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I love Rockstarz. I know I go on about it all the time but it’s ace. Here are some songs I played this week.

Mark Ronson - Stop Me / Connan & The Mockasins - Sneaky Sneaky Dogfiend / Mr Hudson & The Library - Too Late, Too Late / Jarvis - Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time / Air Traffic - Never Even Told Me Her Names / Kasabian - Me plus One (sadly not a cover of Annie) / Vines - Don’t Listen to the Radio / Modest Mouse - Dashboard / L7 - Pretend That We’re Dead / Charlotte Hatherley - Behave / Metric - Handshakes / The Violets - Forey / Soulwax - Conversation Intercom / The Whip - Trash / Teddybears - Punkrocker / Bloc Party - 2 More Years [MSTRKRFT remix] / Lilllix - Little Things / Shiny Toy Guns - Le Disko / The Killers - Bones / LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum / Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby / Just Jack - Starz in your eyes / Gossip - Jealous Girls / CSS - Let’s Make Love / Klaxons - Golden Skans / Cazels - Poor Innocent Boy / Jarvis - Fat Children / Switches - Lay Down The Law / Young Knives - Hot Summer / Young Love - Discotech / Metric - Dead Disco

Come. Mondays at Ghetto, there’s always a band playing too and it’s only about £3 to get in. I’m back on Feb 5th with the Schla la las.

Tonight, like nearly every Thursday, Friday and Monday night (yes I never sleep), I was djing. And I played some ace music.

Thursday is Miss-Shapes where nearly anything goes but is mainly indie and pop. Our first set was brill, it went something like this (there are whopping gaps as I forgot to photo it and can’t remember):

Brad Walsh - Two of Hearts
Lo-Fn-Fnk - City
Linda Sundblad - Lose You
Annie - Anniemal
Bertine Zetlitz - Midnight
Jarvis - Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time
Air Traffic - Never Even Told Me Her Name
Just Jack - Starz in your eyes
Beck - Cellphone’s Dead
Mika - Love Today
Elton Montello - Jet Boy, Jet Girl
The Rakes - Work Work Work (Pub, Club, Sleep)
White Rose Movement - Love is A Number
The Gossip - Jealous Girls
Lady Sovereign - Pretty Vacant
Ashlee Simpson - Boyfriend
Amy Winehouse - You Know I’m No Good
Peaches - Boys Wanna Be Her
Le Tigre - TKO
The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me

In the late set we played Sophie Ellis Bextor - Catch You and it went down a storm. HOORAY.

Tonight join Laurence and myself to dance at Rockstarz while listening to these guys.

You’ll probably recognise vocalist Tina from the cute and colourful video to Annie Mac favourite and Crazy Itch Radio highlight Take Me Back To Your House. Frankyl, it’s refreshing enough just to see a Jaxx video where you don’t have to avert your eyes from some massive breasts.

So tonight I did my first slot at Rockstarz, in fact my first night at Ghetto which wasn’t Miss-Shapes, meaning I didn’t have old faithful Girls Aloud to fall back on. Rockstarz is all about guitar music and about live bands. Tonight we had Plastik playing. I was quite nervous about the night - I played by myself (james didn’t really wanna go out) and indie stuff isn’t my home base. I might play at lots of indie nights now but you got to remember I was a girl who grew up on Billie and the Spice Girls So, I was flapping to extremes spending all day trying to catch up on new music and then all of my first set completely stressed out.

But, despite it being the end to a weird, sad weekend datewise, it was fun, fun, fun and awesome to play songs I love that aren’t mainstream and have people dance. Popstarz is very much the indie charty songs, but Rockstarz is a lot more open minded. Plus it was cool to play alongside Laurence.

I didn’t write a setlist down but I played ace stuff including Datarock - Fa Fa Fa, Noisettes - Scratch Your Name, Peter Bjorn & John - Young Folk (totally beating Sinclar for whistly song of the year), Veruca Salt - Seether (thanks Kim!), Klaxons - Not Over Yet (hello! Floorclearer!) some Easyworld, Sons and Daughters - Dance Me In, Metric, The Faint, White Rose Movement, plus some other stuff I can’t remember right now. Anyway it was ace! Hopefully I’ll do it again, but in any case check out this list of bands Rockstarz has coming up and at least make sure Dragonnette goes in your diary.

