Don't Do It

Bad Moon Rising Set List

2009-08-28T06:51:42Z

Look away now Howard:
The Mission - Wasteland
Iggy Pop - The Passenger
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love with Someone (you shouldn't have fallen in love with)
Nick Cave - Midnight Man
Echo & The Bunnymen - Killing Moon
Joy Division - Transmission
Fields Of The Nephilim - Preacher Man
New Model Army - Poison Streets
The Sisters of Mercy - More
Mechanical Caberet - Disbehave (Mesh Asbo Remix)
Noisuf - X - Hit Me Hard (Hard As you can remix)
Faderhead - Elecrosluts Extraordinaire (Preview remix)
Nine Inch Nails - Boots are made for walking mashup thing
Atari Teenage Riot - Fuck All
Clash - London Calling
Ruts - Babylon's Burning
Grinderman - No Pussy Blues
PJ Harvey - Down By The Water
1000 Homo DJs - Supernaut
Apollyon Sun - Bedlam and Blind
The Sisters Of Mercy - This Corrosion
The Mission - Deliverance
Spray - I Am Gothic
Wayne G - Twisted
Rotersand - Exterminate Annihilate Destroy
Ministry - No W
The Cult - Fire Woman
New Model Army - Vagabonds
Crazyhead - Have Love Will Travel
Killing Joke - Wardance
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Head Of David - Tequila
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
New Order - True Faith
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
The Sisters Of Mercy - Alice
Birthday Party - Big Jesus Trash Can
Joy Division - She's Lost Control
Nick Cave - Red Right Hand
The Pixies - Debaser
Fields Of The Nephilim - Chord Of Souls
Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia
Damned - New Rose
The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Happy House
Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust
Nine Inch Nails - Happiness In Slavery
The Sisters Of Mercy - Temple Of Love
The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations

Sorry Mate!

Black Sheep Setlist

2009-08-04T09:16:55Z

Hmm, better post the setlist I did at Black Sheep a week last Sunday (26/07/09). Somewhat tardy mostly due to getting back from Whitby and then packing to visit my Parents in Turkey (I am currently posting this from there, prior to spending the afternoon around a swimming pool drinking wonderful Efes Pilsner).
First Set:
Portishead - Machine Gun
Rob Zombie - Dragula
Ministry - Stigmata
Noisuf X - Hit Me Hard (Hard as you can mix)
Mechanical Caberet - Disbehave (Mesh Asbo remix)
The Young Gods - Skinflower
Cauda Pavonis - Love Like Broken Glass (Remastered)

Second Set:
The Sisters Of Mercy - Adrenochrome
The Fields Of The Nephilim - Chord Of Souls
Daisy Chainsaw - Love Your Money
Ramones - Somebody Put Something
Killing Joke - Wardance
New Model Army - Poison Streets
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Midnight Man
The Sonics - Have Love Will Travel
Soft Cell - Bedsitter

Thanks Paul!

Please give generously

2009-06-12T19:47:49Z

£1 can buy 3 feet of tripwire.
£2 can buy a pound of bananas to peel.
£5 can buy a rollerskate to leave on the floor.

Please give generously. Your money can make millions of people happy..... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8097018.stm

Pinched from here
but worth repeating.

