A NOSTALGIC LOOK BACK

Last Saturday night was the latest Little Pop League Night that has been going now for almost 10 years. As ever, John as host and resident DJ did a fantastic job and a fun time was had by all.....

On the way home it got me thinking back to the summer of 2010 when I was part of a wee team that put on a total of three nights at the fabulous Flying Duck in Glasgow.  As it turned out. various logistical problems meant that the four of us never ever got together on the same evening  - indeed I missed one of them altogether.  But they were tremendoud fun, and looking back the set-lists put together weren't too shabby (although I only have the fist two nights available:-

12 June DJs : Drew (From Across The Kitchen Table). JC (The Vinyl Villain). ANCB (A North Country Boy)

Drew

BMX Bandits – Serious Drugs
Peter Parker – Swallow The Rockets
Crystal Stilts – Love Is A Wave
The Fall – Blindness
The Kingfishers – Make Me Sad
Jenny Lewis – Carpetbaggers
Lone Justice – After The Flood
Pavement – Summer Babe (Winter version)
Bobby Cook – Gone So Far
Dr Rubberfunk – Fantasy Funk Band
The Staple Singers – I’ll Take You There
Smith & Mighty – Walk On By
Primal Scream – Uptown (Long After The Disco Is Over)

JC

The Clash – Radio Clash
Teenage Fanclub - Life's a Gas
Associates – 18 Carat Love Affair
Fatima Mansions – Blues For Ceaucescu
Electronic – Getting Away With It
Blur – Popscene
Orange Juice – L.O.V.E. Love
Kirsty McColl – You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet Baby
The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again
Johnny Cash – Ring Of Fire
Friends Again – Sunkissed
Scritti Politti – Asylums In Jerusalem
Paul Haig – Never Give Up (Party Party)

ANCB

The Clash – Bankrobber
James – Come Home
Cameo – Word Up
Human League – Love Action
The Cure – Love Cats
The Jam – Down In The Tube Station At Midnight

Drew

Squeeze – Up The Junction
The Jags – Back Of My Hand
Specials – Too Much Too Young (fucked and pulled off about 30 seconds in)
Amy Winehouse – Monkey Man
The Clash – White Man In Hammersmith Palais
Battle – Demons
Ida Maria – Stella
Shout Out Louds – Very Loud
Inspiral Carpets – I Want You
Velvet Underground – White Light White Heat
Pastels – Crawl Babies
Airborne Toxic Event – Moving On
Frightened Rabbit – Backwards Walk
Meursault – A Few Kind Words

JC

Young Knives – Up All Night
Magazine – A Song From Under The Floorboards
Morrissey – Last Of The Famous International Playboys
Bourgie Bourgie – Breaking Point
The Style Council – Speak Like A Child
Aztec Camera – Walk Out To Winter (single version)
Pixies – Monkey Gone To Heaven
REM – Don’t Go Back To Rockville
Go Betweens – Streets Of Your Town
Camper Van Beethoven – Take The Skinheads Bowling
New Order – Age Of Consent
Orange Juice - Felicity
Teenage Fanclub – Everything Flows

Drew

The Pale Fountains – From Across The Kitchen Table
Woodentops – Good Thing
Human Beinz – Nobody But Me
Jackie Wilson – Because Of You
Johnny Boy – You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve
Elvis Presley – Crawfish (Pilooski edit)
The Cramps - Can Your Pussy Do The Dog
Bang Bang Machine – Geek Love

JC/Drew

Aztec Camera – Oblivious
Belle & Sebastian – Lazy Line Painter Jane
The Bodines – Therese
The Slow Club – Trophy Room
The Smiths – Hand In Glove
The Wedding Present – Kennedy
The Jesus And Mary Chain – Upside Down
Ballboy – All The Records On The Radio Are Shite
Orange Juice – Blueboy
Jonathan Richman And The Modern Loves – That Summer Feeling
Bessie Banks – Go Now

(and every single song was vinyl played on turntables)

10 July : DJs : JC and ANCB

ANCB

Primal Scream – Higher Than The Sun (American Spring Mix)
NERD – Provider (Zero 7 Mix)
A Man Called Adam – Barefoot In the Head
D Note – The Garden Of Earthly Delights (Original Mix)
Kate Bush – Running Up The Hill (Ashley Beedle Re-Edit)
DJ Food – Peace Part 1 (Harvey’s Persuasion Mix)
Rae & Christian – Spellbound
808 State feat James Dean Bradfield – Lopez (Propellerheads Mix)

JC

Public Image – Public Image
Happy Mondays – Wrote For Luck
The Smiths – The Headmaster Ritual
Elvis Costello – The Ugly Things
Orange Juice – Love Sick
Arab Strap – Speed Date
The Clash – The Magnificent Seven
Frightened Rabbit – Be Less Rude
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Come Saturday
The Wedding Present – It’s A Gas
The Fall – Mr Pharmacist
Friends Again – South Of Love
Cats On Fire – Tears In Your Cup
James – What For
Bourgie Bourgie – Careless

ANCB

Love Unlimited Orchestra – Strange Games & Things
The O’Jays – For The Love Of Money
Barkays – You Cant Run Away
4 Hero – Les Fleur
Lee Dorsey – Night People
Gladys Knight & The Pips- Bourgie Bourgie
Rare Earth – I Just Want to Celebrate (Mocean Worker Mix)
Temptations – Just My Imagination (DJ Jazzy Jeff & Pete Kuzma Remix)
KRS I – Sound Of Da Police
Primal Scream – Come Together (BBG Remix)

JC

Chemical Bros – Block Rocking Beats
David Bowie – Boys Keep Swinging
Echo & The Bunnymen – Never Stop
Kirsty MacColl – A New England
Sons & Daughters – Dance Me In
REM – Finest Worksong (Lengthy Club Mix)
Teenage Fanclub – Sparky’s Dream
Iggy Pop – The Passenger
Butcher Boy – Profit In Your Poetry
Meursault – A Few Kind Words
The Clash – Bankrobber

ANCB

Primal Scream – Dont Fight It , Feel It (Whistling Mix)
Ella Fitzgerald – Sunshine Of Your Love (Rockers Hi-Fi Mix)
A Guy Called Gerald – Voodoo Ray (GW Edit)
Adamski – One Of The People (Ashley Beedle Mix
Roxy Music – Love Is The Drug (GW Edit)
Sister Sledge – Lost In Music (12″ Mix)
Stevie Wonder – Masterblaster (Jammin) (12″ Disco Mix)

JC/ANCB

Orange Juice – I Can’t Help Myself (12″ mix)
The Smiths – This Charming Man (New York Remix)
Fire Engines – Candyskin
Sugardaddy – Love Honey (GW Edit)
Kid Creole & The Coconuts – Wonderful (GW Edit)
Associates – Party Fears Two
The Trash Can Sinatras – Only Tongue Can Tell
Soup Dragons – Lovegod Dub
Red Guitars – Marimba Jive
The Third Degree – Mercy
The Charlatans – North Country Boy
James – Hymn From A Village
Kid Canaveral – Smash Hits
The Jam – Beat Surrender
Louis Armstrong – Wonderful World

I'd love the chance to do it all again some day.  Ah.....the sad delusions of a middle-aged saddo.

Here's one song from each of my mini-sets:-

mp3 : Electronic - Getting Away With It
mp3 : The Style Council - Speak Like A Child
mp3 : The Bodines - Therese
mp3 : The Smiths - The Headmaster Ritual
mp3 : Butcher Boy - Profit In Your Poetry
mp3 : James - Hymn From A Village

Happy Listening. And dancing.....