Riot Down Town
Right. I reckon for the next hour - an hour isn't a short period of time - we're going try and recreate a Rock Night DJ set. Like, our local student club, between nights of nigh impenetrable cheese has a full on latex suit and blue dreadlocks Rock Night. The music isn't usually to our tastes (although heaven knows, we don't actually go - even now we're barred from our actual nightspot, more anon), but we still reckon we could bring a taste of Unlixes to the occasion and play some music we like that wouldn't sound out of place. It's supposedly, metal, punk and ska - I'm sure you can imagine the combination - and we're all for a bit of, well, not really metal and definitely not ska but hey, we're punk as, us. Here's how it might go down.
Cutting Pink With Knives, I ♥ Structuralists.
Atari Teenage Riot, Rage.
Wow, looking ahead, it's been, what five minutes and we're really struggling here. We never thought we could do a whole night but we reckoned we were dead hardcore enough for an hour...
Infants, Firetruck Theme.
Pre, Let Me Touch Him.
Lovvers, White Lines.
(Those who actually read No, Really (hi mum) will notice that these are the bands that constantly crop up next to each others names anyway. We are clearly the punk est. Total range.)
Leaving The Fold, Contort For The Two Of Them.
Kill Kenada, Hit The Floor hit the floor hit the floooor.
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Celebrate Your Mother.
The Martini Henry Rifles, And Then We Hit A Truck.
Terrafirma, Losing My Grip.
The problem we have, of course, whenever we look to play records we actually like to a crowd is that going out dancing is best when you know someof the songs. Does anyone here listen to music like this on nights out? Would you know those bands? How about these?
Todd, Good Neighbourhood what the fuck have you done?.
Aereogramme, Shouting For Joey.
yourcodenameis:milo, All Roads To Fault.
The Dillinger Escape Plan, Come To Daddy.
(Is that cheating? Oh well, time for one last song...)
Ex Models, What We Want We Want (We Want We Want).
Okay, bit of a duff ending, but we've not exactly got a set list and we were doing this 4 REAL so we had to just press play on something and then go with it (you can't say "hang on, nah, don't like this one, lemme see what else we've got" on the night can ya? eh? eh?). We didn't mind that set actually, though. We'd be struggling to find other songs that weren't by those bands, though. Maybe In Aurélia by Pure Reason Revolution, except the vocals are a bit more gay than the hard rockin' chords. What about Film Maker by the Coop Templers? Will they see that as too poppy? They are HARDCORE after all? In their crazy leathers and mile high boots. I bet they all listen to Queen.
Anyway, really gnarled tracks like N'Importe Quoi Pour N'Importe Qui are probably not headslam rollin' rollin' enough for a strict We Like Metallica And Maiden crowd. We could get away with Unlixes favourites like Pre because they are pretty guts out punk but Programme are more leftfield, structure and execution wise. Elsewhere, tracks like Barbarico by Snow White may have a pretty lo fi punk sound but they're actually really poppy and accessible, like The Libertines with feedback, in comparison. We reckon we could get away with Giddy Motors if we found an instant enough track, like Kapow which is all metal riffs to begin. Actually, we might be pretty well placed to play any Giddy Motors song, they're probably more what people want to hear than anything else on that list. (Even if they are still very much our type of band).
It also raises the question, is Shaken And Dragged To Shore too fucking made of metal for a metal crowd? Because it is pretty fucked up in fairness. That and Johnnydonebad, again by The Martini Henrys, which is also pretty sludgy, albeit with more riff and drum action than just giving your speakers a full pasting. Conversely, is Luger 6000, one of our favourites of that album, too wirey. We need to keep reminding ourselves it's punk, not post punk (we couldn't exactly play Bloc Party eh).