Stuff

2009-05-04T19:50:12Z

Dear god I'm tired.
A weekend involving walking from Hebden Bridge up to a camping barn just below Stoodley Pike on Saturday, then much running around of children, followed by sleeping in a tent and being woken by midnight tig at about 1-00 am then torrential rain at 4-00, a rather breezy period at around 5-00 then hordes of kids at 6-30.
Walk up to Stoodley Pike in the morning - half a mile as the crow flies but then the crow doesn't have to go down a valley, then even further up the otherside in the face of 50 mile an hour winds. Walk down the valley to Todmorden (involving a change in the weather from 1 of the kids having to be taken back due to the first signs of hypothermia to catching a slight suntan due to the heat and sunshine in the valley), catch train to Manchester, see The Specials (wonderfully good going again at Leeds), dance a lot, be utterly outraged at the Apollo bar (£3-60 for a can of Tuborg poured into a cup) then back to travelodge to fall over.
Brief spell of shopping in Manchester - 2 Billy Childish CDs, 1 dub re-issue box set the Evolution Of Dub (4 albums remastered, in slipcases reproducing their original covers and a nice booklet giving the background to the music), and the Wooden Shjips album Dos (early Suicide/Loop/Spacemen 3 type stuff) which I bought simply because it sounded so good in Piccadilly records where I was at the time.
Next week it's camping all over again in the wilds of the Gloucestershire on the Welsh Border near the village of Redbook. The theme is an Enchanted Forest, so youngest daughter (who will be going and having a day off school as running around a field full of hippies and crusties drunk on cider is a better education for life in general than being sat in a classroom for a day) will be going as a forest zombie. Hopefully I can be accused of being a bad parent, and then point out that she is merely expressing her creativ side and who am I to interfere.
Unfortunately I won't be able to atend the AD reunion gig at the Fenton, but hey I'll wear my Nazi Goths T-shirt anyway. Good luck for it Joel and see you soon comrade (and indeed fellow steward now - I've become a union steward for Benefits in bradford)
Finally I re-activated my facebook account again as it seems the easiest way to keep in touch with some people and also to keep track of various events. No doubt I'll delete it again it an alcohol fuelled despair at the shiteness of it all, but for now I'll try to be good with it and at least click the ignore button more often.
OK done for now, nighty night

A review

2009-04-09T09:37:00Z

The Sisters Of Mercy at Leeds Academy
Verdict: A Top Night Out.
Now for Hawkwind at Bolton tonight.

Holiday

2009-03-15T18:38:11Z

Just back from Barcelona due to the joys of Super Flexi at work. Quick round up as follows:
1. 5 days is not remotely long enough for such an awesome city.
2. I will now be going to see the Sisters in Leeds, if the support band are Ulterior then I will be watching them and during the Sisters set I will be going to the bar during anything that has not been released officially - the term dirge like applies, perhaps Andrew was just resting his voice. The rest of it was shit hot though.
3. There will be photos posted to Flickr but not now.
4. I've discovered I have a 6 shot burst function on the camera on my N95 8Gb phone, which is fantastic for action shots of Fountains (this being one of the highlights of Barcelona - a Fountain display to classical music!)
More to follow, I'm now off to the Sunday meeting at t'club.

Facebook

2009-02-22T22:12:50Z

I've just deleted the facebook thingy I had as none more black. Bloody horrible site, if I want to tell people about something then I'll post it here, and if I want only a few people to know about it then I'll mark it friends only. If I want everyone to know then I'll mail em all and or text em. 3 bloody times I had to enter the "security words", until I realised I had to give a reason for leaving: in the end I put other, and when then pressed to tell them why in the little box I just put no. Back to vaguely text based stuff for me.

Hate This

2009-02-22T20:59:24Z

Pinched from selectnone cheers neal:

RULES:
1. Put your MP3 player, iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.

IF SOMEONE SAYS 'ARE YOU OKAY' YOU SAY?
Jamaican Grass

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
Here Me Dub Star

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Electrosluts Extraordinaire (no honest that's what came up)

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Stay Dread

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
The Big Hurt

WHAT'S YOUR MOTTO?
Safe From Harm

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Angels Of Life

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Freefall

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Urban Guerilla

WHAT IS 2 + 2?
Cow Thief Skank

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Soundhead

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Tainted

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
What If Punk never Happened

