Friday night, I was a last moment fill-in DJ for the Your Latest Crush gang. Cheers again to Aaron, Debbie, and Stuart for having me on. For the uninitiated, Your Latest Crush is an indiepop club night held on the last Friday of each month, over at the House of Shields in San Francisco. Definitely head down there and check it out. Those guys all know and love their indiepop. There are always at least five or six "OMG I can't believe you played that song!" moments, and the rest are "Oh, wow! What's this song?" moments. It's great fun. Also, House of Shields is one of the oldest bars, if not the oldest, in San Francisco and has a very cool atmosphere. So click the link up there and you'll discover pretty much all you need to know about Your Latest Crush.
This is the setlist I played.
Asobi Seksu > Merry Christmas, I Don't Want To Fight Tonight
The Four Pennies > When The Boy's Happy (The Girl's Happy Too)
Perfume > Plastic Smile
Lush > I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend
Irma Thomas > Break-A-Way
Nick Lowe > So It Goes
Cloetta Paris > So Serious
David Bowie > Rebel, Rebel
J.J. Jackson > But It's Alright
PUFFY > Sayonara
Lesley Gore > Look of Love
The Clash > Hateful
The Pixies Three > Cold, Cold Winter
Yo La Tengo > Today Is The Day
Calexico > Love Will Tear Us Apart
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Hey, here are my (downloadable) setlists from Friday night's edition of Your Latest Crush. Cheers again, to Aaron, Debbie and Stuart for having me, I had a blast. I didn't take any pics, I was actually kinda drunk.
1st Set
1. Puffy X Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra > Hazumu Rhythm
2. The B-52's > Private Idaho
3. Blondie > 11:59
4. Asobi Seksu > Mizu Asobi
5. GO!GO!7188 > Manatsu No Dance Hall
6. Gloria Jones > Tainted Love
7. Cinerama > 10 Denier
8. Halcali > Twinkle Star
9. Old 97's > Timebomb
10. Ted Leo/Pharmacists > Me and Mia
11. Kaela Kimura > Ground Control
12. The Ramones > Do You Wanna Dance?
13. The Clash > Gates of the West
14. Book of Love > Book of Love
15. Kahimi Karie > Candyman
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2nd Set
16. Kaela Kimura > Happiness!!
17. Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings > I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
18. Lali Puna > Lowdown
19. Shonen Knife > Daydream Believer
20. GO!GO!7188 > Yuge
21. Skywave > Here She Comes
22. Lykke Li > I'm Good I'm Gone
23. Perfume > Puppy Love
24. Baby Bird > Goodnight
25. Halcali > Baby Blue (Baby Blue is Good Mix)
26. L.E.O. > Ya Had Me Goin
27. Shonen Knife > Boys
28. PUFFY > That's The Way It Is
29. Beulah > If We Can Land A Man On The Moon, Surely I Can Win Your Heart
30. Chocolat > Like A Starberry
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Just as an aside, Aaron, Debbie, and Stuart of Your Latest Crush have been kind enough to ask me to DJ in Stuart's absence. So I'll be doing a set there next week (Friday 25th July) and hopefully I won't embarrass myself too much. The whole thing runs from 9pm -2am at the House of Shields. I'd be there anyways, because it's a fun gig. Great music, cool peeps, and reasonably priced drinks. Should be fun, come by and say hello. Get the lowdown over at yourlatestcrush.com. The guy in the pic up there is the aforementioned Aaron, taken at last month's edition of YLC.
Yo Bay Area peeps! I've got a plug for some friends. There's a new indiepop club night in town, and it's called Your Latest Crush. The first night is gonna hit on Friday, March 7th from 9pm til 2am. The venue is the House of Shields in downtown San Francisco. It's super easy to get there by BART, bus, or car. So pop on along and help close the place down.
Their mission statement is as follows:
Playing danceable indiepop, tweepop, poppunk and electropop from the likes of Belle & Sebastian, The Lucksmiths, The Aisler Set, Stereolab, Camera Obscura, BMX Bandits, The Smiths, The Pipettes, Peter Bjorn & John, The Hidden Cameras, and many more....
They might even play your requests, just drop them a line at yourlatestcrush@gmail.com. No Jesus Jones, tho. I already tried, so don't even bother.
