Yasmin's 30th Birthday Kerfuffle 30.7.2011

I don't usually play birthday events, but this time was different.

Basically I was given the challenge of playing a collection of a friends favourite songs I'm not familar with, but I love to hear new music/styles at any time and greatfully accepted. I also had to intertwine the occasional Mowtown song as well! Not easy considering the many different styles I was faced with.

Usually, I'm given some artistic license, but after doing my homework and finding so many good songs, I found little time to slip in any of my own ideas throughout the night! Regardless, the birthday girl seemed more than happy, although I'm sure the copious amount of red wine consumed somwehat helped, and it certainlt makes a pleasant change from playing goth and industrial all night!


DJ Nephilimbabe 8.15pm - 11.30pm
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Beirut - Postcards From Italy
Elbow - One Day Like This
Thom Yorke - Hearing Damage
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Going To A Go-Go
Nick Cave - Did Lazerus Dig
Beck - Devils Haircut
Beastie Boys - So What'cha Want
Death From Above 1979 - Black History Mouth
The Lemonheads - Rockin' Stroll
The Flaming Lips - Free Radicals
Roxy Music - Love is the Drug
Velvelettes - Really Saying Something
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Dear Prudence
The Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Whatever Happened To My Rock n' Roll
IAMX - NIghtlife
New Order - Temptation
Gomez - Whippin' Picadilly
She Wants Revenge - Tear You Apart
Groove Armada - Look Me In The Eye Sister
Jesus & Mary Chain - Far Gone & Out
Kasabian - Vlad The Impaler
The White Stripes - Ball And Biscuit
The Black Angels - Young Dead Men
The Black Keys - Have Love will Travel
Nouvelle Vague - Too Drunk To Fuck
The Killers- Shadowplay
Urge Overkill - Girl, You'll Be A Woman Now
The Cure - Exploding Boy
Manic Street Preachers - La Tristesse Durera
The Temptations - Get Ready
Monaco - What Do You Want From Me?
Kyuss - Gardenia
Alice in Chains - Would
Deftones - Minerva
Faith No More - Midlife Crisis
Blind Melon - No Rain
Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole
Chapel Club - Surfacing
The Cult - The Witch (Full Version)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay
Tears For Fears - Mad World
Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink
Shakin' Stevens - Green Door
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Altered Images - Happy Birthday
Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf
Queen with David Bowie - Under Pressure
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Nowhere To Run

Updates

Well, as most of you know that The Coven is currently on hiatus, which leaves me free for a couple of months to take it easy. But let's face it, both CovenAlex and I have been enteraining you on the second Saturday of the month for the last nine years, so its about time we took a break!

But in the meantime, and for those that can't wait until the next Coven, I've been kindly invited back in August to play Bedfords alternative night - "Hellfyre".

It would be great to see a good number of 'willing sinners' coming out ot support the night. Hope to see you all then.

RADIOACTIVE MUTANT CORPSE BANK HOLIDAY ALLDAYER! 29.5.2011.

Not quite the alldayer for myself, as I didn't get there until nearly 8pm, but beers were drunk, friends were present, and chaos was always going to be the theme of the night. I was originally promised to DJ for an hour, but after previously witnessing othe nights at Teh george IInd, its usually a case of turning up and seeing what happens!

Still, what else are you gonna do on a boring bank holiday Sunday evening? So a fun night was had, and kudos to all that played a part in the day/night and cheers to Gary Stevens/Plant Pot for inviting me to play.

DJ Nephilimbabe - 9ish
Night Of The Living Dead OST - At The Gravesite
Cult Of The Psychic Fetus - Orgy of The Dead
Nachtmahr - I Believe In Blood
Agent X - Bad Girls Go To Hell
Psychonauts - Ghoul Friend
Gorganas - Manada Insomne
Shadow Reichenstein - Wakin' The Dead
Katscan - Damn You All To Hell
Ministry - Deadguy

The Alternative Wedding Rehearsal Night 28.4.2011

At last, my first post of 2011.

After three annoying no-shows at previous planned nights (through last minute cancelations and other excuses) finally, a night that goes well. But in this business, its usually a case of if you don't ask, you don't get, so nothing ventured, nothing gained.

So, as usual, we find a hyped media occasion, and exploit the hell out of it for your own benefits! In this case, another day that makes you so proud to be a British tax payer - the royal wedding, but I like to think more of it in our case as putting the 'hearse' back into rehearsal.

Regardless of our unfortunate outdated monarchistic system (is that a word?) The George IInd rocked its way through the night with a great collection of friends, past and present, mixed together with a chilled selection of indie, goth, horrorpunk and a few other songs I never get the chance to play. Basically, it was perfect from start to finish and I couldn't of asked for a better night, so thank you all very much for joining me.