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
You Said Something

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Elric The Enchanter

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Shade Gate

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Fade Out

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
Set Them Free

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Out Of Luck

WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?
Fever

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS
Rocky Paths

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Hate This

Gonna be a bad year for the eardrums

2009-01-09T00:41:00Z

In a fit of madness I've gone and booked 2 Hawkwind related gigs already this year (it's their 40th anniversary) and that doesn't even include the 40th anniversary tour which is shaping up already to be visited repeatedly.
Bad enough 2 gigs you say, but it gets worse. 1 is in March in London 3days before I go see the Sisters in Barcelona which will mean mucho cramming to ensure flexitime is in the positive, and then the second gig - the actual date 40 years on from their first gig is on 29/08/09. That is August Bank Holiday Saturday. Sooooo Bad in a number of ways lets count them:
1. Day after my birthday, not a good day to travel, my stars will say HANGOVER.
2. Halfway through Infest: Infest Friday for my birthday (may be a little bit inebriated), get up go to London for gig on Saturday - oh and am I going to be miffed if that's the day The Young Gods play - then come back Sunday and go to Infest after mental gig.
3. Their first ever gig was in Notting Hill. So where is the gig? Porchester Halls.
In Notting Hill.
On the 2nd day of Carnival.
The mind bogles (sic) at the thought of 600 hardcore hawkwind fans let loose around Carnival after seeing Hawkwind-related stuff all day - still the sales of Oxo cubes and Parsley will probably hit a new high...
4. Sunday at Infest with crazed Hawkind idiot (I took weeks to come down after the Hawkestra thing in 2001!) could result in whole festival moving abroad (eg south of Watford Gap) next year.
What's that you say? Don't go to Infest then? but how would people know it's my birthday (Friday) or how good the gig was (Sunday).
Here's looking forward to a quieter Infest this year - for Friday and Sunday. Saturday is gonna be rammed.

2009 - Don't go out on the water

2009-01-03T00:06:19Z

Well, I was going to go to Friday Flock (and last night's Bad Moon Rising) but in a fit of extreme sensibleness, I have decided to stay in and save money. This is partly due to lots of gigs coming up this year - it's shaping up to be even busier than last year, and that involved a fair whack of traveling to gigs including staying over a couple of times in hotels, already we've (I say we but I mostly mean me) got booked Hawklords in London(it's a Hawkwind type thing), The Sisters in Barcelona (had to do 4 nights for entire family in Barcelona to get away with that one!), The Specials in Manchester as well as Infest.
However, the main item of expense is likely to be a 30' narrowboat which, while initially cheap - that is to say, for a 30' narrowboat - is also likely to need money throwing at it to get it to an acceptable level of comfort, i.e. so it doesn't leak too badly, or rot away in the next 2 or 3 years. We were going to wait until October, but this looks like it may be the one for us, so at the moment it's penny pinching time. Yes it will be painted black, although Sharon insists on at least a bit of gold trim.

hawkwind

2008-12-12T19:50:25Z

Standing on the runway waiting to take off...
Gigging again, third in seven days but tonight is the big one as it always has been, for 26 years now, the one that keeps calling me back - hawkwind

Hooray!

2008-12-11T12:50:49Z

Managed to get 2 standing stalls tickets for The Specials at Manchester Apollo. Good job really because we'd booked the travelodge 2 days before the tickets went on sale...

Rare Burst of stuff

2008-10-05T23:24:31Z

In a Caffeine (god I hate being dry) induced burst of writing here's one I nicked from Big Daz.

01. What is essential for your happiness?
Alcohol, music, reading matter, sex.

02. What clothes are you wearing at the moment?
Combats, Diesel Sweeties T-shirt

03. What games did you recently finish?
Neverwinter Nights 2 - Mask Of The Betrayer.

04. What is your favourite scent?
Beer mixed with garlic from a fresh curry. And 15 year old Fine Oak Macallan.

05. What books are you reading at the moment?
Bill Drummond - 17. A fascinating diatribe about music (especially recorded music), nostalgia and art, and so far it makes a lot of sense to me about why I'm always searching for new music; also why I get on better with people who feel the same about music - never being satisifed with listening to the same old nostalgia trip (that's why Infest kicks Whitby ass every time.
Love And Rockets collections and the complete Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers just because I enjoy them.

