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     Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 136 Registered: 11-2004 |
I have a monthly event upstairs at Ric's on the last Friday of each of those months called THE LICORICE LOUNGE. Each month, I try to find a celebrity to play some of their favourite (danceable) songs and this month sees the co-founder of the popular Brisbane pop combo, The Go-Betweens at the wheels of steel. Next Friday the 28th sees DJ McLennan spinning records alongside Mark E. Moon in what promises to be an interesting night of dance music! It starts off at 8pm, so be early as DJ McLennan is on first. Ric's is located in the Brunswick St in the heart of the Fortitude Valley mall. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 376 Registered: 05-2005 |
get me a set list!!!!!!!! | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 106 Registered: 11-2004 |
Does anyone have the set DJ McLennan performed in Glasgow last May ? :-) | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 314 Registered: 04-2005 |
I'm really curious to hear if he's at all into modern dance music, hip-hop, etc. His clothes and last tour's guitarless "Cattle and Cane" stage moves make me suspect he might be. | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 137 Registered: 11-2004 |
I'll get a 'set list' and post it on here. I'm hoping it'll be similar to David McComb's mixtapes. Has anyone tried to replicate one of them? They flow quite well - who would have thought that artists like Randy Newman and Snoop Doggy Dogg go well on a tape together..? | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 283 Registered: 08-2004 |
I wonder if GM is considered hip enough to have one of those Back To Mine style compilations released? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 365 Registered: 03-2005 |
Donat, the McComb tapes sound interesting. I've never heard them. It figures he'd be that diverse. I wonder if he got that from Perth radio when he was a kid. In California in the 60s, AM top 40 radio would send you careening from the Yardbirds to Buck Owens to Petula Clark to Frank Sinatra to James Brown and then off to Dylan. That was the norm because there were very few niche stations. It meant that you groaned every few songs but it had its effect; you developed a much wider range of musical awareness. I doubt that I would have ever gotten into soul but for that. Grant's list will be interesting. I'm hoping he doesn't try to be too "cool" by biasing things too much toward the new and trendy and leaving out old favorites. And I'd love to find out what those old favorites might be. | ||
| Jonathan Member Username: Jonathan Post Number: 25 Registered: 08-2004 |
Here's DJ McLennan's set from Glasgow, last May: Maggie's Farm - Bob Dylan Heavy Soup - Cornershop Venus - Television Down On The Corner - Creedence Clearwater Revival Papa Was A Rolling Stone - The Temptations Kid - The Pretenders Hanging On The Telephone - Blondie I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash The Jean Genie - David Bowie Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard - Paul Simon Walking On Thin Ice - Yoko Ono Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan School's Out - Alice Cooper Wogs Will Walk - Cornershop Freddy's Dead - Curtis Mayfield Suspended from Class - Camera Obscura Roll Away The Stone - Mott The Hoople Good Lovin' - The Rascals | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 293 Registered: 08-2004 |
Ernest & Julio Down By The Schoolyard, Paul Simon's nadir. Venus by Television - absolute genius | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 378 Registered: 03-2005 |
So many candidates, Jerry. What about "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover" as Simon's nadir? I can't hear that one without going into seizures. | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 110 Registered: 11-2004 |
Blimey! I never thought I'd see Grant's setlist from last May...interesting! Good on yer Jonathan, Many Thanks. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 403 Registered: 05-2005 |
See Television in there, I notice on the lost album that both robert and grant sound like tom verlaine clones, its a wondeful album that, the influence stretches right back. I can see Grant's style of rhythmic guitar playing in Curtis Mayfield stuff too. Walking on thin ice, ah, the idosyncaticness? I can imagine Robert singing that. Actually, Billy Mackenzie did a version with Josef K's Paul Haig 20 years ago at a couple of gigs in Scotland. To say it was a mind blowing version is a gross understatement, I have seriously never heard anything like this in my entire life, Billy Mackenzie towards the end of the song is unbelievable, his range and weirdness, oh Billy, come back Billy...  |