Oct 23 : Plastik
Oct 30: Joana and the Wolf
Nov 6: Eskimo Disco
Nov 13: Dragonette
Nov 20: The Far Cries
Nov 27: Look Look (Dancing Boys)
Dec 12: Shit Disco
Dec 18: Parka
Jan 8:  DiskoBoy
Jan 15: Fleeing From Finales
Feb 5: The Scha La Las

The rest of the weekend was as good as could be. Friday at Popstarz marked our one year anniversary at the club from when we covered from Sandra’s trip away last year and cacked ourselves at the then meant to be one off. Since then i’ve basically ruined the entire night by convincing the rest of the DJs that Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone was an appropriate thing to play (sorry! i’ve stopped now!). :-).

Saturday saw me face the dilemma of one of my favourite clubs just down the road from our house or opting to spend some time in a world where I might meet some men who aren’t gay. I thought of Clare’s words, was strong and took the latter option to party with my Aztec Warrior housemate Naomi and her friends from uni at Rock Garden in Covent Garden which was pretty good fun and contained that element of normality of just dancing to random shit, charty songs that I’d oddly been missing from my hometown days! Alcohol and sickness made homies go home, but 1am was no stopping time for me and I knew Trash Palace would be there for me. 10 mins later and I was on the way to Ghetto (for what? the 7th wigout in 8 weeks maybe???) with Jamie and Nic, before I scarpered off to meet Alex for a bit in Soho House, before dragging him back to Ghetto. We all then got the crazyiest cab in the world back home - I always refuse to get unlicensed cabs but it was 6am and after wandering up and down OCS trying to decide whether to go to Balans for breakfast for 30 mins we just needed to go home.  Anyway said cab did have a licensed sticker, despite trying to pick up randoms on the street and I managed to barter him to £17 for a drop at our house and one in E9. Bargain. The best bit was that the cabbie had made a cd full of total drunk classic songs - I can’t even remember what they were, but they were ace and we all sung along really loudly and loutishly all the way home. Huzzah. On Sunday we all woke up feeling mega shit but a trip to the weirdest restaurant I’ve ever been to which I just had to introduce Alex to, made it all better. The place is LMNT on Queensbridge Road and their Sunday Roasts are ace. I’d recommend that you don’t click that link - just trust me, and go without any idea of what it’s like. It will blow your mind.

Hmmm, that’s a blog taking this back to the self-indulgent days of old wittering about myself. I don’t really write anything about myself anymore for fear of odd, psycho cyber stalkers. But, er never mind!

Not done a setlist for a little while so here is what we played last night in our early set. It got very busy, very early and I enjoyed the early set. Nothing exceptionally new or exciting, just fun. Hooray.

The Clash- Rudie can’t fail
Rumble Strips - Oh Creole
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
Beck - Cellphone’s Dead
Teddybears - Yours to Keep [Nenah version]
Giorgio Moroder - Baby Blue
Gwenno - Dance Alone
Shampoo - Cars
Dead Disco - Automatic
Stefy - Chelsea
Protocol - Where’s The Pleasure
Presets - Are you The One
Fischerspooner - Happy
LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations
Softcell - Sex Dwarf
Peaches - Boys Wanna Be Her
Gossip - Standing in the way of Control
Portabello - Covered in Punk
Bloc Party - Helicopter
Ashlee Simpson - Boyfriend
CSS - Let’s make love
Le Tigre - TKO
Basement Jaxx - Plug it in

Catch us at Popstarz tonight and Rockstarz on Monday!

Coming up at Miss-Shapes in August, we’ve got Canadian Smiths wannabes, The Organ playing live on the 22nd. We’re not djing that date, but we’ll be there bopping along.

This is what we played last night:
1030 - 1200
Ashanti - Only U
Lady Sovreign - Hoodie
Estelle - Free
Spice Girls - Step To Me
Pulp - Party Hard
Under The Influence of Giants - Mama’s room
Apartment - Taxi
Young Knives - Hot Summer
Suffrajets - Worthy
Sunny Day Sets Fire - Wilderness
The Jam - Eton Rifles
Jamelia - Something About You
Stefy - Chelsea
The Modern - 7 Oceans
Dead Disco - Automatic
Soho Dolls - Pleasures of Soho
Boy Kill Boy - Civil Sin
Editors - Blood
Kasabian - empire
Mystery Jets - You Can’t Fool Me Dennis

0100-0200
Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
Boy Kill Boy - Suzie
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
Uffie - Hot Chick
Justin Timberlake - Sexyback
Nelly Furtado - Maneater
The Automatic - Monster
Blur - Girls and Boys
Pipettes - Yr Kisses R Wasted On Me
Lily Allen - Smile
Blondie - Call Me
Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been gone
Placebo - Nancy Boy
Justice vs Simian - We Are Your friends
Alesha - Lipstick (THIS SOUNDED AMAAAAAAAZING)
Cansai De Ser Sexy - Let’s make love and listen to Death From Above
Puretone - Addicted to Bass
Girls Aloud - The Show
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Strokes - Juicebox

Night off Popstarz tonight. Instead we’re off to see Apartment at 333. See you in Brighton.

