Dollhouse and Dark City
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djpsycheTopped off an insanely crazy week with two fabulous events on Friday and Saturday nights.
After a disappointing August due to the extreme heat at the Black Cat, Dollhouse was back in full swing on Friday night. It was still quite warm, but the crowd was back to its usual self and the energy was restored as well. DJ Neska did a terrific job and had a great time. A number of people asked about her. Every guest DJ we've had there has had an absolute blast, which really does lead me to objectively conclude that Dollhouse is the funnest night in town. :) I played a bunch of new-to-me stuff and got a ton of requests, of which I was able to get to about half -- the remainder either I didn't have, or couldn't fit in because I was playing other requests!
Friday 9.06.02 - Guest DJ Neska + Mission UK Giveaway
KELOWNA 9:00
Pure - Anna Is a Speed Freak
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Hold Her Down
Sugar - Helpless
Urge Overkill - Time is Over
Pixies - Debaser
Concrete Blonde - Probably Will
The Posies - Dream All Day
David Bowie - Blue Jean
Bad Religion - 21st Digital Boy
DIVA 9:30
Mephisto Walz - In the Room Where Love Exists
Siouxsie & the Banshees - The Passenger
Gitane Demone - Incendiary Lover
Shakespear's Sister - Cat Woman
Tones on Tail - Christian Says
Bauhaus - She's in Parties
Mission U.K. - Wasteland
Fields of the Nephilim - Preacher Man
NESKA 10:00
Chameleons U.K. - Swamp Thing
Echo and the Bunnymen - Bedbugs and Ballyhoo (Remix)
Love & Rockets - Haunted When the Minutes Drag
The Smiths - What She Said
The Cure - Lovecats (Remix)
Front 242 - Don't Crash
Nitzer Ebb - Join in the Chant
DIVA 10:30
Rosetta Stone - Adrenaline
Thrill Kill Kult - Sex on Wheelz
KMFDM - Godlike
London After Midnight - Kiss (RA Mix)
Rasputina - Transylvanian Concubine (Yes Sir Mr. Sir)
Ministry - Every Day is Halloween
NESKA 11:00
Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope
Public Image Ltd. - Wise *
Sisterhood - Giving Ground
The Damned - The Shadow of Love
Christian Death - Romeo's Distress
Front 242 - Headhunter
DIVA 11:30
Amiel - Meet Me in the Red Room [Get it? The Black Cat's bar is called the Red Room. Great choice Wendy.]
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Cities in Dust
Adam Ant - Strip
Modern English - I Melt With You
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
Depeche Mode - Master and Servant
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round
Real Life - Send Me an Angel
Book of Love - Boy
PSYCHE 12:00
Mission U.K. - Lay Your Hands on Me [Announcement of contest]
Danielle Dax - Big Hollow Man
Revolting Cocks - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy
Orgy - Blue Monday [I think that is fine for Dollhouse!]
Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole [Drawing held]
Gary Numan - Down in the Park *
Prince - Little Red Corvette *
Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost in You *
James - Laid [Sorry Matt!]
Soup Dragons - I'm Free [inquiry/compliment]
Die Warzau - All Good Girls
Stone Roses - Fools Gold *
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Voltaire - The Man Upstairs (Heavy Drama Mix)
Cruxshadows - Marilynn, My Bitterness
NESKA 1:00
The Cure - Jumping Someone Else's Train
Skinny Puppy - Testure
Front 242 - Welcome to Paradise *
Depeche Mode - Strangelove (Blind Mix)
Electronic - Disappointed
PSYCHE 1:30
The Clash - London Calling [For Bob & Louise]
The Smiths - How Soon is Now * [The guy who requested it, so earnestly, at Catacomb wasn't even there]
Thrill Kill Kult - Do You Fear for Your Child *
Sisters of Mercy - More * [Ack there are no short Sisters songs!]
Peter Murphy - No Home Without Its Sire *
Duran Duran - The Chauffeur [was supposed to be the last song, but the lights were still off so...]
Death in June - God's Golden Sperm
I got back some pictures Putz took of me at the Cruxshadows, when Rogue had me onstage to wish me a happy birthday and everyone was singing. Oh my gawd my smile is just WAY too huge for a goth! Must scan those soonest.
After Dollhouse we dragged Meekay to Seth's 30th b-day party, where I learned a new slogan: "Vodka before rum, very dumb." I did get to see a very old and grainy video of JIVA sounding like old Cure though. :) Happy b-day Seth, ya old (but still younger than me) fucker! It only gets better from here.
Saturday - slept most of the day (thank goddess!) and picked up a few things from Bob & Louise who are moving to London. You know you need a bigger apartment when there is no space for a full-length mirror. Groan. Went out to a belated birthday real-food dinner with Cathy (Thai), took care of a pesky problem, and then stopped by Dark City.