DJ Nephilimbabe 8pm - 11.30pm
Sun Dial - Send/Coming Down
Swervedriver - Never Lose That Feeling/Never Learn
Verve - Gravity Grave [Glastonbury 93]
Black Angels - Young Dead Men
Ian Astbury - Tyger
The Eden House - All My Love
Garden of Delight - Fallen Angels
Kula Shaker - Raagy One (Waiting For Tomorrow)
New Model Army - Autumn
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Red Eyes And Tears
Fun Lovin' Criminals - Smoke 'Em
Faith & The Muse - Sparks
Killing Joke - The Raven King
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Xray Spex - Germ Free Adolesence ®
Massive Attack - Karmacoma
Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
The Cure - Snakepit
Sisters of Mercy - Sandstorm
Fields Of The Nephilim - Dawnrazor ®
Cocteau Twins - Persephone
Loop - Be Here Now
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary (Extended)
The Fall - Blindness
O Children - Ruins
The Mission - Dream On
Brenden Perry - The Bogus Man
All About Eve - Lady Moonlight
Joy Division - Shadowplay
Frankenstein - Thunderjug
Queen Adreena - Wolverine
CRUD - Londe Del Amore
Blitzkid - Dying Day
Shadow Reichenstein - Dracula Built My Hotrod
Psychocharger - Return of The One Percenter
The Torpedoes - Suicide Lullaby
Inca Babies - Big Jugular
The Doors - Back Door Man
AC/DC - She's Got Balls
Led Zeppelin - You Shook Me

Outro - Sisters of Mercy - Untitled ®

Hellfyre (Bedford) - Xmas Eve - Friday 24th December 2010

A very chilly xmas night, and probably the quickest DJ slot I've ever done! Anyway, thanks very much to Chris & Kate for letting me be a part fo the Hellfyre team once more, and to my good friends Scott & Eilish for the lift to Bedford, and more importantly, back again!

Esquires will now be closed for 'refurbishment' so who knows when the next event will be. All I know is the last seven months of Hellfyres have been very enjoyable for all involved and if you didn't attend any of them, then you really missed out.

That's it for me DJ wise in 2010 (and I hear your sighs of relief!) What few guest slots I've done have all been really good fun, so fingers crossed for 2011 that I'm more busier. As usual, thanks to all those that have supported me, especially at The Coven.

DJ Nephilimbabe 11pm - 12am
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Joan Of Arc
The Wildhearts - White Christmas
Marilyn Manson - Rock Is Dead
New Model Army - 51st State
Combichrist - This Shit Will Fuck You Up
Primal Scream - Rocks
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
Rammstein - Feuer Frei
Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Passenger
Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills
Human League - Don't You Want Me
David Bowie - The Jene Genie ®
The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody

Clockwork - Friday 17th December 2010 (Luton, G2)

It’s been a long while to wait since the June night was cancelled due to the poxy world cup, but it was sure worth the wait. As expected with such a busy line-up, I was asked to pretty much go first. I got to play for a bit longer than expected, which is always great in my book, especially with so many of the songs being 5 minutes plus!

As any enjoyable set goes, it ended all too soon, and I left the night in the very capable hands of organisers Callum and Belinda to host the three great bands:- WILDLIFE / SPIKED & GUN CRIME.

As always, I hope to invited back in the new year for more of the psychedelic stuff.

DJ Nephilimbabe – 8.20 -9pm

Link Wray And His Ray Men - Rumble

Thee Hypnotics - Justice In Freedom

The Doors - Five to One

The Black Angels - Prodigal Son

Big Brother & The Holding Company - Summertime

Dead Weather - I Cut Like A Buffalo

The Headstones - 24 Hours

Loop - The Nail Will Burn

The Daybreakers - Psychedelic Siren

Cult Of The Psychic Fetus - You Can Make It If You Run

Frankenstein - Black Lung

Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love

Small Paul's Phabulous Party Phenomenon III - Saturday 20th November 2010

Had I said that the previous nights were chaos? Well, not compared to tonight!

I arrived circa 8pm to find Flexo Chris in his usual state of lost. Once again, his mobile phone (with backing tracks) and leads were nowhere to be found. I then found out that the ODC drummer wasn’t going to arrive till around 10.30pm. So much for structure.

I wanted to start the night at 9pm, but thanks to the jukebox and the G2s reluctance to turn it off, I had to threaten to walk before I finally got to start. Luckily Tinitus Pete had arrived on time, which is more that could be said about our actual host! Flexo Chris finally arrived 90 minutes later and after a brief sound check, we got underway. Once again, the DJ mixer was fucked and I occasionally had to manually tweak the cables to get both channels to work! Audience wise, we were a bit quiet to begin with, but the night soon picked up. ODC played a magnificent set, and a great night finally transpired. Before I knew it, it was kicking out time!

Thanks to everybody that showed up. We’ve no plans to do anymore this year, but ‘look out’ 2011!

DJ Nephilimbabe
The Black Angels - Prodigal Son
Loop - The Nail Will Burn
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Whatever Happened To My Rock 'n' Roll
The Guilty Hearts - Ain't That Good Of Man
The Heptanes - Phantom Cadillac

Flexo

DJ Nephilimbabe
Pussycat & The Johnsons - Boogie Woman
Godflesh - Hunter
God Machine - Tremolo Song
The Cult - Wolf Child Blues

Tinitus Karaoke

DJ Nephilimbabe
The Deathriders - Mexican Radio
Frankenstein - Black Lung
Dead Kennedys - Police Truck
The Exploited - Fuck The System

ODC

DJ Nephilimbabe
Ministry - Supermaniac Soul
Alice In Chains - Them Bones
Rammstein - Wollt Ihr Das Bett In Flammen Sehen
Faith No More - War Pigs
The Animals - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
The Cure - Just Like Heaven