Dark Night In Luton 23.5.2013

Not the busiest of nights, so thank (insert deity of your choice) for the hard-core - what would I do without you! Seems that the dreaded common cold has struck various people, and having only just got over my last one, I can totally sympathise and don't blame you for not venturing out.

Regardless, a fun night was still had, even if certain people didn't really get the musical premise of the night! Hopefully we'll see a lot more of you next week.

The Doors - Break On Through (To The Other Side)*
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Spread Your Love
The Cure - The Walk
Entertainment - Confusion Of Sense
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Slowdive
Alien Sex Fiend - Lips Can’t Go
Gitane Demone - Incendiary Lover
The Cramps - Primative
Adam & The Ants - Ants Invasion
Joy Division - I Remember Nothing
The Bolshoi - Books On The Bonfire ®
The Merry Thoughts - Pale Empress ®
Click Click - She's Chewing Them
Black Light Ascension - Your Time
Hair & Skin Trading Company - Take Control
Monica Richards - Tail Of Two
The Swans - Children Of God
Garden of Delight - Ancient God (Rediscovered)
The Cult - Conqistador
Bloody Dead & Sexy - Solemn Times
Ulterior - Dream Dream
Cocteau Twins - The Tinderbox (Of a Heart)
The Sisters Of Mercy - Nine While Nine
Depeche Mode - Hole To Feed
Young Gods - Skinflowers ®
Curve - Split Into Fractions
O Children - Radio Waves
The Mission - Let Sleeping Dogs Die
Brendan Perry - Wintersun
Bauhaus - Hollow Hills (Rejected Album Mix)
Lycia - The Canal
In Strict Confidence - Eye Of Heaven
Suicide Commando - In Guns We Trust
Gary Numan - For The Rest Of My Life
Project pitchfork - Beholder
New Model Army - Wired
Coloursound - Under The Sound
Boris & Ian Astbury - Teeth & Claws
Killing Joke - Turn to Red
UK Decay - Revolutionary Love Song
Pink Turns Blue - Your Master Is Calling
Merciful Nuns - Year Zero (The Prophecy of the Filth World)
God Machine - Temptation (The Experimental Zen Mix)
Echo & The Bunnymen - All My Colours
Black Angels - You On The Run
The Doors - The End*
The Doors - When The Music's Over*

*In memory of Ray Manzarek

Dark Night In Luton 16.05.2013

Originally, I was going to state that I was expecting only a very small of support, being that the announcement for the night to go weekly was but two days previous, but luckily this was not to be the case, with probably one of the busiest nights since the last bank holiday!!

Anyway, after a shakey start, with the discovery that some clever chap had taken a pair of leads from the back of the uni...t, thus throwing me in a living hell for 15 minutes whilst trying to figure out why I had no sound (always check the obvious first!), all went extremely well and we all had a brilliant night, not actually finishing till midnight again.

So a very big thanks to everybody that showed up, and I hope to see you all again next week (23rd.)

Dead Can Dance - Children Of The Sun
Justin Sullivan - Ocean Rising
Garden Of Delight - Astral Traveler (Guardian at the Inner Temple)
The Merry Thoughts - The Sun and the Rainfall
The Wake - Deep Seventeen
Holy Barbarians - Bodhisattva
Fields Of The Nephilim - Laura
James Ray And The Performance - Mexican Sundown Blues
The Cure - La Ment
Killing Joke - You'll Never Get to Me
Adam & The Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier (First Version)
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Red Over White (Thorn EP)
Sisters Of Mercy - Black Planet
Aesthetic Perfection - Arsenic On The Rocks
Front 242 - Waste
Depeche Mode - John The Revelator (New York Rehearsal)
Click Click - Damage
U2 - Out Of Control
Human League - So Hurt
Duran Duran - New Religion
The Police - Walking On The Moon
Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers
Blondie - Union City Blue
Stray Cats - Runaway Boys
The Polecats - Jeepster
Spandau Ballet - Paint Me Down
Nine Inch Nails - Kinda I Want To
Ulterior - The Locus of Control
Partly Faithful - Stop
Echo & The Bunnymen - Rescure Me ®
Angel Theory - Decadent
Revolting Cocks - (Let's Get) Physical
Clan Of Xymox - Michelle
Faith & The Muse - The Silver Circle
Bauhaus - Mask
Merciful Nuns - The Maelstrom
God Machine - Ego
Hocico - I Want To Go To Hell
Covenant - We Stand Alone
UK Decay - I Feel Good
The Mission - Like A Hurricane
New Model Army - Green And Grey
Placebo - Running up That Hill
The Horrorpops - Kiss Kiss Kill Kill
The Cramps - She's Got Balls
Sex Gang Children - Barbarossa
Scarlet's Remains - That Was A Lie
The Stooges - I Wanna Be You Dog
The Specials - You're Wondering Now