The night r00lz! Despite being near-dead from my crazy week, I stopped by for a few hours this evening and was greatly impressed. First, the downstairs: From Tony's description I had been led to believe it would basically be the back hallway at Catacomb with a lunch counter, and a computer playing atmospheric goth at a near-inaudible volume. Boy was I pleasantly surprised. The room is quite large, with plenty of tables and booths and its own bar, and DJ Eye.Pahd was playing a good mix of both ethereal and rhythmic goth. We've got to get him to guest DJ at Purgatorio sometime ;) It was a great place to escape to and hear great music at a lower, but certainly not background, volume. Which I unfortunately had to do after about an hour upstairs - this damn cold is just wreaking havoc on my voice box still :(
Upstairs there is a bar area with stools and a number of tables, and then the dance floor which is far larger than Catacomb's. Tim, Tony and Kangal were playing a good mix of EBM, industrial and dancey-goth. There are plenty of places to wander throughout the venue. The only possible negative things I can think of are the upstairs paint-job (ewww pastels!) and the fact that there is only one narrow set of 3 stairs leading to the dance floor, somewhat hindering ingress and egress. But that has only to do with the venue itself, and overall compared to the Meeting Place, well, there just is no comparison. It was a nice nostalgia trip to see the old Cage staff too - Jose (who had actually showered and shaved), Freddie and Toni. Thumbs way up on this terrific new event!
OK one more setlist and then I'm off to bed.
In which I was charged with the atypical task of playing stuff people know.
PSYCHE 9:00
Mors Syphilitica - Galatea
This Mortal Coil - I Want to Live
Siddal - Pontus
Ocean 8 - Fireworks
This Ascension - Mysterium [my "grounding" song - kills all nervousness of DJing in any new place!]
Faith and the Muse - Running Up That Hill
La Floa Maldita - L'Oasis
Nothing Inside - The Sweetest Revenge
The Last Dance - Flesh
Gary Numan - Dead Heaven
Sunday Munich - Scathed (Intimate Clobber Mix)
Saint Dymphna - Teeth of the Sun [part 1 of "weird" twofer]
Virgin Prunes - Come to Daddy [segue into goth-rock set]
10:00
The Wake - Sideshow
Drowning Season - Gun
Empire Hideous - Power the Empire
Ministry - Stigmata [beginning of industrial set which went over great with the bartenders]
Skinny Puppy - Testure
Interrogation - maladjusT [local D.C. act] *
Chemlab - Codeine, Glue and You *
KMFDM - Light [not Juke Joint Jezebel - Cathy vetoed]
Nine Inch Nails - Down In It (Single Version) [First bathroom break]
Snog - Hey Christian God! [compliment]
Die Warzau - All Good Girls
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kiss Them for Me [dance floor fills like clockwork]
11:00
Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection
The Cure - Lovecats *
Danielle Dax - Big Hollow Man
Fischerspooner - Emerge
The Faint - Call Call
VNV Nation - Further [beginning of sellout EBM set]
Apoptygma Berzerk - Kathy's Song (Ferry Corsten)
Apollo 440 - Don't Fear the Reaper
Deep Red - Living in Black
Fiction 8 - Let Go
Mesh - I Don't Think They Know
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting [OK back to goth]
Nick Cave - Red Right Hand [for Cathy of course!]
Clan of Xymox - Jasmine and Rose
12:00
Funhouse - Forever True
The Mission U.K. - Evangeline
Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always *
The Dreamside - Mirror Moon [Brownie points - Patrick walked in while I was playing his band ;)]
Dead Can Dance - The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove *
Peter Murphy - I'll Fall With Your Knife
London After Midnight - Kiss
Swans - Celebrity Lifestyle *
Jesus and Mary Chain - Reverence
Placebo - Taste in Men
Wolfsheim - Heroin, She Said [beginning of sellout synthpop set]
Iris - Annie, Would I Lie to You?
Kontinuum - Sadness [Schmitty's band]
Underworld - Dirty Epic [second bathroom break]
1:00
Psyche - Murder in Your Love [reprazentin' me!]
OMD - If You Leave (Digital Remix) [beginning of silly-shit and requests set]
Lords of Acid - Pussy * [which was apparently being played upstairs simultaneously]
White Zombie - More Human Than Human *
Revolting Cocks - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
Garbage - #1 Crush *
Beborn Beton - Another World *
Yaz - Situation
The Echoing Green - Safety Dance [several inquiries]
The Cure - Inbetween Days *
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel (Single Version) *
The Clash - Train in Vain
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
[Intended to close with Voltaire's "When You're Evil" but the lights came on and that's just not evil!]
