What I played at the Manic Street Preachers gig, Southampton Guildhall, 2nd June 2015

Third time around, I almost completely scrapped the stuff I’d played at the previous two Holy Bible gigs (only a handful of songs survive), stopped trying to be clever with it, and went for the jugular by playing popular tunes from my various club nights (Stay Beautiful, Spellbound). Partly to avoid boringness for my own sake, but also because I was very aware that the hardcore fan contingent at the barrier were going to all the gigs and I didn’t want it to get repetitive for them.

The Sisters Of Mercy – Fix

The Velvet Underground – Venus In Furs

Johnny Cash – Hurt

Marilyn Monroe – I Wanna Be Loved By You

Siouxsie And The Banshees – Hong Kong Garden (Marie Antoinette version)

The Stooges – No Fun

Adam And The Ants – Fall In

Huggy Bear – Her Jazz

Guns N’ Roses – Welcome To The Jungle

The Clash – Safe European Home

McCarthy – Should The Bible Be Banned?

PJ Harvey – Dress

New Model Army – Vengeance

Black Sabbath – Paranoid

Nirvana – Breed

British Sea Power – Waving Flags

Stereolab – Ping Pong

Roxy Music – Virginia Plain

Killing Joke – Eighties

Marilyn Manson – The Beautiful People

Sex Pistols – Pretty Vacant

Shampoo – Bouffant Headbutt

Mansun – Stripper Vicar

The Rolling Stones – Undercover Of The Night

Faith No More – We Care A Lot

Goldfrapp – Strict Machine (Paris Loaded mix)

Happy Mondays – W.F.L. (Vince Clarke remix)

Public Enemy & Anthrax – Bring The Noise

Alice In Chains – Them Bones

Sid Vicious – My Way

David Bowie – Heroes

What I played at the Manic Street Preachers gig, Wolverhampton Civic, 1st June 2015

A bit of a cabinet reshuffle of the pre-Holy Bible set I played at Manchester last year. Some of the same songs, and some new entries. Finished with “War Pigs” because Wire and I were chatting about Sabbath beforehand, and they soundchecked with it…

David Bowie – Speed Of Life

New Order – Ceremony

Bauhaus – Double Dare

Siouxsie And The Banshees – Mittageisen (Metal Postcard)

Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box

Sleez Sisters – Your Daughter Is One

Mansun – Being A Girl

Soundgarden – Spoonman

Kanye West – Black Skinhead

Marilyn Manson – New Model No.15

The Pop Group – We Are All Prostitutes

The Cure – Primary

Public Image Ltd – Public Image

The Jam – Funeral Pyre

Public Enemy – Night Of The Living Baseheads

Simple Minds – I Travel

Big Country – Where The Rose Is Sown

British Sea Power – Waving Flags

Dead Kennedys – California Uber Alles

Guns N’ Roses – It’s So Easy

Stiff Little Fingers – Suspect Device

Magazine – Shot By Both Sides

The Redskins – Keep On Keepin’ On

McCarthy – Should The Bible Be Banned?

Nine Inch Nails – Hurt

The Mighty Wah! – Come Back

Flowered Up – It’s On

The Rolling Stones – Street Fighting Man

Sex Pistols – Holidays In The Sun

X-Ray Spex – Identity

Black Sabbath – War Pigs

DJ set – Desert Island Mix, Brighton 03/04/2015

Another day, another DJ set. Here’s what I played at DESERT ISLAND MIX at The Bee’s Mouth, where there was no theme other than the very best-of-the-best, in whatever genre. (But inevitably I played stuff that I was ‘feeling’ on the day, and/or stuff that I thought might please a crowd of Good Friday drinkers.) Two sets of 20 mins each. And I must remember the “Uptown Top Ranking”/ “Let The Music Play” “Kiss” 1-2-3, cos it got everyone up and sent them nuts. Anyway, here it is, BAM…

FIRST SET 10.00pm-10.20pm

David Bowie – Speed Of Life

The Specials – Do The Dog

Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – (Love Is Like A) Heatwave

Public Enemy – Bring The Noise

Dexys Midnight Runners – There There My Dear

Sheila & B. Devotion – Spacer

The Smiths – William, It Was Really Nothing

SECOND SET 11.40pm-0.00am

Althea & Donna – Uptown Top Ranking

Shannon – Let The Music Play

Prince & The Revolution – Kiss

Electric Light Orchestra – Don’t Bring Me Down

T. Rex – Jeepster

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – The Tears Of A Clown

The Rolling Stones – Miss You

Laibach DJ set, 30/03/2015

It was nothing but wonderful to reacquaint myself with LAIBACH after a gap of 20+ years last night. Their new stuff sounds like Propaganda (which is never a bad thing), and the old stuff (esp. “Tanz Mit Laibach” and the Queen one) was phenomenal. And I liked the way they made Dylan’s “Ballad Of A Thin Man” sound like a Bond theme, and the pre-recorded “No Sieg-Heiling Please” before the Iron Sky one. Anyway, HERE’S WHAT I PLAYED in my DJ set of Industrial Standards, Homo-erotic EBM, Orchestral Goth and Holocaust Rock.

Beforehand, the band’s manager explained to me that they’d want a break of 15 or 20 minutes of their own pre-recorded background music between me and Laibach, depending on what sort of stuff I was gonna play. So I told him what I was gonna play, and he said “OK, 20 minutes, then”, which made me laugh. (I wasn’t offended. They must get Industrial’s Greatest Hits everywhere they go, and I can see why they’d want to cleanse the palate of Ministry an’ that, to ease us into Laibach-world.) My favourite bit was when I played the Slovenian national anthem and the Laibach crew shouted “Yeah! Come on!”. Oh and when I played some Rammstein and the Laibach manager came over and said “Is this us?” (Ouch.)