I mean, we want to play some wall to wall noise cuz we love it but is there an audience who want noise in all its forms. It'd be a pretty horrible club to visit, it's more an installation art affair. Wouldthere be any place on this list, for example, for Non-Plussed by 2nd Gen, is it too industrial and not rock at all? However, would we be able to play Kyoro by ubernoiseterrorists Xinlisupreme in the same place we could play 2nd Gen? If so, would Pink Noise or Sex Automata be acceptable? No electronics, just frayed guitars playing off key stabs of shredded noise to the beat of an epileptic metronome with tourettes.
Cutting Pink With Knives, I ♥ Structuralists.
Atari Teenage Riot, Rage.
Wow, looking ahead, it's been, what five minutes and we're really struggling here. We never thought we could do a whole night but we reckoned we were dead hardcore enough for an hour...
Infants, Firetruck Theme.
Pre, Let Me Touch Him.
Lovvers, White Lines.
(Those who actually read No, Really (hi mum) will notice that these are the bands that constantly crop up next to each others names anyway. We are clearly the punk est. Total range.)
Leaving The Fold, Contort For The Two Of Them.
Kill Kenada, Hit The Floor hit the floor hit the floooor.
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Celebrate Your Mother.
The Martini Henry Rifles, And Then We Hit A Truck.
Terrafirma, Losing My Grip.
The problem we have, of course, whenever we look to play records we actually like to a crowd is that going out dancing is best when you know someof the songs. Does anyone here listen to music like this on nights out? Would you know those bands? How about these?
Todd, Good Neighbourhood what the fuck have you done?.
Aereogramme, Shouting For Joey.
yourcodenameis:milo, All Roads To Fault.
The Dillinger Escape Plan, Come To Daddy.
(Is that cheating? Oh well, time for one last song...)
Ex Models, What We Want We Want (We Want We Want).
Okay, bit of a duff ending, but we've not exactly got a set list and we were doing this 4 REAL so we had to just press play on something and then go with it (you can't say "hang on, nah, don't like this one, lemme see what else we've got" on the night can ya? eh? eh?). We didn't mind that set actually, though. We'd be struggling to find other songs that weren't by those bands, though. Maybe In Aurélia by Pure Reason Revolution, except the vocals are a bit more gay than the hard rockin' chords. What about Film Maker by the Coop Templers? Will they see that as too poppy? They are HARDCORE after all? In their crazy leathers and mile high boots. I bet they all listen to Queen.
Anyway, really gnarled tracks like N'Importe Quoi Pour N'Importe Qui are probably not headslam rollin' rollin' enough for a strict We Like Metallica And Maiden crowd. We could get away with Unlixes favourites like Pre because they are pretty guts out punk but Programme are more leftfield, structure and execution wise. Elsewhere, tracks like Barbarico by Snow White may have a pretty lo fi punk sound but they're actually really poppy and accessible, like The Libertines with feedback, in comparison. We reckon we could get away with Giddy Motors if we found an instant enough track, like Kapow which is all metal riffs to begin. Actually, we might be pretty well placed to play any Giddy Motors song, they're probably more what people want to hear than anything else on that list. (Even if they are still very much our type of band).
It also raises the question, is Shaken And Dragged To Shore too fucking made of metal for a metal crowd? Because it is pretty fucked up in fairness. That and Johnnydonebad, again by The Martini Henrys, which is also pretty sludgy, albeit with more riff and drum action than just giving your speakers a full pasting. Conversely, is Luger 6000, one of our favourites of that album, too wirey. We need to keep reminding ourselves it's punk, not post punk (we couldn't exactly play Bloc Party eh).
I mean, we want to play some wall to wall noise cuz we love it but is there an audience who want noise in all its forms. It'd be a pretty horrible club to visit, it's more an installation art affair. Wouldthere be any place on this list, for example, for Non-Plussed by 2nd Gen, is it too industrial and not rock at all? However, would we be able to play Kyoro by ubernoiseterrorists Xinlisupreme in the same place we could play 2nd Gen? If so, would Pink Noise or Sex Automata be acceptable? No electronics, just frayed guitars playing off key stabs of shredded noise to the beat of an epileptic metronome with tourettes.