At the Club Republik in Second Life tonight there is a special Bootie SL – Amanda Shinji is DJing from 3am UK / 7am SL then live link up with Bootie in San Francisco as usual with Keela Latte hosting and – with a special twist: the Second Life club is being shown live on the screens at Bootie SF!

I’m going along to wave some HELLO MUM! and TUNE! signs and have designed a tshirt specially…hope to see you there?

Apols for the late notice but was out on the razz with Lee Spoons, Robb, Ian Fondue and lady Naomi and Jez CMP…was planning to let you know before this. I iz slightly drunk…;-)

It went really well – slightly odd crowd though, one that wanted rock and responded well to metal (?) but everything had to be HITS! HITS! HITS! and nothing even slightly unknown – not even indie classics…they ended an hour early since a few people got way too shitfaced and had to be wheeled out – Pride?

Overall a much more pop set than I usually play – partly cos the crowd was schizoid, even the CAP fulltime DJs were saying that, I couldn’t risk anything too not really well known although I did once with the Jesus and Mary Chain which Kirk wanted, it bombed (although the people working there loved it!)…but they didn’t even like Bowie’s Rebel Rebel that much. Odd. Hence the more rocky/indie set, not my usual comfort zone but hey…and very glad that Kirk convinced me to take the Junior/Senior as it ended up the suprise best reaction track along with Song2, Holiday and 9 to 5 which I knew would go down well.

But we ended up with more people dancing than I started with, so overall a success!

Ended up a 30 mins set – rough order:

1. Kylie – Your Disco Needs You (Casino radio mix)*
2. Black Kids – I’m Not Going To Teach My Boyfriend To Dance With You
3. Blur – Song 2**
4. Breeders – Cannonball
5. Vampire Weekend – Holiday**
6. Jesus and Mary Chain – Far Gone and Out
7. MGMT – Time to Pretend**
8. Bowie – Rebel Rebel
9. Junior/Senior – Move Your Feet
10. Dolly Parton – 9 to 5**

* my one of two concessions to Pride, was going to go into I Am What I Am – Gloria Gaynor for pure DISCO GAYness but schizo crowd said no to this – in fact a rainbow-badged Parader came up and asked for something ‘happy’ after this song. Eh? Got requests for Erasure too as well as Bob Marley, Courteeners (!) and a Prof Green song – none of these I had – nor probably would play.

** They loved this, sang along or went mad. Was going to end on Marilyn Monroe’s I Want To Make Love To You – Kirk’s brilliant idea, I think that would go down a bomb at say Duckie or Marvellous – but decided the crowd would not have gotten it.

Was also going to play Kelis – Acapella but it got played before by a previous DJ, also didn’t play a mashup I was planning to nor De La Soul’s Roller Skating Jam. Was thinking about a De La Soul – Ring Ring A Hey Hey > Lady Gaga – Telephone but again the latter got played before.

Might do a podcast of the played and unplayed tracks…

Just a quick note that myself and Kirk (his DJ debut) are DJing tag-team/A-Team style (including the breaking out of a high security prison most likely) set at one of my favourite clubs in the world ‘Crimes Against Pop’ this Saturday 3rd July which is a great honour.

Not sure yet what time we are on, so arrive early as it starts at 10pm at the Buffalo Bar – right next to Highbury & Islington station so there is no excuse! Well be spinning an eclectic set of pop, indie, disco and house tunes (with of course the emphasis on POP!), with some camp slightly-faded-yet-fun grandeur thrown in as it is also Pride!

Me at CAP in March – I promise to be more sober than this when we DJ…well at least Kirk will be cos he can’t drink that night..haha!

Scott, who long-term Radio Clash listeners will remember co-hosting various RC shows including the excellent Ghey Metal Shows #1 and #2 and Suck Satan’s Cock shows is just produced the first proper Gay Ass Rock Show – his long awaited solo podcast since the sad demise of the much-missed Night Nurse Show. Woo!

There are also some good pilot episodes where he was demoing the setup which although not as polished are well worth listening to – so if you enjoyed the Ghey Metal Shows or The Night Nurse Show, or just like good metal and rock like I do, I’m sure you’ll enjoy these too

Haven’t got round to doing a full Bootie London debrief – namely it was a great night and went really well, very mad…A&D, Payroll, Kleptones all rocked the house and it was packed – and even the Videotones vids made an appearance during The Kleptones set!

Talking of Mr Kleptone, he tipped me this dubstep simian mashup/remix/remake of TC’s Where’s My Money by Parker and said ‘you’ll post that on Radio Clash in about 5 minutes after seeing it’. He was correct ;-D