06. What do you drink the most?
Beer, water, red wine, whisky

07. Do you trust easily?
Not at first. then too much.

08. Who was your first big crush?
Samantha.

09. What did you want to be when you grew up?
Somebody who was allowed to listen to extraordinary amounts of good music, have good sex, drink good booze, eat good spicy food and read good books. Dunno why I can be such a miserable shit then as I manage those pretty much most of the time. Except possibly the music thing - there's just too much crap goth music in the world.

10. Do you have a good body-image?
Could do with more hair on top and less of a beer gut, but then the latter may be related to a number of aspects to do with the previous entry.

11. Do you have an LJ crush?
No.

12. What websites do you visit daily?
Live Journal, BBC, National Rail live departures for Frizinghall Station. Ebay to browse the boat porn.

13. Random pet peeve?
Places that charge as much or more for soft drinks as they do for alcohol.

14. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?
Big Daz didn't tag me but I pinched it from him so here goes: I always think of him as sociable, slightly maudlin (that's a good thing) and and appreciative of the good things in life. (see entry no.1)

15. What's the last song that got stuck in your head?
Jesus want's you for a friend. I blame Deeper_than_red for that one.

16. What's your favourite item of clothing?
My formerly black hat.

17. What's better: to give or to receive?
Yes.

18. What's the book you've read most times?
It's a toss up between Watchmen and Dreams of Sex & Stage Diving.

19. Is there anything you want so bad right now?
Alcohol

20. What should you be doing right now?
Sleeping.

21. Whats the meaning behind your LJ username/name/nicknames you go by?
I like Spinal Tap - a lot. And I have been known to play music under the moniker nonemoreblack hence the dj bit on the end as some other bugger got the nonemoreblack tag before I did.

Quick catch up

2008-10-05T21:02:58Z

Hey y'all
A quick catch up for people. I'm currently off alcohol (but not work) due to the antibiotics I'm on because I have an infected elbow (elbow bursitis).
As a result of this I've been feeling a bit weird recently, and grumpier than normal as well, partially due to tiredness from blood poisoning and partially due to lack of booze, therefore apologies to anybody who saw me at Black Sheep last week or at any other time recently, particularly nigel mouse, Mister vodka and of course Viv.
On the bonus side of life, went shopping today in Leeds thanks to a large refund from E-On energy (there just aren't enough comic/book/record shops in Bradford to slake our consumerist lusts), and purchased a remarkably large number of roots reggae and dub CDs. I love the goth scene still (stop sniggering at the back Mister vodka), but at the moment I'm tending towards weird post-rock stuff such as Chrome Hoof, Circle and other similarly drone improvisational stuff, and obscure roots reggae/dub with a smattering of North African blues such as Tinariwen. Oh and I got tickets to go see Sly and Robbie the two most prolific musicians ever (no really) at Leeds Stylus in two weeks and then in December it's the Skatellites with Iration Steppas supporting. In and around that there will also be Leonard Cohen, Hawkwind and probably trips to Friday Flock to catch bands also, so it's not all extra loud bass.
Finally can I just say a big thank you to Paul Newman, whose recent death allowed the family to go out for a meal today at Fellicini's as I had him in the works draw for the celebrity most likely to die next.

More money than sense

2008-08-18T21:03:44Z

On behalf of eldest daughter I've just sold a Leeds Festival Weekend ticket for £315.00 on Ebay. Unbelievable.