After a disappointing August due to the extreme heat at the Black Cat, Dollhouse was back in full swing on Friday night. It was still quite warm, but the crowd was back to its usual self and the energy was restored as well. DJ Neska did a terrific job and had a great time. A number of people asked about her. Every guest DJ we've had there has had an absolute blast, which really does lead me to objectively conclude that Dollhouse is the funnest night in town. :) I played a bunch of new-to-me stuff and got a ton of requests, of which I was able to get to about half -- the remainder either I didn't have, or couldn't fit in because I was playing other requests!
Friday 9.06.02 - Guest DJ Neska + Mission UK Giveaway
KELOWNA 9:00
Pure - Anna Is a Speed Freak
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Hold Her Down
Sugar - Helpless
Urge Overkill - Time is Over
Pixies - Debaser
Concrete Blonde - Probably Will
The Posies - Dream All Day
David Bowie - Blue Jean
Bad Religion - 21st Digital Boy
DIVA 9:30
Mephisto Walz - In the Room Where Love Exists
Siouxsie & the Banshees - The Passenger
Gitane Demone - Incendiary Lover
Shakespear's Sister - Cat Woman
Tones on Tail - Christian Says
Bauhaus - She's in Parties
Mission U.K. - Wasteland
Fields of the Nephilim - Preacher Man
NESKA 10:00
Chameleons U.K. - Swamp Thing
Echo and the Bunnymen - Bedbugs and Ballyhoo (Remix)
Love & Rockets - Haunted When the Minutes Drag
The Smiths - What She Said
The Cure - Lovecats (Remix)
Front 242 - Don't Crash
Nitzer Ebb - Join in the Chant
DIVA 10:30
Rosetta Stone - Adrenaline
Thrill Kill Kult - Sex on Wheelz
KMFDM - Godlike
London After Midnight - Kiss (RA Mix)
Rasputina - Transylvanian Concubine (Yes Sir Mr. Sir)
Ministry - Every Day is Halloween
NESKA 11:00
Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope
Public Image Ltd. - Wise *
Sisterhood - Giving Ground
The Damned - The Shadow of Love
Christian Death - Romeo's Distress
Front 242 - Headhunter
DIVA 11:30
Amiel - Meet Me in the Red Room [Get it? The Black Cat's bar is called the Red Room. Great choice Wendy.]
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Cities in Dust
Adam Ant - Strip
Modern English - I Melt With You
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
Depeche Mode - Master and Servant
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round
Real Life - Send Me an Angel
Book of Love - Boy
PSYCHE 12:00
Mission U.K. - Lay Your Hands on Me [Announcement of contest]
Danielle Dax - Big Hollow Man
Revolting Cocks - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy
Orgy - Blue Monday [I think that is fine for Dollhouse!]
Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole [Drawing held]
Gary Numan - Down in the Park *
Prince - Little Red Corvette *
Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost in You *
James - Laid [Sorry Matt!]
Soup Dragons - I'm Free [inquiry/compliment]
Die Warzau - All Good Girls
Stone Roses - Fools Gold *
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Voltaire - The Man Upstairs (Heavy Drama Mix)
Cruxshadows - Marilynn, My Bitterness
NESKA 1:00
The Cure - Jumping Someone Else's Train
Skinny Puppy - Testure
Front 242 - Welcome to Paradise *
Depeche Mode - Strangelove (Blind Mix)
Electronic - Disappointed
PSYCHE 1:30
The Clash - London Calling [For Bob & Louise]
The Smiths - How Soon is Now * [The guy who requested it, so earnestly, at Catacomb wasn't even there]
Thrill Kill Kult - Do You Fear for Your Child *
Sisters of Mercy - More * [Ack there are no short Sisters songs!]
Peter Murphy - No Home Without Its Sire *
Duran Duran - The Chauffeur [was supposed to be the last song, but the lights were still off so...]
Death in June - God's Golden Sperm
I got back some pictures Putz took of me at the Cruxshadows, when Rogue had me onstage to wish me a happy birthday and everyone was singing. Oh my gawd my smile is just WAY too huge for a goth! Must scan those soonest.
After Dollhouse we dragged Meekay to Seth's 30th b-day party, where I learned a new slogan: "Vodka before rum, very dumb." I did get to see a very old and grainy video of JIVA sounding like old Cure though. :) Happy b-day Seth, ya old (but still younger than me) fucker! It only gets better from here.
Saturday - slept most of the day (thank goddess!) and picked up a few things from Bob & Louise who are moving to London. You know you need a bigger apartment when there is no space for a full-length mirror. Groan. Went out to a belated birthday real-food dinner with Cathy (Thai), took care of a pesky problem, and then stopped by Dark City.