A few months ago James and I were DJing at the launch party for the ace New Young Pony Club’s single Get Lucky when we were approched by a very beardy man while playing Los Super Elegantes brilliant cover of ESG’s Dance. The beardy man turned out to be one of the Johns from London clubnight Big Sexy Land (sounds dodgy, is not) and he invited us to play a guest slot at one of their nights sometime.

Eventually we got round to doing this last month, and played a rather poppier set than the rest of the night seemed to be. But hey, hurrah for pop! Thanks to Jack & Claire for coming!

This is what we played:

  Metronomy – How Say
  Ural 13 Diktators – Blind Love
  Shiny Toy Guns – Le Disko
  Pet Shop Boys – Minimal
  Bobby Conn – No Revolution
  Pulp – Party Hard
  The Noisettes – Scratch Your Name
  Clor – Good Stuff
  OMD – Waiting For The Man
  Diana Ross – Nathan Jones
  Girls Aloud – Wild Horse
  Lisa ‘Left-Eye’ Lopez – Block Party
  Le Tigre – Phanta
  The Clash – Rudie Can’t Fail
  Annie – The Crush
  Gwenno – Dance Again
  Sarah Nixey – Strangelove
  Robots in Disguise – DJ Got A Gun
  Vitalic – My Friend Dario
  Rachel Stevens – So Good
  Client – Xerox Machine
  Elvis Costello – Pump it Up
  Puffy Yumi Ami – Call Me What U Like
  Delays – Valentine
  Morningwood – Nth Degree
  Los Super Elegantes – Dance
  Mia – Heroes
  Dead Disco – Automatic
  Wire – Dot Dash
  Kitty and the Ks – I Am MF

I could write paragraphs about nearly all of those songs, but I won’t. If you want to know any more about any of them, then just ask. And always remember The Hype Machine is your friend.

Tonight I played a couple of sets at Pottymouth, an all girl vox party,
at the Spread Eagle in Shoreditch.  This is what I played:

8.25
Chicks on Speed - Love Life
Sarah Nixey - Strange Love
Herbert - Celebrity
Twiggy - When I Think Of You
Le Tigre - Viz
The Delilahs - Is That A Reason
Deadstar - That Dress Looks Better On You
Stefy - Chelsea
Ladytron - He Took Her To A Movie
Freezepop - Here Comes A Special Boy
Peaches - 2 Guys
mia - Heroes
Cardigans - Do You Believe
Sons & Daughters - Monster
Kitty & The K’s - I am a MF
Robots in Disguise - DJs Got A Gun
Bis - Kandy Pop

2130
Tigarah - Fake Out
Nenah Cherry - Buffalo Stance
Los Super Elegentes - Dance
Long Blondes - Weekend Without Makeup
Tori Amos - Raspberry Swirl
Metric - Dead Disco
One More Kiss - This Itch
Dead Disco - City Place

2200
Girls Aloud - Swinging London Town
The Pipettes - Pull Shapes (Butlins Remix)
Morningwood - NY Girls
Donnas - Dancing With Myself

2250
Nelly Futardo - No Hay Iguai
Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopez - Block Party
Annie - The Crush
Elastica - In The City
Charlotte Hatherley - Kim Wilde

Playlists have recently been replaced by real blogging!  Shocking. Anyway here’s a bit of a miss-shapes update from our sets this week.  We played, amongst other more boring stuff…

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David Bowie - 5 Years
Grandaddy - The Crystal Lake
Duels - Potential Futures
Orson - No Tomorrow
Betty Curse - Stay Out Of My Way
Le Tigre - My My Metrocard
Belle and Sebastian - Funny Little Frog
Phoenix - Too Young
New Young Pony Club - Get Lucky
Veronicas - Revolution
Bell X1 - Flame
Kaiser Chiefs - Time Honoured Tradition
The Zutons - Why Don’t You Give Me Your Love
Sleeper - Nice Guy Eddie
The Modern - Jane Falls Down
Editors - All Sparks
Maximo Park - I Want You To Stay
Charlatans - One To Another
Placebo - Meds