My DJ set at The Penelope Tree
Dec. 4th, 2004 03:03 amMy DJ set at The Penelope Tree went well; it was an early set, and a small night, but quite a few people (not least among them the organisers) were pleasantly surprised with what I had played. All things being equal, it could help me get more DJing gigs in London.
- Christian Bruhn - Ford Capri II
- Minimum Chips - Bouncing Boy With A Bubble
- Prop vs. Stereolab - Statice
- Remington Super 60 - Always Trust The Samba (No Guiro Mix)
- Donna Regina - Snow Is Only Frozen Water
- Azure Ray - For No-One
- Architecture In Helsinki - Scissor Paper Rock
- Cartwheel - Yellow Keys
- Ninetynine - San Pedro De Atacama
- Talkshow Boy - Chiming The Descant Like I'm Thirteen Again
- Mid-State Orange - Summer In Disguise
- Ninetynine - The Process
- Spearmint - Scottish Pop
- Hey Paulette - I Really Do Love Penelope
- The Bodines - Heard It All
- Last Party - Barbecued
- The Wake - Shallow End
- The Rumours - If I Could See You
- Clag - Fresh
The tracks near the start went down particularly well, though some people thought I had played two Stereolab tracks side by side. And the C86 janglefest towards the end also found quite a few fans.
The venue's system was a bit on the naff side; 2 old consumer-grade CD players, one of which wouldn't play burned discs (none of that fancy CUE button stuff here), and rather badly set up speakers. I played mostly from one CD player and my two MP3 players (I dusted off the old Archos for this; I actually prefer it for DJing to the iRiver, mostly because its firmware (or, to be precise, Rockbox) doesn't second-guess you and pull you out of the directory you're looking at if you do something else for a minute.)