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Jane's Addiction - Stop ( Read more... )

Black Plastic is on hiatus, but I am DJing twice this weekend:

- at old skool goth and post-punk at Dead and Buried at Mother, 333 Old Street on Friday (with my DJ partner exliontamer, Cavey Nik, and live music from Gertrud Stein ( Read more... )

Poll Festive Songs

Because it's Friday and because it's Black Plastic later and because the sun is shining and because I don't feel like doing any work...

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Grimes - Be a Body

This is lovely and finally lovely Cranes-y ethereal Grimes has a song you can actually dance to!

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Soft Metals - The Cold World Melts

Lush motorik sounds.

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Kraftwerk - Radioactivity ( Read more... )

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Just a little reminder that THIS FRIDAY (June 24th), from 9pm to 3am, Jo and I will be gracing the Silver Bullet venue (Finsbury Park) with the world's finest new romantic, post punk, electro and other aural delights. Our guest DJs this month with be SEAN CLOTHIER (Feeling Gloomy) and CAROLINE VAIN (Synthetic Culture ( Read more... )

Never on Sunday is a comedic but smart half-Greek/half-American film about a prostitute, Ilya, in Piraes (near Athens). It grapples with a difficult matter regarding sex work, in that its positive towards sex workers while critical of capitalism and racketeering, and succeeds quite well. (It even has a whore strike, which is a notion that should ( Read more... )

Morning kids!

Can't wait for Black Plastic this Friday? Well in the meantime you can click here to listen to our Spotify playlist.

B.P.12 is at the Silver Bullet (opposite Finsbury Park station) from 9 'til 3 and is the newly discounted price of *£3*!  Hooray!


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Last night I made rhubarb gin and felt very industrious. I probably have no cause to feel industrious as all I did was pour half a cup of sugar and some slivers of rhubarb into an existing bottle of gin, but I do anyway. And now I have the bug to make more artisan liqueurs. Raspberry gin! Basil vodka! Or Chris's suggestion - beetroot and ( Read more... )