Slovenian national anthem – Zdravljica

Rammstein – Ohne Dich (Mina Harker’s Version – remix by Laibach)

Manic Street Preachers – The Intense Humming Of Evil

Bauhaus – Double Dare

Cranes – Inescapable

Siouxsie And The Banshees – Overground

Marilyn Manson – mOBSCENE (Rammstein remix)

Cop Shoot Cop – $10 Bill

Killing Joke – Follow The Leaders

D.A.F. – Der Mussolini

The Young Gods – Longue Route (Remix)

Einsturzende Neubauten – Yu Gung (Futter Mein Ego) (Adrian Sherwood remix)

Sheep On Drugs – Track X

Nitzer Ebb – Let Your Body Learn

Nine Inch Nails – March Of The Pigs

Ministry – N.W.O.

The Sisters Of Mercy – Vision Thing

…and I had plenty more where that came from. Apologies to the two people who asked for Skinny Puppy. I don’t know why I didn’t bring any with me. Total brainwrong.

What I played at The Charlatans gig in Worthing, Sun 15 Mar 2015

The Elgins – Heaven Must Have Sent You

Cliff Nobles – The Horse

Mary Wells – You Beat Me To The Punch

Mel & Tim – Backfield In Motion

Barbara Mills – Queen Of Fools

Wayne Gibson – Under My Thumb

(Grasshopper live)

Brenton Wood – Gimme Little Sign

Yvonne Baker – You Didn’t Say A Word

Dusty Springfield – I Can’t Wait Till I See My Baby’s Face

The Honey Cone – Girls It Ain’t Easy

7 Dwarfs – Stop Girl

Martha Reeves And The Vandellas – I’m Ready For Love

The Javells featuring Nosmo King – Goodbye, Nothing To Say

Dobie Gray – Out On The Floor

The Isley Brothers – Behind A Painted Smile

(Grumbling Fur live)

Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – You’re All I Need To Get By

The Tomangoes – I Really Love You

Etta James – Tell Mama

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – (Come Round Here) I’m The One You Need

Limmie & Family Cookin’ – You Can Do Magic

The Shirelles – Last Minute Miracle

Nina Simone – I Ain’t Got No… I Got Life

Love Unlimited – Under The Influence Of Love

Carol Douglas – Doctor’s Orders

Freda Payne – Deeper And Deeper

Chairmen Of The Board – Working On A Building Of Love

Frankie Valli – You’re Ready Now

Stevie Wonder – I Was Made To Love Her

(The Charlatans live)

The Supremes – Up The Ladder To The Roof

Jimmy Radcliffe – Long After Tonight Is All Over

Viola Wills – Run To The Nearest Exit

(curfew)

WHAT I PLAYED IN MY DJ SET BEFORE THE MANICS HOLY BIBLE GIG IN MANCHESTER

Kraftwerk – Radioaktivitat

Cranes – Starblood

Bauhaus – Double Dare

Johnny Cash – Hurt

These New Puritans – Attack Music

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – The Mercy Seat

Sleez Sisters – Your Daughter Is One

Nymphs – Sad And Damned

Suede – Killing Of A Flash Boy

The Fall – Neighbourhood Of Infinity

Savages – Hit Me

Future Of The Left – Robocop 4: Fuck Off Robocop

Public Image Ltd – The Flowers Of Romance

The Cure – One Hundred Years

Magazine – Shot By Both Sides

The Skids – Circus Games

David Bowie – Always Crashing In The Same Car

Killing Joke – Let’s All Go To The Fire Dances

Sonic Youth – Youth Against Fascism

The Redskins – Keep On Keepin’ On

Public Enemy – Night Of The Living Baseheads

Goldfrapp – Train

Joy Division – Atmosphere

Mansun – Being A Girl

Simple Minds – I Travel

Nine Inch Nails – March Of The Pigs

Dead Kennedys – Holiday In Cambodia

Nirvana – Breed

Guns N’ Roses – It’s So Easy

Status Quo – In The Army Now

Alice In Chains – Them Bones

The Clash – Safe European Home

(and the first few crunch-crunch-crunch footsteps of Sex Pistols’ Holidays In The Sun)

WHAT I MIGHT ALSO HAVE PLAYED IF THE GIG WAS DELAYED BY AN HOUR FOR SOME WEIRD REASON: Adam & The Ants – Zerox, Big Country – Where The Rose Is Sown, British Sea Power – Waving Flags, Dexys Midnight Runners – There There My Dear, Echo & The Bunnymen – The Cutter, Faith No More – We Care A Lot, Gang Of Four – At Home He’s A Tourist, Hole – Violet, Interpol – Slow Hands, The Jam – Funeral Pyre, The Jesus And Mary Chain – Sidewalking, Marilyn Manson – New Model No. 15, New Model Army – Vengeance, Placebo – Nancy Boy, The Rolling Stones – Street Fighting Man, Scritti Politti – Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin), Siouxsie And The Banshees – Spellbound, The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead, Soundgarden – Spoonman, Stiff Little Fingers – Suspect Device, The Stooges – No Fun, Kanye West – Black Skinhead, X Ray Spex – Identity

Simon Price – Writer, Broadcaster, DJ – official website

My official website is now live: http://www.simonprice.dj. Have a look around. I hope you’ll find something to enjoy.

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I’ve never written a blog before in my life, and I’m not sure I intend to start now. But this, as Graham Taylor said to Phil Neal on the bench, is a test.