Dark Night In Luton Presents 'Cure Galore' 2.5.2013

An enjoyable night I must say. As previously mentioned, I'm not a massive Cure fan, but the night flowed nicely, and I had a chance to catch up with friends, which is the main reason for the night isn't it!!! Not much else to say, but a very big thanks to all that supported the night, and hope to see more of you upon my return on the 30th May.

Watching Me Fall
Shake Dog Shake
Fascination Street
Lament (Flexipop Version)
Disintegration ®
Doing The Unstuck ®
More Than This
Other Voices
Jumping Someone Else's Train
Stop Dead
Fire In Cairo
This. Here And Now. With You
Like Cockatoos
Bloodflowers
A Letter To Elise
A Strange Day
Lovesong (Extended)
This Morning
Give Me It
One Hundred Years
Push ®
Burn
A Forest (live from 'Concert')
From The Edge Of The Deep Green
The Baby Screams
Charlotte Sometimes
Purple Haze
Faith
The Exploding Boy
39
The Figurehead
Club America
Play For Today
Labyrinth
Caterpiller ®
Kyoto Song
If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
Us Or Them
It Used To Be Me
Strange Attaction
10.15 Saturday Night

Dead & Buried 26.4.2013

One totally great night from start to finish. Of all the clubs I’ve DJed at before, D&B has always been my favorite. I think it has to do with the artistic license I’m given, plus I’ve always considered it to be the last refuge for more hardcore goth music in London. I always feel like I have to earn my night whilst playing, and although I sometimes felt like I’ve missed or not quite held the audience, Friday was not to be the case.

Playing in between Dick Venom & The Terrortones and after Partly Faithful, my style slotted very well inbetween very nicely, and with an eager, yet much younger crowd than I’m used to at D&B, the whole night just flowed perfectly. In fact, this was the first time in my DJ career that I had people applauding my songs throughout my set!!

It was great catching up with old friends, and making some new ones to boot! Our only regret was that we had to leave at 2.30am due to the trains, and that a new venue is currently being searched for D&B once again.

So my final thanks to Cavey Nik, both the great bands, and to the eager audience for making my weekend.

Set 1

Gorganas - Fucking USA ®

Die Selektion - Du Rennst

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Pure/Jigsaw Feeling

Merciful Nuns - Body of Light

Adam & The Ants - Physical (You're so)

Bloody Dead & Sexy - Friend In Mescalin

The Bolshoi - Giants

Jacquy Bitch - Louchard

Bauhaus - Terror Couple Kill Colonel (Remix)

Ulterior - Body Hammer

Set 2

New Days Delay - Stereo Katasatrophe

Joy Division - Warsaw

Qek Junior - Kurz Und Schmerzlos

Generation X - Your Generation

Violet Stigmata - Cut The Flesh Wires

Frustration - Your Body ®

Virgin Prunes - Caucasion Walk

Deadchovsky - Children of Tomorrow

Pussycat & The Dirty Johnsons - Afraid Of the Dark

Scarlet's Remains - A Desperate Action

Southern Death Cult - Fatman

Dark Night In Luton - Two Skulls Are Better Than One - 25.4.2013

Mmmm. Well, I suppose what with Whitby, the St.Albans goth stuff at the museum and the current round of the lurgy, we did reasonably well. But hell, not even the great weather could entice our alternative people out for a refreshing pint, so I guess in terms of swings and roundabouts, I think we were stuck at the bottom of the slide!! Still, myself and Hellfyre's DJ Gothydude kept plugging away at the eclectic, and what few people that were kind enough to support the night all had a very nice time thank you very much!!

