{"id":754,"date":"2004-08-07T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-07T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=754"},"modified":"2010-08-13T00:03:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T23:03:46","slug":"754","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/754\/","title":{"rendered":"DJing at How Does It Feel To Be Loved"},"content":{"rendered":"

King of hangovers!<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s about a zillion degrees right now, my head throbs like a wobbling rubber monster from Dr Who and I feel like I’ve slept about two minutes. On a pointy rock.<\/p>\n

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And the reason for my hangover is the aftermath of my first ever ‘guest DJ’ slot at the excellent How Does It Feel To Be Loved<\/a> last night.<\/p>\n

It’s a 60s\/indie type club and trying to please their highly fickle crowd for over 90 minutes was a tough call, but I think I just about pulled it off.<\/p>\n

My DJ slot started quietly as the club slowly filled up. A German bloke with a curious wander-around-the-dance-floor dance routine would occasionally loom close to the DJ booth and mumble, “Vill you play some indie pop?” before shuffling away again.<\/p>\n

Slowly, the dance floor grew busier – I was doing something right! But when I said the crowd was fickle, I wasn’t joking!<\/p>\n

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Morrissey’s excellent ‘First of the Gang To Die’ set the dance floor alight, and – confident that I was now capturing the zeitgeist<\/em> of the crowd, I whipped up the dance frenzy with a storming KLF single.<\/p>\n

Uh oh. Big mistake. The second the ‘Mu Mu’ chorus burst forth, the dance floor cleared quicker than a rocket assisted cheetah and I was left to hastily revise my playlist.<\/p>\n

Out went my collection of sophisticated ‘ironic’ hits from Frank, Elvis, Shirley and Tom, the ska bonanza was consigned to the back of the record bag and there wasn’t a hope of Goldie Lookin’ Chains single making contact with the stylus.<\/p>\n

So, like a brazen slut, I played safe and slapped on the Cure, Smiths, Strokes, Pulp and Franz Ferdinand and all was well on the dance floor. Phew!<\/p>\n

For the first time I began to realise just how tough a job DJing can be and learnt one big lesson: bring more records next time!<\/strong><\/p>\n

A nice end to the night was meeting several Monochrome Set fans who had turned up to see me (I played drums on their Dante’s Casino<\/a> album).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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