Black Sheep Setlist

2008-08-11T07:35:06Z

Here's the stuff I played last night at the final post-Transmission (i.e. quiet - it gets around when I'm DJing) Black Sheep:

Set 1 (8-00 - 8-30)
Mechanical Cabaret - Disbehave (Mesh Asbo remix)
Unhelig - Ich Will Alles (Elektronik club remix)
Portishead - Machine Gun
Revolting Cocks - Beers, Steers & Queers
Killing Joke - Age Of Greed
The Young Gods - Envoye
KMFDM - Money

Set 2 (9-05 - 9-35)
Daisy Chainsaw - Love Your Money
Crazyhead - Baby Turpentine
New Model Army - Smalltown England
The Sisters Of Mercy - Black Planet
Danielle Dax - Cat House
The Cramps - Human Fly
The Pixies - Debaser
The Fields Of The Nephilim - Chord Of Souls
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Today's Lesson
The Stooges - I Wanna Be A Dog.

Right gotta go to work now.

What's Goin' On

2008-07-20T19:25:46Z

Hey folks, how's hings out there in Journal land. For once I'm not moaning or whinging, except possibly about how life is too feckin' busy.

Part of the problem is the sheer number of gigs this year that are on the must see/do list, I've already been to Nick Cave in Birmingham, Hawkind & Gogol Bordello in Manchester, Diamanda Galas in London, and that's just the big gigs(plus I missed Public Enemy, Ministry and Woolstock III due to being out of the country) there has also been stoner/drone supremos Circle and any number of other noisy stuff at the 1in12.

Next week sees the clash of all time, with Hawkind holding the third Hawkfest, the Nephilim playing in London, the Sisters playing in Belgium and Action Directe at t'club. Fortunately all of this is academic as I'm djing at the wedding of a couple of friends, in a stroke of luck though there are 2 of us at the do in Saltaire, so I'm planning on nipping down to the club to catch AD in their last ever performance, then back to Saltaire to do the drunken dancing set towards the end.

Then there's the rest of the year - my better half is buggering off on August 8th, which means a 3 week stint of hardcore giggage and stupidity, although before that I'm at Bad Moon Rising on 31/07/08 & 07/08/08 kicking off the ceremonies (I think that's right, I'm sure Mistervodka will correct me). Once they've gone there's Transmission & the gig beforehand, Djing at Black Sheep on the 10th, then a few days before Spearhead in Sheffield on the 19th (the Tuesday) then from Thursday the 21st it's all go with Bad Moon Rising and Infest taking me through to the Bank Holiday and my birthday on the Thursday after Infest - I may put an appearance in at Bad Moon Rising. Then on the final weekend on August there's Bingley Music Live - Happy Mondays on the Saturday, then Echo and the Bunnymen on the Sunday (plus the Sunday gig is free), followed by the return of the family from their jollies abroad.

Then what you cry, is there any rest for this poor old goth - nope as the autumn tour schedules are already filling with the Abyssinian & Dillinger doing a double header tour in September, Saltaire Festival towards the end of September, the Boss Sounds reggae festival in October (for those of you who aren't aware I have quite a fondness for roots reggae/ska/dub). November sees another trip to Birmingham for the mighty Leonard Cohen (just don't ask how much the tickets cost) and December sees the return of Hawkwind although this time I'm planning on Rock City rather than the Academy 2 in Manchester - it's a superior venue for the Hawks.

In between all this I'm sure I'll also try to venture forth for the odd beer or two, so if you see me you may have to nudge me awake - "what you having?" usually does the trick.

Be Seeing You.

Friday

2008-06-24T18:27:39Z

Hi Folks
In a rare bout of promotion it's the 1in12 Club's 20th anniversary of opening the building on Albion Street and amazingly it still hasn't collapsed yet. There is a whole weekend of entertainment/something to do whilest drinking stupidly cheap alcohol as outlined below:

Friday is the 20th anniversary 1980's disco. Comes as you were in 1980 (or, for
the younger members, as your parents were) and listen to all the great tunes
from the dawn of Albion Street. Bring your own buffet so you can sit-down and
talk over your accomplishments of the past two decades with fellow
high-achievers (there will be quiet places in the club, as well as the thumping
disco pranks on the event floor).

