IDK how much I should explain here, but I’m just going to assume that we don’t have the same timeline and don’t hear all the same music in our scrolls. Confidence Man is an Australian dance-pop group with a weirdo KLF sensibility. If you go to my DJ gigs, you’ve probably heard “Angry Girl” many, many times, often with The Rapture “House of Jealous Lovers.” Jade Thirlwall is a British singer who I don’t really know much about outside of the Wikipedia entry I read. Last month, they released a song called “Gossip” that’s fire. It’s very Basement Jaxx-meets-Princess Superstar. I finally got around to playing it last week at Underground and it did pretty well. This week, it did even better.
Most of the new tunes turned up early in the set: Alison Goldfrapp “Find Xanadu,” Pulp “Got to Have Love,” Ora the Molecule “Nobody Cares,” etc. I don’t even know what really constitutes “new” anymore, but we’ll save that rant for another day. Thanks to Larry G. for having me play Underground last night and thanks to everyone who hit the dance floor, especially those of you who stuck it out until the end of “My Girls.” Set list is below.
Depeche Mode – The Sun and the Rainfall
Golden Boy – Rippin Kittin
Book of Love – Boy
Sally Shapiro – Rent
Gorillaz, Stevie Nicks – Oil
Alison Goldfrapp – Find Xanadu
Vicious Pink – Can’t You See
Cut Copy – Hearts on Fire
Hot Chip – Ready for the Floor
Pulp – Got to Have Love
Edwyn Collins – Girl Like You
The Smiths – Boy with the Thorn in His Side
Fontaines D.C. – Here’s the Thing
The Horrors – Something to Remember Me By
Hercules and Love Affair – Blind
Orange the Molecule – Nobody Cares
Yaz – Don’t Go
New Order – The Perfect Kiss
Duran Duran – Planet Earth
Spandau Ballet – To Cut a Long Story Short
Peaches – Boys Want to Be Her
The Smiths – Hand in Glove
The Strokes – Juiceboxx
Bloc Party – Banquet
The Cure – Primary
Joy Division – Digital
Le Tigre – Deceptacon
Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
Depeche Mode – Strangelove
New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle
Human league – Don’t You Want Me (Purple Disco Machine remix)
Boy Harsher – Machina
Mason, Princess Superstar – Perfect
The Rapture – House of Jealous Lovers
Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams
Benny Bennasi – Satisfaction
Kittin, The Hacker- Frank Sinatra
Trans X – Living on Video
Bronski Beat- Smalltown Boy
Real Life – Send Me an Angel
Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Round
Stacey Q – Two of Hearts
New Order – Blue Monday
Sextile – Women Respond to Bass
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix)
Phoenix – 1901
The Cure – Lovesong
Interpol – Heinrich Maneuver (request)
She Wants Revenge – Tear You Apart
Soft Cell – Sex Dwarf
B Movie – Nowhere Girl
Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
Killers – Mr. Brightside
Pulp – Common People
The Smiths – There Is a Light
Robyn – Dancing On My Own
Yaz – Situation
Crystal Castles, Health – Crimewave
Justice, Simian – We Are Your Friends
Kyle Minogue – Can’t Get Blue Monday Out of My Head
Confidence Man, Jade – Gossip
Blur – Girls and Boys
Tame Impala – Is it True?
Depeche Mode – Everything Counts
M83 – Midnight City
White Town -Your Woman
Chumbawamba – Tubthumping
Nine Inch Nails – Closer
Fontaines D.C. – Starburster
MGMT – Time to Pretend
Amy Winehouse – You Know I’m No Good
Animal Collective – My Girls
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