp Thing
Cranes - Beautiful Friend
Echo and the Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses
Love and Rockets - So Alive
Pixies - Gigantic
Clan of Xymox - Muscoviet Mosquito
Dead Can Dance - Cantara request
Little Nemo - The 15th
Cold Cave - Youth and Lust
Modern English - I Melt With You
Frazier Chorus - Typical
The Legendary Pink Dots - Blacklist request
The Birthday Party - Mr. Clarinet
Pixies - Where is My Mind?
That about catches me up, I think, save for a spot at Villainy, the setlist of which doesn't exist. But I can assure you, I rocked the fuck out of that crowd. Hell yes. (Okay, probably not.)
Honestly, Dancing Ghosts is pretty much moving from strength to strength nowadays. We seem to have a very loyal following that appreciates what we've tried to do; sort of fill the void left by Dark Sparkle and be one of SF's true, pure old-school goth clubs ie; no EBM/power noise/whatever all the stompy kids are into these days (which isn't to disparage either Death Guild or Strangelove of course, which are both obviously great clubs, but they hew more towards the synthpoppy and industrial sides of things than we do) and I have to say, it's pretty damn nice being a part of a reasonably successful event. I'd had brief tastes of it before with both Compulsion and Shark Attack, but it was never consistent like it seems to be with Dancing Ghosts. Here's hoping it continues this way. We certainly can't afford to get complacent or cocky.
The only thing I find a bit disappointing is that Dancing Ghosts' success hasn't really yielded all that many guest DJ spots for me. I largely blame myself of course. I simply don't go out as much as I used to. I could blame this on living in the East Bay, but the truth is I had all but stopped going out while I lived in SF. Then again, even if I did go out, I am really, really bad at self-promoting. I mean, tragically, epically, astoundingly bad. So it wouldn't really matter if I was at every possible club every night of the week. I'd still be the socially anxious guy standing against the wall, nursing a drink looking all awkward. It's not like I'd be hobnobbing or schmoozing the promoters. I guess I kind of (not so) secretly (and totally unrealistically) hoped that people would see that Dancing Ghosts was doing well and would be all "omg, we HAVE to get those DJs to spin at OUR club!!!" Which is absurd since in all my years of DJing and promoting, I've never known it to work that way.
But dammit, while I love old-school goth and deathrock, I really want to spin electro and indie again! Oh well.
One cool thing is that I'll be DJing Wumpskate in San Jose in November. I'm pretty excited about this since I'll get to bust out some EBM and synthpop, which will be a nice change of pace. I just need to figure out how the hell I'm going to get there and back. I have no clue why the fuck I thought living in the East Bay without a car would be a good idea. *sigh*
Jeez, this entry turned into a total self-pity party. Sorry about that. On a slightly more uplifting note (well, uplifting for me, as I sincerely doubt this news will impact your day at all) I'm SUPER close to switching to laptop DJing, and to that point am considering purchasing this mixer, which is absurdly cheap on Amazon. I can't really afford it, but maybe I can just start claiming DJ income and write it off as a business expense, hehe.