Saturday is a huge festival of very loud music, including Geriatric Unit /
Beginning Of The End / Whole In The Head / Gusto Mastivo / Lazarus Blackstar +
more t.b.c.

On Sunday there'll be a vegan fry-up from 9.30 until about 12.00, followed by a
proper Sunday Lunch in the afternoon (tickets in advance required - available
at the bar) and some kind of quiz/film (or both) event in the evening. {The
self-appointed projectionist wants to show Fahrenheit 451 but wiser people have
probably had better ideas already}.

I'll be djing Friday night, so there will be lots of cheese, goth, metal and other stuff. Plus in a burst of fatherly pride Friday & part of Sunday is being organised by eldest daughter (who will also be responsible for serving cocktails) so at least a smidgeon of promotion needs to be done by me. Further 1in12 club info is here:

<http://www.bd9sound.co.uk/1in12events.html>

And don't forget Cauda in 2 weeks & Action directe in 5 weeks.
Oh, don't ever ask me to do online promotion either....

Anticipation

2008-03-20T07:56:11Z

Hooray! Going to London village today for Diamanda Galas, then hopefully Black Sheep on Sunday and then Hebden Bridge for the Duck Race on Monday.
The latter two events are however conditional upon regaining my senses after tonight...

Black Sheep Carpe Noctum Special

2008-02-25T13:01:25Z

Here's my setlist from last night, and highly enjoyable it was too.

Set 1:
Head Of David - Dog Day Sunrise
Grotus - Ebola Renton
Apollyon Sun - Bedlam and Blind
The Young Gods - El Magnifico
The Pixies - Gouge Away
Nick Cave - Jack The Ripper
Killing joke - Wardance
Danielle Dax - Big Hollow Man
Big Black - Kerosene
Fields Of The Nephilim - Chord Of Souls

Set 2:
Joy Division - Dead Souls (R)
March Violets - Snake Dance
Banshees - Christine
The Sisters Of Mercy - Adrenochrome
New Model Army - Vengeance
Ministry - No "W"
Atari Tennage Riot - Destroy 2000 Years Of Culture
Celtic Frost - Ground
Rob Zombie - Demonoid Phenomenon
Stooges - 1969
Jesus And Mary Chain - Crackin' Up
Dinosaur Jr. - Freak Scene

I concentrated mostly on noisy guitar stuff/80's on the grounds of stick to what you know.

mister_vodka was there to cover the bleepy stuff and everything else so kudos to him.

Max Wall Anyone?

2008-01-10T19:15:51Z

Nick Cave in comedy video shocker

The Young Gods

2007-12-05T12:57:32Z

Is anybody going to see them in York tonight? I won't be able to go tomorrow to Manchester as it's too late a finish to make the 11-30 coach (website says 1-00 am finish) and get back to Bradford. I'll be over for about 8-00ish then on the last leeds train at 2313. If anybody is, see you there...
PS I know asw909is going to Manchester tomorrow so I'll let him off.

Ouch

2007-11-21T00:11:40Z

Here
Time to drink more whisky methinks. Especially as I just got a bottle of Ledaig for fixing a computer (that was the fee for completion, the consultancy was a bottle of Stoli vodka)
Back to fixing computers to make those drinking bills more bearable.

Kids say the funniest things

2007-09-23T12:37:29Z

Scene: The 1in12 bar.
Music Playing: Motorhead - Motorhead.
Kirsty: That sounds faster than normal.
Me: No, that's how it always sounds on No Sleep, it is Motorhead after all.
Kirsty: But Motorhead don't play this, Hawkwind play Motorhead, not Motorhead.

For those who don't know her Kirsty is my 18 year old daughter.

Is this the future?

2007-09-07T13:57:51Z

We've already seen GothVodka metamorphose into mister_vodka is Disco Vodka the next step?