Pigtails and Army Boots

There was no New Music New Talent this week as I was down with a tummy bug. I was recovered by Sunday though so here was the playlist:

Sophie B. Hawkins - As I Lay Me Down
Ace Of Base - The Sign
Hole - Violet
Go Team - Ladyflash
Meredith Brooks - Bitch
Flyleaf - I'm So Sick
Tori Amos - Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix)
Lillix - Sweet Temptation
Jill Sobule - Supermodel
X-Ray Spex - The Day The World Turned Day-Glo
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
The Cardigans - Sick & Tired
The Honeydrips - (Lack Of) Love Will Tear Us Apart
Siouxsie - Here Comes That Day
The Runaways - School Days
Tilly and the Wall - Fell Down the Stairs
Fever Ray - When I Grow Up (Radio Edit)
Sour Apple - Don't Go Forwards, Go Backwards
Lush - Ladykillers
4 Non Blondes - What's Up
Codeine Velvet Club - Vanity Kills
THE SADDERDAYS - CUPID WAS A DRUNK
The Gits - While You're Twisting, I'm Still Breathing
Jack Off Jill - My Cat
Peaches - You Love It
The Ropes - Kill Her Off
The Kills - Tape Song
Bat For Lashes - Prescilla
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Bunty - Feel Sicko
Jyl Millard - Ace of Spades

Growl Tiger! and playlists

This Saturday (14th November) RxKitten, Mike Fisher and I are launching a club night- Growl Tiger! It will be music from the 1990s to the present day. It will be a mix of alternative, indie, rock, metal, riot grrrl and loads more. It's only £3 to get in, and it will be at The Golden Lion down Victoria Ave in southend, so hope to see some of you there! I've already filled our flight case with music!

Playlists from this weekend

Pigtails and Army Boots
Sam Brown - Can I Get A Witness
Madonna - Papa Don't Preach
M.I.A. - Paper Planes
The Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang
Dionne Bromfield - Mama Said
Tegan and Sara - Hell (Radio Edit)
La Roux - Bulletproof
Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care
Donna Summer - Hot Stuff
The Long Blondes - Fulwood Babylon
Little Boots - Remedy
Skunk Anansie - Squander (Radio Edit)
Marina & The Diamonds - Mowgli's Road
Paramore - Brick By Boring Brick
HorrorPops - Crawl Straight Home
The Ronettes - Be My Baby
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Baby Blue
Florence & The Machine - Kiss With A Fist
The Supremes - Baby Love
Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Richard X Re-Production)
The She Creatures - Space Madness
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
No Doubt - Ex-Girlfriend
Dirty Love - Baby You Suck
Atomic Blonde - Babydoll (censored)
Kittie - What I Always Wanted
The Noisettes - Don't Give Up
Lily Allen - Not Fair (Clean Radio Edit)
The Dead Weather - Hang You From The Heavens
Heart - Barracuda
Heather Nova - I Have the Touch

New Music New Talent
I M Munroe - Fool
Whiskey Blu - Colour me Blu
Inner Voices - Survelliance State
Orphus - Facts Of Life
The Soviets - Naughty Girl
A Brokeheart Pro - Dark Red And Loud
Diarmaid O Meara - Murdering Disco (Radio Edit)
Leah DeVon - Waiting For You
Ed Winslet - Just the Same
Lana - Ruthless
Obsessive Compulsive - Perfect Wreck
Emerald - Overkill
Half Gone - Energy

Halloween gigs and playlists!

I love Halloween so this year I went to two gigs (not on same day) and both my shows were Halloween themed this weekend!
Let's start with Thursday night.

Thursday I was at Chinnerys with Rxkitten for a Southend Fringe fundraiser/Halloween Party. Rxkitten was dressed as David Bowie from Labyrinth and I was a zombie prom queen!

When we got there, we had already missed most of Greenleaf 56's set which was a shame as I play them quite often on my show. What we heard sounded really good though!