Regardless, I'll be back to one skull again in time for weeks 'Cure Galore' night, so I hope to see a few more of the 61 people that have 'liked' the online page!

DJ Russ 8 - 8.30
Joy Division - No Love Lost
Alien Sex Fiend - My Brain is In Cupboard Above The Kitchen Sink
The Cramps - Primative
The Regents - Seventeen
Inca Babies - Opium Den
Bauhaus - Departure
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Lands End
Adam & The Ants - Deutscher Girls (Jubilee Version)

DJ Gothydude 8.30 - 9
The Pixies - Allison
Balaam & The Angel - I Show You Something Special
David Bowie - Fashion
New Order - Vanishing Point
Pink Turns Blue - Good Times
Sunshine Blind - Iran
Angels Of Liberty - Black Madonna
Bella Morte - Skin

DJ Russ 9 - 9.30
Goldblade - Out Of Control
Rezurex - Devil Woman From Outer Space
Elvis Presley - Trouble
Nine Inch Nails - The Becoming
Die Selektion - Du Rennst
Unkle - Hold My Hand
IAMX - Tear Garden
Ulterior - Sex War Sex Cars Sex

DJ Gothydude 9.30 - 10
Partly Faithful - Needles
The Cult - Dirty Little Rockstar
The Mission - Bridges Burning
The Drowning Season - Hollow
NFD - When The Sun Dies
The Marionettes - Ave Dementia (Millenium)
Solitary Experiements - A Rush of Ectasy

DJ Russ 10 - 10.30
Merciful Nuns - Hypogeum II
Project Pitchfork - Lament
KMFDM - Save Me
Big Electric Cat - Orchid Dreaming

DJ Gothydude 10.30 - 11
Plastique Noir - Rose Of Flesh & Blood
She Wants Revenge - Out Of Control
Inxs - Born To Be Wild
The March Violets - A Little Pink Thing
Revolting Cocks - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
Rammstein - Moskau

DJ Russ 11 - 11.30
Rosetta Stone - When The Levee Breaks
Killing Joke - The Raven King
Chaos AD - Judgement Day
The Cure - All Cats Are Grey
The Cult - Bone Bag
Angelo Badalamenti - Go Get Some
Fire Walk With Me OST - The Pink Room

Dark Night In Luton 4.4.2013

I must admit to starting off the night with absolutely no expectations at all. Following on from last weeks packed night, there was only one way to go, and with quite a few people awol, I wasn't really looking forward to the night. Thankfully I was proved very wrong, and in fact, had myself a brilliant night with some great friends.

Yes, support was very low, but that didn't stop the inspiration or the songs flowing, and all I can say is that those that missed out, missed out big time. I usually tend to stop playing around 11.30, but time evaded me and beforeI knew it, it was after 12am!!

Anyway, we're back on Thursday 25th April, with special guest DJ Gothydude from Bedfords Hellfyre club. Those not venturing off to Whitby are most welcome to join us.