The night r00lz! Despite being near-dead from my crazy week, I stopped by for a few hours this evening and was greatly impressed. First, the downstairs: From Tony's description I had been led to believe it would basically be the back hallway at Catacomb with a lunch counter, and a computer playing atmospheric goth at a near-inaudible volume. Boy was I pleasantly surprised. The room is quite large, with plenty of tables and booths and its own bar, and DJ Eye.Pahd was playing a good mix of both ethereal and rhythmic goth. We've got to get him to guest DJ at Purgatorio sometime ;) It was a great place to escape to and hear great music at a lower, but certainly not background, volume. Which I unfortunately had to do after about an hour upstairs - this damn cold is just wreaking havoc on my voice box still :(
Upstairs there is a bar area with stools and a number of tables, and then the dance floor which is far larger than Catacomb's. Tim, Tony and Kangal were playing a good mix of EBM, industrial and dancey-goth. There are plenty of places to wander throughout the venue. The only possible negative things I can think of are the upstairs paint-job (ewww pastels!) and the fact that there is only one narrow set of 3 stairs leading to the dance floor, somewhat hindering ingress and egress. But that has only to do with the venue itself, and overall compared to the Meeting Place, well, there just is no comparison. It was a nice nostalgia trip to see the old Cage staff too - Jose (who had actually showered and shaved), Freddie and Toni. Thumbs way up on this terrific new event!
OK one more setlist and then I'm off to bed.
In which I was charged with the atypical task of playing stuff people know.
PSYCHE 9:00
Mors Syphilitica - Galatea
This Mortal Coil - I Want to Live
Siddal - Pontus
Ocean 8 - Fireworks
This Ascension - Mysterium [my "grounding" song - kills all nervousness of DJing in any new place!]
Faith and the Muse - Running Up That Hill
La Floa Maldita - L'Oasis
Nothing Inside - The Sweetest Revenge
The Last Dance - Flesh
Gary Numan - Dead Heaven
Sunday Munich - Scathed (Intimate Clobber Mix)
Saint Dymphna - Teeth of the Sun [part 1 of "weird" twofer]
Virgin Prunes - Come to Daddy [segue into goth-rock set]
10:00
The Wake - Sideshow
Drowning Season - Gun
Empire Hideous - Power the Empire
Ministry - Stigmata [beginning of industrial set which went over great with the bartenders]
Skinny Puppy - Testure
Interrogation - maladjusT [local D.C. act] *
Chemlab - Codeine, Glue and You *
KMFDM - Light [not Juke Joint Jezebel - Cathy vetoed]
Nine Inch Nails - Down In It (Single Version) [First bathroom break]
Snog - Hey Christian God! [compliment]
Die Warzau - All Good Girls
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kiss Them for Me [dance floor fills like clockwork]
11:00
Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection
The Cure - Lovecats *
Danielle Dax - Big Hollow Man
Fischerspooner - Emerge
The Faint - Call Call
VNV Nation - Further [beginning of sellout EBM set]
Apoptygma Berzerk - Kathy's Song (Ferry Corsten)
Apollo 440 - Don't Fear the Reaper
Deep Red - Living in Black
Fiction 8 - Let Go
Mesh - I Don't Think They Know
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting [OK back to goth]
Nick Cave - Red Right Hand [for Cathy of course!]
Clan of Xymox - Jasmine and Rose
12:00
Funhouse - Forever True
The Mission U.K. - Evangeline
Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always *
The Dreamside - Mirror Moon [Brownie points - Patrick walked in while I was playing his band ;)]
Dead Can Dance - The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove *
Peter Murphy - I'll Fall With Your Knife
London After Midnight - Kiss
Swans - Celebrity Lifestyle *
Jesus and Mary Chain - Reverence
Placebo - Taste in Men
Wolfsheim - Heroin, She Said [beginning of sellout synthpop set]
Iris - Annie, Would I Lie to You?
Kontinuum - Sadness [Schmitty's band]
Underworld - Dirty Epic [second bathroom break]
1:00
Psyche - Murder in Your Love [reprazentin' me!]
OMD - If You Leave (Digital Remix) [beginning of silly-shit and requests set]
Lords of Acid - Pussy * [which was apparently being played upstairs simultaneously]
White Zombie - More Human Than Human *
Revolting Cocks - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
Garbage - #1 Crush *
Beborn Beton - Another World *
Yaz - Situation
The Echoing Green - Safety Dance [several inquiries]
The Cure - Inbetween Days *
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel (Single Version) *
The Clash - Train in Vain
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
[Intended to close with Voltaire's "When You're Evil" but the lights came on and that's just not evil!]
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Date: 2002-09-08 08:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-09-09 05:53 am (UTC)Yes indeedy! She was a real treat! I enjoyed working with her!
Re: Freak Day @ Ren Faire
Date: 2002-09-11 10:23 am (UTC)That would be great - I will have a little table set up, come find me and you can do table duty for a while. :)