Next up was a band called Surfquake. I knew what to expect already as I had heard one track. They are a mostly instrumental surf band! It was certainly unusual to have this sort of music at a Halloween gig and they are very unique. They played an awesome version of The Munsters theme tune. We did find the set a bit samey though.

The third band was my new discovery of the night- The Fighting Cocks. I was finding them hard to catergorise but I think how they describe themselves is pretty accurate- a gyspy hardcore band. There was 5 of them, 4 girls and 1 boy. They dance a lot and they have a backing track. Rxkitten described them as a "ska Aqua"! They were really unique, I've never heard anything like them before. oh, and the girls were dressed really cool in red and black!

Finally, was Trash Monroe who looked amazing, Mel their singer as Carrie, Ken as Ziggy Stardust. They also sounded great as always, sadly we couldn't stay for all their set as we both had work the following day! If you haven't heard them before, you should really check them out. Especially if you like female fronted hard rock.

right moving on to Friday's New Music New Talent playlist..
4ft Pimp - Black Death
Zen Motel - CURSE OF THE GIRLFIEND
Sleepercurve - Robots
Devilish Presley - Halloween Queen
Leika - Silly Cow
Symptom - Roses Are Black
Dopegirl - Freaks
Thunderbird 13 - House of Sin
Weird Old America - Devil In A Dream
The Domes of Silence - Twilight
Dr. Slaggleberry - Gone Devil
The Kiara Elles - Supergroupie
Dirty Money - The Killer
A Brokeheart Pro - Keep This Devil Down
The Ropes - Kill Her Off


For the actual day of Halloween we decided (Mike Fisher and myself) to go to The Railway as Rounds were playing. This time I was Carrie (so much more blood)! and Mike was a zombie or a vampire I'm not sure which!
It was meant to be a sixties Halloween ball with ska and freakbeat music, so certainly not a traditional Halloween Party.
Rounds were great as they always are, and they even did an interesting version of Thriller, but I was quite disappointed as they only played a 20 minute set and it was £5 to get in. The music playing after them wasn't really our scene so we didn't stay much longer.

Finally, my playlist from today:
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Blondie - Rip Her To Shreds
Feist - My Moon My Man
Soho Dolls - my vampire
Ladytron - Ghosts
Heart - Magic Man
L7 - Monster
The Distillers - Coral Fang
Juliette & The Licks - Killer
PJ Harvey - Down By The Water
The Cranberries - Zombie
Portishead - Glory Box
Heather Nova - Blood Of Me
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Halloween
HorrorPops - Walk Like A Zombie
The Creepshow - Creatures Of The Night
Devilish Presley - Hammer Horror Glamour
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
Babes In Toyland - Blood
Daisy Chainsaw - Dog With Sharper Teeth
Scarling. - Baby Dracula
Metric - Monster Hospital
Garbage - Wicked Ways
No Doubt - Hella Good
Suzanne Vega - Blood Makes Noise
Ladyhawke - Magic
Tegan & Sara - Walking With A Ghost
The Patti Smith Group - Ghost Dance
Ann Wilson - Bad Moon Rising

Happy day!

Just realised I never posted anything about the 24 hour smile a thon we had on MTJR on the saturday that just went (the day the clocks went back).
Normal programming was put aside for a day and instead quite a few of the djs took part in just playing 2 hours of happy music to make you smile, as well as attempting to make you laugh and talking about what moment in time would you turn the clock back to if you could? (But only positive ones)! I did a show and this is the playlist:

R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People
The Wombats - Let's Dance To Joy Division
Le Tigre - I'm So Excited
Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
The Monkees - I'm A Believer
Specials - Too Much Too Young
Vapors - Turning Japanese
Dr. Feelgood - Milk And Alchol
Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
Cyndi Lauper - True Colors
Nena - 99 Red Balloons
Madness - House Of Fun
Good Charlotte - Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous
Echobelly - Great Things
Ace Of Base - The Sign
Hanson - Mmm Bop
Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Dancing In The Street
Barenaked Ladies - One Week
Blur - Song 2
Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care
The Jam - Going Underground
Smash Mouth - All Star
The Cardigans - Lovefool
Shanice - I Love Your Smile
EMF - Unbelievable
Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Reco
Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To
Feeder - Buck Rogers
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.

afterwards I thought of loads of other songs that make me feel happy!
How could I forget the Beach Boys???



and this song always used to cheer me up too...



and what NEVER fails to cheer me up immensely is Rathergood.com!