Sex Pistols - Problem
The Killcreeps - Rotorculous
Inca Babies - Big Jugular
The Cramps - I Can Hardly Stand It
Cult Of the Psychic Fetus - Don't Look In The Basement
Time Zone - World Destruction
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Spinning Around
The Scientists - We Have Love
Rosetta Stone - Heart And Soul
This Sisters Of Mercy - This Corrosion (12")
This Burning Effigy - Bastardized
The Awakening - A Carnival Of Souls
The Cult - For The Animals
Devilish Presley - The Beast Must Die
Pussycat & The Dirty Johnsons - Orgasmic Pizza
Loop - This Is Where You End
Tool - 10,000 Days (Wings, Pt. 2)
IAMX - Walk With The Noise
The Mission - Dance on Glass
Peter Murphy - Velocity Bird
Monica Richards - Pride
Acid Horse - No Name, No Slogan
Adoration - Broken Sky
The Black Angels - Black Isn't Black
NFD - Darkness Falls
Killing Joke - Zennon
Fields Of the Nephilim - Dawnrazor ®
PiL - This Is PiL
Psychic TV - Hookah Chalice
Holy Barbarians - She
Seventh Harmonic - Transformation
Hocico - Hell On Earth
Project Pitchfork - Continuum
Marilyn Manson - ♠
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Let The Day Begin
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Song From The Edge of The World
Depeche Mode - Slow
New Model Army - Autumn
The Clash - English Civil War
Adam & The Ants - Fat Fun
John Lydon - The Rabbit Song
Foetus - First & Last & Always
Sex Gang Children - Dieche
Bauhaus - The Man With X-Ray Eyes
Alien Sex Fiend - Manic Depression
Gary Numan - In A Dark Place
John Foxx - Burning Car
UK Decay - Testament
Killing Joke - Turn To Red
Theatre Of Hate - Nero

Outro:-
Death Cult - Gods Zoo
The Fall - Mr. Pharmacist
Soft Cell - Bedsitter
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Fireworks
The Sisters Of Mercy - 1969

Dark Night in Luton - The Alternative 80s 28.3.13

A very big thanks to all that ventured out to last nights show. A tad slow start, but once the it kicked in, boy was it busy. In fact the night ended up like a mini 'Switch' reunion! (*must be over 40 to fully appreciate the comment!) Thanks also for the requests - makes my job a lot easier, even if I ended up playing for longer than usual, no that I'm complaining. Thoroughly enjoyed the night, even if I did end up covered in wine!

Anyway, I'll be back for the first on Aprils nights literally next week, with a slight bias towards John Lydon's various adventures, plus new tracks from the recently released Depeche Mode, IAMX and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's albums. Hope to see you there.

Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Duran Duran - Careless Memories
Public Image Ltd - Rise
Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement
Theatre Of Hate - Do You Believe In The Westworld
Sisters Of Mercy - Alice
Clan Of Xymox - Louise
Tears For Fears - Change
Japan - European Son
Joy Division - Dead Souls
March Violets - Grooving In Green
Big Black - Kerosene
Blancmange - Feel Me
Human League - Hard Times
Hazel O'Conner - D Days
U2 - Gloria
Play Dead - Propaganda
The Fall - Ghost In My House
The Cult - Go West (Crazy Spinning Circles)
The Chameleons - Up The Down Escalator
Xmal Deutschland - Qual
Teardrop Explodes - Treason
Adam & The Ants - Dog Eat Dog
Killing Joke - Adorations
New Model Army - No Rest
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
Bauhaus - Spirit
A Split Second - Mambo Witch ®
Simple Minds - Thirty Frames Per Second
Dramatis - Love Needs No Disguise
Spear Of Destiny - Never Take Me Alive
Magazine - Sweetheart Contract
The Pixies - Velouria ®
Propaganda - P-Machinery
The Passions - I'm In Love With A German Filmstar
Lotus Eaters - First Picture Of You
The Cult - Rain ®
Gene Loves Jezebel - Desire (Come and get it)
The Bolshoi - TV Man
Fields Of The Nephilim - Moonchild
Re-Flex - The Politics Of Dancing
Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
King - Love & Pride
Echo & The Bunnymen - Do It Clean
Cocteau Twins - Wax And Wane
Flowerpot Men - Jo's So Mean ®
Blondie - Call Me ®
The Cure - A Forest
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Christine ®
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Messages
The Associates - Club Country
Split Enz - I Got You
The Ramones - Baby, I Love You
Classix Nouveaux - Is It A Dream?
Killing Joke - Lust Almighty ®
Soft Cell - Say Hello Wave Goodbye
Toyah - It’s A Mystery
Visage - Mind Of A Toy
Ultravox - Vienna
The Piranhas - Tom Hark