Playlists

Pigtails and Army Boots

Nena - 99 Red Balloons
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - I Can't Dance To That Music You're Playin'
The Cranberries - Zombie
Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking
Paloma Faith - Upside Down
Lily Allen - Who’d Have Known
The Raveonettes - Last Dance
Moloko - Sing It Back
Anita Ward - Ring My Bell
Nell Bryden - Second Time Around
The Dead Weather - I Cut Like A Buffalo
Dionne Bromfield - Mama Said
Feist - Sealion (Chromeo Remix) [Bonus Track]
CSS - Music Is My Hot Hot Sex
Noisettes - Every Now And Then (Radio Mix)
The Long Blondes - Once And Never Again
Shocking Blue - Love Buzz
Marina & The Diamonds - I Am Not A Robot
Hera - Don't Play this
People Press Play - These Days
Polly Scattergood - Other Too Endless (Single Version)
Lacuna Coil - Heaven's A Lie
Liz Phair - Never Said
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Playground Twist
The Creepshow - Creatures Of The Night
PRE - Popping Showers
Marnie Stern - Every Single Line Means Something
The Donnas - When the Show Is Over
Garbage - Cherry Lips
Echobelly - Great Things
Sixpence None The Richer - Don't Dream It's Over


New Music New Talent

Surfquake - Surf & Destroy
Greg Kiss & The Feral Cats - 25 hours/day
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Ten Ten-Tackles - Death Certificate
Carnal Rites - Take My Life
Trash Monroe - Venus Envy
Nouveau Glam - The Long Goodbye (High)
Palodine - Redwinged Blackbird
Devilish Presley - Hammer Horror Glamour
The Kiara Elles - Rust
Buried in Mexico - Down
I'm Chinese - Till It Burns

Pink Stinks!

I found out about this campaign the other day through one of my favourite sites The F Word.

The purpose of Pink Stinks! isn't just about trying to break down gender stereotypes. (have you noticed in toy shops the "girls" section is almost always pink, and they boys bit is blue or somehting similar? Not all girls want to play with Barbie, and not all boys want to play with toy cars)!

It's also about promoting positive role models for girls. Sadly "celebs" like Jordan and Paris Hilton are common choices for young girls to look up to these days. With our current reality show generation, more young people think they just need to get on a t.v show, or perhaps marry someone rich to be worthwhile.

"Pink Stinks!" is challenging that notion, by promoting truely postive role models for women like Annie Lennox, Rosa parks, June Sarpong and many others.
I can think of so many more to add to their list too- Joan Jett, Kathleen Hanna, Amanda Palmer, PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Anne Rice, JK Rowling etc etc!

They have a group on facebook and a blog, as well as the main website Pink Stinks!

Apologies..

for the lack of Pigtails and Army Boots last Sunday, this was due to techical issues beyond our control.

the playlist for last Friday's New Music New Talent:

GREENLEAF56 - BABY SATAN
Lola Dutronic - All Over The World
rookiecop - slomo funk
Ten Tigers - Super Lucky
Limozine - Junkie Girlfriend
Obsessive Compulsive - Ennui
halomobilo - Final Stage
Elena - Bette Davies Eyes
Telekinesis - Awkward Kisser
The Heal - Wars
Pluxus - Kinoton
The Kiara Elles - Supergroupie
Irene Rae - Skindeep Beauty
Slummin Angels - Fairfrusion